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Posted on April 27, 2021 by J.J. Sefton
The Morning Report 4/27/21
Good morning kids. Tuesday and let's shift gears from the continued pogroms and demonization of two thirds of the population to a not entirely unrelated story as I will hopefully connect the dots on. It was revealed that the former Secretary of State and current "climate czar" John Kerry committed what some are calling borderline treason:
The rather curious defining feature of [Democrat] Party foreign policy, going back at least four decades, is that our friends must be bullied and our enemies must be appeased. The Democratic worldview holds that America is a source of geopolitical evil whose destructive influences must be tamed and reined in, and that America's enemies must be emboldened in order to tilt the global playing field away from America's noxious ambit…
…No individual personified the Obama Bros' supine tango with the mullahs better than then-Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry, the "statesman" who has been on the wrong side of every major foreign affairs issue since at least the Swift Boats of Vietnam, betrayed his country in borderline-treasonous fashion as Obama's chief diplomatic lackey. Not content to sell the farm — and scores of unmarked pallets of U.S. taxpayer cash — to a mullocracy with untold American blood on its hands as a diplomat, Kerry then traitorously colluded as a layman with his pal, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, to undermine the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" Iran containment strategy.
Alas, we now know it is apparently even worse. New leaked audio appears to reveal that Kerry, now Team Biden's special climate envoy, divulged to Zarif the details of over 200 clandestine Israeli military operations taken against Iranian targets in Syria. One might be loath to take on blind faith the claims of a thug like Zarif, but in this case the shoe fits. This is who John Forbes Kerry is — who he always has been, and always will be.The man who was then serving as America's leading diplomat on the global stage betrayed our Israeli allies with reckless abandon, opting instead to buttress a rogue jihadist state and its barbarous Syrian satrapy…
…In the interim, John Kerry has helped solidify his odious legacy as a dunderhead par excellence, at best — and a traitorous anti-Western ideologue, at worst.
In a sane, rational world (if I had a dime for every time I wrote that) John Kerry would have long ago been hanged. In fact, given the tensions between both Israel, its allies in the Gulf (thanks to President in Exile Trump executing one of the greatest diplomatic triumphs in our now-ended history with the Abraham Accords) and the Farsis as well as the tensions between the former and the current Biden junta, John Kerry is damned lucky he wasn't found in Geneva or some other conference where his private jets consume thousands of gallons of Jet-A so he can consume thousands of gallons of Bollinger '27, dead from a case of "sudden Jewish lightning."
But, this is not a sane and rational world. America as founded ceased to exist on January 6th, 2021 and is now or at least well on its way to becoming some sort of vassal state of the Peoples Republic of China. The essay's author Josh Hammer gives it away in the very first paragraph. In this upside down, Planet of the Apes "madhouse," John Kerry did not commit treason; he was merely carrying out the stated foreign policy of his nation's leaders. The fact that his nation in no way, shape or form represents the United States is the salient point. I can hear the shouting through my USB port "but Kerry was the Secretary of State during Obama's term, well before January 6th, 2021!" Does anyone want to argue that even before that date the governmental apparatus, norms, checks and balances of America as founded were functioning even at a fraction of the capacity the Framers intended? Would any real consequences have befallen Kerry had any of these revelations come to light during Trump's first term, let alone while Obama was still (officially) in power?
Hell, Obama himself tipped off the Iranians that Israel was staging its air force near Baku in Azerbaijan for a potential surprise attack where it was least expected, from the north at wave-height-level via the Caspian Sea or thereabouts.
Pause as I Psaki-Psircle back for a second, it's unclear as to the timing of these leaks; did they occur during his time as Secretariat of State or afterwards? Either way it's absolutely stunning. If the former, it's as I stated Kerry being Eichmann and "only following orders." If the latter, it's even worse since state secrets of that nature could only have been given to him by Trump's own Defense and State Department. As a friend once quipped to me, "there was no Trump Administration, only Trump."
So, this business of treason. Forget Iran and Kerry; the Democrat Party, the intelligence community and the agitprop media colluded to sabotage 2016, attempted to remove from office the legitimate winner of that election and thwart his agenda at every turn, and then finally succeeded in sabotaging 2020 and installing a drooling, gibbering puppet while cementing their own absolute, permanent rule. In that light, John Kerry is no traitor. He's a fucking hero. Melt down the medals he threw over the White House Fence 50 years ago and hurl back an Iron Cross First Class — with a live hand grenade cluster.
And with Maoists firmly in power, perhaps forever, this is the result:
A man struck an NYPD detective over the head with a plastic stick on Monday — in a broad-daylight attack that took place as the officer was investigating another crime, according to police.
The uniformed cop was processing the scene of a robbery in Queens at around 11:50 a.m., when he was assaulted, the NYPD said.
Footage shared by the Detectives' Endowment Association showed the cop standing outside the crime scene and taking notes near some broken glass — when a man holding two long white sticks crept up behind him.
The perp then whacked the officer, who crouched down while holding his head in pain…
…No motive was immediately provided for the attack.
Yes, there was a motive: Maxine Waters. Bonk Bonk on the head, bad country!
"Throughout Europe, masked and unmasked European citizens are dancing in the streets to celebrate freedom."
Danser Encore — the European Anti-Lockdown Hymn
Charlie Kirk: "Of all places, the Post Office is now a threat to our freedom."
The USPS is Making a List. Who is Checking it Twice — And Why?
"Hollywood is a political business that can use Georgian money back to fund leftist endeavors, warns Professor J.C. Bradbury."
How Hollywood Uses State Tax Credits to Profit Off of the People it Hates
Julie Kelly: "There is no reason to keep these men in jail, let alone in solitary confinement, in a D.C. prison." (Merrick Garland has some very Beria good reasons – jjs)
The Feds' Nonexistent Case Against Alleged Sicknick Assailants
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Elizabeth City was put into a state of emergency Monday as the Pasquotank County Sheriff's office is expected to release the bodycam footage showing the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr." "We're Going To Destroy This System": City Where a Black Man Was Fatally Shot Put Under State of Emergency
The Cullors of money… BLM Co-Founder's Jail Reform Group Dropped $26,000 at Luxury Malibu Beach Resort
"Anti-police rage is also endangering Americans: 'A lot of officers are leaving. We don't have anybody applying to be officers here, so we are lowering standards to get numbers up.'"Black Cop: Lies About "Institutional Racism" Are Making America More Violent
"This newly announced investigation is separate from the Justice Department's ongoing criminal investigation into Taylor's death."
Justice Department Opens Another Witch Hunt Investigation into the Louisville Police Department
"Ted Wheeler and Portland deserve one another." Portland's Pusillanimous Mayor
"The recognition of property rights is crucial to a well-functioning society." Protection From the Violence of Others
OHIO KNIFE FIGHT SHOOTING, NATION OF ISLAM CAPITOL TERRORIST ATTACK, BROOKLYN CENTER, BOULDER & DC SHOOTINGS
"Predictably, before any/all facts came out, the outrage machine was in full swing." Will Columbus Feed Their Police Officer to the Mob or Stand for Law and Order?
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Plus, why Nicholas Reardon is an American hero." A Great New Idea for Reducing Police Shootings
"What the media did (and didn't) cover at Atlanta, Boulder, and the Capitol." When Motive Matters — And When It Doesn't
DEREK CHAUVIN SHOW TRIAL AFTERMATH
"I don't know whether Derek Chauvin, given the publicity about the case, given the atmosphere, could get a fair and impartial jury because every one of those jury members knew that if there was a 'not guilty' finding, their lives were over." VIDEO: Chauvin Post-Trial Analysis With Prof. William Jacobson and Andrew Branca, Esq.
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"People want attention. People are jealous." Angel of Death Cuomo Lashes Out In First Presser Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations Emerged
"…yesterday, when asked if he would step down if the inquiry overseen by state Attorney General Letitia James found evidence, he said: 'The report can't say anything different because I didn't do anything wrong.' In other words, nothing will remove Cuomo from office unless the Legislature grows a backbone and impeaches him." Angel of Death Cuomo Signals That Nothing Will Get Him to Resign
OTHER DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST & RINO SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
"Breaking 911 reported that the U.S. government paid for the vice president's children's books, entitled Superheroes Are Everywhere." Kamala-Gate: The White House Responds to Growing Scandal Over Giving Away So-Called Quote-Unquote "VP's" Book to Illegal Aliens
Daniel Greenfield: "Jigar Shah fought efforts to stop Chinese Communist solar dumping."Biden Puts "Finance Legend"Allied with Chi-Com Company in Charge of Energy Loans
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The reasoning behind his decision was that the two had a previous working relationship."Maricopa County Judge Recuses Himself From 2020 Election Audit Case
"Allegedly, the father voted the son's mail ballot." Man Admits to Mail-In Ballot Fraud In 2020 Election
"And rejecting the dangerous engagement of corporate America into national politics."Preserving the Constitution Requires Election Integrity
"Based on Psaki's explanation, unity is imposing a radical left-wing agenda, and pretending that this is what the American people want and that by imposing this agenda, Americans — Republican and Democrat — will unify around that agenda. Yeah, that's not how unity works. It's also a pretty bad lie on Psaki's part." Piss-Hockey Psaki Makes a Stunning Admission About Biden's "Unity" Pledge
"Notably, despite his call for unity, Biden demonized his fellow Americans in the same speech in which he lamented what he described as 'the rise of political extremism, white supremacy, [and] domestic terrorism.'" Poll: 82% Think U.S. Is Divided, Despite Joe Biden's Promise to Be a More Unifying So-Called Quote-Unquote "president"
"Forty executive orders and counting…" Biden's 100-Day Rampage
"Texas and Florida are slated to gain congressional seats during the decennial redistricting process, while California and New York are set to each lose one, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday." Census Bureau Announces States in the South, Northwest Pick Up Congressional Seats
Not if Dao-Min Yen has his way… Watch Out, Malig-Nancy Pelosi: The Census Results May Give Republicans an Edge in the 2022 Election
"This now triggers the next phase of the recall process, a 30-business-day period in which voters may submit written requests to county Registrars of Voters to remove their names from the recall petition," Weber said in a statement. "A recall election will be held unless a sufficient number of signatures are withdrawn." Gov. Gavin Newsom Recall Moves Forward After Petition Reaches 1.6 Million Verified Signatures
"Both Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have said they will not vote to abolish the longstanding Senate rule that — so far — is preventing Senate Democrats from ramming through their big-government agenda without a single Republican vote." Sen. Joe Manchin: "I'm Not a Roadblock at All"
She regrets that she only has but one mouth to give, you know, the thing… Poll: Kamala Harris Has Lower Approval Rating than Mike Pence in First 100 Days
Dem Brian Schatz: "This is in the category of things that couldn't muster 50 votes and probably couldn't muster 40 votes." Senate Democrats Throw Cold Water On Court-Packing Bill
She's still a big-time lib but in a party of Pol Pots and Stalinists, they need a Tulsi like an axe in the head… Why Can't Democrats All Be Like Tulsi Gabbard?
"Republicans gained seats in the House when they were expected to lose seats. And the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is continuing that messaging in order to retake the House in 2022." House Republicans to "Ensure Every Voter Knows Democrats Want to Defund the Police"
"Dem-controlled Board of Education moves to eliminate most accelerated math offerings."Virginia Dems' "Social Justice" Math Curriculum Reinvigorates GOP Gov Hopefuls
"Blake Masters reportedly raked in $10 million from Peter Thiel to run for Senate in 2022 against Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona." Peter Thiel Backs Blake Masters For Possible Senate Run Against Democrat Mark Kelly
"If he can weather the storm, the Florida Republican could prove to be the heir to Trump the MAGA movement needs to prevent the GOP's orchestrated backslide." Why the MAGA Movement Needs Matt Gaetz in Congress
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"Two researchers from Dr. Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) were in attendance at the 2016 event which discussed emerging viral diseases, infections and antiviral immunity — all critical to the [Chinese] COVID-19 response. Dr. Fauci has served as Director of the institute since 1984 and remains the highest paid U.S. government employee despite a bevy of false prognostications and outright lies." Fauci's NIAID Scientists Attended Wuhan Lab Summit, Now WIPED From the Internet
"My newly formed and well-developed opinion on vaccines is this: If those bastards want me to get the jab, I'm not going to do it, because it annoys them." I Won't Take the Vaccine Because It Makes Liberals Mad
"According to the employee acknowledgment agreement, 'any inaccuracy or misrepresentation related to a full and authorized vaccination for [Chinese] COVID-19 will result in disciplinary action," which can include "immediate dismissal from employment.'"Cumulus Media Employees Are Required to Receive Chinese COVID Vaccine Before Returning to the Office, Leaked Memo Reveals
"[The Chinese] COVID-19 epidemic for the past year was not something that warranted a panic. It was simply nothing more than a variation of the flu, though clearly more deadly to the elderly sick. Had we treated it like the flu, we would have acted to first and foremost protect that elderly sick population, while letting everyone else go about their lives normally. Had we done that — as we have done traditionally since the Enlightenment — the virus would have quickly spread through the general population, killing almost no one while rapidly running its course so that it had less chance to reach that protected elderly sick and vulnerable population." The Devastating Epidemic That Simply Wasn't Devastating
"A real frustration." Biden, Harris Have Skipped Almost Every COVID Conference Call With Governors
"Cuomo has come under severe criticism for his policy of forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients in the early months of the pandemic, when the risk to older people was already well known and there were alternatives available." Report: Biden Has Angel of Death Cuomo Lead White House Chinese COVID Calls with Governors
"The change means that kids from 2-4 are now subject to the masking requirement just like everyone else." Michigan Mask Requirement Extending to Toddlers Takes Effect
"I'm not getting my hopes up that the Democrat governors will give in and stop restricting freedoms." Texas, Florida Report Fewer New Chinese COVID Cases Than Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York
"The only science behind the [so-called quote-unquote] 'president's [Chinese] coronavirus victory celebration will be political science." When Will Biden Declare the Chinese COVID Crisis Over? (Hint: It Won't Have Anything To Do With "Science")
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Lloyd Billingsley: "There are a number of questions reporters should be asking of Joe Biden's border policy chief. Her answers would be interesting — if she ever got around to answering them." Questions for Kamala
"As Tucson Police Chief, Chris Magnus refused to assist Border Patrol." Biden's Curious Choice to Lead Customs and Border Protection
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The board will soon determine whether Donald Trump can return to the platform."Facebook Oversight Board Member Warns Against Censoring Misinformation
"For Amazon, a recusal of Thomas in some court cases would be convenient. " Did Amazon Pull Clarence Thomas Documentary Off Their Site in Order to Pull Him Off Their Case?
Margot Cleveland: "In advance of this week's State of the Union address, Washington Poststaffers peppered the public with reasons to blame former President Trump for Joe Biden's failures." Trump Isn't President Any More, But The Left Is Still Blaming Him For Everything
"Beginning in 2016, when they referred to the large swaths of America left behind by increasing globalization as ignorant, deplorable, or harboring 'white grievance,' they set the tone." When the Corporate Media Eliminates Facts and Nuance It Increases Our Deep Divisions
"Dr. Scott Atlas was rebuked by Big Tech and corporate media for pushing back on masking outdoors. Now Facui is making the same recommendation." Media Hungry Health Advisers Now Support the Same Masking Policies That Scott Atlas Was Ousted For Promoting
"They're coming for you next: Because of the epidemic of blacklisting and oppression that has been sweeping the United States in the past four months, a new online database now exists." Today's Blacklisted American: There Are So Many That an Online Database Now Exists
"The justices will hear a challenge to a New York law that requires anyone seeking a license to carry a gun in public prove they have a good reason to do so. The National Rifle Association and 23 states back the challenge." Supreme Court To Decide Whether Americans Can Carry Guns in Public
"Very soon, states will be tested to see if they value the rights of their citizens over the dollars the Biden [junta] will wave in front of them." States Can Resist Red Flag Gun-Grabbing If They Shun Federal Handouts
"New emails uncovered by Judicial Watch's FOIA request detail how FDA employees were working with buyers to get 'fresh' aborted baby organs for experiments." Top 10 Sickening Details About How Federal Employees Trafficked Baby Body Parts
"It is unclear from reports of the Zarif tape whether the Israeli strikes were covert missions. But according to Zarif's telling, he was not aware of the attacks prior to Kerry's disclosure." (lanky hunk of piss is itching to catch some Jewish lightning right between the eyes – jjs)Report: John Kerry Told Iranian Foreign Minister About Secret Israeli Military Operations
"Kerry must immediately resign from the Biden [junta], says Rep. Banks." Pompeo Pushes Investigation Into Kerry for Leaking Secrets to Iran
"John Kerry has helped solidify his odious legacy as a dunderhead par excellence, at best — and a traitorous anti-Western ideologue, at worst." John Kerry is Skirting the Line of Treason with Iran (skirting?! – jjs)
"German report refutes Iranian claims that Islamic Republic has no interest in developing nuclear weapon." (and yet the filthy Krauts keep selling them all kinds of sensitive tech and materials – jjs) Iran Aims to Expand WMD Program, German Intel Agency Concludes
"The Biden [junta] is pushing all the wrong buttons." Abraham Accords March On While Saudi Arabia Drifts to China
"Removing them from the alliance would actually serve a useful purpose." With Turkey, the Problem Is NATO Membership, Not Armenia
"[Juan] Guaido — who remains largely powerless despite his status as the constitutional head of state of the country — has repeatedly condemned the regime of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro for starving the Venezuelan people since the former was sworn in as president in early 2019, when Maduro's last legitimate term as president ended." Study: Over 90% of Venezuelan Households Struggle to Find Food
"Joe Biden now leads a fully woke [junta] that is pouring hydrochloric acid on the national fabric. It's pushing critical race theory into our educational system to indoctrinate our children and it's turning the military woke." If "Get Woke Go Broke" Is True, What Might That Mean for the Future of the U.S. Military?
If it's as good as their cat food and drywall… Then again, we now have transexuals and incompetents in uniform, so it's a race to the bottom – not the gay sex colloquialism, the actual bottom. China Commissions Three Advanced Warships
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "Far from merely acknowledging it, Turkey and other Muslims are hell-bent on reigniting the genocide." The Armenian Genocide Continues
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
"The gap between the record federal tax collections and the record federal spending in the October-through-March period resulted in a record federal deficit of $1,706,245,000,000."Federal Taxes, Spending and Deficit All Set Records in First Half of FY2021
"As China rolls out its digital currency, it's past time for action." With Crypto, Congress, Not Agencies, Should Decide What's Next
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"No motive was immediately provided for the attack." (the motive was MAXINE WATERS – jjs)NYPD Detective Whacked in Head With Stick in Brazen Broad-Daylight Attack
"Just prior to being shot, Okeson-Haberman had been looking at a new apartment and was set to become the social issues and criminal justice reporter for Kansas News Service, described as 'a statewide reporting partnership based at KCUR.'"
Amid Violent Crime Wave, 24-Year-Old Reporter Shot Dead In Kansas City
"The attacker relentlessly kicks his helpless victim at least six times, then casually walks away as the victim was motionless on the sidewalk…" (guess the melanin, which means this story gets disappeared – jjs) NYPD Releases Photos of Suspect Accused of Repeatedly Stomping Elderly Asian Man's Head
"Though the city has not yet officially released staffing numbers, officials have expressed significant concern publicly and privately about the staffing situation. The city does not have enough officers to safely protect our neighborhoods or respond to emergencies."Police-less in Seattle: Cops Are Leaving in Droves
"It can always get a little worse in the Big Apple." Believe It or Not, a New Level of Corruption and Depravity for New York City
"A Colorado bill seeks to curtail sharply police officers' power to make arrests."Handcuffing Cops
"A hotels-for-homeless program does nothing to address the real problem: addiction."
San Francisco's Substance-Abuse Crisis
"The high price I paid for falling in love with the hippy crowd." Public Service Announcement: A Warning of the Real Danger of Marijuana
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"This is the story of a leader returning to a place that transformed her life and career trajectory." (dog returns to its own vomit – jjs) "1619 Project" Agitprop Fabulist Nikole Hannah-Jones Joining Faculty At University Of North Carolina
"You probably thought kids returning to school was a good thing, didn't you? You thought a return to normalcy was… well, normal. But I'll bet you didn't even realize that holding such a privileged opinion makes you a racist. You are a problem." Politico: Most of the Kids Going Back to School Are White, and That's a Problem
"Fired for being honest about the academic performance of black students." Top Ten Most Racist Colleges and Universities: #4 Georgetown University
Readin', 'ritin and reach-arounds… Former Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges Allegedly Pretended To Be Girl To Solicit Naked Photos From Teens
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"If you thought last year was bad, wait until these proposed policies tear through the economy." Biden's Catastrophic Global Warming Policies
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Our intrepid science reporter says, "The new Cold War in space is beginning to shape up. On one side will be free enterprise, led by the United States and the many private companies working independently to make their own profits in space, and on the other side will be the former communist nations whose cultures require all such efforts be controlled from the top by the government." China and Russia Sign Agreement to Build Moon Base
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Four female high school athletes in Connecticut will appeal a federal district court ruling that allows transgender athletes to compete in women's sports."
Female High School Students Appeal Ruling on Transgender Athletes
Feh. Fly a damn white flag already and take down the stars and stripes. Biden State Department Authorizes U.S. Diplomatic Missions Worldwide to Hoist Gay Pride Flag
"The feminists' march to androgyny appears to give women more options. In reality, they cut women off from the very things that lead to flourishing and happiness." Why the Cultural Assault on Natural Womanhood Robs Women of Fulfillment
"A long history of unintended consequences has conservatives on the ropes even before the first round." Losing the Fight Against Transgenderism Before It Started
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"China's state-run CCTV stopped carrying Houston Rockets games after Morey's comments, the Chinese Basketball Association suspended cooperation with the team, and Chinese e-commerce giants blocked users from searching for Rockets merchandise. [Daryl] Morey stepped down as Rockets general manager in October 2020, prompting CCTV to warn that other American sports teams that "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people will have to pay a price' as well." China Applauds Return of NBA, Urges It to 'Undertake Lobbying' for China in U.S.
"Even with pandering like Chloe Zhao's Oscars speech, will Zhao and Disney be able to right the ship with Communist China?" Even at Its Most Deferential, Hollywood Won't Win With the Chinese Communist Party
"What Hollywood is — and what it's always been — is a bunch of people who seek relevance and influence more than anything. Nobody's going to say the emperor has no clothes. Nobody is going to turn around and say, 'This thing we've dedicated ourselves to — changing American culture and this sort of cultural Marxist point of view [has] snowballed out of control.'" Amanda Milius on the Oscars: Hollywood's Abandonment of "Half of America" Made It "Culturally Irrelevant"
"The Oscars broadcast is en route to consciously serving just another elite progressive niche, like The Late Show under Stephen Colbert or The New York Times." Hollywood Stagnation Shines at the Sunny Pandemic Oscars
"Not even gonna dignify that with a response." Charles Barkley Scolded For Georgia Bulldogs Comment: Mascot Named After Their Women
"I'm not at all surprised that the official commissioned portrait of Donald Trump that will hang in the Smithsonian is dignified and full of American symbolism, but I am flabbergasted that the Washington Post said nice things about it. Maybe they just remember how hard it was to say something positive about Barack Obama's portrait, where he has a sixth finger and is sitting in some shrubbery. Remember that?" Trump's Official Smithsonian Portrait Unveiled and It's Everything You Wanted It to Be
At this point, it would be quicker to list which companies NOT to boycott… Conde Nast Cooking Publication Ends Beef Recipes "To Encourage More Sustainable Cooking"
"The humiliating thing about being black is that everything has been done for you, by virtue-signalling whites." Black Rage: It's All About the Humiliation
"Did the disease go undiagnosed for too long?" The Cancer of Critical Race Theory
"When will the 'antiracists' start rooting out the bigots in their own ranks?" The Tribalist Left
HITHER & YON
"Restoring genuine beauty in our cities goes hand in hand with any attempt to revive a spiritual nature amongst a people." What Happened When Hungary Revived Classical Architecture In Budapest
Salena Zito: "No matter where you live in this country, hundreds of neighborhoods, farms, and communities have been erased, often without a trace, in the name of progress that tends to benefit the elite class." Ancient and Lonely Urban Monuments Evoke Today's Political Division
NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.


General Motors goal of expanding its SUV lineup was detailed in the trade magazine Automotive News in its July 20 issue, where it talked about the company's plans to add yet another model into the mix that already includes the Trax, Equinox, Traverse, Tahoe and Suburban. While that's a glimpse into the near future, the most recent addition to the lineup is the all-new subcompact 2015 Chevrolet Trax.
economy is the ticket of entry for this small ute segment, so you can expect to see us checking out even more entrants in the coming months.
The 2015 Chevrolet Trax comes in front drive and all-wheel drive, both of which are powered by a turbocharged 1.4L DOHC 16-valve I-4 engine, with sequential multi-port fuel injection running unleaded regular. Mated to a smooth operating six-speed automatic transmission, it puts out 138 hp and 148 lb-ft of torque. PosicionamientoWebEngoogle.info's two-wheel front drive Trax was EPA rated at 26 City / 34 Highway / 29 Combined. In 275 miles of 75-percent highway / 25-percent city driving, we averaged 31.8 mpg. If the 14 gallon fuel tank was run dry that would have taken us 445 miles down the road.
Note: The EPA's gas mileage formula is 45-percent highway and 55-percent city. Here in Southern California our 75-percent/25-percent highway/city driving pattern is far more real world and is why we report it to you.
Our Trax LT weighed in at a relatively trim 3,136 lbs. The suspension, which could have been a bit more firm for our liking, was composed of front McPherson struts with coil-over springs and a stabilizer bar that was mated to a torsion beam, with coil springs and twin-tube shock absorbers in the rear. I found the ride to be smooth on the highway and around town, but the electric assisted power steering was a little vague, but did not hamper responsiveness when negotiating curves at low or highway speeds. Body roll was acceptable for a small crossover and wind noise was nearly non-existent.
The 1.4L turbo engine ran smooth and was not buzzy, even when pushed hard, and was quick enough to get up-to-speed for freeway merging. When at freeway speeds, the automatic is in sixth gear getting maximum fuel economy, which is a good thing. However, when it came time to pass, there is a lack of torque in sixth gear and a couple seconds of lag before the turbo kicks in and the transmission drops down a gear or two. The more I drove the Trax on the freeway I was able to anticipate and time the lag so this no longer was an issue.
The Trax felt solid to the road with 16-inch wheels (18-inch come on the LTZ trim level) and 205/70R All-season tires, which provided for good maneuverability. Stopping was straight from power-assisted ventilated front disc and rear drum brakes, electronic brake force distribution, cornering brake control, brake assist, with a four-wheel Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) and stability and traction control.
Trax has three trim levels–LS, LT and LTZ–PosicionamientoWebEngoogle.info drove the LT version that came with what Chevrolet says is "the technology city dwellers depend on for their connected lifestyles." The Trax certainly did have all the connected car technology we have come to expect, such as the Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system with a seven-inch color touch screen that handled the rear view camera, SiriusXM (three-month trial subscription), the Bose seven-speaker AM/FM/HD/CD/MP3 sound system, USB port with iPod connectivity, Aux-in jacks, advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth streaming audio and hands-free telephone. To take the connectivity technology a step further, the Trax LT had Siri Eyes Free (for iPhone users) and the BringGo navigation app that works with all smartphones. You also get OnStar and 4G LTE for Wi-Fi, (three-month, three-gigabyte data trial) that turns your car into a hotspot.
and more enjoyable. This is one area where GM has been the industry leader and after the introductory service plan expires, it is well worth renewing.
Other nice interior features are 15 storage compartments, cup holders, A/C, power windows and door locks, power and heated outside mirrors, carpeted floor mats, removable cargo security cover, exterior temperature display, remote keyless entry and vehicle start systems, day/night rearview mirror, 110V and 12-volt accessory outlets.
The Trax dash layout is simple and straight-forward, featuring the analog tachometer and digital speedometer as part of the 3.5-inch Driver Information Center. All controls are within easy reach of the driver, but if you have read many of our reviews you will see PosicionamientoWebEngoogle.info is a big fan of knobs and switches for the radio and climate controls. Chevrolet got it half right with the climate control knobs, large enough to use with gloves, which are centrally placed just below the seven-inch color touch screen. But on that screen are the main controls to operate the infotainment system, which leaves the leather-wrapped steering wheel-mounted controls as back-up if the screen should decide to not cooperate to your touch command. It worked well during our time with the Trax but knobs for volume and channel selection really isn't too much to ask for.
Our Trax LT had a combination of hard and soft plastic on the dash and door panel surfaces, with comfortable seating for four with good rear head and leg room. The rear 60/40 seats both fold flat in a system that starts with flipping the seat bottom towards the driver seat and then dropping the seat back to the flat position. Storage is ample with the rear seat up but expansive when the rear seat is folded flat. Access to the storage area is through a manual liftgate and a convenient low lift-over load height leading to a flat floor.
Chevrolet describes the Trax as having a "contemporary interior environment" that offers "premium features." Our Trax interior color was black with tasteful brushed aluminum accents on the center console and steering wheel and surrounding the air vents and instrument cluster. The seats on the LT model were a sturdy, durable cloth fabric with leatherette trim and red top stitching that should hold up well to constant use. The seats themselves provided good support; the driver seat was six-way power adjustable, which helped in finding a comfortable seating position along with the tilt and telescopic steering column. We felt only having a center armrest for the driver was an unnecessary omission from what was an otherwise complete interior.
The Trax is all-new for the 2015 model year but has been sold in 60+ countries before coming to the United States. I would classify the Trax exterior design as being safe, with the Chevrolet Bowtie center-placed in the split front grill. The Trax is a tall vehicle and a bit boxy that gives it good outward visibility, with one minor note. The top edge of the outside mirrors have a downward angle to them that cuts-off just enough mirror surface to create a blind spot. No matter how much you try to adjust the mirrors they cannot be positioned so the top edge is parallel to the ground. It's a case of form over function.
The 2015 Trax has a and comes with safety and convenience features including 10 air bags, Halogen headlights, Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS), content and vehicle theft alarm and the previously mentioned 4-wheel disc Anti-Lock Brakes (ABS) with brake assist.
Pricing for the 2015 Chevrolet Trax LS begins at $20,120 with the AWD version starting at $22,495. PosicionamientoWebEngoogle.info's Trax LT 2WD had an MSRP of $22,940. All prices do not include the $875 Destination Charge.
and its General Motors sibling, the Buick Encore. To standout from this crowded field the Trax holds its own by offering a roomy interior with excellent storage space. The Trax is responsive to drive, has good technology offerings and mid-30s highway fuel economy—all at a good price and value.
Since there are so many very good vehicles in this segment, your consideration list will be and should be quite long. Drive as many as possible, getting to know each one's strengths and attributes. The beauty of a small SUV is their nimble handling, good fuel economy and not-so-large size that makes around town trips a breeze.
If Chevy's little SUV doesn't fit your needs, the brand also offers (in addition to its stair-step SUV collection) either their City Express or Express vans, or even a pickup trucks like the Colorado and Silverado. Oh, and let's not forget their full line-up of cars like the Spark, Sonic, Cruze, Volt, Malibu or Impala. The point is that Chevrolet does not want you to leave their family, and with the 2015 Trax debut, Chevrolet provides a compelling option when looking to purchase a small SUV.
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PR 05005.015 Idaho
A. PR 17-005 Evaluation for Payment of Benefits - Marital Relationship Duration when Marriage and Common-Law Marriage both Involved
1. Syllabus
The number holder (NH) and the Claimant were in a common-law marriage in Idaho which later converted to a formal marriage, but the couple divorced in March of 1999. The NH passed away while residing in Georgia; therefore, we apply the Georgia law. The testimonial and circumstantial evidence shows the existence of a common-law marriage between the NH and the claimant which later converted to a formal marriage and lasted from at least 1986 through 1999. Accordingly, under Idaho law, and by extension Georgia law, the NH and the claimant were validly married for over ten consecutive years immediately preceding the divorce. It is in our opinion that the claimant has satisfied the marriage duration requirement relating to her application for divorced widow's benefits.
2. Opinion
QUESTION PRESENTED
Whether F~, the deceased number holder (NH), and M~, the applicant divorced widow (the claimant), were validly married for at least ten years immediately preceding the date of dissolution under Idaho law.
BRIEF ANSWER
Yes. The NH and the claimant were in a common-law marriage that later converted to a formal marriage, with a total duration of over ten years. Thus, the claimant has established the marriage duration requirement for entitlement to divorced widow's benefits.
SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE
According to the claimant, she and the NH began living together in a husband and wife relationship in Idaho in July 1983. On August XX, 1983, the NH and the claimant jointly purchased residential property. They filed joint state and Federal tax returns in tax year 1984.
In addition, the parties' siblings submitted "Statement[s] Regarding Marriage." The claimant's sister stated the couple had maintained a home and lived together as husband and wife since 1982. The NH's sister indicated the couple had been together since 1986.
On November XX, 1989, the NH and the claimant participated in a ceremonial marriage in Idaho. On March XX, 1999, however, the couple got divorced.
On January XX, 2010, the NH passed away while residing in Georgia. On May XX, 2016, the claimant applied for widow's benefits on the NH's record.
Relevant Federal Law
An applicant may be entitled to widow's benefits as the surviving divorced wife of a person who died fully insured if the applicant had a valid marriage with the fully insured individual that lasted at least ten years immediately before the divorce became final. 42 U.S.C. § 402(e); 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.331, 404.336. In order to determine whether the applicant and insured individual were validly married, the Agency looks to the State law where the NH was domiciled at the time of his death. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.344, 404.345.
Here, the NH resided in Georgia when he died. Absent evidence to the contrary, we take this as his permanent home and apply Georgia law. District of Columbia v. Murphy, 314 U.S. 441, 455 (1941).
Relevant State Law
When determining the validity of out-of-state marriages, Georgia views the marriage as a civil contract and applies the law of the forum in which it was made. Norman v. Ault, 695 S.E.2d 633, 636 (Ga. 2010). Since both the ceremonial marriage and the purported common-law marriage at issue here occurred in Idaho, Georgia law directs us to Idaho law.
Idaho recognizes two forms of marriage: one is a marriage that is solemnized by a person authorized to do so, with issuance of a license, as provided by statute; the other is a common-law marriage. Idaho Code §§ 32-201, 32-301 (2016); Freiburghaus v. Freiburghaus, 651 P.2d 944, 946 (Idaho 1982). While common-law marriage is no longer legal in the state, this does not apply to any marriages in effect prior to January 1, 1996, which is the period at issue here. Idaho Code § 32-301(2). In contrast with other jurisdictions, Idaho has never viewed common law marriage with disfavor. Freiburghaus, 651 P.2d at 946
To establish a common-law marriage in Idaho, the evidence must show the parties consented, as well as assumed the rights, duties, and obligations of marriage. Wilkins v. Wilkins, 48 P.3d 644, 649 (Idaho 2002). Consent may be either express or implied by conduct. Id. If consent is implied, the best and most common, although not exclusive, method of proof is to show cohabitation, general reputation in the community as husband and wife, and holding oneself out as married; from such evidence, a court may infer that, at the outset, mutual consent was present. Id. Testimony from one surviving party is sufficient to prove a common-law marriage. Id.
Application of Idaho Law to Current Case
The NH and the claimant were formally married from November 1989 to March 1999, a period lasting nine years and five months. Thus, the relevant question is whether a common-law marriage existed for at least seven months immediately preceding the date of formal marriage.
There is no evidence of express consent to a common-law marriage between the NH and the claimant. Nevertheless, under Idaho law, the claimant's testimony, as well as other circumstantial evidence, sufficiently establishes implied consent.
The claimant stated she and the NH began cohabitating in a "husband and wife relationship" in July 1983 and continued to do so until March 1999, the date of divorce. In addition, the couple jointly purchased real estate in August 1983 and jointly filed taxes the following year, indicating a general reputation in the community as husband and wife. Moreover, both the claimant's sister and the NH's sister agreed the parties presented as a couple since at least 1986, well before the relevant date of March 1989.
Thus, the testimonial and circumstantial evidence shows the existence of a common-law marriage between the NH and the claimant, which later converted to a formal marriage and lasted from at least 1986 through 1999. Accordingly, under Idaho law, and by extension Georgia law, the NH and the claimant were validly married for over ten consecutive years immediately preceding the divorce.
It is our opinion that the NH and the claimant were validly married under Idaho law, and therefore under Georgia law, for at least ten consecutive years immediately preceding their divorce. Thus, the claimant has satisfied the marriage duration requirement relating to her application for divorced widow's benefits.

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Legendary hedge fund Tiger Global is now reportedly down by more than 50% after a brutal year for tech investors
BYTristan Bove
Tiger Global is getting mauled, as one of the biggest tech selloffs in history shows no signs of slowing down.
The tech-focused hedge fund—worth $80 billion, according to Bloomberg—has endured a rough start to 2022 amid the larger tech stock market battering over the past month. Tiger Global reportedly lost $17 billion earlier in May due to the selloff, one of the biggest dollar declines in hedge fund history.
Things now seem to be going from bad to worse.
Losses at Tiger Global have hit 52% this year, according to an investor letter sent out this week by Tiger Global managers and reviewed by Bloomberg, and the fund is warning investors to brace themselves.
"We take very seriously that our recent performance does not live up to the standards we have set for ourselves over the last 21 years and that you rightfully expect," Tiger Global reportedly wrote.
Tiger Global did not immediately respond to Fortune's request for comment.
Company CEO Chase Coleman is one of dozens of "Tiger Cubs," former employees at investor Julian Robertson's now-defunct hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Management who went on to start their own hedge funds. Another notable Tiger Cub is investor Bill Hwang, founder and manager of the failed hedge fund Archegos Capital, which collapsed spectacularly last year and lost banks as much as $10 billion.
Coleman and Tiger Global have so far had a significantly more positive investment run, and the company has been one of the biggest winners in the technology bull market of the last decade.
Tiger Global earned its name as the world's premier "unicorn hunter," stalking and investing in tech startups focused on internet, software, and financial technology at a breakneck pace over the years.
But with the massive selloff of tech stocks this year, the tech industry's golden years may well be coming to an end. The current monetary policy environment, marked by a progressive rise in borrowing rates over the past few months, has not been kind to tech stocks, which tend to be more speculative and to rely on innovation and future profit streams: unlikely conditions when an emergency brake is being pulled on the economy.
Tiger Global and other Tiger Cub companies have been pulling out of more volatile tech stocks for weeks. In May, Tiger Global shed its stakes in several high-profile tech companies, including AirBnB, Didi, Bumble, Netflix, and Peloton.
Some of these companies, such as Netflix and Peloton, enjoyed meteoric rises in valuations during the pandemic, but have come violently crashing down to earth this year, leaving investors spooked, as the tech selloff has hit pandemic-era darlings the hardest.


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Christine Joblin is a French astrochemist who uses spectroscopy to study photodissociation and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cosmic dust. Beyond her experimental and observational work, she also contributed to the first clear finding of buckminsterfullerene in a meteorite, a ureilite that exploded over the Nubian Desert in late 2008. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse.

Education and career
Joblin earned a master's degree in astrophysics in 1989 through study at Paris Diderot University, Paris-Sud University, and the École normale supérieure (Paris). She completed a Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1992 at Paris Diderot University, and has a 2005 habilitation at Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University.

After postdoctoral research at NASA's Ames Research Center in California from 1992 to 1995, she has been a CNRS researcher in Toulouse since 1995, originally with the  Centre d'Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR, the Center for the Study of Radiation in Space). She was promoted to director of research in 2007. In 2011 CESR and several other laboratories merged to form the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP, the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology), her current affiliation.

Outreach
In an effort to bring her research to a wider audience, Joblin co-created an English-language comic book and webcomic, Estrella, with visual artist Lorenzo Palloni. Its plot features a young girl who (as in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage) is shrunk to nanoscopic scale to learn about the creation of cosmic dust in dying stars. It was published in 2018 by ERCcOMICS, a program of the Publications Office of the European Union.

Recognition
Joblin won the 2001 young scientist prize of the Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, and received the CNRS Silver Medal for 2015. She was the 2020 winner of the  of the French Academy of Sciences.

She was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2016, and was named to the Ordre national du Mérite in 2022.

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Taking chips to 10GHz ... and beyond
Want a PC that's 100 times more powerful than a 1,000MHz desktop? Then meet the army of microprocessor engineers hell bent on breaking the 10GHz barrier
By John G.Spooner | February 7, 2000 -- 16:08 GMT (08:08 PST) | Topic: Hardware
Imagine if your home PC had as much giga-happy grunt as a mainframe. A desktop that's 100 times more powerful than a 1,000MHz PC, operates as your personal server, networks all your electronic appliances and responds to your voice commands.
Sound like Star Trek? Maybe, but to high-tech's leading microprocessor gurus it sounds more like 2011.
According to a cross section of industry experts polled by ZDNet News US, 2011 is the year to mark on your PDA because that's when chips are predicted to hit the 10GHz barrier. That giga-count is the equivalent of 10,000MHz in megahertz-speak.
A horde of microprocessor design engineers are currently laboring in the labs of IBM, Intel, AMD, Motorola and elsewhere, striving to make 10GHz processors a reality. These chips won't just have high clock speeds. They will include other tricks of the trade, such as architectures that can increase parallelism, or the ability to process multiple processor instructions per clock cycle, and better access to larger on-chip data stores, known as caches.
Fred Pollack, an Intel fellow and director of Intel's Microprocessor Research Lab, estimates that a 10GHz processor will be roughly 100 times more powerful than a 1GHz Pentium III or Athlon chip (both chips are due out in the second half of this year). Pollack reached that mind-boggling figure by multiplying the predicted tenfold increase in clock speed (from 1GHz to 10GHz) by a predicted tenfold increase in performance (achieved via such new design techniques as increasing parallelism).
And what will PC users do with all those extra gigahertz? The engineers working for the competing chip manufacturers may not agree on exactly how they're going to reach the 10GHz mountaintop, but they all agree that it will open up a panorama of new applications, including speech recognition-based computer interfaces and much better multimedia.
Pollack says greater clock speeds will make PCs easier to use -- giving them more humanlike interfaces, such as speech recognition capabilities, that take "a tremendous amount of PC performance" to deliver.
Another scenario Pollack presents is the 10GHz home PC. Tucked away in a closet, it works like a server, connecting to the Internet via a broadband connection, then distributing audio and video data, along with email, to any number of PC terminals and appliances throughout the house via a wireless connection.
IBM sees things as more network-centric. Through advances in its PowerPC technology, Big Blue envisages people carrying very powerful handheld devices that simultaneously act as a cellular phone, a Net-connected wireless device with e-mail and Web browsing, and a digital wallet.
"What (10GHz) means is better network performance ... (through) extremely high-speed servers that process a huge amount of data," says Bijan Davari, vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center in Fishkill, New York.
Piggybacking on that very fast network will be a new generation of handheld appliances, Davari predicts.
"One device will connect you wirelessly to the network," he says. "This device will combine a cellular phone and personal digital assistant ... with speech recognition. It knows who you are. It communicates your identity to the network."
And how are chip engineers going to achieve 10GHz? It's all a matter of building better "roads," according to Mark Bohr, Intel fellow and the company's director of process architecture and integration.
"A microprocessor is like a city, where you have places of business (transistors) connected by roads (interconnects), and the data are like automobiles," he explains. When it comes to designing higher performance chips, "roads have to be wide enough to accommodate (greater amounts of) traffic and enable higher speeds."
There are several design techniques that can be used to increase performance -- shrinking the dimensions, using different materials in manufacturing, integrating new functions and developing circuit designs that can exploit these new materials, or increasing levels of integration.
When it comes to designing new processors, though, the most straightforward way to increase performance and lower cost is to shrink the size of the chip itself. That means the internals of a chip also have to be miniaturised to fit more transistors into a smaller space. In other words, shrinking the distance between transistors, a distance measured in microns, or one-millionth of a meter, is like shortening a road -- it makes for a much faster trip.
Shrinking a chip is one way chip engineers increase clock speed, but it's a task that becomes more difficult each time. However, there's more than one way to speed a chip.
"When the barriers come, you bend the rules. That's really the trick," Davari says. "If you can't expand sideways, you go up. Just like in Manhattan."
One way to bend the rules is to utilize new materials inside the processor. Many new materials will be used in the coming years. One of the first and most popular will be copper. IBM has already begun to use copper, rather than aluminum, to bridge the gap -- known as an interconnect -- between transistors.
"With copper, you can shrink generations more easily than with aluminum," Davari says. This opens up a new dimension, which will allow IBM to move from the current 0.18-micron process to 0.07.
AMD will use copper this year in its Athlon processor. And Intel plans to make the switch in 2001. Why the shift? Copper offers lower resistance, which lets it keep up with the speed at which transistors turn on and off inside a chip. Forever looking for a performance edge, though, IBM and other chip makers are also working on alternative materials such as silicon on insulator, silicon germanium and low K dialectics. Each is a different workaround to an existing problem.
Another way to create faster chips is to integrate new features into them.
IBM, for example, is working on ways to embed large amounts of fast, dense DRAM (dynamic RAM) memory into multigigahertz processors. Having large amounts of readily available data stored close by in memory will help performance by ensuring that the chip does not have to wait while that data is retrieved from memory, which takes a long time in terms of processor clock cycles. IBM will demonstrate an example of that DRAM approach this week at a conference, showing off a 0.18-micron PowerPC processor embedded with a DRAM cache that it says will be able to match the speed of a 1GHz processor.
Techniques such as this "let the processor breathe," IBM's Divari said, meaning that they allow enough data into the processor to keep up with its high clock speed.
"We've actually built transistors down to 0.05 microns in our experimental facilities, so we actually know how to build these devices," says Russell Lang, director of silicon technology strategy at IBM's Microelectronics Division. "You can see five to seven years into the future. After that it gets fuzzy."
Lang says IBM has a road map that goes as far out as 2010. Intel, meanwhile, has made predictions out to 2011, where it expects chips to have 1 billion transistors and run at about 10GHz, according to a paper authored by Albert Yu, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Microprocessor Products Group.
"That's the fun of the job. You get to think about the future, five or 10 years down the road," says Davari.
Lang says, "You could say we're running up against the limits of (processor design) just about now. We tend to underestimate the creativity of the research and development community working on this worldwide."
In that vein, IBM's staff of some 2,000 engineers expects make a number of breakthroughs along the way.
Moments of discovery happen often in East Fishkill, Davari said, "because there are so many fronts we are working on."
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Well, hello.And welcome to this Planet.We call it Earth.Our world can be a bewildering place, especially if you've only just got here. Your head will be filled with questions, so let's explore what makes our planet and how we live on it. From land and sky, to people and time, these notes can be your guide and start you on your journey. And you'll figure lots of things out for yourself. Just remember to leave notes for everyone else… Some things about our planet are pretty complicated, but things can be simple, too: you've just got to be kind.Here We Are is the utterly heartfelt new book from Oliver Jeffers. We're glad you found it.
So here's one from last year, that I am sure everybody knows about...but I love it so much I thought I would write this post anyway, because I want to make sure everyone knows about this book.
I have no words for this book really, I simply loved it. It feels like Oliver Jeffers has let us into his lounge room where he is talking to his new son about the world...and that's pretty much what it is. Oliver Jeffers wrote this for his son, and we are so fortunate that he turned it into a book and shared it with the world because it is beautiful.
I have already given it as a Christening gift, it's must for new parents, and I think it could (should) be a valuable resource in the classroom too.
"There are only three words you need to live by, son: respect, consideration and tolerance'" - Truer words have never been spoken.


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Today I went back online looking for my first win and I finally have it, a win over Zangief. It's a big improvement from my first online match from just 8 days ago, and yes I'm still not very good, and yes it was super cheap at times. But who cares I won!!!


One of Bristol's best known landmarks located in the heart of Bristol's Waterfront National Register Historic District. Built (circa 1792) for Deputy Govenor Wm. Bradford, the house retains a Federal-era appearance with mid-1800's renovations by noted architect Russel Warren. Fully restored and renovated in 1994. Featuring air conditioning, all rooms with private baths, queen size beds and fireplaces in three of the guest rooms.
Elegant boutique-style 40-room inn located on the water at Thames Street landing in the heart of historic Bristol. Featuring views of Narragansett Bay, central location mid-way between Providence and Newport and variety of nearby cultural and outdoor activities.
Turn of the century home with oak floors and french doors. Full breakfast served on china and with silver. Antiques and family heirlooms. Front porch with swing and large stone patio. Antiques, fine dining, and East Bay bike path all within 5 miles of the property.
National Register of Historic Places property dating back to the 1680's. Situated on 200 acres. In 1793 President George Washington spent a week at the farm with host Governor William Bradford. The rooms are furnished with many of the items from a notable antique dealer. The Governor Bradford House (circa 1745) and the North Pasture guest cottage each have 4 guest rooms with private baths. Some guest rooms have fireplaces.
Bed & Breakfast offers 3 guest rooms, each with private bath, air conditioning and fireplace. One guest room is a suite with private jacuzzi sitting room. Built in 1798. Featuring cultivated English Garden.
Centrally located minutes away from Roger Williams University with banquet facilities available.
English country manor with 33 rooms. Opened Spring 2002. Situated on 25 acres of manicured lawns and gardens. Features luxurious accommodations with spectacular waterfront and garden views. Full Southern breakfast, tea time, tennis courts, pool and gym.
One of Bristol's finest homes in the heart of the Historic Waterfront district. Breakfast room with french doors overlooking the English-style garden. Walk to antique shops, museums, restaurants and harbor. Serving a hearty gourmet breakfast, afternoon tea and sherry in the evening. Off street parking. Corporate rates available. Three Diamond AAA; 3 Star Mobil.
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Three-room guest suite located on second floor with private bath. Full breakfast, snacks and beverages. Great walks, bike trail, restaurants, museums, antique shops, historic sights, and colleges nearby. Accommodates three persons traveling together. Garden and terrace.
Built in 1808 by a sea captain. Federal-style house decorated in an eclectic style, fully furnished in antiques. On the 4th of July Parade route, close to the Bristol Harbor and in the quiet historic district. Property features five comfortable guest rooms, each with a queen bed and private bath. Terraced back yard with a fish pond having large breeding Koi. Full gourmet breakfast each morning included with the room. Three-diamond AAA rated.
Bed and breakfast located in the 1910 Brick Telephone Company building in Historic Downtown Warren. One private suite with own entrance, lobby and bathroom on main level. Second level offers sitting area, bedroom with king size bed, dining table, twelve foot ceilings, exposed brick, antique paladin arched windows overlooking private garden.


DEFRA announced an outbreak of Avian Flu north-east of Preston on Friday and have just confirmed the strain is a highly-pathogenic H7N7. We saw an outbreak in February this year of a low-path H7N7 avian influenza in Hampshire but this new outbreak is far more serious – for birds. The risk of it causing human disease is incredibly low.
In this context 'highly pathogenic' means it is highly contagious in flocks and will result in a high mortality rate in birds – but it is not the H5N1 avian strain which has led to hundreds of deaths in people worldwide and is also distinct from the H5N2 strain of avian flu that caused the recent outbreaks in the USA.
Most types of bird flu are harmless to humans but two types – H5N1 and H7N9 – continue to cause serious concerns. Other bird flu strains – including H7N7 – can and have infected people, but cases are very rare or have only rarely caused severe illness.
A temporary control zone imposed on Friday at the affected farm has now been replaced by a 10km surveillance zone with an inner 3km protection zone. Culling of all 200,000 birds at the farm is continuing. The restrictions mean that all poultry farms within the 10km control zone around the infected premises are not allowed to move poultry, captive birds or other animals except under licence.
Human infections with avian flu are rare, and the virus found in Lancashire is not seen as a major concern for human disease – the receptors in humans that avian flu strains can bind to are deep down in the lungs so to get it you need to be working with large numbers of infected birds and breathe deeply. It is not passed from person to person.
But while this particular outbreak has few public health implications, flu remains a serious illness that is a prolific killer both directly and indirectly, particularly in the very old, the very young, the pregnant, the obese and the infirm. You can find out more by clicking below and if you have any questions about the current outbreak or flu generally please contact us.
[spoiler title="Flu Facts" style="prime-color" icon="fa-question-circle"]With every new flu strain to hit the headlines we seee headlines saying it will be a repeat the 1918 / 19 pandemic – the one that killed as many people as both World Wars combined in a single season. Could this one? Unlikely. Will it? No one knows – despite the apocalypse some journalists always predict. Aside from pandemics don't underestimate seasonal flu either (and that means proper flu caused by the influenza virus, not the sniffles or 'man flu') – seasonal flu kills 500,000 people per season directly and a lot more indirectly.
Flu strains are judged by their virulence in humans (the ability to cause disease or death) and how infective the are (the ability to spread). Deaths by influenza mainly depend on the virulence of a circulating strain and pandemics such as the 1919 H1N1 were both virulent and infective. Some strains, such as H5N1 (bird flu) or H3N2 are more likely to kill (60% for H5N1) than strains like H1N1 – which was of only moderate virulence but highly infective. So H1N1 is easy to catch but isn't as nasty as some, H5N1 is a shocker but you need to work quite hard to get infected.
The H7N7 in the news doesn't spread person-to-person but it's really good at infecting birds and if it mutates (and flu always does) it might become both virulent and infective. But that's not a certainty; mutations always carry a cost and as a rule if a strain becomes more infective the likely quid pro quo is that it will become less virulent.
The biology of flu virus is relentlessly fascinating. There are horse, pig, bird and human varieties and they generally stick to their host species. One reason we don't usually get avian strains is that the cells in our body that avian strains can bind to are few and low down in the lungs, but receptors for human stains like H1N1 are in the upper airway which is why H1N1 is far more infective in humans. So to get an avian strain you need to be around a lot of poultry and breathe deeply.
But pigs have both receptors in abundance. So they can get a human, avian and swine flu all at once. And the flu virus keeps its 11 genes in 8 segments, not in a single sequence of RNA. So if a pig is infected with more than one strain it can mix together elements of them all. This ability to shuffle the pack (combining elements from different strains) is called genetic shift. This is how new strains emerge. And if the new strain is both virulent and infective we are in trouble. This is also the reason most new strains tend to arise in places where people, pigs and chickens live in close proximity. This is why new strains tend to come from place like Asia where you often find families, pigs and chickens in close proximity.
Just to be difficult flu also undergoes genetic drift over time; in addition to its ability to change dramatically due to genetic shift it's not very good at copying itself accurately – so it mutates lots. This means a particular flu strain knocking about at the start of a season will be slightly different at the end of it. These changes are the principal reason the flu vaccine needs to change from season to season and the experts need to gamble on which strains will be circulating in a year's time.


The Pacific Okinawa Players (POPS) are already in serious rehearsals for their next production scheduled for March 12, 13, 14, 17, 18 and 19 at Camp Foster's Butler Theater. The troupe will be staging its winter production, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by Neil Simon. For all scheduled appearances, the Box Office will open at 6:00 p.m. and curtains will go up at 7:00 p.m. Tickets wil cost $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children.
For more information on the POPS and its upcoming production, contact Paola Hornbuckle @ 935-3261 or call The Attic (Bldg. 5699, Camp Foster) @ 645-0531.


Since its announcement awhile ago, Mortal Kombat has gotten a list of new playable characters, each one announced in a flashy trailer. Well, here is another one for you fans to watch.
And just a reminder, Kotal Kahn joins the growing roster of playable Mortal Kombat 11 fighters, alongside Scorpion, Raiden, Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade, Skarlet, Baraka, Geras, Kano, D'Vorah, Kabal, Jade, Johnny Cage, Cassie Cage, Erron Black, and Jacqui Briggs. That is a lot of fighters announced so far.


2. Remove pulleys of the oil pump and a bent shaft.
3. Remove the main unit of the oil pallet.
4. Unscrew bolts and uncover the oil pump the end of a bent shaft.
5. Using a marker, note the mutual provision of an internal and external rotor of the oil pump.
Remove an internal and external rotor of the oil pump (see rice. Removal of an internal rotor of the oil pump).
If it is necessary, unscrew a bolt of the safety valve of pressure, remove a sealing ring.
1. Clear details of the oil pump and check them for wear existence.
2. Using a probe edge, check a gap between teeths of a rotor of the pump and between an external rotor and the case of the oil pump (see rice. Measurement of a gap between rotors of the oil pump, Measurement of a gap between an external rotor and the case of the oil pump).
3. Check that protect the piston the telny valve easily and freely moved under the influence of a spring.
1. Install a new sealing ring on the safety valve of pressure and screw up the valve in the block of cylinders, having tightened it the required moment.
2. Oil a pump rotor pure engine and establish in a pump housing according to earlier made tag.
3. Replace sealing rings of the oil pump and a bent shaft.
4. Check that the interfaced surfaces of the case of the oil pump and a cover of the pump, pure and dry.
5. Apply a thin film of sealant on the interfaced surface of a cover of the oil pump and, being careful, establish a cover of the oil pump.
6. Apply sealant on a carving of bolts of fastening of a cover of the pump and screw up screws, having tightened them the required moment.
7. Establish pulleys of the oil pump and a bent shaft. Install the oil pallet.
8. Fill in pure engine oil in the engine.


She is back in action!!! Fish Beware:) nice smallie Crystal!
Nice catches Crystal. We had a great trip up there in Feb. Stayed with Bruce at Holiday Harbors like we always do. Fished the Islands and never saw so many big Bowfin. ...more Group of us caught over a 100 of them many over 10lbs. Just as many Pike too. I love that place.
looks like you are very familiar with the lake! just moved back here from Texas, do you know any good fishing spots now that we have some open water???
How much ice are u guys still on. ?
bass through the ice. She was released!
Nice bass..are you ice fishing?
Nice bass Crystal, glad to see you back at it!!
blue gill through the ice!
Thats a big Gill!! Nice Crystal!!
I'm so jealous!! lol. we dont have any ice around where i am.. dang weathers playing with my emotions.. lol. nice gill..
Nice catch, if you dont mind me asking where do you shore fish at?
Man thats a beast, nice catch!!
That was a lake record right?
That's a fat cat! Nice Catch!
Another nice one from the bass queen. Very nice Crystal!!
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The THF Ladakh team (Andreas, Lala, André, John Niewoehner and the Erfurt conservation group Anke, Jovana and Rebekka) has arrived in Leh to continue the work with the local LOTI team (Konchok, Dolker, Diskit) on the Leh Old Town Conservation Project.
Planned for this year are further infrastructure improvements in the old town, conservation of mural paintings in the Red Maitreya Temple (north wall), conservation of a 17th century mosque and work on residential buildings. Two Ladakhis from our mural conservation training program will travel to Germany for a two-month study at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences. To celebrate arrivals and departures we held a party in the Sankar house with the Ladakhi artisans and residents of the old town.
Click here to read André's pictorial diary of the first days in Leh 2007.


Levers are not reversible on these Kaba locks. For doors 1 5/8" to 1 7/8" in thickness and 2 3/4 backset. Made after Kaba merged with Ilco. Comes with combination, a user key, control key, combination change key and everything in the pictures except the wood display.
Combination it is a very involved process to reset the lock to accept a new combination. Back be removed, the lock disassembled, the combination chamber removed and the tumblers reset. FYI, if they don't have the keys a locksmith can not just make a key.
The over ride lock core will have to. The item "Kaba Simplex Ilco Unican LL1021 Pushbutton Lock Over Ride Core Installed withKeys" is in sale since Saturday, March 23, 2019. This item is in the category "Business & Industrial\Building Materials & Supplies\Doors & Fixtures\Locks & Locksets". The seller is "bake98" and is located in Oxford, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States.


Many Massachusetts landlords have encountered a tenant who has exploited the landlord in the following manner. The tenant has fallen behind on the rent. The landlord needs to get paid. The landlord serves a 14-Day Notice to Quit for Nonpayment of Rent. Almost immediately, the tenant calls Boston Inspectional Services Department (ISD), or the local board of health, and complains about defective conditions in the apartment. Perhaps there are certain minor problems at the premises. Maybe the tenant has decided to break things on purpose. Whatever it is, the problems can be fixed and should be fixed by the landlord quickly.
Unfortunately, the tenant still is not paying. The landlord serves a Summary Process (Eviction) Summons and Complaint. The tenant asserts a defense or counterclaim concerning the condition of the premises under G. L. c. 239, § 8A. The tenant is buying time, but not paying rent. The eviction drags on even though the landlord has corrected the conditions to the satisfaction of the health department.
Fortunately, the landlord has a remedy. The Housing Court may issue a rent escrow order pursuant to its inherent equitable authority. The court can order the tenant to set up a new bank account and deposit the rent into that account every month until the case is decided. This gives the landlord some security he may not have had otherwise. At the end of the case, the court can order that some or all of the rent be paid to the landlord. A landlord can try to obtain such an order in a case where it appears the tenant is claiming that he or she is withholding rent with no good reason, and in particular, where the landlord has already remedied any bad conditions at the property. The tenant may lose credibility if she has claimed that she withheld rent due to bad conditions, when in fact she is spending the money on other things. Moreover, the court can enforce such a rent escrow order by holding the tenant in contempt, where there is a clear command and an equally clear and undoubted disobedience of the order.


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New Hampshire Repeals Parental Notification Law
Governor John Lynch signed legislation on Friday making New Hampshire the first state to repeal a law requiring minors to notify their parents before receiving an abortion. The 2003 New Hampshire law, which required abortion providers to notify at least one parent 48 hours prior to performing an abortion on a minor, was never enforced due to a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England on the basis that it lacked provisions to protect a pregnant minor's health. Supporters of the legislation that would repeal the 2003 law also questioned the legality of the law, rather than focusing on parental or abortion rights.
"I strongly believe parents should be involved in these decisions, providing important support and guidance. Unfortunately that is not possible in every case," Gov. Lynch said in support of the repeal. "The Supreme Court found this law unconstitutional because it fails to protect the health and safety of all women, which is why I am signing its repeal."
The repeal was effective immediately.


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CHOMSKY: Pope Francis, Oscar Romero and the horror of Reagan foreign policy
Bishop Oscar Romero was assassinated by a death squad in El Salvador in 1980.
Emanuel Stoakes / Salon.com | September 5, 2014
Last month an apparently unremarkable series of reports about Pope Francis drifted through the international news carousel, attracting little attention from the national media — though it should have. They recorded the pontiff's desire to expedite a deceased bishop's journey toward prospective sainthood in accordance with the customs of the faith.
The cleric in question was Oscar Romero who, prior to his murder in 1980 by local death squads, held one of the most senior positions in the Catholic church of El Salvador. As some of the coverage mentioned in passing, he was killed not long after after havingwritten to President Carter, appealing to him to halt his support for repressive government forces that were tearing the country apart in their assault on mass movements that opposed their undemocratic rule. Carter never replied; Romero was shot at mass.
At that point in time, El Salvador was in the early stages of a civil war that would go on to cause untold misery in the small central American nation and claim tens of thousands of lives. As the violence raged throughout the '80s, Washington increased the level of military aid it sent to the ruling authorities, overwhelmingly the main perpetrators of the many war crimes that occurred that decade, who put this generous assistance to efficient use murdering defenseless civilians across the country.
The U.S. government under Reagan went on to train, fund and arm the same government forces, dismissing accurate reports of massacres they had committed, as well as discouraging attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement between the warring sides.
Having helped to lengthen the conflict and having armed the most abusive party, a report commissioned by the speaker of the house eventually precipitated a UN-brokered accord which helped to end the fighting in the early 1990s, demonstrating that had there been the political will to do so, the U.S. could have helped to halt the bloodshed far earlier.
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Payers Stream Music for Half an Hour Longer
Chris Beer
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As streaming services like Spotify look to grow their user bases still further, today we look at how engagement levels differ between those who pay to access these services, and those who do not.
Globally, Payers stream music for an average of half an hour longer each day. In our music attitudes data, they also show more desire than Non-Payers to 'curate' their listening, rather than letting it run in the background.
Nevertheless, a sizable contingent of Non-Payers demonstrate qualities which make them likely to become Payers in the future. 16% of Non-Payers try to avoid ads wherever possible online, and the same proportion state they tend to buy the premium version of a product.
One possible barrier to converting Non-Payers to Payers is income, as there are fewer Non-Payers (21%) in the top bracket compared to Payers (29%). But that still leaves a decent number of Non-Payers who can be convinced to buy into premium services.
What's more, with 15% of Non-Payers motivated to purchase by exclusive content or services, Spotify's experiments with tiered release dates and audio quality may present an opportunity to convert them.
Chris is a Senior Trends Analyst at GlobalWebIndex. Moving to the company in 2017 after working in publishing, he produces blogs, infographics and reports on the most pressing topics in the worlds of technology, marketing, and many others.
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Pine Ridge Reservation still under emergency declaration
PINE RIDGE S.D. — The Pine Ridge Reservation is still in a state of emergency after severe weather and flooding has devastated the area.
Around 500 people have been displaced from the effects of the blizzard. Snow drifts, mud and flooding have trapped people in their homes in remote areas. As the snow has melted, roads have become saturated and impassable at times.
On Sunday night at an emergency meeting, Tribal Leadership allocated $234,000 to the Reservation's six districts for disaster relief.
According to Oglala Sioux Tribe Emergency Management Lead Coordinator Candi Brings Plenty, the public is in need food, water, and baby formula. Over the weekend, Black Hills Life Flight has been dropping food and water to isolated homes.
She also said that local emergency officials have been working around the clock to check on Elders in their homes, and to bring food and water. Additionally, several other tribes from as far away as Michigan have sent crews to assist in the effort.
Brings Plenty also said since Oglala Sioux Tribal leadership published the emergency declaration on Thursday, Governor Kristi Noem's office had not yet issued a reply.
For information on how you can help out, call Candi Brings Plenty at 605-441-6849.
Image courtesy of Oglala Sioux Tribe Emergency Management.
(A previous version of this story stated the Tribe reached out directly to Governor Noem's Office for emergency assistance)
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Mining is a vital part of the cryptocurrency industry today. While some industry followers believe that crypto mining will go away sometime in the future, it remains an active pursuit for individuals and companies to mint digital money using racks of computers.
In the current regulatory environment, the status of cryptocurrency miners is unclear. For instance, when miners approve a Security Token transaction that is built on top of a public protocol like Ethereum, are they essentially approving a transaction on behalf of another? Does this make them a broker dealer because they are approving a securities transaction and receiving securities-based compensation? SEC Corporate Finance Director Bill Hinman publicly stated that Ethereum is not a security but, importantly, did not pass judgment on its issuance.
Ever the regulatory leader, on April 4, Templum, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer and approved alternative trading system (ATS) in the digital asset sector, submitted a Petition for Rulemaking to the SEC on digital asset mining. They state in the letter:
"Chairman Clayton has stated that nearly every Initial Coin Offering has involved the sale of a security. However, it is unclear if miners of digital assets that are securities be required to register as a broker-dealer under the Securities and Exchange Act of 34. We encourage the SEC to provide formal guidance to the industry on this issue."
Co-founders Vince Molinari and Chris Pallotta state that "Given the heightened regulatory concerns in the market, we believe that clarity of technical applications of mining and their functions could constitute regulatory activity. We believe the markets should evolve to standards to ensure best practices while protecting investors. We have concerns around public blockchains and mining as it relates to their anonymity of this function and what that could mean, i.e., who is doing the mining, and who is receiving the compensation for their service. For example, are they a bad actor or located in a banned jurisdiction of the US? Also, what happens to public chain securities if mining is no longer economical?"
Keep in mind there is no obligation for the SEC to answer this petition. But if these miners are manufacturing securities or participating in securities transactions and must be registered as broker-dealers, the ramifications may be profound. Somewhere between the anarchist cryptographers who want no regulation and the traditional institutional investors who will only enter with regulation, lies the future of the industry. For instance, there are vestiges of the old world like Transfer Agents (a trust company, bank or similar financial institution assigned by a corporation to maintain records of investors and account balances), that could be made obsolete with blockchain. The existing regulations assume they are necessary, so clarification is needed.
Right before this petition was filed, Blockstack, the New York-based blockchain software provider that launched in 2017 to create the infrastructure for a decentralized internet, filed a registration statement with the SEC on its intent to raise $50 million in a token sale that would leverage the SEC's Regulation A+ crowdfunding exemption. Introduced in 2012 under the JOBS Act, the Regulation A+ exemption enables equity crowdfunding campaigns to offer and sell securities to U.S. non-accredited investors via two tiers, either for $20 million or $50 million, each over a 12-month period. In the filing, they say miners are not Broker Dealer's, no Transfer Agent is required, no clearing agency functions are being performed. This is largely due to the focus on "salesman's stake" functionality of Broker Dealers absence in this case. However, the SEC has said before that Broker Dealers do not have to have human involvement.
Reg A+ was specifically designed for eligible companies to offer debt or equities securities, or securities convertible into debt or equity such as options and warrants. Blockstack claims the tokens don't share the characteristics as might be expected for a traditional debt or equity instrument. Blockstack is saying they are eligible to conduct the offering without the services of a Transfer Agent because of the first reason mentioned, that the Tokens don't constitute as debt or equities securities because "they do not have equity-like features."
As the SEC is required to respond to Blockstack's registration statement within 120 days, it will be interesting to see which way the SEC offers guidance here and whether Templum's petition puts some sand in the gears.
Article first appeared May 2, 2019 on Forbes.com.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nisaamoils/2019/05/02/can-crypto-miners-be-considered-broker-dealers
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We recently had our baby shower/ gender reveal. It was a blast and the feed back from our friends and family was that is was the best shower they have ever attended. I attribute this to a couple factors: 1….
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In Vaadin, type specimen editor a new line is created when a typ is selected.
saving types not possible. See also problems with Safari/Mac.
I tested with the the latest version of the Google Chrome Browser on Mac and on Windows 10 and had no problems.
Henning and Heba, please test again if you still can reproduce the problem.
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Moonrakers
Oxford's much-toured 4-piece band, Moonrakers (Celtic harp, cello, stringed instruments, whistles, female/male vocals), pride themselves on having brought traditional and contemporary folk music to new audiences in village halls, churches, arts centres and festivals across the south of England in recent years. With songs and tunes from the English, Irish and Scottish tradition as well as their own compositions, they've been described as startlingly talented (Oxford Times), with five albums of exquisite music (BBC) and truly wonderful (Wycombe Festival) performances. 2020 saw the launch of their latest album 'Ebb & Flow' which has received glowing reviews in the music press (The real deal, The Living Tradition; Uplifting, sensitively crafted songs and tunes FATEA magazine) . The individual members of Moonrakers have played with Luke Daniels, Ranagri, Roy Bailey and Nancy Kerr. To see and hear more, go to www.moonrakers.net
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