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What About This Libertarian Thing?
NOTE: I've had a number of people ask questions—either to me, or someone in my family—about the party switch to Libertarian two years ago. Mostly, people are just curious what a Libertarian believes. So here's a shot at trying to start the conversation….
As many of you know, in 2016, I officially switched my party registration from "Republican" to "Libertarian." There were many reasons for doing this, but I want to remind you (by way of direct quotes from that letter) of what I sent to many of you back in 2016:
My view of conservatism has always been a Goldwater-Reagan based view: smaller government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, respect for constitutional rights—and on the national scene, a strong military, but not an overly aggressive one. In other words, I believe in a constitutionalism which looks to the principles of our founders as a guide….
I am happy to discuss and take responsibility for the votes I cast with my constituents…We will not always agree, but you deserve to know why I voted the way that I did. But the pressure—sometimes near bullying—by some of my colleagues, and outside forces—to vote a particular way because "that's the Republican way" has disheartened me. There is no discussion about ideas, and little negotiation—if a bill is controversial, the teams are supposed to split up, and everyone is expected to "fly right." I believe that's lazy policymaking.
As a Republican, the pressure to vote with the Republican governor is significant. The truth be told, on the vast majority of issues I agree with Governor Ricketts, and will continue to agree with him. But the notion that the Governor should be able to tell legislators how to vote because they are registered in the same party—or that "good Republicans" would work to keep something "off of the Governor's desk"--does a disservice to the role of the legislature and to the intention of the founders when they created a republican form of government with separate branches--and guaranteed state governments would be the same. I have no objection to conversations between the branches of government—in fact, I suspect that better policy would be made if there was more conversation and fewer demands of partisan loyalty.
I consider myself a "movement constitutional conservative "—and while not all libertarians are conservative constitutionalists, many are; and those who would be considered "movement conservatives" almost always have a strong stream of libertarianism running through their veins. As President Ronald Reagan said, "the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." As the Republican Party has seemed to ignore constitutional governance; as Republicans have failed to make good on their promise of smaller government, lower taxes, fiscal control…this decision to make a break from the party that I've been registered with for 36 years, and active in for most of the 18 years before that, began to weigh heavily on my mind.
My decision to change my registration has nothing to do with a changing philosophy on my part. It has little to do with any particular candidate or candidates. It has some to do with life in the State Capitol, but it has a lot to do with a growing sense that I've had that the Republican Party of 2016 is fundamentally different than the Republican Party that I grew up in.
So WHAT IS A LIBERTARIAN?
That's not an easy question to answer, because it assumes that every Libertarian thinks the same things about everything. We can identify elements of the Libertarian platform, but that doesn't mean that every Libertarian agrees with every element of the platform—any more than it means that every Republican or every Democrat agrees with every element of THEIR party platforms.
Likewise, even in a body like the Nebraska legislature, where something like 32 members are registered Republicans, it would be impossible to provide any comprehensive "every Republican" list of agreed upon principles.
So let me make a few brief statements:
Libertarians are generally skeptical of government power, and want to see less of it.
They generally believe that less government will mean lower taxes for everyone.
Their skepticism of government power causes them to value civil liberties—to limit the potential for government to infringe upon individual liberties without cause and due process.
Do these words sound familiar?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…"
Although there are some Libertarians who would take this even further, these words—from the Declaration of Independence—help define what most Libertarians stand for at its base level:
Whether you are religious or not, there are "natural rights", endowed upon us by our very humanness. Those rights include the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Governments are not created to GIVE rights (or take them away), but rather to protect and secure the rights that are ours by our nature.
Protecting and securing our rights means preventing others from doing harm to us—not protecting us from all potential harm we might do to ourselves in the exercise of our natural rights.
How these things are defined by specific Libertarians can differ. How they are applied can differ. But ultimately, I think that's the direction that most Libertarians tell you they want to go.
Party Identification and Ideology
In many states, voters don't even register with a political party. In some places, for partisan primaries, they just go in and "declare" themselves with a particular party in a particular election. If we didn't have party registration in Nebraska, this whole question about a party switch would be non-existent.
Party affiliation is an imperfect definer of ideology. We're all familiar with the notion (perhaps becoming less common, as people flee the traditional two parties and become "Independents") of "liberal/moderate Republicans" or "conservative Democrats." Self-defined identification as a "conservative" or a "liberal" can be based primarily on one set of policy issues, as well—for instance those who are pro-life/traditional family values may identify as "conservative", but may in fact be quite "liberal" on economic issues; likewise, those who are pro-civil liberties "liberals" may also be very prudent fiscal "conservatives".
The assumption that everyone who identifies with a particular party (or tags themselves with a particular ideological label) agrees with all others who wear the party or ideological label, is silly, at best. We are all individuals, capable of individual thought. The labels we tag ourselves with are voluntary; the labels others tag us with are based on their perception, not necessarily objective truth.
Party and ideological labels are shortcuts for trying to explain who we are to others; they're not comprehensive definitions for who we are or what we believe.
I spent the first 54 years of my life identifying as a conservative-libertarian Republican. Those of you who have reached that advanced age know that we don't usually change our basic political views after that. I don't believe my views have changed all that much, either; what's changed, is the label that I wear when I go in to vote in primary elections.
As always, please feel free to ask me more questions about this. My cell phone number is (402) 540-6510 (leave a message if I don't answer right away); or you can email me at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you've got too many question to answer via email or phone, I'm happy to set up a time for an extended conversation.
Our State Senator
Raised in Fairbury and now a resident of Crete, Laura Ebke has spent a lifetime listening to and learning from the people of this district. She understands our priorities and what's important to our families, farms, and businesses.
Laura is a fiscal conservative who has fought to protect taxpayers and reduce government spending, while maintaining excellent schools and essential services.
Laura is an advocate for main street businesses who has worked to stop unnecessary regulations to promote economic growth and job creation.
As Chair of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee, she has provided needed leadership on prison reform and has partnered with law enforcement to increase public safety.
Laura has been a tireless champion of the Second Amendment, Individual Freedoms, and our Constitutional Rights.
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ANewDomain.net Column: Little Reportable Intelligence: With Friends Like the US Does Europe Need Enemies?
Here is my column exclusively for ANew Domain.net. Europe is pissed off at the NSA, but being American means never having to say you're sorry.
What appears to actually be true, and exactly true to the extent that Clapper hasn't said boo about it, is that the NSA tapped into the personal communications of the world's heads of state, including close U.S. allies like German Chancellor Angela "Austerity R Us" Merkel, former President Felipe Calderón of Mexico and at least 35 other world leaders. NSA spies listened to Merkel's private cell phone calls and read Calderón's email. The 35-plus randoms, collected from eager-to-please U.S. government employees including State Department diplomats, appear to be personal phone taps. Yep, it's another Snowden document.
With frenemies like the U.S., who needs terrorists?
This entry was posted in Blog and tagged Diplomacy, eavesdropping, Edward Snowden, France, Germany, international relations, nasa, National Security Agency, state department on October 26, 2013 by Ted Rall.
A Terrible Shock
U.S. officials are shocked by the murder by radical Islamists of the American Ambassador to Libya, in a country whose government is dominated by radical Islamists they installed. Here we go again…will Syria be next?
This entry was posted in and tagged Afghanisan, ambassador, coffin, Diplomacy, Funeral, Hillary Clinton, killing, Libya, Obama, radical islamists, Shock, state department, Syria on September 14, 2012 by Ted Rall.
Just a few years after the United States coddled Moammar Gaddafi, they launch drone missiles at his convoy, leading to his death.
This entry was posted in and tagged assassination, Drone Plane, Foreign Policy, Hypocrisy, Libya, Moammar Gaddafi, Not that into you, state department, Tent, Torture on November 2, 2011 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Devils We Don't Know
Who Are the Libyan Opposition?
Hi. You don't know me. See that big guy over at the bar? I'm going to pick a fight with him. Wanna back me up?
That's what we, the American people, are being asked to do in Libya. We're not picking sides. Picking sides implies that we know what's going on. We don't.
Give George W. Bush this: he respected us enough to lie us into war. Obama wants us sign a blank check, no questions asked.
"We do not have any information about specific individuals from any organization that are part of this [war]," Hillary Clinton said on "Meet the Press."
"But of course, we are still getting to know the people [rebels] leading the Transitional National Council [TNC]."
This was over a week into the war.
I don't know what's more frightening. That Secretary of State Clinton expects us to believe that the U.S. government is fighting, spending, killing—and soon, inevitably, dying—for a cause it doesn't know anything about? Or that she may be telling the truth.
For all we know the Libyan TNC, also known as the National Conference of the Libyan Opposition, is composed of and led by noble, well-intentioned, freedom-minded people everyone can get behind. But that's the point: we don't know.
Obama's defenders say he's different than Bush. Look! No cowboy talk! He got an international coalition! Even the French are on board!
Big deal. Hitler had a coalition too. Which also included the French.
Remember how, after 9/11, we got a history lesson about Afghanistan? Remember "blowback"? Remember how Al Qaeda came out of the anti-Soviet jihad of the 1980s? How, if it hadn't been for the U.S. and its CIA, Osama bin Laden would today be working for his dad's real estate development business in Saudi Arabia? The last thing U.S. policymakers should want to do now is replicate the 1990s, when they had to tramp through the Hindu Kush, buying back Stinger missiles from the Taliban.
Incredibly, in Libya today, the U.S. may be crawling back into bed with a bunch of crazy Islamists.
Who are the Libyan opposition? We have few clues. From what we can tell, the TNC is apparently a peculiar alliance of convenience between monarchists and Islamists.
One TNC leader is the pretender to the throne. The TNC uses the flag of the former kingdom deposed by Kadafi.
Western media outlets ridiculed the Libyan dictator for blaming unrest on Al Qaeda. On February 25th CNN's Paul Cruickshank reflected this official line: "Militant Islamists have played almost no role in the uprisings in Libya."
How much changes in a month.
As bombs were raining down on Tripoli, military officials began to concede an open secret: eastern Libya has long been a hotbed for Muslim extremism. "Al Qaeda in that part of the country is obviously an issue," a senior Obama official told the New York Times on condition of anonymity. NATO military commander Admiral James Stavridis admitted to a Senate hearing that there were "flickers" of foreign fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah presence among anti-Kadafi insurgents.
Constitutionalists to return to the Founders' original intent. They say Congress, not the president, ought to decide whether or not to go to unleash the military. Obama didn't even bother to get the usual congressional rubber stamp for this latest invasion.
But never mind Congress. War should be voted upon by the citizenry. After all, we—not Congress—bear the costs. If a president can't be bothered to explain why we should kill and be killed and spend billions of dollars on a conflict, too bad for him and his pet defense contractors.
Starting with Obama's carefully calculated conflation of civilians and insurgents, everything about Obama's Libyan war stinks. The U.N. has authorized military operations to protect "civilians." How, no matter how likeable they are, do Libyan rebels armed with anti-aircraft guns qualify as civilians?
As does this nightmare of a president's what-if scaremongering, so reminiscent of Bush during the run-up to the 2003 attack on Iraq. What if there are massacres? But there weren't any. What's next—WMDs?
Hillary cites Kadafi's "history and the potential for the disruption and instability" as casus belli. Funny, Moammar's history didn't bother her in 2009 or 2010—when her State Department had full diplomatic relations with his regime. As for the "potential" of "disruption and instability"—aw, hell, that could happen anywhere. Even here.
"If Jeffersonian Democrats take over in Libya, he's a hero," Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future said of Obama. "If he gets stuck in an ongoing civil war, then it could be enormously costly to the country, and to him politically."
Which outcome would you bet on?
(Ted Rall is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." His website is tedrall.com.)
COPYRIGHT 2011 TED RALL
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged afghanistan, blowback, casus belli, CIA, Civil War, France, George W. Bush, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iraq, Islam, italy, James Stavridis, Jihad, kadafi, Libya, moammar kadafi, monarchists, muslim extremism, NATO, Obama, Osama bin Laden, qaddafi, radical islamists, Senate, state department, stinger missiles, Taliban, tnc, transitional national council, War, war on terror on March 31, 2011 by Ted Rall.
Lifecycle of U.S. Foreign Relations
How the U.S. interacts with other nations depends on what stage of development its government–and geology–is in.
This entry was posted in and tagged democracy, Diplomacy, Egypt, Energy, Libya, middle east, natural gas, oil, Oppression, revolt, Revolution, state department, Tunisia, Uprising on March 9, 2011 by Ted Rall.
SYNDICATED COLUMN: WikiLeaks: The Devils We Know
Cables Reveal Background of Pro-Dictator U.S. Policy
After the Soviet collapse in 1991 U.S. policy toward Central Asia was transparently cynical: support the dictators, screw the people.
As the U.S. stood by and watched, corrupt autocrats looted the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Dissidents were jailed, massacred—even boiled.
Well, actually, the U.S. was anything but passive. They negotiated deals for oil and gas pipelines. They rented airbases after 9/11. They poured in tens of millions of American tax dollars—all of which wound up in secret bank accounts belonging to the dictators and their families. Meanwhile, average citizens lived in abject poverty.
During trips to Central Asia the locals constantly ask me: "Why doesn't America stop supporting [insert name of corrupt dictator here] so we can kill him and free ourselves?"
Poor, naïve people. They believe our rhetoric. They think we like democracy. Actually, we're all about the looting. Dictators are easier to deal with than parliaments. One handshake and a kickback, that's all you need with a dictator.
Central Asia only had one democratically elected president, Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan. George W. Bush ordered the CIA to depose him in a coup.
Americans who care about human rights have long wondered: Is the State Department stupid and/or naïve? Or did the diplomats in Tashkent and other capitals of unspeakable misery understand the brutal and vile nature of Central Asia's authoritarian leaders?
An examination of the WikiLeaks data dump answers that question: Yes.
Like those from concerning more prominent countries, the WikiLeaks cables on the Central Asian republics can be funny. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, a U.S. "ally in the war on terror" who seized power in a palace coup following the death of Saparmurat "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov, is described as "the 'decider' for the state of Turkmenistan." This is true. Turkmenistan is an absolute dictatorship in which millions starve while Berdimuhamedov's inner circle feasts on the profits from the world's largest reserves of natural gas.
A December 2009 cable describes America's pet autocrat as "vain, suspicious, guarded, strict, very conservative, a practiced liar, 'a good actor,' and vindictive."
According to an unnamed source, the outwardly conservative dictator has a Russian mistress named Marina, with whom he has a 14-year-old daughter. Though Berdy's power may be limitless, his intellect is not. "Berdimuhamedov does not like people who are smarter than he is," says the cable. "Since he's not a very bright guy, our source offered, he is suspicious of a lot of people."
No one's perfect. Least of all America's allies in Central Asia.
On the other side of the steppe in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev presides over the world's largest oil reserves with an iron fist. Among his greatest hits: the convenient "suicides" of his top two political opponents a few months before a presidential "election." The two men apparently shot themselves in the back of the head, then bound their own hands behind their backs and dropped into a ditch outside Almaty.
Needless to say, Nazarbayev is another valuable U.S. ally in the war on terror.
But that doesn't stop American gossip. Nazarbayev's defense minister, says an embassy staffer in Astana, "appears to enjoy loosening up in the tried and true 'homo sovieticus' style—i.e., drinking oneself into a stupor." But alcoholism isn't illegal. Graft is—and the president is public enemy number one.
"In 2007, President Nazarbayev's son-in-law, Timur Kulibayev, celebrated his 41st birthday in grand style," explains an April 2008 cable. "At a small venue in Almaty, he hosted a private concert with some of Russia's biggest pop stars. The headliner, however, was Elton John, to whom he reportedly paid one million pounds for this one-time appearance." How did he come up with all that coin? "Timur Kulibayev is currently the favored presidential son-in-law, on the Forbes 500 list of billionaires (as is his wife separately), and the ultimate controller of 90% of the economy of Kazakhstan," states a January 2010 missive.
Membership has its privileges. The U.S. has never spoken out against corruption or human rights abuses in Kazakhstan.
So it's clear: American diplomats have no illusions about their brutal allies. Interestingly, Central Asia's overlords have a dismally accurate view of corruption in the U.S. government.
"Listen, almost everyone at the top [of the Kazakh regime] is confused," First Vice President Maksat Idenov told the U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan early this year. "They're confused by the corrupt excesses of capitalism. 'If Goldman Sachs executives can make $50 million a year and then run America's economy in Washington, what's so different about what we do?' they ask."
No response was provided.
This entry was posted in Blog, Columns and tagged akayev, berdimuhamedov, cables, Central Asia, Corruption, democracy, Dictators, dictatorship, Energy, Gas, Goldman Sachs, graft, Hillary Clinton, idenov, julian assange, karimov, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, leaks, media, nazarbayev, oil, People, secrets, state department, tajikistan, turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, WikiLeaks on December 8, 2010 by Ted Rall.
Iraqi Cash Opportunities
A State Department official worried about paying off the families of Iraqis killed by U.S. mercenaries because it might encourage other Iraqis to get themselves killed on purpose. Iraqis, after all, don't value their own lives.
This entry was posted in and tagged $12, 000, Blackwater, Condi Rice, Death, Gay, Iraq, Iraq War, Mercenary, Penalty, Shot, state department, Unemployment, War on October 11, 2007 by Ted Rall.

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Ragan v. Ragan
Veazey v. Durham
McIntosh: North Carolina Practice and Procedure in Civil Cases, section 676; Beck v. Bottling Co., 216 N.C.…
Ridenhour v. Ridenhour
Be that as it may, it appears that this order was entered after the petitioner had appealed from the order…
Full title:J. D. RAGAN v. MAGNOLIA RAGAN
Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina
Date published: Jun 1, 1938
197 S.E. 554 (N.C. 1938)
197 S.E. 554
Supreme Court of North Carolina
(Filed 15 June, 1938.)
1. Pleadings § 23 —
The trial court has discretionary power to allow amendment to verification in a divorce action after remand of the case by the Supreme Court for correction of the record.
2. Divorce § 5 —
Allegations in the cross action for divorce a mensa et thoro, set up by defendant wife in the husband's action for divorce, held sufficient. C. S., 1660.
3. Divorce § 11 —
When the facts alleged in the answer are sufficient to support an order for alimony pendente lite and for counsel fees, C. S., 1666, it is sufficient for the court to find that the facts are as alleged in the answer.
4. Appeal and Error § 13 —
When plaintiff appeals from judgment of the court allowing an amendment to the verification and alimony pendente lite, the case is no longer pending in the Superior Court, and it is without authority to enter a subsequent order, while the appeal is pending, allowing additional fees to counsel of defendant.
APPEALS by plaintiff from Williams, J., at first week of March Term, 1938, and from Burgwyn, J., at fourth week of March Term, 1938, of DURHAM.
J. W. Barbee for plaintiff, appellant.
Bennett McDonald for defendant, appellee.
Action for absolute divorce and cross action for divorce a mensa et thoro, and for alimony pendente lite.
This action was heard and dismissed on former appeal to this Court, 212 N.C. 753, 194 S.E. 458. A recital of the allegations of the complaint and of the answer, and of the findings of fact and of the terms of the decree for alimony pendente lite and counsel fees, is there set forth.
Thereafter, and at the March Term, 1938, on hearing before Williams, J., decree was entered permitting the defendant to amend verification of answer, and, ex mero motu, correcting the judgment entered in this action at the September Term, 1937, from which former appeal was taken, to speak the truth and express the correct judgment, so that as corrected plaintiff be required to pay alimony pendente lite and counsel fees in amount and on dates therein provided.
To this decree plaintiff excepted and appealed to the Supreme Court, and assigns error.
Subsequently, and during the fourth week of said March Term, upon motion of defendant, Burgwyn, Special Judge presiding, entered a decree for an allowance of additional fees to counsel for the defendant. To this decree plaintiff excepted, and appealed to the Supreme Court, and assigns error.
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff challenges the judgment of Williams, J., on three grounds, neither of which is tenable: (1) That the court erred in permitting the defendant to amend verification. It is discretionary with the trial judge to allow such amendment. Moore v. Moore, 130 N.C. 333, 41 S.E. 943. (2) That the allegations of the cross action do not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The allegations are sufficient to bring the cross action within the provision of C. S., 1660. (3) That the findings of fact are insufficient to support an award of alimony and counsel fees. It is sufficient for the court to find that the facts are as alleged in the answer. Hennis v. Hennis, 180 N.C. 606, 105 S.E. 274; Massey v. Massey, 208 N.C. 818, 182 S.E. 446 ; Vaughan v. Vaughan, 211 N.C. 354, 190 S.E. 492. The facts alleged comply with the requirements of C. S., 1666, for alimony pendente lite.
The exception to the decree of Burgwyn, J., is well taken. The case was pending on appeal in the Supreme Court. The court below was then without authority to make the order. Vaughan v. Vaughan, supra.
The judgment of Williams, J., is
The judgment of Burgwyn, J., is
Reversed.


Speculation on the status of the PokerStars application in New Jersey began once again following a visit to Amaya headquarters by the securities regulatory authority late last week. The investigation includes examination of trading activities in Amaya securities surrounding the company's acquisition of the Olford Group, parent company to PokerStars.
Though there have been no allegations of wrongdoing, industry pundits are speculating that the events could only mean a longer delay before PokerStars is approved in New Jersey.


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Q: Class visibility changes after importing another file I have an angular2 project with typescript and I am facing a weird behavior that I cannot understand. I have a class file (call it main.ts) that contains a component, so it has some imports at the top of the file and I have created a class that represents a custom type somewhere else in the project (let us say models/typeFoo.ts). In typeFoo.ts there is a simple TypeFoo class with no imports and somehow the type TypeFoo  can be used in main.ts without the need the file to be imported in main.ts. That is weird? Then I make an import of another file in typeFoo.ts and automatically the main.ts complains that TypeFoo in not visible anymore. Can someone explain what is going on here?
main.ts
--models/typeFoo.ts

class TypeFoo {
   name:string;
}

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somehow the type TypeFoo can be used in main.ts without the need the file to be imported in main.ts. That is weird

In the absence of a root level import or export the file is consider a global file. Adding an import or export converts it into a module (a good thing).
This is covered here : https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/project/modules.html

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'''Francis Adams Henson''' (1906-1963) was an American political activist. ==Early Life== The Henson family were aviation pioneers associated with [[Henson Airlines]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.220.</ref> He was sent by his family to Lynchburg College in Virginia because of its Christian atmosphere. However, by the time he graduated in 1927, he had become a socialist.<ref name="Mahl91">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.91</ref> ==Career== From 1927 to 1932, Henson worked for the YMCA in New York and Connecticut. From 1932, he was by turns executive secretary of the [[National Religion and Labor Foundation]]; organiser and co-secretary with [[Donald Henderson (ALWF)|Donald Henderson]] of the [[American League against War and Fascism]], Secretary of the [[International Student Service in the United States]], and Secretary of the [[Emergency Committee to Aid Refugees from Germany]].<ref name="Mahl91">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.91</ref> According to one account which Henson wrote in the mid-1940s, he was a fellow traveler of the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]] from early 1933 until 1936.<ref name="Mahl91">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.91</ref> In the mid-1930s, Henson was a member of the left-wing [[Revolutionary Policy Committee]] of the [[Socialist Party of America]]. Along with [[Irving Brown]] he was suspected by the party's national secretary, [[Clarence Senior]], of being a Lovestoneite plant.<ref> Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.109.</ref> [[Robert J. Alexander]] records: ::Francis Henson, who was later to play an important part in Lovestoneite work in the [[United Auto Workers]], has said that in the RPC period he did not belong to the Communist Opposition but was very sympathetic to both the official Communists and the Lovestoneites, and that he conferred quite frequently with Lovestone. He thought that he was looked upon by them as being one of "their men" in the RPC. When he would from time to time confer with official Communists and the Lovestoneites, Henson would be strongly rebuked by [[Jay Lovestone|Lovestone]] and [[Irving Brown]]. Henson added that Brown was generally seen as the recognized spokesman for the Lovestoneites in the [[Socialist Party]].<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.109.</ref> In 1935, Henson became treasurer of the [[Committee on Fair Play in Sports]], which opposed the German Olympics, and travelled to Germany to campaign against it.<ref name="Mahl92">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.92</ref> In early 1936, the Lovestoneite ''Worker's Age'' reviewed a pamphlet by the Revolutionary Policy Committee's successor organisation, the Revolutionary Policy Publishing Association (RPPA). It praised the position adopted by "[[Irving Brown]], [[William B. Chamberlain]] and Francis A. Henson", suggesting that there was "little any revolutionary Socialist or Communist can find to disagree with."<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.110.</ref> Henson spent a short period as campaign manager for the [[Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy]].<ref name="Mahl92">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.92</ref> Henson went to work for the [[United Auto Workers]] in 1937.<ref name="Mahl92">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.92</ref> He was one of a number of Lovestoneites brought in to support [[Homer Martin]]'s leadership of the [[United Auto Workers]], as Alexander recounts: ::Perhaps most important of all was the appointment of Francis Henson as administrative assistant to President Martin. Although he was nominally a member of the Socialist Party, Henson was a close sympathizer with the Lovestoneites and informed the writer that while serving as Martin's assistant, he was advised principally by [[Jay Lovestone]]. Henson commented that Lovestone's advice was usually good but not always followed by those in the union apparatus.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.57.</ref> Henson blamed [[John L. Lewis]] for firing him from the UAW because of his by now firmly anti-communist beliefs.<ref name="Mahl92">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.92</ref> In 1939 Henson moved to Washington to become a freelance writer in support of the New Deal. His most significant client was Commissioner of Education [[J.W. Studebaker]].<ref name="Mahl92">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.92</ref> From 1940 to 1942, Henson worked as Washington director of [[Market Analysts Inc.]] for [[Sandy Griffith]]. His job was to use the company's polls to encourage Congressional support for more aid to Britain. Henson's later resumé listed the main client as the [[Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies]].<ref name="Mahl78">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.78.</ref><ref name="Mahl92">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.92</ref> He was also involved in monitoring isolationist activity at the major party conventions.<ref name="Mahl93">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.93</ref> Some of this work was carried out under the name [[Information Inc.]], a company based at Henson's address at the National Press Building in Washington.<ref name="Mahl94">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.94.</ref> Henson and Griffith supplied [[Ernest Cuneo]] with information on the [[British Security Coordination]] front group [[France Forever]] and other intelligence.<ref name="Mahl94">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.94.</ref> In the autumn of 1940, Griffith, Henson and [[Christopher Emmett]] ran the [[Non-Partisan Committee to Defeat Hamilton Fish]] against the isolationist New York senator [[Hamilton Fish]].<ref name="Mahl107">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.107.</ref> Henson himself donated $200 to the campaign.<ref name="Mahl07">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.107.</ref> In a letter of 18 October 1940, he also asked [[Ernest Cuneo]] to have [[Walter Winchell]] plug the campaign in his column and on the radio.<ref name="Mahl110">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.</ref> On 19 November 1940, Henson interviewed [[William R. Castle]], a former diplomat and member of the isolationist [[America First Committee]]. Castle said after the interview, "So you are not a spy of the [[White Committee]]", to which Henson replied "If I am, I am a very open spy, don't you think?"<ref name="Mahl94">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.95.</ref> At some time around July 1942, Henson wrote to Cuneo with material from the minority stockholders committee campaigning against [[Standard Oil of New Jersey]] over its links with [[I.G. Farben]].<ref name="Mahl99">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.99.</ref> In November 1942, [[Dies Committee]] investigator [[Robert E. Stripling]] reported to Congressman [[Martin Dies]] on Henson, noting he was a director of the [[Union for Democratic Action]], and described an "amazing conspiracy" involving [[Sanford Griffith]] "to smear and discredit the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey."<ref name="Mahl102">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.102.</ref> By the summer of the 1943, Henson was in the Army, stationed in Camp Lee, Virginia. From there he wrote to Griffith, warning him about a confrontation in Washington with [[J.B. Matthews]], during which Matthews had attacked Griffith as a British and French agent, and warned Henson about material in the hands of the [[Dies Committee]].<ref name="Mahl101">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.101.</ref> On 2 October 1941, henson sent Cuneo a petition from the [[Committee for Irish American Defence]].<ref name="Mahl39">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.39.</ref> After the war, Henson wrote a weekly intelligence report from Washington for Cuneo in New York.<ref name="Mahl154">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.154.</ref> ==Notes== <references/> [[Category:Lovestoneite|Henson, Francis]]
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Q: Рow to swap values in columns depending on a certain condition? I have a dataset:
id1          id2         val
first10     second5      10
second3     first19      14
first2      second7      8
first10     second10     1
second8     first22      9

I want to swap values in columns id1 and id2 to have in id1 only values containing "first" and in id2 only values containing "second". So desired result is:
id1          id2         val
first10     second5      10
first19     second3      14
first2      second7      8
first10     second10     1
first22     second8      9

How could I do that? i know about str.contains() but how should condition look like?

A: Maybe not the most elegant solution, but you can achieve it, transforming DataFrame in a list of dict and then making it a DataFrame again.
For example:
df_list = []
for i in range(df.shape[0]):
    row = dict(df.iloc[i])
    new_row = {}
    for key in row:
        val = row[key]
        if type(val) == str and val.startswith('f'):
            new_row['id1'] = val
        elif type(val) == str and val.startswith('s'):
            new_row['id2'] = val
        else:
            new_row['val'] = val
    df_list.append(new_row)

new_df = pd.DataFrame(df_list)

A: My suggestion is to define a function that can take a row of the dataframe and swap the id1 and id2 values in the condition required, and then apply it to the dataframe with df.apply(func, axis=1).
def conditional_swap(row):
    if row["id1"].startswith("second"):
        row["id1"], row["id2"] = row["id2"], row["id1"]
    return row

df.apply(conditional_swap, axis=1)

(axis=1 ensures that it is applied row-wise, not column-wise)
Hope this helps!

A: here is one way do it, using np.where by checking if the first id starts with second, then swap, else keep as is
df['id1'],df['id2']=np.where(df['id1'].str.startswith('second'),
                           [df['id2'],df['id1']],
                           [df['id1'],df['id2']]
                          )
df

        id1         id2     val
0   first10     second5     10
1   first19     second3     14
2   first2      second7     8
3   first10     second10    1
4   first22     second8     9


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Boko Haram shows Nigeria kidnapped girls in new video
A new video released by Islamist militants Boko Haram claims to show around 130 girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria last month.
The group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said they would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed.
He said the girls had converted to Islam. The video, released on Monday, claims to show them praying.
Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls in northern Nigeria on 14 April and threatened to sell them.
The BBC's John Simpson in the northern city of Maiduguri said Boko Haram's comments showed signs that the group was willing to negotiate.
Three of the girls - wearing the full-length hijab - are shown speaking in the 17-minute video, obtained by French news agency AFP.
Two girls say they were Christian and have converted to Islam, while the other says she is Muslim.
"These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with... we have indeed liberated them. These girls have become Muslims," Abubakar Shekau says in the video.
It is thought the majority of the abducted girls are Christians, although there are a number of Muslims among them.
Correspondents said the girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been harmed.
There is no indication of when or where the video was taken, although the location appears to be rural.
It is estimated to show about 130 girls - just under half of the 276 pupils abducted from their school in the northern state of Borno.
Our correspondent says this could mean those abducted had been split into smaller groups to help avoid detection.
Boko Haram had previously admitted to kidnapping the girls.
The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden," said they should not have been at school and should get married instead.
Boko Haram has been engaged in a violent campaign against the Nigerian government since 2009.
Earlier, the governor of Nigeria's Borno state said he had information on the whereabouts of the schoolgirls.
Governor Kashim Shettima said he had passed reports of the sightings of the girls to the military for verification.
He added that he did not think the girls had been taken across the border to Chad or Cameroon.
The Nigerian government has faced heavy criticism of its response to the mass abduction but President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday that assistance from abroad had made him optimistic of finding the girls.
The UK and US already have teams helping on the ground in Nigeria and an Israeli counter-terrorism team is also on its way to the country.
Meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande has offered to host a summit in Paris next Saturday with Nigeria and its neighbours focused on Boko Haram and the country's security challenges.


10 Best Places To Travel In January - Where to Visit in January?
10 Best Places To Travel In January – Where to Visit in January?
Travelling is one stop solution for those who want to celebrate New Year with their friends or family in a joyful mood. Therefore according to survey it has been reported that month of January attracts tourism; as most of the people prefer to start their beginning happily. There are some best places to travel in January and each one has its unique features.
Travelling is the best idea to explore something new and is a best alternative to overcome from stress. Hence the destinations mentioned below can help you to make travelling plans.
The most amazing place that attracts tourism in Los Angeles, California is named as 'city hippest neighborhoods'; it is famous for two festivals in a year one is 'silver street jubilee' that is celebrated on Sunday where musicians,dancers , comedians gathers and have full enjoyment.
People dance along the silver lake with full zeal also the street is decorated with colorful lights, and another is' Sunset junction street fair' this is famous fair organised in silver lake along its banks to maintain the healthy relation between neighbouring cities, live music,dancers, merchants,vendors,food stalls, add up the stars to this fair.
Thus these festivals can make silver lake an amazing tourist attraction for tourists, however, having vacation this year with family in silver would be a delightful experience and is a best place to travel in January.
How to reach: You can take Bus or subway to reach at the destination. The shortest time is through Little Tokyo, Los Angeles (40 min). You can also reach here form other locations like Citadel Outlets, Los Angeles Convention Centre and Urth Caffe at West Bollywood.
Where to stay: There are numerous option for you to make your stay complete at Silver Lake like Comfort Inn, Cozy Silver lake Gateway, Sunset Hilltop, Noon on Sunset Hill and many more.
What to see: You must see the places offering serious LA food like Sqirl and Night + Market, Trois Familia and Pine and Crane. Also, taste the finest wineries of LA here and see the Lake reservoir nearby.
What to shop: You can shop for vintage clothing, jewellery, books and records, flowers, crystals and a lot more at Sunset Triangle Plaza.
Weather: The area record lowest temperature of nearly 9 degrees in December and highest of 29 degress from july to September. The rainfall comes low in the area with average of 25 days rainy per annum.
Best Time to Travel: Best time is from March to July or October to January.
The largest city of Canada situated on an island of St. Lawrence River is a hub for trade and business. Hence is famous for Vieux Montreal which has amazing tourist attractions like the old buildings, monuments and all buildings gives a feeling of Persian style. However, this place has some historical sites along with a plateau where most tourists stay, with a colorful market having art galleries, museums, shops, boutiques, and topmost restaurants there is popular waterfront place along Vieux Port.This could be the best place to tavel in Janaury for the traveler.
How to reach: The most convenient way to reach here is by flight as the International Airport is situated southwest of the city. It is just four hours drive from Manchester and 5 hours form Boston.
Where to Stay: You can stay at the downtown which comprises maximum hotels where you can ask your stay. Other places for stay are Old Montreal, The Plateau, Near the Airport as per your convenience.
What to See: The best places to see here are Mont Royal, Vieux Montreal or Old Montreal, Botanical garden, St Josephs Oratory, fine Arts Museum and many more.
What to Shop: Montreal has some of the exquisite clothing boutique locations. The place is also famous for craft shops and local markets.
Weather: Generally this place experience moderate range temperature. July is the hottest month and January is the coldest month in Montreal.
Best Time to Travel: Summers are the perfect time to visit at Montreal due to calm climatic conditions.
Most visited place known for its courageous history, that attracts tourism. This 6,000 kilometers long wall is 2000 years old was constructed by the emperor of China to protect country from enemies. The best places of wall where one should visit to is near Beijing like Mutianyu, Jinshanling, Jiankou, Simatai, Huanghuacheng, ShanhaiPass, Badaling, Gubeikou, Juyongguan, Huangyaguan are the amazing tourists attractions in this wall with best viewing scenes. Hence tourists can opt and enjoy various activities to make their vacation more adventurous by doing hiking,mountaineering ,photography, camping, sightseeing. The best month to travel in January as in under sun-heat will make your vacation more interesting and relaxing.
How to reach: Beijing is the prominent destination to visit the most part of the Great Wall of China. Its just 1 to 2 hours drive from Beijing.
Where to Stay: The nearby area of Badaling is appropriate place to stay while vising the Great Wall. You can find resonaable hotels there at your convenience.
What to See: Though the whole area is 6000 km in area, some of the best parts to visit are Mutianyu, Jinshanling, Jiankou, Simatai, Huanghuacheng, Gubeikou and others.
Weather: In summers time, Beijing is hot and humid. It also accounts maximum amount of precipitation. In Autumn the days are warm and nights are cooler. Winters are dry, cold and prolonged.
Best Time to Travel: April and May is the convenient time to visit the Great Wall of China as spring time temperature remains between 11 degrees to 24 degrees.
Pasto a city situated in Colombia is another destination which attracts tourism due to its most famous Carnival festival which is held every year from January 2 to January 7, called the festival of 'blacks and whites' is best place to travel in January hence the festival starts with a big parade and each day of festival symbolizes the different things like first day involves colonies parade where farmers pay tribute to natural environment like flowers, fruits ,trees, plants etc.
In return of good harvest,Second day which is children's carnival where children are dressed in various colorful dresses along with dance and singing activities,On third day arrival od colorful cartoon presenting all type of stereotypes of the society like ,pregnant women ,drunk priest,small baby,divorced women,etc.
On fourth day on which locals color their faces with black colour followed by white color on fifth day after that a grand parade is carried out on 6th day.
How to reach: The most comfortable way is to take flight and reach nearby Airport.
What to Shop: You can buy some artistic products related to their culture.
Weather: The all year weather generally lie between 9 degress to 20 degress.
Best Time to Travel: As the season of the Carnival is in January on specific months you can visit it that time only.
Dubai being the hottest place of the world is the best place to travel in January especially due to Legoland which is an amazing tourist attractions for children and people with young heart. This is the best place to travel in Janaury with your family as this includes six theme-based lands and forty adventurous rides and attractions which attracts tourism towards it.
The place is very colorful with a lot of variations like adventurous parks where one can go and have an awesome journey of finding the stolen treasure with the help of lasers,puppet shows which entertain people, Duplo Express a colorful train for toddlers ,Amazing risky rides, etc.
How to reach: There is no direct metro available to the point, one must consider personal tac to reach there from nearby area.
Where to Stay: Stay at one of the famous hotels like Lavita, Qasr Al Sultan Boutique and many others.
What to See: The themed amusement is for 2 to 12 years old and children can take different rides as per their age group.
What to Shop: Here you will find the largest Lego Toys for your loved one to cherish.
Weather: The temperature diurnal range is high due to deserted climatic conditions.
Best Time to Travel: You can visit it anytime but must consider the daily temperature range at the place before visiting.
This Reserve is situated in Merxico. thus, each year millions of butterflies come from eastern Canada to the Mexico forests that is 3,000 miles away during January to spend their hibernation period in small clusters built in Mexico forests .One can see various butterflies flying in the sky in bulk hence ,of different color which makes its amazing tourist attractions of Mexico.In January the population is at the peak, so it is the best place to travel in January.
How to reach: Reach the Mexico City International airport. Take the bus from the Mexico City to reach at the Reserve.
Where to Stay: FlowSuites Condesa, Aqua Urban Resorts, Camio real Santa are some of the hotels where you can stay.
What to See: The place is the buffer zone of millions of monarch butterflies traveled from USA and Canada.
Weather: The weather of Mexico cool and dry due to the presence of central Highlands.
Best Time to Travel: January and the February are the popular months to visit the place.
One of the best place to travel in January to enjoy mid-summer heat. Thus it is the best place where one can have a visit to different national parks and can do different adventurous activities like hiking, mountaineering, camping, wildlife photography. the green peaks and valleys giving a natural outlook, along with glacier and beaches in Patingo is another place that attracts tourism and makes its amazing tourist attraction.
How to reach: Take flight by Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) and then hopper flight to the desirable Patagonian city. The substitute is to fly into Punta Arenas Airport (PUQ) and Chilean Patagonia's main airport.
Where to Stay: The best Hotels to lodge here are Arakur Ushuaia Resort and Hotel Mirado del Lago.
What to Shop: El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Shop Hop BA are some of the shopping places of the area.
Weather: The minimum degrees temperature is as low as zero degrees and maximum at 34 degrees.
Best Time to Travel: November and early march are the ideal time to visit the place. However, cool breeze loving persons can visit it in Jan also.
Its a market with shops,boutiques,museums,art galleries,clubs,cafes are made in the Victorian building, it attracts major portion of tourists coming for holiday in Australia,Hence one can have awesome jewellery,branded clothes, etc on reliable prize, Around 200 stalls are their which covers whole of the Oxford street of Sydney.This is the place which attracts tourism all around the world to visit.Thousands of people gather here daily which made this place an amazing tourist attraction.
How to reach: Its just 39 minutes form domestic Mascot Airport and 46 min form Sydney Airport.
Where to Stay: Some if the common holiday destinations are Arts Hotel, Holiday Inn Potts Point, Cambridge Hotel Sydney.
What to See: The area is full of exploration with presence of shopping merchandise, galleries, museums and many more things.
What to Shop: Crafts, clothes, Australian boutique and designs are popular tourist choice.
Weather: The average lowest temperature is 9 degrees and maximum is 26 degrees.
Best Time to Travel: Spring time is adequate to explore outdoor. Otherwise exploring in January is also justifiable.
This is the second best place to travel in January in Europe.one can go with their families and grandchildren and enjoy the sweetness of the place. However, the major tourist attraction in Bilbao is 'Casco Viga' which is the historic centre ,along with awesome streets one should also visit to Bilbao fine arts museum and also Bilbao is surrounded by elegant medieval towns which make him amazing tourist attractions for tourists.
How to reach: The place is 12 km form the Bilbao Airport with flight to and from major cities of Europe.
Where to Stay: Some of the sophisticated hotels are Meliá Bilbao, Poshtel Hotel, Barcelo Bilbao Nervion.
What to See: The place is popular attraction with Museums, Old shopping centers, Art Collection centres, modernized footbridge.
What to Shop: The place offers almost everything starting from International Brands to ethnic boutiques.
Weather: The temperature lies in between minimum 5 degress to maximum 25 degrees.
Best Time to Travel: In European Countries, Best time to explore the coldest weather ii January and and February and you can also visit in august with advance bookings.
The amazing hotel is unique and attracts tourism from all over the world situated in Sweden,The whole hotel is made up of ice even the furniture is also made of ice,and the mattress used are polar tested,the bathrooms are separate in a warm building nearby. This is the amazing tourist attraction one should visit at one's in a life.
How to reach: The nearest Airport is Kiruana with daily connections of flights with Stockholm. From Kiruana, you can cover the destination by bus or taxi.
Where to Stay: The place itself offers warm and cold accommodations for stay.
What to See: Experience the beauty of ice studded furniture and buildings.
What to Shop: You can shop here iconic designs artifacts specially made to depicts the uniqueness of the place.
Weather: Overall temperature generally remains low and even in minus.
Best Time to Travel: Travel it as your convenience, but if you want to experience unforgettable cold aura, do visit it in coldest month from November to February.
The Above given information gives one idea to choose the best places to travel in January. Your travelling experience can fill your life with happiness and unforgettable memories. Thus this year plan something new and surprise your love ones by going out with them.


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Q: Facebook App Approval (Simulated iOS Build) I'm trying to get my app approved by Facebook to use the publish_actions permission. They require you to upload a version of your app to their site in order to complete their review process.
They provide this tutorial for doing so : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/creating-ios-simulator-build-for-review/#generate-simulator.
However, since I am building a workspace, this tutorial is not exactly appropriate. Using
xcodebuild -arch i386 -sdk iphonesimulator7.1 -workspace  -scheme
instead of their provided xcodebuild command builds my app successfully.
And all is well. However, they can't open the file created through this method. I am able to open the file locally using ios-sim (https://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim). AFAIK, the standard iPhone Simulator cannot be used to open these since Xcode 5 (please correct me if I'm wrong).
So, does anyone know what method Facebook uses to open and run your simulated iOS builds? (So that I can test my builds against their process before waiting days for them to respond). Or does anyone see a problem with the way I am building above?

A: I wrote the command like that:
xcodebuild  -arch i386 -sdk iphonesimulator7.1 -workspace MYPROJECTNAME.xcworkspace -scheme "MYPROJECTNAME Development" -configuration "MYPROJECTNAME Development" -derivedDataPath ../buildd

where MYPROJECTNAME was the name of the project.
So except specifying the configuration if you have more than one, your build command seems ok.
I am sending the build these days and I will tell you the result.
PS.1 It is a good idea to put the command you use in the "Review instructions" field just to make sure they know that you have workspace instead of single project.
PS.2 Do they say what was the error?


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Story Sent in by Ronnie:
I met Melissa for a first date at a Starbucks. She wore two pride buttons and wasted no time in saying, "My brother's gay."
She stopped there as if waiting for me to go on a savage tirade about gay people. But I didn't. I just said, "Okay."
"So you're an ally, then?"
She let out a sigh of relief. "Good. Every guy I've dated for the past year is a closet gay-hater. Do you have lots of gay friends?"
"A few."
She cringed like I had said something really crappy. "But not a lot? That doesn't speak too highly of your self-proclaimed 'ally' status."
"Maybe you can introduce me to some of your gay friends so I can have a larger collection."
She said, "Why is that my responsibility? If you were really an ally, you'd have made more gay friends on your own. When was the last pride parade you marched in?"
"I've never marched in a pride parade."
She shook her head sadly. "I don't think this will work out. I mean, you're not even wearing a pride button."
I pointed at her two buttons. "You're wearing enough for two people."
She said, "It's not my responsibility to make you an ally. You have to go the distance, yourself. It wouldn't surprise me at this point to learn that you're a closet gay-hater."
"I'm not."
"Well, whatever."
She sucked down her drink and then said out of the blue, "What's your favorite coffee here?"
We then had a long discussion about coffee, the town, and everything except for her gay brother. It was like the first part of the conversation no longer mattered. Maybe it was her way of salvaging the date but I wasn't too into her, anymore.
When we were finally done she gave me a hug and said, "I hope you have an enjoyable life."
I have, thank you. And I never went out with Melissa again.
OP, didn't you know? Gay friends are like flair!
Knittychick 6/16/2016 5:50 PM
Yes. Now you wouldn't want to be known to just have the minimum would you OP?
I always bring a portfolio of professional head shots of all my gay friends to first dates, just in case...
nrrdcore 6/16/2016 8:52 AM
(Ahhhhh! - Formatting issues with the deleted posts above. Sorry! It's been awhile.)
A new wardrobe requirement of all hetero CIS dates? I would support this new fashion accessory requirement. ;)
"She shook her head sadly. 'I don't think this will work out. I mean, you're not even wearing a pride button.'"
I think the OP is full of it. I'm betting she wore some unobtrusive pride pins on her bag or whatever, and he was wigged out by it and the fact that she brought up her gay brother on a first date. Their values (read: the belief in the importance of showing daily support to the queer community) didn't exactly line up, so he concocted this rather boring "bad" date story to make himself feel better about the rejection he ultimately received.
I don't disagree with your hypothesis, but I've met more than a couple people with that level of entitlement so I'm not certain.
rawdogg 6/16/2016 7:26 PM
I has alot of gay friends,well I did til this weekend.
I can't decide which emotion I feel the most of: disgust or disappointment.


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BRANFORD — It was a proclamation that had the roughly 40 party goers cheering and applauding.
"We've been through an amazingly difficult time over the last 18 months and we're still here, you're here, and no one has had COVID," Shoreline Village CT Vice President Kathy Fox said, as members, volunteers, and donors sipped wine and enjoyed hors d'oeuvres at a member's home in Branford's Indian Neck Saturday.
"And we got the day," she said, referring picture-perfect weather.
The occasion was the 10th anniversary of SVCT, a community of 110 seniors committed to helping each other live independently at home.
The organization, which has members in Branford, Guilford and Madison, provides services and activities that, as Sue Bender put it, "give me a sense of belonging and a sense of security, and keep me engaged and active."
No surprise, perhaps, that SVCT is part of a network of 203 villages across the country. A 2018 AARP survey showed over three out of four retirees prefer to stay put as they age — a choice known as "aging in place."
The pandemic reinforced that inclination.
"We founded Shoreline Village on the notion of an economically efficient model of aging in place, and these past 18 months, we realized the value in that," said SVCT treasurer and co-host Randy Reinhold, as a member's granddaughter played corn hole on the lawn against the backdrop of the Sound's sparkling waters.
"It was striking how much safer we all were in our homes than in assisted living facilities where residents were basically stuck in their own rooms," he said.
There were other causes for celebration. Incoming president Chris Bekasi announced that the book and movie clubs, monthly "tea and talk" gatherings and lecture series are gradually resuming in person.
"The Village is not just about being safe in your own homes," she said. "Just as essential to aging well is social engagement."
Bekasi highlighted the board's efforts to stay connected to its members during the pandemic. One of those ways was the so-called Pansy Patrol.
"We worked with Van Wilgen's (Garden Center) to get pots of pansies and delivered them to all the mothers on Mother's Day," Bekasi said. "They hadn't seen their kids or grandkids or really anyone for weeks, and they talked through the door, and it was great.
"We wanted to make sure each and every member knew that we were still there for them," she said.
That was no less true of transportation provided by volunteers. "We came up with ways to ensure members got to their appointments, with both drivers and passengers safe, so no one got ill from not seeing their doctors," Bekasi said.
The rides have served another function, according to founding member Bob Jaeger.
"For members who don't see a lot a people, it's an important social occasion," he said. "We've started referring to it as a friendly visit on wheels."
That service will continue, as will outside help for something as seemingly small as changing a hard-to-reach light bulb or finding a new partner for a bridge game, a trusty dog walker or even a daily check-in phone calls. The Senior Safety Program, funded by an anonymous grant to help seniors cover the costs of home improvements to keep their homes safe, is also now operating.
"Knowing I can call someone for help without it being a 'favor' gives me peace of mind," said Leila Daw, 81, as her husband Nigel engaged in spirited conversation with board member Bill Horne. "It's all covered by our membership fee."
Fox said she was perhaps most proud of "playing an active role in ensuring many of the members got vaccinated."
Bekasi agreed. "One gentleman I called — he's 94 — was so relieved," she said. "He wanted to get the shot, but he didn't know how to use the internet to arrange for that to happen."
The man opted to drive himself for the vaccine and Bekasi met him there. "The village concept is about helping our members maintain their independence while dipping into our services when they need them," she said.
Jaeger said the organization has managed to achieve this balance, while avoiding the pitfalls that can lead to failure. "We waited to open until we had a strong foundation of members, volunteers and donors," he said, "and we ended up opting against an executive director in favor of an all-volunteer organization, and that's made us a lean, mean operation."
The occasion marked the introduction of the Shoreline Village Legacy Fund, which will be overseen by the Branford Community Foundation. It ensures, Jaeger told the group, that "if in 50 years, there's no Shoreline Village or we're somehow falling short of our mission, that money will go to other organizations that help seniors on the shoreline. If Shoreline Village continues, it means the BCF can provide an extra layer of oversight."
"It means," he said, "the legacy of the Village is there in perpetuity."
"Here, here," someone called out, raising her glass. "Long may she live."
For information, visit shorelinevillagect.org.


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Vermont is hiring a company to remove social security numbers, bank accounts and other personal information from records related to the EB-5 fraud case in the Northeast Kingdom to prepare the documents to be posted online.
In a request for proposals announced this week, the Department of Financial Regulation seeks a company that can scrub at least 800,000 pages that are being shared confidentially with defendants Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger as part of the state's EB-5 case.
The state claims that the records are exempt from traditional public records requests because they are relevant to ongoing litigation. However, Gov. Phil Scott's administration says it will take an unusual approach in this case: First, redact personally identifiable information, then seek a court order allowing the state to post the files to a public website on a rolling basis while the lawsuit is pending.
"In this case there is a very different equation," said Michael Pieciak, commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation. "There's a very great public interest in getting the documents open and as transparent as possible."
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The state defines personally identifiable information as social security numbers, driver's license and passport numbers, financial account numbers, health information, and "such other information as the State may require."
Pieciak said that once the records are posted, any journalist or member of the public will be able to see all the information that led to the largest fraud complaint in state history. He believes the sum of EB-5 records from all state agencies will top 1 million pages.
The records in question are are part of the state lawsuit in Vermont Superior Court and include "financial account statements, business records, emails, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, marketing materials, legal and investment-related materials," according to the RFP.
The files do not include records protected by attorney-client privilege, Pieciak said, nor do they include documents shielded by the Vermont governor's broad executive privilege exemption.
Pieciak said the state first considered having its own attorneys remove information from the records through a manual process. Such an effort would take at least 18 months and $100,000, he said.
He hopes an outside company will be able to do the job faster and at a lower cost.
Pieciak declined to estimate how much the project might cost, but he said the funds will come out of the Department of Financial Regulation budget. Pieciak said the cost could eventually be reimbursed with an "investigation charge" in the EB-5 enforcement action.
Bids are due to the Vermont Office of Purchasing and Contracting by Nov. 21.
The first batch of records is expected to be scrubbed and returned to the state by Dec. 20, allowing the state to ask a judge to approve their public release.
Contact April McCullum at 802-660-1863 or amccullum@freepressmedia.com. Follow her on Twitter at @April_McCullum.
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Jul 17, 2015 • Music
Failure is coming to Republic on July 23, and NolaVie has a pair of tickets to give away! For a chance to win, follow Nola Vie on Twitter and tweet "I want to see Failure (@Failure) @RepublicNOLA courtesy of @nolavie!" The winners will be notified via direct message on Twitter by Wednesday, July 22.
Failure is a three piece alt-rock band from Los Angles, who until last year basically only existed between 1990 and 1997. During that time, the band produced critically-acclaimed albums Comfort (1992), Magnified (1994), and Fantastic Planet (1996). Last year the band announced they would be coming out of hiatus with a tour and a new album in 2015. The Heart Is a Monster was released June 30th and the band will be playing material from it as well as their classic albums at the Republic on July 23. Tickets for the show at Republic can be purchased here.
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In the afternoon of August 20, at the National Guest House of Dieu Yutai in Beijing, the Chinese Party Secretary General and President Xi Jinping were warmly welcomed by Mr. Tran Quoc Vuong and his delegation.
During the meeting Tran Quoc Vuong sincerely conveyed the good wishes of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Tran Dai Quang to Secretary-General of Xi Jinping.
Tran Quoc Vuong said that the relationship between the two parties and the two countries has continued to develop in many areas. Especially in 2017, the leaders of the two parties, the two countries for the first time to visit each other in the same year.
Vietnam values the election of Mr. Xi as the first country to visit the state level and participates in the APEC 2017 Summit shortly after the 19th Congress.
State Secretary Tran Quoc Vuong meets secretary general, president of Xi Jinping, China. Photo: VNA
Xi warmly welcomed his visit to China; Sending greetings to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, President Tran Dai Quang and leaders of the party and the state of Vietnam.
Xi expressed his satisfaction with the great successes achieved by the Party, the State and the people with a view to innovation; We believe that the Vietnamese people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, will successfully implement the objectives and tasks set out in the Resolution of the XII Congress, and achieve more success with a view to the renovation. and build up socialism.
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Following the closure of the Afan Lido leisure complex which was destroyed by fire, many of the region's community clubs and sports groups were without a home.
A Sport Wales grant part-funded the renovation of an old commercial garage and the purchase of new equipment.
The centre now houses dance, boxing and judo facilities as well as gymnastics. In fact, the club now attracts up to 60 youngsters each weekend and the coaches at the club are affiliated to Welsh Gymnastics, the governing body for gymnastics in Wales.


Bracknell town centre is set to benefit from a £30 million cash boost which will see a revamped shopping centre and new "covered public space".
The Bracknell Regeneration Partnership has confirmed it will pump the cash in to the town to revamp Princess Square and create a new area called The Deck.
The money is alongside a £4.5 million injection from Bracknell Forest Council, which was made as a sweetener to persuade BRP to make the huge investment.
A council report confirmed BRP had some "reluctance to commit significant funds necessary to commence the development" before the authority made its contribution.
The Deck is an area of The Lexicon which was formerly the Bentalls department store.
It will be filled with new food and retail units.
The new look Princess Square will eventually link to The Deck and it is planned the area will be remodelled into a 'modern, light, bright and airy centre'.
Councillor Marc Brunel-Walker, executive member for economic development and regeneration, said: "The signing of the development agreement between the council and BRP is an important step in enabling the next exciting phase of Bracknell town centre's regeneration.
"Currently, the retail market is tough and while The Lexicon is bucking the national trend with strong footfall and sales figures, the council was keen to ensure that these two key redevelopment opportunities were not missed due to retail and finance pressures.
"By working with our development partners we have secured that exciting next step."
The authority's investment means the council will see a share of future rents from Princess Square.
The agreement saw the council buy land on either side of the Southern Gateway site, which the council says has "significant regeneration potential".
Work is due to start soon, with The Deck expected to be finished by 2022.
Rob Morris, general manager at The Lexicon, added: "The redevelopment of this part of town will further the diversity of shops and leisure facilities in The Lexicon attracting even more visitors.
"We are delighted that with the development agreement in place, work on Princess Square and The Deck will commence later this year."
Plans for the continued regeneration of Bracknell town centre have been discussed at the council's Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration Committee, at largely private meetings which are closed off to the press and the public.
Councillors heard an update on the signing of the agreement to invest £30 million into the town centre at the latest meeting of the committee on Monday, March 11.


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