National Front supporters in Provence.
The National Front continues to rise, the establishment is in big trouble.
The National Front may take over two, three or even more French regions after a second round of voting on December 13, but for many, the damage has been done.
Marine Le Pen, the National Front's current leader and daughter of the party's founder Jean-Marie, is reaping the rewards for her strategy of pulling the party away from the far-right fringes, ridding it of its extremist stigma, and courting the disenfranchised working class she says is being abandoned by the mainstream political parties of both right and left.
She stands a good chance of winning and then running the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, an area more populous than 12 EU countries. Her personal victory, winning more than 40 percent of the popular vote in an industrial area that was historically a stronghold of the Communist and Socialist parties, shows how many voters have drifted away from the ruling left, after seven years of economic crisis.
Le Pen's niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, who is seen as more conservative than her aunt, notably on social issues, did even better in the Provence region. Other leading candidates also did better than expected, showing that the party has developed a grassroots following far beyond mere adhesion to Marine Le Pen herself.
The Socialist party decided late Sunday to withdraw its candidates from the second round of voting in regions where they had finished third in the first round. It also called on voters to back conservative candidates in a week's time in order to prevent the National Front from winning.
That is particularly the case in the North, in Provence and in Alsace, where Le Pen's close aide and a party vice president, Florian Philippot, came in first with 35 percent of the vote.
The National Front could still be defeated in the second round if all or most Socialist voters decide to back the center-right. It would, however, allow Le Pen to denounce, as she has long been doing, the mainstream parties for colluding to keep her out of power.
By pulling its candidates in the name of what has been dubbed a "Republican Front" against Le Pen, the Socialists stand in stark contrast to Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative opposition leader. Earlier Sunday, Sarkozy rejected such tactics and said he didn't want his Les Républicain party's candidates to withdraw, or join forces with their Socialist rivals.
As soon as the second round is over on December 13, expect the blame game to begin on who is responsible for handing over regions to the Le Pens.
President François Hollande enjoyed a boost in popularity in the wake of the November 13 Paris attacks. But it mattered little on Sunday.
The new emphasis on security questions, with calls for a tougher stand on migrants and refugees, leaves Hollande exactly where he was before: an unpopular president who seems unable to find ways to address high unemployment — which is now, for the first time, above the eurozone average.
The defeat is also a personal one for Hollande, who when in opposition five years ago led the Socialist party to a resounding victory in local elections, with his party taking over all but one of the country's then 21 regions.
The French leader had remained uncharacteristically silent in recent weeks and hadn't campaigned at all, preferring to stick to the "presidential" posture and tend to France's international problems — especially the fight against ISIL. It had little effect.
However, the strong showing of his popular Defense Minister Jean Yves le Drian in the Brittany region shows that members of the government seen as good at their job can still attract voters.
But Hollande's loss is not a win for his long-time rival Sarkozy. The former president was also one of the day's losers.
In many regions, long-time mainstream conservative voters deserted to Le Pen. That was the case in Provence, where Sarkozy ally Christian Estrosi pulled less than 25 percent of the vote against Maréchal-Le Pen's 42 percent.
Sarkozy's strategy of tough talking in a bid to compete with the National Front's rhetoric didn't convince many voters.
With 18 months to go before presidential elections, the result of Sunday's vote will be scrutinized to assess the chances of potential candidates. But even if France has become a three-party country, it's clear that a lot could happen before May 2017.
The preliminary results on Sunday night showed that parties from the left, including the Socialists and their fractious allies such as the Greens, received around 35 percent of the vote. The mainstream conservatives — Les Républicains and others — won between 30 and 32 percent, and the Front National won between 29 and 31 percent.
Socialist leaders began to spin that the left is still France's main political movement. That may show they were right to push for joint candidates in the regional elections — but illustrates their failure in convincing other parties to join them.
The secret hope of both Socialists and conservatives is that the National Front fails at what it has never done before: wield executive power in a large region.
The party has no experience of management, and voters will get a chance to see them raise taxes, manage budgets, sit on school boards and interact with other local and regional governments.
Seeing the National Front at work, the other parties hope, will open the eyes of voters.
Marine Le Pen refrained from any mention of Europe or the ills she believes it brings on France in her victory speech on Sunday night. That may be the surest sign yet that she has already started her presidential campaign. But her underlings didn't show the same restraint, and denounced Europe, the market economy and a "U.S. influenced foreign policy" as soon as the results were in.
It's easy to see how the National Front's self-proclaimed status as the country's main party will have an impact on the general debate about Europe — on topics such as the refugee crisis, the country's economic problems or the role of Germany in the EU, to name but a few.
Sarkozy's speeches already show the influence of the National Front. He has been picking up ideas straight from his far-right competitor: a tough on crime, tough on immigration line, complete with the end of Schengen and the emphasis on national powers as opposed to pan-EU ones.
Whether it influences Hollande's rhetoric and policies remains to be seen. The most likely scenario is that any reform agenda will be put on ice to avoid controversy. Hollande will then have to rely on foreign policy, where there are few votes to be gained, and hope that an economic recovery might curb unemployment before the presidential campaign starts in earnest.
Meanwhile, France's European partners would be forgiven for thinking that 18 months is a short time to turn around such a situation.
Isn't the "far-right" really just another name for the "left"?
I truly believe that we need to do away with the Left and Right monikers. The world is divided into two groups; the rational and the fruit loops. Unfortunately, there appear to be a growing number of fruit loops out there these days.
The part with "the role of Germany in the EU" looks intresting to me. Chalanging Merkel's role in Europe is the key issue, because Hollande prove no different from Sarkozy in this matter.
Maybe this is the French way of telling the Commission to keep up the good work.
Sarkozy was even more loser than Hollande; the socialists' defeat was wildly anticipated, and it is Sarko who lost his big chance. He never managed to find his own voice in the French crisis, during the last months and even more after the 13/11 attacks.
This shows how little respect politicians have for democracy and the wishes of the population. The conservatives and socialists unite to prevent the far-right from gaining power. This is what they did is Sweden. With the only options in Britain being being conservative and socialist with no far-right. Then the population is not represented and Britain is not a democracy.
Maybe the French do not want immigration and the EU?
Actually, the EU is anti-European, since it is looking to destroy Europe and replace it with a super state called the European Union.
Parties such as the FN and UKIP want to preserve Europe, which is a beautiful collection of diverse nations, cultures and political systems.
The global elite are losing. People don't want to give up their national identities.


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By addressing questions of how to represent dimensions of social class yet refusing the visual and verbal tropes of vagrancy and poverty, this work points to the tendency of documentary photography to generalize, criminalize, or victimize. By showing us a doorway that a homeless person may have adopted for shelter or an empty whiskey bottle paired with a series of vernacular terms related to alcoholism, Rosler highlights what she calls the "poverty of representation" offered by the "two inadequate descriptive systems" of the work's title.
"The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems." Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology Digital Archive. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2017. https://hammer.ucla.edu/take-it-or-leave-it/art/the-bowery-in-two-inadequate-descriptive-systems/.


Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? Are we being asked to subscribe to the myth that to achieve success we must embrace a more organized approach? Is there only one best way to be organized?
In the previous article in this series (The 2e Profile: Multiple Perspectives, September, 2009), we discussed the importance of understanding who we are in terms of our personality style preferences (Gregorc, Baum & Nicols, 2004). We described four personality types – two of which are more linear and the other two more spontaneous.
Let's return to the scenarios from the parents' discussion group and use these four personality types to better understand the parents' and the children's feelings and attitudes toward organization.
The table below shows how the parents and children differ in their personality style preferences.
Alexa's mom is clearly an abstract sequential/learned expert. Her duties as an attorney require her to be logical and to create a predictable routine to be successful at her job. However, her daughter is a spontaneous organizer who prides herself on a more contextual approach. Alexa can find things better when she places them where she is likely to use them. Her mom, equating an organizational style with life success, thinks it would be better for her daughter to function as her mother does.
Charles' dad is an abstract random/people person who has a more spontaneous style of organization than his son. The dad can neither understand nor relate to Charles' need for routine and structure. Instead, the dad's focus is on interpersonal relationships and his social agenda. In that realm, emotions and how people are relating to each other matter more than predictability and details.
In the case of Craig and his mom, conflict results from a stereotypical perception of how it looks to be organized. Indeed, both Craig and his mom share a random, spontaneous perspective of organization. Attempts to box them in do more harm than good.
Likewise, Brooke's dad is following advice about what organization should look like, even though Brooke is doing fine in school. Brooke has her unique way of organizing, which seems to be working well for her. Trying to make her adopt an organizational style that is not natural for her is causing Brooke much stress.
Do you personally know successful people who organize themselves differently from the way you do?
Can a person be successful but not be a "neatnik"?
Do you believe that successful people can have messy desks, or do you ascribe to the perception that any clutter is a sign of incompetence?
Providing guidance in choosing organizational strategies that can enhance the quality of our lives.
Being able to easily locate your possessions – material or information – without putting in a lot of mental effort; and being able to set them back as needed, just as easily... In other words…being organized is a state of being in control; in control of your space and mind.
We can add to this definition that being organized is also a matter of being in control of the events in your life so that you can be productive.
As we discussed earlier, each of us has our preferred ways of relating to the world and ordering our lives. If we really understand our personality style preferences and if we identify the organization strategies most closely aligned with them, we can make choices that enhance our personal productivity.
For many twice-exceptional learners, productivity is problematic for different reasons. For example, gifted students with Asperger Syndrome may become bogged down by their organizational needs and fall prey to perfectionistic tendencies. In contrast, gifted students with attention issues often find themselves with no particular strategy for organization due to their need for spontaneity and creative stimulation. They may start new tasks as soon as they become bored, leaving unfinished piles littered throughout their space (or yours).
For many talented students with learning or reading challenges, linear forms of organization actually minimize their effectiveness. What these children need are spatial and holistic kinds of organizational strategies. For students whose emotions govern their lives, on the other hand, mood may dictate what they do rather than any predetermined schedule or organizational strategy. What's necessary then, given these variations in approach to organization, is to align organizational strategies to personality style preferences. Following are information and tips to help you do that for each of the four personality types.
Allocate a quiet place for homework. A desk away from noise and activity is best.
Help them organize a school binder with tabs for each subject, assignment sheets, and a monthly calendar listing due dates.
Make assignments, with parameters specified, readily available in written form or online.
Provide a wall calendar, a timer, supplies in drawers with organizers, and file holders with multi-colored file folders. Use file folders to store the different drafts, the papers they wish to save, and the ideas they must put on hold for awhile.
Establish a specific routine for homework that the family respects and can live with. Consistency is essential.
Strategize to avoid over-dependence. For example, provide a daily checklist of tasks arranged in the order to be completed. Establish a rule that youngsters can ask for help or show their work only after the assignment is completed and before starting the next task.
Explain that work submitted for the first time is a draft and need not be perfect. There will be time later to correct anything the teacher feels needs changing.
Provide a quiet place to do homework, such as a desk in their room away from noise and activity or a table in the library where they can spread their books about. Access to the Internet, where they can satiate their intellectual curiosity while studying about a topic, also enhances their learning.
Provide a binder with tabs for each subject, assignment sheets, and a monthly calendar for listing due dates. Include blank pages for sketching out concepts and Post-it notes for jotting down ideas. Pocket pages also help AS/LE students organize extra information that they find on their own about a topic.
Make available pads and pens where AS/LE learners can sketch and fiddle with ideas.
Post a monthly calendar on the wall to help these children see the bigger picture and plan accordingly.
Hang up a bulletin board and use brightly colored Post-it notes to serve as reminders for those mundane tasks like brushing teeth, coming to dinner, and getting a good night's sleep. Providing an electronic calendar with appointment reminders is another option.
Restrict time spent on homework. AS/LE learners might get sidetracked by exploring ideas or going beyond the assignment. To help them stay on task, have them begin their study time by creating an outline of what needs to be completed. Under each main topic, have them sketch out the specifics that will be required.
Set aside an ample but reasonable time period for work. Keep their intellectual appetite in check by having AS/LE students estimate completion times on their outlines. Allow time for them to talk out some of their ideas with an adult either before they begin their homework or a during a mid-session discussion break.
Allow music while working. It often helps them to keep their minds from wandering into more interesting realms, especially if the assignment is not challenging enough.
Make a laptop computer available for research and written work, allowing them the flexibility of sitting in a rocking chair, standing at a counter, or walking about.
Create a work station with shelves and compartments. Each project or subject area should have its own shelf or container to house the stack. Pencils, pens, and other materials should be in a single container – not one for each different utensil.
Provide a variety of containers to organize piles. The mind of a CR/CPS organizes by making multiple web-like connections that are spontaneous and not planned sequentially. Because ideas pop into their heads as they search through their "stuff," it's important for these individuals to have the materials they need scattered around them as they work. Searching among piles helps them make connections between and among projects. Encourage them to create webs to track ideas as they occur.
Giving these students a different binder for each subject might make organization easier for them. Binders are tricky for this group, so use pockets instead of tabbed sections within each binder. The different color pockets can signify homework assignments, handouts, notes, etc.
Encourage frequent breaks and ensure that movement is part of the routine. Having nerf balls, bouncing chairs, or fidgets available will help them sustain attention to the tasks at hand.
Allow music, if appropriate. Having music or the television on in the background helps some of these children sustain attention. For others, such background noise is seductively distracting and should be eliminated.
Respect their need for change of routine and for choice. Accept skipping around among assignments and tasks as long as children have a way to get everything done. Support their time management by asking them what tasks must be done and when they are due. Help them to articulate a commitment by asking when they plan to do a particular task and how much time they think they will need will. Then ask if they need you to remind them. For household chores, follow the same routine. Tell them what you need to have them do and have them tell you when they plan to do it. Again, say that you would be happy to remind them of the time.
Set broad parameters for time. Encourage CR/CPS children to set the timer and work for 15-minute intervals. (The length of time will vary according to age and development). Then encourage them to reward themselves with an exercise or protein break. Sitting with these youngsters to get them started often helps them to get their mind focused on the task.
Provide CR/CPS students with a "traveling office," a large backpack, preferably on wheels, in which they can carry with them everything they need at all times. Getting organized to go to and from school is problematic for these students, and they do best when they don't have to think about it. Within the pack can be a zipper compartment for utensils, another for lunch, and so forth. While everything may just be thrown in together in the backpack, at least what they need is all in one place.
Allow them to work at a table within earshot of the family. They tend to get lonely when sent to a quiet isolated place. Not knowing what else is going on in the house is a distraction for them.
Create an area in their rooms where they can organize their piles. Shelves and bins work well for AR/PPs.
Because their minds organize holistically, encourage them to use webs when planning research papers and writing assignments. From webs can grow outlines if needed. Software programs like Kidspiration and Inspiration provide templates for holistic planning.
Provide colorful markers, scratch-and-sniff stickers, rainbow stickers, and other materials that they can use for decorations, calendar reminders, and rewards for completing tasks in a timely order.
Encourage study buddies and homework pals. Because these youngsters are social, having study dates makes focusing easier. Remember that they will need to schedule off-task breaks to just socialize during their time together. The breaks can act as self-rewards.
Provide or have AR/PP youngsters design a monthly calendar for the wall. Let them decorate deadlines and create an original set of friendly reminders to themselves for key points throughout an assignment. Send them an e-mail as a reminder of due dates and appointments; make sure it's personal and lets them know how proud you are that they are on track.
Make a habit of showing that you appreciate their efforts by using stickers, hugs, compliments, and other symbols of appreciation. You will be supplying the emotional reinforcement they need plus reinforcing task completion and adherence to structure.
Because these students tend to misplace things, keep duplicates of important items like keys, books, and completed assignments. Have the children decide where to place the spares so that they can be returned to that place when the original item is rediscovered. Following this type of procedure will help them develop the habit of putting things that are important to them in the same place.
Like, CR/CPSs, AR/PPs are also candidates for the "traveling office." But do require them to clean out their "office" once a week. Lo and behold, you will probably find any item that went missing during the week.
We must remember that each of us is a combination of all styles, that we have profiles of strengths and weaknesses. More importantly, we must recognize that we cannot force our youngsters to be like us if it's not their natural way of being.
What's essential to understand is that each organizational style has merit and can offer a unique pathway to success. However, we must also be able to recognize when a preferred style is not working for a child. In those cases, by encouraging the child to be flexible and to borrow strategies from other styles, we can help the youngster to jump start his or her productivity.
Kutscher, M.L. & Moran, M. (2009). Organizing the disorganized child: Strategies to succeed in school. NY: Harper Rowe.


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The Elephant Girl
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When five-year-old Helen Stephens witnesses her mother's murder, her whole world comes crumbling down. Rejected by her extended family, Helen is handed over to child services and learns to trust no-one but herself. Twenty years later, her mother's killer is let out of jail, and Helen swears vengeance.
Jason Moody runs a halfway house, desperate to distance himself from his father's gangster dealings. But when Helen shows up on his doorstep, he decides to dig into her past, and risks upsetting some very dangerous people.
As Helen begins to question what really happened to her mother, Jason is determined to protect her. But Helen is getting too close to someone who'll stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden…
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Henriette now lives in London but grew up in Northern Denmark and moved to England after she graduated from the University of Copenhagen. She wrote her first book when she was ten, a tale of two orphan sisters running away to Egypt fortunately to be adopted by a perfect family they meet on the Orient Express.
Between that first literary exploit and now, she has worked in the Danish civil service, for a travel agent, a consultancy company, in banking, hospital administration, and for a county court before setting herself up as a freelance translator and linguist.
Expecting her first child and feeling bored, she picked up the pen again, and when a writer friend encouraged her to join the Romantic Novelists' Association, she began to pursue her writing in earnest. Her debut Up Close won the New Talent Award in 2011 from the Festival of Romance and a Commended from the Yeovil Literary Prize.
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The Elephant Girl is a superb romantic thriller packed with nail-biting intrigue, heart-pounding suspense, searing emotion, red-hot passion and edge of your seat drama. Henriette Gyland is a terrific storyteller who knows how to amplify the danger, leave her readers breathless with exciting twists and turns and make them care about the characters she writes about. I thought Helen was a fantastic heroine. She was a strong, determined and controlled character who managed to overcome all the obstacles that had been thrown in her way to become the person she wanted to be. I also thought Jason was a wonderful hero – sexy, honourable and charismatic, he is certainly the guy you'd want by your side in a crisis! A spellbinding read that kept me up way past my bedtime, The Elephant Girl is a must-read for fans of romantic suspense the world over!
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A sweet love story is buried in the pages of this story, in which a high-end auction house is the battleground for familial rivalry, greed and violence. As the setting moves from the exotic locales of India to the mean streets of London, there's plenty of tension to be had among the key players. The final reveal is well-played.
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The folks at Choc Lit do a nice line in quirky romance, often with a supernatural twist. But this one is a far darker tale about murder, suicide, gangsters and facing hard family truths. Luckily, Gyland beautifully builds the atmosphere and wisely gives us a budding romance, too.
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ABATE of Washington held its annual legislative event Black Thursday again this year on January 18th. What is ABATE, and what is Black Thursday you ask? Well, I'll tell you. ABATE of Washington is the largest motorcycle rights organization in the state of Washington. We believe that no matter what you ride, the laws created in Olympia affect all of us.
Some of the laws ABATE has worked hard to get passed were: the "Sharrows Law" that made it legal for a motorcycle to pass a bicycle in the same lane, the "Red Light Law" that allowed motorcycles that weren't detected by traffic light sensors to proceed through the red light after one cycle when it was safe to do so.
ABATE is currently working to pass a law to allow lane-splitting under certain conditions, to change the state's parking law so that we aren't issued "illegal parking" tickets for parking with our wheels in towards the curb as motorcyclists have done since virtually the day bikes were invented. ABATE is also working to help pass a law to enhance the penalty for someone who fails to yield or stop and sends a motorcyclist to the hospital.
This leads to Black Thursday, which is an annual legislative event open to all motorcyclists, and anyone who supports the 'Freedom of the Road'. During Black Thursday, motorcyclists gather at the Capitol and meet with their legislators to discuss the issues facing motorcyclists. It doesn't matter whether you ride a touring bike, a cruiser, sports bike, dual sport, or even an off-road bike, ABATE fights to protect your Right to ride.
The important thing is that this is a day to meet with our legislators. For those who have never met with a legislator, or feel they wouldn't know what to do, ABATE holds a training seminar during the evening of the night before. Black Thursday is a day for Washington State's motorcycling community to stand together on common issues that affect us all and be heard with one voice. So if you ride, or if you support the right of riders to be able to ride without undue interference by state agencies, come to Black Thursday. It doesn't matter what you ride, it matters that you stand-up for your right to ride.
Although rain was forecast, the sun rose in blue skies after pre-dawn showers. The mass ride-in arrived right on schedule after coming down the freeway from the Hawks Prairie Casino to the Capitol campus. It took several minutes for all the bikes just to be able to roll along the south diagonal before parking and filling three-quarters of the north diagonal with motorcycles.
Once the crowd gathered on the Capitol steps, several carrying protest signs and banners, it was reminiscent of an old style protest rally. Within the large group of motorcyclists present were a mix of cruiser, touring and even a contingent of sports bike riders. The speakers consisted of; myself and Scott Robinson (ABATE of Washington Deputy Coordinator), David Devereux of the Council of Clubs, Larry Walker of the Washington Road Riders Association, and Washington State Senators Sharon Brown, Dean Takko, Tim Sheldon, and Phil Fortunato. The legislators who spoke to the crowd on the Capitol steps included members of both parties and all were sponsors of bills that supported the motorcyclist's rights to ride. The enthusiasm that all the speakers were met with definitely showed a mutual respect that comes from working together over a long period of time.
As of this writing, the Senate version of the parking bill has already received a hearing and had no opposition. The House version is expected to have a hearing quite soon, and the bill to enhance the penalty for hitting and injuring a member of the "vulnerable users of a public way" (read that as; pedestrians, bicyclists, people riding animals, motorcyclists, etc) is scheduled for a hearing later in January. There is even a bill to reduce the $150 registration fee for electric motorcycles to $35 that ABATE is supporting, as well as an amendment to the states motorcycle anti-profiling law. While all of the motorcycle bills that are currently before the legislature may not pass this session, that does not mean ABATE will be giving up on them.
ABATE has been a 501 c (4) not for profit organization fighting for motorcycle rights in Washington State since 1979. An organization that has been around as long as that didn't do it by giving up easily. ABATE will be back at the Capitol next January for the 2019 Black Thursday. If you are interested in being a part of the event, you can learn more on the ABATE of Washington website: abate-wa.org.


What happens when a Population Control Virus wipes out over half of humanity and the only antidote is a fresh human cerebellum? Who unleashed this horrendous virus? How will people survive? Is anyone immune? What would you do?
The story centers on Kelly who has had her whole family harvested in a grisly home invasion by trusted neighbors. Not having anything to live for she doesn't care if the whole world burns. The problem? She's the only known person with a natural immunity to the virus. Therefore she is incredibly important and everyone wants her either to help find a cure, not find a cure or exploit a cure.
HARVEST is a pulse pounding and thought provoking series that gives us a glimpse of the not so distant future.
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The pilot episode will feature appearances by Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911), Jenny Spain (DEADGIRL), David Mattey (Hancock) and Aina O'Kane (Norweigian Pop Sensation). Not only will Jim Ojala direct the pilot episode but he will be overseeing all the makeup fx in the film as well. Jim's background in professional special makeup/creature fx (DEADGIRL, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Hellboy 2, etc.) will also help bring high production value to HARVEST.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Johns Hopkins Commencement Set for May 23
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More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 23, at the commencement ceremony for all of the University's divisions and campuses.
Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg, who has led the transformation of The Atlantic from print magazine to one of the country's most vital online news sites, will be the commencement speaker. He will also be awarded an honorary degree (More background information here.)
Commencement will take place at Royal Farms Arena, 201 W. Baltimore St., in downtown Baltimore. The ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m.; doors open at noon.
To cover the event, members of the media are required to RSVP and show media credentials to enter the arena. Please use the entrance with an awning on Hopkins Pl.
The ceremony will feature remarks from university President Ronald J. Daniels, the conferring of degrees and the bestowing of honorary degrees. In addition, all students in attendance will have their names announced as they file on stage to have their degrees recognized. Students will receive diplomas following the event.
In addition to Goldberg, this year's honorary degree recipients are:
Rosalie Silberman Abella: The first Canadian Supreme Court Justice to receive a Johns Hopkins honorary degree, Abella is the longest-serving judge on Canada's highest court. She is a persuasive and eloquent defender of human rights known for her work in administrative, family, constitutional, and labor law.
An outstanding and prolific scholar and globally recognized judicial leader, Abella has shown a profound understanding of the role of law in shaping more inclusive societies and in changing individual lives. Her landmark work in the 1980s on employment barriers for women, minorities, indigenous people, and those with disabilities set the standard for the Supreme Court. The sole commissioner and author of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, she created the term and concept of "employment equity." The theories of "equality" and "discrimination" she developed were adopted by the Supreme Court, and her report on equality has been implemented in Canada and by governments around the world.
Jeffrey H. Aronson: Aronson has devoted countless hours to advancing Johns Hopkins from nearly every angle, first as an undergraduate and later as a proud Blue Jay parent. He has served as a volunteer, donor, and fundraiser, and ultimately as chair of the university's board of trustees.
Aronson is hailed by President Daniels and the university's academic leaders as a generous partner who has brought tremendous insight and boundless dedication to the role of board chair. His tenure began in 2013, and he will conclude his six-year term this summer. Aronson is managing principal of Centerbridge Partners L.P., a private investment firm that manages $20 billion in capital. The firm focuses on private equity, distressed securities, and credit investments.
Jagdish N. Bhagwati: Bhagwati is celebrated as one of the most creative economic theorists of his generation and a champion of free trade. A professor of economics, law, and international affairs at Columbia University, Bhagwati favors unrestricted trade between nations as a way to raise living standards around the world while also supporting human rights and preserving the environment. Over the course of his career, Bhagwati has been deeply involved in his native India, where he is considered the father of the market reforms that transformed that country's economy. He remains one of India's key fiscal influencers, advocating that good jobs and higher wages can stimulate the country's economy by helping people invest in their own education, health, and vitality.
Cecil D. Haney: U.S. Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney spent nearly 40 years protecting his country through a series of increasingly high-ranking leadership roles and joint-force assignments. Before retiring in 2017, he served for three years as commander of the United States Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, where he was responsible for the global command and control of U.S. strategic forces, including nuclear forces, missile defense, space, cyberspace, and electronic warfare. Prior to being appointed to that role in 2013, Haney served nearly two years as the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, leading the Navy's operations from the West Coast of the United States to the Indian Ocean.
In retirement, Haney serves in an advisory capacity for multiple entities, including the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory board of managers, the General Dynamics board of directors, the Naval Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the Center for a New American Security board of directors, and as co-chair for the China-US Dialogue on Strategic Nuclear Dynamics for the Pacific Forum.
Helen H. Hobbs: With her groundbreaking discovery of genetic variations that determine an individual's susceptibility to heart disease, renowned geneticist Hobbs helped create a new class of drugs that are saving lives around the world.
Hobbs is an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the director of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, which serves as the Center for Human Genetics at UT Southwestern. She is also director of the Dallas Heart Study, a longitudinal, multiethnic, population-based study of Dallas County.
She has received numerous awards and accolades for her pioneering work, including the 2018 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine, which honors physician-scientists who have advanced science with achievements that are both innovative and have potential for clinical application.
Sid Lerner: Throughout his legendary career in advertising, Lerner has created campaigns that change the way the nation thinks about everything from common household items—"Don't Squeeze the Charmin!"—to public health and the environment.
In 2003, Lerner launched the Meatless Monday campaign, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, convincing carnivores to forgo meat one day each week to improve their health while conserving the valuable environmental resources it takes to bring meat into the global food supply. Since its launch, the campaign has grown into a global movement with programs in more than 35 countries and participation from thousands of restaurants, schools, worksites, communities, and celebrities.
About the Graduating Class (as of May 13):
The total number of earned degrees, certificates and diplomas awarded for the 2018-2019 academic year is expected to be about 9,200. That includes:
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences: 2,551
Whiting School of Engineering: 1,913
Carey Business School: 1,246
School of Education: 1,049
Peabody Institute: 237
School of Nursing: 280
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies: 681
School of Medicine: 100
Bloomberg School of Public Health: 1,155
About the other ceremonies:
The nine academic divisions will hold the following additional commencement events:
Tuesday, May 21, 3 p.m., Royal Farms Arena
Speaker: Laurie Garrett, American Science journalist and author
Wednesday, May 22, 11 a.m., Hippodrome Theatre
Speaker: Ahrin Mishan, Executive Director, The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Carey Business School
Tuesday, May 21, 2 p.m., Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Speaker: Calvin G. Butler, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, BGE
Wednesday, May 22, 9 a.m., Royal Farms Arena
Speaker: Kelly N. Harper, 2019 DC Teacher of the Year
Whiting School of Engineering – Master's Degrees
Tuesday, May 21, 10 a.m., Royal Farms Arena
Speaker: Tyson Tuttle, President and CEO, Silicon Labs
Whiting School of Engineering and Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
Tuesday, May 21, 3 p.m., Shriver Hall
Speaker: Harold (Hal) Weaver, Ph.D., New Horizons Project Scientist
Wednesday, May 22, 2:30 p.m., Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Speaker: Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Tortsen N. Wiesel Professor, The Rockefeller University, Head, Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior
School of Advanced International Studies
Wednesday, May 22, 11 a.m., DAR Constitution Hall
Speaker: Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Peabody Conservatory
Wednesday, May 22, 10 a.m., Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall
Speaker: Tori Amos, Singer – Songwriter
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences – Master's Degrees
Wednesday, May 22, 3 p.m., Royal Farms Arena
Speaker: Rosalie Silberman Abella, jurist, Canadian Supreme Court justice
May 20, 2019 Tags: 2019, Class Of 2019, Commencement, graduation, Jeffrey Goldberg
Posted in Commencement, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related


How fascinating! I wonder who came up with the idea for the convention, the television network or Scranton. I've heard of movies hosting premiers and events similar to this. Most recently, The Simpson's Movie held a contest this summer to determine which Springfield (I believe there are 13 states with a Springfield) would show the movie premier first.
Scranton should put on a citywide scavenger hunt for contestants to win The Office memorabilia. Maybe local businesses and restaurants could use this as an opportunity to have a special promotion or sale.
Personally, I would have loved to have gone to the Northern Exposure Moosefest!


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The Platte City & Fort Des Moines Railroad Company was created for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad to commence at a point on the Missouri river opposite or nearly opposite the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, and run thence north-easterly to a point on the state line between Missouri and Iowa in the direction of Fort Des Moines. The name of the company was afterwards lawfully changed to the Leavenworth & Des Moines Railway Company, and later to the Chicago & Southwestern Railway Company. Such changes, however, were merely of name.
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On the 25th of September, 1869, these two companies adopted articles of consolidation, and became one company, under the name of the Chicago & South Western Railway Company, for the purpose of building a railroad from some point on the Washington branch of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, in the state of Iowa, to the Missouri river, in the state of Missouri, at a point on the Missouri river opposite or nearly opposite the city of Leavenworth, in the state of Kansas. In the proceedings which resulted in this act of consolidation the county of Leavenworth, as one of the stockholders in the Chicago & Southwestern Railway Company of Missouri, was represented by its duly-appointed agent, who gave his assent to the consolidation. On the 1st of October, 1869, six days after this consolidation, the new company entered into a contract with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company, whereby it agreed to issue its bonds in the amount of $5,000,000, payable 30 years after date, bearing interest at the rate of 7 percent per annum, for which coupons were to be attached to the bonds, the whole to be secured by a mortgage on its entire line of road to the Missouri River.
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Q: Drag mailitem from "Advanced Find" window in Outlook and drop on Winforms? Most code samples for dragging a MailItem from Outlook and dropping on a widows form involve a reference to Outlook's ActiveExplorer window ...
Here's an example
Dim objMI As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem

For Each objMI In objOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection()
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    lblFile.Text += strFile + Environment.NewLine
    objMI.SaveAs(strFile)
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... however this produces unexpected results if dragging from the Advanced Find popup window.
What happens is your C# or VB code grabs the selected email from the main Outlook window not the one you've actually selected from the Advanced Find list of emails. Unless the user is alert he won't even notice he's got the wrong email.
Is there any solution to this?

A: You could determine if their is not an ActiveWindow() (no active explorer or inspector in use) and then leverage the IDataObject interface instead of ActiveExplorer.Selection(). For our plugin - we just chose not to support the Advanced Find for drag-n-drop operations, but this is not always an option.
For an example using Win32 IDataObject - download this Code Project Outlook Drag-n-Drop example. For some reason Microsoft chose not to expose a VSTO interface wrapper around the Advanced Find window. This issue still exists in Office 2013.

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11 For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
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For he that said, Do not commit adultery
That same lawgiver, who is but one, and is God, that gave out the seventh command, and forbids adultery,
said also, Do not kill;
delivered the sixth command, which forbids murder.
Now if thou commit no adultery;
do not break the seventh command;
yet if thou kill,
break the sixth command,
thou art become a transgressor of the law;
not of that particular precept of the law, the seventh command, for the contrary is supposed before, but of the sixth only; and yet by so doing, a man becomes a violator of the whole law; for the law is but one, though it consists of various precepts; and the breach of one precept, as well as of another, is the breach of the law: and besides, there is but one lawgiver, who has enjoined one command, as well as another, and whose legislative power and authority is despised and trampled upon by the violation of one command, as of another. This is the apostle's argument, and way of reasoning, proving the above assertion, that he that breaks the law in one particular instance, is guilty of the breach of the whole law.
James 2:11 In-Context
9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.


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Ми́хал Шле́зингр (; род. 3 февраля 1983 года в Усти-над-Орлици, Пардубицкий край, Чехословакия) — чешский биатлонист, чемпион мира 2015 года в смешанной эстафете.

Шлезингр начал заниматься биатлоном в 10 лет.

Завершил карьеру в сезоне 2019/2020.

В юниорских категориях выступал очень успешно. Участвовал на 5 чемпионатах мира среди юниоров с 2000 по 2004 годы, завоевав на них 7 медалей (1 золотую, 4 серебряные и 2 бронзовые), а также на 4 чемпионатах Европы среди юниоров с 2000 по 2003 годы завоевал 4  медали (1 золотую, 2 серебряные и 1 бронзовую).

Дебютировал в Кубке мира в сезоне 2001/02. В дальнейшем его результаты улучшались год от года, и, начиная с сезона 2004/05, он стабильно входит в состав основной сборной команды Чехии.

На зимних Олимпийских играх 2006 года в Турине Шлезингру не удалось показать высоких результатов: в индивидуальной гонке он был лишь 45-м, в спринте — 57-м, в гонке преследования — 34-м. В эстафете в составе чешской сборной занял шестое место. Удачным оказался для Михала Шлезингра сезон 2006/07: на чемпионате мира в Антерсельве он завоевал две награды в индивидуальной гонке и в спринте. В следующем сезоне завоевал 3 медали (1 серебряную и 2 бронзовые) на чемпионате Европы в Нове-Место-на-Мораве. На чемпионате мира в Контиолахти 2015 года Шлезингр добился самого большого успеха в своей карьере, завоевав золотую медаль в смешанной эстафете.

Также является двукратным чемпионом мира по летнему биатлону (в 2005 и 2014 годах завоевал золото в эстафетных гонках)

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Kip Winger's "This Conversation Seems Like a Dream"; Silver Scooter's "The Other Palm Springs"
This one was released quite a while ago, and I have avoided it for reasons obvious to anyone who remembers '80s metal power ballads. By now, it's common knowledge that Kip Winger lives and works right here in New Mexico, but the fact that he's dimensional beyond his '80s poster-boy status is something most of us would never have entertained in light of his previous work.
Winger (the man, not the band) first emerged as Alice Cooper's bass player in the middle of the 1980s, back when musclehead Cain Roberts served as Cooper's guitarist and the brunt of many a swashbuckling illusion. Soon after, Winger (the band and the man) were so all over MTV that one could view virtually nothing else on the channel save for Slaughter, which is another story entirely. Written off early on as the cheesiest of cheese metal, Winger faded from sight by the early '90s, and the band's namesake wasn't heard from for some time.
That all changed last year when Winger (the man, not the band) showed up in sunny New Mexico, taught some classes at the College of Santa Fe and did a stint on Albuquerque's 94-Rock as a DJ. In the meantime, he also managed to record a very L.A.-sounding record at Rising Sun Studios in New Mexico's capital city. But despite its almost overly slick production, This Conversation Seems Like a Dream contains moments of palpable passion and purity. Partial credit for this is due to heavy hitters like drummer Rod Morgenstein and guitarist Andy Timmons. But Winger's (the man, not the band) debut solo effort also reflects quite a bit of depth that one might not be inclined to associate with a guy who's best remembered for packing his tool into painfully tight stretch denim and wearing the latest model Washburn bass in videos meant to showcase him as some sort of quasi-supermodel.
This Conversation Seems Like a Dream isn't exactly cohesive (partially due to the surprising fact that Kip himself managed to escape '80s pigeonholing almost unscathed); it's marked instead by moments of actual composition rather than a quandary of formulaic songwriting. Most listeners are likely to be appalled at the record's progressive-rock atmosphere, but there's much to be said about its ballsy attempt to break free from what we might expect from a guy with his particular reputation.
The result is a record that's far from unlistenable, but one that is not likely to drop many jaws. Some of the music is rather overindulgent, and the lyrics are generally uninspiring. But the fact that Winger (the guy, not the band) is maturing as an artist is at least worth a trip to the listening station at the local record store. !!!
Silver Scooter's "Tractor Pull," the opening track on the Austin trio's latest release, could just as easily be an outtake from Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On. But as the record progresses, the overt Built to Spill bandwagoneering slowly fades until we're left with some fairly proud Texas pop-punk. That's not to say, though, that The Other Palm Springs fits all that snugly within the loosely defined confines of said subgenre. There are a host of other influences and borrowed sounds at work here--everything from the Alarm to early Feelies on back to the db's.
"Good Man Down" and "Catching Fish," two of the album's several highlights, have more in common with indie rock delights that have come from Chapel Hill-sters like Archers of Loaf (at their calmest) and Polvo (at their least weird) than with most of their Austin-mates.


I'm from Los Angeles and was excited to find this site. I plan on arriving in BA in October and staying for a while. I would definitely like to meet some other expatriates while I'm down there. My Spanish is a bit rusty (heh).
My question has to do with immagration. It sounds like some of you are married to Argentinians, which makes this not much of an issue. But for those that aren't, how do you handle it? I understand US citizens do not need a visa and can stay as a tourist for 90 days, extendable to 180 days. What are the options to stay legally after those 180 days?
I won't be working or engaging in business while I'm there. I'd like to live there a for a year, maybe even buy an apartment if I really like it.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
If you start a process of obtaining legal residency now, my guess is that it will take more than a year, so hardly it makes sense in your situation. You can check Weblinks -> Immigation and Visas section of our site and particularly Ley 25.871 that describes available types of resident visas and requirements for getting them.
To maintain legal status staying here as a tourist beyond 180 days (tourist visa and extension), you can make a day trip to neighboring Urugay when you visa will be about to expire. It takes less than an hour to get by fast ferry (http://www.buquebus.com) to Colonia del Sacramento - the closest Uruguay city on the other side of the La Plata river. Price of roundtrip ticket is about 60 dollars. On return you will automatically get a new 90 days tourist visa that can also be renewed.
You don't have to be a resident to buy real estate property here.
thanks, admin, I was hoping that would work (a day trip out of the country every three months to keep renewing the tourist visa). I've done that in Eastern European countries too, so it's not a problem. I'll take a look at the document you mention as well.
Any other tips/comments/useful information is greatly appreciated!
I'd add that Colonia has a beautiful hiostoric district that you should see. It's also a nice place to spend a night - there are several excellent small hotels.
has anyone ever heard of one instance where an immigration officer refused to grant another 90 day visa following repeated trips to Uruguay or elsewhere? Is there any chance of experiencing a problem at the border?
As for the tourist visa - ours expired and when I went to migraciones to extend them I was told from an agent there I could pay 100 pesos/passport there to renew or I could go to Uruguay and renew when we come back into Argentina for 50 pesos each. Also, there is no problem to overstay your visa for however long apparently - in the end it is still only a 50 peso fee when leaving the country. I recently took a trip to Iguazu and updated our visas at the Brazil border and at that point they'd expired 8 months earlier. There were no questions asked, I simply paid and that was that.
Another very interesting bit of information I learned (very different from the states!) is this: the father of my child is Argentine; he and I were together for 12 years but never married. However, I am eligible to receive my Argentine documents once I have them for our child - she automatically receives them and I do in turn, because I am her mother. Que suertes! I'm sharing this in case there is anyone else out there in a similar situation who wants to stay in Argentina. Once I have the doc. I can start working that same day (*then I only need to find the job!).
The process is pretty simple. You only need your birth cert., and a letter stating you have no criminal record in the states - both need be originals with apostilles - then once here must be translated. In Argentina you also need a legal note stating you have no criminal record here - you get that from Tribunales for about 25 pesos and it comes in about a week. In migraciones I was told the day I bring in our paperwork is the day we receive our documents. Which will hopefully be any day now - I am still waiting for it from the states. So if you are still in the states I highly recommend getting your paperwork together before coming here.


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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son sticks with gut-led investing
Son last month said he misjudged Neumann's character, after WeWork and other sputtering bets saw his $100 billion Vision Fund report an $8.9 billion second-quarter operating loss.Reuters | December 06, 2019, 17:36 IST
Weeks after his billion-dollar bailout of WeWork, SoftBank Group's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son reiterated his belief in an instinct-led investing style, in a discussion with Alibaba Group's co-founder Jack Ma.
SoftBank owns 26% of China's Alibaba, with its origin in a $20 million investment in 2000, and the stake is now worth more than the Japanese firm's market capitalization.
Son on Friday said the decision to invest in Alibaba was driven by a gut feeling.
Other entrepreneurs Son met at that time "did not have true belief in their heart. I can feel," Son said. "We are the same animal. We are both a little crazy," he said of long-time ally Ma.
Read: After WeWork, SoftBank's startup accounting model under fire. Oyo raises eyebrows
Ma said Son initially tried to invest $50 million in the e-commerce firm, but that he declined saying it was too large a sum - part of a pattern of offering big cheques to company founders that continued with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann.
Son's comments come weeks after he was forced to bail out office-sharing startup WeWork when Neumann's level of control over his firm and hard-partying ways chilled investor appetite and crashed plans for an initial public offering (IPO).
Son last month said he misjudged Neumann's character, after WeWork - formally The We Company - and other sputtering bets saw his $100 billion Vision Fund report an $8.9 billion second-quarter operating loss.
Read: SoftBank's second Vision Fund is starting life with a mere $2 billion
The conversation at Tokyo University between two of Asia's most prominent tech entrepreneurs comes at a point of divergence in their careers, with 55-year-old Ma retiring as Alibaba's executive chairman in September and Son pledging to spend his sixth decade at the helm of his investment juggernaut.
Domestically, SoftBank hopes to drive commercialization of the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI), announcing on Friday it will spend 20 billion yen ($184 million) over 10 years funding an AI research institute with Tokyo University.
Son "probably has the biggest guts in the world on doing investment," Ma told attendees to the conference.
"Too much guts, sometimes I lose a lot of money," Son responded.
With the highly leveraged SoftBank trying to raise funds for a second mega fund in which it is currently the only investor, its stake in Alibaba is one possible source of funds.
"In my view I have not achieved anything yet," Son said. "I'm still a challenger and everyday I'm still fighting."
That approach contrasts with Ma, who stepped back from running Alibaba to focus on philanthropy.
Tags : Internet, Masayoshi Son, Softbank, Jack Ma, softbank vision fund, Adam Neumann


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Intelligent Server Processors. Built-In Virtualization. Single Core Servers . . . have we lost you yet?
If, like many owner/managers of small businesses, you are simply confused by technical jargon, struggle to get to grips with your company's IT operations in general, or if you merely don't have the means or manpower to focus your energies on this vital aspect of running your company, then we seriously recommend you join us for this week's smallbusinesadvice.tv show.
It is vital for all small businesses to pay particular consideration to their IT structure. For example, how many companies won't invest in a secure, regularly backed-up server to host crucial and sensitive company data, instead opting to run their company from a desktop PC? Yet the former will reduce business risk and crucially save money in the long term. For many SMEs in this position, they could very easily lose years of data and client information by not having an up-to-date back up, so it's essential that you protect your business against data loss.
Joining presenter Ian Collins in the studio to show you how to best set up and run your company's IT operation and how you can work around the monetary issues that can prevent many SMEs from investing in an efficient IT structure is Steve Shakespeare, Intel's EMEA Business Solutions Director.
If you have any questions for Steve please e-mail them now via the box below and we'll do our best to answer them during the live show.
Steve Shakespeare joins us live online on Friday 29th May at 12pm to discuss ways you can best set up and run your company's IT operation or follow the link to submit questions ahead of Friday's show.


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Trump Offers U.S. Aid To Penalized Chinese Telecom Company
In a surprising overture to China, President Donald Trump says he would help a Chinese telecommunications company get "back into business," saying too many jobs in China are at stake after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprising overture to China, President Donald Trump says he would help a Chinese telecommunications company get "back into business," saying too many jobs in China are at stake after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers.
The U.S. Commerce Department last month blocked the ZTE Corp., a major supplier of telecom networks and smartphones based in southern China, from importing American components for seven years. The U.S. accused ZTE of misleading American regulators after it settled charges of violating sanctions against North Korea and Iran.
The dispute predates Trump's arrival in the Oval Office and the Commerce sanction was issued amid worsening trade tensions between the U.S. and China.
Trump's unexpected announcement Sunday comes as the two countries prepare for additional trade talks in Washington this week. Given past vows to stop the flow of U.S. jobs to China and what he's called unfair trade practices, Trump's seeming concern about Chinese jobs was something of a backflip.
"A reversal of the ZTE decision could temporarily tamp down trade tensions by allowing the Chinese to make concessions to the U.S. without losing face," said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University. "Trump may have recognized that backing off on ZTE clears the path for him to claim at least a partial victory in the US-China trade dispute based on the concessions the Chinese seem prepared to offer."
ZTE, a company with more than 70,000 employees that has supplied some of the world's biggest telecoms companies, said in early May that it had halted its main operations as a result of the department's "denial order."
Trump tweeted that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping "are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!"
It is not exactly clear what Trump has in mind for ZTE, if he is seeking a rollback of the Commerce decision.
"The President's tweet underscores the importance of a free, fair, balanced, and mutually beneficial economic, trade and investment relationship between the United States and China," said White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters in a prepared statement.
The White House deferred to the Commerce Department on any specific questions relating to sanctions.
In a later tweet, Trump suggested the U.S. and China were moving forward on trade negotiations, but it was not clear how the ZTE case would fit into the bigger picture.
"I've never seen a president step in and reverse an agency decision like this. It's not clear, of course, if he's planning to really reverse it or think of a solution in a larger context, but it is something that is just out of the norm," said Amanda DeBusk, the chair of the international trade and government regulations practice at the firm Dechert LLP.
DeBusk, a former Commerce Department assistant secretary for export enforcement, said Trump's announcement indicates "he is looking to accomplish his objectives on trade with China on a much larger level."
The tactic caught experts on international relations off guard.
"At a minimum, the optics of the decision are terrible. Although the recent step to ban sales of American components to ZTE for seven years may have been going overboard, the manner in which this reversal is being made cheapens the value of the national security and legal foundations of executive branch actions," said Scott Kennedy, of the Center for Strategic & International Studies. "It makes it appear as if the Trump administration is willing to trade protecting American national security for promoting some US agricultural exports and Chinese jobs."
The widening trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies has taken a toll on both sides. U.S. companies that export to China have had goods held up in China's ports. The block on ZTE was a heavy blow for the company but also hurt the U.S. companies it buys from. According to IDC data, ZTE sources more than 40 percent of its components from the U.S., creating a multibillion-dollar revenue stream for suppliers like Qualcomm and Intel.
China objected to ZTE's punishment at trade talks in Beijing this month, and the American delegation agreed to report them to Trump. ZTE has asked the department to suspend the seven-year ban on doing business with U.S. exporters. By cutting off access to U.S. suppliers of essential components such as microchips, the ban threatens ZTE's existence, the company has said.
At the Beijing talks, the Trump administration handed China a list of hard-line demands that trade experts said could make it even more difficult to resolve the trade disputes.
But Trump set a more reassuring tone in a separate tweet Sunday, saying the two economic giants were "working well together on trade, but past negotiations have been so one sided in favor of China, for so many years, that it is hard for them to make a deal that benefits both countries. But be cool, it will all work out!"
China on Monday welcomed Trump's comments.
"We think highly of the U.S. statement regarding ZTE's case," said Lu Kang, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry. "We are currently in close communication over details of the implementation."
The foreign ministry said Vice Premier Liu He will visit the U.S. from Tuesday to Saturday for consultations with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
Trump is seeking to cut U.S. trade deficit by $100 billion and to garner new concessions related to sharing technology, a precondition to doing business in China that many companies have complained about.
The U.S. imposed the penalty on Shenzhen-based ZTE after finding that the company, which had already paid a $1.2 billion fine, not only failed to discipline employees that were involved, but paid them bonuses.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross last month accused ZTE of misleading the department and warned, "This egregious behavior cannot be ignored."
California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, criticized Trump for softening his stance on ZTE.
"Our intelligence agencies have warned that ZTE technology and phones pose a major cyber security threat. You should care more about our national security than Chinese jobs," Schiff said in a tweet directed at Trump.
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Join us for the Inaugural Copper Cowboy 24 Hour Trail Run in Willcox, Arizona.
Runners depart Rhino Ridge at high Noon (12:00pm) and run for 24 hours on a fully supported 6.2 mile loop. You can either take the 24 hours for yourself, or share the fun with some friends in a relay run. Teams will have one timing chip and each runner must run at least once. The goal is to get the most amount of miles in the 24 hours and a loop must be completed by noon on Sunday for it to count.
Running for 24 hours not enough of a challenge? We have a "heavy" category. We challenge you to add a 20-pound Rucksack to your back for the duration of the run!
Solo runners completing more then 18 loops (111.6 miles) and Solo runners in the HEAVY category completing more then 10 loops (62 miles) will receive the coveted "Copper Cowboy" award.
We will have a lot of action at the start/finish. There will be music, food, vendors and some games from our annual adventure race. As the sun goes down get ready to eat Smores and listen to Cowboy Stories around the campfire! Camping under the stars is also permitted at the start/finish on Friday and Saturday for $15/night. Bring the whole family. The kids will have a great time!


A few weeks ago we came across an article on "The Cheerleader Effect," or the idea that people seem more attractive in a group than in isolation. Although there does seem to be evidence that this is true, we couldn't help but speculate as to why.
In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about the possible psychology behind this phenomenon.


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News Reports Highlight Severe Staffing Shortage at Federal Prisons
Categories: BOP, The Insider
A severe shortage of correctional officers in federal prisons is making headlines across the country and even overseas, thanks to the advocacy of AFGE locals and the Council of Prison Locals.
On May 21, the Associated Press published an article on the staffing crisis, reporting that nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs nationwide are vacant. This has resulted in officers working vast amounts of overtime and non-officer employees including cooks, teachers, and nurses being assigned to work as correctional officers under a process called augmentation.
The AP spoke to several AFGE local presidents identified by the Council of Prison Locals and ended up quoting two in the article: Local 4070 President Jonathan Zumkehr at USP Thomson in northern Illinois, and Local 1237 President Aaron McGlothin at FCI Mendota in central California.
"We're tired of the agency putting a price tag on our lives," McGlothin told the AP. "We've had staff members killed in the line of duty. We've had staff members injured in the line of duty. At what point do they realize they've got a problem to fix, and quit putting a Band-Aid over it?"
The AP article has been republished by nearly 600 outlets across the United States and overseas – as far away as Malaysia. It also prompted the Las Vegas Sun to publish an editorial calling for Congress to increase prison funding, raise salaries, and take other actions to address the staffing crisis.
The two local presidents quoted in the AP article also appeared in local news reports about the staffing crisis at their prisons.
USP Thomson, a high-security facility roughly an hour north of the Quad Cities, is currently short 110 correctional officers – seven staff resigned in the last two weeks alone – due to low pay and a shortage of affordable housing. The fewer than 500 employees on staff there are taking on more than 2,000 overtime shifts each month to compensate for the shortages, LP Zumkehr told WQAD for a segment first broadcasted on May 25.
"If they don't do anything, this cycle will never end. We'll bring on new staff, they'll work at Thomson for 18 months and they'll transfer, they'll leave," Zumkehr said.
Local 4070 has been calling for the Bureau of Prisons to provide 25% retention pay to officers, but the agency so far has refused. Rep. Cheri Bustos, whose congressional district includes the prison, joined Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois in sending a joint letter April 16 to Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal and Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Kathleen McGettigan asking for Thomson employees to receive the retention bonuses and also be moved into the higher paying Chicago pay locality, the Quad City Times reported.
The staffing situation is similarly dire at FCI Mendota, where officer staffing levels are 30 to 40 percent below the level needed to safely manage inmates. Compounding the problem, hundreds of federal inmates are being transferred to FCI Mendota from a private-sector prison in Texas that is closing – an action that will exacerbate already critical staffing shortages. In addition, there's little incentive to invest in adequate staffing and resources, as prison wardens receive executive bonuses for failing to spend allocated funds each year.
LP McGlothin organized a protest outside FCI Mendota on May 17 to draw attention to the severe understaffing, which is endangering workers' lives. The local ABC affiliate in Fresno, Calif., reported on the rally for a televised segment that included interviews with McGlothin and Mendota Mayor Rolando Castro, who appeared at the rally to lend his support.
"Our tax money is in that facility and I want to make sure our employees are safe," the mayor said.
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