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Capitol to be filled with livid Americans
By Chelsea Schilling
Published November 2, 2009 at 8:41pm
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an "Emergency House Call on Congress" to stop the House from passing the Democrats' health-care bill this week.
A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting outside the Capitol at noon to protest the health-care bill set to hit the House floor. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that a vote on the bill could take place as soon as Thursday.
Bachmann told WND she is urging citizens to come to Washington and "pay an emergency House call to Congress."
"This is the most effective way we have to kill socialized medicine and to do it this week," she said. "Nothing is more effective at reaching a congressman than having a citizen come to Washington, D.C. – not asking for a handout, not asking for tax money, not asking to take some liberty away from somebody else, but just asking for freedom."
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She said the American people spoke loud and clear this summer, telling Congress they don't want "cradle-to-grave takeover of health care." According to Rasmussen Reports, a full 54 percent of voters are now opposed to the House version of health-care reform. Only 23 percent of all voters strongly support the plan while nearly twice as many, or 44 percent, expressed strong opposition.
"We saw tea parties. We saw the 9/12 movement where literally hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not more, all converged on the Capitol on a Saturday. People did this to get the attention of their members of Congress," Bachmann said. "This is the week when the decision will be made about whether we will choose liberty or tyranny, whether we will choose socialized medicine or a free market."
Actor Jon Voight and "Liberty and Tyranny" author Mark Levin have volunteered to come and speak at the event. Dr. Betsy McCaughey, former New York lieutenant governor and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, will speak as well.
Bachmann cited a study by William Boyes, an economics professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, who estimated in July that the federal government has taken ownership or control of one-third of the private economy.
"Now if President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are successful with this health bill, then that would be an additional 18 percent of the private economy the government would own or control," she said. "With more than 50 percent of the private economy controlled by the government, you can no longer say with a straight face that we're a free-market, capitalist system."
She noted that Pelosi has pledged to give the public only three days to review the legislation, a timeframe she called a "tremendous insult to the American people."
The current version of the bill now numbers nearly 2,000 pages.
"The final bill will come out tonight," Bachmann said. "I have heard through the grapevine that we may have another 800 pages. Clearly the liberals who wrote it are ashamed of their own bill. They're ashamed to have the American people know what's in it."
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She continued, "If they were proud of it, they would want everyone to know what's in it, and they would want everyone discussing the contents of this bill on television, in the newspapers, in magazines, on radio shows and over cups of coffee."
President Obama promised during his campaign that health-care negotiations would occur in the public eye and be broadcast on C-SPAN.
"Not only were the negotiations not broadcast, negotiations essentially didn't even occur between Democrats and Republicans for all practical purposes," Bachmann said. "Democrats even changed the locks on doors on committee rooms here in Washington and kept members of Congress out. This is clearly a one-party bill."
Bachmann told WND this is one example of Obama making good on his campaign promise to "transform America."
"That's exactly what he's doing. But he's transforming it away from the free-market republic that our founders gave us. He's transforming us into a government-controlled economy," she said. "That's not what I believe the majority of the American people are asking their government to do. That's why this is so crucial."
She noted that Pelosi may have garnered the 218 votes necessary to pass the legislation this week.
"It appears they plan to push it through, and unless the American people push back, unless they take the extraordinary step of coming to Washington at noon on Thursday, this bill will go through," Bachmann said. "We Republicans can't stop the passage. But with resistance from the American people, I am fully confident it can be defeated."
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, echoed Bachmann's request in an interview with WND's Radio America.
"Come to Washington to save your freedom," he said. "It's the only thing that's going to change this."
Bachmann is inviting citizens to "come to Washington, D.C. by the carload" and attend the meeting on the west steps of the Capitol. She asks that attendees bring video cameras and office numbers and phone numbers of their representatives so they can find them and "get them on video saying how they will vote."
She urged, "Come to Washington, D.C., find your member of Congress, look into the whites of their eyes and tell them, 'Keep your hands off of my health care. This is not what I sent you to Washington to do. You are taking away my fundamental freedoms without my consent.'"
(Editor's note: Concerned individuals may contact their respective representatives and senators.)
Chelsea Schilling
Chelsea Schilling is a news and commentary editor for WND and a proud U.S. Army veteran. She has a master's degree in public policy and a bachelor's degree in journalism. Schilling also worked as a news producer at USA Radio Network and as a news reporter for the Sacramento Union.
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Just say no to Popeye and Olive Oyl...again.
If you've convinced your hubs to don one-half of a costume duo this year, congratulations—you're halfway there. Now it's time to choose a costume he'll actually like, so that next year's bribery won't be so difficult. Behold, the 11 costumes we found trending on Pinterest that are actually 100 percent pure brilliance.
1. Sheldon and Amy from Big Bang Theory. The genius behind this one: It's very likely that you already own everything you need for these costumes. You just gotta pair 'em together.
2. Ron Burgundy and Ms. Corningstone. He'll love that he gets to spew Anchorman references all night, while you stay chic in a perfectly pink suit. Win-win.
3. The Most Interesting Man in the World...And His Favorite Beer. If your guy really isn't into dressing up, this costume takes the least amount of work. All he has to do is his sport his favorite suit and dye his facial hair (if it's not gray already). Or just go buy a fake beard, if he's too lazy to grow his own.
4. Elliot and Gertie from E.T. Not only are overalls back in fashion—making this costume totally on trend—but he, once again, can wear stuff that's already in his closet. You do need to track down an E.T. stuffed animal to prop on handlebars, though. That's what makes this costume...along with saying, "Come? Home" all night, of course.
5. Double-Stuffed Oreos. Everyone will think your costume is cool enough when the two of you apart. But come together for those cutesy hug photos and bam!—pure Instagram magic.
6. Forrest Gump and Jenny. Sure, these two had a rollercoaster ride of a relationship, but they're still one of the most iconic movie couples of all time. And we guarantee your guy will love being able to yell, "Jenn-aaay" in the perfect Forrest voice all night.
7. Pikachu and Ash. Okay, okay. It may not be your favorite costume idea—but it could be his. After all, what guy doesn't want to reminisce about his unabashed love for Pikachu, Charizard, and Blastoise in the '90s? Not to mention all the Pokemon cards he collected and traded over the years. If he's still got 'em, they can finally be put to good use and hide in his Poké Ball belt.
8. Squints and Wendy Peffercorn from The Sandlot. The movie's a classic, you'll get to channel your inner glam goddess (bonus: the retro suit is totally back in style), and he'll get to be a part of the Sandlot gang. With little to no effort required, consider it done.
9. Peter Pan and His Escaped Shadow. Why let the kids have all the Disney fun? One of you dress up as the famous Lost Boy, while the other is his shadow. And don't forget to snap a few 'grams to capture the escape in action.
10. Bert and Mary Poppins. For the vintage-y couple, obviously. Bonus: You won't freeze all night in this covered-from-head-to-toe getup.
11. Couple Emoji. Because of course you should be your favorite emoji.


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Richard Longstreth's "The American Department Store Transformed"
Richard Longstreth is Professor of American Studies and director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
He applied the "Page 99 Test" to his new book, The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960,
On page 99 of The American Department Store Transformed, you will read about a debate between advocates of municipally and commercially operated parking facilities and will probably ask what on earth that has to do with department stores. Quite a bit, actually. From the 1920s on, customer parking emerged as an ever-more pressing issue for department store companies as increasing segments of the best customers grew ever-more inclined to drive downtown. I devote an entire chapter to the subject, exploring the numerous strategies taken by, and disagreements among, these companies in trying to address a need for which they were ill-equipped to resolve.
The book explores many other such issues, including customer service, systematization of operational practices, warehousing, display, store location and design, lighting, and branch development. The period covered encompasses four decades, 1920-1960, when department stores were transformed in many ways, ending at a time when leading retailers thought they had re-invented their stores to the degree that they would continue to enjoy dominance for decades to come.
Besides the chapter on parking, two chapters focus on downtown stores, one on off-site warehousing and service facilities, two on freestanding branch stores, two on department stores in shopping centers, and one on the department store's role in attempts at urban redevelopment around 1960.
Learn more about The American Department Store Transformed at the Yale University Press website.
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If eggplant were the only food product available on the planet, I'd starve to death. It's one of three or four comestibles I gag on. I can't even tolerate the odor.
Almost as much fun to pronounce as baba ghanoush are falafel and chickpeas—the former being composed of the latter along with onion, garlic, and a little flour. Sadly, I never met a chickpea I could swallow. As you might surmise, I don't spend much time at west-Asian or eastern-European restaurants.
If my food-and-beverage choices were based entirely on vocabulary rather than flavor, I'd enjoy a preprandial Manhattan, or, possibly, an Old Fashioned. Whether or not approved by sommeliers, I'd order a glass of Moscato to drink with my baba ghanoush, my falafel, and other delectables.
Here's a small word with a large and complex meaning, having nothing to do with food but leaving one musing about the circumstances under which the need for such a word arose: It's tingo, from the Pascuense language of Easter Island, and it means "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left" (bbc.co.uk, "Tingo, nakkele and other wonders").
Questions pop up like crocuses in April: Is this a common occurrence on Easter Island? Does the borrowing occur surreptitiously or in the open, and doesn't the borrowee notice that his or her possessions are melting away? Are Easter Islanders too polite to ask for the return of their vegetable peelers, their hiking boots, and their beds? It boggles the mind.
Back to food…. My favorite forms of bonne bouche (Americans pronounce this French phrase "bun boosh" when they want a fancy way to say "tasty morsel") are not, alas, euphonious. Fudge is a case in point. The word is as unlovely as the candy is delicious, especially when homemade, with real butter—and how about that for a word? Margarine is nicer to say but butter is better in all the ways that count.


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Russian gymnasts dominate European Championships
Russia's Ekatarina Kurbatova, France's Youna Dufournet and Russia's Tatiana Nabieva pose on the podium of the vault event (AFP Photo / Glyn Kirk) © AFP
The Russian team has triumphed in the overall medals count at the gymnastics European Championships in Birmingham, England.
The Russian girls returned home with six medals – two golds, three silvers and one bronze – leaving host Great Britain in second place and Romania in third.
Ekaterina Kurbatov became a two-time gold medalist, winning in vault and in the team event.
Alia Mustafina, who accompanied Kurbatova in the team competition, was second on the balance beam and the uneven bars.
Anna Myzdrikova took silver in the floor exercise, while Tatiana Nabieva was third in the vault.
The leader of the Russian squad, Ksenia Semenova, failed to win single individual medal in Birmingham.
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Sometimes The Devil Is In The Details
Aug 7, 2018 John T. Midgett
By John T. Midgett
Over the past 40 years I have prepared thousands of wills. Each time the wills are organized in articles and paragraphs, all of the pages are numbered, the Testator's initials are placed on the corner of each page, the will is signed at its logical end, and a self-proving affidavit is appended. All of these actions are designed to ensure that the wishes of the Testator (the person who makes the will) are followed and to reduce the possibility of fraud by the substitution of pages in a will.
Recently, a Circuit Court case in Nelson County highlighted the necessity of these safeguards. In the matter of Canody v. Hamblin, the Testator created his own will consisting of three computer generated pages of the same font and font size. There were no page numbers and no paragraphs were split between pages. When offered for probate, the three pages were stapled together and all of the staple holes line up for all three pages.
One of the Testator's children raised the prospect that the first two pages of the will tendered for probate might have been substituted after the will was executed. This necessitated a lengthy and most likely expensive hearing on the validity of the will.
The Executor offered testimony of an unrelated party to confirm the Testator's plan of distribution, as set forth in the will, and the Court allowed it when the genuineness of the will was put into question. In admitting the will to probate, the Court quoted Virginia law that has been in place for over 70 years, citing that there is no requirement for witnesses to read the will or examine it with care so as to say that all of the pages or clauses of the proposed will were the pages and clauses signed by the Testator in their presence.
While it is true that computers make forgery and substitutions of pages easier than when a will was written by hand or even by typewriter, the Court refused to revisit established Virginia law.
When offering a will for probate, the proponent of the will must prove compliance with all of the statutory requirements for the execution of a will and once that is done the challenger then has the burden of proving fraud. Simply stating that fraud is possible is not enough, as was the case in Canody v. Hamblin, to meet the clear and convincing standard of proof for fraud.
The lesson of this case is that while creating a will by an experienced professional is certainly more expensive than doing so on one's own, the money saved today is a mere pittance when compared to the money necessitated to prove the validity of the will after death.


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Sir Elton John and ex-wife resolve '£3m divorce contract' dispute
Renate Blauel reportedly asked for an injunction to stop future disclosures from Sir Elton, as well as £3m in damages and costs.
Wednesday 14 October 2020 17:10, UK
Image: Sir Elton John and Renate Blauel got married in 1984
Sir Elton John and his ex-wife Renate Blauel have resolved a reported £3m legal dispute over an agreement not to talk about their marriage publicly.
Ms Blauel started proceedings against the star in the summer, accusing him of "repeated and flagrant" breaches of the agreement in his memoir Me and the biopic Rocketman, both released in 2019.
Sir Elton broke an agreement the pair made when they divorced after four years of marriage in 1988, and had caused her to suffer mental health problems, she claimed.
Image: The couple's marriage was depicted in the biopic Rocketman, released in 2019
She initially asked for an injunction to prevent future public disclosures as well as damages and costs said to be around £3m.
Announcing they had resolved the dispute, a spokesman for Sir Elton said: "The parties are happy to announce that they have resolved this case, in a way that acknowledges Renate's need for privacy.
"For her part, Renate acknowledges that Elton has acted in a dignified and respectful way towards her in the last 30 years and has been always happy to help her.
"They will not be discussing each other, or their marriage, in future and will be making no further comment about the case."
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In papers filed to the High Court in the summer, Ms Blauel's legal team said she had changed her name and appearance in an attempt to "shed her identity" and keep out of the public eye.
At the time of the couple's split, the pair had signed a contract which included a clause preventing either of them from discussing their marriage or the reasons for their separation.
Image: Sir Elton has been married to David Furnish since 2014
In papers filed in his defence, the singer's legal team denied breaching the agreement, arguing the details in the book and film are public knowledge and that the contract "applies only to private and confidential matters".
Ms Blauel, a sound engineer, referenced five scenes from Rocketman in the claim, including scenes showing their wedding day and the pair sleeping in separate bedrooms.
Another scene depicts Sir Elton, who is now married to filmmaker David Furnish, in a group therapy session discussing the failure of his marriage "on account of his unhappiness and in particular his sexuality," the claim said.
Sir Elton's team had said the wedding, which was attended by several celebrities, was widely covered at the time and was a matter of public record.


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All-TIME 100 Albums
The album may be dead, but it's certainly not forgotten. TIME's critics have chosen the 100 greatest and most influential musical compilations since 1954.
By Alan Light Jan. 27, 2010
Artist: Miles Davis
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In 1959, Miles Davis had already remade jazz in his own image several times over. The Birth of Cool introduced a smooth, sophisticated approach, and then Walkin' heated things up again. His classic '50s quintet raised the bar for small-group improvisation. But when he assembled an unprecedented all-star team (featuring John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley on tenor and alto saxophones, and the masterful pianist Bill Evans) for the two-day sessions that became the Kind of Blue album, Miles left his most lasting mark. The open-ended songs, barely sketched out around "modes," or scales, rather than chord changes, were given just one or two takes — and the glorious results, the best-selling jazz disc of all time, are simultaneously delicate and powerful, and teeming with life.
Next Here's Little Richard
Here's Little Richard
Songs for Swingin' Lovers
In the Wee Small Hours
The Beatles ("The White Album")
A Love Supreme
Live at the Apollo (1963)
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Loved You
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
King of the Delta Blues
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Blonde on Blonde
Pet Sounds
Highway 61 Revisited
At Folsom Prison
Otis Blue
Lady Soul
One Nation Under a Groove
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Songs in the Key of Life
Coat of Many Colors
Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a. Zoso)
Red Headed Stranger
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Exile on Main Street
Who's Next
Like a Prayer
Paul's Boutique
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Stop Making Sense
The Great Twenty-Eight
Sign O' The Times
Raising Hell
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Endtroducing…
(What's the Story) Morning Glory
Slanted and Enchanted
The Chronic
Back to Mono (1958-1969)
Ropin' The Wind
Star Time
Live Through This
The Low End Theory
Ready to Die
Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection
The College Dropout
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Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
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Reader's Digest's 24th Annual Trusted Brands Awards Celebrates The Brands And Personalities Filipinos Trust The Most
The 2022 Trusted Brands survey results are in – and the time to celebrate has arrived. On April 8, 2022 the Reader's Digest Trusted Brands and People Awards will be presented at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel, Manila at 6:00pm.
The independently-conducted Trusted Brands survey appears exclusively in the April 2022 issue of thePhilippines Reader's Digest. It was conducted by leading market research company Catalyst Research, who surveyed 8000 individuals across the five key regions of the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan to determine which brands consumers trust most.
Reader's Digest is among the few brands in the world to have the opportunity to celebrate its 100th year anniversary. As a global brand with 23 editions in 41 countries, Reader's Digest has published more than 40,000 article that inform and entrain, and sold more than 10 billion magazine copies. We are proud to celebrate a century of laughter, changing lives, and journalistic excellence.
Trust has been the guiding human emotion we've all had to rely on to navigate through the pandemic safely. For the survey winners that has meant getting proactive and reaching out to customers and audiences like never before.
THE PERSONALITIES FILIPINOS TRUST THE MOST
Just like previous years, one of the highlights of the 2022 Reader's Digest Trusted Brands awards is the list of most trusted personalities in the following categories: Most Trusted News Presenter; Most Trusted Radio Presenter; Most Trusted Variety/ Entertainment Presenter; and Most Trusted Sportsperson.
The personalities that Filipinos put their trust in most were:
MIKE ENRIQUEZ
Most Trusted Radio Presenter
For over 50 years Mike Enriquez has entertained, informed and shared in Philippines life with a positive, confident and reassuring manner. Mike's long-running presence on television and radio means he is widely recognised and admired. In his roles in radio with GMA Network, RGMA Network Inc, and Super Radyo DZBB 594 AM, he has made an indelible mark, setting the standard in media excellence that generations have come to expect.
JESSICA SOHO
Most Trusted TV News Presenter
With a career spanning over 37 years, Jessica Soho is highly respected for her broadcasting excellence. Her GMA Network news magazine program, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, has won wide acclaim, including a prestigious Peabody Award. Her capacity to rally on behalf of society's vulnerable, as well as tackle the nation's political heavyweights, has helped build a wide appeal with viewers and the public.
VICE GANDA
Most Trusted Entertainment/Variety Presenter
Vice Ganda is on a level all of his own. As a comedian, talk show host, television presenter, actor, entrepreneur and singer, his talents have been recognised for over ten years, and his involvement in social causes, particularly during the COVID-19 vaccination drive, have also won public admiration. With Vice, you never quite know what he'll say or do, but he'll always speak up for those without a voice, who need someone to advocate for them.
Most Trusted Sportsperson
Senator Manny Pacquiao's boxing success has made him the country's most successful sporting hero. That identity as a sporting great, combined with his contributions in the Senate, his charitable foundation and now as a candidate in this year's May 9 presidential election, means Pacquiao will enjoy the spotlight for many years to come.
THE BRANDS FILIPINOS TRUST THE MOST
The award-winning Trusted Brands that are outlined in the Reader's Digest 24th annual survey standout among their competitors. During the hardest of times throughout the pandemic, they have continued to build their customers' trust by consistently responding to their customers' concerns, by sympathizing with their situations and providing the necessary support.
"Trust in consumer brands is hard to secure – it takes years of careful planning, execution and nurturing," says Editor-in-Chief, Louise Waterson. "But as we've seen so clearly again this year, during times of hardship brands that live up to their promises will continue to enjoy the trust of their customers. Trust is at the heart of what determines a brand's success or failure."
Brands that have earned the honour to call themselves a Reader's Digest Trusted Brand have earned the privilege to carry the Trustmark Logo. For consumers, the Trustmark Logo is a trust sign that helps a consumer recognise quality, value and reliability.
Platinum Awards went to those brands that perform exceptionally, based on consumers' perception. In the poll, these brands attained scores that exceed those of their nearest competitors. Some of the awardees were:
Banks – BDO
Broadband/Fibre Internet Services – PLDT Home Fibr
Credit Card Issuing Banks – BDO
Life Insurance – Sun Life
Mattress – Uratex
Optical shops /stores – Executive Optical
Pen – Pilot
Pharmacies/Drug Stores – Mercury Drug
TV Networks – GMA
Gold Awards went to brands that had outstanding results, based on the perception of consumers. Some of the brands included in this list were:
Air Conditioner – Carrier
Air Conditioner – Condura
Air Freight/Courier Service – J&T Express
Air Purifier – Sharp
Baby Store – Mothercare
Consumer Loan – BDO
Cooking Oil – Baguio Oil
Face Mask – CopperMask
Face Mask – Indoplas
Investment Fund Company – AIA
Investment Fund Company – BDO
Life Insurance – AIA
Life Insurance – Manulife
Milk Tea Shop – Macao Imperial Tea
Optical shop/store – Ideal Vision Center
Personal Computer – Acer
Plasticware – Orocan
TV Network – ABS-CBN
Washing Machine – Sharp
Washing Machine – Whirlpool
The survey is an independently commissioned poll, with the results appearing exclusively in Reader's Digest Philippines. Leading market research agency Catalyst Research surveyed a representative sample of 8000 individuals from the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan to determine which brands consumers trust most.
The survey reveals the brands, products and services that consumers believe in, over more than 50 categories.
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Great reminder. Thanks for writing.
Rev Kerry, you are so spot on! Thank you for sharing your faith with those of us who aren't in your area and can't attend your church!
It is so interesting to hear the devil tempting Jesus with his own words. If you are the son of God throw yourself down "and angels will bear you up". Jesus answers him, "as it is written do not put the Lord your God to the test". The devil doesn't get anywhere with this second temptation either.
Jesus teaches us in this lesson that we can interpret the Bible by comparing verse against verse. At first glance this didn't seem reasonable to me, using the sacred Word against itself to prove a point. Pastor, you tell us that we are not disrepecting the Bible, but rather we are holding it in the highest regard. We must trust the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us to the truths in God's Holy Book. We need to pray for understanding.


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Q: VB.Net Power operator (^) overloading from C# I am writing a C# class that is exposed to VB.Net. I would like to overload the vb.net ^ operator so that I can write:
Dim c as MyClass
Set c = New ...
Dim d as MyClass
Set d = c^2

In C#, the ^ operator is the xor operator and the power operator doesn't exist. Is there a way I can do this anyway?

A: By experiment, it turns out that operator overloading is just syntactic sugar, and better be avoided, if you need to develop in multiple languages. For example, ^ operator of VB.NET gets translated into op_Exponent function, so this is what's available to you from C#.
Why doesn't C# have a power operator?
You can use a native .NET way so you don't rely on operators:
Math.Pow(x, y);

Also for y=2 it is faster to use multiplication (x*x).

A: EDIT
It turns out there's a SpecialNameAttribute that lets you declare "special" functions in C# that will allow you (among other things) to overload the VB power operator:
public class ExponentClass
{
    public double Value { get; set; }

    [System.Runtime.CompilerServices.SpecialName]
    public static ExponentClass op_Exponent(ExponentClass o1, ExponentClass o2)
    {
        return new ExponentClass { Value = Math.Pow(o1.Value, o2.Value) };
    }
}

The op_Exponent function in the class above gets translated by VB into the ^ power operator.
Interestingly, the documentation states the Attribute in not currently used by the .NET framework...
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No.  The power (^) operator gets compiled as Math.Pow() so there's no way to "overload" it in C#.
From LinqPad:
Sub Main
    Dim i as Integer
    Dim j as Integer
    j = Integer.Parse("6")
    i = (5^j)
    i.Dump()
End Sub

IL:
IL_0001:  ldstr       "6"
IL_0006:  call        System.Int32.Parse
IL_000B:  stloc.1
IL_000C:  ldc.r8      00 00 00 00 00 00 14 40
IL_0015:  ldloc.1
IL_0016:  conv.r8
IL_0017:  call        System.Math.Pow
IL_001C:  call        System.Math.Round
IL_0021:  conv.ovf.i4
IL_0022:  stloc.0
IL_0023:  ldloc.0
IL_0024:  call        LINQPad.Extensions.Dump

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Kannur varsity denies permission to screen BBC documentary on Gujarat riots
January 24, 2023 09:18 pm | Updated January 26, 2023 10:16 am IST - KANNUR
Despite denial of permission by Kannur University, the Students Federation of India (SFI) screened the BBC documentary on Gujarat riots on the campus.
It was decided to hold the screening at the seminar hall on the Mangattuparamba campus. However, the campus director denied permission for it, saying that only official programmes could be held at the seminar hall. However, the SFI later screened the documentary at the university portico.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) Kannur district secretary M.V. Jayarajan said that restrictions on screening did not eliminate the reality of genocide.
Meanwhile, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) State secretary V.K. Sanoj said the organisation had decided to screen the documentary across the country. It will be screened at 400 places in Kannur, he added.
"There is nothing in the documentary that instigates religious hatred. He said the screening of the documentary should not be seen as an anti-national act," he said.
On Tuesday evening, DYFI and Youth Congress workers separately screened the documentary at the old bus stand and Caltex respectively.


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Hand Sanitizer Should Taste Worse
If you're going to make hand sanitizer, please make it taste like garbage.
by Jelisa Castrodale
Even though a lot of us can count on one hand the number of times we've left our houses in the past several weeks (picking up a contactless pizza delivery from the front step doesn't count as 'leaving the house') we're still being encouraged to focus on hand hygiene, on washing our hands thoroughly or using alcohol-based sanitizers.
Unsurprisingly, due to increased demand it's easier to catch a stringfish (JUST ONE STUPID STRINGFISH) in Animal Crossing than it is to find a bottle of Purell right now. Companies that normally wouldn't want anything to do with our grotty little hands, like French luxury goods manufacturer LVMH, have transitioned to mass-producing the stuff, and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is currently allowing distilleries to make hand sanitizer without having to wait for authorization or apply for a permit. (The Distilled Spirits Council says that more than 700 U.S. distilleries are currently producing it.)
But because nothing can be simple or easy right now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that it appreciates all of the manufacturers that have stepped up to make sanitizer but, going forward, it really needs to taste a lot worse.
"We appreciate industry's willingness to help supply alcohol-based hand sanitizer to the market to meet the increasing demand for these products and are grateful for their efforts," FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. said earlier this week. "With this increased supply comes our continued mission to ensure safety of these products. It is important that hand sanitizer be manufactured in a way that makes them unpalatable to people, especially young children, and that they are appropriately labeled to discourage accidental or intentional ingestion."
The agency says that any alcohol that is used in hand sanitizer needs to be denatured first, which requires adding a combination of chemicals to ethanol to make it taste bitter and, in the TTB's words, render it "utterly unfit for beverage use."
The FDA's concerns aren't unfounded: It obtained data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Association of Poison Control Centers and learned that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people frantically calling their local poison control centers for help after their kid accidentally drank hand sanitizer.
The number of hand-sanitizer related calls were up by 79 percent in March compared to the same four-week period last year. It also said that "the majority" of the calls concerned children who were under the age of 5.
One of those calls involved a 13-year-old that downed some hand sanitizer made by a distillery, because it tasted like "normal" alcohol and had been distributed in a liquor bottle. The FDA is using that incident to gently chastise distillers for failing to denature their alcohol, or for not pasting appropriate "Drug Facts" labels or 'DO NOT DRINK' warnings on the side of a product that most of them never imagined making on a commercial scale.
But—say it with us one more time!—because nothing can be simple or easy right now, some distilleries have reported having a difficult time sourcing and purchasing chemicals like glycerol, hydrogen peroxide, and acetone that are used to denature alcohol. Those little bottles aren't easy to score either, and the cost of all of those components has increased due to demand too.
The FDA regulates hand sanitizers as over-the-counter drugs, and it has previously warned that they are to be kept out of the reach of pets and children, and that kids shouldn't be allowed to use them without adult supervision. The Distilled Spirits Council has also warned its members of the importance of keeping alcohol-based sanitizers away from kids, and it has made a socially shareable graphic for distilleries to use.
If that doesn't work, they could always start pouring it into Malört bottles. Nobody will drink that.
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Man Jailed After Chiswick Home Invasion
Elderly victim helped police catch her attacker
Christopher Curtis
Chiswick Man Jailed for Having Emma Watson Pictures
A man has been jailed today for invading an elderly woman's home in Chiswick and sexually assaulting her.
Christopher Curtis, aged 56, of Boston Gardens, Brentford had previously pleaded guilty to a number of offences related to the incident.
In the early hours of Sunday, 2nd January this year the victim, aged 77, was in bed asleep when Curtis entered her bedroom, having smashed a downstairs window to get into her home.
He turned on the light which woke her up and then threatened her with a knife. The woman began to struggle with him and he punched her in the head and face.
Curtis took her downstairs after she told him she needed her heart medication. Whilst in the kitchen he sexually assaulted her. As he took the victim back upstairs she distracted him long enough to enable her to get a phone off the hook and dial 999. He noticed what she was doing and cut off the call.
Police were quickly able to trace where the silent call had come from and officers went to the address to check on the welfare of the resident.
As they rang the doorbell, the defendant ran down the stairs and the victim was able to throw her door keys out of the bedroom window. The officers let themselves into the house and Christopher Curtis was arrested in the kitchen.
He was sentenced to an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection with a minimum term of 11 years and two months before parole can be considered.
Detective Constable Anthony Stanton of Sapphire said: "This was a frightening attack on a vulnerable woman in her own home who bravely managed to distract the defendant long enough to call police. It is possible there may be further victims' of Curtis who have not reported their allegations to police and I would particularly appeal to them to speak to us on 020 8733 3773.
"I hope this conviction encourages any victims' of sexual assault to come forward and speak to our specially trained Sapphire officers, who can offer access to the appropriate support whilst carrying out their investigations sensitively."


This site includes Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis's biography, photos, online articles, bibliography, and more.
The Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, was born in Australia (1958), where he matriculated from The Scots College (1975). He received his degree in Theology from the University of Athens (1980), a diploma in Byzantine Music from the Greek Conservatory of Music (1979), and was awarded a research scholarship to St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary (1982). He completed his doctoral studies in Patristics at the University of Oxford (1983).
After several months in silent retreat on Mt Athos, he served as Personal Assistant to the Greek Orthodox Primate in Australia (1984-94) and was co-founder of St Andrew's Theological College in Sydney (1985), where he was Sub-Dean and taught Patristics and Church History (1986-95). He was also Lecturer in the Divinity School (1986-90) and the School of Studies in Religion (1990-95) at the University of Sydney. In 1995, he moved to Boston, where he was appointed Professor of Theology at Holy Cross School of Theology and directed the Religious Studies Program at Hellenic College until 2002. He established the Environment Office at the same School in 2001. He has also taught as professor of Patristics at Balamand University in Lebanon. A member of the Office of Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Affairs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, he coordinates the Social and Moral Issues Commission of the Orthodox Churches in America. Currently, he serves as theological advisor to the Ecumenical Patriarch on environmental issues.
The author of over twenty books and numerous articles in several languages on the Church Fathers and Orthodox Spirituality, Fr. John's most recent publications include Soul Mending: The Art of Spiritual Direction (Holy Cross Press, 2000), In the Footsteps of Christ: Abba Isaiah of Scetis (SLG Press Oxford, 2001), The Body of Christ: A Place of Welcome for People with Disabilities (Light and Life, 2002), Letters from the Desert: A Selection from Barsanuphius and John (St. Vladimir's Press, 2003), Cosmic Grace, Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision of the Green Patriarch (Eerdmans, 2nd ed. 2009), Light Through Darkness: the Orthodox tradition (Orbis Books, 2004), John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain (Ashgate, 2004), The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A Brief Guide (Ecumenical Patriarchate, 2005), The Reflections of Abba Zosimas (SLG Press Oxford, 2006), Beyond the Shattered Image: Insights into an Orthodox Christian Ecological Worldview (Light and Life, 2nd ed. 2007), In the Heart of the Desert: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers (World Wisdom Books, 2nd revised ed. 2008), and Diakonia: Remembering and Reclaiming the Diaconate (Holy Cross Press, 2009). Two volumes with the full correspondence of Barsanuphius and John appeared in 2006-2007 in the Fathers of the Church series of Catholic University Press. He is the editor of three volumes containing the select writings of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Fordham University Press, 2010-2012).
Ascent to Heaven: The Theology of the Human Person, Holy Cross Press, 1989.
The Desert is Alive: Dimensions of Australian Spirituality, Joint Board of Christian Education, 1990, 1993.
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July 22, 2015 by Ali Salaam	Follow @AliSalaam_NoWar @AliSalaam_NoWar
A meme quoting with a phot of Barrett Brown and a quotation from his sentencing statement: "You are whatever the FBI finds it convenient for you to be at any given moment. This is not the 'rule of law,' Your Honor, it is the 'rule of law enforcement,' and it is very dangerous." (Anonymous / #FreeAnons)
Editor's Note: This article by Ali Salaam is more topical than ever thanks to the recent news that Barrett Brown received an additional 30 days in solitary confinement on top of his original punishment for possessing contraband prison alcohol. Brown continues to publish reports on life in prison, most recently with the Intercept, and The Courage Foundation recently agreed to fundraise on his behalf. –KO
It's been 7 months since journalist Barrett Brown was recently sentenced to 63 months, or 5 years in prison, while the corporate state he was trying to expose walks free, continuing their crimes against humanity.
Perhaps George Orwell said it best: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."
The American government has no interest in protecting press freedom. They just want to protect the press that serves the agenda of war and limi the political conversation to only the two parties. Forget objectivity on the Middle East: Rupert Murdoch is in the oil business in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with Lord Jacob Rothschild, whose family created the Federal Reserve as well as Israel's Supreme Court Building, and Dick Cheney; Wolf Blitzer is a former AIPAC lobbyist; and Anderson Cooper was a former intern at the CIA.
The federal government pretends to support press freedom. In 2013, the Senate Judiciary committee moved The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 out of committee and closer to a floor debate. While many mainstream journalists supported the measure, many, including national security reporters, were leery that the legislation infringes on the First Amendment.
These so-called shield laws, like Senator Feinstein's FFIA, should cause journalists to think about the depth or scope of covering a high-profile story in which the government or their corporate overlords are complicit. If the threat of jail time were part of the equation, would the writer stand silent or reveal it through publication in the public domain?
For the corporate media, such a law would protect them. But this article will further discuss how they wouldn't have considered any other outlets besides the corporate media to be journalists, and therefore not subject to protections, whether it be confidentiality of sources or otherwise.
For example, in the case of Chelsea Manning, the Uniformed Code of Military Justice requires disclosure of crimes against humanity committed by superiors including the Commander-in-Chief. In a flawed system where human life is not valued, her superiors did not care that war crimes were being committed. Edward Snowden's contract with private defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton has different implications, but they were contracting with public agencies, requiring him to blow the whistle on violations of our basic rights. He too tried traditional avenues. Regardless of what any law says, morality dictates that they both should get this information out to the public in any way they can. Their moral fiber wouldn't allow them to sell this priceless information to one government or another, but instead they released it to the public for the public good.
Today's brave whistleblowers like Snowden and Manning, who are supplying important information in a heroic or courageous manner, should not face prosecution by the government when their actions are weighed against the public's right to know. Unfortunately, that is not the case and the government's war on journalists forces the First Amendment through a paper shredder.
The New York Times published the "Pentagon Papers" in the 1970's, using information gathered by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. But after four decades of government protectionism through the enactment of national security laws, whistleblowers increasingly have to resort to breaking the law to identify crimes or wrongdoing. They themselves are journalists, in a sense.
Fast forward to 2013, where the national security laws sent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower, John Kiriakou, to federal prison for speaking the truth on the torture program, which should have landed the Bush administration in prison. Obama is holding them harmless and continuing these programs along with endless illegal wars.
With the impact of whistleblower websites like WikiLeaks, the government has been seeking ways to silence WikiLeaks and other forms of alternative Internet journalism to protect its secrets. While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains "holed-up" in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Britain to avoid possible extradition to the U.S., America seeks to arrest the Australian national for publishing classified American documents purportedly describing criminal acts by governments, as well as other embarrassing information. The U.S. government also indicated its willingness to extradite Assange under Eric Holder's Department of (in)Justice. Add to that the treatment of the late Reddit founder Aaron Swartz, Jeremy Hammond, and fellow WikiLeaks publisher, Barrett Brown.
Brown's alleged crime came in the form of posting a link that contained credit card information that had already been posted on the Internet, and also, for allegedly threatening an FBI agent on YouTube and Twitter. The federal judge slapped a media gag order against him for a period of time. Brown will also be required to pay over $800,000 in fines and restitution to Stratfor, the private intellgence agency whose customer credit cards were part of the leaked information.
And finally, rounding out our list of recent journalist victims, the deceased journalist Michael Hastings, purportedly came under FBI surveillance for his support of open information and going toe-to-toe with the military brass.
Barrett Brown, pictured looking into a webcam while wearing a blue dress shirt, faced a slew of charges related to his work as a journalist. On January 22, 2014 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. (Photo/screen grab via YouTube)
Know too much? End up on an FBI watch list
This suppression and surveillance of journalists has been going on behind the scenes for longer than these recent events suggest, thanks to the Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, aka the USA PATRIOT Act. If things were not bad enough for journalists, the failed 2013 "shield law" was sponsored by establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle who, despite taking a beating from non-establishment media outlets, had the audacity to dub it the as S 987 and HR 1962 the "Free Flow of Information Act." Sponsor of the S987, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) stated: "I think journalism has a certain tradecraft. It's a profession. I recognize that everyone can think they're a journalist," Feinstein said. "The intent was to set up a test to determine a bona fide journalists."
Eerily, TIME Magazine columnist Michael Grunwald tweeted about how he can't wait to justify the drone strike that kills Julian Assange of WikiLeaks at around the same time this was all coming out. Journalist Chris Hedges' lawsuit against the Obama administration over the NDAA was about whether or not the NDAA allowed for the legal assassination of journalists. Would the Free Flow of Information Act have made it that much easier to legally justify the murder of Assange or any journalist that questioned the state? To get answers, I visited Senator Feinstein's San Diego office in 2013, where members of her office staff admitted they knew little about the legislation.
Writers in the new multimedia era make a narrowly tailored description of a journalist much more difficult and statements by staffers were not reassuring. Sample questions included; "Was it true or not that only salaried journalists are protected," "who will provide press credentials," "can a camera be used to film police in action by average civilians without credentials?"
The staff claimed ignorance of the bill in regards to the salary question, the legitimacy of WikiLeaks, protections for whistleblowers who leak information to the news media, and if the National Defense Authorization Act stifles free speech.
The staff provided a copy of a Congressional Research Service document dated May 31, 2013. The 12-page report summarized the legislation, and attempts to define the activities in which journalists may participate. Thankfully the legislation didn't pass, but this government often does things without needing laws, and who knows if it will come up again. Similar language is reported to have been found in leaked drafts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
However, the First Amendment already protects a free press. Feinstein's staff and the CRS report claim that a litany of governmental intrusions into credentialed members of the media that occurred throughout 2013, such as wiretapping of Associated Press journalists and Fox News national security reporters, justified the creation of the Free Flow of Information Act, which the summary claimed would better protect journalists from such intrusions by the government. There were also reassurances made by the staffer I met with that my particular status at the time as an unpaid journalist and proprietor of an independent media outlet would also have me leave me better protected under the bill, like AP or Fox would.
The summary claimed that many states have "shield" laws for journalists, but that a new federal statutory shield law is needed. "This report will provide an overview of the Constitutional status of a journalist's privilege under the First Amendment," the CRS summary read. The House version, HR 1962, stated the privilege would apply when the government tries to subpoena a journalist for confidential sources. Unfortunately, it further stated, one of the thornier questions facing the legislation is the question of how it would have defined the group of people covered by the privilege.
It continued: "It is clear that lawmakers and media advocates believe that the privilege should apply to journalists employed by The New York Times, the Associated Press, or The Cleveland Plain Dealer. However, the question of whether a person should be considered a journalist becomes murkier when the entity or person in question is a blogger, or a website like WikiLeaks.org."
HR 1962 defined "covered person" to mean "a person who, for financial gain or livelihood, is engaged in journalism and includes any entity that employs that person, but does not include foreign powers (remember the secret FBI claim against Antiwar.com journalist Justin Raimondo for linking to a public, foreign website in an article relating to Israeli spies who were arrested on 9/11?), or those designated as terrorist organizations (remember the "terrorist" designation the UK government used to detain Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda?). In other words, people who earn money as journalists, and those entities that employ them are covered by the bill."
The summary continued, "Whether an entity that acts solely as a host or conduit for information it receives from outside sources, such as WikiLeaks.org, could be said to be engaging in journalism is unclear, and would likely need to be determined by a court."
The legislation listed several instances, such as the prevention of terrorism, imminent threats, or disclosure of trade secrets as examples of violations of the law. Raimondo's case was similar to Barrett Brown's: both linked to information on a publicly available website.
The Senate version of the "media shield law" was slightly different and stipulates that journalists should acquire the newsgathering at the beginning of the story to garner full protections from the government. Many journalists cite this provision as a method for those in power or the object of an investigation to exploit lesser-known members of the media, effectively killing a story. The longer you wait after an event occurs to start gathering information, the less protections you would have been afforded had this law passed.
The Senate bill would have created a list of individuals and organizations that would be excluded from the definition of journalists including "agents of foreign powers, individuals on the terrorist watch list, those affiliated with terrorist organizations, and those who have committed terrorist acts." This suggests that individual reporters may be placed on a special list just like the U.S.'s terrorist watch lists, drone strike kill lists, and no-fly lists.
If it were to have been signed into law in 2013, the "media shield law" could have had a chilling effect for reporters who gain national security information from whistleblowers like Edward Snowden. Equally concerning is the likely prosecution of confidential sources. In a post-9/11 America, journalists rely on inside sources and whistleblowers because the government has made a timely FOIA process nearly impossible.
On top of this, many writers aren't technically salaried, especially in the case of journalists for non-profits like WikiLeaks or Antiwar.com that still publish information that is important and relevant to the news media cycle as well as the good of humanity. The proposed law didn't address journalists who post links to already publicly available information, something that placed journalist Barrett Brown in a Texas prison with no chance of bail and a 63 month prison sentence. Linking to already existing websites was also what put Antiwar.com on an FBI watch list.
Such examples just go to show how if the government wants to target a journalist, they just go after low-hanging arbitrary fruit like linking to websites. There's no data on who is subject to surveillance, rather than criminal charges, for actions similar to Brown's — linking to publicly available information — though that was the subject of an ACLU's lawsuit filed on behalf of Antiwar.com against the FBI for secret surveillance of the non-profit journalistic agency since the early days of the PATRIOT Act.
Perhaps most alarming was a document that WikiLeaks discovered in the Stratfor hack. The memo/email stated the CIA has a war on journalism, stating, "[CIA director John] Brennan is behind the witch hunts of investigative journalists learning information from inside the beltway sources. There is specific tasker from the WH (White House) to go after anyone printing materials negative to the Obama agenda."
To bring this back to the Orwell introductory quote, I am not a PR person for Senator Feinstein nor President Obama nor any of the world's biggest despotic countries (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Bahrain, UK, France, Turkey, etc.).
I am a journalist. Truth is the job of any and all journalists, from a paid major news anchor down to the unpaid civilian activist on the streets with a camera documenting the police state. We cannot and should not be defined by politicians.
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Ali Salaam, an independent blogger, journalist, and activist, is a member of the MintPress News staff. He began pursuing journalism at the age of 18 in 2010 with a college radio show, and later ran for Mayor of Encinitas, California in 2014 as an independent. He accepted Islam in late 2013 and traveled to Iraq in late 2015 as a civilian (not as a member of the US government or military) a life changing experience due to the extreme hospitality of Iraqis despite their extreme poverty.
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I noticed that when using CombineVariants on vcf files containing different sets of samples, snps which are not harbored by all vcfs and all samples would be marked as ./. in the combined vcf for the samples which didn't contain those snps in the original vcf.
However if the samples in the original vcf didn't harbor those snps, it is possible that those SNPs are the same as references, other than ./. which means uncalled, and should be marked as 0/0 instead in the combined vcf. Is there a way can do this?
Sorry for the late response. The problem is that there is no data for hom ref sites in a regular VCF, so there is no way for Combine Variants to know a site is hom ref. The only way to get the 0/0 call, is to have the hom ref sites be present in the VCFs you are combining. However, the VCFs will be very large if you emit all the sites.