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       SUBROUTINE DPOTRS( UPLO, N, NRHS, A, LDA, B, LDB, INFO )
       SUBROUTINE ZPOTRS( UPLO, N, NRHS, A, LDA, B, LDB, INFO )
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#ifndef FLENS_LAPACK_PO_POTRS_H
#define FLENS_LAPACK_PO_POTRS_H 1

#include <flens/matrixtypes/matrixtypes.h>
#include <flens/vectortypes/vectortypes.h>

namespace flens { namespace lapack {

//== potrs =====================================================================
//
//  Real/complex variant
//
template <typename MA, typename MB>
    typename RestrictTo<(IsRealSyMatrix<MA>::value
                      && IsRealGeMatrix<MB>::value)
             ||         (IsHeMatrix<MA>::value
                      && IsComplexGeMatrix<MB>::value),
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    potrs(const MA &A, MB &&B);

//
//  Variant for convenience: Rhs b is vector
//
template <typename MA, typename VB>
    typename RestrictTo<(IsSyMatrix<MA>::value || IsHeMatrix<MA>::value)
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             void>::Type
    potrs(const MA &A, VB &&b);

} } // namespace lapack, flens

#endif // FLENS_LAPACK_PO_POTRS_H

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It's as American as apple pie and small-town football (here's looking at you, Dillon Panthers) but it takes place in the big city and even the grittiest, most die-hard New Yorkers reserve at least a small amount of affection for the tradition. It's the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and as it marches through its 85th year, we thought we'd put together a slideshow and reminisce about the evolution of our beloved parade tradition.
Click the images below to see and read a bit of parade history:
And, if you're planning to join the 3 million spectators along the parade route, or perhaps the 50 million people tuning in to the parade from home, here are a few fun facts you can throw around:
A modestly sized Felix the Cat balloon became the first in the parade in 1927. Photo courtesy of the Bill Smith collection.
#1 Felix the Cat was the first balloon character.
Created during the silent film era, Felix the Cat was the first cartoon character to enjoy celebrity status. The first three parades included only floats but in 1927 the first balloon of Felix the Cat debuted. Because the parade organizers had no recourse for deflating them, for the first few years they let the helium-filled balloons fly away once the parade was finished. According to legend, Felix the Cat balloon's deflated remains landed on the Bahamas' Bimini Islands and spawned the Hello Kitty balloon of 2007.
A sketch of Tim Burton's Frankenstein-like "B." boy. It will debut in the 2011 parade. PRNewsFoto/Macy's
#2 Tim Burton's "B." is among the latest crop of new balloons.
Every year, new balloons are introduced to the parade. The 2011 parade will include several new balloons including "B.," a creepy-cute creation of director Tim Burton. With stitches across his pale blue face, the back story of B. is that he's stitched together from the remains of discarded birthday balloons, according to the Huffington Post. Could Burton be planning to release a new film, "The Nightmare Before Thanksgiving"?
#3 The parade is recession-proof.
Even the Great Depression couldn't stop the army of inflated characters. The parade was first broadcast on the radio in 1932, making it to television by 1939. An estimated 250,000 attended the first parade in 1924 and by 1933 that number had reached 1 million. Maybe attendance is so high because it's free?
#4 The parade was green(ish) before it was chic.
Balloons were led by horses until 1939. It was a great way to cut carbon emissions, although the release of methane into the atmosphere remained high.
During the 1997 parade, a Cat in the Hat balloon slammed into a lamppost, injuring 33-year-old Kathleen Caronna. Flickr/Ben Werdmuller von Elgg
#5 Parade-goer Kathleen Caronna might be the unluckiest New Yorker ever.
Bizarre tragedies seem to follow Kathleen Caronna wherever she goes. In 1997 Caronna, then a 33-year-old investment banker, was watching the parade with her husband and young son on the Upper West Side when an out-of-control Cat in the Hat balloon knocked a piece of a lamppost onto her head. Caronna was in a coma for nearly a month due to her injuries. She sued the city for $395 million but settled for an unknown amount in 2001, according to the Associated Press.
In 2006, a plane piloted by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into Caronna's apartment. Lidle and his flight instructor were killed but no one was in Caronna's apartment at the time. The plane's engine landed in her bedroom, moments before she arrived home.
For more information about the history of the parade, please see "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" by Robert M. Grippo and Christopher Hoskins.
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You should feed your WordPress blog into Facebook and Twitter, as I explained in a previous post.
However, you have to beware of possible double posting.
In Twitter, there is an option to link it to Facebook, and vice-versa.
So if your WordPress blog feeds into Twitter and Facebook and if also Twitter is reading/writing everything you post at Facebook, you may find that your posts are getting doubled up at one or the other.
I confess that I had accidentally done this at Twitter with Read Tuesday—a Black Friday type of event just for books. Oops! Should be single posting there now, though.
I've done that and some of my friends still refuse to talk to me over it.
[ Giggles ] Technology is not perfect, Chris.
And, for the record, I fully understood your issue.
Yeah, I did that, too, but I caught on pretty quick.
I think my wordpress posts to facebook and my facebook posts to my personal both my personal and author blogs. Maybe that's why some of my old friends aren't speaking to me anymore.
Ah! That's good to point out – makes sense when you explain it.
Twitter works for me, and is linked into my blog. Facebook never recovered from the glitch I bumped into in setting up. I am not impressed with the complete lack of help from facebook, so I'm not bothering with it (which is a shame because the page was looking good).
I've learned that there is a lot of activity on Facebook; more than I expected. But I'm glad I haven't yet (knock on wood) run into any of those glitches.
I would like to have it working, but I never got that far. I don't have a home page, only the Admin panel and a page showing below it, but no margins, no search box, nothing. You can only use your phone once to register it, and you can't have more than one account – and because my account is now registered, I can't scrap it and try again. Grrr.
There's no way to contact them either, except to put in a request through their forums and "Tell us your problem" page. After 6 goes over a three month period, I've given up on them.
Reading the forums, others have had the same problem – out of the blue for them, they had set up fine and had been using it. Some of those have had it "magically" come right again, so basically I'm stuck with waiting for that to happen for me, too.
I'm not too worried about it, though, the blog seems to be working fine and people are following me on twitter, too.
Glad it's working for you. Twitter probably will, too, once you plug it in – I do like the automatic tweets, so I don't have to worry about doing that.
The system won't let you do that on two fronts. It's designed so that each person has only one account, so you're not allowed to have a second (even if there is a problem with the first), and you can only use one number for that account, so they tell you the number has already been used. That seems to be the biggest gripe with people – especially those who have used a friend's phone and now the friend can't set up an account of their own without getting a new phone!
They don't tell you all that at the start!
I don't know why they should be paranoid about it, but those are the rules.
As they seem to be having lots of problems anyway, I'm hoping they'll do a full makeover, or that someone else will come up with something similar. It seems too popular to just fall in a heap. I'm just surprised there isn't proper tech support.
I could change my name, but I was trying to set it up so that readers of my books could find me, and we'd still have to get a new phone.
It will probably sort itself out. They'll do some upgrade somewhere that will put the problem right – I hope. As I never got to use it in the first place, I don't miss it, and Twitter is pretty popular (and that works).


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Cricket news - DC pay the price for batting wobble at finish line
"We actually set the platform really, really well. We were on target there to make 170-plus, but we struggled to get to 147" - Ponting
The DC-CSK game ambled along uneventfully till about the 15th over of the first innings. The sticky Feroz Shah Kotla pitch, on which Shreyas Iyer believed batting first would be ideal, didn't make way for fluent run-scoring at any stage. It wasn't a surface where even Suresh Raina would get the ball to turn square - like he did at Chepauk in the season opener - but the ball was still stopping quite a bit, making batsmen work harder to time their strokes.
The double whammy for the understandably conservative Capitals' approach after the PowerPlay overs was that Dhoni and CSK came equipped with the perfect bowlers for the conditions. Both Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer slowed down further against the immaculate control shown by Ravindra Jadeja while firing in fuller deliveries mostly on and outside the off-stump. Shreyas would later admit: "I usually don't have trouble starting against spinners but today it was turning and holding up."
Yet, with quick runs against Imran Tahir's leg spin, they somehow arrived at 118 for 2 in 15 overs, where the momentum was there to be snatched away from the bowling side.
Rishabh Pant glanced over his shoulder to his favourite leg side, only to find ample protection all along the boundary. Dhoni employed a long on, a deep square leg and a deep midwicket to protect against the big heave in his incredibly wide hitting arc; a short third man if Rishabh mistimes his scoop, and just the one fielder in the deep on the off-side at sweeper cover.
Having understood the pulse of the pitch by this stage, Dhoni instructed Dwayne Bravo to move away from his usual game plan of using variations to befuddle batsmen in the death overs. Bowl straighter, on the stumps and keep it quick was the message passed on as Bravo ran in from around the stumps to the left-handed Pant. The idea was also to angle the ball into the left-hander and leave him with no choice but to hit big on the leg side rather than taking the risk of trying to clear the packed off-side field inside the circle with an inside out attempt.
Rishabh's quick-motion part-pull, part-flick shot didn't go as far as he intended it to. Instead, Shardul Thakur at deep square leg covered a bit of ground to his right and took a sharp catch to punch holes into DC's lofty death-overs ambitions.
As Colin Ingram failed to keep his drive along the ground two balls later and Keemo Paul played the wrong line against Jadeja in the following over, Capitals regressed quickly. And thus, squandered the platform that Dhawan's controlled innings paved way for.
"We can't expect Rishabh to play like he did in Mumbai, everyday. No one can go and get 78 off 20-odd balls in every game. But it was there for that to happen today. It wasn't just Rishabh, Ingram had an opportunity as well. Shreyas had a good opportunity again today," Ricky Ponting said at the post-match press conference.
Those with the benefit of hindsight might argue that Dhawan himself could've scored quicker, as he finished with a sedate (by T20 standards) 47-ball 51. But the senior batsman appeared to be merely sticking to his brief.
Dhawan's 43 in Capitals' victory against Mumbai Indians too came at a measly strike rate of 119.44, but warranted praise from Ponting on the eve of their first home game.
"That is what we want from Shikhar," Ponting had said. "Hold the top order together. We needed Shikhar to play that sort of role and get through the tough overs and that was going to allow Ingram and Rishabh to play the way they did later on."
At the Kotla too, Dhawan did exactly that. Only this time, the rest of the batting line-up didn't hold their end of the bargain. Ponting admitted he'd have liked Dhawan to have scored a bit quicker, but his disappointment still came from the way Capitals failed to finish the innings. "Ideally, yes, you'd like that [Dhawan scoring quicker] But it obviously wasn't an easy wicket either for anyone to go in and strike. Specially at the end of the PowerPlay. There's a certain role that we want Shikhar to play in this team.
"Even by his own admission, he would've liked to score quicker today, but at the 15th over mark, we were 2 for 118. So we actually set the platform really, really well. We were on target there to make 170-plus, but we struggled to get to 147, so it's the back end of the innings that I am sort of most disappointed in because I think we set up the front part of the innings pretty well," Ponting said.
The position that Capitals found themselves after 19 overs was eerily similar to the way they were placed in the same fixture last season. The scores were nearly the same (138 for 6 this year; 136 for 5 in 2018) and Bravo was to bowl the game-defining final over. But the West Indian didn't let a repeat of his 26-run error-strewn over happen as Capitals ended on a modest 147.
The failure to convincingly close out the innings had a consequential impact on what would immediately follow - which in turn, was also responsible for Capitals finishing on the wrong side of the result.
At the start of CSK's chase, the to-do list of both teams looked identical - the urgent need to attack.
Having figured how tough batting could be in the post-PowerPlay overs, CSK came with the desire to score as much as they could when the field restrictions were on, and the Capitals began with the agenda of trying to pick early wickets. And in this intense sparring, the game titled further in the favour of the visitors.
T20 sides these days thrive on data analysis and match-ups with their opposition, which explained Shreyas's call to bring in left-arm spinner Axar Patel in the second over to unsettle Shane Watson. Axar's two rank looseners, though, had the opposite effect on the Australian.
Ishant Sharma tried the oldest trick in the book against Raina, but the CSK No.3 expected it, camped deep inside the crease and kept dispatching away the bumpers coming his way. Four boundaries in the fifth over took CSK's scoring rate past 10-an-over and left DC to play catch-up for the rest of the game.
"I think CSK when they were chasing that sort of a total, having bowled first on the wicket, they knew it was going to slow down a lot in the middle overs. So tactically they had to come out quite hard in the Powerplay and try and get ahead of the game, which is what they did.
"We probably just over-attacked a little bit with the ball, we probably went searching for early wickets. We had to take early wickets to give ourselves a chance to win, but, when you're just off the mark against the quality of players like Shane Watson, then they're going to make you pay. We just over-attacked a little bit," Ponting opined.
Feroz Shah Kotla was an anomaly last season - where, in contrast with IPL trends, teams batting first pocketed more wins than the chasers. It was also a venue where DC batted first six times in seven matches and averaged 186.5. On Tuesday, even 20 fewer would've sufficed.
That CSK's chase would go till the final over was further evidence of how costly the home team's death-overs wobble with the bat proved to be - an aspect of their game that is bound to come up when they regroup and device plans to 'bat better'.
"We've got to sit down tonight and the next couple of days and talk about how we are going to bat better on that surface. I think if you look at that wicket block... the wickets that we get right through the season are going to be similar to the one we got tonight. So we need to work out a way to play a little bit better, play a little bit smarter on that wicket," Ponting said.


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Independence and beyond: Why the discussion continues on the recent lecture
Category: Writing aboard the Kenya Airways: A story on coming to Rwanda for the first time
Published on Sunday, 31 July 2011 21:37
Written by Thon Agany Ayiei, The New Sudan Vision (NSV), www.newsudanvision.com
JUBA, South Sudan – On July 6th, 2011, my closest friend, Dr. Nyantung Ahang Beny, a Law Professor at the University of Michigan, USA, invited me to a public lecture that was organized by Justice Africa. The theme of the lecture, Independence and beyond: Building the New Nation of South Sudan, was catchy and I agreed to join Professor Nyantung in attending the event. The lecture was held at Nyakuron Cultural Center in Juba, South Sudan. Professor Dr. Alfred Lukuji of Juba University was the keynote speaker.
It was a great idea to think beyond independence and all that is associated with it, for the real work of building a nation has to commence right after independence celebrations. As Professor Nyantung, who was asked to be member of ad-hoc panel put it, "once the celebration is over, and the curtain goes down, the hard work shall resume." The event was even more interesting than the title suggested and I had to later thank Professor Nyantung for the invitation. I couldn't think of a better way of spending that day or a better way to start my celebration of the independence of the Republic of South Sudan. Dr. Lokuji was energetic and charismatic in delivering his speech to the audience. Well educated and experienced, Professor Lokuji rocked the microphone.
During the lecture, the professor raised nine agenda items that are of great importance to the independent South Sudan. One priority that caught my attention was agenda item 8: "Education as a surrogate mother to all advancements in Nation-building and for improvements in the quality of life." The Professor clearly explained this agenda by carefully explaining all the levels of education and their impact on human capacity building. For instance, he points out that "primary school is the foundation, vocational education is empowerment through capacity building, secondary education prepares for university and other tertiary studies, university to produce professionals in the various disciplines."
Although Dr. Lokuji amply explained this agenda, I felt that an in-depth elaboration was needed to effectively explain the role of education in building the newly independent South Sudan. Such an in-depth discussion would have included discussion on employing South Sudanese graduates and building more schools in South Sudan. On employment, I wanted to ask the Professor to give the audience an estimate of his graduates (Juba University graduates) who get jobs within the year following their graduation. Based on the estimates, I would have made my own judgment on whether or not university education is of any value to the independent South Sudan. On Building more schools, I wanted to ask Dr. Lokuji about the current situation of the University of Juba (Juba branch), and if there are government plans to renovate it. With his answer, I would have made my comment on the future of education in the Republic of South Sudan. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to ask questions or make comments regardless of constantly raising my hand, even if more than 10 individuals in the audience of less than 200 were randomly chosen to ask questions and comment after the panelists.
It is unfortunate that I never got a chance to ask the Professor the two questions I wanted to ask him during the discussion so that I could build my comments based on his answers, but, being committed to continuing such a great discussion by all means, I have done enough research of my own to make reasonable comments as I continue the discussion in this piece. Regarding my first question concerning how many young South Sudanese graduates find jobs within a year following their graduations, I found that only a few (less than 50% on average) find jobs within a year after graduation. Here, I'm not talking about Juba University graduates alone, but about all South Sudanese young men/women who graduate from Juba University and from universities around the world. I came to this conclusion from talking to friends (both graduates from Juba University and graduates from around the world). If this finding is true, then there is no justification for the government of the Republic of South Sudan to fund public schools. Using common sense, why would any government spend money on public schools that produce graduates who cannot function in either the public or private sector? On the other hand, considering the fact that only a few Southern Sudanese were able to go to school during the civil war, the government of the Republic of South Sudan, NGOs operating in the country and the private sector should be able to employ all South Sudanese with degrees of all kinds. Indeed, the country needs all these graduates for a successful kick-off to sustainable development.
Back to my second question regarding the current conditions of Juba University, and whether the government of South Sudan has plans to renovate the University, I also conducted my own research and found that the University of Juba has been shut down indefinitely for several months because of lack of funding. From this, I have concluded that the University is not in good standing, which is not that surprising. Why would Juba University operate? The answer is very simple. There is no reason for Juba University to operate, because "the best" South Sudanese students are going to schools in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, and so forth. Or, should I call them advantaged students, instead of being "the best?" Not only are the advantaged students going to foreign Universities, they are going to secondary schools, primary schools and even to Kindergartens in foreign countries.
Whose children are the advantaged students, and who allocates funds to public schools in South Sudan where the not- so-deserving students are studying? If the same people who send their children to foreign schools are also responsible for allocating funds to public schools in South Sudan, then I'm afraid that there is a blatant conflict of interest. Do not get me wrong, however. There is nothing wrong with sending a few highly qualified students (selected by our schools through their superior academic performance) to foreign countries for better education in fields where our universities are not so great. What I do not agree with, though, is sending the entire generation to foreign schools because this only drains the nation of critical funds that should be used to build South Sudan's educational capacity.
Conclusion and Recommendations
There is no doubt in my mind that the public lecture of July 6th was a great kick-off for celebrating the independence of the Republic of South Sudan. There is also no doubt that the event serviced its core purpose of creating awareness among the citizens of the new Republic of South Sudan that there is more to be done beyond the celebrations. As for the 9 agenda items the Professor discussed, education as the foundation of the new nation caught my attention and although I didn't get a chance to make my contribution at the time, I was inspired to continue the discussion by writing this piece.
Every successful nation invests in its future generations, and the best way to invest in the next generation of leaders is by educating them. But education alone does not effectively prepare the next generation of leaders for future leadership. The trick is to educate the next generation and start inserting them in to the system so that they also learn by doing (no school of experience, they say). The next generation of leaders brought up this way is the generation that could inherit the nation and run it effectively. But, this is not what I'm seeing in South Sudan. Of course there is much talk about breeding the next generation of leaders in South Sudan just like there is everywhere around the world, but our approach seems to be focusing on education alone, but not providing work experience. Basically, our elders/leaders seem to tell the next generation to get educated and remain quietly patient until the instant of inheritance (the time when the nation falls into the youth's hands). There are many young South Sudanese graduates from all over the world loitering in the country unemployed. This will not prepare them for the awaited inheritance of the nation. Therefore, the newly independent Republic of South Sudan should educate and employ its next generation of leaders if they are to evolve into responsible and effective future leaders.
The government of South Sudan should also start renovating all public schools and start building new schools, from kindergarten to universities. The only way to do this effectively is to stop the culture of sending children to foreign countries and instead investing the funds in schools in South Sudan. Not only would South Sudanese be able to build better public schools in South Sudan with all that money, this would also enable the country to buy over some of the Professors and teachers whom we consider the best in those countries. With such an approach, South Sudan could become one of the African countries with an exemplary educational system. On the country, if we continue with the current trend of sending our children to foreign schools, South Sudan will retain its place among the countries with the poorest educational systems on the continent.
*Thon Agany Ayiei received an MA in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and works in Juba. He can be reached at n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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"The Ibanez AD99 Analog Delay is a bucket-brigade style analog delay with up to 300ms of delay time, and features controls for Delay Time, Feedback, and Delay Level, as well as separate Effect and Dry outputs for stereo imaging. The AD99 which was produced in Japan in the mid to late 1990s is a clearer, higher headroom version of the Maxon/Ibanez AD9."


After a group of young Iranians posted a homemade video of themselves dancing to Pharrell's hit song and international sensation "Happy", the group of six was arrested and forced to repent on state TV (Video below).
The video, which has been reuploaded above, features six jubilant young Iranians following in a viral trend that people in over 140 countries have picked up on.
When the Tehran-based video itself began to go viral, authorities took notice.
During their appearance on state television, the six said that they had no idea the footage would be broadcast. The report also included a warning from Tehran's police chief to the youth of Iran not to be seduced by the filmmakers behind viral videos. The officer, who referred to the exuberant video as "a vulgar clip which hurt public chastity," also claimed that it had taken the authorities only a matter of hours to identify and arrest the participants, even though the video was uploaded a month ago.
The "Happy in Tehran" controversy, which began after the video reached publications like Le Monde and The Huffington Post, eventually came back to the writer of the song, who tweeted his disappointment at the news of the arrests.
According to the New York Times' Tehran bureau chief, Thomas Erdbrink, the arrests illustrate discrepancies between governmental policy and Iran's judiciary. Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, argued just last weekend that Iran should begin to embrace the internet.
The original purpose of making the video, one of the dancers shared, was to show that Iran's young people "have moments of joy and happiness even though they live with many difficulties."


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Below is a screen dump of how the process looked on my system.
Welcome to the NDT server configuration program. This program will create a custom tcpbw100.html file for your site.
The base web page 'tcpbw100.html' has now been created. You must move this file into the ndt_DATA directory [/usr/local/ndt] created during the 'make' process.
That's it! You should now be ready to visit your new ndt server's web page. Keep in mind that this is not running on Apache though, so you need to point your browser to the port that the web100srv process listens on - 7123.
If all has gone well, you should be presented with a page with the following applet embedded into it.
Click the start button and hope for the best. Keep in mind that this is a Java based application, so you need to have Java installed on the system that you are running the test from.
I truly hope that this works for you. Please keep in mind though that it is a fairly complicated build and was very trying to make into a guide. I almost gave up several times... Good luck.
Although I used the root account during this build, I do not recommend leaving the root account enabled, due to the very real security threats that it poses. To disable the root account once the build is complete and your NDT server is running, you can run the following command to disable it.
This will place your root account into a disabled state to prevent brute force attempts.


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Lumaj is tops in out-of-state money for gov. race
Neil Vigdor
April 11, 2017 Updated: April 11, 2017 5:14 p.m.
Peter LumajContributed Photo / Contributed Photo
Conservative gubernatorial contender Peter Lumaj has practically lapped the field in fundraising for a prospective 2018 run, but his money advantage hinges on support from outside Connecticut.
The Albanian-born immigration lawyer from Fairfield has raised just $28,690 of his $206,705 from in-state contributors, a Hearst Connecticut Media analysis shows.
The disparity leaves Lumaj and his exploratory committee for statewide office with considerable work to do to reach the $250,000 qualifying threshold for public campaign financing. All but $25,000 of the total must come from in-state donors in $100 increments.
Brock Weber, who is managing Lumaj's exploratory effort and ran his 2014 campaign for secretary of the state, stood by the fundraising strategy.
"We haven't even begun our focus on Connecticut," Weber said. "That'll happen this quarter. "In terms of our overall plan, I am incredibly confident that we're doing this the right way."
The strongest first quarter of the year was turned in by state Rep. Prasad Srinivasan, R-Glastonbury, who raised $126,000 for his campaign for governor, despite not being well known in much of the state.
Next was Westport businessman and former GOP congressional candidate Steve Obsitnik, who raised $108,727 for his exploratory committee.
The lone Democrat testing the waters for governor, Middletown Mayor Dan Drew, reported raising $106,127.
Republicans Tim Herbst and Mark Boughton, Trumbull's first selectman and Danbury's mayor, notched $83,444 and $64,801 for the quarter. Both crowed about their in-state haul, saying that more than 90 percent of their contributions were sourced from Connecticut.
"If 14 percent of my donations were from in state, I'd be very concerned about it," Herbst said of Lumaj.
Boughton, who is up to $91,161 when including the end of the fourth quarter of 2016, characterized the task of raising $250,000 from mostly in-state donors as daunting. He ought to know, having been unable to get over the hump in 2014 when he was forced to suspend his candidacy for governor.
"The key is to be governor of Connecticut, not governor of other states," Boughton said. "If I'm a prospective voter in a Republican primary or even a prospective delegate, I want to find a candidate that has broad support in Connecticut."
Weber said that Lumaj's strong out-of-state showing means he hasn't had to spend any in-state money building an infrastructure for a potential campaign.
"Pete has a great big family and thousands of friends," Weber said. "They expressed an interest in being helpful."
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Long snapper Goode faces long offseason wait
Veteran long snapper tore ACL in Oakland on Dec. 20.
Long snapper Goode faces long offseason wait Veteran long snapper tore ACL in Oakland on Dec. 20. Check out this story on packersnews.com: https://pck.rs/1XNqZeX
Weston Hodkiewicz, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 3:56 p.m. CT Feb. 24, 2016 | Updated 4:39 p.m. CT Feb. 25, 2016
Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby (2) does an air bump with long snapper Brett Goode (61) after a field goal against the Atlanta Falcons during Monday night's game at Lambeau Field.(Photo: Evan Siegle/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Second in a daily series looking at the Green Bay Packers' free agents in advance of the start of the 2016 league year March 9.
For nearly eight years, Brett Goode was the steady hand who delivered the football on every field goal Mason Crosby attempted without interruption.
Goode's improbable NFL career started in 2008 when the Green Bay Packers called the former Arkansas long snapper off a construction site for an opportunity to replace an injured J.J. Jansen. Goode won the job and didn't miss a long snap over the next 137 games.
Then, the injury happened.
Goode, less than a month shy of unrestricted free agency, tore his anterior cruciate ligament early in the Packers' 30-20 win Dec. 20 at Oakland. He finished the game, but was placed on season-ending injured reserve two days later and underwent reconstructive knee surgery the following week.
Instead of working out another long-term extension with the Packers, the 31-year-old long snapper faces an offseason of uncertainty. For that reason, Goode likely will stay on the open market until the Packers or another NFL team clears him to return later this year.
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The injury couldn't have come with worse timing as Goode was in the final weeks of a three-year, $2.715 million extension he reached with the Packers in October 2012. While the injury likely eliminates a long-term contract, Goode should get a chance in Green Bay or elsewhere once he's healthy.
The $885,000 minimum salary for an eight-year veteran next season means he won't need to take much of a pay cut, either. While it likely robs him of a signing bonus, Goode practically made the league minimum with an $870,000 base salary and $25,000 workout bonus last season.
Goode will be seven months removed from surgery by the time training camp begins. For the moment, the Packers are likely to move forward with 23-year-old Rick Lovato, who served as Green Bay's long snapper for the final four games without issue.
The Packers likely will bring in offseason competition again for punter Tim Masthay, so it remains to be seen whether they'll dedicate five spots on the offseason roster to specialists. That general manager Ted Thompson didn't immediately bring in another long snapper after the season was an early indication that the organization was satisfied with Lovato.
Meanwhile, Goode waits to see whether he'll return to Green Bay or need to find a new home like Jansen did in Carolina after Goode replaced him in 2008.
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Brett Goode, ninth-year long snapper
The skinny: Unrestricted free agent.
The snaps: 135 total (135 special teams).
The stats: Fourteen games with no penalties.
2015 salary: $895,000.


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Posts published in January 2017
Norquist on the center-right
National conservative icon Grover Norquist addressed a group of around 50 grassroots activists Saturday, January 28 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Lake Oswego.
Norquist, the president and founder of Americans for Tax Reform, gave the keynote address at the sixth annual Western Liberty Network leadership and training conference.
He began his remarks by stating that the press has been so focused on President Donald Trump's personality that it has missed the big picture in the aftermath of the 2016 election.
Half of the states in the county have Republican governors and majorities in both legislative chambers, he said, and a majority of the nation's people live in "red states." Only four states are under complete Democratic control. Oregon and California are the "only blue states you can find without a magnifying glass," Norquist said.
States such as Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia that have traditionally been run by Democrats now have Republican governors and majorities in their legislative chambers. Norquist predicted that Delaware and Minnesota would be among the next states to flip Republican.
In his remarks, Norquist said that the modern center-right movement is comprised of coalitions whose members' votes are moved by a desire to be left alone and not have their taxes raised. He described the coalition as "low-maintenance," and said its members don't tend to want anything from each other.
"They're not in conflict on a political level," Norquist said. "Our friends on the left don't have that."
Norquist said that Democratic coalition members, including "coercive utopians," all remain harmonious with each other as long as there's money in the middle of the table.
"The left is not made up of friends and allies," he said.
Conservative coalition members such as homeschoolers and concealed carry permit holders are now being joined by Uber and Lyft drivers who are being threatened with increased government regulations of their new emerging industries.
Norquist said that the structures for Democratic coalition members can be defunded. Approximately 27 states have passed right-to-work laws, he added, and more are set to follow soon.
Over 135,000 government workers in Wisconsin stopped paying union dues after reforms gave them the option to not do so, Norquist said. As a result, around $135 million less is flowing into union coffers per year. Around 30,000 teachers in Michigan are no longer paying union dues, for a total annual loss of $20 million.
During a question and answer session, Norquist predicted that reforms to the Affordable Care Act will involve the distribution of Medicaid block grants to states and separate high-risk pools for persons with preexisting conditions. Once that is accomplished, he said that the Trump administration would tackle tax reform, with one of its components being the complete elimination of federal estate taxes.
Real and fake news purveyors
When President Trump went on one of his periodic anti-media tirades last week, he let out a phrase (well, actually, a lot of them but I'll focus on one here) that merits a closer look.
The quote was, "Much of the media — not all of it — is very, very dishonest. Honestly, it's fake news. Fake. They make things up."
Coming from someone who personally makes up a whole lot of things, that merits some consideration. A lot of people probably wonder who and what they can trust in the ever-expanding media universe.
"Much of the media - not all of it." There are a lot of media, and many elements of it often are in conflict. Well, which is which?
Let me offer one simple way to consider this. There are others too but this seems a good place to start.
The "media," like "the government" (or almost any other large component of our society) consists of a whole lot of pieces and players. It consists not only of news publications but many other kinds as well - entertainment operations, trade magazines, academic journals, many more. But all of these can be divided roughly into two categories, "mass market" and "niche."
This is not just a matter of size, though that's important. The more critical component is in who they are trying to reach.
Newspaper history offers an example, since the standard mass-market daily newspaper has at different times operated in both spheres. In the 19th century, most newspapers were in effect niche publications. Cities of any size tended to have several newspapers; big cities might have a dozen or more. These newspapers did not try to write for everybody; they were trying to appeal to specific segments of their local markets, and many of them were overtly political. Newspapers typically identified themselves on their front page as the Republican paper, or the Democratic, or Independent, or maybe something else. People who wanted a broad picture often subscribed to several of them.
That was when newspapers were funded mainly through subscriptions. Somewhat over a century ago there was a strong move toward another business model, much more based around advertising, and it swept the industry. When it did, newspaper publishers and editors found that advertisers wanted to reach a whole community, not just a piece of it.
Here are two things that happened in response. A lot of newspapers consolidated: The number of newspapers in the United States dropped sharply in the early 20th century. The other thing that happened was that, to appeal to not just a segment of a city or region but rather the whole thing, the entire presentation of news had to change. And it did, into something many people probably thought was blander but also something that presented information in a more even handed, and less partisan, way. Editorial pages remained as opinionated as ever, but news columns became more centrist, aimed at reaching everyone. An institutional standard for this was developed, partly by the wire services (the Associated Press and several others over the decades). These services had to feed news reports to many hundreds of newspapers, whose owners and editors had all kinds of different opinions, so they developed a news language and reporting standards that would work broadly. That's the news language and reporting approach we still have today at most daily and many weekly newspapers. It grew out of economic necessity. And while journalists are as fallible as anyone else, it also meant the news reports were mostly, generally, reliable.
That's the dynamic mass media have to work with. They're trying to reach a broad general audience, so the making a practice of slanting reports ideologically works poorly. Mass media will give you, most of the time and allowing for slippage here or there, reliable news, with relatively little slant. They're not perfect, they mess up sometimes, but slantless news is what they aim for.
Niche media is everything else. A niche is something like the old newspapers were: Aimed at one kind of audience and only one, and therefore devoted to pleasing that audience. This leads to all kinds of results. On the positive side, it can yield insights and specialized reporting the mass media never get around to; there are good niche news providers out there. The down side is that the eagerness to produce appealing stuff can mean a slippage of standards, and quite a few niche organizations let go standards of accuracy and fairness in the interest of exciting the base - or simply telling the base what it wants to hear.
I think especially of ideologically-based news organizations. There are, for one example, "market-based" news outlets whose editorial stance is critical of government and taxes and cheers on the free market. Stories that fit within that framework abound, and they may even contain good information and may even be fair and accurate. But don't expect to see much there that undercuts the party line.
This doesn't mean all niche media should be disregarded. I don't by any means intend that they all be lumped in as "fake"; many report with rigor. but it does mean the care and caution given to its pronouncements needs to be higher than for the mass media. It has, simply, fewer incentives to stick to accuracy and fairness.
Who can you trust? No, it's quite as simple as this. But I've found the mass/niche dividing line a useful tool for navigating an ever murkier environment. What probably isn't what the president had in mind.
Get off your butts!
Over the long haul of time, the fortunes of our two major political parties rise and fall with the changing tides of the whims of voters. That's a good thing. Change. Still, it's always sad to see the underdog of the moment in disarray, wandering in the weeds and accomplishing nothing. Like the National Democratic Party today.
One of the blessings of our system is no one group usually stays in power very long. Nor should they. Idaho's late Gov. Robert Smylie once told me "Every few years, regardless of which party is in power, it's good to open up the windows and closets and sweep things out. Keeps things healthy." He was right.
When discussing the ins and outs of political control these days, the Dems are really out. In the U.S. Senate, they can count on two independents standing with them most of the time. But, that still only gives them 48 to the GOP's 52. When voting, they've got to count on five Republicans seeing things their way to do anything. In the House, even worse. Dems have 194 to the GOP's 241. One seat is currently vacant. So Democrats get rolled on about every issue.
We're continually told the party's two congressional leaders - Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi - are two of the most knowledgeable and effective users of the rules of each body. Well, maybe. Maybe not. If they're so damned proficient, why aren't they using their "proficiencies" to get after some things?
I got to thinking about this a day or two after the Women's March. The streets were filled - in Washington D.C. and hundreds of other, smaller cities in 64 countries - with what we're told was more than three-million folks. Mostly Democrats in this country, I'm sure. But there had to be some Independents. And Republicans. And many who'd previously been uninvolved in political affairs but finally figured out using the system is the most effective way to have your say.
To a Democrat in Congress, standing on Capitol Hill and watching the mass of people in the streets, one would think many of them would feel invigorated. And, feeling thus, they'd get a fresh wind and dive back into the fray in Congress with more vigor. Not so.
To be sure, there were a few, mostly Democrat members of Congress in the crowd. But not many. Not nearly enough. A lot of faces that should have been seen were likely watching it on TV or doing something else. Not good.
To put it bluntly, the people in the streets are way, way ahead of members of the party that would certainly be their biggest ally in future political warfare. And, because of the oft-repeated videos showing the marchers, they're still ahead of most Democrats today.
Yes, I've watched some of the Dems hammer Trump Cabinet nominees in committee. Really hammer. Good for them. But, in reality, their televised angst will account for nothing in the long run. Just more political posturing. It's not hard to predict which will eventually be confirmed and which rejected.
To see Shumer, Warren, Brown, Merkley and others pounding away is food for the soul - if you believe the nominees are as unfit and grossly unqualified as they seem to be. But Democrats won't prevail if the unfit and grossly unqualified President keeps supporting them. All the televised hammering won't change that.
I've covered larger protests in DC but those were focused on a single issue - Viet Nam. The Women's March was very different. Several million people in the streets around the world for all sorts of reasons and causes. Enough causes that Democrats could adopt any one of them - or several - ride that horse as their own and have a built-in constituency of - maybe - not just Democrats. The list of reasons that brought millions into the streets last week could make a very good party platform that might finally mean something. And get read.
Start NOW to capture the momentum. Start NOW to identify marchers from your communities and states. Start NOW to get them involved at home. Start NOW to register voters. Start NOW to form volunteer squads for continuous action. Start NOW to build your data bases. Start NOW to contact and coordinate with other states and other movements. Start NOW!
If Donkeys in Congress are waiting to get all exercised on the floor in either house - if they're figuring to out-debate the upside down numbers they face while looking for victory - if they keep lying back in the bushes waiting to pounce at some future date on some future issue - they're passing up a rare political advantage. If that happens, all the future action is going to have to come from the streets.
Those marchers in the streets are living proof the people are ahead of the politicians on many, many things. Democrats in Congress should stop watching from the cheap seats and get out there onto the asphalt. That's where the action is.
FL resignation; gold water buy; Sundance doc
Water rights weekly report for January 9. For much more news, links and detail, see the National Water Rights Digest.
Jon Steverson, the top administrator in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, in January resigned after legislative complaints about exploding legal bills in the state's water war with Georgia. He will depart on February 3. Steverson will go to work for the law firm Foley Gardner, which is one of the four private firms the state hired to prosecute its claims in the water case.
Canamex Resources Corp. said on January 24 that the Nevada Division of Water Resources has granted it an extension through 2017 for a subsurface water right for the Bruner Gold Project located in Nye County, Nevada.
The Idaho Department of Water Resources has ordered a reduction on water use by holders of about 70 rights holders in the eastern part of the state. They were not participants in a groundwater mitigation program.
The documentary film "Water & Power: A California Heist" was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah in late January.
Director Marina Zenovich visited communities in the San Joaquin Valley where water disparities abounded.
A legislature like the people?
Right now, before the Idaho Legislature gets too deep into working through what will be considered, passed or rejected this session, time seems right for a review of the policy preferences of the people of Idaho.
When we do, we'll have a benchmark for the end of the session: How closely did the Legislature's decisions, and the subjects it addressed, match the views of Idahoans?
Strictly, of course, the people of Idaho collectively don't get to deliver a State of the State address, or something similar. But you can derive a rough equivalent, in priorities and preferences, from the Idaho Public Policy Survey.
This is the annual poll of 1,000 Idaho adults conducted toward the end of each year. (The whole thing can be found at sps.boisestate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Official-2017-State-Survey-Report.pdf.) Polls aren't perfect, of course, but Boise State University has deep experience in running these, and the results tend to match from year to year. It seems at least roughly realistic.
The top agenda item for Idahoans, according to the poll, was the same as in Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter's State of the State: Public schools.
"For the second consecutive year, Idahoans identify education as the most important issue facing the state, with 26.5% saying that it is the most pressing issue (compared to 28.2% in 2016)," the report said. No great surprise there, though there was also this about a related area often ignored by the legislature: "Another source of educational opportunities – the state's public libraries – received high marks, however. 82.8% agree that the libraries in their communities create educational opportunities for people of all ages, while 81.7% consider the library in their community a good resource for access to information and other technological resources. These figures are consistent across all groups, with respondents in northern Idaho the most favorably disposed toward public libraries."
The second biggest concern, well ahead of anything else: "The results ... indicate that the issue area with greatest increase in public concern is health care policy. 70.5% of Idahoans scored health care at least an 8 when asked how important it was, on a scale of 1-10, for the state legislature to address, an 11.2% increase from last year. The number of respondents giving health care a 10 (i,e., the highest level of importance possible) increased by 12.7% from 2016, further underscoring the fact that the public views health care as an area deserving of the state legislature's attention."
In recent years, the legislature's biggest health concern seems to have been an obsession with not doing anything proposed by the federal government. We'll see if its interest expands at all this session.
Transportation has been a topic of contention in several recent sessions. The public's take? "Transportation also saw some change as there was a slight increase (+3.7%) in those who felt addressing transportation issues was moderately important (i.e., 4-7) and a significant decrease (-7.9%) in those stating addressing transportation was not very important."
On another subject of much discussion, the poll asked Idahoans what they thought of resettling refugees in Idaho. The result: "Idahoans are divided in their support of resettling refugees in Idaho; a slim majority (51.1%) favor this program, while a sizeable minority (43.8%) of citizens oppose it. However, although more citizens of Idaho favor this program, those who oppose refugee resettlement appear to feel very strongly about the matter."
The Legislature won't necessarily take much action on refugees, but if it does, who will it listen to?
And beyond that, how closely will the Legislature match the views of Idahoans? Watch and see.
Pay the piper
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) will propose a $11M expenditure to the legislature this session. The goal is to provide mental health and drug abuse services to recently released convicts who are back in the community. The idea is that such an investment ($1500/year) might keep some offenders from returning to prison ($30,000/year). About a third of Idaho offenders released to the community return to prison within three years.
This seems like a good investment in our community. I have little faith the legislature will see it as such. And here's why. This cost to the Idaho taxpayer would be nothing if the legislature had considered expanding Medicaid eligibility. And such a consideration is toxic for the legislature, even though most Idaho residents consider it reasonable.
The cost benefit analysis of Medicaid eligibility expansion under the Affordable Care Act was looked at carefully four years ago by a work group requested by Governor Otter. The analysis showed that enrolling the uninsured would save Idaho taxpayers but did not include any savings for this group of recently incarcerated. They found such calculations too difficult. But with prompts from the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Committee and the Judicial Council, the IDHW looked at this as a source of savings to Idaho taxpayers and brings this recommendation. But they also brought PCAP last year (an expensive compromise) when the legislature had refused to consider eligibility expansion.
Both are attempts to get the legislature to solve the problem of access to health care to prevent expensive costs. And I predict the new proposal will die the simple death (as PCAP did) that the legislature wishes would come to all the uninsured, if only such deaths were as cheap as our current ignorance. But the piper will demand payment.
The legislature (and the Freedom Foundation) will see the IDHW proposal as a back door for Medicaid Expansion, which should have been done four years ago and now is dead thanks to Trump and Ryan. Idaho citizens have lost $2B in support thanks to our legislature and lack of leadership on any level. So is the ACA dead? What would be their solution? We have engaged the piper; people expect health insurance. Can Trump and Ryan roll that back? Is that their plan? I haven't caught the tweet.
I am thankful IDHW has made such a proposal. Should the legislature have the courage to burden the taxpayers with such a program, now, at least we can count the dollars we are spending, so we can know how much we could have saved.
This is a tough issue. Providing appropriate care and paying for it are responsible choices we should all be willing to consider. I wish our leaders had the courage.
A jury of one's peers
During the confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's designee as U.S. Attorney General, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) went after his colleague on his vote not to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
Idaho's member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Mike Crapo, is a strong proponent of the Act, and was solidly for reauthorization. Issues are rarely black and white choices, though Senator Leahy tried to portray Senator Sessions as indifferent to the plight of abused women.
Sessions strongly denied the charge. In doing so he alluded to an issue that calls for more understanding and awareness, especialy by non-Native Americans who reside on Tribal lands or are married to a Native spouse.
It turns out Senator Leahy had not offered a "clean" reauthorization bill. Instead, the Vermont senator attached a new provision which troubled the Attorney General designee. Sessions had constitutional reservations about a provision that allows a non-Indian charged with abusing a Native American within the boundaries of a reservation to be tried in a Tribal Court.
Sessions believes the Constitution guarantees individuals a trial in front of a jury of one's peers. A non-Indian standing trial for assault in front of a jury of Natives does not meet that standard.
Senator Crapo, however, accepts the provision because elsewhere the bill makes it clear this provision is restricted just to non-native assaults against natives, primarily spouses. In addition there is language providing for pilot project funding which encourages tribe's to align their legal codes with state and federal codes and to meet other criteria spelled out in the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, in particular the requirement that the jury pool in a tribal court be drawn from all those living on a reservation, not just enrolled tribal members.
Of the 566 federally recognized tribes across this nation only four have met the criteria laid out in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Three of those four reside in the northwest----the Tulalips in western Washington and the Warm Springs Tribe and the Umatilla Tribe in eastern Oregon.
The arbiter of whether tribes have established a truly independent judiciary is the Department of Justice. This is part and parcel of Congress' ability to exercise its plenary powers, even over treaties with tribes. Understandably, tribes who believe their sovereignty is absolute, chafe at requirements that in effect say "prove your judiciary" is an equal and independent agent in your governmental structure.
Tyrel Stevenson, for nine years a member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's legal staff and the newly designated director of government affairs for the Tribe, states flatly that the vast majority of tribal judiciary are "law trained" or "law qualified." Whether judges in the tribal courts, prosecutors, defense counsel, bailiffs, or court reporters, they all received the proper training and the attorneys all admitted to the applicable bars.
He quickly cites the legal precedents for current law applied to Native Americans in a way one wishes Senator Crapo could have done when queried about his stance.
Stevenson cites the seminal laws and their being upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court: the Winter's Doctrine of 1902; the 1924 legislation finally conferring the right to vote on America's first citizens; Suquamish vs. Oliphant, the case which clarified a tribe's right to decide who is a member; the 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act which said tribes were not subject to the U.S. Constitution but that individual tribal members are; the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010; and the Violence Against Women Act of 2013.
To date no non-Indian has gone before any Tribal Court in Idaho on a charge of domestic abuse, nor is it likely there will be such a case for some time. Thus, in a sense it is a moot point. Why in response to a series of questions regarding how expanding the jury pool on a reservation met the constitutional test of a trial by a jury of one's peers, Senator Crapo could not provide a better explanation is a mystery only he can answer.
The time willl come when Senator Crapo will have to clarify his thinking on this issue of a right to a trial in front of one's peers. He can duck my questions, but down the road he won't be able to hide.
Donald J. Trump is now in his second full day as President of the United States, with his poll number already tanking, with the rest of the free world beginning to make excuses for his flubs and gaffs, with the European and Asian powers looking around for others in the fold to take over the world reins, and with most of us still wondering how the hell did we manage to get ourselves into this mess?
Trump continues to live up to our expectations. We thought his inaugural address would be horrible and it was – a narrow based, dystopian sermon of bumper-sticker extracts from his campaign, painting a bleak, dark picture of America and leaving little room for compromise. We thought that he would continue punching down with pointless twitter attacks against irrelevant criticism and he has – rude, school yard insults at a world renowned actress, at a senior member of Congress and icon of the American Civil Rights movement, and at a major cable news network, among others.
We suspected Trump would not abandon his disagreements with the news media and he did not. He accelerated the rhetoric by repeating the incendiary comments in a speech at the CIA, and later he directed a completely pointless and irrelevant bombast to the members of the White House press corps over the reporting about the size of inaugural crowd. Trump simply made up his own version of the crowd estimates, which his special adviser now represents are the "alternative facts."
Alternative facts! Trump no longer has to worry about lying in politics for there is no longer any such thing – there are just alternative facts.
We suspected Trump would keep the rest of the world off balance and he has. His off-hand remarks about the future of NATO, the need to expand our nuclear arsenal, and the high cost of the trade deficit with China have managed to unsettle all of Europe, Russia and the Far East, leaving it to China's Xi Jinping to provide calming and stabilizing remarks on future economic relations with the Pacific Ring, and to Russia's Vladimir Putin to observe that no one, anywhere, in their right mind, has any interest in following the United States into a nuclear arms race.
We expect it to get much, much worse, and it probably will. Congress is poised to begin acting on Monday to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, despite the groundswell of opposition and to begin confirming the cabinet appointees, despite significant problems revealed during the Senate hearings. Trump plans to start undoing the plethora of executive orders that, in many instances, figuratively keep the trains on time, and the Department of Justice intends to rethink its involvement in pending civil rights litigation. What else could possibly go wrong?
The one bright spot to come out of this whole mess is one we did not expect. We did not expect the huge, domestic firestorm of passionate, motivated, articulate, and thoroughly pissed-off women to charge onto the scene throughout the nation on Saturday. From an amazing start-up loosely knit out of social media interactions, the movement developed into a monumental demonstration throughout the entire United States, and extending around the world. Accurate numbers are not yet available, but early estimates are of huge demonstrations in every major city, and many, many outpourings in smaller locales. The events in Washington D.C., which have been estimated at three times the size of the crowd following the inauguration, underscored the issues of concern to women everywhere.
The demonstrations of the day were heralded as the kickoff for what many hope will be a sustained campaign of protest and involvement to bring home the women's concerns to the President and Congress. If they succeed, they have the ability, the means, the motivation and the interests to keep enormous pressure on all of government. Moreover, the midterms are only two years off; if any of this is does start to work, look to see many, many new names in the mix as the plots start to thicken.
They do need to get rid of the silly hats.
We've started attending a different small church near our little oceanside haven. Absolutely nothing wrong with the previous one. Not a thing. But, now and then, it's good to see what else is going on in the neighborhood. At times, even spiritually.
It's a small church - probably just over a hundred folks on the roles. Weekly attendance is about 60-70. Most everything about it is typical of thousands of other churches in thousands of other small towns.
One physical thing that sets it apart from others we've attended is a 20 foot high wall of glass on one side, running the length of the sanctuary. As you sit facing the chancel area, you're mindful of the Pacific Ocean - off to the right - on the other side of those windows. Peaceful most of the time. Storm-tossed at others. Like our lives.
The building is a little more than 60 years old. It's beginning to show outward signs of prolonged seaside weather on wood and glass. Inside, the feeling is homey. Seating, carpet and fixtures also beginning to show the wear of time and use. Still comfortable, though, and quite conducive to worship.
But, if you had been there last Sunday, you would have seen something quietly moving. Quietly spiritual. A wordless act that could define why churches exist. An act many may have never known.
About 10 minutes into worship, a young man entered the rear of the sanctuary. His clothes were old and dirty - his hair long and badly matted. He probably hadn't had a bath in some days. He likely was one of the homeless that have taken shelter in our building on recent, below-freezing nights. He wore a bulging backpack filled to more than capacity - probably holding all he had in the world.
Rather than slip into a pew near the rear as other homeless visitors had done, he walked straight-shouldered down the center aisle to wordlessly take a seat on the front row directly in front of the lectern. The distance between him and that lectern was about a dozen feet. He set his pack on the floor.
He didn't stand when the rest of us were singing several hymns. He only uttered a few words once during the service which was a quick, quiet, seemingly friendly remark to the pastor.
The service continued. The first special moment came when the lay reader stepped down to hand the young man a hymnal and her program for the service. The second was when she stepped down again - before the pastor's sermon - to take a seat next to the visitor. She stayed by his side for the rest of the service.
After the benediction, came the special moment all churches talk about but some never accomplish. The lay reader kept her seat as other members of the congregation stepped up to join her and engage the homeless young man in conversation. As we were about to greet the pastor at the rear of the sanctuary, I glanced back to see more than half a dozen members gathered around the still-seated visitor. By just their body language, the handshakes and the smiles, you knew the greetings were real and welcoming.
All this happened on a Sunday - a Sunday six days ahead of an inaugural ceremony in Washington D.C.. An inaugural most of us in this country - as you can tell from the popular vote in November - hoped would never happen. A lying, racist, bigoted, homophobic misogynist, surrounded by the most unqualified cabinet in history, would take the required oath of office to be our President. A man who would place his hand on a Bible to swear allegiance to our country and its laws. A man who has exhibited his love of wealth over good works - power over service to others - narcissism and bigotry over duty.
Quite a contrast to hold simultaneously in your mind. A self-loving, ego-filled, materialistic worshiper of wealth with his hand on a Bible, about to put a nation and world to risk. And a man from the streets walking into a small church to acknowledge an unseen god who accepts us because of our good works and not our possessions or station in life.
It was an interesting Sunday in our little seaside church. An opportunity to be part of a faith we profess but seldom see in practice.


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Women's Rights In Saudi Arabia: Slow But Steady Progress
By Melissa Prax
Starting next year, women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive. But there's still a lot to be done in the fight for equality.
Saudi Arabia used to be the only country in the world that banned women from driving, but a recent order will change that next year. It's a step forward for a country that's made small, slow progress toward women's rights.
But to put this recent order into context, let's look at some of the events that led up to this.
We'll start in 1990, when around 50 women got behind the wheel in protest. The protesters were soon stopped by police, and some even lost their jobs. But they got international attention.
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The taboo against women driving wasn't expansive. For example, American women serving in the U.S. military who were stationed in the kingdom at the time of the protest were allowed to drive.
And women in rural areas of the country have been driving for years. But it wasn't until 2001 when women in the kingdom could be issued a Saudi ID.
Fast forward to 2008, when activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider posted a video on YouTube of her driving that went viral. Al-Huwaider and other women also submitted a petition asking Saudi Arabia's interior minister to lift driving restrictions.
In 2011, activist Manal Al-Sharif was jailed for driving. Al-Sharif helped create the Women2Drive movement.
In 2013, Saudi women were allowed to ride bicycles and motorbikes, but with a few caveats — like needing a male guardian nearby. Plus, the decision didn't mean bikes could be used as reliable transportation, since riding was confined to "recreational areas."
Saudi Arabia hasn't had many elections. But in 2015, women were able to both vote and run for municipal positions for the first time.
Which brings us to 2017. The country has made several progressive decisions along with ending the ban on women driving.
Related Story Women's Empowerment In Pakistan Is Spreading Via Motorcycle
While the decision to allow women to drive is being celebrated by many, several questions have been raised. Human Rights Watch asks if "women will be allowed to drive on equal terms with men."
"In the West, the whole issue of the driving ban was given so much significance in the past ... it became a symbol of women's oppression in Saudi Arabia — in a way that many women activists and Saudi women often complained that ... the obsession with this restriction is taking away from looking at the more important issues," said Samira Atallah, an expert on the Middle East and North Africa region at Equality Now.
Currently, women in Saudi Arabia still need to ask a male guardian for permission for various tasks. That's something rights activists are fighting to change.
"[There are] all of these practices against women in a system that has not acknowledged equality and their human rights, but that does not mean they're passive; that does not mean they are not active contributors in their society within in the context of that society," Atallah said.
So, what's next for women's rights in the kingdom?
"Ultimately, the very so-called modernization of its economy, and the attempt to diversify and reduce dependencies on not just on oil economy, but to reduce dependency on foreign labor — all of this will prompt ultimately a bigger need to make structural changes such as the guardianship system," Atallah said.


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Q: inserting values from array in excel file through PHPExcel I am trying to create an excel file with values which I get from the following array
for ($i=0;$i<=20;$i++){

for ($j=16;$j<=24;$j++){
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I tried to do something like that
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet();
$objWorksheet->fromArray(
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using an existing example.However,each time I try to run this php file, excel stops working.What should I try?
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for ($i=0;$i<=20;$i++){

for ($j=16;$j<=24;$j++){
    $data1[]=array($R,$C,$i,$j,'0','0');

    $objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet();
$objWorksheet->fromArray(
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A: $objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet();
$R=1;
$C=0.7;
for ($i=0;$i<=20;$i++){
    for ($j=16;$j<=24;$j++){
        $data1[]=array($R,$C,$i,$j,'0','0');
    }
}
$objWorksheet->fromArray( $data1 );

//  Set the Labels for each data series we want to plot
//      Datatype
//      Cell reference for data
//      Format Code
//      Number of datapoints in series
//      Data values
//      Data Marker
$dataSeriesLabels = array(
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('String', 'Worksheet!$C$1', NULL, 1),   //  'Budget'
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('String', 'Worksheet!$D$1', NULL, 1),   //  'Forecast'
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('String', 'Worksheet!$E$1', NULL, 1),   //  'Actual'
);
//  Set the X-Axis Labels
//      Datatype
//      Cell reference for data
//      Format Code
//      Number of datapoints in series
//      Data values
//      Data Marker
$xAxisTickValues = array(
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('String', 'Worksheet!$A$2:$B$13', NULL, 12),    //  Q1 to Q4 for 2010 to 2012
);
//  Set the Data values for each data series we want to plot
//      Datatype
//      Cell reference for data
//      Format Code
//      Number of datapoints in series
//      Data values
//      Data Marker
$dataSeriesValues = array(
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('Number', 'Worksheet!$C$2:$C$13', NULL, 12),
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('Number', 'Worksheet!$D$2:$D$13', NULL, 12),
    new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeriesValues('Number', 'Worksheet!$E$2:$E$13', NULL, 12),
);

//  Build the dataseries
$series = new PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeries(
    PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeries::TYPE_BARCHART,       // plotType
    PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeries::GROUPING_CLUSTERED,  // plotGrouping
    range(0, count($dataSeriesValues)-1),           // plotOrder
    $dataSeriesLabels,                              // plotLabel
    $xAxisTickValues,                               // plotCategory
    $dataSeriesValues                               // plotValues
);
//  Set additional dataseries parameters
//      Make it a vertical column rather than a horizontal bar graph
$series->setPlotDirection(PHPExcel_Chart_DataSeries::DIRECTION_COL);

//  Set the series in the plot area
$plotArea = new PHPExcel_Chart_PlotArea(NULL, array($series));
//  Set the chart legend
$legend = new PHPExcel_Chart_Legend(PHPExcel_Chart_Legend::POSITION_BOTTOM, NULL, false);

$title = new PHPExcel_Chart_Title('Test Grouped Column Chart');
$xAxisLabel = new PHPExcel_Chart_Title('Financial Period');
$yAxisLabel = new PHPExcel_Chart_Title('Value ($k)');

//  Create the chart
$chart = new PHPExcel_Chart(
    'chart1',       // name
    $title,         // title
    $legend,        // legend
    $plotArea,      // plotArea
    true,           // plotVisibleOnly
    0,              // displayBlanksAs
    $xAxisLabel,    // xAxisLabel
    $yAxisLabel     // yAxisLabel
);

//  Set the position where the chart should appear in the worksheet
$chart->setTopLeftPosition('G2');
$chart->setBottomRightPosition('P20');

//  Add the chart to the worksheet
$objWorksheet->addChart($chart);

// Save Excel 2007 file
echo date('H:i:s') , " Write to Excel2007 format" , EOL;
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
$objWriter->setIncludeCharts(TRUE);
$objWriter->save(str_replace('.php', '.xlsx', __FILE__));

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Sotero López Clemente (born 12 August 1972) is a Spanish former footballer who could play as a left back or centre back.

He began his career with Albacete Balompié, and played 104 La Liga matches for that club and Logroñés during the 1990s. He made one appearance in the Spain Under-21 national side in 1993.

Club career

Albacete Balompié

Sotero was born in Albacete in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and began his career with local club Albacete Balompié. He made his debut in the third round of the 1990–91 Copa del Rey, in a 3–3 away draw with Águilas on 8 November, which was his only appearance of that season. He wasn't involved as Albacete won the Segunda División, and earned promotion to La Liga for the first time in their history. He spent the first part of the following season on loan at Ibiza, who ultimately won their group in that year's Tercera División. His spell at Ibiza included a stunning 11–0 home win over Cala d'Or in the first round of the Copa del Rey on 25 August.

On his return to Albacete, he made his La Liga debut in a 3–1 away loss to Real Burgos at Estadio El Plantío on 26 April. He kept his place for his home debut a week later, in a 1–0 win over Real Mallorca at Estadio Carlos Belmonte. He ultimately played six matches for Albacete that season. He continued to be used as a fringe player over the next two seasons, making 18 appearances in all competitions in 1992–93, as Albacete escaped relegation thanks only to a playoff victory over Real Mallorca, and just seven the following year.

1994–95 would be Sotero's best season for the club. He played 46 matches in all competitions in what was a rather mixed year for Albacete. They reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey before eventually losing to Valencia, but 17th in the league meant they once again faced a relegation playoff. Sotero played in both legs of the 5–2 aggregate defeat by Salamanca, although an administration scandal involving Sevilla and Celta Vigo ultimately earned them a reprieve from relegation.

He was used somewhat more sparingly the following season, making 23 appearances. In Albacete's last league match of the year, against Atlético Madrid at Vicente Calderón Stadium, Sotero was sent off with eight minutes to play, and Albacete lost 2–0. The loss meant that they faced yet another relegation playoff, but the red card meant Sotero would miss it. Albacete lost 1–0 in both legs, and with no repeat of the previous year's reprieve were relegated. Sotero left the club at the end of the season after 101 matches in six years, meaning his Atlético sending off was his last act for the club.

Logroñés

Seeking to remain in La Liga, Sotero joined newly-promoted Logroñés ahead of the 1996–97 season. He made his debut in a 2–1 away win over Compostela at Estadio Multiusos de San Lázaro on 15 September, and made his home debut at Estadio Las Gaunas six days later in a 3–0 defeat by Atlético Madrid. He made 23 appearances in all competitions that year, but Logroñés finished bottom of the table in 22nd place, a massive twelve points from safety, and Sotero suffered a second consecutive relegation as the club returned to the Segunda División after a single year in the top fight.

Sotero fell dramatically out of favour the following year, playing just three times in all competitions, and not at all after a 5–0 defeat by Elche at Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero on 20 September. This proved to be his last appearance for the club.

Yeclano and Algeciras CF

After leaving Logroñés, Sotero joined Yeclano, before signing for Algeciras CF in 2001. His debut for the Segunda División B club came on the opening day of the season in a 1–0 home loss against Ceuta at Estadio Nuevo Mirador on 2 September, and he made a total of 24 appearances in what turned out to be his only season with the club. Once again, he marked his final match for the club, a 2–1 home win over Real Betis B on 7 April, with a red card; his third of the season.

Palamós

Sotero joined another Segunda División B club, Palamós, for the 2002–03 season. His debut for the Catalonian side, newly promoted from the Tercera División, came in the first match of the season, a 1–1 home draw with L'Hospitalet at Nou Estadi de Palamós on 1 September. He played 30 matches that year, and even scored an exceptionally rare goal, in a 2–2 draw with Castellón at Nou Estadi Castàlia on 6 December. The following season brought 24 appearances, but following a 4–0 defeat by Hércules at Estadio José Rico Pérez on the final day of the season, Palamós found themselves bottom of the table, and were relegated back to the Tercera División. Sotero left the club that summer.

Later career

After leaving Palamós, Sotero played one season each with Mérida UD and Puertollano, winning Tercera División group titles with both clubs. He was also part of the Puertollano team that won the 2005–06 Copa Federación de España. He saw out his career with a season apiece at Motril and Quintanar del Rey, before retiring in 2008.

International career

Sotero played in the Spain Under-21 national team in a 2–0 friendly win over Greece at Estadio Colombino in Huelva on 23 February 1993. This was his only appearance for the Under-21s, and he was never called up to the Spain senior side.

Honours
Albacete Balompié
Segunda División: 1990–91

Ibiza
Tercera División: 1991–92

Mérida UD
Tercera División: 2004–05

Puertollano
Tercera División: 2005–06
Copa Federación de España: 2005–06

Career statistics

Club

1. Appearances in the 1994–95 La Liga relegation play-offs

International
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References

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1972 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Albacete
Spanish footballers
Footballers from Castilla–La Mancha
Association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Albacete Balompié players
CD Logroñés footballers
Yeclano CF players
Algeciras CF footballers
Palamós CF footballers
Mérida UD footballers
CD Puertollano footballers
Motril CF players
Spain under-21 international footballers

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