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A Corporate Christmas Carol
It's December, and we've had a lot of news to deal with over the last year, so some things have just gone under the radar. But it's time to let some of those rats out of the woodwork, and the current scene with nursing homes around the country - including 19 of them here in South Dakota - has enough rats to kill every cat in the country. That and make Ebenezer Scrooge wonder why he ever listened to the Ghost of Christmas Future when there was money to be made out of starving old folks.
Now I'll admit, I'm fascinated by nursing homes. My parents lived in a massive retirement center complex in Knoxville, TN, that allowed you to buy a house, then a town home, then an apartment, get assisted living, and then go to their nursing home premises. For ten years, I spent my vacation visiting them and living on-site, and I always found it somewhere between fascinating and scary as hell. And yes, I've set a few stories in that milieu. A lot can happen in retirement centers and nursing homes. In fact, the same things happen there as happen among any other group of people. Just cause you're old doesn't mean you haven't stopped working on your life, for good or ill. But it's better when the crazy stuff happens at the instigation of the residents, and not come down from on high.
Back in May, 19 nursing home facilities were going bust in South Dakota, thanks to their (mis)management by Skyline Healthcare of New Jersey. Skyline had gone on a nursing home buying binge between 2015-17: 110 nursing homes in six states at bargain prices, mostly from Golden Living, a large national chain that was sued by the Pennsylvania attorney general in 2015 for providing poor care. Golden Living wanted to lease out a lot of its nursing homes, and Skyline gladly took them over.
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Now here's one of the problems: Skyline Healthcare was and isn't a large corporation with the kind of bucks to run 110+ nursing homes. Instead, it's owned by a single family, the Schwartzes (Joseph, Rosie, Michael and Louis), and nursing home industry watchers used to joke about the fact that their office was above a pizza joint in Wood-Ridge, N.J.
But it wasn't so funny when Skyline quit paying the bills to, among others, nursing home vendor Health Care Services Group in Pennsylvania for housekeeping, laundry and dining and nutrition services. Then they stopped paying in Massachusetts, Florida, Arkansas, Kansas, and most lately, South Dakota. (Kansas City News)
According to the complaint argued by Pierre attorney Margo Northrup, Skyline did not pay bills for the facilities, including from vendors and employee salaries. More seriously, "there are hundreds of patients currently residing at the (nursing facilities) who receive varying levels of care and whose health and safety have been put directly at risk by Defendants' many defaults," according to the complaint. On April 26, Skyline, the defendants, notified the state health department "that they no longer had sufficient funds to purchase food for the patients." (Capital Journal)
The former Golden Living Nursing Home in Madison, SD
The result is all the Skyline nursing homes were put in receivership, and most of them are going to close. Where do the residents go? God only knows.
What the hell was the deal? Well, apparently Skyline Healthcare was a classic example of buy, gut, and sell - or outright abandon. And none of the sellers - Golden Living, among them, apparently bothered to check the Better Business Bureau ratings (D+, and God only knows how they got that) or their employee reviews (HERE). So Skyline Healthcare bought the nursing homes using borrowed money, hosed up all the money in the nursing homes' accounts to repay their debt (and pay themselves, and their investors, of course), and then dumped the nursing homes. And leaving the residents holding nothing but eviction notes.
And - WARNING, WARNING, WARNING! - this appears to be a (relatively) new trend in elderly care. Witness this article from The Washington Post. Back in 2011, The Carlyle Group bought the ManorCare nursing-home chain - the second-largest nursing-home chain in the United States. The financial deal "extracted $1.3 billion from the [ManorCare] company for investors... Shortly after the maneuver, the company announced hundreds of layoffs. In a little over a year, some nursing homes were not making enough to pay rent. Over the next several years, cost-cutting programs followed, according to financial statements obtained by The Post."
Among those costs were staff, utilities, rent, and patient care:
"The number of health-code violations found at the chain each year rose 26 percent between 2013 and 2017, according to a Post review of 230 of the chain's retirement homes. Over that period, the yearly number of health-code violations at company nursing homes rose from 1,584 to almost 2,000. The number of citations increased for, among other things, neither preventing nor treating bed sores; medication errors; not providing proper care for people who need special services such as injections, colostomies and prostheses; and not assisting patients with eating and personal hygiene." (The Washington Post)
The Carlyle Group is disputing all of these claims. But the result was bankruptcy and sale, this time to non-profit ProMedica Health.
The Washington Post points out that private-equity firms have been moving - like sharks - into businesses serving some of the nation's poorest or most vulnerable people, including payday lenders, nursing homes, bail bond providers, low-income homes for rental and prison phone services.
"Ludovic Phalippou, a professor at Oxford who wrote the textbook "Private Equity Laid Bare," says it is a question of whether private-equity methods are appropriate in all fields. He has praised the ability of private equity to streamline companies but he has also described the firms' approach as "capitalism on steroids." (my emphasis) He said, for example, that while private-equity ownership of nursing homes is accepted in the United States, people in some other countries would be "aghast" at the idea. "People will wonder whether this pure capitalism is appropriate in nursing homes," Phalippou said. "The health and welfare of the old people who live there depend on them." (The Washington Post)
But who cares about health and welfare? That's so oldfashioned! From The New Yorker:
Ron Shaich, founder of Panera Bread
"Wall Street has embraced the idea that companies exist solely to serve the holders of their stock. Under this way of thinking, managers of companies should focus their actions on driving short-term value for their shareholders, and should pay far less (or no) regard to other constituents who may have a stake in the business, such as employees, customers, or members of the community. [Ron] Shaich... believes that the fixation on short-term profits is jeopardizing the future of American business, and creating social instability that has contributed to our current state of political polarization."
And adding to the fears and worries of a lot of elderly people in nursing homes who literally have nowhere else to go. Up here in South Dakota, there were 111 nursing homes, so closing 19 of them is taking away 17% of all the nursing homes in this state. There aren't enough beds left in this state to take all the residents. Where is Granny going to go for Christmas, this year, anyway? Does anybody care?
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Paul D. Marks 06 December, 2018 05:44
Eve, the idea of ending up in one of these places is scarier than the scariest horror movie. Good piece and thanks for the info.
You have succeeded in combining factual reporting, mystery and horror into one genre. It is past time we stopped grousing about regulation and began holding corporations who in theory are allowed to form in order to forward the public good to account.
Elizabeth 06 December, 2018 13:05
The feds have a webpage at
https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html
from which a person can compare up to three nursing homes by different criteria. I'm sure this would only scratch the surface of what there is to know about any particular nursing home! One should always tour the facility & talk to people who live or work there.
In western New York where I live there are many highly questionable nursing homes. The Buffalo Snooze (paywall) runs articles about them occasionally.
Paul, I totally agree with you. My personal old-age plan is a cabin on the Yukon. Or walling myself up in my basement.
Janice and Elizabeth, yes, we have to somehow rein the corporations in, especially when it comes to public health. Thanks for the Medicare spot. That may well come in handy.
Curmudgeon At Large 07 December, 2018 08:37
If memory serves the SD legislature mandates a limit on the number of nursing home in much the same manner as it controls permission for the sale of alcohol. I'm not a big fan, per se, of capitalism, but I can't imagine that artificially distorting the market benefits the consumer. But then, I'm only an egg. jerry sweeney
Well, it certainly doesn't help in this case, Jerry - especially as the graying of America continues apace.
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Liverpool is home to one of the oldest and largest Black British communities. The city itself has a chequered history as Britain's largest slave port with a legacy of conflicted race relations. As one of the most important port cities of the Atlantic world, Liverpool grew financially rich on the proceeds. The city has also been enriched culturally through the role it has played in forming and framing black communities throughout the diaspora. Liverpool has itself been shaped by the cultures of this diaspora. The city's rich musical culture (formed in part from African American roots) and vernacular energy give a unique and dynamic quality to discussions about cultural creativity. Its rich heritage, together with the vibrancy and malleability of Liverpool, have led CAAR (Collegium for African American Research) to hold its 11th biannual conference on "Mobilising Memory: Creating African Atlantic Identities" at Liverpool Hope University.
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Jahn, W. (2007). The association of actin and myosin in the presence of γ-Amido-ATP proceeds mainly via a complex with myosin in the closed conformation. Biochemistry, 46(33), 9654-9664. doi:10.1021/bi700318t.
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Abstract: The interaction of γ-amido-ATP (ATPN) and its 2'(3')-O-methylanthraniloyl derivative (mantATPN) with skeletal myosin subfragment 1 (S1) and actomyosin (actoS1) was studied in stopped-flow experiments. Tryptophan fluorescence and fluorescence of the mant label or light scattering were measured simultaneously. Information about the binding of mant nucleotides was obtained from the quenching of tryptophan fluorescence by the mant label. The parameters of various kinetic models were fitted to the experimental traces. The high-fluorescence state of S1 forms with ATPN at a rate of 95 s-1 ("open−closed" transition); the transition is only slowly reversible, in contrast to the very fast equilibrium seen with its better known isomer AMPPNP [Urbanke, C., and Wray, J. (2001) Biochem. J. 358, 165−173]. The stabilization of the closed state of myosin by ATPN may be due to the formation of a complex with a pentacoordinated amido-γ-phosphate, from which ATPN can dissociate at a rate of 0.005 s-1 or be hydrolyzed by cleavage of the β−γ bond at a rate of 2.5 × 10-4 s-1. A corresponding actoS1−ATPN complex with myosin in the "closed" conformation is the first detectable intermediate in the association of actin and S1−ATPN, giving an experimental access to a state analogous to a key intermediate in the cross-bridge cycle.
Dates: Modified: 2007-05-13 Submitted: 2007-02-14 Accepted: 2007 Published Online: 2007-07-28 Published in Print: 2007-08-21
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Afterwards, paddling through a series of small canals to experience the charm of the Upper Mekong Delta, where you can enjoy yourself with the nature. Lunch time is a good chance to get closer with the local and you will learn how to prepare special Vietnamese dishes. Food is cooked by yourself, and fresh river food is served in the heart of the garden.


Pubs and Breweries have been at the hub of British communities for centuries.
But with rising costs, competition and dwindling numbers, the licensed drinks trade has had more than its fair share of tough times.
For our guest blog this month, we spoke to The Licensed Trade Charity Support & Care who provide support for those working within the licensed drinks trade.
Even though Christmas and New Year seem like a distance memory, it's never too late to start a New Year's resolution, especially when it involves getting your finances in better shape.
Together with losing weight, exercising more and eating more healthily, getting out of debt and saving more money are among the most common New Year's resolutions.
Spend some time looking at your income and outgoings closely and you'll soon see that there are many ways to cut down costs.
Shop around for better deals for utility bills, mobile phone contracts and insurance.
Review your day to day spending. Skipping that take-away coffee or walking instead of taking the bus can make a big difference.
Look into which supermarket offers the best deals that can help reduce your weekly grocery bill significantly.
Make sure you're getting all the money you're entitled to. If you work and are on a low income – whether you're working for someone or self-employed – you may be entitled to a benefit called working tax credit. People on a low income and are also responsible for at least one child under the age of 16 (or 20, if they're in approved education or training) may currently claim child tax credit for each qualifying child.


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New York records the first case of polio in the United States in nearly a decade
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NEW YORK (Associated Press) – An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first case in the United States in nearly a decade, health officials said Thursday.
Officials said the patient, who lives in Rockland County, was paralyzed. County health officials said the person developed symptoms a month ago and has not recently traveled outside the country.
Officials said the patient appeared to have been infected with a strain of the virus derived from the vaccine, possibly from someone who obtained a live vaccine — available in other countries, but not in the United States — and spread it.
The person is no longer considered contagious, but investigators are trying to find out how the infection occurred and whether other people have been exposed to the virus.
Most Americans are vaccinated against polio, said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University, but this should be a wake-up call for the unvaccinated.
"It's not normal. We don't want to see this," Nozzo said. "If you've been vaccinated, you don't have to worry about it. But if your kids haven't been vaccinated, it's really important that you make sure you keep up with developments."
Health officials have scheduled vaccination clinics in New York for Friday and Monday, and encouraged anyone who has not been vaccinated to get vaccinated.
"We want shots in the arms of those who need them," Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel-Robert said at a news conference Thursday.
Polio was once one of the country's most terrifying diseases, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. The disease mostly affects children.
Vaccines became available beginning in 1955, and a national vaccination campaign reduced the annual number of cases in the United States to less than 100 in the 1960s and less than 10 in the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 1979, polio was declared eradicated in the United States, which means that there is no longer a routine spread.
Rarely have travelers brought polio infections into the United States. The last such case was in 2013, when a 7-month-old baby who had recently moved to the United States from India was diagnosed in San Antonio, Texas, according to federal health officials. This child also had the type of polio found in the live form of the vaccine used in other countries.
There are two Polio vaccines. The United States and many other countries are using shots made with a deactivated version of the virus. But some countries where polio has recently been a threat use live, attenuated virus that is given to children as drops in the mouth. In rare cases, a weakened virus can mutate into a form capable of causing new outbreaks.
US children are still routinely vaccinated against polio with the inactivated vaccine. Federal officials recommend four doses: given at two months of age; 4 months; at 6 to 18 months of age; And at the age of 4 to 6 years. Some states require only three doses.
According to the most recent childhood vaccination data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 93% of 2-year-olds have received at least three doses of the polio vaccine.
Polio is mostly spread from person to person or through contaminated water. It can infect a person's spinal cord, causing paralysis and possibly permanent disability and death.
Polio is endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, although several countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have also reported cases in recent years.
Rockland County, in the northern suburbs of New York City, has been the epicenter of vaccine resistance in recent years. Measles outbreak 2018-2019 There are 312 people injured.
Last month, British health officials warned parents To ensure that children are vaccinated because the polio virus was found in London wastewater samples. No cases of paralysis have been reported.
Shelby Lum, video journalist from The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Associated Press's Department of Health and Science receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Division of Science Education. AP is solely responsible for all content.
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Bitfinex.JsonConverters;
using Bitfinex.Models;
using RestSharp;

namespace Bitfinex
{
    // All our Books methods.

    public partial class BitfinexRestClient
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve state of the Bitfinex order book. It is provided on a price aggregated basis, with customizable precision.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="symbol">The symbol you want information about.</param>
        /// <param name="precision">Level of price aggregation (P0, P1, P2, P3, R0)</param>
        /// <returns>List of books</returns>
        public List<IBook> GetBooks(string symbol, Precision precision)
        {
            return getBooksAsync(symbol, precision, null).Result;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve state of the Bitfinex order book. It is provided on a price aggregated basis, with customizable precision.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="symbol">The symbol you want information about.</param>
        /// <param name="precision">Level of price aggregation (P0, P1, P2, P3, R0)</param>
        /// <param name="len">Number of price points</param>
        /// <returns>List of books</returns>
        public List<IBook> GetBooks(string symbol, Precision precision, int len)
        {
            return getBooksAsync(symbol, precision, len).Result;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve state of the Bitfinex order book. It is provided on a price aggregated basis, with customizable precision.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="symbol">The symbol you want information about.</param>
        /// <param name="precision">Level of price aggregation (P0, P1, P2, P3, R0)</param>
        /// <returns>List of books</returns>
        public async Task<List<IBook>> GetBooksAsync(string symbol, Precision precision)
        {
            return await getBooksAsync(symbol, precision, null);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieve state of the Bitfinex order book. It is provided on a price aggregated basis, with customizable precision.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="symbol">The symbol you want information about.</param>
        /// <param name="precision">Level of price aggregation (P0, P1, P2, P3, R0)</param>
        /// <param name="len">Number of price points</param>
        /// <returns>List of books</returns>
        public async Task<List<IBook>> GetBooksAsync(string symbol, Precision precision, int len)
        {
            return await getBooksAsync(symbol, precision, len);
        }

        private async Task<List<IBook>> getBooksAsync(string symbol, Precision precision, int? len)
        {
            var url = $"book/{symbol}/{precision}";
            if (len.GetValueOrDefault() != 0) url = url + "?len=" + len;

            var request = new RestRequest(url, Method.GET);

            var response = await GetResponseAsync(request, CancellationToken);

            return (List<IBook>)DeserializeObject<List<IBook>>(response.Content, new BooksResultConverter());
        }
    }
}

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Moshe Bejski: Born Krakow, Poland 1920 & Survived Plaszow
Moshe Bejski was born in the village of Dzialoszyce near Krakow, Poland in 1920. In his early years, Moshe joined a Zionist youth movement that coordinated the immigration of Polish Jews to the British Mandate of Palestine. Unfortunately, a heart condition and the German invasion of Poland in 1939 prevented him from leaving with his peers.
In 1942, most Jews in Krakow were deported to concentration camps and the Bejski family was displaced. Moshe and his brothers, Uri and Dov, were deported to Plaszow, a concentration camp on the outskirts of Krakow.
On the eve of World War II, there were over 60,000 Jews living in Krakow. By 1945, nearly all had been deported to either Auschwitz or Plaszow.
One night, Moshe made a daring attempt to escape the camp and succeeded to elude the prison guards and squeeze through the fences. Once out, he sought refuge with his former neighbors, whose children had been his friends and classmates. The family, afraid of being captured by Nazis, turned down his request for refuge. In despair, Bejski returned to Plaszow.
"They were mere skeletons. I remember it well, the way they dragged themselves along, leaning on each other, coming into the camp. I hope no one ever has to see such a sight again. There were nearly 100 of them…"
Moshe and his two brothers were eventfully placed on a list to work in the factory of Oskar Schindler. Throughout the war, Moshe created rubber stamps bearing the Nazi regime's symbol, as well as forged papers and passports that Schindler used to smuggle Jews out of Poland.
The three Bejski brothers would eventually be liberated by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945.
Following the war, Bejski immigrated to Israel and received a law degree. Few had known that Moshe had survived the Holocaust until he testified at the trial Adolf Eichmann in 1961. during his testimony, Bejski delivered a moving account of the conditions of the Plaszow concentration camp and spoke about the horrible despair and helplessness of Jewish inmates at the camp.
In his later years, Moshe Bejski became a Supreme Court Justice in Israel and the President of the Righteous Commission at the Yad Vashem Memorial.
Bejski remained close with Oskar Schindler for many years and in 1974, and upon the later's death he delivered a moving eulogy.
Source: Yad Vashem
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The president's advisers and lawyers demand apologies from Trump's critics and call on Adam Schiff to resign.
President Donald Trump's top aides went on the attack Monday in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller's finding that there was no collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin.
Allies including senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Trump's personal lawyers Jay Sekulow and Rudy Giuliani appeared on nearly every morning news show to mark one of the biggest victories of Trump's presidency thus far: Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress Sunday that largely cleared him of wrongdoing.
Their declaration that the president has been completely exonerated by Barr's four-page letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees is at odds with the few words Barr ripped directly from Mueller's findings. But that didn't stop the president's aides from taking shots at Democrats and the media during their victory lap.
Conway, a senior counselor to Trump and his final campaign manager in 2016, asserted in an interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" that the president's accusers "owe America an apology" for their "haranguing and harassing" of Trump and his inner circle over the Russia investigation.
Conway and fellow Republicans like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have settled on House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff as a Democratic fall guy for his impassioned defenses of the Russia probe, both calling for his head Monday in light of Mueller's findings.
On "Fox & Friends," Conway quoted Schiff and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez's claims that there was bountiful evidence that Trump conspired to work with Russians and demanding Schiff's resignation.
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Barr in his letter said that the special counsel's nearly two-year investigation into the matter "did not find that the Trump Campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian Government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist" the campaign.
While Mueller found no collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia's efforts to influence the election, Barr told lawmakers the investigation was less conclusive when it came to the question of whether Trump sought to interfere in the probe. Mueller left the question up to DOJ, where Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there wasn't enough evidence to prove obstruction.
Still, Barr said, "the Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,'" a portion of the letter Democrats have seized on.
Sanders took issue with the idea that Barr's letter didn't completely clear the president of wrongdoing, arguing in an interview on NBC's "The Today Show" that Barr did so by declining to pursue the obstruction issue after it was left up to him by Mueller.
"It's very hard to obstruct something when there was no crime," she added.
Trump's aides split on Monday when asked of their opinion on the special counsel. The president has repeatedly disparaged Mueller since he took over the Russia investigation, and his allies were asked multiple times whether he was owed an apology for Trump's harsh treatment.
Sanders echoed Conway's demands for an apology, appearing affronted when asked whether it was Trump who should apologize for repeatedly dressing down Mueller in public and on social media.
"Are you kidding? The president's rhetoric matches their, literally, the media and Democrats have called the president an agent of a foreign government, that is an accusation equal to treason, which is punishable by death in this country," she told NBC's Savannah Guthrie emphatically.
Though Sekulow wouldn't go into detail on what he called the investigation's "hiccups," he argued that "it's very hard to complain" with how the investigation turned out and praised the special counsel for conducting himself professionally.
Trump for his part also said Monday that Mueller conducted himself honorably, a departure from his rhetoric about the special counsel over the last two years when asked by reporters.
"Yes he did," the president replied after giving a prepared statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump reiterated his constant allegations of "presidential harassment" though not in those words.
Sanders and Giuliani also expressed surprise at a lack of contriteness coming from the president's critics, rebuking the "breathless" coverage of the Russia investigation over the last two years.
Sanders went a step further, accusing those who frequently railed against Trump on TV of attempting to subvert democracy.
Conway also said Americans should celebrate the findings — and she took another shot at the FBI for opening probes into Trump in the first place.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's top allies on Capitol Hill and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged Monday to open an investigation into what was going on behind the scenes in the Justice Department leading up to the 2016 election.
The president on Monday declined to say whether he still thought the Russia investigation was a witch hunt but indicated that some sort of a reckoning was coming for those who drew out the Russia probe.
While Trump reiterated his calls for making Mueller's entire report public, he and his aides walked back those comments a bit Monday, appearing largely deferential to Barr.
Sanders punted the decision on any public release to DOJ and the White House counsel's office while arguing that Trump should change how sitting presidents are investigated.
Sekulow also told "Morning Joe" that Trump would defer to the attorney general on the report's full release, and though he suggested Barr will move to do so, he noted that Barr will likely seek to redact sensitive grand jury or national security information.
"There's a process and steps that have to go forward, but I suspect he'll make as much of it public as possible, and it will be sooner rather than later," he said.


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Oh say can you see the generals gathered in their masses?
It doesn't take much more than an internet connection and an idea to start a movement these days, and for our latest example, look no further than the recently launched petition urging Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to change the national anthem of the United States to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs."
"The current national anthem has served America proudly for many a year now. However ... it's time that we retire that old standard and choose a song that better reflects America and its policies and practices," writes organizer Shannon Madden. "I nominate 'War Pigs' by Black Sabbath. I'm open to suggestions, but I'm hard pressed to think of a more honest assessment of where we are in 2016 America."
As of this writing, Madden's petition has gathered roughly 1,400 online signatures, with responses ranging from the bitterly sarcastic to the personal — like the comment from petitioner Jose Gerard, who complains that the current national anthem is "played out" and adds, "I'm sick of hearing the opening line, 'Oh say can you see' ... It sounds too much like 'Jose can you see.'"
No one should expect to hear "War Pigs" played before a sporting event anytime soon, but the members of Sabbath do have a bit of history with online petitions. A few years ago, a particularly passionate fan launched a campaign to have singer Ozzy Osbourne granted knighthood — and the petition ultimately gathered more than 21,000 signatures.


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Standoff between Trump Jr. and the Senate Intel Committee for his testimony has been resolved
The deadline was today, and it looks like they met it
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Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee have reportedly made a deal with Donald Trump Jr. to give his testimony after he indicated that he was very reticent to return after testifying previously.
Fox News reported that Trump Jr. already had a letter drafted that would have dared Democrats to hold him in contempt after refusing to appear. Democrats on the Intel Committee had issued a subpoena to him on Wednesday.
But at the eleventh hour before a second deadline, it was reported that Trump Jr. struck a deal to testify in June and avoid worsening the legal conflict.
CNN's Manu Raju reported that they agreed to limit his interview to between 2 and 4 hours, and to limit the scope to 5 or 6 topics.
CNN had earlier reported that Trump Jr. was considering declaring his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, or not showing up at all.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had opined that Trump Jr. should refuse the subpoena outright.
"If I were Donald Trump Jr.'s lawyer, I would tell him, you don't need to go back into this environment anymore," Graham said. "You have been there for hours and hours and hours, and nothing being alleged here changes the outcome of the Mueller investigation."
President Donald Trump decried the action from Democrats, saying that his son had already testified for hours and that there was no reason for him to do so again.
"Now they want him to testify again, and I don't know why, I have no idea why, but it seems very unfair to me!" said the president about the demand from Democrats.
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Allstate, Sterling to Gift 20 Cars During Holidays
Dec. 5, 2012—Allstate Insurance Co. and Sterling Autobody Centers together have committed to donate 20 refurbished vehicles to families in need this holiday season through the National Auto Body Council's (NABC) 2012 Recycled Rides program.
Each of the 20 vehicles were provided by Allstate Insurance and restored by several of Sterling's technicians. Allstate said the vehicles will be donated to various nonprofit organizations, individuals and families in need of reliable transportation across nine U.S. states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas and Utah.
"Reliable transportation is something many of us take for granted," said Nick Notte, president of Sterling and member of the NABC's board of directors. "We are proud to offer our time and resources to transform lives and touch families and organizations across the country. While the gift of a vehicle provides a practical means of transportation, what it really provides is hope."
Allstate and Sterling—a multiple shop operation with more than 60 collision repair locations throughout 16 U.S. states—have participated with the NABC's Recycled Rides initiative for the past five years. The companies have refurbished and gifted more than 100 vehicles through the program to date.
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The Gender Gap in Pandemic Job Losses Has Been Wildly Exaggerated
May 12, 2021 May 12, 2021 Mary Pat Campbell
"Labor force participation—defined as all civilians working full or part time, as well as those who are unemployed but looking for work—fell dramatically for both genders between March and April 2020," noted Gallup. In April 2020, men's labor force participation was at 97.8 percent of its February 2020 level and women's labor force participation was 96.9 percent of its February 2020 level—a gender gap of just 0.9* percentage points.
By February 2021, labor force participation for both sexes had ticked back up somewhat. And while women were still seeing a less full recovery, the gap was again less than one percentage point. Compared to February 2020, men's February 2021 labor force participation was 2.2 percent smaller and women's was 3.1 percent smaller.
That's not nothing—"the gap in labor force changes amounts to roughly 493,000 more women than men being absent from the labor force since the pandemic began," Gallup pointed out in early March. But it's also not evidence that women have been uniquely devastated by pandemic-related job losses, especially when—contra previous economic downturns—many of the circumstances that initially created the job losses will remedy quickly as life returns to a more normal pace.
Author(s): Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Publication Site: Reason
Cuomo's Office Covered Up Nursing Home Death Toll Last Summer
March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021 Mary Pat Campbell
Cuomo aides kept nursing home death numbers quiet. A damning new report from The New York Times suggests Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office knew as early as last June how deadly the governor's plans were proving for nursing home residents, but still concealed this information from the public.
Early in the pandemic, Cuomo had ordered that nursing homes could not reject patients from returning to those facilities after testing positive for COVID-19 and being hospitalized. He also barred the deaths of COVID-19 patients transferred from nursing homes to hospitals after catching the virus from being counted among nursing home COVID-19 deaths.
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Ukraine's inconsistent sanctions policy towards Russia
While the main attention is focused on the US and EU sanctions against Russia over its wrongdoings in Ukraine, Kyiv is far from setting an example in their implementation. Paradoxically, the Ukrainian leadership has been rather reluctant and slow when it comes to the sanctioning of the Kremlin's cronies.
October 18, 2018 - Maria Shagina - Articles and Commentary
In April 2018, Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's president, welcomed the new round of US sanctions, targeting Russian tycoons and officials close to the Kremlin. Poroshenko announced that Ukraine's sanctions will be synchronised with the US measures and encouraged the EU to follow suit. International support has been crucial for Ukraine to bring about sanctions against Russia. "Only through a united front will we be able to change Russia's behaviour and to restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity in Ukraine," Poroshenko claimed.
Ukraine is expected to be a driving force behind sanctions against Russia, given that the goal of sanctions is to pressure Russia into ending its hybrid war in Ukraine. Yet, the country is not a major player in this matter, and its response to Russian aggression tends to be less hawkish than the rhetoric of its politicians would suggest. Ukraine's sanctions policy does not follow the logic, timeline and scope of US and EU policies. Even by comparison with third countries such as Canada, Australia, Norway and Switzerland, Ukraine's sanctions are less systematic.
A sanctions regime with exemptions
Whereas by September 2014 the US and EU imposed sweeping sectoral sanctions as a third phase after the diplomatic and restrictive measures, Ukraine's government had only just adopted the legislative framework for its own measures. The Law "On Sanctions" specified the measures which can be imposed on individuals and entities that threaten Ukraine's national interests, security, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The measures included personal and sectoral sanctions such as visa bans, asset freezes, limitations on trade operations and on the transit of resources, the prevention of capital flight and the cancellation of license issuing amongst others. But it took until September 2015 for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) to introduce a comprehensive list of targets, comprising 400 individuals and 100 entities. Introduced for one year only, the list partially overlapped with US and EU targets and included Valeriy Gerasimov, Sergey Naryshkin, Ramzan Kadyrov as well as Aeroflot, Bank of Moscow, Bank Rossiya and SMP Bank. The list also addressed a wide range of nationalist movements, battalions, elections observers in Crimea, and the media from self-proclaimed LNR, DNR and Russia. Despite its lengthy listing, Ukraine's list failed to sanction some key individuals and entities involved in Russia's annexation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine, including Kremlin's cronies and certain state-owned companies. It was not until March 2017 that Ukrainian subsidiaries of key Russian banks such as Sberbank and VTB were banned from continuing financial operations, a key step in preventing capital flight.
In May 2018, the NSDC considerably expanded its sanctions list in an effort to align with US measures from April. The list included the unprecedented number of 1748 individuals and 756 entities. However, there is no clear pattern to how sanctions are implemented: some individuals received visa bans, others were additionally subjected to asset freezes; for some, the sanctions were imposed for 5 years, while for others — permanently. Although the Ukrainian leaders did synchronise their sanctions list with the US' Kremlin list, it still omitted significant targets from the previous years. For example, being under the US sanctions since 2014, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg were excluded, but Arkady's son, Igor Rotenberg was listed. After Sergey Leshchenko's criticism of the selectiveness of sanctions, the list was updated by adding another 11 individuals and 30 companies, including Rotenberg's family members.
Despite the updates, Ukraine's sanctions list still remains porous. According to the Center for Investigative Journalism, another 40 entities and 25 individuals are in mismatch with the US list. The latest version fails to include key entities such as Sovfracht-Sovmortrans Group, a Russian shipping and logistics company involved in the delivery of military devices and Siemens' gas turbines to Crimea; SGM-Most and other subsidiaries of Stroygasmontazh Ltd involved in the construction of Kerch Bridge; Aleksey Mordashov's Power Machines which were involved in the Siemens scandal; a number of Oleg Deripaska's and Gennadiy Timchenko's companies as well as Vnesheconombank, Transneft and Novatek. Ukraine' sanctions list also 'forgot' to target Igor Sechin, Sergey Chemezov, Evgeniy Prigozhyn, Vladislav Surkov, Dmitriy Mansurov, Dmitriy Kozak – all of whom were sanctioned by the US and the EU in previous years.
Vested interests and weak enforcement
Lack of political will and weak law enforcement help explain Ukraine's inconsistent sanctions policy. Despite a vast number of entities in the banking, transportation, military and defence sectors, Ukraine's choice of targets lacks consistency. Firstly, the selectiveness of sanctions can be explained by Russia's vested interests in Ukraine. Due to the longstanding political and economic interdependencies, the share of Russian business in Ukraine has always been significant and the annexation of Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine have not changed this radically. Even being under Ukraine's economic sanctions, Mordashov and Deripaska managed to keep their businesses alive in Ukraine and to acquire new firms. Secondly, Crimea's free economic regime became a convenient loophole for Ukrainian tycoons to avoid sanctions. In September 2014, the adopted law recognised Crimea as a free economic zone allowing any economic activity under a multi-currency regime free of taxes and fees. By re-registering their assets with Russian subsidiaries, Ukrainian businesses could avoid domestic sanctions. Finally, Ukrainian legislation still lacks provisions in the Criminal Code for sanctions violations, so it is easy for violators to avoid retribution. For example, despite loud rhetoric about the illegal transshipment of ilmenite to Crimea, the Russian ship Nefterudovoz caught in sanctions violation was let free without any criminal charges.
A trust issue
Ukraine's inconsistent and weak sanctions could damage the country's credibility and erode trust and support among international partners, especially of those which joined reluctantly. To show its willingness to bear significant costs and to demonstrate the credibility of its commitments, Ukraine should strengthen its sanctions regime. The creation of a sanctions unit, akin to the OFAC in the US, could ensure that better monitoring and enforcement mechanisms are in place. Sanctions law needs to catch up with government policy in other areas to eliminate legal loopholes. Finally, practices combatting money laundering and illicit financing should be incorporated into the sanctions regime.
Maria Shagina is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham and is currently affiliated with the Geneva International Sanctions Network. She is the author of the book Joining a Prestigious Club. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Hill depot facility becomes first to work on all F-35 variants
By Alex R. Lloyd, Ogden Air Logistics Complex / Published April 20, 2016
An F-35C Lightning II arrives April 15, 2016, at Hill Force Base, Utah. The aircraft is the first Navy variant to arrive at the base where it will undergo depot modifications through this summer. The aircraft is assigned to the Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron 101 at Eglin AFB, Florida. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)
Navy Capt. Mark Weisgerber, the 33rd Fighter Wing vice commander, is greeted by Greg Hoffman, the 570th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron director, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, April 15, 2016. Weisgerber flew an F-35C Lightning II to the base where it will be modified at the Ogden Air Logistics Complex. The complex is the first to work on the entire fleet of F-35 variants, which also includes the Air Force's F-35A model and the Marine Corps' F-35B model. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alex R. Lloyd)
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AFNS) -- The Ogden Air Logistics Complex here became the first depot facility to perform modifications on all three F-35 Lightning II variants after it inducted a Navy F-35C carrier version April 15.
The F-35C was flown in from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, by Navy Capt. Mark Weisgerber, the 33rd Fighter Wing vice commander.
"Hill has the capacity to accomplish the needed modifications and it is important to optimize the workflow within the Air Logistics Complex," Weisgerber said.
The first F-35 arrived at Hill AFB for modifications in September 2013. Since then, the depot has performed modifications on the Air Force's fleet of conventional takeoff and landing F-35As. It also has completed work on four Marine Corps F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing aircraft, helping the Marine Corps reach initial operational capability.
For the Navy's carrier variant, the complex's 570th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, along with Lockheed Martin, will perform structural upgrades, low-observable restoration and system modifications that will enhance performance across the aircraft's service life.
"The men and women of the 570th (AMXS)have risen to the challenges of supporting the dynamic changes in this program and take great pride in being the first depot to work on all three variants of the F-35," said Greg Hoffman, the 570th AMXS director.
With the program's ever-evolving requirements, exact numbers of how many aircraft will be worked on this year is not yet available. The squadron's main focus will center on completing work on the Air Force fleet of F-35A models and Navy's F-35C models, and returning the aircraft to the warfighter better than they arrived.
"We were able to support the U.S. Marine Corps with critical modifications on the F-35B to meet their initial operational capability (IOC) milestone," Hoffman said. "Today, we are working closely with the 388th Fighter Wing to provide modifications that will ensure they are able to meet their IOC target with the F-35A and are proud to support the Navy with work on the F-35C."
The complex had been planning for the arrival of the C-model for months and expects work on the fighter jet to last through early September as workers train with the aircraft and perform verification and validation on the new modifications.
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Portlaoise
Laois band wins entire election for sheer entertainment value
Lynda Kiernan
The 'voting card' for music band Transmitter in Laois
Laois voters might be disappointed today to discover they cannot actually vote for the Mé Féin party, after a brilliantly satirical online campaign by a popular Portlaoise band.
Transmitter, made up of David, Robert and Stewart Quinn and Wayne Connaughton launched their manifesto last week with promises that poked gentle fun at real issues affecting Portlaoise.
"Attract tourism to "The Town" by bringing back the Blue Bridge, repositioning it in Lower Main Street to give spectacular views of the derelict Convent, Shaw's and County Hotel sites to visitors. Tourists will also have access to previously inaccessible angles to watch the digging up of Bridge Street and Tower Hill on a regular basis. This, we believe, will encourage inward investment on the Main Street, making it a more attractive place for the selling of CBD products" they suggested.
"Our candidates are "a voice for all", openly welcoming people of all colours, creeds, religious background and ethnicity.
Just as long as they aren't from England, or worse, The Pale.
We also wish to offer our support to the elderly of our local community in the form of mass followed by free tea and biscuits in County Hall every Wednesday from 10am to 11am.
This will form a central part of our commitment to spending your money better, looking after a generation who have paid their dues and whose work and savings were used as collateral by the banks to secure our economic futures. Sure, it's the least we can do," Mé Féin aka Transmitter said.
On Portlaoise hospital:
"Our candidates pledge to continue marching with the community before standing on a 40 foot trailer in Lower Main Street for the next 5 years. We commit to shouting slogans and offering platitudes to large crowds of disaffected voters while patients and staff continue to suffer under government policy in our hospital"
"As part of a multi pronged effort to breathe new life into the centre of The Town we pledge to reopen by compulsory purchase order: The Portlaoise Arms, The Gem, Gerry Brown's sweet shop, Tara Court, Bradbury's, Ken Black's, Murt Sullivan's Wimpy Bar, the Bun Dunne's cake shop, Burke's Drapery, Airboran Travel, Paul Delaney's mineral bar, the Prison Officers Club and Kelly's Foundry. We, at Mé Féin firmly believe the future is in the past." the lads went on to say.
They took a pop at Dublin supporters coming to the town this weekend.
"We, at Mé Féin have recently been made aware of a large influx of undesirables to the Main Street area of Portlaoise congregating with alcohol, causing blockages to traffic and frightening the elderly, using foul language, urinating in public and walking around as if they own the place.
Our traders have had enough of this disruption to their livelihoods and are no longer prepared to stand idly by while our judges and An Garda Siochana act as if nothing is happening just yards from their Courtrooms.
Upon election on May 24th we will invoke the 12th amendment to the 1547 Constitution of Maryborough to ban supporters of the Dublin GAA team and ingrates from the Pale gathering on Main Street in The Town.
If you agree with us, vótail Uimhir 1: Mé Féin - The Party You Can Really Trust."
They rounded off their campaign on election day with a copy of the Leinster Express all done for us next Tuesday, thanks lads for a hugely entertaining campaign!
See their full Facebook campaign here.


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Trim, from the Irish 'Baile Átha Troim' which means 'town at the ford of elderflowers' is a small town that boasts more history, heritage and medieval architecture within its boundaries than some countries. Laying across both banks of the River Boyne, nine and a half miles southwest of Navan, the town of Trim grew from the early monasteries built by St Patrick in the 5th century AD.
During the 13th century, along with Augustinian, Franciscan and Dominican friaries, protective stone walls were built around the town, whose churches and monasteries were often plundered. Together with the established Trim Castle, rebuilt in 1224, the town became a frontier post between the borders of the Anglo-Normans and the Gaelic Irish.
Notable residents include author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift, who was vicar to a small congregation at Laracor, just outside the town, in the early 18th century. Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, who led the coalitions victoriously against Napoleon, and was twice British Prime Minister, was educated in Trim around the later part of the 18th century.
The walls have all but disappeared now, but fragments are still visible. The Sheep Gate is the only reminder of the various guarded entrances that once ringed the town. Among the structures still remaining are the Yellow Steeple ruins of St Mary's Abbey, the nearby Newtown Abbey and its monuments, St Patrick's Church, and Trim Castle itself, which was used as a location in Mel Gibson's 1995 film Braveheart. Ireland's oldest complete and original bridge, constructed in 1393, crosses the Boyne to connect the two sides of the town.
Geo-Coordinates: Latitude: 53.556042 Longitude: -6.785935
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