WASHINGTON–DC–The Armenian American community scored bipartisan Congressional victories across the political landscape yesterday–with 199 of 202 Senate and House candidates endorsed by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) winning their elections.
"We are extremely pleased that such an overwhelming majority of our supporters won–including over 98% of those we endorsed in the House of Representatives and 97% of the Congressional Armenian Caucus," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We look forward to working with these friends and the many new members of the 109th Congress on issues ranging from affirming the Armenian genocide to strengthening Armenia and defending Karabagh's right to self-determination within secure borders."
"More than ever–we were gratified by the dramatically increased involvement of Armenian Americans in the electoral process–in particular–by the positive response to our voter education campaign on the ground in local communities and on our website–www.anca.org. In the weeks prior to the election–we registered over 50,000 unique visits from Armenian American activists interested in learning more about where their candidates for office stood on the issues of importance to our community," added Hamparian.
In a separate statement–ANCA Chairman Ken Hachikian congratulated President Bush on his election victory–thanked Senator Kerry for a hard fought election campaign–and praised the Armenian American community for an unprecedented level of activism in this season's electoral contests US Senate.
All ten ANCA endorsed Senate incumbent candidates were re-elected–including Barbara Boxer (D-CA)–Christopher Dodd (D-CT)–Evan Bayh (D-IN)–Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)–Judd Gregg (R-NH)–Harry Reid (D-NV)–Charles Schumer (D-NY)–Ron Wyden (D-OR)–Patrick Leahy (D-VT)–and Russell Feingold (D-WI).
In a stunning upset–Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) lost his seat to former South Dakota Congressman John Thune. Daschle–who had received a "C" grade on the ANCA report card–had been largely unresponsive to Armenian American concerns–withholding his support for the Genocide Resolution (S.Res.164) in the 108th Congress.
Of the eight members of the Senate retiring–two–Illinois Republican Peter Fitzgerald and Oklahoma Republican Don Nickles–had received an "F" grade from the ANCA. The others–including Senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO)–Bob Graham (D-FL)–Zell Miller (D-GA)–John Breaux (D-LA)–and Fritz Hollings (D-SC) generally failed to take a stand on Armenian American concerns. Of the incoming Senators–the ANCA had endorsed Barack Obama (D-IL)–who had reached out to the Armenian American community in the months leading up to the elections and Rep. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)–who–as a House Member–had supported Armenian Genocide recognition initiatives. Rep. David Vitter (R-LA)–who will be replacing Sen. Breaux (D-LA)–had received an "F" rating in the House from the ANCA for his opposition to Armenian American concerns.
Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairmen Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) both will return to the 109th Congress–along with 138 of the 142 Caucus members from the 108th Congress. Also returning are Armenian American Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and John Sweeney (R-NY) each winning re-election by large margins.
Caucus member Rep. Martin Frost (D-TX) lost–in what emerged as one of the most expensive House races–to Rep. Jeff Sessions–who has received an "F" rating from the ANCA. Rep. Joe Hoeffel (D-PA) lost his bid for the Pennsylvania Senate to Republican Senator Arlen Specter. Other Caucus members retiring are Gerald Kleczka (D-WI) and Jim Greenwood (R-PA).
ANCA endorsed non-incumbents Jim Costa (D-CA-20)–Kenny Marchant (R-TX-24)–Joe Schwarz (R-MI-7)–Dan Lungren (R-CA-3)–and Cynthia McKinney (D-GA-4)–each of whom won their election bids. Central California ANC members worked closely with the Costa campaign in the months leading up to the vote. McKinney–who served in the House of Representatives until 2002–was an outspoken advocate of Armenian genocide reaffirmation efforts–serving on the House International Relations Subcommittee on Europe. Michigan area Armenian American activists worked with and fundraised extensively for Joe Schwarz–who is replacing outgoing House member Nick Smith–who received an "F" rating from the ANCA. Other House Members with "F" ratings leaving Congress include New York Republican Amo Houghton and Florida Republican Porter Goss.
For a full listing of ANCA endorsemen's visit www.anca.org.


Now that tax season is upon us, many of us will be getting tax refunds. Getting a tax refund is great, but it can easily be wasted. There is a huge temptation to spend it all as soon as you get it. It's free money, right? This isn't really the case and we will get into why.
It can feel incredibly nice to get hundreds or thousands of dollars that you didn't have before. Why not splurge on something you might not get otherwise? This is completely normal and I normally try to splurge on something small. Then I use a decision framework for figuring out what to do with the rest of my refund.
If you are curious about this year's tax refund and standard deduction, checkout our other post. It can help you figure out how your taxes might change this year. For most people, it looks like we might be getting back more than before!
As I said before, a tax refund often feels like "free" money. It was money I wasn't expecting as it had already been taken out for taxes. In reality, you should be treating your tax refund more like regular income.
The reason for this is that a tax refund effectively means you overpaid on taxes this year. The number of allowances on your W2 only gives a rough estimate for how much taxes to take out. Many times this rough estimate means that slightly more is getting taken out of your paycheck than needed. In theory you want to be as close to $0 as possible on your tax return. That means you were getting the maximum amount from your paychecks throughout the year.
It isn't like the government is "stealing", it's more that taxes are really hard to estimate when projecting out 12 months. Erring on the side of taking out a bit more isn't a bad thing, otherwise you would owe at the end of the year.
I like to think of my tax refund like a deferred paycheck. It's money I'm "entitled" to, but I'm getting it later to make sure I paid enough in taxes. Because it's a paycheck, I try to treat it as such. Meaning I'll put it in investment accounts, savings, etc. similar to how I would use any other paycheck. The only difference is I'll buy a treat that I might not otherwise. A fancy dinner, expensive concert tickets, etc. are a great idea. Enough to feel like a splurge, but won't waste your entire return.
Here are a few ideas I have for putting your tax return to work for you. I follow the wealth ladder system and use it as my framework for trying to figure out what to do with my tax refund.
If you are holding any high interest debt like credit cards, car loan, etc. this is a great time to pay a chunk of it off. You can save thousands in interest by paying extra on your loans.
Let's say you get back $1,200 from your return and currently have $5,000 in credit card debt that you pay $100 a month towards. If you were to keep making your regular payments, here is how long it will take you to pay back.
If you were to pay off a $1,200 chunk right now, then keep paying $100 here is the difference.
Paying off the $1,200 saves you over 2 years and $1,500+ of interest on your debt. This is a huge difference and is worth trying to knock out a chunk of your debt with your tax return. If you are trying to pay down debt, definitely look into leveraging your return to help you build your path to being debt free.
If you don't have an emergency fund, I would definitely suggest using your tax refund towards starting one. Depending on your risk tolerance, your emergency fund should be anywhere from 3-6 months of your monthly expenses. If you already have one, it can be a good idea to contribute a bit more to give yourself some leeway for any unforeseen expenses.
I like to pad my emergency fund a bit with my tax refund based on how much I am getting back. If you're emergency fund is already "full" consider putting 10-20% of your refund into it. Something always comes up throughout the year. It feels nice not having to touch your original fund amount while still being able to take care of unforeseen items.
If your finances are already in order you could consider investing your tax refund. Remember this is post-tax money so you have some flexibility with it. You can put it in your own post-tax investment account or find somewhere else to park it.
I personally love the idea of funding a Roth IRA with your refund. Because it is post tax you can put it into your Roth. If you do it before April 15th, it counts as last years contribution as well. This means you can get your tax refund, and still try and max your Roth for the year you just filed taxes for.
All of these can often cost thousands of dollars. Getting a head start and saving for something in the future is never a bad thing. It's definitely better than going into debt for something. Start your fund now and save for your future goals.
If you find yourself not knowing what to do with a hefty tax return, take a look at our examples above. Getting a tax return can be great and can pay dividends in the future. Invest in your future self and put that return to work for you.
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When purchasing fire extinguishers for home or office, it is of upmost importance to ensure that the chosen extinguisher is rated correctly for the environment and the likely combustables it will be used for. A summary of UL fire classification ratings is below.
Note: The number indicates the extinguisher's relative power against that class of fire. For example, an extinguisher with a 2A rating is twice as powerful against common combustible fires as a 1A extinguisher. Class C and D do not have numerical ratings.


Shares of the banking giant fell after its private-banking operation in Japan was shut down. Merrill downgraded Citigroup for its difficulty in making changes "to balance growth and ethics."
The Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods giant's shares slumped after it said 2004 earnings would grow in the low single-digit percentage range, down from its previous forecast of low double digits.
The maker of sneakers and other athletic wear reported a 25% gain in earnings for the latest quarter, spurred by sales of its Converse unit's retro-look sneakers. The results easily vaulted past analysts' estimates.
Despite a 23% jump in second-quarter earnings, in line with Street estimates, shares of the home-decor retailer fell as it reported a deceleration in same-store sales growth, to 4.8% from 5.9% a year earlier.
Even as crude jumped to $49 a barrel, shares of the international integrated oil company slumped after Deutsche Bank downgraded its opinion on the majors to Neutral from Overweight.
Eastman Kodak bucked the weaker market as it projected sales of digital products will increase 36% by 2007 from 2003 levels. Since getting booted from the DJIA last April, Kodak's shares are up 26%.
Shares of the Wall Street powerhouse rose after it reported a 30% jump in third-quarter net, with strong showings in all segments -- despite the Fed's rate hikes and a lackluster equity-trading environment.
The venerable investment bank was caught wrongfooted as it bet on rising bond yields, resulting in unexpectedly weak net in the latest quarter. Shares slumped 8% on news of the 30% earnings drop.
Shares of the contract electronics maker traded up in a weak market as it avoided the earnings disappointments bedeviling the technology sector and guided future earnings to the top end of estimates.
Shares of the fast-food restaurant chain were downgraded by several brokerage firms after it lowered its earnings estimates because of sharply higher beef prices and the cost of Florida hurricanes.
Despite moving into the black in the latest quarter, shares of the maker of hand-held phones and PDAs slumped after its earnings estimates for the coming quarter fell short of Street forecasts.
Shares of the trucking firm fell, albeit from near their 52-week high, on a Bear Stearns downgrade, which said higher fuel costs and wages are likely to slow earnings growth from the 38% pace over the last six quarters.
Citigroup Shares of the banking giant fell after its private-banking operation in Japan was shut down.


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Many know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, but do not know him in person, and also know the age of the anonym, some even celebrate his birthday – and this is April 5, while knowing his year of birth: 1975. Thus, he was already 43. In general, Satoshi passed that critical age, which Vysotsky warned for creative people in his song.
Many crypto activists knew that in order to register on such a portal as the P2P Foundation, you need to enter a date Satoshi's birth and therefore they watched when the age of the most famous anonym would change.
Moreover, many analysts began to link the unremarkable and ordinary April 5 date to other historical events, trying to find in these parallels how e any symbolic signs or prediction.
However, for example, an event such as the death of Chiang Kai Shi, which date just coincides with the date of birth Nakamoto, it is difficult to link with each other. Therefore, another event occurred in the period of the American Great Depression, when on April 5, 1933, Roosevelt issued a decree on introducing a ban on the circulation of gold. In fact, declaring this noble metal outlawed, which also meant the confiscation of gold from the population. Such a measure was explained by the need to overcome the Great Depression.
And now the Americans returned the right to own gold in property, and it happened in 1975, in the year of Satoshi's birth. To say that this is a symbolic event, only crypto activists and crypto skeptics deeply affected by the complexes can. Because some consider bitcoin, in other words, Nakamoto's brainchild of digital gold, and others, on the contrary, consider this digital currency to be a financial bubble that does not represent any real value.
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Numerous consumers are mindful with the normal features of web purchasing: It spares time, decreases stretch, which is helpful. Recently, the Tesco Shipping and delivery Lab party has also revealed a couple of roundabout advantages the general population may possibly not have been aware about.
Other as compared to permitting being more accountable for your moment, online searching for food facilitates you together with evading one of the best pitfalls regarding shopping: Permitting your abdomen be the shopping help, which can easily prompt quite a few undesirable will buy. This confirmation hails from the Global Journal regarding Behavioral Diet and Physical exercise, which found that people who carry out their searching for food online decide on healthier selections.
Going out for the shopping heart includes quite a few concealed expenses that individuals don't regularly consider: using up through funds on fuel, the time it will take to work through movement, and discovering an automobile park area – none that you should tolerate any time shopping on the net.
Online consumers are known not just a superior deal with of what exactly is being used on a few days by few days premise, while they are constantly mindful with the sum getting spent just before checkout, permitting these to be more responsible over the particular consumption.
Shopping together with children inside the staple path may be fun, yet it could likewise fast numerous buys that men and women won't not need planned regarding. Grocery purchasing online regarding food evacuates the particular potential threat, and encourages you to look for just everything you require.


7 days 7, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the 59 pilots of the Seine guide ships to and from the terminals of the port of Rouen implying an extremely precise and accurate navigation along the 120 km Rouen river separating the mouth of the Seine. Potentially adverse weather conditions, strong currents and heavy shipping traffic and river make exercise difficult. The drivers of the Seine, through their experience, their expertise and thorough knowledge of the waterway ensure a safe transit.


Lillia is a wonderfully conceived new musical created by Stephanie Jayne Amies as a final-year university music project, but one which has the potential to endure. The only problem is that, concerning itself with such an uncool issue as mental health, it may be swerved in future: I hope not.
With Lillia (Vicky Grace Low) a lone figure in white besides the ominous lab coat, the others all shadows in theatre blacks, the sharp among us recognise instantly the nature of the protagonist's unfurling issues: Lilla's schizophrenic, or at least has Multiple Personality Disorder. This musical handles the thorny area commendably, with sensitivity, but not kid gloves. Its only slight weakness is a patronising overeager just-in-case-you-hadn't-guessed explanation of everything towards the end.
The piece hardly bears describing as a musical; for quite a while it starts off as popera, before Mya's (Liberty Buckland) more soulful interjections, since none of the songs would stand alone outside this context, all being used to inform and move the plot, rather than us. This is absolutely fine, only a couple of them are boring and too long in duration, rendering themselves unmemorable.
Several songs have extraneous harmony lines, which prove counterproductive – less is definitely more here. There is some clever use of music, with silence occasionally disrupted by discordant humming from the nameless chorus, who look dispassionately on.
As for the performance proper, it disappointed. While this is an amateur production, it was abominably acted - partly due to the script – mixing questionable overfamiliarity with wavery meekness. Tuning was a real issue and the men were far too often flat. For most of the piece the voices did not blend well at all in ensemble numbers (which did, however, work in some of the deliberately disconcerting, discordantly arranged numbers, such as "Am I Crazy?").
There was no real star quality about this production and it was largely lacking in energy, although this did improve as the plot progressed and more inherent drama appeared. Buckland's Mya had been powerful, but faltered and threatened cracking near the top of her register. Low has easily the strongest voice, with outstanding ability but an unfortunately grating, unpleasant tone. She also fails to display any facial expression but a grimace, which becomes off-putting and is perhaps partly responsible for her contorted voice.
By the end, all voices singing in harmony sound beautifully layered and melodic for the closing number, and there's a great sense of unison that contrasts with the earlier fragmented atmosphere. Although it ends somewhat abruptly and there's no resolution of the situation (although not without some controversial and potentially dangerous attempts at religious reconciliation), the general sense conveyed is one that 'we're all in this together', so Lillia's problem is of less consequence.
If you like non-standard musical theatre that leaves its jazz hands and upbeat optimism at the door, do go and see this production for its daring innovation and great ambition – just don't expect an overwhelming or polished performance.
Southampton University Showstoppers' new piece of musical theatre, written by Stephanie Amies as her music dissertation does have a lot to say for it. The show has some excellent music and an interesting concept that succeeds in engrossing the audience. However, the script and some of the cast leave some things to be desired.
The concept of three contrasting characters, Lillia, Mya and Aiden, who we soon realise are one and the same person, while not the most original of ideas is still explored well and in a new light. The exploration of this psychological difficulty evoked a considerable emotional reaction towards the end. This was aided by the solid direction of Jeremy McCabe that makes good use of the small space and an ensemble permanently on-stage; the lack of distinct choreography was probably a wise move. The main draw for the play is Amies' music, which at certain moments is outstanding, including an array of complex harmonies and interlocking melodies that the evidently well-trained musical ensemble maintains well. Liberty Buckland who plays Mya was a stand-out performer with a beautiful singing voice and captivating stage presence.
There were some aspects that let the production down: the dialogue in the script was not to the highest standard and it made some of the acting come off pretty badly. It seems quite clear that much of the cast are singers before they are actors. While the central cast were strong, certain members of the supporting cast were often wooden at times, giving little impression that they believed what they were saying (although some of this may be down to the dialogue). If more effort were spent on making the dialogue more realistic and less patronising to the audience at times (some of the plot was over-explained) then it would improve the calibre of the piece, which does have a high degree of potential. While the music was certainly very good, it could be appreciated more if there were a band or something more than the single piano over the sound-system (although, quite understandably, budgetary and space limitations make this a difficult thing to do). Furthermore there are moments when characters burst into song when it would have been more effective to remain in silence or talk through the scene so as to emphasise the music that is there elsewhere. As it is now the music flows almost directly from one motif to another, meaning it is difficult to distinguish or remember any of the songs that certainly would be worth remembering.
Despite the problems, the original work is certainly impressive and honestly engaging on a human level, especially towards the end. The quality of the music and the ability of the cast to perform that music alone makes the show enjoyable, but it has far to go before it can be considered an outstanding piece of theatre.


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Shipston Town Council appoints Jackie Warner as Mayor
Shipston Town Council has elected Jackie Warner to the position of Town Mayor at its Annual General Meeting in May. Jackie was born and bred in Shipston and is a passionate supporter of the town. Jackie has been a town councillor for many years. Having served 12 months as Deputy Mayor, Jackie is looking forward to the year ahead.
On her election, Jackie said: "I feel honoured to be elected Mayor of Shipston. Shipston is a fantastic place to live and work and I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise the town's profile."
It is customary for the Mayor to appoint a consort whose role is to accompany the Mayor at official events. The Mayor has selected councillor Peter White as her consort.
Jackie's first responsibility as Mayor was to call for nominations for Deputy Mayor. Veronica Murphy was unanimously elected to the position and will support the Mayor on her official engagements and responsibilities over the coming year.
The Mayor went on to thank former Mayor and town councillor, Philip Vial, for his contribution to the council and town as a whole over his seven years on the town council.
"It's been an absolute pleasure to work on the town council over the last seven years." Philip Vial said. "There are a lot of hard working councillors who are involved in a number of community groups and contribute a great deal to our town. I would like to congratulate all town councillors on their election and wish you all luck for the future."
The town council also confirmed monthly meetings for the year ahead as well as working group membership.
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At the age of thirteen, Rosa entered the second girls' high school in Warsaw. " Rosa Luxemburg's theory was quite generally regarded as an aberration and an unjustified criticism of Marx". When his fortunes declined and his family's needs grew he decided to try his luck in the capital. Dr. Martin Luther King addressed many topics in, "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Before one can even attempt to discuss the Marxists of the World, one must examine and define the meaning of the term itself. All Rights Reserved. She never stopped on what she believed in. Central to the thesis of this work was a concern with political imperialism, which Luxemburg viewed as having its source in Western industrialism and capitalist economics. Luxemburg wrote a series of newspaper articles and pamphlets and taught economics at a school operated under the authority of the German Communist party. While bedridden for that year she taught herself to read. After her brother was born her father left them and went off to live in another town and could no longer support the family. These students really don't know how impactful her decision had on the United States of America. Start your 48-hour free trial and unlock all the summaries, Q&A, and analyses you need to get better grades now. Yet her critics were just as far removed from Marx's position as was Rosa Luxemburg herself. Luxemburg argued that it was the nature of capitalist societies to expand their enterprises into less developed areas of the world and that the survival of capitalism depended upon this expansion. © 2020 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Rosa Luxemburg was arguably one of the finest political theorists of the 20th century. (Biography.com) Rosa Parks had an immense impact on the world, letting whites and blacks have more freedom to interact with each other. She was really the main component of the civil rights movement and that's why she is known as the "mother of the civil rights movement". Source: Sachsische Arbeiterzeitung, September 30, 1898. Comrade Heine, as is well known, has written a pamphlet for the party conference entitled To Vote or Not to Vote? How did it change through the years? He answered all the issues that were aimed towards him in a very skillful and well thought out manner. Politics was her main interest from her early days at school. She never fully recovered from the disease and walked with a slight limp for the rest of her life (Waters 1). Rosa Luxemburg, the Marxist revolutionary, activist, and author, was born to Jewish parents, Eduard and Line Luxemburg, in the Polish Russian town of Zamosac on March 5, 1871. What is the definition of Marxism? In MegaEssays.com. Luxemburg's assassination afforded her opponents the opportunity to completely undermine her theory – her work was dismissed by her critics as it was seen to being completely fallacious in its interpretation of the accumulation of capital. Rosa Luxemburg Opportunism and the art of the possible (September 1898) Written: September 1898. The disease was wrongly diagnosed as tuberculosis and wrongly treated. Luxemburg split with both the Russian and Polish Socialist Party over this issue, who believed in the rights of Russian national, The AFLCIO and Organized Labor Regeneration, In Defense of Liberty and Education for All. Luxemburg believed that self-determination weakened the international Socialist movement, and helped only the bourgeoisie to strengthen their rule over newly independent nations. During this time she wrote her Junius pamphlet, in which she warned that Lenin's nascent Soviet government could easily become dictatorial. In 1919 Luxemburg was assassinated by Prussian soldiers during a period of martial law imposed to suppress rioting by German workers, who had been inspired to violence by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. (Biography.com) Rosa Parks had a huge significance to the world that no other person could possibly ever have. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. Retrieved 19:24, October 17, 2020, from https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/97121.html. The three of them then moved to live with her grandparents on a farm in Pinelevel, Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She stood up for what she believed in, and in doing that she sparked and created the stepping stones to the civil rights movement era. Marx contributed the central propositions of the, For Marx, then, the limits of capitalism are given by the social production relations as value relations, while for Rosa Luxemburg capitalism cannot exist at all, except through the absorption of its surplus-value by pro-capitalist economies. " At sixteen she found her soul mates in the social-minded students in the underground circles. She stood up for rights of black people. using separate drinking fountains) (Montgomery Bus Boycott, 2016). On the eve of World War I, Luxemburg and several others organized a communist faction called the Spartacans. At the age of five she developed a serious hip ailment, and had to spend nearly a year in bed. In 1898 Luxemburg moved to Germany, where she became active in the German Communist party and apprenticed to Karl Kautsky, the founder and editor of the socialist newspaper Neue Zeit. In her writings she articulated political viewpoints based on the economic theories central to social thought. Luxemburg was a leader of the socialist movement in Europe in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The group opposed the war because they perceived it as an attempt on the part of capitalist governments to distract the proletariat from the burdens of capitalism. xiii-xx. Most of theme critics adhered either to a crude under consumption theory, a theory of disproportionality, or a combination of them. Rosa Luxemburg was born into a middle class, Jewish family on March 5, 1871, in the small town of Zamosc in southeastern Russian Poland in the year of the Paris commune.
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CM ridicules Ganeshi Lal's remarks
Chandigarh, December 31
Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala today exploded against state BJP chief Ganeshi Lal and said he was not bothered about what the latter might be telling about him.
7 IAS officers get super time scale
The Haryana Government today promoted a number of IAS and IPS officers. Mrs Anita Chaudhary, Commissioner and Secretary, Institutional Finance and Credit Control, is now Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary and will look after the same department.
72 officials face departmental action
The Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has recommended departmental action against 17 gazetted officers and 10 officials in 10 cases involving revenue leakage of over Rs 11 lakh.
28 projects to be taken up: DC
Yamunanagar, December 31
As many as 28 development projects will be undertaken in 2004 in this district. Mr Vijayendra Kumar, Deputy Commissioner, said this while addressing mediapersons here today.
Ex-servicemen to check copying in exams
The Haryana State School Education Board has decided to utilise the services of ex-servicemen for checking copying in the middle, matric and senior secondary examinations to be conducted in February and March next.
HUDA takes possession of six shops
Fatehabad, December 31
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) today took possession of six shops situated near Ambedkar Park here.
Stories from Haryana towns falling in the National Capital Region are put in NCR Tribune.
BJP demands White Paper on Central aid
Unemployed blind hold demonstration
Insurance plan for farmers soon: Rajnath
24 hurt in mishaps
Don't play into hands of politicians, warns CM's brother
Will Haryana go for early Assembly poll?
Deve Gowda blames BJP, Congress for rot
BJP divided over ties with INLD
No need for separate SGPC for Haryana, says Tohra
Bhajan promises moon
MC budget passed
Ambala, December 31
The budget of Municipal Council, Ambala Sadar, was passed here today. The budget showed that the Municipal Council is earning a profit. While the income is shown to be Rs 9.47 crore, the expenditure is Rs 9.29 crore.
66 kv substation inaugurated at Kalka
Panchkula, December 31
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, today dedicated a 66-kv substation to residents of Kalka, Pinjore and about 62 surrounding villages.
21 hydel project employees chargesheeted
Twenty-one employees of the hydel project at Bhudkalan, near here, have been chargesheeted by the management after the vigilance wing of the Haryana Vidyut Parsaran Nigam had found that they availed themselves of the leave travel concession without going to the destination.
Major BJP rally early next year, says Kataria
Ambala MP Ratan Lal Kataria said the Haryana unit of the BJP would organise a major rally early next year.
3 held for robbing car owner
A truck driver and two other persons travelling in a truck robbed a car owner near Dubli village on the Ambala-Jagadhri road last evening.
When Mr Chautala was asked during a press conference here about Mr Ganeshi Lal's statement yesterday demanding a white paper on the Central assistance being received by Haryana, the Chief Minister replied that what the BJP chief had said showed his ignorance about the distribution of funds between the Centre and the state government. "I am not going to say anything more on his demands because a grown-up man does not get provoked by a child", Mr Chautala remarked.
It was, however, obvious that the INLD supremo was getting worked up over the charge being levelled repeatedly against him by the state BJP leaders of thriving on the grants released to Haryana by the BJP-led Centre.
Mr Chautala's elaborate lamentations about "Haryana not getting its due share from the government", in fact, paved the way for attracting a volley of questions on the INLD relationship with its ally, BJP.
The Chief Minister said at least Rs 3,000 crore, which the state should have been getting from the Centre, was being withheld. Haryana's share was slashed for helping the people of Gujarat who were affected by an earthquake as well as drought, Mr Chautala said.
He said Haryana was neither given any aid by the Centre when it sought relief for drought.
The Chief Minister claimed he was saying all this to underscore the state government's success in utilising its limited resources for carrying out development works in the state. However, when he was told that Mr Ganeshi Lal had alleged that the "Sarkar Aapke Dwar" programme was being supported by Central funds, the CM said that not even a penny from the Central Government was being spent for implementing works under the programme.
"Even though we are not getting adequate support from the Centre. We have not drawn overdraft on a single occasion till date," the Chief Minister said and added that perhaps Haryana was being "punished" by the Centre for its good performance on the financial front.
The Chief Minister said the INLD was supporting the NDA government because there was no alternative to Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the Prime Minister's office.
He, however, did not give any clear answer about retention of the INLD-BJP alliance for future elections. " We are partners now and only the Almighty knows what will happen in future," he quipped while answering a question.
The Chief Minister, rounding up his government's performance during the past four years, said his most important achievement had been that there was no defection by the legislators from the ruling party. " Haryana was notorious for defection by the MLAs.
This tendency has been put to an end and my greatest achievement is giving the state a stable government," he said.
On the issue of the Supreme Court ordering a probe by the CBI in the appointment of JBT teachers, Mr Chautala said that he would not like to comment on a court order. He, however, added that the government followed the laid-down procedure for recruiting the teachers.
Mr Chautala also refused to comment on the Deputy Prime Minister's reported statement about early Lok Sabha poll. "All I could say is that there would be no early poll in Haryana," he said.
The Haryana Government today promoted a number of IAS and IPS officers.
Mrs Anita Chaudhary, Commissioner and Secretary, Institutional Finance and Credit Control, is now Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary and will look after the same department.
Mr M. L. Tayal becomes Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Education and Languages.
Mr L.S.M. Salins, Commissioner, Gurgaon Division, has been promoted and posted as Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment and Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Department, vice Mrs Veena Eagleton.
Mrs Eagleton has been posted as Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Science and Technology, vice Mr Pius Pandarwani whose posting orders would be issued later.
Mrs Chaudhary, Mr Tayal and Mr Salins belong to the 1976 batch. Their batch-mate, Mr R.S. Gujral, Home Secretary, Union Territory, Chandigarh, has also been given proforma of promotion.
Mr Ashok Lavasa, Resident Commissioner, Haryana Bhavan, New Delhi, will also work as Commissioner, Gurgaon Division.
Mr H.S. Dhankhar, Registrar, Cooperative Societies and Director, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, has been posted as Deputy Commissioner, Mahendragarh, vice Mr O.P. Indora, who retired today.
Seven IAS officers of the 1988 batch have been promoted to the supertime scale. They are Mr Tarun Bajaj, Mr R.K. Khullar, Mr M. Ramsekhar, Mr T.V.S.N. Prasad, Mr D.R. Dhingra, Mr M.K. Midha and Mr H.S. Rana. Mr Ramsekhar and Mr Prasad are abroad on study leave.
Mr John V. George, IG, Vigilance, HVPN, has been promoted as Additional Director-General of Police(ADGP). Mr Vipin Kumar has been promoted as ADGP, Devi Lal Centre for Police Training and Research, Bhondsi in Gurgaon district. Both IPS officers belong to the 1975 batch.
Mr P.K. Aggarwal, SP, Karnal, has been promoted as DIG and posted as DIG, Security, Chandigarh, with additional charge of DIG, HAP, Madhuban. Mr Sibash Kabiraj, Additional SP, Faridabad, is the new SP of Karnal.
Fatehabad district also gets a new SP in the new year. Mr Saurabh Singh, SP, Highway Patrol, replaces Mr Des Raj as SP of Fatehabad. Mr Des Raj will be the SP, Vigilance, Hisar.
Mr R.C. Mishra, Commandant, 4th Bn, HAP, Madhuban, will also hold the additional charge of SP, Highway Patrol.
While stating this here today, an official spokesman said that the bureau had also recommended registration of criminal cases against five gazetted officers, 14 officials and 29 others in 11 investigations conducted by it during the same period. The bureau had also recommended departmental action against 15 gazetted officers, 18 officials and two others as they were found guilty in the investigations conducted by it. The bureau had also recommended recovery of over Rs 3.60 lakh, besides registration of cases and initiation of departmental action against the defaulters.
He said the new projects included three bus stands at Sadhaura, Bilaspur and Chhachrauli, two public parks, two museums at Adibadri and Aharwala villages and Navodaya school at Hathani Kund barrage colony.
According to official sources, retired Army personnel of the rank of Captain and JCOs would be appointed as coordinator and members of the special task force to be set up for checking the use of unfair means in the examinations.
The board has sought applications from such ex-servicemen who are below 55 years of age.
The task force would be stationed at Gurgaon, Rohtak, Kurukshetra, Fatehabad and Bhiwani.
A team of HUDA officials along with the police took the possession. Mr Ashok Kumar, Estate Officer, HUDA, Hisar, and Mr. Subhash Sheoran, SDM, Fatehabad, led the team of the HUDA officials.
According to HUDA sources, the allotment of the shops had been cancelled in 1994 due to failure of the allottees to clear payments. Though HUDA had resumed the shops, the shopkeepers had been keeping the possession with them since then.
A shopkeeper claimed that they were the lawful owners of these shops and had the ownership documents with them, but the sources said the authorities had warned the shopkeepers in advance.
Some of the shopkeepers fled by putting their shutters down soon after the news of arrival of the staff spread.
But the officials put their own locks on the locks of the shopkeepers.
The substation was constructed at Kalka by the Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam at a cost Rs 4.2 crore with a transformer having 12.5 mva capacity. The sub-station would benefit 26,000 consumers by providing them uninterrupted power supply. This would again be connected to the 132-kv sub-station at Pinjore and thus feeding five feeders of 11 kv for Kalka City Railway, Bitna, Bargodam and Ambala roads.
Addressing a large gathering on the occasion, the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, said the Kalka residents were given this gift on the eve of the New Year which would help them enjoy the benefits of quality power supply.
He said the state was poised to become self-sufficient in the field of power supply, especially after the commissioning of the seventh and eighth units of Panipat Thermal Plant of 250 megawatt capacity each, which was scheduled for the end of the next year.
The Chief Minister further said besides making significant achievements in the power sector which included 800 megawatt of additional power supply during the current tenure of the present government, record achievements had also been made on the development front.
Earlier, he inaugurated a sewage treatment plant at Kalka set up at a cost of Rs 15 lakh which would treat dirty water of the ward 6 of the town having a population of about 17,000 people. The plant, set up by the Public Health Department, would work on the gravity principle without the use of electricity. It is the first of its kind in the state.
Accepting the demands of the local residents, Mr Chautala announced the construction of a bridge over the Sukhna choe near Kalka to facilitate them.
Mr Pawan Diwan, MLA from Naraingarh constituency, Mr R.S. Chaudhary, former VC of Kurukshetra University, Mr N. Bala Bhaskar, Commissioner, Public Health Department, Mrs Satwanti Ahlawat, Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ranbir Sharma, SSP, Mr Amardeep Chaudhary, State Secretary, INLD, Mr Ram Gopal Mehta, District President of the INLD, and other leaders of the party as well as senior officers of the district Administration.
The budget of Municipal Council, Ambala Sadar, was passed here today.
The budget showed that the Municipal Council is earning a profit. While the income is shown to be Rs 9.47 crore, the expenditure is Rs 9.29 crore.
BJP Councillor, Mr Kamal Kishore Jain observed that a profit showing Municipal Council will not receive any grant from the Haryana Government which will hamper development. He opined that the budget should reflect the ground reality.
Interestingly, the finance sub committee had made certain changes in the budget which was forwarded by the MC office. While the Municipal Council office showed an earning of Rs 6.37 crore under the miscellaneous head, the finance sub committee showed an earning of Rs 6.57 crore under the same head. This was a quantum jump of nearly Rs 20 lakh.
In expenditure, while the MC office had shown Rs 1.91 crore under the development work head, the finance sub committee had increased this to Rs 2.10 crore.
The Municipal Council will be earning from house tax, rent, `teh bazaari' and miscellaneous and the expenditure will be on establishment, contingency, development work and miscellaneous.
The officials included two junior engineers, seven turbine operators, one blacksmith one plumber, one electrician, one crane operator, one gate attendant, one circle head draftsman, one lineman, one driver, two lower division clerks, one fitter and one assistant lineman.
Talking to mediapersons here today, Mr Kataria said they were planning to hold the rally in February. "We are going to request the Prime Minister Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, to address the rally," he said. The rally is likely to be held in Jind.
According to a police report, Avtar, a resident of Kesri village, was going to his village in his Maruti car (PB-23A-0633). He stopped his car near Dubli village to answer the call of nature. In the meantime, a truck pulled up near the car.
Two persons in the truck came down and started manhandling Avtar. They snatched his mobile phone and cash worth Rs 1700.
Avtar later informed the police station at Barara. The police reached the spot and succeeded in nabbing the truck driver and his accomplices after some time. OC
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valuable assets as they help a person stand out and give him his most basic identity. For this reason, I feel that parents must pay attention to the name they choose for their babies because the child has to live with it for the rest of his life and it better be something they can be happy about.
My name is Jason Alexander and there is certainly a good story behind it. My parents were told during ultrasound that they were having a girl and so they chose the name Alexa for me. But when I turned out to be a boy, they found themselves without a name. They were shocked to say the least and when they recovered, they realized they had not even thought of a boy name. I almost left the hospital without a name, had it not been for a television show where the lead character was called Jason. My dad liked the name and so they named me Jason and my middle name is a reminder of the baby girl they never had. Alexander is a boy version of the name Alexa that they had originally chosen for their baby.


Does it matter? Fine… 15th.
Do I have to do all of the work?
James "The Man-an" Buchanan was the only gay U.S. President and comedian, working with his siblings, Chico and Harpo Buchanan. Some call him the only gay president, while some call him the first. He was also the first openly African-American president, although later president Bill Clinton would attempt to make that same claim.
The Buchanan family grew up on the Upper East Side of New York City, in a small Jewish neighborhood sandwiched between neighborhoods known as the Old Testament and the Inferno.
James Buchanan had a showbusiness uncle: Joe Lieberman of King and Lieberman, a noted Jewish vaudeville partnership with the evil Larry King. According to Buchanan, when Larry King visited he would throw the local waifs a few coins so that when he knocked at the door he would be surrounded by children like adoring fans. Then Larry would scoop the coins up and beat the children senseless.
James was the homosexual brother and spoke with a lisp. Nevertheless, he was a co-pilot during Bush's National Guard service, where he won an award for squirrel shooting.
Buchanan, who happens to be a lame duck, and was indeed influenced by Mr. Bradley Koenig of God's Country, developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope and an exaggerated greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. He was constantly improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Joe Lieberman) and anyone else who stood in his way. He and his brothers starred in a series of extraordinarily popular movies and stage shows, often exploring the depths of the human mind. With a combined IQ of 73, he and his brothers founded the University of the South.
In the 1930s and 1940s Buchanan and his mute brother, Harpo, worked as radio comedians, although Harpo often stole the show. One of James Buchanan's earliest stints was a short lived series in 1932 entitled I'm Gay and I'm the Best President before Lincoln, Who Was Also Gay because We Were All Gay Back Then, co-starring Chico Buchanan, who was the only one of his brothers willing to appear on the show in pink Italian underwear.
One of James Buchanan's best ad-libs is reportedly a response to a woman who had almost a dozen children. Buchanan asked why the contestant had so many children, to which the contestant replied "I like my husband." Buchanan responded, "I like Abe Lincoln, too, but I climb out of his hat sometimes."
Buchanan was married to three different men, and all of his marriages ended in divorce. His first husband was chorus girl Joe Lieberman, by whom he had two children, Barbra Streisand and Hillary Clinton. He had a daughter, Georgia W. Bush, by his second husband, Larry King, former husband of Ariel Sharon. Buchanan's third husband was fellow Shock Victim Tom Cruise, who converted Buchanan to Scientology. And people do really think he was GAY. More about this consummate Middle-Ages man in Old Buck: Sexuality, Secrets and the Civil War.
Off-stage Buchanan was bookish and stated late in life that he lamented the fact he had never been to a bath house or glory hole. Despite his lack of formal education he wrote several books, including the autobiographical My Buttplug and Me (1959) and Memoirs of a Gay Vaudeville President (1964).
In later years he grew a real moustache, the lack of which had earlier been an effective means of hiding his gender.
In the early 1970s, Buchanan made a comeback of sorts doing a live one-man show, including one recorded at Carnegie Hall and released as a double album, An Evening with Gay Jim. His previous works once again became popular and were accompanied by new books of interviews and other transcribed conversations by Richard J. Anobile and Charlotte Chandler. He had become quite frail by this time and his last few years were accompanied by descent into senility and a controversy over a companionship he had developed with Elizabeth Taylor, who claimed to have been intimate with every gay US president, including Michael Jackson.
Various Buchanan-like characters and Buchanan references have appeared in popular culture, some long after Buchanan's death, a testament to the character's lasting appeal.
Bugs Bunny dresses as Buchanan for the cartoon Gay Wabbit Pwesident (1947).
In The Way We Were (1973), Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford attend a party where everyone dresses as James Buchanan in drag.
In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Grandpa Potts (Lionel Jeffries) tells a variation of the "elephant in my pajamas" joke. This was one of the gay Buchanan's dirtiest comedy routines.
Buchanan's Presidential Service act of 1855 allowing African Americans into the white house on the condition they were male prostitutes set the foundation for future politicians such as Barack Obama and Mark Foley.
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Panamanian Defense Forces
Linda Bray
Linda Bray was a Captain in the US Military Police who became the first woman to lead US troops in battle.
Bray commanded a unit of 45 soldiers in the 988th Military Police Company during the US invasion of Panama in 1989. During this time a routine mission went awry when her unit encountered a unit of Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) stationed at a dog kennel. The 40-odd PDF troops refused to surrender their position, leading to a firefight that lasted 3 hours.
Eventually Bray's unit took the kennel and forced the PDF into retreat, having killed 3 PDF soldiers and taken 1 prisoner while suffering no casualties of their own. Judging by the money, uniforms and arsenal of weapons discovered within the kennels, it is assumed that it was in fact a Special Ops base for the PDF.
Instead of being praised for her actions, Bray came under serious criticism by her superiors as military police are supposed to be non-combative. "The responses of my superior officers were very degrading, like, `What were you doing there?'" Bray later said. "A lot of people couldn't believe what I had done, or did not want to believe it."
Disenchanted by her experiences, Bray requested to be discharged from the army. She received the Army Commendation Medal for Valor. Her actions sparked a controversial proposal in US congress that women should be able to perform all roles within the US army, which was ultimately defeated. When similar legislation was successfully passed more recently in 2013, Bray stated that she was "thrilled".
Tags: Linda Bray, female soldiers, female military police, women in war, history, women's history, US history, Panamanian history, US invasion of Panama, Panamanian Defense Forces, US army, Panama, Army Commendation Medal for Valor, Combat Infantryman Badge, military police


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Tempers and Exhaustion Rise as Murphy Hiring Inquiry Continues
Michael Symons Published: January 10, 2019
Pete Cammarano, second from left, the chief of staff to Gov. Phil Murphy, testifies to the Legislature on Jan. 10, 2019. (Michael Symons/Townsquare Media NJ)
TRENTON — A legislative panel investigating how Gov. Phil Murphy's team handled allegations of sexual assault lodged by one senior administration official against another heard another marathon round of testimony Thursday – and after 21 hours across four days, it seems exhaustion is creeping in.
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Among the things learned Thursday:
Chief of Staff Pete Cammarano said there was a point in time when he was informed Al Alvarez, the Schools Development Authority chief of staff accused of an April 2017 sexual assault, had found a new job as directed and would be leaving. It took more than six months, and a Wall Street Journal inquiry, for him to resign in October.
Cammarano said he didn't attempt to help Alvarez find a new job after telling him in March he should leave. In an application for unemployment benefits, according to NJ.com, Alvarez suggested he was promised assistance.
Cammarano said that when chief counsel Matt Platkin recused from the matter in March 2018, citing relationships with both Alvarez and his accuser, Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency chief of staff Katie Brennan, that was limited solely to an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint filed.
Heather Taylor, the ethics counsel in the Governor's Office since 2014, said that EEO review was conducted by the Office of the Attorney General, which was the usual course. She said it was the first time she knows of in which a complaint wasn't investigated due to a lack of jurisdiction – it happened when neither Alvarez nor Brennan worked for the state and didn't happen on state property.
Taylor said that when she was told the matter didn't fall under EEO rules, she suggested that perhaps the Office of the Attorney General could hire outside counsel to investigate but was told no. The AG's office suggested that perhaps the Murphy campaign could investigate.
The Attorney General's Office determined on March 27 that EEO rules didn't apply. Taylor told Platkin a day later. That information wasn't relayed to Brennan until April 24, after Brennan inquired with Platkin to say she hadn't heard anything.
Taylor said that in her April 24 conversation with Platkin, in preparation for her talk with Brennan, "I believe Matt Platkin asked the question whether what he thought her next steps would be or whether she would go to the press."
Cammarano, who is leaving his post of chief of staff next week, endured often withering criticism.
Sen. Fred Madden, D-Gloucester, said part of Cammarano's job is to forecast potential problems, make sure things are done appropriately and ensure people in certain positions are protected. That's why he said it doesn't make sense that Cammarano didn't ensure Alvarez left his job, as directed in March.
"It was incredibly serious," Madden said. "And you tell this individual you need to part company with the state, and he's still there almost three months later and you do nothing. You just say, 'Well, the attorney is now handling it.' That's just amazing."
"There are times where I wonder if I should have informed the governor," Cammarano said. "There are times I wonder if I should have pushed back harder. There are times when I wonder if I should have just fired Mr. Alvarez and run the risk of being sued for firing someone for an accusation."
Hudson County prosecutors investigated Brennan's allegations but decided in December 2017 not to bring charges.
Cammarano acknowledged to committee lawyer Rosemary Alito that he didn't go to anyone and say they should not hire Alvarez, although he disagreed with her suggestion that he could have done so without telling anyone the underlying reason.
And then things got more heated, when Alito tried to make the point that Cammarano took no efforts to prevent Alvarez from being hired but he wouldn't concur.
"Did you personally, Mr. Cammarano, make any efforts to prevent the hiring of Mr. Alvarez?" Alito said.
"If you recall during my testimony, I did say I didn't make the decision to hire Al or not," he said.
"That wasn't my question. My question was whether you made any efforts to prevent the hiring of Mr. Alvarez," she said. "You could do that by speaking to someone. You could do that by trying to find out who's going to make the decision."
"I did not speak to anybody about the accusation because of the advice I have" from the transition's counsel, Raj Parikh, Cammarano said.
"All right, so the answer to my question is no," Alito said. "You did not make any efforts to prevent the hiring of Mr. Alvarez. Correct?"
"I'm not sure that's correct," Cammarano said. "I'm not sure."
"You may have?"
"I'm not sure where you're drawing that conclusion, so this may be one of those things we have to agree to disagree. I don't see how you draw that conclusion."
Alito said she's not drawing a conclusion, just asking "a pretty simple question" she wanted answered.
"With all due respect, Mr. Cammarano, you're just not answering my question. And it's a pretty straightforward and simple question," Alito said. "I didn't ask you whether you had authority to hire Mr. Alvarez. I didn't ask whether you did hire Mr. Alvarez. I asked you: Did you personally take any action to prevent the hiring of Mr. Alvarez?"
"I did not have a role in it," Cammarano said.
"And so that means you did not take any actions to prevent his hiring," Alito said.
"This is one of those things we can go on forever," he said. "If that's what you want to conclude, that's fine."
"Obviously you don't want to answer my question," Alito said. "But we assume from your testimony that you took no action to prevent this hiring."
"OK," Cammarano said, before the conversation finally moved on.
Fifteen minutes later, Alito was done asking questions. Cammarano requested a break before the committee's other two outside lawyers could have their turns. The break was granted – and during it, Cammarano left the Statehouse and promised to return to finish another day.
"I don't want to concern anyone. He's perfectly fine," said Chris Porrino, a former state attorney general representing Cammarano and other Governor's Office officials. "But it's a long day of 18 or 19 people asking questions that, frankly, just listening to it I'm getting tired."
"There aren't physical or medical reasons. I think it's a long day, and the witness is tired," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, said she understood, though the committee's attorneys appeared a little more begrudging in their consent.
"I agree with you. It's been a long day," Weinberg said. "He has been here answering questions from everybody for five hours. He is entitled now for a respite from this. I do not want an exhausted witness, and I'm not saying that in any pejorative way."
The next hearing is scheduled for next Friday. Lawmakers intend to complete Cammarano's testimony, then call Platkin.
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Want to Build a Nanobot? This New Shrinking Technique Could Help
Researchers from MIT have come up with a new way to fabricate nanoscale structures using an innovative "shrinking" technique. The new method uses equipment many laboratories already have and is relatively straightforward, so it could make nanoscale fabrication more accessible.
Image Credit: Illustration by Abigail Malate, American Institute of Physics
Conventional nanostructure manufacturing techniques—ones that involve direct assembly or 3D printing—are directly limited by the precision of the machines. The new technique gets around this limitation by first creating a bigger structure inside of a gel, then shrinking the gel, which brings the structure down to one-thousandth the volume of the original.
This technique probably sounds familiar if you have ever played with Shrinky Dinks, the plastic sheets you can color and then shrink in the oven. Similar to how one can more easily fit many details in Shrinky Dink drawings before they are miniaturized, the researchers were able to more easily create delicate nanostructures by making much larger versions first. They built the structures inside of polyacrylate—a gel commonly found in diapers—and then used an acid to chemically shrink the whole thing to one-tenth of its original length in each of the three dimensions.
It is a reversed version of a recently developed technique known as expansion microscopy, in which biological samples are embedded in a gel that is then expanded, allowing researchers to discern details that were previously too small to be seen.
To test their methods, the researchers created silver wires, which retained their shape after shrinking. They also created another design that used the shrinking process itself to assemble a more complex structure. According to the researchers, the technique could be used to build nanostructures out of virtually anything, even "a piece of DNA." They published their findings online Thursday in the journal Science.
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Corps of Topographical Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, authorized on 4 July 1838, consisted only of officers and was used for mapping and the design and construction of federal civil works such as lighthouses and other coastal fortifications and navigational routes. It included such officers as George Meade, John C. Frémont and Stephen Long. It was merged with the United States Army Corps of Engineers on 31 March 1863, at which point the Corps of Engineers also assumed the Lakes Survey District mission for the Great Lakes. In the mid-19th century, Corps of Engineers' officers ran Lighthouse Districts in tandem with U.S. Naval officers.
In 1841, Congress created the Lake Survey. The Survey, based in Detroit, Mich., was charged with conducting a hydrographical survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes and preparing and publishing nautical charts and other navigation aids. The Lake Survey published its first charts in 1852.
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Tennessee senior Rawane "Pops" Ndiaye suffered a torn ACL in his right knee that will end his playing career with the Volunteers, according to reports Friday.
First-year coach Donnie Tyndall told the Knoxville News Sentinel that the 6-foot-10 reserve center will no longer be on the team, but will remain at Tennessee.
Tyndall said Ndiaye will be shifted to a medical scholarship that will not count toward the team's NCAA-mandated limit of 13. This means UT has one vacant scholarship remaining for the 2014-15 season.
Ndiaye played one year at Tennessee after arriving from Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa. Ndiaye played 22 games last season and averaged 0.9 points, 1.0 rebounds and 3.3 minutes.
Ndiaye was injured during a pickup game last week, Tyndall told the newspaper.
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LessQL is heavily inspired by NotORM which presents a novel, intuitive API to SQL databases. Combined with an efficient implementation, its concepts are very unique to all database layers out there, whether they are ORMs, DBALs or something else.
Write less: No glue code/objects required. Just work with your database directly.
Transparency: It is always obvious that your application code works with a 1:1 representation of your database.
Relational power: Leverage the relational features of SQL databases, don't hide them using an inadequate abstraction.
The API is not always intuitive: $result->name is different from $result->name() and more.
There is no difference between One-To-Many and Many-To-One associations in the API (LessQL uses the List suffix for that).
There is no advanced save operation for nested structures.
Defining your database structure is hard (involves sub-classing).
The source code is very hard to read and understand.
LessQL addresses all of these issues, is fully tested, and actively maintained.
Contributions are always welcome. Feedback is also appreciated; drop me a note at mb@morrisbrodersen.de.


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Dear Friends and Readers, Thank you so much for being a part of my excitement and celebrations. While I am speechless and overwhelmed by the showers of blessings in the form of awards from my fellow bloggers, I want to assure you that this is my last award post for the season. I will be back to regular posts of your favorite recipes after this.
Premio Dardos means "Prize Darts" in Spanish. The Award recognizes those who transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values through writing. I have to thank my sweet blogger buddy Stephy@Stephysweetbakes for this wonderful prize dart. Stephy is an exceptionally talented baker, who bakes like a professional. She never fails to surprise me with her splendid kitchen creations every single time. Her Rosette cherry bouquet cupcakes are one of my favorites.
2. Pass the award on to other bloggers of your choice and let them know that they have been nominated.
Thank you Stephy for the kind nomination.
I have to thank Stephy@Stephysweetbakes once again for presenting me with this wonderful award.
3 – Nominate and link 10 bloggers.
5 – Give 10 questions for your nominees to answer.
1. Do you have any unfulfilled dreams you are awaiting to come true and if so plz do share.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I dream of a world without envy,hatred,enmity,war and disease.
2. Lavish lifestyle or simple and meek?
3. Which do you prefer with some free time, Walk or Sleep/nap?
4. Paperback or Digital format novels? Which one you like best?
Paperback without doubt. Nothing beats that.
5. What do you enjoy about your blog?
Communicating with people from across the globe who share similar interests.
6. Honesty or Loyalty? Which do you think is more admirable?
Honesty is the most important aspect of a human being's character.
7. Most memorable moment so far in your life?
It would be unfair to mention one.
8. With age comes…….respect OR wisdom?
Wisdom. Respect can be earned even when young.
9. What's the one thing about yourself that you would say you love most?
Strangely and fortunately, I lack the 'jealousy gene'. I always get happy with others' success and happiness. I thank God for that.
10. If you had been given $3,000 by someone to do what you will with it, and you were financially stable but not rich (doing pretty good so to speak, but COULD do better, just not in harms way financially), would you choose to give to a more needy person, OR keep it and buy some things you have BEEN longing to get?
I always tell my kids to do the following with their money and personally I would love to do this too: Divide the money into three parts- one give in charity,second spend for yourself and for your near and dear ones, and save/invest the third part.
I have the same questions for my nominees to answer. I hope you enjoy them, just as I did.
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Leon Felkins is a noted anti-forfeiture and civil liberties writer. You'll find his very opinionated Web site at http://perspicuity.net. This article is an overview of the problem. If you're already up on this issue, you might want to copy this and distribute it to your less aware friends.
"Funding of initiatives important to your components will be in jeopardy if we fail to reach the projected level of forfeiture deposits . . . Please advise your staff of specific actions that can be taken to maximize deposits to the [Asset Forfeiture] Fund between now and the end of the fiscal year."
Asset Forfeiture -- What is it?
Starting in 1970 a series of laws, with increasing severity, were passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed the government to take private property, with a minimum of difficulty and legal restraint, based on the oft-stated claim that 'forfeiture is an invaluable tool in the fight against organized crime and narcotics traffickers'. While the original application of modern forfeiture laws was for drug violations, the laws that trigger forfeiture have greatly expanded with the result that today we have over 300 federal laws allowing the confiscation of property, from the taking of any part of certain bird's nests -- including feathers or eggs -- (16 USC § 0707) to the making of a false statement to a loan officer (18 USC § 1014). States and cities have followed the trend, of course, with a similar array of laws.
Confiscation of property by the government is now a very big business -- one that will not be easy to curtail. It is estimated that the Federal government now confiscates nearly a billion dollars per year (1996 is last year for which an accounting has been released) with states and cities likely confiscating as much or more. Estimates are difficult because government agencies are real shy about making such accounting readily available to the public, but the totals are roughly comparable to the "victim costs" from "Crimes of Violence and Robbery" as reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics - see http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/coctv.txt). While there are federal laws that require some federal agencies to make annual reports on their loot (see 28 USC § 524 and 31 USC § 9703), states and municipalities typically do not have such laws and even the federal laws are sluggishly complied with (about 4 years tardy at the present time!).
Note that the issue here is not about contraband (property that is illegal to own) or for property taken to fulfill tax liens. For public safety, it seems reasonable that ownership of some materials ought to be forbidden. Further, for fairness to all, tax laws ought to be complied with by everyone.
At this time (September, 1999) there is a bill in the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee that would curtail some of the abuses brought about by the federal forfeiture laws. This bill passed the house 375 to 48 but without strong public support is not likely to pass the Senate or be signed by the President. Federal and state enforcement agencies strongly oppose any such reduction on the very liberal laws that now allow the taking of property. Even though most of the press has reported unfavorably on the government's forfeiture activities, most civic activist groups support reform (the ACLU and the NRA are together on this issue!) and from the lopsided vote in the House one can conclude that the public also wants reform, there is actually little chance the bill will pass the Senate without much stronger support from the public and the press.
What is wrong with Asset Forfeiture?
". . . the purpose of civil forfeiture is not to make a profit for the Government, but to provide a civil remedial device to impose liability on persons who knowingly or consensually acquiesce in the use of their property, . . .", U.S. Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture Law and Practice Manual, page 2-10.
"Even if there is sufficient evidence to sustain forfeiture, it may be ill-advised and wasteful to pursue the case if the subject property has a low monetary value or is in poor condition, . . .", U.S. Department of Justice's Asset Forfeiture Law and Practice Manual, page 4-6.
Only a few of the more troublesome issues will be listed here as space does not allow the listing of all that is wrong with forfeiture.
The Medieval legal fiction that the property itself can be guilty of a crime and that to "punish" the property is not a punishment for the owners or users of the property is blatant nonsense, of course. Property doesn't commit crime -- people may while in the act of using property. Why should wives and children lose their homes because the husband and father is alleged to have committed a crime?
The Founding Fathers sought to protect us from the notorious abuses of government confiscation of property that England practiced at that time. Several of the "Bill of Rights" amendments address this issue, particularly Amendment IV, which says in part, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated . . .", and Amendment V, which assures us that we will be provided "due process of law". Yet today, security against unreasonable searches and seizures is virtually nonexistent. And how much due process is there when 80% of the confiscations never even have charges brought? Further, in civil forfeiture cases, the victim must prove her innocence instead of the government proving her guilt. Is that what they meant by due process? Surely not.
Modern forfeiture law creates a temptation for fraud and corruption that ordinary people, including government and law enforcement personnel, cannot resist. If property can be taken without due process and there is little or no auditing of it once in government hands, what do you think will happen?
But the greatest loss to society is the loss of respect for law enforcement and government in general. The respect by the public of government and law enforcement personnel is now at an all time low. Recent surveys indicate that only about 20% of the citizens have a good opinion of the government when 30 or 40 years ago 80% did. Our society is in great danger when it's citizens loses respect for the authorities.
In many states now, automobiles can be confiscated for various perceived offences, without charges being brought or the obtaining of a conviction. Let us say you are pulled over and the police find a marijuana joint in the ashtray and you're driving a clunker. They take it. Now the same thing happens to your friend except he was driving a $70,000 sports car. They take it. Not only is there a problem with the fact that the autos in question may not even belong to the drivers, but the punishment cannot possibly match the crime in both cases!
When the government vigorously defends forfeiture laws and ruthlessly fights any effort at reform, they rarely admit that their reason is mostly based on greed for loot. Instead they repeatedly claim that it is an effective tool against crime. Really! Is there any evidence of that? Is the Drug War a success? Not according to the news media! Consider this: If you look at a plot of crime statistics you would expect to see a huge drop at the points in time where the various forfeiture laws were passed. Strangely, it is not there. Drug usage is higher now than when these laws were first passed!
But there is another issue here: are we Americans willing to support any law, no matter how brutal, based on the argument that it may be a deterrent to crime? Do we want to go back to public hanging, torture, and pillorying criminals on the public square? Surely, "effectiveness" in fighting crime is not the only criteria we apply is selectin laws for a civilized society.
The modern system of government forfeiture provides little justice for the accused.
Property can be taken without any charges being filed.
Under the guise of "facilitation", all of a person's belongings can be taken, including bank accounts, leaving nothing for legal defense.
In civil forfeiture, the government does not provide council for the indigent.
To challenge a confiscation, the victim has a very short time to post the necessary legal forms and often has insufficient cash to post the 10% bond.
The government has limited responsibility for even notifying the property owner of a seizure (a notice in certain newspapers is considered sufficient for the federal agencies).
But the main problem the current system of "justice" is that to be simply accused is to have your life destroyed. Government prosecutors are constantly claiming that a forfeiture victim can go to court and defend her property by proving the property was never involved in a crime. There are many flaws with this concept but the chief ones are that legal fees will typically exceed the value of the property and the property will lose value while "incarcerated". What good does it do to fight for the return of your $3,000 car if it will cost you $10,000 in legal fees to prove your case? Further, the courts are extremely crowded. It could take two or three years before your trial comes up. How do you get to work? How does your wife and baby get to the doctor? What about the deterioration and depreciation? Surely the government pays for these losses if they lose the case, right? You dreamer, you -- the government never pays for damages, deterioration, or any other losses no matter how severe.
Unrestrained government confiscation of private property, i.e., forfeiture, has no place in a civilized society, a constitutional society, and most particularly, the United States of America. The American Revolution was inspired in a large part by forfeiture abuse from the English crown. Now forfeiture is again spreading around the world like a bad plague and has even come back to England which had abandoned it 150 years ago. The U.S. government is the primary source of this evil.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, we now have a chance to do something about this injustice. Write your senators and ask that they support the Forfeiture Reform bill now in the Senate -- as it is without watering it down any further. The news media could use a little encouragement also.
All these [political] changes, mostly unimaginable a generation ago, are largely the products of 25 years of trying (and failing) to "win" the "War on Drugs". The first step towards recovery, which cannot come too soon, is to look at what we have done to ourselves, and what kind of institutions we have built, on the way to a "drug-free" society.
We should not have to sacrifice "civil" society while striving to become a "drug-free" society!