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An Industry of Untruth
The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future. Why we have this happening to our country is the only mystery left.
By Victor Davis Hansen • American Greatness
The current revolution is based on a series of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions, whose weight will soon sink it.
Viral confusion
Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has rightly been held up by the media as the gold standard of coronavirus information. The media has constructed Fauci as a constant corrective of Trump's supposed "lies" about the utility of travel bans, analogies with a bad flu year, and logical endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a "what do you have to lose" possible therapy.
But the omnipresent Fauci himself unfortunately has now lost credibility. The reason is that he has offered authoritative advice about facts, which either were not known or could not have been known at the time of his declarations.
Since January, Fauci has variously advised the nation both that the coronavirus probably was unlikely to cause a major health crisis in the United States and later that it might yet kill 240,000 Americans. In January, he praised China for its transparent handling of the coronavirus epidemic, not much later he conceded that perhaps they'd done a poor job of that. He has cautioned that the virus both poses low risks and, later, high risks, for Americans. Wearing masks, Fauci warned, was both of little utility and yet, later, essential. Hydroxychloroquine, he huffed, had little utility; when studies showed that it did, he still has kept mostly silent.
At various times, he emphasized that social distancing and avoiding optional activities were mandatory, but earlier that blind dating and going on cruise ships were permissible. Fauci weighed in on the inadvisability of restarting businesses prematurely, but he has displayed less certainty about the millions of demonstrators and rioters in the streets for a month violating quarantines. The point is not that he is human like all of us, but that in each of these cases he asserted such contradictions with near-divine certainty—and further confused the public in extremis.
In terms of how the United States "fared," it is simply untrue that Europe embraced superior social policies in containing the virus. The only somewhat reliable assessments of viral lethality are population numbers and deaths by COVID-19, although the latter is often in dispute.
By such rubrics, the United States, so far, has fared better than most of the major European countries—France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, and Belgium—in terms of deaths per million. Germany is the one major exception. But if blame is to be allotted to public officials for the United States having a higher fatality rate than Germany, then the cause is most likely governors of high-death, Eastern Seaboard states—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in particular. They either sent the infected into rest homes, or did not early on ensure that their mass transit systems were sanitized daily as well as practicing social distancing.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, more than any other regional or national leader, is culpable for decisions that doomed thousands of elderly patients. He did not just suggest long-term-care facilities receive active COVID-19 patients, but ordered them to take them—knowing at the time that the disease in its lethal manifestations targeted the elderly, infirm, and bedridden.
Then in shameful fashion, after thousands died, Cuomo claimed that either the facilities themselves or Donald Trump were responsible for the deaths. In truth, in the United States, the coronavirus is largely a fatal disease in two senses: the vulnerable in just four states on the Eastern Seaboard that account for about 12 percent of the nation's population but close to half of its total COVID-19 fatalities, and/or patients in rest homes or those over 65 years old with comorbidities.
Why are there currently spikes in cases among young people in warmer states and those of less population density in late June? No one is certain. But one likely reason is that millions of protestors for nearly a month crammed the nation's cities, suburbs, and towns, shouting and screaming without masks, violating social distancing, and often without observant hand washing and sanitizing—most often with official exemption or media and political approval.
The period of exposure and incubation is over, and the resulting new cases—for the most part asymptomatic and clustered among the young—are thus no surprise. Still, what is inconvenient is the rise in these cases—given that the Left either had claimed its mass demonstrations would not spread the disease, or, if they would, the resulting contagion was an affordable price to pay for the cry of the heart protests.
Perhaps, but the real cost of four weeks of protesting, rioting, and looting was to undermine the authority of state officials to enforce blatant violations of the quarantine. Obviously, if some can march with impunity in phalanxes of screaming, shoulder-to-shoulder protestors, while others are jailed as individuals trying to restart a business, then the state has lost its credibility with people and they will simply ignore further edicts as they see fit. Now what adjudicates quarantines are the people's own calibrations of their own safety.
Mismanagement of the virus? There have been four disastrous official policy decisions: sending patients into rest homes; allowing millions en masse for political reasons to violate state mandates on masks and social distancing; retroactively attempting to reissue quarantine standards that their advocates and authors had themselves earlier de facto destroyed; and consistently issuing pandemic alerts solely on the flawed basis of new positive cases, without distinguishing those who were asymptomatic, or who were infected and recovered without ever being tested, or who were asymptomatic and tested positive for antibodies, or who were only briefly ill, recovered, and by no means still a case-patient.
Endemic Racial Violence?
Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other revolutionary groups hijacked the tragic death of George Floyd. Within hours they created a mythology of rampant white police lethal attacks on innocent black victims. But that trope, too, was without a factual basis.
The wrongful deaths of unarmed African-Americans in custody have been on the decline, is far less than the number of police murdered per year, less than the number of white suspects killed, and proportionally fewer, in terms of percentages of those arrested by police, than other racial groups.
In rare interracial violence, blacks are five times more likely to attack whites than vice versa. There is a tragic war against young, black males—over 7,000 murdered per year—but it is an urban genocide of sort perpetrated in liberal cities, governed by liberal mayors and governors, and overseen by liberal police chiefs. The shooters are overwhelmingly other black males.
Somehow those facts were distorted by the Left into a trope that George Floyd was typical of an epidemic of white-generated lethal racial hatred. One can certainly argue about systematic racism as being a factor in all these asymmetries, but that is not what the rioting and their apologists have done in trafficking in accusations that have no data to support them.
Iconoclasm Redux
There is no logic to statue toppling, name changing, or culture canceling other than the quest to assert power, humiliate authorities, and create crises where they do not exist in order to manufacture a faux state of emergency—in service of a political agenda. In some sense, whether any statues fall is contingent entirely on the lack of resistance.
We know this because the ignorant rioters and protestors cannot explain why monuments to Ulysses S. Grant, Cervantes, black Civil War veterans, or Abraham Lincoln need to be toppled and destroyed as much as a statue of Robert E. Lee. We are not told why the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton is canceled out, but not the Wilson Center in Washington, or why a memorial to President Washington is targeted for defacement but not the hit play, "Hamilton," another founder who at one time owned slaves. And what or who, if any, exactly is to replace our fallen luminaries? Name the most iconic—Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, or Che Guevarra and the current rules of perfection would disqualify them all.
The abettors of the madness—corporations, the Democratic National Committee, universities, and the media—are not so mad. Yale, named for a slave owner, is now mostly a brand name, not a certification of a first-class, disinterested, and classically liberal education.
Take the elite stamp away, and what replaces it might as well be an online degree mill—given that it is no longer so demonstrable that a Yale graduate learned more than in his four years than did a graduate of Cal State Stanislaus.
So university presidents at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Columbia, know that by the standards of BLM their brand names must be changed. But to do so is synonymous with multi-billion-dollar losses and the destruction of centuries-old brands. Perhaps that is why they pander to the mob the way a Roman would-be emperor outbid rivals seeking to win over the Praetorian Guard.
Trial Balloon Lies
The truth is that the COVID-19 epidemic, the lockdown, and the rioting were seen by the Left, the media, and now the Democratic Party as a renewed effort in this election year to do what Robert Mueller, Ukraine, and impeachment had not—abort the presidency of Donald Trump, or make it impossible for him to be reelected.
So Trump was to be reconfigured as a racist responsible for the death of George Floyd. Then he was smeared as a Herbert Hoover who supposedly crashed the economy all on his own. And then he became a Typhoid Mary purveyor of death who sickened and killed tens of thousands of Americans at his rallies in a way millions at left-wing protests did not.
To that end, almost daily, entire fantasies were birthed, floated, crashed, and then were replaced by new hoaxes. The strategy was that while one lie might be refuted, the bigger and more numerous the lies, the more a continuous narrative could be fabricated.
Consequently, the last two weeks, in succession we were told by the media that a noose was left in a NASCAR garage as a racist threat to NASCAR's only major African-American driver, typical of Trump's racist America; that Donald Trump, in dejection and self-incrimination, was soon to quit rather than face the humiliation of a landslide defeat in November; that the president knowingly rejected intelligence that the Russians were paying bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan, as part of his obeisance to Vladimir Putin; and that Trump went to Mount Rushmore to honor racist presidents and dishonor sacred Native American land.
All were not just lies, but respectively unimaginative and banal successors to similarly long ago discredited lies—the Jussie Smollett hoax, the "Trump never wished to be president in the first place" hoax, the Russian "collusion" hoax, and the hoax that Trump's presence turns once esteemed monuments that prior presidents, most recently Barack Obama, visited into racist dog whistles.
Then there was the monstrous lie that Joe Biden has no cognitive disabilities. That he does was the consensus of one in five polled Democratic voters, of many of his own primary rivals in numerous Democratic debates, of handlers who bragged that his basement quarantine need not end because it resulted in him outpolling Trump, of a scramble to turn the vice-presidential nomination into a veritable presidential bid, and in a litany of gaffes, blank outs, and tragic memory lapses of familiar names, places, and common referents.
Biden finally came out of his bunker to do some tele-fundraising and talk to a few preselected reporters. He almost immediately blasted a reporter as a "lying dog face." In one of his next appearances, his opening statement started with "I am Joe Biden's husband, even as the liberal media insisted "Joe" was "Jill." There is now a Biden-inspired cottage industry of arguing that what Biden is recorded as saying is not what he was saying—on the theory that he so poorly pronounces words that they can become almost anything you wish.
What is cruel is cynically using a cognitively challenged candidate for the purpose of winning an election and then replacing him with a far-left vice president who otherwise likely would never have been elected.
FDR and the Democratic Party did something similar in his successful fourth-term bid in 1944 because of FDR's anticipated early death in office—but in matters of hiding physical rather than cognitive impairment. Moreover, at least that dishonest gambit was undertaken in order to prevent a socialist takeover of the United States by jettisoning the hard leftist, Vice President Henry Wallace.
In 2020, the effort is not to ensure that a socialist not be appointed president who otherwise would not have been elected, but rather to ensure that she will be.
The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future. Why we have let this happen to our country is the only mystery left.
Tags: 2020 Election, Covid-19, Economy, Liberal Tactics, Political Lies
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's worst lie
Pocahontas recklessly repeats the Michael Brown 'murder' accusation
By Robert Knight • The Washington Times
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has again apologized — sort of — for lying about being an American Indian back when it helped advance her academic legal career.
At a Native American presidential forum in Sioux City, Iowa last Monday, the Massachusetts Democrat framed her prevarications as a mistake:
"I want to say this, like anyone who's been honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes. I am sorry for harm that I have caused. I have listened, and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations that we've had together."
It's a variation on the old "mistakes were made" defense; at least she admitted to being the one who made the "mistakes."
Ms. Warren, who is as white as Ivory Snow, was identified as a "minority faculty member" by the University of Pennsylvania. She herself asked the school to change her status from white to Native American, according to the Federalist's David Harsanyi. She self-identified as a "minority" in the school's legal directory, and was listed by Harvard Law School as one of the "women of color" that they had hired for diversity.
This was not just a "mistake" or exaggeration; it was an ongoing lie, as her DNA test last October embarrassingly revealed. She may or may not have a lone Native American ancestor going back several generations, but she apparently has less Indian blood than the average American white person.
But this is not her worst lie.
On August 9, Sen. Warren tweeted: "5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times. I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael. We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on."
This is many times more egregious than the lie that earned her the "Pocahontas" sobriquet by President Trump. The false "hands up, don't shoot" narrative triggered waves of riots, looting, arson and at least one death, 16 injuries, including to six police officers, and millions of dollars in damage.
It has fueled Black Lives Matter's hate campaign against police and forged a false picture of America as a uniquely racist country for which socialism is the only cure.
There are some well-publicized cases of indefensible police violence, like the horrendous shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago in 2015, for which an officer has been charged with murder. But these are rare. Nationally, blacks comprise 13 percent of the population, but account for 26 to 28 percent of police gun fatalities.
That seems disproportionate. But, "officers are deployed to where people are most being victimized, and that is primarily in minority neighborhoods," writes Heather MacDonald. Her book "The War on Cops," also notes that the majority of criminals and crime victims are minorities.
In many cities, the police are the only thing preventing anarchy. When authorities stop having their backs, as in Baltimore, the crime and murder rate skyrocket.
The Ferguson narrative began on Aug. 9, 2014, when Brown, a six-foot-four-inch 18-year-old, held up a convenience store and tried to grab Officer Darren Wilson's gun while the officer sat in his car. Brown then walked away before charging back, forcing Mr. Wilson to shoot multiple times in self-defense, investigators found.
Initial witnesses told the media that the unarmed Brown had held up his arms in surrender. However, more credible witnesses said Brown attacked Mr. Wilson twice. And Brown's DNA was found inside Mr. Wilson's vehicle.
On Nov. 24, 2014, St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that the county grand jury had declined to indict Officer Wilson. On March 4, 2015, Obama's Justice Department issued its own report, ruling it self-defense.
Knowing all this, longtime law professor Warren went ahead and recklessly repeated the "murder" accusation. She wasn't the only Democrat running for president to do so. Minutes before Ms. Warren, Kamala Harris tweeted:
"Michael Brown's murder forever changed Ferguson and America. His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement. We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system."
Trolling for minority votes does not begin to excuse incendiary rhetoric of the type that has already cost some officers their lives.
On July 7, 2016, a racially-motivated Army vet ambushed police officers in Dallas, Texas at a Black Lives Matter protest, killing five, injuring nine and also wounding two civilians before being killed by police. He told authorities that he had "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers." Other police have been executed at point blank range in their vehicles.
Perhaps Ms. Warren and Ms. Harris might want to explain themselves to the officers' spouses and to other police families who worry every day that their father or mother will never return because of some hate-fueled assassin during a traffic stop.
Citing the Justice Department report and 13 witnesses who saw Brown attack Mr. Wilson, The Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler gave Ms. Warren and Ms. Harris four "Pinocchios," the worst rating he awards.
I'm not sure there can be enough Pinocchios to do this justice. How about four Clintons?
Tags: Liberal Hypocrisy, Political Lies
Cosmic Injustice
Politicians ignore felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe.
By Victor Davis Hanson • Center for American Greatness
One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority. These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst.
Big-city mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods in his efforts to virtue signal his moral fides—even as his New York was nearly paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard that trapped millions of his city's residents in their homes due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow. Or is the "Bloomberg syndrome" worse than that—in the sense that sounding saintly in theory psychologically compensates for being powerless in fact? Or is it a fashion tic of the privileged to show abstract empathy?
In the last years of Arnold Schwarzenegger's governorship, Arnold more or less gave up on the existential crises of illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, soaring taxes, water shortages, decrepit roads and bridges, homelessness, plummeting public school performance, and a huge exodus out of state of middle-class Californians.
Instead he began to lecture the state, the nation, and indeed the world on the need for massive wind and solar projects and assorted green fantasies. His old enemies, jubilant that they had aborted his early conservative reform agenda, began to praise him both for his green irrelevancies and for his neutered conservatism—to the delight of the outgoing Arnold who was recalibrating his return to celebrity Hollywood.
Failures to Protect
More recently, we often see how local sheriffs become media-created philosophers eager to blame supposed national bogeymen for mass shootings in their jurisdictions— killings that sometimes are at least exacerbated by the utter incompetence of local law enforcement chiefs.
Do we remember the horrific 2011 Tucson shooter, the mass-murdering ghoul who mowed down 19 people, killing six and severely wounding Representative Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.)? Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, without any evidence, immediately claimed that conservative anti-government hate speech had set off the unhinged shooter.
One might have thought from Dupnik's loud blame-game commentary that supposed outgunned deputies on duty had shot it out with the killer in a running gun battle, and that he was furious that talk radio or right-wingers had somehow impeded him from getting enough bullets or guns to his men to protect the victims from such a right-wing ideologue.
Hardly. This shooter had devoured both the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. He was mentally unstable, drug addled, and without coherent views on contemporary issues, and thus no foot soldier in some vast right-wing conspiracy or any other conspiracy. He was certainly less connected to the Right than the Washington, D.C. shooter who tried to take out much of the Republican House leadership in 2017 was connected to the Left.
The next time a legislator, mayor, or governor rails about plastic straws or the Paris Climate Accord, be assured that his state's roads are clogged, his public schools failing—and he is clueless or indifferent about it.
Again, no matter. The ubiquitous Dupnik in his efforts to translate his own incompetence and failure to secure the area where Giffords was to speak into media-driven celebrity, in cheap fashion blasted the Tea Party, critics of President Obama, and, of course, Rush Limbaugh as the culprits.
In truth, security in the supermarket parking lot where Giffords and others were shot was nearly nonexistent, a fact Dupnik never really addressed. He seemed unworried that he had not sent out deputies to ensure a U.S. congresswoman's safety while conducting an open-air meeting with her constituents.
Florida Sheriff Scott Israel sought national media attention for trying to connect the horrific Parkland Florida mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (17 dead), which took place in his jurisdiction, to the National Rifle Association and Republican politicians in general. But it was Israel's own Broward County Sheriff's Office that responded slowly to the killings. In some cases, Israel's officers exhibited timidity and refused to enter the building to confront the deranged mass shooter.
Before Israel lectured an international television audience on the evils of lax gun laws he might have at least ensured that his own sheriffs were willing to risk their lives to protect the endangered innocent.
Living High Above the Disasters
If we sometimes wonder why for years saintly Apple, Facebook, and Google have thrived in a sea of homelessness, amid pot-holed streets lined with strapped employees living in their cars, a good indication might be that the cosmic social justice so often voiced as penance by their woke multibillionaire bosses exempts them from worrying about the disasters in their midst.
Pope Francis recently lambasted a number of European countries and leaders for their apparent efforts to secure their national borders against massive illegal immigration from North Africa and the Middle East. Francis plugged European ecumenicalism and seemed to dismiss the populist and nationalist pushback of millions of Europeans, who see the EU as both anti-democratic and a peril to their own traditions and freedoms as citizens.
However, before Francis chastised the continent for its moral failings, he might have explained to Italians or Greeks worried over their open borders why the Vatican enjoys massive walls to keep the uninvited out and yet why other European countries should not emulate the nation-state Vatican's successful preemptive fortifications.
Better yet, the pope might have taken a more forceful stance against the decades-long and ongoing legal dilemmas of hundreds of global Catholic Clergy, who have proven to be pedophiles and yet were not turned over to law enforcement. The cosmic idea of a United Europe is easy to preach about, but reining in what is likely an epidemic of child-molesting clergy is messy. Francis's frequent abstract moralizing is quite at odds with either his inability or unwillingness to reform pathways to the priesthood, some of whose members have ruined thousands of lives.
Powerless to Address Concrete Crises
What was lacking in the recent Democratic debates were concrete answers to real problems—as opposed to candidates' nonstop cosmic virtue signaling. It is easy to blast "white supremacy" and "the gun culture" from a rostrum. But no one on stage seemed to care about the great challenge of our age, the inner-city carnage that takes thousands of young African-American lives each year. The inner-city murdering is tragically almost exclusively a black-on-black phenomenon (even rare interracial homicides are disproportionally committed by African-Americans) that occurs in progressive-run cities with strict gun control laws.
When leaders virtue signal about global or cosmic sin, it is often proof they have no willingness or power to address any concrete crisis. The public tires of such empty platitudes because they also see the culpable trying to divert attention from their own earthly failure by loudly appealing to a higher moral universe.
More mundanely, there is the role of hypocrisy: elites themselves never suffer the consequences of their own ethical inaction while the public never sees any benefit from their moral rhetoric. Illegal immigration is not a personal issue for Pope Francis, and most Europeans have more concrete things to worry about than lectures on populism and nationalism.
In the same fashion, New Yorkers in 2011 were worried more about the piles of snow on the sidewalks than they felt threatened by 32-ounce Cokes—while realizing that no snow blocked either the Bloomberg official or private residence.
Note a recent inexplicable Zogby poll that indicated 51 percent of blacks and Hispanics might support Donald Trump. How would such a supposedly counterintuitive result even be possible?
I have a suggestion: minority communities live first-hand with the violence and dangers of the gang gun culture. More policing and incarceration of guilty felons improve their lives. Secure borders mean fewer drug dealers and cartel smugglers in local communities, fewer schools swamped with non-English speakers, and social services not overwhelmed with impoverished non-Americans.
These can all be real concerns for beleaguered minorities. Yet they are virtue-signaled away by progressive elites whose own power and money allow them to navigate around the consequences of their own liberal fantasies that fall on distant others.
Add in a booming economy, rising incomes, and low unemployment for minorities, and the world of shrill yelling on the debate stage about "white privilege" seems some sort of an irrelevant fixation of the elite and privileged, akin to showing off a Gucci bag or Porsche Cayenne—but otherwise nothing to do with dangerous streets, wrecked schools, whizzing bullets, and social services that are becoming inoperative.
Tags: Liberalism, Political Correctness, Political Lies
Kamala Harris leaps to unwarranted conclusions in tax tweet
By Glenn Kessler • Washington Post
"The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let's call the President's tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%."
— Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), in a tweet, Feb. 11, 2019
Harris, who is running for president in 2020, attacked President Trump's tax law after the Internal Revenue Service reported that preliminary data shows that the average tax refund check is down 8 percent ($170) this year compared with last year.
Boy, talk about a non sequitur that turns out to be nonsensical and misleading. Let's take a look.
The average tax refund is down, at least according to very preliminary data for returns processed through Feb. 1. (That's essentially one week of filing data.) But the size of a refund tells you nothing about a person's tax bill. Continue reading →
Tags: Liberal Tactics, Political Lies, Taxes
Liberals Get Four Pinocchio's from Washington Post Regarding GOP Tax Plan
By Glenn Kessler • The Washington Post
"On average, middle class families earning less than $86,000 would see a tax increase under the Republican 'tax reform' plan."
— Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), in a tweet, Oct. 27
"The average tax increase on families nationwide earning up to $86,100 would be $794.00"
— Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), in a tweet, Oct. 24
"Under GOP plan, U.S. families making ~$86k see avg tax increase of $794."
— Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), in a tweet, Oct. 24 Continue reading →
Tags: Liberal Tactics, Political Lies, tax cuts, Tax Reform
Obama's Attorney General Used Fake Identity To Hide Clinton Investigation E-Mails
By Bre Payton • The Federalist
Former President Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, used a fake name to cover up an investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, indicates an admission from Lynch's attorney.
Lynch was caught conducting a secret meeting with Bill Clinton aboard a private plane on a tarmac in Phoenix last year as Clinton's wife pursued the presidency and amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's private, unsecured email server, which she illegally used during her tenure as secretary of State. Soon afterward, the former attorney general reportedly used a pseudonym to coordinate a narrative about the meeting with Department of Justice officials, Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller reports.
Also shortly after the private plane meeting, former FBI director James Comey announced that agency would not pursue a case against Clinton, despite admitting he had enough evidence to do so. Continue reading →
Tags: FBI, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Political Lies
Obamacare lies resurfacing
By Stephen Moore • Washington Post
The danger of a Republican bailout of Obamacare is mounting with every passing day. A group of "moderate" Republicans calling themselves the Problem Solvers Caucus is quietly negotiating with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to throw a multi-billion dollar life line to the Obamacare insurance exchanges.
This bailout, of course, would be an epic betrayal by a Republican Party which has promised to repeal and replace the financially crumbling Obama health law.
Republicans who are "negotiating" this bipartisan deal, such as Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, object to the term "bailout" for this rescue package. The left prefers the euphemism "stabilizing the insurance market." Continue reading →
Tags: Affordable Care Act, healthcare, ObamaCare, Political Lies
Running The Numbers On Mortality Rates Suggests Obamacare Could Be Killing People
By Brian Frankie • The Federalist
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) has been an utter mess. From passage in 2010 with procedural gimmicks to implementation in 2013 with unworkable software, from the loss of doctors and health plans millions wanted to keep to escalating premiums and insurers dropping out of the market, Obamacare has fallen short of nearly every conceivable goal of health-care reform.
There's one single exception: Obamacare has dramatically expanded health insurance coverage. This single remaining reason explains why it retains the support of progressives and a significant chunk of the electorate. All other considerations are secondary, if not irrelevant. More people have health insurance, so more people are benefitting from improved health outcomes and access to care.
There is only one simple flaw in this reasoning. It does not appear to be true. Continue reading →
The Obama Administration's Iran-Deal Duplicity
In January 2016, the Obama administration released seven Iranian-born prisoners in what President Barack Obama called a "one-time" "humanitarian gesture" intended to sweeten the nuclear deal hammered out between Washington, D.C., and Tehran. The prisoners — who Josh Earnest insisted were guilty only of "sanctions violations or violations of the trade embargo" — were exchanged for five Americans, unjustly held by Iran since as early as 2011. In fact, some of the Iranian prisoners were national-security threats, and it wasn't a straight prisoner swap: The Wall Street Journal revealed that on the day of the exchange the U.S. flew $400 million in cash on an unmarked cargo plane to Iran.
When it came to its negotiations with Iran, duplicity was the hallmark of the previous administration's public statements. (Sanctimonious preening was a close second.) But supporters assured skeptics that the administration was acting in the country's best national-security interests. Now comes a new bombshell investigation that shows the lengths to which the previous administration went to secure Iranian cooperation, even when it meant putting American security at risk. Continue reading →
Tags: Iran, Obama, Political Lies, The Iran Nuclear Deal
FBI Releases Clinton Email Investigation Files
by Morgan Chalfant • Washington Free Beacon
The FBI on Friday publicly released files from its investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, including a summary of the bureau's interview with Clinton in July.
The documents undermine Clinton's claims that she used her personal email for official business out of the convenience of carrying only one device.
According to the documents, the FBI identified 13 different mobile devices associated with Clinton's two known phone numbers that could have been used to send or receive emails on her personal system. Investigators found that Clinton used 11 different BlackBerry devices "in succession," eight of them during her tenure at the State Department. Continue reading →
Tags: Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Political Lies
Why 'Cash for Prisoners' May End Up Being Least of U.S. Concerns Over Payment to Iran
By Aaron David Miller • Wall Street Journal
It's not clear how much worse things will get for the Obama administration over its $400 million payment to Iran in January, but the cash-for-prisoners scandal may end up being the least of U.S. concerns in all this.
I write that knowing that Congress plans to hold hearings in September. I also know that so close to Election Day, this issue is likely to remain a highly politicized he-said/she-said among Republicans eager to take aim, an administration on the defensive, and a Democratic nominee in an increasingly difficult position because of the optics: a choreographed and sequenced transaction in which cash was delivered after U.S. prisoners were released, regardless of whether you consider it ransom.
Here's the larger and more potentially damaging perception beyond the general embarrassment: In the Middle East, strength and negotiating acumen are prized; they demonstrate power and credibility. Continue reading →
Tags: Iran, Obama, Political Lies, Projecting Weakness
Lie of the Decade
by Jed Babbin • The American Spectator
We have become wearily accustomed to the constant flow of lies in the presidential campaign. Some are important but most are not. They have become a tiresome reminder of why so many people have decided to ignore the whole mess.
Lies in a political campaign should matter but those lies that are the basis for national security decisions — lies that are a matter of policy — can create existential dangers. The lies that President Obama has been peddling surrounding his deal with Iran on nuclear weapons are just such a case.
The website PolitiFact has gotten into the habit of naming the Lie of the Year. In 2012, when it gave the shameful title to Obama's statement on Obamacare that "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it," the label was almost enough to rouse the Republican Party to action. Continue reading →
Tags: Government Corruption, Iran, Obama, Political Lies
The Growing Scandal: Hillary Clinton Selling State Department Access for Cash
More than half of Hillary's meetings with nongovernmental people were with donors. And foreign government officials who met with Hillary gave more than $170 million to the Clinton Foundation.
By George Landrith • Frontiers of Freedom
The winds of scandal continue to swirl around Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and the State Department. Oddly, the State Department has allowed itself to become sucked into defending Hillary and the Foundation despite the unsavory facts. It is highly inappropriate for the State Department to work to tamp down the facts and obfuscate what actually happened. It has no duty to defend Hillary's private actions. As a result of the State Department's very odd behavior in trying to hide Hillary's actions from pubic view, it has made Hillary's wrongs, its own.
One of the biggest whoppers often told to defend the Clintons and their Foundation is that it is a charity doing lots of good all over the world and thus we should not worry about these details. The Foundation may very well do some good here and there. But the truth is — the Clinton Foundation collects hundreds of millions of dollars from some very curious donors and gives less than 10% in charitable grants.
In 2013, the Clinton Foundation raised $149 million and only distributed charitable grants totaling less than $9 million. That is only about six percent. Continue reading →
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Report: Hillary Clinton's Job Creation as NY Senator Far Below What She Promised
By Natalie Johnson • Washington Free Beacon
Hillary Clinton vowed to create 200,000 new jobs in Upstate New York during her time as a senator representing the state, but a new report published Monday found that the Democratic nominee's efforts fell far below projections.
While upstate jobs rose 0.2 percent overall during Clinton's tenure in the Senate, manufacturing jobs fell nearly 25 percent, the Washington Post reported, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Analysis of Clinton's first Senate term revealed that Upstate New York actually lost jobs. The Public Policy Institute in Albany studied BLS data and found that between October 2001 and December 2006, Upstate New York lost more than 31,000 payroll jobs.
The Clinton campaign did not comment on how man jobs were created during Clinton's tenure but directed the Washington Post to statistics from the New York State Department of Labor showing that Upstate New York had gained 117,000 jobs during the former first lady's first term. The Post reported it was unable to confirm the number, saying that the state agency doesn't "use Upstate New York as a specific regional area to measure employment."
Clinton was reelected for her second term in November 2006 before leaving the Senate in January 2009 to become secretary of state.
The Washington Post reported:
The former first lady was unable to pass the big-ticket legislation she introduced to benefit the upstate economy. She turned to smaller-scale projects, but some of those fell flat after initial glowing headlines … Many promised jobs never materialized and others migrated to other states as she turned to her first presidential run, said former officials who worked with her in New York … In March 2001, she introduced seven bills to stimulate the upstate economy–"part of a larger partnership to spur job creation across our country,'' Clinton said. None of the measures passed, records show.
Clinton has promised repeatedly on the campaign trail that she would "make the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."
The new report from the Post could cast a shadow over the Clinton campaign's focus on her time in the Senate, when she vowed to revive a depressed Upstate New York.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Job Growth, Political Lies
Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don't happen in other countries?
By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson
After a gunman shot and killed nine worshippers in a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C., President Barack Obama took to the White House podium the next day to "express our deep sorrow over the senseless murders."
In his June 18, 2015, remarks from the White House, Obama said, "Now is the time for mourning and for healing. But let's be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn't happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it."
A flurry of PolitiFact readers — some of them prompted by articles objecting to Obama's claim — wrote to us to ask us to check it, so we did. Continue reading →
Tags: gun control, Liberal Tactics, Political Lies, second amendment


When ask what am I meant to be doing? I often ask them to remember what they loved to do as a child. When I was seven I spent hours pretending to teach and telling stories to my dolls, reading mythology, making herbal 'remedies' from the flowers and herbs in our garden and spinning around and around to music. There is great wisdom in the heart of the child and I often feel as adults it is part of our quest to regain this innocence and trust in letting the heart speak to us of the path we truly wish to take, especially in our vocation.
Today I felt inspired to look at photographs of the always enchanting, Kate Bush, and found these incredibly beautiful photos taken by her brother, John Carder Bush, when she was very young. Her path is right there in her eyes. These photos were published in a book called Cathy inspired by Kate's song Wuthering Heights in 1986 and will be published in hardback on 20th November 2014 by Little, Brown.


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This specialty from the Italian provinces of Modena and Reggio in the region Emilia-Romagna is also called balsamic vinegar, although it is not really conventional vinegar and the manufacturing process has been completely different for centuries. Legend has it that the then most powerful Italian nobleman, Duke Boniface of Canossa (985-1052) gave the German Emperor Henry IV (1050-1106) a vial on his proverbial passage to Canossa (30 km west of Modena). But that can not be right, because the Canossagang did not take place until 1077 and at this time Boniface was no longer living.
But it is possible that Henry IV met the balsam by Mathilde (1046-1115), the daughter and ruler-successor of Boniface. In any case, it is certain that Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) ate a spoonful of balsamic a day as a refreshment for body and soul. The princes of Este first introduced a classification of the "Aceto Balsamico" in the middle of the 16th century.
In the 1980s, a separate DOC classification for "Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena" was created, but then abandoned. Now everyone is allowed to produce a balsamic vinegar, but not to call it a traditional one, this is reserved for the two production associations "Consorzio Produttori di Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena" and "di Reggio Emilia". The differences between the two producers are in the grape varieties used and in the categorization. Starting product for Balsamico Tradizionale is cooked grape juice,
After the naturally occurring fermentation of acetic acid follows a long aging and storage in smaller and smaller barrels of different types of wood, where it is gradually becoming more concentrated. There may be none flavorings be added. He ripens at least 12 to 25 years in extreme cases and is bottled in the typical small 0.1-liter vial. The syrup-like balsamic vine has an intense dark brown color and a characteristic sweet and sour, caramel Taste. Incidentally, it is more expensive than saffron and is only used to refine droplets Food used. See also below acetic acid,
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Пётр Андре́евич Минако́в (1865—1931) — русский и советский врач, судебный медик, доктор медицины, профессор, один из основоположников судебной медицины в России.

Биография

Родился Пётр Андреевич  года в селе Дерюгино Дмитриевского уезда Курской губернии в семье крестьян, Андрея Васильевича и Нимфодоры Ивановны Минаковых. Отец его был крепостным фельдшером у князя Голицына, умер он рано, и воспитание детей легло на плечи Нимфодоры Ивановны, которая, несмотря на бедность, постаралась дать детям образование. Его старший брат Николай стал, как и отец, фельдшером, а Пётр после окончания в 1886 году Курской гимназии поступил на медицинский факультет Московского университета.

После окончания Московского университета в 1891 году со степенью лекаря с отличием и золотой медалью за сочинение «Elephantiasis в генетическом и терапевтическом отношении» (Elephantiasis = (Слоновость). — М.: типо-лит. т-ва И.Н. Кушнерев и К°, 1893. — 115 с.) он был оставлен при кафедре судебной медицины в должности сверхштатного лаборанта Института судебной медицины. В 1894 году защитил диссертацию «О волосах в судебно-медицинском отношении» (М.: тип. М.Г. Волчанинова, 1894. — 136 с., 9 л. ил).

В 1895 году был командирован за границу для изучения судебной медицины и повышения квалификации. Работал в Вене у судебного медика Эдуарда фон Гофмана, в Париже у Поля Бруарделя, в Берлине у Штрассмана. Результатом работы за границей стала работа «Об изменениях волос под действием высокой температуры», написанная им в 1896 году. По возвращении из-за границы в 1896 году он был назначен прозектором при кафедре судебной медицины.

С 1901 года — экстраординарный профессор и заведующий кафедрой судебной медицины. С 1909 года проректор Московского университета (был избран тайным голосованием, за него было подано 54 голоса, против 4).

В 1911 году ушёл из университета с группой профессоров в знак протеста против политики министра просвещения Л. А. Кассо (дело Кассо). Организовал и возглавил кафедру судебной медицины на Московских высших женских курсах (позже — 2-й МГУ).

В 1917 году он возвратился на кафедру Московского университета, которой заведовал до 1931 года. С 1923 года был председателем Антропологического общества при МГУ. В Обществе любителей естествознания, антропологии и этнографии состоял товарищем председателя Антропологического отдела.

Скончался в Москве от рака 5 октября 1931 года.

Открыл нейтральный гематин и его спектр, впервые описал субэндокардиальные экхимозы («пятна Минакова») при смерти от острой кровопотери; предложил оригинальный способ сохранения трупов и их бальзамирования. Автор классического исследования о судебно-медицинском значении волос и о сравнительном строении волос у человека и у некоторых животных.

Учениками Петра Андреевича Минакова были: член-корреспондент АМН СССР профессор М. И. Авдеев, член-корреспондент АМН СССР Б. Н. Могильницкий, профессор В. М. Смольянинов, профессор  и другие.

Семья
В 1889 году Петр Андреевич Минаков женился на Любови Алексеевне Абрикосовой (1866—1949), дочери Агриппины Алексеевны и Алексея Ивановича Абрикосовых.

В 1890 году у них родился сын Сергей, он окончил в 1909 году с золотой медалью гимназию имени Шелапутина и поступил на математическое отделение физико-математического факультета Московского университета. В 1911 году, после того как его отец был уволен из числа профессоров Московского университета, Сергей Петрович также покинул университет и поступил на математический факультет Парижского университета. В 1913 году он отбывал воинскую повинность вольноопределяющимся, уволился из армии прапорщиком запаса. С началом Первой мировой войны был мобилизован в армию в первый день войны и 29 августа 1914 года был убит в бою между Гольдапом и Даркеменом, в Восточной Пруссии.

В 1893 году родился второй сын Андрей, впоследствии ставший известным советским учёным в области механики и выдающимся педагогом.

В 1899 году родилась дочь Люба, врач-физиотерапевт в Боткинской больнице.

Работы
 О патолого-анатомических изменениях при отравлении йодоформом // Медицинское Обозрение. — 1892.
 Elephantiasis (слоновость). — М., 1893.
 О волосах в судебно-медицинском отношении: диссерт. — М., 1894.
 Об изменениях волос под действием высокой температуры. — 1896.
 Ueber die Veränderung der Haare durch die Hitze // Vierteljahrsschrift für gerichtl. Medicin. — 1896. — 3 Folge. Supl.-Heft.
 Новые данные по исследованию волос из древних могил и от мумий // Труды Антропологического Отдела Общества Любителей Естествознания, Антропологии и Этнографии. — 1897. — Т. 19.
 Ненормальная волосатость // Труды Антропологического Отдела Общества Любителей Естествознания, Антропологии и Этнографии. — 1897. — Т. 19.
 О цвете волос у древнего населения центральной России // Труды Антропологического Отдела Общества Любителей Естествознания, Антропологии и Этнографии. — 1897. — Т. 19.
 О ногтях человеческой руки. — М.: т-во тип. А. И. Мамонтова, ценз. 1899. — 13 с.
 Ueber die Nägel der Menschenhand // Vierteljahrsschrift für geriohtl. Medicin. — 1900. — Supl.-Heft.
 Волосы в антропологическом отношении // Русский Антропологический Журнал. — 1900. — Кн. 1.
 Значение антропологии в медицине // Русский Антропологический Журнал. — 1902. — Кн. 1.
 О субэндокардиальных экхимозах при смерти от истечения кровью // Русский Антропологический Журнал. — 1903. — Кн. 2.
 О поседении волос // Русский Антропологический Журнал. — 1903. — № 2.
 Судебно-медицинская экспертиза по делу Бейлиса // Русские Ведомости. — 1913. — № 238, 239.
 Консервирование (бальзамирование) и мумификация трупов // Русский антропологический журнал. — 1924. — Т. 13, Вып. 3—4.

Литература

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Q: Best Practices For Creating a Notifications Database Table I'm stumped on how to best do this, and was hoping the community could shed some light on it (maybe you have experience, or have an innovative way of solving this!).
I have an app where there are users, events, and groups. I'm trying to make a notifications table which will store notifications for users that they've been invited to events, groups, or connected with friends. No, I'm not building Facebook hah.
The notification should have a message that says something like: "You've been invited to the Syracuse Runners Club" and you click it to jump to the Runners Club group object.
So, my best guess so far is having a table structured as follows:
Notifications
id | status (unread/read) | message | reference_object_id |

–where the reference object_id points to the id of the foreign object. However, the problem is that I won't know which table the foreign object_id belongs.
My ultimate goal is to have this in JSON form so that I can have something along the lines of:
{
  message:"You're invited blah blah",
  status:"unread",
  reference_object: {
    id:1,
    name:"Runners Club"
  }
}

I'm using MySQL and Ruby on Rails.

A: If you are using MySQL add another column to specify the foreign object table.
id | status (unread/read) | message | reference_object_id | reference_object_table
Now you can reference another object in any table.

A: You can either have a column for each type of thing you can be notified about.   Or  you can store the "Type" of the referencing object

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Although Novruz is celebrated on 20-21 March, the spring festival begins a month in advance. First, all households had a massive spring clearing. We washed everything: bedding, windows, walls, expensive dishes displayed in cupboards, candelabras and floors. We also cleared rugs and carpets, mended clothes and made or bought new ones. New trees were planted and gardens were tidied up. Families visited their dead relatives' graveyards to pay their respects.
Afterwards, even the poorest households did very little but cooked and baked delicious food. My grandma made hundreds of shakarburas. We gathered at a large oval table to fill in sweet pastry with crushed walnuts or hazelnuts, decorating them with tweezers. I loved those gatherings because women told stories about their lives.
As far as I was concerned, the best Novruz sweets were bakhlavas. I could watch my grandma forever, while she was alternating layers of pastry and crushed walnuts and hazelnuts mixed with sugar. After she poured syrup made of honey and saffron over the thick top layer, I was allowed to decorate each diamond shaped baklava with a walnut and hazelnut halves.
Celebrations began four Tuesdays before Novruz. Each Tuesday had a theme and we celebrated awakening of water, fire, earth and wind. The last Tuesday before Novruz was as big as the celebration of Novruz itself.
Food was the best part of the festival. My grandma always made some pilav. She steamed rice with saffron, cinnamon and turmeric. It was served with caramelised onions mixed with succulent chunks of lamb, chestnuts, dried apricots, plumbs and raisins. Another favourite dish was dolma: vine leaves stuffed with minced lamb, rice and fresh herbs and served with plain yogurt and crushed garlic sauce. I ate dolmas with my hand using chunks of freshly baked flat bread to pick up tidy parcels of stuffed vine leaves smeared in a sauce. These rich dishes were followed by dovga, a cold yogurt soup made with finely chopped mint, coriander, dill and parsley. I loved dovga because it helped digesting dolmas and pilav.
Those were the main dishes. In addition, a long table in our living room could barely fit in plates of fresh salads, herbs, starters, walnuts and hazelnuts in their shells, bowls of fresh fruit which were particularly expensive around this time of year. I loved mandarins, pomegranates and big juicy red apples. We also had a plate of decorated boiled eggs. They were mainly dark red as grandma boiled them with onion shells that gave them a natural looking tint. The main course was followed by black tea with bakhlavas and shekerburas.
Traditionally, a festive table contained seven items starting with the letter 's'. For example, every household had semeni, green sprouting wheat grass grown up to 20 cm tall and tied around by a thin red ribbon. It stood proudly in the middle of the table and was the hallmark of spring's arrival. It symbolised rebirth and the renewal of nature. Semeni had a sweet scent, and I loved watering it daily. Another item starting with 's' was sumac, crushed berry spice used with meat. Having it on the table meant that life this year might be spicier.
Novruz was great fun for the younger generation. Kids knocked at neighbours' doors, left their hats on the porch and hid away expecting their hats to be filled with nuts, nibbles and sweets. Originally, this tradition was established to help out poor families. Nowadays, it gets children extra treats.
Please, look at me, please look at me.
When bonfires were a manageable size, young boys and even some girls jumped over them. The fire burnt all negative energy trailing behind them and cleansed them for the new year.
Also, Novruz was great time for predicting the future. All young single girls wanted to know whether that would be the year when they got married. There were many ways to find that out. For example, you could throw a shoe over your right shoulder towards the entrance door. If it landed facing the house, it was not your year. But if it was facing away from the door, chances were that you'd walk away from your household with your husband. Another reliable way of finding out about your future was to eavesdrop. Whatever you heard was bound to happen.
Wow, that food sounds amazing. I love saffron. I think I would have fit right in with your family, Gulara. The way everyone gathers to make the shakarburas sounds exactly like how we make tamales. Novruz sounds like a fun tradition.
Thank you for your sweet comment, Robin. Novruz is the time of the year when I miss home and my family more than ever. It's such a special festival and as you can see from this post, I've got many fond memories about it.
Today is World Day of Novroj.It is similar to what we say Nava Roj. New Day in Hindi or Sanskrit.
It's amazing how many cultures celebrate the beginning of spring. It's such a special time of the year. Thank you for sharing Nava Roj with us.
What a lovely post, Gulara! And your food is a lot like ours!
That's why I love your posts so much! It's amazing how much many cultures have in common.
Fascinating traditions. The food sounds delightful. And I really like the idea of everyone doing a really big spring clean. Makes perfect sense – a way to start fresh!!!!
I used to resent it. It was hard work and I had to work along with adults, so at some point when I could get away not doing spring cleaning, I gave up on it. I wish I could rekindle that habit though. Only now I understand how important it is to release the old energy and create space for new things to come. We actually did spring clean four times a year, but Novruz was the most thorough.
Maybe this would be a good time to clean a closet, you know, take your mind off the food. I am definitely cleaning some closets this weekend – get rid of the detritus.
Funny enough, I've started clutter clearing yesterday 🙂 Maybe it was our little chat. Thank you for your encouragement. Good luck with cleaning.
My mouth was watering at the thought of the shakarburas. They sound dee-lish!
I can only imagine how disapproving the Soviets were regarding these festivities. It's interesting how deeply-ingrained cultural practices aren't so easily rooted out – Soviets or not.
Thank you so much for reading and your sweet comment. My mouth watered too at the reminder of shakarburas 😀 I miss celebrating Novruz in style… Maybe when the kids are a bit older, I'll attempt to revive the festival in my own household.


Summary: Kaitlin wishes to get away from her problems and finds herself in Middle Earth. Will she find the family she never had a chance to have?
Summary: What happens when Frodo decides not to destroy The One Ring at the last minute? What happens to the rest of the fellowship?
Summary: Legolas finds himself testing the limits of his dignity in an effort to win the approval of the adorable daughter of Sam.
Summary: What will a hobbit do for mushrooms? Or perhaps the question should be, what will they not do?
Summary: Sequel to Lost. HET and SLASH. Erin has made her choice. Can she live with it and find happiness in the middle of a war?
Summary: In Mordor, Frodo tries to explain to Sam how he feels.
Summary: Frodo meets a magical goblin. Guest starring Santa.
Summary: Frodo's Journal chronicles Frodo's life between the time that Bilbo vanished and Frodo departed on his quest.
Summary: A poem of Frodo's journey to Mount Doom.


In this Video you're going to get an introduction to companion software to Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). Why do you need Motion? If you want to customize existing text presets, effects, graphics and publish them back to FCPX this is the program to do it. I used Motion to enhance up the existing sharpening effect, customize lower third texts, and create some cool title intros.
Check out the video lesson for the demonstration. To see the full lesson, more free lessons, and the entire course of essential workflows for Final Cut Pro X click here.


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Will A Third Apartment Tower Come to Minneapolis
March 15, 2013 /in News, Uncategorized /by bwadmin
Downtown Minneapolis could be getting its THIRD high-rise luxury apartment building.
An architectural firm hired by Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction shared its plans for the tower last night at the monthly meeting of the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association (DMNA).
Renderings showed a high-rise tower with retail on the first floor that would be built pending a variety of approvals on a surface parking lot at 400 Marquette Avenue. The site is next to a 26-story luxury apartment tower called Nic on Fifth and the nine-story Xcel Energy headquarters building, both of which are being built by Opus Development Corp. That hotbed of development is just several blocks from where aa Chicago developer is building a 36-story apartment tower that will soon rise above the Loring Park neighborhood, .
Gerry Ewald, DMNA's chair, said that the group's reaction to the tower's design was favorable. "And we love the idea of more people living downtown," he said.
The project comes at a time when there are already more than 2,000 apartments under construction in downtown Minneapolis. While the apartment vacancy rate in downtown Minneapolis has been bouncing around record lows – right now it's only 1.8 percent – there's some concern that there too many market-rate units will come on-line within the next couple years.Still, it's been decades since downtown has had any significant new rental construction, let alone a new apartment tower, and such projects will help advance the Downtown Council's goal of doubling the population by 2025.
Downtown's Central Business District, long known for its high-rise office buildings, has been the subject of considerable attention among apartment developers because of its proximity to a light rail transit stop and the sprawling downtown skyway system.
Other nearby developments include one by Village Green Properties, a national apartment that's based in Michigan, which is transforming the former Soo Line Office building into 254 luxury apartments with a roof-top park called the Soo Line Building City Apartments. On Friday, JustListed reported that Todd Phillips plans to convert the Plymouth Building along Hennepin Avenue into 252 rental apartments. Phillips was also at the meeting to discuss his plans.
With the supply of for-sale condominiums in downtown Minneapolis at the lowest level in more than a decade, there's some speculation that one of or more of the apartment buildings that are being developed could be converted into condominiums. Even as the housing recovery gains steams, developers have been shy about starting a condominium project because financing those projects requires consirable pre-sales before construction starts. Financing a rental building only requires that the developer can prove that there's demand in the market. In fact, marketing of those rental units typically doesn't begin until 6 to 12 months before the estimated completion of the project. At this point, StoneBridge Condominiums in the Mill District is the only condominium project that's under construction.
In October 2011 JustListed said that the owners of the parking lot at 400 Marquette were hoping to cash in on the rental housing boom by selling the third-acre parcel to an apartment developer. At the time, Gina Dingman, president of Everest Real Estate Advisors, said that she's received both local and national interest in the lot. Public records show that the owner of the lot is LST Properties, which bought it in 1984 for $6.55 million. The estimated market value of the site, according to those records, is now about $1.5 million.
Source: Star Tribune
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While not being called out specifically in any one area, I believe that in 2018 we'll see more and more interest being applied to these topics.
Finally, I'm also very happy to announce that a project called Vitals, which my team helped to develop and is using beacon technology, was launched this past week to much interest and press. You can find more details and coverage in a release we posted.
A Wisconsin company called Three Square Market is going to offer employees implantable chips to open doors, buy snacks, log in to computers, and use office equipment like copy machines. Participating employees will have the chips, which use near field communication (NFC) technology, implanted between their thumb and forefinger. It's an extension of the long-running implantable RFID chip business, based on a partnership with Swedish company Biohax International.
CD3 stations feature innovative technology and are connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) via sensors on each tool and use a cellular gateway to collect use patterns and functionality. The software and real-time data can then be used to monitor and quantify usage and cost savings.
Internet of Things (IoT) has a large role to play in the future of smart cities. IoT can be used in practically all scenarios for public services by governments to make cities environment friendly.
Lab 651 is focused on creating connected products that have a positive impact on the world in which we live. Learn how Lab 651 helped the St. Paul Police and the Autism Society of Minnesota launch an app to help the vulnerable.
The Black Hat USA 2017 cybersecurity conference took place in Las Vegas this week, and over at Dark Reading, Kelly Sheridan has written a great synopsis of its evolution since its creation in 1997. The Black Hat conference started as a gathering of researchers, academics, analysts, cryptographers, and Chief Information Officers that brought the cyber community together for an open discussion of the year's cyber trends and most current threats.
It was winter in New York City and Asaf Jacobi's Harley-Davidson dealership was selling one or two motorcycles a week. It wasn't enough.
Jacobi went for a long walk in Riverside Park and happened to bump into Or Shani, CEO of an AI firm, Adgorithms. After discussing Jacobi's sales woes, Shani, suggested he try out Albert, Adgorithm's AI-driven marketing platform. It works across digital channels, like Facebook and Google, to measure, and then autonomously optimize, the outcomes of marketing campaigns. Jacobi decided he'd give Albert a one-weekend audition.
LG Electronics will make its appliances work with Amazon Echo smart speakers as part of an ongoing process to expand into the artificial intelligence business arena. The global electronics manufacturer on Sunday said it planned to showcase its appliances working with Amazon's Alexa voice-controlled intelligent speaker at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin that kicks off next week.
Businesses are struggling to recruit skilled Internet of Things (IoT) developers, which could be slowing the deployment of enterprise IoT solutions. In a report from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu OS, 68 percent of IoT professions say they struggle to recruit employees with the right IoT experience. Data analytics and big data skills are the most sought after, but 35 percent of professionals struggle to find an employee with that skill set.
At Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, sensors connected to the WiFi and cellular network collect temperature, humidity and noise data for use by facilities staff. As part of a longstanding cheering contest, the noise data analysis identifies the section of the stadium that is making the most noise and puts the results on a big screen.
Have you ever wondered how the on going IIoT revolution will play out? You are not alone. I've also given it a fair share of thought and in this article I want to argue why I believe the cloud's days as the focal point of this revolution are numbered and how decentralised edge computing is best positioned to takeover.
A survey of technology decision-makers at mid- to large-scale enterprises found that IoT adoption is coming to the vast majority of businesses within the next two years, but many of those businesses aren't yet ready to cope with the change.
Soft skills like communication and collaboration may just be the key for solving some of the challenges facing the field of Internet of Things (IoT). According to Northeastern University-Silicon Valley's survey released this week, which polled more than 500 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), enterprises are going to need skilled employees if they want to take on IoT ventures.


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9-foot alligator attacks cyclist Robert Bassett in Florida.
by Nandeen Yanes 2 years ago
STUART, Fla. – A cyclist was critically injured in a bizarre alligator attack in Florida, which began when he fell off his bike and landed in a creek close to an unwitting gator.
At before 11 a.m. Monday, Robert Bassett, of Palm City, was cycling through Halpatiokee Regional Park in Stuart, located in the 8300 block of Southwest Lost River Road. His tire popped, and he was flung from his bike.
Bassett went about six feet down an embankment before colliding with the 8-foot alligator in the water, according to deputies. Bassett's right back thigh and torso were gripped between the teeth of the startled reptile.
The incident was witnessed by Scott Lorraine of the Treasure Coast's Airborne Mountain Bike Club.
He stated, "[Bassett] ran directly into the water, and, as bad luck would have it, the gator was right there."
After the rescue, Lorraine stated that he spoke with Barrett.
"Three spins, he said [the alligator] took him down."
Charlie Shannon of Palm City said he saw Bassett in the water while walking his dog in the park. He claimed that he and others assisted in the rescue of Bassett, who had managed to elude the gator's hold.
Shannon explained, "He was saying, 'Help me get out of the water.'" "He was really far down, but with the help of this young man who was holding me, I was able to go down there. I was able to pull him out of the water on my own."
Bassett "had a bunch of marks all over his leg, but primarily in the upper thigh," according to Shannon.
Shannon claimed he applied a tourniquet using his dog's leash.
Bassett was driven approximately a mile by Martin County first responders to a waiting aircraft, which took him to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce. As of Monday evening, he was in critical condition.
The alligator was a female who may have been defending a nest, according to John Davidson, the trapper who removed it from the park.
"When I arrived, she was sitting 10 feet off the bank," Davidson said on Monday. "That leads me to believe she was a female, and she was sitting on a nest nearby. So, if we can, we'll try to save the babies."
Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is looking into the matter.
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Written by Nandeen Yanes
The Central Florida girl grew up in Leesburg, Florida. She cheered for the Gators while at the University of Florida, and continues to love all things orange and blue


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Esta é uma lista de definições do direito:

{| class="wikitable"
| bgcolor=#cccccc | Autor
| bgcolor=#cccccc | Definição
|bgcolor=#cccccc | Fonte, data
|-
|Miguel Reale
|"Direito é uma integração normativa de fatos segundo valores". Tríade: Fato, Valor e Norma.
|in Teoria Tridimensional do Direito.
|-
|Orlando Gomes
|"Sob o aspecto formal, o Direito é regra de conduta imposta coativamente aos homens. Sob o aspecto material, é a norma nascida da necessidade de disciplinar a convivência social".
|in Introdução ao Direito Civil.
|-
|Celso
|"Ius est ars boni et aequi" (tradução: "O direito é a arte do bom e do justo". Em vez de justo, também se poderia traduzir aequus por équo, mas esta palavra não possui equivalente no português atual. Cf. equidade).
|citado por Ulpiano no Digesto, 533 d.C.
|-
|Pompónio
|"Ius civile sine scripto in sola prudentium interpretatione consistit" (tradução: "O ius civile é composto apenas pela interpretação dos jurisprudentes; não está escrito").
|no Digesto, 533 d.C.
|-
|Santo Agostinho
|"Afastada a justiça, o que são os reinos senão grandes bandos de ladrões? E os bandos de ladrões o que são, senão pequenos reinos?"
|em A cidade de Deus, finais do século IV d.C.
|-
|Dante Alighieri
|"ius est realis ac personalis hominis ad hominem proiportio, quae servata societatem servat, corruipta corrumipit". (Tradução livre: "O direito é a proporção real e pessoal de um homem em relação a outro, que, se observada, mantém a sociedade em ordem; se corrompida, corrompe-a")
|— século XIII
|-
|Immanuel Kant
|"o direito é o conjunto das condições segundo as quais o arbítrio de cada um pode coexistir com o arbítrio dos outros, de acordo com uma lei geral de liberdade".
|— filósofo alemão, século XVIII
|-
|Hugo Grócio
|"O direito é o conjunto de normas ditadas pela razão e sugeridas pelo appetitus societatis".
|— jurisconsulto holandês do século XVII
|-
|Rudolf von Ihering
|"direito é a soma das condições de existência social, no seu amplo sentido, assegurada pelo Estado através da coação".
|— jurista alemão do século XIX
|-
|John Austin
|"Das normas ou regras estabelecidas por uns para outros homens, algumas são estabelecidas por superiores políticos [...] em nações independentes ou sociedades políticas independentes. Ao agregado de regras assim estabelecido [...] é exclusivamente aplicável o termo direito'."
|— 1861
|-
|Oliver Wendell Holmes
|"As profecias do que os tribunais efectivamente farão, e nada mais pretensioso - é o que eu entendo por direito."
|em The path of the law, 1897
|-
|Max Weber
|"Um ordenamento chama-se [...] direito quando é exteriormente garantido pela possibilidade de coerção (física ou psíquica), através de um comportamento, dirigido a forçar a observância ou a punir a violação, de um grupo de pessoas disso especialmente incumbido."
|— 1921
|-
|G. Radbruch
|"O Direito é vontade de justiça."
|(1878-1949)
|-
|idem|"O Direito é o conjunto das normas gerais e positivas que regulam a vida social"
|— citado por Washington de Barros Monteiro
|-
|H. Kelsen
|(o direito é uma) "ordem normativa de coerção", (reportada a uma) "norma fundamental", "a que deve corresponder uma constituição efectivamente estabelecida e, em termos gerais, eficaz, bem como as normas que, de acordo com essa constituição, foram efectivamente estabelecidas e são, em termos gerais, eficazes." É também uma "técnica específica de organização social".
|Teoria pura do direito, 1960
|-
|R. Dworkin
|(o direito são) "os padrões que determinam os direitos e deveres que um governo tem o dever de reconhecer e fazer respeitar, pelo menos em princípio, através das instituições comuns dos tribunais e da polícia."
|em Taking rights seriously, 1977
|-
|N. Luhmann
|(o direito é) "a estrutura de um sistema social respeitante à generalização congruente de expectativas normativas de comportamento."
|em Rechtssoziologie, 1987
|-
|António Castanheira Neves
|"o direito é o acto histórico do autónomo dever-ser do homem convivente"
|em Questão de facto - questão de direito, 1967
|-
|idem|"O direito é imediatamente para o jurista a totalidade das suas soluções jurídicas positivadas".
|em Curso de Introdução ao estudo do direito, 1976
|-
|W. Fikentscher
|"O Direito é justiça pensada"
|Methoden des Rechts, 1977
|-
|Boaventura Sousa Santos
|(o direito é) "o conjunto de processos regularizados e de princípios normativos, considerados justiciáveis num dado grupo, que contribuem para a criação e prevenção de litígios e para a resolução destes através de um discurso argumentativo, de amplitude variável, apoiado ou não pela força organizada."
|em O discurso e o poder. Ensaio sobre a sociologia da retórica jurídica, 1979
|-
|R. Alexy
|"O direito é um sistema de normas que (1) ergue uma pretensão de justeza, (2) compõe-se da totalidade das normas que pertencem a uma constituição socialmente eficaz, em termos gerais, e não são extremamente injustas, bem como da totalidade das normas que são estabelecidas em conformidade com esta constituição, apresentam um mínimo de eficácia ou possibilidade de eficácia social e não são extremamente injustas, e (3) ao qual pertencem os princípios e os restantes argumentos normativos em que se apoia e/ou deve apoiar o processo de aplicação do direito para cumprir a pretensão de justeza."
|Begriff und Geltung des Rechts, 1992
|}

 A definição de Kant
Segundo Kant, o "Direito é o conjunto de condições pelas quais o arbítrio de um pode conciliar-se com o arbítrio do outro, segundo uma lei geral de liberdade." Como se percebe, há três palavras-chave nesta asserção: conjunto de condições, arbítrio e liberdade. Para Kant, liberdade é a posse de um arbítrio próprio independente do de outrem, é o exercício externo desse arbítrio: arbítrio é o querer consciente de que uma ação pode produzir algo; conjunto de condições ou obrigações jurídicas (aqui Kant revisita Ulpiano) implica ser honesto e inocente, é não causar lesão/dano a ninguém e aderir a um Estado em que se assegure, frente a todos, aquilo que cada um possua.

Com o suporte dessas notas fornecidas pelo próprio Kant e por Recaséns Siches, poderíamos refazer a afirmação: "o direito implica pressupostos (honestidade, inocência e respeito à posse de outrem, verbi gratia'') que possibilitam a concretização recíproca do querer de cada um e de todos, observando-se que o querer exercido/possuído por cada um encontra como limite o querer de todos". Esta definição, de carácter valorativo/axiológico, reflecte a importância do elemento liberdade e não "libertinagem" no Direito Brasileiro (posse e exercício de arbítrio Real). Só há liberdade dentro de limites externas à "libertinagem" e destes são impostos pelas ideias de preservá-la de Direito e Facto. Jusnaturalista, Kant não menospreza o papel desempenhado pelo direito Real e Verdadeiro proposto, embora afirme ser este posterior ao natural, que o legitima de Facto, segundo Conceito de Direito.

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Man made out of food
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Artwork by: Janvier, a young refugee artist from Nakivale refugee settlement in Isingiro District
Artwork size: 40 cm x 50 cm
Framed: Yes (Black Wooden frames)
Category: 13-15 years
Project: World Food Day art contest
Categories: Exhibitions, Wfd art contest
Peace and love $200
Title: Peace and Love
Media: Acrylics on canvas
Brave Ntakky Ankunda, 7 years old. He dreams to be a great artist. Ankunda loves art. Painting is about love and enables him to share the love with the world with his art. Ankunda advises his peers to be focused and love one another.
What's more, is that his name Brave was inspired by the miraculous come back to life after he was in a coma for about a week and since he returned to life, art has been a healing process for him to regain his strength. All his artworks are special and created from a deep sense of consciousness with the hope to spread love and peace.
Untitled $120
Bridget Lajara is 18 years old. Her dream is to become the best female artist in Uganda and this is based on her passion for the arts. She participated in the art contest because she wanted to show the world what a girl can do with her talent. Travelling to Kampala for the exhibition is the first thought that came into her head after she got the news of being selected in the finalists. Lajara advises other girls and youths to always use the opportunities presented to them because they might never know where they can lead them.
Home schooling $130
Title: Home schooling
Apio is 19 years, Ugandan. She started drawing while still very young at her primary level. She used to draw things like stickmen, flowers, boys and girls holding hands, and trees just like any other child. The objects she draws about now are out of the world. She doesn't enjoy drawing interiors but imaginary things. She loves art as well as fashion and hopes to pursue both. Apio has an eye for art, and she loves everything artistic and enjoys putting things together. She also thinks that, later on, she will venture into events. As an artist, she gets her inspiration online, especially when she sees artworks from other artists. She doesn't like to draw human faces because they give her a hard time, but she also knows that that's not an excuse.
Achola $119
This artwork by Achola is part of our cooperation with the Uganda School for the Deaf (USFD).
The Ugandan School for the Deaf was the first school for the Deaf in Uganda. It was established in 1959 by the Uganda Society for the Deaf at Namirembe Hill on leased land from the church of Uganda. A Government-aided Primary school brings together all categories of Deaf children, including Deaf children with multiple disabilities. The school's primary task is to cater to the education, interests, and special needs of deaf children in Uganda.
We also know that through your support with a purposeful purchase. You will enable us to raise funds to buy more art materials, support the initiation and running of the art club at the USFD school, and establish a sustainable platform that will nurture and grow their potential in art.
If you are looking for a way to support us, we encourage you to purchase artwork. 70% goes towards the children, and 30% will be invested back into our work.
Joshua $99
This artwork by Joshua is part of our cooperation with the Uganda School for the Deaf (USFD).
In this together $200
Title: In this together
Media: mixed media Nabulime is an 18-year-old multimedia artist. Her artworks seek to echo the life and struggles of young girls to engage the audience in examining the silenced world of teenage girls. While she uses a variety of materials and processes in each art piece, her methodology is consistent.
She has no grand illusions that art will create a revolution in the traditional sense, but she has witnessed the powerful changes it can make in an individual. Just one new idea can change a person's perception. Creating art isn't just an occupation to her; it's a passion she enjoys bringing life to the canvas with vibrant colours and finding new ways to make people see things.
Children who are happy $85
Title: Children who are happy
Urakaza is 7 years old. She feels happy and excited to be taking part in the exhibition. Like many children, she is so inquisitive and research-oriented. She spends most of her time during the day drawing or trying out something new. Her dream is to become a doctor because she feels she needs to treat and care fITor many sick people. She advises her peers to always play because it is good.
A right to everything $100
Title: A right to everything
Ndagire is 13 years, Ugandan. She is a jack-of-all-trades and a master of all. She is a multi-talented young girl who loves to crochet, dance and paint. She draws inspiration from the things around her. Seeing her father is one of the things that inspire her. To her, the family is everything.
Madiba $200
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and was the first South African to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist., and the leader of Umkhonto we sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC).
In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela served 27years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the reconciliation. In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, his Xhosa clan name. Mandela has received more than 250 awards over 4 decades, including the 1993 Nobel peace prize.
By purchasing this artwork, 70% of the price you pay will support the education of children we empower while 30% will support our administrative costs to continue offering free art sessions to children from underserved communities.
Enid $100
This artwork by Enid is part of our cooperation with the Uganda School for the Deaf (USFD).
Amazing bird $110
This artwork by Bukenya is part of our cooperation with the Uganda School for the Deaf (USFD).
Prevention is better than cure $110
Title: Prevention is better than cure
Size: 40cm x50cm
Mwafu is 14 years old and is in senior one. He started drawing when he was in primary 6 and mostly drew still life. Now he draws faces of people, trees. He wants to become an artist and an engineer. He took part in the exhibition while he was in Mbale.
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Cubitainer boxes, transported directly from an upstream Pearson box erecting machine, enter the Farason system via a Hytrol conveyor.
Farason received the Pearson from the system integrator, Filamatic, Baltimore, MD, for integration to the Farason supplied box conveyors and use for testing and debugging the Farason system.
Prior to the Hytrol roller conveyor, there is a straight section of flat belt conveyor where the customer will manually place the flexible plastic bottles with the necks uniformly oriented.
Leading and trailing box flaps are closed during the positioning move by means of a static rail for the leading flap and manipulation of the back flap by the alignment tool.
A second 2-axis device, horizontal and vertical, equipped with a neck locator is directed at the cubitainer flexible plastic bottle neck opening. The device is equipped with an end effector tool consisting of an inflatable bladder.
With the bladder deflated, the tool is inserted into the neck opening to a predetermined level. The bladder is inflated and the tool moves upward, drawing the neck out of the bottle.
The bottle is prevented from moving upward with the neck by the leading and trailing box flaps secured by the Farason tooling.
Once the neck has been withdrawn from the bottle, and with the box flaps controlled, the cubitainer is moved forward via both 2-axis devices moving in concert, and the bottleneck is inserted into the Filamatic neck locator and transport device for transfer to subsequent downstream filling and capping operations.


Gregory could not contain his joy at being saved from Ohio shelter.
Gregory the beagle was on the list to be euthanized at a Columbus animal shelter. But then he got a whole new beginning.
Gregory was rescued from Franklin County Animal Shelter by Joe and Schenley Kirk of HOUND Rescue and Sanctuary in Findlay.
In a photo posted to Facebook, which has since been shared over 9,000 times, Gregory cozies up to his rescuer and driver, Joe. His tongue is out and eyes gazing lovingly at Joe while resting his head on his shoulder. Schenley calls the trip a "freedom ride."
"He KNOWS he is SAFE!" Schenley wrote in the post.
HOUND stands for "Helping Overlooked Unwanted Neglected Dogs," according to their website. The organization is accepting donations for the heart worm treatment Gregory needs. Donations can be made here.