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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." – Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton's Speech to the New York Convention, June 24, 1788
George Washington's Cabinet members. While the current presidential cabinet includes sixteen members, George Washington 's cabinet included just four original members: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
I am persuaded, Mr. Chairman, that I in my turn shall be indulged in addressing the committee. We all in equal sincerity profess to be anxious for the establishment of a republican government on a safe and solid basis. It is the object of the wishes of every honest man in the United States, and i presume that I shall not be disbelieved when I declare that it is an object of all others the nearest and most dear to my own heart. The means of accomplishing this great purpose become the most important study which can interest mankind. It is our duty to examine all those means with peculiar attention and to choose the best and most effectual. It is our duty to draw from nature, from reason, from examples, the best principles of policy, and to pursue and apply them in the formation of our government. We should contemplate and compare the systems which in this examination come under our view; distinguish with a careful eye the defects and excellencies of each, and, discarding the former, incorporate the latter, as far as circumstances will admit, into our Constitution. If we pursue a different course and neglect this duty we shall probably disappoint the expectations of our country and of the world.
In the commencement of a revolution which received its birth from the usurpations of tyranny, nothing was more natural than that the public mind should be influenced by an extreme spirit of jealousy. To resist these encroachments and to nourish this spirit was the great object of all our public and private institutions. The zeal for liberty became predominant and excessive. In forming our Confederation this passion alone seemed to actuate us, and we appear to have had no other view than to secure ourselves from despotism. The object certainly was a valuable one, and deserved our utmost attention. But, sir, there is another object equally important and which our enthusiasm rendered us little capable of regarding; I mean a principle of strength and stability in the organization of our government, and vigor in its operations. This purpose can never be accomplished but by the establishment of some select body formed peculiarly upon this principle. There are few positions more demonstrable than that there should be in every republic some permanent body to correct the prejudices, check the intemperate passions, and regulate the fluctuations of a popular assembly. It is evident that a body instituted for these purposes must be so formed as to exclude as much as possible from its own character those infirmities and that mutability which it is designed to remedy. It is therefore necessary that it should be small, that it should hold its authority during a considerable period, and that it should have such an independence in the exercise of its powers as will divest it as much as possible of local prejudices. It should be so formed as to be the center of political knowledge, to pursue always a steady line of conduct, and to reduce every irregular propensity to system. Without this establishment we may make experiments without end, but shall never have an efficient government.
It is an unquestionable truth that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity; but it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest errors by misinformation and passion would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise. That branch of administration especially which involves our political relations with foreign States, a community will ever be incompetent to. These truths are not often held up in public assemblies, but they can not be unknown to any who hear me. From these principles it follows that there ought to be two distinct bodies in our government: one, which shall be immediately constituted by and peculiarly represent the people and possess all the popular features; another, formed upon the principle and for the purposes before explained. Such considerations as these induced the Convention who formed your State Constitution to institute a Senate upon the present plan. The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which these republics had suffered arose from the want of a certain balance and mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men, and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary; they therefore instituted your Senate, and the benefits we have experienced have fully justified their conceptions.
Gentlemen in their reasoning have placed the interests of the several States and those of the United States in contrast; this is not a fair view of the subject: they must necessarily be involved in each other. What we apprehend is that some sinister prejudice or some prevailing passion may assume the form of a genuine interest. The influence of these is as powerful as the most permanent conviction of the public good, and against this influence we ought to provide. The local interests of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union; for when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield on the principle that the small good ought never to oppose the great one. When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interests of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accommodation and sacrifice of local advantages to general expediency; but the spirit of a mere popular assembly would rarely be actuated by this important principle. It is therefore absolutely necessary that the Senate should be so formed as to be unbiased by false conceptions of the real interests or undue attachment to the apparent good of their several States.
Gentlemen indulge too many unreasonable apprehensions of danger to the State governments; they seem to suppose that the moment you put men into a national council, they become corrupt and tyrannical and lose all their affection for their fellow citizens. But can we imagine that the Senators will ever be so insensible of their own advantage as to sacrifice the genuine interest of their constituents? The State governments are essentially necessary to the form and spirit of the general system. As long, therefore, as Congress has a full conviction of this necessity, they must even upon principles purely national, have as firm an attachment to the one as to the other. This conviction can never leave them, unless they become madmen. While the Constitution continues to be read and its principle known the States must by every rational man be considered as essential, component parts of the Union; and therefore the idea of sacrificing the former to the latter is wholly inadmissible.
The objectors do not advert to the natural strength and resources of State governments, which will ever give them an important superiority over the general government. If we compare the nature of their different powers, or the means of popular influence which each possesses, we shall find the advantage entirely on the side of the States. This consideration, important as it is, seems to have been little attended to. The aggregate number of representatives throughout the States may be two thousand. Their personal influence will, therefore, be proportionably more extensive than that of one or two hundred men in Congress. The State establishments of civil and military officers of every description, infinitely surpassing in number any possible correspondent establishments in the general government, will create such an extent and complication of attachments as will ever secure the predilection and support of the people. Whenever, therefore, Congress shall meditate any infringement of the State Constitutions, the great body of the people will naturally take part with their domestic representatives. Can the general government withstand such a united opposition? Will the people suffer themselves to be stripped of their privileges? Will they suffer their Legislatures to be reduced to a shadow and a name? The idea is shocking to common sense.
From the circumstances already explained and many others which might be mentioned, results a complicated, irresistible check, which must ever support the existence and importance of the State governments. The danger, if any exists, flows from an opposite source. The probable evil is that the general government will be too dependent on the State Legislatures, too much governed by their prejudices, and too obsequious to their humors; that the States, with every power in their hands, will make encroachments on the national authority till the Union is weakened and dissolved.
Every member must have been struck with an observation of a gentleman from Albany. Do what you will, says he, local prejudices and opinions will go into the government. What! shall we then form a Constitution to cherish and strengthen these prejudices? Shall we confirm the distemper instead of remedying it? It is undeniable that there must be a control somewhere. Either the general interest is to control the particular interests, or the contrary. If the former, then certainly the government ought to be so framed as to render the power of control efficient to all intents and purposes; if the latter, a striking absurdity follows; the controlling powers must be as numerous as the varying interests, and the operations of the government must therefore cease; for the moment you accommodate these different interests, which is the only way to set the government in motion, you establish a controlling power. Thus, whatever constitutional provisions are made to the contrary, every government will be at last driven to the necessity of subjecting the partial to the universal interest. The gentlemen ought always in their reasoning to distinguish between the real, genuine good of a State and the opinions and prejudices which may prevail respecting it; the latter may be opposed to be sacrificed; the former is so involved in it that it never can be sacrificed.
There are certain social principles in human nature from which we may draw the most solid conclusions with respect to the conduct of individuals and of communities. We love our families more than our neighbors; we love our neighbors more than our countrymen in general. The human affections, like the solar heat, lose their intensity as they depart from the center and become languid in proportion to the expansion of the circle on which they act. On these principles, the attachment of the individual will be first and for ever secured by the State governments; they will be a mutual protection and support. Another source of influence, which has already been pointed out, is the various official connections in the States. Gentlemen endeavor to evade the force of this by saying that these offices will be insignificant. This is by no means true. The State officers will ever be important, because they are necessary and useful. Their powers are such as are extremely interesting to the people; such as affect their property, their liberty, and life. What is more important than the administration of justice and the execution of the civil and criminal laws? Can the State governments become insignificant while they have the power of raising money independently and without control? If they are really useful, if they are calculated to promote the essential interests of the people, they must have their confidence and support. The States can never lose their powers till the whole people of America are robbed of their liberties. These must go together; they must support each other, or meet one common fate. On the gentleman's principle we may safely trust the State governments, tho we have no means of resisting them; but we can not confide in the national government, tho we have an effectual constitutional guard against every encroachment. This is the essence of their argument, and it is false and fallacious beyond conception.
With regard to the jurisdiction of the two governments I shall certainly admit that the Constitution ought to be so formed as not to prevent the States from providing for their own existence; and I maintain that it is so formed, and that their power of providing for themselves is sufficiently established. This is conceded by one gentleman, and in the next breath the concession is retracted. He says Congress has but one exclusive right in taxation–that of duties on imports; certainly, then, their other powers are only concurrent. But to take off the force of this obvious conclusion, he immediately says that the laws of the United States are supreme and that where there is one supreme there can not be a concurrent authority; and further, that where the laws of the Union are supreme those of the States must be subordinate, because there can not be two supremes. This is curious sophistry. That two supreme powers can not act together is false. They are inconsistent only when they are aimed at each other or at one indivisible object. The laws of the United States are supreme as to all their proper constitutional objects; the laws of the States are supreme in the same way. These supreme laws may act on different objects without clashing, or they may operate on different parts of the same common object with perfect harmony. Suppose both governments should lay a tax of a penny on a certain article; has not each an independent and uncontrollable power to collect its own tax? The meaning of the maxim, there can not be two supremes, is simply this–two powers can not be supreme over each other. This meaning is entirely perverted by the gentlemen. But, it is said, disputes between collectors are to e referred to the Federal courts. This is again wandering in the field of conjecture. But suppose the fact is certain, is it not to be presumed that they will express the true meaning of the Constitution and the laws? Will they not be bound to consider the concurrent jurisdiction; to declare that both the taxes shall have equal operation; that both the powers, in that respect, are sovereign and coextensive? If they transgress their duty we are to hope that they will be punished. Sir, we can reason from probabilities alone. When we leave common sense and give ourselves up to conjecture, there can be no certainty, no security in our reasonings.
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Charlie Kirk: It's Not About the Milkshakes – How the Left-Wing Media Is Encouraging Violence
Ian Forsyth / Getty ImagesBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England after having milkshake thrown over him. (Ian Forsyth / Getty Images)
By Charlie Kirk
Published May 28, 2019 at 3:26pm
The American media's enthusiastic endorsement of the British phenomenon of "milkshaking" politicians is even more insidious than it might appear at first glance.
By media accounts, the practice of throwing milkshakes at people began spontaneously this month when a British man thought that was an appropriate response to a political candidate saying something that "offended" him.
Now American outlets such as CBS News — not to mention American companies such as Burger King — are laughing and cheering as leftists chuck milkshakes at Nigel Farage, the Brexit leader who heads the most popular British party in Thursday's European Parliament elections, and other candidates.
I immediately suspected the most sinister motives, and The New Republic quickly validated my suspicions with an article extolling political violence as an "effective" way to "humiliate" one's political opponents with virtually no downsides.
"Milkshaking" is undoubtedly an assault. If it were committed against a liberal politician, it would be time for a "national conservation" and there would be journalists calling for lengthy prison sentences. We'd probably even have to listen to Democrats declare that we must ban certain "dangerous" dairy products while accusing conservatives of secretly loathing people who are lactose intolerant.
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But milkshaking is also undoubtedly a milder form of political violence than, say, trying to massacre politicians on a baseball field. Frankly, the practice is more embarrassing than injurious to its victims, and that's part of its appeal to the media here in America.
By defending "milkshaking," the media are trying to whitewash their cozy and accommodating relationship with left-wing radicals willing to commit violence against conservatives and anyone else they disagree with. They're putting a friendly, "harmless" face on the left's shameful legacy of condoning political violence.
From the moment they realized it was even remotely possible that Donald Trump could become president, the American media hasn't been able to get enough of violence against conservatives. In 2016, for instance, they largely ignored the violent leftists who attacked attendees at Trump rallies in Chicago and San Diego, preferring to craft an alternative narrative that sought to shift the blame onto Trump supporters.
This was the beginning of the now ubiquitous "violence breaks out" headlines, which journalists use when they want to disguise who was being violent to whom.
By 2017, some "mainstream" journalists were writing puff pieces extolling the communist and anarchist criminals who flocked to the "antifa" banner in order to engage in organized violence against conservatives.
A year later, the pro-antifa sympathies of those "woke" columnists spread to the very heart of cable news. In 2018, CNN's Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon made their first impassioned moral defenses of a group that smashes people over the head with bike locks for supporting the president.
As of this April, Cuomo had upgraded his already-glowing assessment of antifa. Whereas he once merely praised antifa members for being "on the side of right," he now equates those violent leftists to the American soldiers who stormed the beaches at Normandy.
None of this is coincidental. One recent analysis shows that, at their fringes, journalists are working closely with antifa members to advance their mutual political goals.
You might ask whether these journalists know that they're playing with fire. You might wonder if they realize that normalizing political violence can easily backfire.
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The unfortunate truth is that they simply don't care. The same antifa groups that leftists lionize now attack journalists with striking regularity, yet remain darlings to the media.
At this point, they commit as much violence against people they think are journalists as they do against people they think are "fascists," although there's certainly some degree of overlap.
In the minds of those who set the left-wing media agenda, the safety of their own colleagues isn't nearly as important as making it safe for violent communist and anarchist criminals to attack conservatives. If a few entry-level journalists get pummeled, too, that's just collateral damage in the crusade against Trump and his supporters.
"Milkshaking" may not be quite as thrilling for leftists as outright assault and battery, but it does convey a less threatening image than masked thugs wielding clubs menacingly as they prowl the streets looking for their next conservative victim.
When you hear the American news media applauding British activists for "milkshaking" politicians they don't like, don't forget that they were actively encouraging far more egregious forms of political violence long before anyone ever thought to weaponize desserts against Nigel Farage.
Charlie Kirk is the founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, an advocacy group for young conservatives.
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After three weeks of paternity leave/annual leave, I have finally returned to work.
It has only been two days and yet I can confirm that the hardest thing about taking care of a newborn baby is leaving them to go to work. It goes against my instincts to leave my wife and child for a whole day. And yet it is a necessary evil if I want to earn enough money to support them.
Well the mornings are usually cheerful and full of energy. I get my blood pumping with a brisk walk to the office and meetings are generally going well. This leaves me feeling happy and productive when talking to my colleagues (which doesn't happen often in my role).
Afternoons are when things go sour. Fatigue catches up with me and my concentration bails. An onslaught of queries also means I have about five things to keep in the back of my mind while I'm working. As such, I resort to coffee in the hope that it alone can salvage the day.
Nevertheless, I'm healthy and happy so I don't want to complain. I knew what that working full-time would be difficult after Elle and I had a baby. I just have to keep stepping up and trying my best.
I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week, folks!


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1906 - No money, no problem
The Boston Minutemen had reached manager-turned-part-owner George Theobald termed an "untenable financial situation." By this he meant that his team, winners of four straight Federal Association pennants, was nearly broke. All that talent was expensive, so Theobald, with the blessing of his co-owners (including majority boss Steve Cunningham, who at 72 was turning more and more of the running of the club over to Theobald), started making trades.
1905 - End of the Line
On the surface, the 1905 season didn't really seem that much different from those that came just before it - the Boston Minutemen were cruising towards another pennant in the Federal Association and the Continental Association was shaping up as a two-horse race between New York and Toronto. And everyone assumed that whichever team managed to win the Continental would probably fall quickly to George Theobald's juggernaut in the World Championship Series. And it... almost worked out that way.
1903 - No Temple, No Problem
One of the biggest open secrets in baseball was that Bill Temple, the young, exceedingly fast and talented left-hander of the New York Stars, was a raging alcoholic. Temple's frequent drunken antics - some of them on the field during games - kept the star pitcher in hot water with Stars management. So it was only a moderate surprise when in January of 1903, New York dealt him to Detroit. Not only did it remove a lingering problem, but it sent that problem to the other Federal Association, where it'd be less likely to come back to bite them someplace uncomfortable.
1904 - Three Straight
Modern fans know what calling a team a "dynasty" denotes. But the first time that term was used in reference to a sports team rather than a list of kings/queens/emperors/etc was when it was used to describe the Boston Minutemen. The Boston club earned the moniker by winning it's third straight World Championship in 1904 - and just like in 1903, they did it in a sweep of the Continental Association champions. But in retrospect, they almost didn't even get to the World Series and if that hadn't happened, they might never been called a dynasty.
1904 was a good year for baseball. For more than a decade the sport had been at relative peace. The reserve clause was firmly entrenched, no new "outlaw" leagues were active or on the horizon, and even the minors were starting to line up to get into the Federation. And on the field, the game was good as well - pitching was dominating, but what we'd call "small ball" today was very much in vogue and speed, defense and moving runners over were the accepted strategies of the time - and the fans were enamored of this more strategic approach to the game with the game's top managers (such as Boston's George Theobald) often as famous as the players themselves.
It was also a good year for Woody Trease. The 24-year-old was now accepted as part of a holy pitching trinity that consisted of himself, Toronto's Allan Allen and Detroit's Bill Temple. All three had good years in '04 but Trease was otherworldly. For one thing, the team had hired his father as a coach - and then activated the 54-year-old Lynwood Trease Sr in July for a weekend set with Detroit, which activated 46-year-old Jim Jones so the old guys could relive past glories. The elder Trease went behind the plate and caught his son in what turned out to be his 15th victory of the season, a 4-3, 10-inning affair. His father played two games that weekend, and went for 3-for-8 before hanging up his bat for good (Jones went 0-for-4 against Woody and though technically on the roster for the remainder of Detroit's season, never appeared in another contest). Woody finished the season with a 28-14 record and 1.87 ERA (for you sabremetricians out there, he also had a ridiculous 14.5 WAR). He then won two games in the World Series, including the game four clincher. Of course, he only led the league in wins (as well as innings pitched, games, WHIP and WAR).
Boston posted a 96-42 record, another stellar year for a great club. They only had one .300 hitter (2B John Cook hit .323) but they did finish 2nd in runs scored (537) - and they allowed a league-low 351 runs with Bill McDaniel (26-9, 1.56) and George Wilson (10-1, 1.08 in an injury-shortened season) also having great years. And yet, they won the pennant with the help of a rainout. The rainout in question shortened the Pittsburgh Miners season by one game - and Pittsburgh finished 95-42. In 1904, the league didn't necessarily make the teams play their entire schedules, so the Miners didn't get a chance to get that 96th win which would have resulted in a one-game playoff where anything could have happened. The Miners were every bit as good as Boston: they had a true ace of their own in Ike Bell (27-11, 1.25) who was overlooked in the Trease-Allen-Temple discussion and was second in runs allowed at 393. They also led the league in runs scored with 572 (even though they too only had one .300 hitter in, yep, their 2B - Henry Clapp who hit .327).
The two horse race didn't leave many wins for the other six Federal Association clubs. Third-place Chicago won 74 games and St. Louis finished at 68-68. Detroit (60-79), Washington (58-82), New York (54-83) and Philadelphia (43-92) rounded out the standings table. Clapp's .327 average topped the league with Cook's .323 second and Washington CF Ed Ault (.309) third. Detroit's Frank Castle hit 10 homers to lead in that category and Dave Dunn of the Miners had 94 RBIs. Bell's 1.25 was the top ERA and his 27 wins 2nd to Trease. Bill Temple still threw (and drank) hard and struck out a league-best 318 batters, 11 more than Trease did.
Over in the Continental the two-horse race was between Toronto (88-51) and New York (81-54). Toronto was powered by Allan Allen, who led the Continental in both wins (31) and ERA (1.45), anchoring the league's stingiest staff. Bob Lewis (.293-4-63), Nelson Bambery (.303-4-68) and Rich Rowley (.288-1-50) powered the league's second-best offense. New York kept the pressure on all season, and led the race for a stretch in mid-summer, but was not quite up to par with the Wolves in '04. They had probably the best offense in baseball with a trio of .300 hitters led by RF George Reid (.343-8-90), shortstop John Waggoner (.335-5-75), and C George Cary (.302-2-39). The Stars scored 616 runs and the pitching, led by Gil Purdy (29-12, 1.81), allowed the 2nd-fewest runs at 431.
Allen Allan made some history on September 8. He shut down the Philadelphia Sailors 4-1 to earn his 400th victory - the first pitcher in history to reach that mark. Allan, now 37 years old, no longer threw with much speed (he had only 156 strikeouts in his league-high 385 innings), but he was a master of putting the ball precisely where he wanted, knew when to "cruise" and conserve his strength and had been around long enough to know the hitters and their weaknesses.
Cleveland (77-61), Baltimore (73-66) and Philadelphia (70-66) all played above .500, finishing ahead of Chicago (68-72) and the cellar dwellers Montreal (48-89) and Brooklyn (46-92). Cleveland's Jack Arabian won the batting title with a .346 average, while Reid won the RBI title (90). Philadelphia's Frank Tyson hit 10 homers to lead in that category. Allen led in both wins and ERA with Purdy leading in strikeouts (245), finishing 2nd in ERA and tied for 2nd in wins (29) with Cougars' ace Jack Long (29-10, 2.05).
The World Series unfolded much as it had in 1903 with only the CA's participant being different. Trease out-dueled Allan in game one, a 2-1 home win for Boston. McDaniel came out and shackled the Wolves in a 5-1 game two victory and George Wilson did the same in game three, also a 5-1 win, this time in Toronto. Game four was a wilder affair, but the outcome was still a Trease-led Boston win in an 11-5 contest. Trease finished the series 2-0 with a 2.16 ERA - Allan was nearly as good, but went 0-2 with a 2.35 ERA. The hitting hero was a surprise - Boston CF John Matyas, who hit just .225 for the season, went 11-for-17 in the Series with 5 RBIs.
Two minor leagues joined the FABL in 1904: the Great Western League, the first West Coast loop to join "organized baseball" and the Heartland League which formed around a pair of disgruntled Western Federation clubs. The GWL's first pennant was won by the San Diego Conquistadors. William Whitney, FABL founder and former Chicago Chiefs owner, was now in Los Angeles and was the organizer of the GWL and the LA club's majority owner (his Los Angeles Excelsiors finished third). The Peoria Bunnies and Cedar Rapids Colts both bolted the Western Federation after the 1903 season. The WF rebranded itself as the Century League, laying claim to the discarded mantle of the first professional league (now known as the Federal Association) and replaced the Peoria and Cedar Rapids clubs with new teams in Columbus (Titans) and Kansas City (Packers). Meanwhile Peoria and Cedar Rapids joined the Heartland League where Cedar Rapids finished 2nd to the Omaha Cowboys and Peoria finished last.
1902 - Rise of the Minutemen
Several things came together in 1902 for a certain city that had seen its ups & downs over the years. The city was Boston and it had lost two clubs before the current incarnation that joined FABL from the Peerless League after the 1892 season. This third incarnation had been playing under the "Brahmins" nickname but owner Steve Cunningham decided it was time for a change and to pay homage to the original Boston club, renamed his team the Minutemen.


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Russian Women's Hockey League (ZhHL)
Dynamo St. Petersburg shut down, won't play in 2020-21 ZhHL season
Pro women's hockey under threat in Russia
By Mike Murphy@DigDeepBSB Jul 7, 2020, 10:40am EDT
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Dynamo St. Petersburg of the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL) will not be competing in the 2020-21 season as a result of insufficient funding, the club announced on July 2. All of the players are free agents now.
Sergey Cherkas, who is the general manager of Dynamo and as well as the franchise's junior men's team, made the following statement to TASS on July 4:
"Funding is being optimized. We have decided that the Youth Hockey League and the Higher Hockey League will remain teams, and the women's team will not play next season. But we do not refuse to return it in the future." (translated through Google)
In other words, due to financial constraints — likely exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — Dynamo's women's team is being shut down while the junior men's team (MHL) and HC Moscow (KHL) will operate in 2020-21. The Ice Garden has reached out to Dynamo for a statement via email but has yet to hear back.
This leaves seven teams in the ZhHL.
Dynamo finished second-to-last in the ZhHL in the 2019-20 season with a record of 9-15-2-2; the team went 20-11-2-3 in 2018-19 and lost in the 2019 Final to Agidel Ufa.
С горечью осознаем, что следующий сезон @whl_ru пройдёт без «Динамо» из Санкт-Петербурга
Спасибо этой команде за 6 ярких сезонов и классный финал в 2018 году. Верим в возрождение через пару лет #ЖХКАгидель pic.twitter.com/yUHX99znU8
— Agidel Ufa (@HCAgidel) July 7, 2020
Cherkas' statement to TASS suggests that the women's team could return in the future, but it appears that there are no plans in place for when that might be. Per the team's site, Yelena Malinovskaya, Aneta Tejralova, and goaltender Valeria Merkusheva all left the team via free agency prior to this development. Merkusheva, 20, represented Russia at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship in Espoo, Finland. Tejralova, 24, is a defender and member of the Czech national team that was an alternate captain on Dynamo in 2019-20. She was also the team's leading scorer with 15 goals and 16 assists in 36 games.
With the team shut down for the 2020-21 season, it's unclear how many more of Dynamo's players will find new homes on the ZhHL's remaining seven teams. Unfortunately, Dynamo isn't the only team in Russia that might have its plug pulled.
In April, Sport24 reported that Agidel itself and SKIF Nizhny Novgorod are also in danger of closing their doors for the 2020-21 season as a result of financial constraints. The Russian oil company Bashneft has reportedly not paid into the "Social Targeted Programs Fund" that Agidel depends on since January. As is the case for Dynamo, the junior men's teams and senior men's teams associated with Agidel and SKIF are not considered nearly as vulnerable — or perhaps the more appropriate term is expendable.
Relocation is another option on the table for Agidel, though the players are strongly against it. In May, they wrote an open letter to the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov for help to avoid what the letter calls a "decision entails the destruction of the team in the near future."
The team that is likely on the sturdiest financial ground in the ZhHL is KRS Shenzhen Vanke Rays, the 2020 champions. KRS joined the ZhHL last year after the CWHL (Canadian Women's Hockey League) folded. The team is owned by KHL club HC Kunlun Red Star, which in turn is owned by Billy Ngok. He founded the private equity company Golden Brick Capital Management and China Environmental Energy Holdings. He's an outspoken supporter of the women's game and is invested in its growth in his home country before the Beijing Olympics in 2022.
At this stage, the 2020-21 ZhHL season is standing on thin ice. Dynamo may just be the first domino to fall.


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Cruz has said that many of his GOP colleagues are 'scared.'
Cruz taunts fellow Republicans
By MANU RAJU and BURGESS EVERETT
07/31/2013 04:58 AM EDT
Updated 07/31/2013 11:13 PM EDT
Ted Cruz is taking his hardball tactics to a whole new level.
The Texas freshman senator and his senior aides are unleashing a barrage of attacks on their fellow Republicans for refusing to support their plan to choke off Obamacare as a condition for funding the government. Cruz's chief of staff is lambasting fellow conservatives like Oklahoma's Tom Coburn for serving in the "surrender caucus." His top political strategist has compared Mitch McConnell to Barack Obama. And the senator himself has said many Republicans are "scared" to wage this fight.
The results have sparked something of a GOP civil war over an issue that, ironically, the GOP is united behind — repealing Obamacare. Cruz's strategy is a departure from the usually clubby chamber, as he's grown increasingly alienated from his caucus.
( PHOTOS: Key quotes from Ted Cruz)
The essence of the clash is this: Cruz can't comprehend why his GOP colleagues don't welcome the fight, while more senior Republicans think the junior Texan simply doesn't understand — or care — about the dire political consequences for their party of a government shutdown. Plus, Cruz's critics think the plan to repeal Obamacare is destined to fail.
But worries about a shutdown are falling on deaf ears.
"There is a powerful, defeatist approach among Republicans in Washington," Cruz told conservative radio host Dana Loesch earlier this week. "I think they're beaten down and they're convinced that we can't give a fight, and they're terrified."
( QUIZ: Do you know Ted Cruz?)
Cruz isn't alone in the crusade, which is also being waged by two other possible 2016 candidates — Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky. Sen. Mike Lee, the Utah Republican and tea party favorite, is also leading the charge. Cruz, Rubio and Lee held a discussion of their proposal on the Senate floor on Tuesday — one immediately rebutted by Coburn, whose office on Tuesday distributed a new Congressional Research Service report concluding that "if government were shut down, funding for Obamacare would still continue."
But Cruz and his aides are going even further than the other conservatives, lashing out at GOP naysayers in unusually personal terms.
( WATCH: Cruz: 'I don't trust the Republicans')
Indeed, Cruz is part of a new breed of Republicans who relish the intraparty warfare, believing that a push for GOP purity will help build their stature within the party while pulling Republicans further to the right. His tactics go even further than those employed by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who waged intense battles over Senate primaries but was more selective in choosing which fights to wage against his party in the Capitol.
Cruz's uncompromising style has won him legions of fans on the right — a fight that started earlier this year when he battled Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary, continued when he helped block House-Senate budget negotiations because of concerns over a debt ceiling hike, and intensified when he fought with Rubio and GOP senators over a bipartisan immigration bill.
The fight has intensified in recent weeks after Lee circulated a letter, which now includes 12 signatures, asking for support to oppose any budget bill that includes Obamacare funding. That letter has become a test among some GOP groups — including the Club for Growth — of whether Republicans are serious about eliminating the law before much of it takes effect at the beginning of 2014, and it has put McConnell and others up for reelection next year in a tough spot.
Some Republicans point out that even if funding for Obamacare is eliminated in the continuing resolution, much of the law will still stand because of mandatory health care spending enacted under the Affordable Care Act. Many Republicans have stark memories from the Clinton-era shutdown fights and believe the GOP took the lion's share of the blame for a politically disastrous fight.
"We should do everything we can to delay the individual mandate for a year. But my view is that this is not really what the public is interested in. You shut the government down: That means people lose Social Security checks," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). "I don't think linking the two is a very good idea."
McConnell's primary opponent, Matt Bevin, has called on the GOP leader to publicly pledge he will oppose any bill that provides funding for the law.
McConnell has repeatedly deflected questions about whether he will sign the Lee letter.
"We've had a lot of internal discussion about the way forward this fall," McConnell said Tuesday. "There's no particular announcement at this point."
Others believe Cruz's gambit is aimed at boosting his own brand ahead of a possible presidential bid.
A former top Senate GOP leadership aide, who asked for anonymity, said Cruz's latest battle "isn't about principle and it isn't about party."
"It's about promoting Ted Cruz's presidential ambitions, and he and his team are making clear that retaining the House or winning back a Senate GOP majority are all secondary to that goal," the source said. "It's a shortsighted and selfish political strategy but one that fellow Republicans are unfortunately having to get used to."
"The Republican infighting is hurting our brand," said one Senate Republican aide, who fretted that Cruz's divisive tack would alienate voters and hurt GOP efforts to retake the Senate.
Most infuriating to his colleagues is that Cruz and GOP senators actually agree on the goal — repeal Obamacare — but they disagree on the approach. And they certainly think it makes little sense to publicly trade political potshots.
"Cruz has lots of support and is not intimidated by the establishment at all," said Amy Kremer, the chairwoman of Tea Party Express, who said Cruz and his allies "are doing exactly what they were elected to do."
Cruz has flatly said his GOP colleagues need to have the courage to fight this battle — and is urging the conservative base to redirect its ire at his fellow Republicans. At a Heritage Foundation event on Tuesday, Cruz said a potential shutdown is "not as calamitous as many paint it."
Cruz also said the defunding effort stands in stark contrast from previous "symbolic" votes by Congress — especially the House — to repeal Obamacare. He chastised Republicans who "love to have a fig leaf vote" but hesitate to take real action on a must-pass spending bill.
"We need to get 41 Republicans in the Senate to make the same commitment or get 218 Republicans in the House," Cruz said Tuesday. "A lot of Republicans are nervous about this fight. They're nervous about being blamed for a government shutdown. My question that I have raised to a bunch of my colleagues: What's the alternative? … I've yet to hear any alternative."
Privately, a number of senior GOP aides are miffed at what they see as personal jabs launched on Twitter by senior Cruz aides, including the senator's chief of staff, Chip Roy, a former aide to John Cornyn, a Texas senator who took his name off the Lee letter last week. Those aides were unapologetic Tuesday for their public criticisms.
Roy sarcastically quipped on Twitter that it is "shocking" that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) opposes the hardball Obamacare funding tactics given that McCain is "someone talking to [Sen. Chuck] Schumer 5x a day and the White House daily."
Coburn told The Washington Examiner, "The worst thing is being dishonest with your base about what you can accomplish, ginning everybody up and then creating disappointment."
"Since when is a promise to fight disastrous policy 'dishonest?'" Roy tweeted in response: "No, the worst thing is giving up & leaving your base believing there is no need to be a Republican any longer."
Coburn downplayed the attacks Tuesday, saying he had "no ill will" toward Roy. But he quickly added: "He knows I'm not part of the surrender caucus."
Jason Johnson, Cruz's chief political strategist, publicly took on McConnell for not signing Lee's letter.
"Ted Cruz, Mike Lee & Rand Paul support #DefundObamacare — Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove & Barack Obama oppose. Clearer now?" Johnson said. "Do GOP senators who say they'll repeal #ObamaCare later really think they've earned our trust?"
Johnson has cast the Republican establishment's reluctance to unite around Lee's Obamacare letter as a strategy coming from "the brains" who spent $1 billion and promised a victory in 2012. He said it translates to: "Stand down on #DefundObamacare — trust us, we know how 2 win in '14."
Johnson wrote in an email that though his tweets represent only his view, the medium is important "to shatter the cone of silence preferred by the establishment so folks who don't live in the D.C. bubble know what really happens in this town."
"I didn't sign up to help Sen. Cruz in order to notch another campaign victory on my belt, I signed up to do everything in my limited power to reduce the government's role in our lives," Johnson said. "Naive? Maybe, but we won't give up the fight."
Roy even suggested the lack of unified GOP support for opposing spending bills with Obamacare funding is "a good way to lose the House." But Coburn, and others, have disputed that analysis, saying in an interview last week that employing Cruz's strategy will "make sure" Democrats take the House next year.
In emails to POLITICO, Roy said his job "is to advance and defend Senator Cruz's policy priorities," and winning the fight on defunding Obamacare is central to that job. Roy said he's not been told to stand down by members or aides.
"The Washington establishment uses every tool at its disposal to push its own narrative on the American public — and in this case, it's the narrative of 'we can't,'" Roy said. "They plant stories, strong-arm members and try to create fake 'wins' for cover that simply do not change the status quo. It is important that we push back."
Some senators brushed off the attacks.
"He and Sen. Cruz are entitled to their opinions, but I don't pay that much attention to that kind of thing because I believe in my position," McCain said of the attacks by the senator's chief of staff. "It wouldn't be the first person who has criticized me."
North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, who has called the defunding push through the budget bill the "dumbest idea" he'd ever heard, shrugged off the attacks.
"It doesn't matter to me what he does. The only thing that's important is that I'm on Sen. Cruz's bill to eliminate Obamacare."


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Australia Day 2013 - Government House
By JOL Admin | 8 February 2013
Australia Day Government House 2013
A small crowd of Australia Day devotees attended the celebrations at Fernberg, the magnificent home of the Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AC and Mr Stuart McCosker. The rain poured down, but it didn't deter representatives from the State Library of Queensland who set up their stall next to their good friends, the Queensland State Archives, in the beautiful Investiture Room. The room was also shared with the Australian National Flag Association of Queensland, the Queensland Branch of the Order of Australia and representatives of Government House.
We made some lovely connections with two amazing people in their 80's – Pixie Annat MBE OAM, and Mick Davis AM ASM FPA. Pixie, a former nurse, is the Patron for the Australian National Flag Assoc. of Qld. and has, and still does, hold many other titles, such as President of the Lady Musgrave Trust, Chair of the Anglicare Southern Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and the Hon. Secretary of the Centaur Memorial Fund for Nurses.
Pixie Annat MBE OAM and SLQ's Ruth Gardiner. Australia Day Government House 2013
Mick served in the Ambulance services for over 48 years. He has too many high level positions to list here, but suffice to say his list of awards speak for themselves! In 1999 he was awarded the National Medal – 2nd Clasp in recognition of long and dedicated service. In 2000, he was presented with an Order of Australia, for service to community health through the Queensland Ambulance Service and the former Institute of Ambulance Officers (Paramedics Australasia), particularly in the areas of education and training. In 2012, Mick was the recipient of 3 awards: an Ambulance Service Medal (for distinguished service by the men and women of Australia's ambulance organisations) the Surgeon-General John White Medal (Awarded in recognition of long and dedicated service to the sick and injured in the pre-hospital environment) and the Queensland Ambulance Service "Distinguished Service Medal" on his retirement, in recognition of exemplary leadership and professional contribution.
Pixie and Mick are two inspiring Queenslanders, and it was wonderful to share the day with them. We enjoyed informing visitors about State Library services and collections, and look forward to contributing to Australia Day celebrations again in 2014.
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Lt. Gov. Kevin Bryant visited Bluffton on Thursday for the fourth time since he formally entered next year's gubernatorial race in July.
This time, the Republican former state senator and his wife Ann sat down for a rack of ribs at Bluffton BBQ in the Promenade.
Bryant said the feedback he's received from talking to the people of Bluffton resembles the rest of the state.
"I'm hearing the same things all over the state," Bryant said. "Folks are fed up with their government. They feel like both parties are controlled by the establishment class. People are just sick of it."
Bryant said he is running on a "platform of integrity" during a time the FBI is probing the Statehouse on allegations of corruption.
"The grand jury meets in private and rolls out indictments, which there's been about a dozen so far. We're not hearing anything, so that's a compliment to the grand jury. But I can't tell you where the fires are, but there is a lot of smoke," Bryant said.
"I would like all of the integrity and character in the state of South Carolina be reflected in the Statehouse, and right now it's not."
Bryant said he believes Statehouse corruption stems from the legislative branch having too much power. That belief, he says, is one of his campaign's principal platforms.
"We're supposed to have three distinct branches of government. We really only have one branch in South Carolina right now and that's the legislative state," he said. "It has way too much control of the executive branch and way too much control over the judiciary.
"Our founding fathers wanted a separation with checks and balances. We don't have that right now, and I think that's what's breeding this culture of corruption."
Bryant talked about how he plans to spark change.
"Bring the message to the people and when you educate the taxpayer, they will get engaged and we will start to see some change in the Legislature," Bryant said.
"For example, the money has more than doubled in the past decade, so why aren't the roads getting fixed? The (Department of Transportation) controls way too much by our Legislature. I'm a proponent of putting the DOT in a cabinet agency under the governor, whoever the next governor is. So we know who to hold accountable."
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White House, Federal Reserve Project Strong Economy, But Consumers Are Cautious
by zenger.news April 9, 2022 April 11, 2022
Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has painted a positive view of the economy. (Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)
By Terry Alan Lane
While federal officials are projecting a rosy view of the economy, shoppers are proving to be much more skeptical, as recent consumer confidence surveys show that despite strong growth numbers, people are feeling more uneasy about opening their wallets and purses.
On Tuesday, a widely followed measure of consumer confidence fell in August, as the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index dropped to its lowest point since February. The 11.3-point decline in the poll is the latest in recent weeks to show a sudden downturn in consumer sentiment, fueled mostly by rising prices and the rising threat of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The Conference Board's index followed the most-recent University of Michigan survey of consumers, which showed a 13.4 percent drop in confidence in the economy from July to August, a result the report's author called "stunning."
"Concerns about the Delta variant — and, to a lesser degree, rising gas and food prices — resulted in a less favorable view of current economic conditions and short-term growth prospects," said Lynn Franco, Senior Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, in a release about the report.
"Consumer attitudes cratered in August in response to Delta," Diane Swonk, chief economist at accounting firm Grant Thornton, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, noting that both indexes "fell precipitously."
In describing the two surveys, Swonk wrote that the University of Michigan's survey is more sensitive to inflation, while employment conditions drive sentiment in the Conference Board index.
It's one of many recent economic indicators that have some economists pointing to slowed growth to end the year.
"The boom we saw emerge last spring is starting to dissipate," Swonk wrote.
But late last week, the White House and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board painted a more positive view of the economy.
Statistics showing housing prices continued to rise were released earlier this week. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
"The pace of the recovery has exceeded expectations, with output surpassing its previous peak after only four quarters, less than half the time required following the Great Recession," said Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Jackson Hole economic policy symposium.
That same day, the White House Office of Management and Budget signaled it believed the $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus legislation approved in March would create a near two-point jump in the nation's gross domestic product in 2021. In its budget review, the White House forecast gross domestic product growth of 7.1 percent in 2021, an increase from an earlier assessment of 5.2 percent.
However, with conflicting economic data, Powell said the Federal Reserve would likely continue its asset-buying program, where it helps boost financial markets by purchasing billions in federal Treasury and mortgage-backed securities, which reduces long-term interest rates but can also drive up inflation.
Powell said that the economy has improved since the full board's last meeting in June and that the Fed could begin "tapering" its purchase of assets later this year. Since June 2020, the Federal Reserve has been buying $80 billion monthly in Treasury securities and $40 billion on mortgage-backed securities. Powell also said that whether the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates at "near zero" would not depend on whether it ended its asset purchase program.
Several recent surveys have showed a spike in inflation, including this data on personal consumption expenditures. (Federal Reserve of St. Louis)
A primary concern for the Federal Reserve Board is inflation, Powell said, noting that the costs for goods and services were rising faster than the Federal Reserve Board's stated target of 2 percent.
"The rapid reopening of the economy has brought a sharp run-up in inflation," he said.
Several recent inflation indicators have edged higher in recent months, including one last Friday. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that its Personal Consumption Expenditures index, which tracks the prices consumers pay for goods and services, ticked up to 4.2 percent in July. And the most-recent Consumer Price Index, a key inflation tracker, in mid-August measured that prices in July jumped one-half percent, showing that consumers were paying 5.4 percent more for goods and services than a year ago.
One sector where prices were soaring were home prices, which also saw another jump on Tuesday, when the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 18.6 percent rise in June, up from 16.8 percent in May.
More evidence of soaring home prices is found in the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price index, which jumped more than 18 percent in June. That follows a 16 percent increase in May. (Federal Reserve of St. Louis)
However, Powell described the nation's pandemic economic recovery as "anomalous."
"Inflation at these levels is, of course, a cause for concern," he said. "But that concern is tempered by a number of factors that suggest that these elevated readings are likely to prove temporary."
Indeed, the Conference Board's Franco said some results of its consumer confidence index reflect a variety of changing factors and preferences.
While consumer confidence wavered in August 2021, many were saying they still had vacation intentions. (Federal Reserve of St. Louis)
"Spending intentions for homes, autos and major appliances all cooled somewhat; however, the percentage of consumers intending to take a vacation in the next six months continued to climb," Franco wrote. "While the resurgence of COVID-19 and inflation concerns have dampened confidence, it is too soon to conclude this decline will result in consumers significantly curtailing their spending in the months ahead."
Another factor that Powell said the Federal Reserve will weigh when considering its support for the economy is employment, which has also risen in past months. The latest federal jobs report will be released this Friday.
Edited by Matthew B. Hall and Bryan Wilkes
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Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour.
Yeah, Gary Oldman's going to the Oscars this year. More importantly, he deserves to go to the Oscars this year. His performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour is that good.
Oldman certainly looks the part of Churchill, having buried himself in heavy prosthetics and carefully studied mannerisms. (Shoutout to Darkest Hour's makeup department, seriously. It's shocking how natural it looks.) But Oldman knows the difference between packaging and performance – what really transforms him into Churchill is good old-fashioned acting. There's a living, breathing soul at underneath all that makeup, at the center of all those tics, and Oldman makes him fascinating to watch.
Oldman's isn't the only noteworthy performance, though. Like most biopics about brilliant assholes, Darkest Hour has a "neglected wife" character – but because this one's written as a more clear-eyed variation on that type, and because she's played with grit and grace by Kristin Scott Thomas, Clementine Churchill makes a strong impression. And Wright gives Ben Mendelsohn the chance to prove he can do more than play scumbags, casting him totally against type as King George VI.
Darkest Hour threatens, at times, to slip into staid boardroom drama mode – it's a lot of important men talking importantly about important issues – but Wright brings enough of a visual flourish to keep things interesting. Maybe even more helpful is that the film has a strong sense of humor, which goes a long way toward humanizing its characters.
Not all of its tricks work all of the time. The film's biggest misstep is a cutesy (and, as far as I can tell, entirely fabricated) sequence in which Churchill takes the subway so he can talk to the general public. The "people" are presented as an undifferentiated, feisty lot, eager to fight off the fascists with broom handles if they must; I challenge you to find a subway car anywhere in the world with that many people in such strong agreement about a contentious issue.
The "people" are far better represented through the character of Miss Layton (Lily James), Churchill's secretary. Without getting too sentimental about it, Darkest Hour uses Layton as a quiet but firm reminder of how Churchill's decisions affect ordinary people.
We, in 2017, already know how this turns out. The U.K. commits to a full-fledged war against Germany, and after years of devastation, the Allies eventually prevail over the Axis powers. But Darkest Hour avoids the temptation to serve up cheap inspiration, and instead explores the point in time when that choice didn't look so obvious.
Whereas Churchill is willing to fight to the bloody end, Halifax (Game of Thrones' Stephen Dillane) is just as passionately pleading for peace. Why risk total annihilation against the German army when Italy's willing to negotiate an accord between the two countries? Isn't it better for the people to give a little than risk losing it all?
Halifax's arguments sound perfectly reasonable on their face: you've gotta hear both sides, you've gotta compromise, you've gotta give the other guy the benefit of the doubt that he'll come around eventually. They paint tempting visions of a world in which the U.K. is able to avoid World War II altogether, and its citizens are allowed to go on comfortably living their lives, untouched by the horrors of war.
But Churchill knows better – and so, the film implies, should we. "When will the lesson be learned?" he demands of Halifax. When has Hitler ever shown a willingness to restrain himself? What kind of people stand by and does nothing while a great existential threat looms over not just the country, but the entire continent? Churchill knows what risks the U.K. faces if it takes a stand, and decides one must be made anyway.


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One board member said she sympathizes with overloaded students and the parents who help them. She watched her 12-year-old grandson work on a project and spent four hours helping him with it.
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Information Spillovers from Protests Against Corporations: A Tale of Walmart and Target Lori Yue, Hayagreeva Rao, Paul Ingram.
2 Motivation From 1998 to 2008, Walmart made 2,050 proposals, encountered 805 protests, and managed to open 1,234 stores. Target floated 1,110 proposals, attracted only 74 protests, and was able to open 1,046 stores. What explained the striking difference in the protest rates experienced by Walmart and Target?
7 Hypotheses H1: Protest events against Walmart have a curvilinear (+,-) relationship with Target's entry. H2: Walmart's withdrawals due to protests have a curvilinear (+,-) relationship with Target's entry. H3: Walmart's successes in overcoming activists have a positive relationship with Target's entry.
8 Data and Methods Data: All the 25,375 places in the U.S. from 1998 to 2008. Due to the creation of time-lagged variables, the sample used in the final estimation include all the years from 2001 to 2008. Store Proposal and Protest: A media search from 1998 to 2008 using the Lexis-Nexis, the America's News, and the Sprawl-Busters databases. Matched with a list of Walmart/Target store openings from 1998 to 2010.
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Alice Stephens
Alice Barber was born on a farm near Salem, NJ, where she attended local schools. The family moved to Philadelphia, and by 1873 she was a full time student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art). There she became proficient at engraving, an important skill in the days before photo-mechanical reproduction. In 1876 she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied under Thomas Eakins. Among her classmates was Emily Sartain.
Financial considerations finally forced her to turn to full-time engraving, but by 1885, the long hours and close work affected her health. She turned to pen and ink drawing and was soon supporting herself by illustration in that medium. During a trip to Europe she took up painting in oils. When she returned, she supported herself with pen and ink illustration and painted for relaxation.
In 1890 she married another fellow Academy student, Charles Hallowell Stephens, by this time a teacher at the Academy. She continued to work as an illustrator, now in color and with a softer effect produced by paint instead of pen and ink. Her talents were equally effective in the domestic genre stories then popular in magazines, and with more dramatic illustrations for works by Conan Doyle.
With Emily Sartain, Alice Barber Stephens was one of the founders of The Plastic club in 1897. She served as vice president every year from 1897 through 1912.
Stephens was also active in the extablishment of the Fellowship of the Academy of fine Arts, and served on the Board for several years.
Her career spanned fifty years, during which time she earned the respect of her fellow artists, male and female. She was active in lecturing and teaching, and in demand as a judge of art and photography. There were numerous exhibitions of her work during her lifetime. In 1984, more than 50 years after her death, the Brandywine River Museum held an exhibition of her work.
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APPLE AIRPOWER: IPHONE WIRELESS CHARGER MAY FINALLY BE ON ITS WAY
Release date for charging mat remains unknown
APPLE AIRPOWER: IPHONE WIRELESS CHARGER
Apple's long-awaited wireless charging system for iPhones will soon enter mass production, according to reports.
The AirPower charging mat, which also works for the Apple Watch and AirPod headphones, was first unveiled in 2017 but has been beset by delays.
News the tech giant has finally overcome these issues comes from Hong Kong website ChargerLAB, which cited a source in the supply chain.
"AirPower is finally coming," the site tweeted. "We just learned from credible source in supply chain that the manufacture Luxshare Precision has already started producing Apple AirPower wireless charging pad."
The firm added: "Luxshare Precision is also the maker of Apple AirPods and USB-C cables."
The wireless charging mat was widely anticipated to be rolled out at Apple's iPhone launch last September but the event passed without a single mention of the oval-shaped device.
Apple has instead had to rely on third-party companies like Belkin to make charging stations for the iPhone X, iPhone Xs and other products with wireless charging capabilities.
The big selling point for Apple's AirPower mat is its ability to charge up to three different products at the same time. More
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package com.modulo7.common.utils;

import com.modulo7.musicstatmodels.similarity.contoursimilarity.MullensefsteinContourSimilarity;
import com.modulo7.musicstatmodels.similarity.contoursimilarity.NaturalContourSimilarity;
import com.modulo7.musicstatmodels.similarity.songsimilarity.*;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Created by asanyal on 7/20/2015.
 *
 * Class which contains the globals associated with modulo 7
 */
public class Modulo7Globals {

    // Acquiring the host type allows for different types of ops
    public static final String MODULO7_HOST_OS_TYPE;

    // Notes in western music, both flats and sharps taken into account
    public static final String[] NOTE_NAMES = {"A", "A#", "B", "C", "C#", "D", "D#",
            "E", "F", "F#", "G", "G#", "Ab", "Bb", "Db", "Eb", "Fb" ,"Gb"};

    // Notes in western music, only sharps taken into account
    public static final String[] NOTE_NAMES_ONLY_SHARPS = {"A", "A#", "B", "C", "C#", "D", "D#",
            "E", "F", "F#", "G", "G#"};

    // Harmonic equivalency between flats and sharps
    public static final Map<String, String> HARMONIC_EQUIVALENT = new HashMap<String, String>() {{
        put("AB", "G#");
        put("BB", "A#");
        put("CB", "B");
        put("DB", "C#");
        put("EB", "D#");
        put("GB", "F#");
        put("FB", "E");
    }};

    // A place holder for unknown quantities
    public static final int UNKNOWN = -1;

    // A global place holder for unknown string
    public static final String UNKNOWNSTRING = "UNKNOWNSTRING";

    // Audiveris jar location
    public static final String AUDIVERIS_JAR_LOCATION = Modulo7Utils.stringAssign(System.getenv("AUDIVERIS_JAR_LOCATION"));

    // Extensions for avro serialized files via m7
    public static final String EXTENSION_TO_SERIALIZED_FILES = ".m7";

    // The number of processors available to Modulo7, this allows Modulo7 to build a simple threading model
    public static final int NUM_OF_CORES = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();

    /**
     * Static block declaring all the globals
     */
    static {
        final String osName = System.getProperty("os.name");
        final String osNameMatch = osName.toLowerCase();
        if (osNameMatch.contains("linux")) {
            MODULO7_HOST_OS_TYPE = "LINUX";
        } else if(osNameMatch.contains("windows")) {
            MODULO7_HOST_OS_TYPE = "WINDOWS";
        } else if(osNameMatch.contains("solaris") || osNameMatch.contains("sunos")) {
            MODULO7_HOST_OS_TYPE = "SOLARIS";
        } else if(osNameMatch.contains("mac os") || osNameMatch.contains("macos") || osNameMatch.contains("darwin")) {
            MODULO7_HOST_OS_TYPE = "OSX";
        } else {
            MODULO7_HOST_OS_TYPE = "UNSUPPORTED_OS";
        }
    }

    /**
     * Gets the index of a note given the note value
     * @param note
     * @return
     */
    public static int getIndexOfNote(final String note) {
        for (int i = 0; i < NOTE_NAMES_ONLY_SHARPS.length; i++) {
            if (NOTE_NAMES_ONLY_SHARPS[i].equals(note))
                return i;
        }

        return -1;
    }
}

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Annie Mae (Richard) Sanner is pictured with her children on the occasion of her 91st birthday in 1990. Her husband, Alden, is shown in the insert. The Miller school is shown in photo right of the Sanner family.
Legend says that a schooner captain known only as "Captain George" from Lake Charles took the little boy aboard his boat and waited for someone to claim him. When no one did, he brought Ernest Sanner to his home in Lake Charles. His descendants have never gotten proof, of whom the "Captain George" was, who took care of the boy for the next few years.
Ernest Sanner remembered being raised on the east side of Prien Lake and that he worked for Captain George Lock, but they have no proof that Captain George Lock was the boy's rescuer. Some of the descendants think it might have been a "George Livelier," but no proof has been found of this either.
When Captain George died Ernest Sanner went to live with Martin Kaough at "Shattuck's Ditch", near Moss Lake. He joined Kaough on frequent boat trips across the lake and waterways to Hackberry in a skiff. It was on one of those trips that Sanner met Aurelia Duhon, fell in love with her and they soon were married. The date of the marriage, which is recorded in Cameron Parish, is Jan. 5, 1882.
a portion of this land in oak trees, which was a requirement of the Homestead Act. For Sanner this was the beginning of a lifelong passion for planting and growing trees. He also planted rice and raised cattle where St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church was later located.
A copy of a deed held by Ernest Sanner's great-grandson, Norman Sanner, stated that in 1895 Ernest Sanner gave to the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, "one lot measuring one acre, for $15." Later he gave three additional acres to the church and some of the oak trees he planted over a 100 years ago are still growing there.
Ernest Sanner planted pine trees around Hackberry High School. Ironically, the Hackberry Salt Domes were within three miles of Sanner's Homestead, but he was no longer around to express his opinion about this.
The eight-year-old boy, found crying on the Galveston waterfront came a long way in his lifetime. Living to be 101, Ernest Sanner was able to enjoy a homestead of his own, plus the presence of children and grandchildren. He made the world a better place, not just for his descendants, but also for the community in which he lived.
He and his wife, Aurelia, had six children, Lasand, Theophlie, Raymond, Garfield, Evelyn and Clarville. Evelyn left no heirs but the others have many descendants living in the Hackberry, Carlyss, and Sulphur area.
When oil was discovered and drilling began in Hackberry in the late 1920s most of Ernest's sons went to work with the oil industry. However no oil well was drilled on Ernest Sanner's land, but he did have oil leases. An early oil well was drilled on the land of Ernest's son, Raymond Sanner, and at that time it brought about 30 cents a barrel. The Moon Oil Company did most of the drilling.
Chevrolet from Glenn Overman in Sulphur, and he gave each of his sisters the amount of money a car would cost.
Ernest Sanner's son, Clairville married Estelle Johnson from Hackberry and they had six children: Alden, Dean, Annette, Arlene, Neva and Laura Mae.
Chenier. Azena's parents were Eugene and Angeline Sturlese Miller who were pioneers of Grand Chenier.
Hackberry. He worked for Amoco for 32 years and retired as a field foreman.
"Since my family lived with my grandparents, the Eugene Millers," says Annie Mae Sanders, "I knew them very well. Education was important to Grandpa Eugene Miller, so he built a schoolhouse in his yard and hired a teacher for his children and some of the closer neighbors. The little school stood until Hurricane Audrey blew it down.
syrup cookies that they always carried in their saddlebags. Sometimes the men were gone for a month.
After her marriage to Alden Sanner, Annie Mae moved to Hackberry. She and Alden produced four children, Jan, Charlie, Kirk and Dwayne. "Hackberry was quite different then," she recalls. "At that time the only way to get into and out of Hackberry was by ferry. The roads were shell and there were no stock laws. Cattle roamed the roads all over Hackberry. It was strictly an oil town and there wasn't even any commercial fishing.


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While the first poster shows the Sinister Six united as a team against Spider-Man, the others give a close-up of each character.
'Spider-Man' Tom Holland Vs Sinister Six – Jason Momoa, John Cena & Others In Fan Made Posters! (Photo Credit: Still from Spider-Man: Far From Home)
With the coronavirus pandemic affecting the film schedule worldwide, any art – fan made or official – is something we keep looking forward to. Now a few new fan poster for a about the Sinister Six – a group of supervillains from Spider-Man's enemy list – have been shared online. Scroll down to have a look at these posters.
The fan-made artwork features stars such as Jason Momoa, John Cena, Javier Bardem and Aaron Paul cast as members of the iconic supervillain team. We can only imagine how amazing it will be to see them all together fighting Tom Holland. The Sinister Six has yet to be made in a live-action film, despite Sony's previous attempts at doing so. Fingers crossed, we could see them in Marvel's Spider-Man 3 or any other film in the future.
The artist behind the Spider-Man fan art, Jackson Caspersz Art, shared the posters made on Instagram. The post read, "New Sinister 6 Poster! The project finally comes to a finish. This was one of the most exciting pieces to work on during all this Covid bullsh*t. With everything being delayed and no hype in the air I was feeling unmotivated to draw. But you guys were really loving the Sinister 6 villains so here we are. I know Vulture should be in there but it's a bit more fun to have all new guys haha. Let me know your thoughts and big props @stark46192 for the epic logo!"
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The posters show John Cena as Sandman, Jason Momoa as Kraven the Hunter, Matthew McConaughey as Green Goblin, Javier Bardem as Doctor Octopus, Aaron Paul as Electro and Michael Mando as Scorpion. While the first poster shows the Sinister Six united as a team too against Spider-Man, the others give a close-up of each character.
Talking about the supervillain team, they were formed because of their shared hatred for Spider-Man. Although there have been multiple changes to the team, The Sinister Six have included characters like Green Goblin, Electro, Sandman, Doctor Octopus, Venom, Rhino, Lizard, Kraven the Hunter and others.
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Examples of typical family governance structures, e.g., family constitutions, as well as emerging models.
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An Interview with Dr. Salvatore Tomaselli: The Family-in-Business Model Canvas
This week, FFI Practitioner is pleased to share an interview with Dr. Salvatore Tomaselli, where he explains the development of his Family-in-Business Model Canvas, an adaptation of the Business Model Canvas, that Dr. Tomaselli has applied to his work with family enterprises.
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This week's FFI Practitioner continues a series of articles written by members of the FFI IberoAmerican Virtual Study Group that are available in both English and Spanish. Thanks to Miguel Angel Gallo and Begoña Pereira-Otero for their examination of what constitutes an appropriate exercise of power by family business owners. We hope you enjoy this article in either (or both) languages!
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The Future of the Three-Circle Model: A conversation between Pramodita Sharma and John Davis
This week's FFI Practitioner concludes our two-part series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the influential Three-Circle Model. Thank you to FFI Fellows Pramodita Sharma and John Davis for sharing their insightful conversation about future the future of the model, research, and the field.
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Three-Circle Model: An interview with John Davis
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Multi-Roles Model: Theory and Practice
What better way to start a new year than to look at some classic models in the family enterprise field and offer forward facing ideas. Thanks to FFI Fellow Paul Karofsky of Transition Consulting Group for refining some of his early work on a multi-roles model and providing examples from his client base for consideration by the readers of FFI Practitioner.
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The core question of the article is clear: Is agency or stewardship governance more effective for aligning the interests of (family or nonfamily) managers with those of family owners?
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Empty Structures Syndrome: Losing the energy that drives governance
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