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Hypocritical Arab Leaders Tell Trump That Qatar Responsible For 'Funding Of Radical Ideology'
Published on June 6, 2017 June 6, 2017 in News by Eduardo Rivero
President Donald Trump has hit back against Qatar for suggesting a coup against him, stating that the Arab leaders he met at last month's summit in Riyadh universally blamed Qatar for "funding of radical ideology" and "extremism". Qatar has strong ties with global Islamist networks, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Twitter, he said: "During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!"
"So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!"
Some of the countries present at the summit, such as the secular military regime in Egypt, have a strong case against Qatar. Qatar has long supported the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Brotherhood splinter group Hamas, which operates smuggling routes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
However, others, such as Saudi Arabia, have been just as complicit in their support for Islamists as Qatar has. In many cases, these Islamists have even been far more radical than those supported by Qatar.
In Egypt, Saudi Arabia quietly united extreme Salafists behind General El-Sisi's 2013 coup against the Brotherhood.
And in Libya, the Saudi-backed Madkhali Salafist movement is waging war against the Brotherhood, side by side with local secular strongman General Haftar.
Of course, Salafist groups are not a concern if they are not actively advocating waging terror against the West. But a strong case can be made that Saudi propagation of the underlying ideology behind these groups makes the jump to the jihadist creed espoused by Al-Qaeda or Islamic State easy to make. In addition, the Saudis have had few qualms about supporting organizations with direct connections to al-Qaeda and even branches of al-Qaeda itself.
While Qatar has forged ties with the Taliban in the last few years, both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates propped up and recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban's government in Afghanistan, which granted safe haven to Osama bin Laden and was ultimately deposed during the U.S. invasion in 2001.
Even the brutal Muslim Brotherhood regime of Omar al-Bashir in Sudan, charged with genocide of Christians and still considered to be a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, was warmly embraced by Saudi Arabia after Sudan chose to break off ties with Iran.
During the Balkan wars, King Salman himself was involved in the arming of al-Qaeda's Bosnian wing.
Even today, in Syria, Saudi connections to Islamic extremism are evident. Saudi Arabia strongly and openly supports the al-Qaeda connected Ahrar al-Sham, which is designated as a terrorist group by two Saudi allies, Egypt and the UAE. There are also reports that Saudi Arabia previously backed even more extreme groups such as the Islamic State, although it appears to have largely stayed away from Qatar's favored Al-Nusra Front.
Perhaps the biggest contributor to the 'funding of radical ideology' is Saudi funding for mosques and madrassas that preach archaic, fundamentalist forms of Islam and serve as breeding grounds for future militants and terrorists.
In Pakistan, madrassas which preach extremist ideology and feed the ranks of al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other terrorist organizations receive billions in Saudi funding.
This propagation of radical ideology is not limited to the Islamic world. The Saudis have also been deeply involved in funding extreme mosques in Germany and in the United Kingdom. Indeed, the Finsbury Park Mosque, at the heart of the very same London terror network that brought forth last Saturday's attacks, had received millions in funding from Saudi royals.
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Wolffe was the one responsible for publishing the Fire and Fury book. It was certainly living up to its name. It was causing fire and fury in among Trump and his associates right now.
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Friday at the White House: Karzai visit
President Obama turns his focus to foreign policy with a visit from Afghan President Hamdi Karzai to wrap up the busy week at the White House. After a bilateral meeting in the morning, the two leaders will have a working lunch followed by a joint press conference. The White House warns us not to expect any firm agreement on troop numbers to come out of today's meeting, but the two leaders will discuss the nature of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan after combat troops leave in 2014. Additionally, the U.S. and Afghanistan are in the middle of negotiating a bilateral security agreement which the White House hopes to make progress on during today's visit.
Meanwhile, Vice President Biden continues his work this week with the gun control working group by holding another meeting this afternoon with representatives of the video game industry. Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will join him during the meeting. Vice President Biden said he'll be sending his group's recommendations to the president's desk next week sometime.
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10:00AM THE PRESIDENT holds an expanded bilateral meeting with President Karzai of Afghanistan; THE VICE PRESIDENT attends
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I guess everyone is on board the Obam show, Whats up with job creation ???, notice the kid who was bullied in cali didnt kill anyone, so no coverage from cnn, what a joke this country has turned into. Gun control =B.S.
how about some parenting??? You raise kids in day care or school system what do expect?? Lets have background checks and licensing for people who want kids. If your not smart enough or pretty enough you cant have kids. Yep thats about how much sense Biden and the brown nosers make.
What does intelligence have to do with being pretty? I see you have unloaded your usual idiotic BS.
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I'm all for Moose needing a license to have kids.
It doesnt, i was making a point about licensing, geeez lighten up, your always looking for a fight
The disturbed young man was talked down by the teaching staff, and thankfully not shot down by a teacher as the NRA would have you do. This in a school that was supposed to already have an armed guard on site.
Obviously the student was mentally distraught but how did he get hold of a shotgun? Why are these so easy to obtain? I guess we will never know or care because the NRA doesn't want us to even go there.
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Karzai is president in title only, he doesn't really have much power. Whenever we do leave Afghanistan will revert right back to it's previous state which will make people wonder why we ever stayed so long there in the first place.
@ Cynthia, if you cant see i was making a point than your the one who shouldnt have children, we all hope its not to late! Where do we suggest we stop with a license ???
Moose on the loose. You making a point about what? Child-rearing is an important job and making sure your children are educated is one of them. Making sure your children know that guns aren't toys by not buying them AS TOYS is definetly a parental choice which I took seriously. And, some people definetly shouldn't be parents but are. ALAS, I have two grown sons who tell me that I was a great mom and think I still am. Both serving in the military – one still serving into his ninth year. Neither would agree that assault weapons are appropriate in a civilized country or, in one not stable either. Stop brown-nosing the NRA. Most of their support comes from corporate partners of the firearms industry involved in manufacturing and sales of firearms and related products who don't care who they sell to as long as there is a buck to be made. The vast majority of the funds contributed to the NRA lobby is a whopping 74% donated by those who seek to profit – the weapons manufacturers and sellers. Which tells me they don't have the power of public favor on their side even, in elections. The gun dealers, makers don't care if the guns are used to shoot kids or our own soldiers and the public knows it. Your B.S, about gun control rings hollow.
Thank your sons for being right, The point is goverment takeover. Where does it stop. I dont think assault rifles should be on the streets either, however the thing that started this was the school shooting. He used pistols not an assault rifle. The politicians then cranked up the brown nose media and now its about assault ri fles. This is way off tract. We have nut jobs its not the weapon its how its used. Parents need to be held accountable for thier childrens actions that and gov takeover are the point.
.223 Caliber Bushmaster rifle was used in most of the shooting at the Sandy Hook School. It's a modified version of an M-16 similar to an AR-15 with the ability for an unlimited amount of ammunition. The two hand guns, were a Sig Sauer pistol and a Glock – one in which were used to ace himself. All having ammunition that is designed to deliver massive injury.
The shooter was a home-schooled individual whose mother was his teacher and the legal owner of the weapons who thought guns would be a way to bond with her troubled kid. She was his first victim.
If you are worried about Gov. takeover then you should be troubled by the ongoing voter suppression efforts of the Republican Party and the effort of the NRA to buy influence.
As far as the kid who fired upon fellow students in Calif., CNN did report and continues to report on the subject. Try reading.
Moose is another of those paranoid people obsessed with an imaginary future Hitler...he would rather fantasize about future bad things happening than help stop the bad things happening now.
I have a little trivia question for you. Try to guess the weapon. According to government statistics, this weapon kills more people in this country than guns combined. People who use this weapon must be trained, tested and licensed. Yet it still kills more people than guns. It kills without discrimination on gender, age or race. It has also killed many school children. I believe the primary cause of it causing deaths is misuse and intentional disobeying the laws required to use the weapon. There are around 250 million in this country. Yet, no calls for background checks, checks on mental health or any other limitations including bans. What is the weapon?
Guessing a hammer or crow bar, convience
A motor vehicle!
A motor vehicle is a weapon?
Steveo, you win the prize. It is the automobile. More people die each year from automobile accidents than guns. Yet, why is there no cry for regulation?
Driving a vehicle is very much regulated, there are safety regulations that have been fought for many years by the likes of Nader and other Consumer protection agencies. When you get caught driving without a license you will be punished, if you drive while intoxicated you will be punished. Nobody cries too much about such regulations, because driving is not a right protected by the Constitution, it's a privilege. I expect there will continue to be greater regulations and safety innovations for driving a motor vehicle.
And yes, a car is not bought and sold as a killing machine, not unless you mount a machine gun on it so the deaths that occur are mostly from accidents. Can you say the same for guns?
Dang moderation, my long answer is still pending.
The short answer is already stated: accidents. Would you attribute most gun deaths to accidents? It's a critical difference because guns are tools for killing, while a motor vehicle is not – unless you mount a machine gun on it.
Plus it is totally wrong to say driving motor vehicles is not being regulated. It is constantly being regulated. Think seat belts, speed limits, laws against drunk driving, texting, etc. Driving is not a right so these regulations are often not often questioned but they did not come about easily. People like Nader and other Consumer protection advocated had to fight the auto industry for them. The same way gun control advocates have to fight the NRA now.
You have to have a license to drive after taking a written test, a driving test and a vision test. Which also requires two I.D.s usually a birth certificate AND another with a picture, such as a credit-debit card. Not only that, the car you are driving must be registered by the state and have INSURANCE COVERAGE. Your car MUST BE road worthy and to be able to receive a plate it must pass a safety test. In California you must have a current smog check certificate.
You must not exceed the alcohol limit or be impaired by drugs unless you want to be arrested on the spot.
You must wear a seatbelt and children under a certain age or weight must be belted in a child seat. You may not use anything but a hands free cellphone device. You must adhere to traffic laws and signs and not exceed posted speed limits or drive unsafely in poor conditions. You must use your headlights at night and in some cases through construction zones at all hours.
You can choke on a ham sandwich. Which may be the persons fault or the result of a heart attack. At any rate, you don't need a license to munch.
Cynthia,
Everything you said is absolutely true. What is also true is every law and statute you mentioned is violated everyday. My point is and as an example Chicago has some of thee strictest gun laws on the books and every year hundreds STILL die from gun violence. No matter what gun control laws are passed, the bad guys will always find a way to gain access to a weapon! I am not saying we should do nothing, I am saying those with bad intentions will care nothing about a gun law!
Although it is estimated there were around 270 million guns owned in the United States in 2012, coming to the exact number of vehicles is a little harder. Since most figures are given for only passenger vehicles which does not include other types of highway traffic like semi freight haulers, motorcyclist, smaller trucks, motor homes, tour buses, school buses, and other vehicles. the number of passenger vehicles was 246 million in 2010 so add to that several million more other types of vehicles....and we must consider most all of these vehicles are on a road on average at least once per day, or every other day.
So how often does any person use any gun or all the guns they own? I doubt if it is once a day. Which to me says that for guns that s a really high number of deaths annually for an item owners do not normally use every day.
Oh..... but there are regulations on automobiles, plenty of regulations...even down to where and for how long they can legally be parked for certain locations, what age you have to be to legally drive one, the requirements to pass a test written, driving, and vision, and you must have a license that has not been suspended to drive the vehicle, and have insurance to cover anyone you may injure....enough citations and they can take your license. That is just for the driver there are a whole other set of regulations that apply to vehicle ownership...including registration, title, tags, insurance requirements, and transfer taxes owed should you sell the vehicle.
Another questions for you Jean. How many people die each year from non-registered guns?
Knowing exactly how many are killed with unregistered guns would be near impossible. That would mean you would need to apprehend both the shooter and the weapon used for each death.
Couldn't you simply subtract the number of deaths caused by registered guns from the total number of deaths?
if you don't have the weapon how would you know whether or not it was registered?
December, generally no but in the hands of someone with bad intentions anything can be a weapon!
Sure, anything can be weapon but that does not discount the fact that guns are bought and sold primarily as a weapon and it is probably less regulated than driving in some areas of the country.
I don't have the statistics but I think I can confidently say that deaths by motor vehicle are mostly accidental or due to negligence. I don't think the same can be said about guns.
The NRA keeps preaching that more regulations will take away our guns. The fact of the matter is, more regulations have not taken our privilege of owning cars and driving them.
Right on all accounts. But how many people actually drive the speed limit. My old driving instructor often said, and yes I remember back that far, that accidents occur because of faulty equipment. It would say then that negligence is the leading cause. The main problem is attitude. I have the right to drive fast. Have you been car shopping in the last few years. You will notice the bumper sticker has 2 sets of mileage. One in large print and a set of higher mileage under the heading normal driving conditions, governments idea to accommodate for aggressive driving.
Does this relate to gun violence? Maybe or maybe not. But will new gun laws be followed? I can't tell you how many times I have seen parents in the car with children fly through a red light. Yet, parents provide the main example for children as they grow up and become drivers. I am afraid the problem could be much deeper than simply lack of regulation.
But, one area where I feel we need regulation is the gun shows. Hard to believe people can by guns without any checks whatsoever.
Oh well, moderated yet again. Maybe you can see it by tomorrow.
December, point taken but I believe Caramon was simply comparing the number of deaths by gun verses by vehicle. The results are the same...somebody dies!
Agreed, and I am not discounting the numbers and how people die but you also cannot discount that guns are used as tools for murder to a far greater degree than an automobile.
I just wish we can have a better debate from pro-gun advocates and the gun lobby than 'you can't touch our guns.' We can talk about mental health, we can talk about the culture of violence, but if we do not talk about guns because we hold it as some sacred right then we are just lying to ourselves.
Agreed December. One area where I would like to see additional regulation would have to be gun shows. It was my understanding that the guns purchased for the Columbine killings were purchased by the teens from a gun show. The restrictions are not nearly as tight as found at gun stores.
Right now motor vehicle deaths and gun deaths are on a trajectory course for gun deaths to claim more lives each year than gun deaths in 2015. Gun Related Deaths to Exceed Traffic Fatalities By 2015 – source Bloomberg.
Automobiles are regulated. A drivers' license is required and it is in a database, a license plate which is in a database is required, a vehicle registration is required also in a database. The vehicle even must have a VIN number ...and we can't get the same on a ammo magazine.
In 2010 the number of gun deaths in the U.S. was:31,328 Auto deaths 2010 was 32,885.
Plus,we keep working to make care safer and are working on vehicles that practically drive themselves..
Sorry my fingers mean cars not care.
Oh and I hate to break it to you Caramon, but automobile deaths have decreased per year. They were in the 45K to 55K range per year during the 70's & 80's. So better roads, better training, better testing, stricter enforcement of laws, and better safety features built into new cars have decreased deaths.
better safety features built into new cars have decreased deaths. I think you will find this is the main reason for the reduction of deaths. However, I must confess, I have no statistics to support it. But think of all the deaths air bags have prevented. They weren't available in the 70s and 80s. Better engineering is also important. Cars are actually built to give way from a front impact softening the blow to the passengers. Better enforcement? Not from what I have seen. Today people drive faster and more reckless than ever. It is almost impossible to enforce all the laws today. The point is that despite the testing, rules, licensing of drivers, most people ignore and break many laws every single day. So, will more regulation work or will it be ignored. Final question. What was one reason supporters gave for legalizing pot.
Jean, why do you say we have better roads? Faster driving, harder stops all cause greater wear and tear on the roads. Roads here in Cinci are always in bad shape. Do you know they are better or are you assuming.
Caramon...I think we all deal with the potholes of Ohio city streets and roads, but newer interstate highways are designed to cut the number of accidents, and eliminate sharp turns, and intersecting traffic....your grandaddy's meandering two lane state highway, and today's many-laned super highway are not the one and the same for drving hazards. Other than we still have those bozos who thinks they can peal off from the center lane, cross four lanes of highway, and take the exit ramp without causing a pile-up.
The condition of Ohio highways is due to the fact that they are contracted to the lowest bidder, and highway builders here don't have the materials and surface compliance codes that are required for building a highway in some states. A cheaply build road means repairs are needed sooner, and more work, more often for the road builders. It seems as soon as one end of the road is completed the starting point needs repaired. My late brother-in-law built highways....in more than one state....he said: Ohio wastes millions by not having stricter highway building codes, but then look who sets and writes the code.
Also, talking about regulations on vehicle ownership. Do you have a clue about what adult children can go through to sell a parent's old rattle trap vehicle; if that parent happened to die without leaving a will? It would be simpler to sell a vault full of semi-automatic weapons to an outright criminal than legally sell that vehicle, in the state of Ohio, without a legal title of ownership to transfer to the new owner.
@ Cynthia WRONG The rifle was left in the car geeez talk about reading !!!!!
I'm not wrong. The Chief Medical Examiner for the Sandy Hook School shooting VERIFIED that the rifle was the main weapon used to kill those at the school. Doesn't fit with your tidy ideas? – take it up with the expert.
Wrong again, talk about tidy, just keep following the libs take this country down the bowl. He was found dead with 2 pistols fact NOT A RIFLE.
A shotgun WAS found in his car. A Bushmaster rifle WAS USED in the majority of the killings of six and seven year olds. When the shooter was searched he had his brother's ID on him. Media were interviewing townspeople at the site. Of course when the first reports come out on any scene, there will be conflicting information until more solid information comes out – human nature and the rush to get info out as, in this case, there was a fear that both brothers were involved, one not located immediately and feared dangerous to the public. The mother WAS a teacher for her shooter son. She was not a teacher for the school but had many disagreements with them which might have fueled the resentment toward the school by the shooter BUT we will never know because the shooter not only killed his mother – he killed himself.
In other news;
80% of gun-owners polled also have stated that secondary gun sales are problematic and need greater restrictions on the selling of weapons and purchases by law enforcement agencies. Which I totally agree with.
So, you know, I think that, have we achieved everything that some might have imagined us achieving in the best of scenarios? Probably not. You know, there's a human enterprise, and you know, you fall short of the ideal," said Obama.
That should be nice for our fallen soldiers to hear
funny...two muslims making any kind of agreement...hahaha Here the middle east is a mess, four dead Americans (scandal), economy on the edge...no jobs...and o'foolishness talks guns. Of course were are pulling out of the middle east, we have our own oil... obama can strut threaten and play his foolish egomaniac games at the end of the day an empty shirt and embarrassment to America. And there are those of you who blow to this fraud...are you insane?
Jerry....Is that a nice way of saying we are all off topic again?
Plus Moose.....The massacre in Connecticut that's taken the lives of at least 26 people was reportedly perpetrated with a .223 caliber rifle, a Glock pistol and a Sig Sauer pistol, according to NBC.
The shooter was using one Sig Sauer and one Glock pistol, according to CNN. Later details emerged that the primary weapon was the Bushmaster "assault-style" rifle. source: Business Insider
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That's probably true, but wasn't this the same media that said the shooter's mother was a teacher and father was dead.
The coroner determined most of those killed were killed by rounds from the 223 caliber Bushmaster XM. he killed himself with a handgun. I imagine the two members of the school staff who were injured but survived were probably able to provide details that were not immediately known by the media, or even by first responders.
NBC, the law breaking net work, just in the last week how many recants have they posted, believe what you want, it seems there are a lot of brainwashed people on cnn sites. You can access the police report thru public records. it really doesnt matter to me either way you and cindy would believe any thing as long as it made Obam look good
HOWS that gitmo closing comming??? hows 5.4% unemp from the stimulus working??? i mean geeez this guy has failed miserbly and you think thats fine, we lost billons on his goofy green jobs, money just lost that could of been used to create jobs, real jobs not payoffs to his supporters, but again believe what you want, its clear to most your both mostly wrong and brown nosers
Moose, I guess we shouldn't talk about WMD that WEREN'T FOUND in Iraq when Bush's Administration said there were even as an International investigative team IN IRAQ had not found that to be true?? Fox, I assume your fav conservative news source, was wrong about that and beating their chests for an invasion in support of Bush OVER WMD. They were never found. Conservative media made a huge mistake, didn't they? But, you'd follow them anywhere, anyway because why? I have my doubts that you read and listen to a variety of news sources and the only reason you are posting on this site is that Fox provides NO COMMENT SECTIONS because they want you to listen to what they say BUT AREN'T INTERESTED in what YOU SAY.
People are taking snips from an ill informed media, the police report reads found rifle in car, i highly diubt he went in shot the place up and then ran to car, ran back inside and shot himself!!! plus no witnesses reported seeing the use of an assault rifle. NYC med examiner ??? I doubt it
When it comes to ill informed...go look in a mirror. It is not the media's fault if you can't keep up.
when it comes to dumb and ugly you should look in the mirror. Moose is right you can read the police report and it states 223 in auto, but go ahead and believe cnn
http://www.redstate.com/2012/12/27/setting-the-record-straight-adam-lanza-did-use-the-bushmaster-ar-15/
Read at CNN – Newtown shooter's guns what we know. posted by Steve Almasy 12-19-12
There were four guns taken to the school by Adam Lanza, and only 3 taken inside the school...he left the fourth gun which was a shotgun in the vehicle.He used the Bushmaster to shoot out the front door of the school to gain access,and it was the gun he used primarily inside the school.
My point was that nowadays it's report now get the story later. It's good to get the story out, but only basic information that has been confirmed by law enforcement in this case.


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Januari
10 januari – Gustav Vasa ger order om att avelsgårdar skall upprättas i hela Sverige, för att säkra tillgången till hästar och boskap.
16 januari – Filip II blir spansk kung.
21–25 januari – Svenskarna slår tillbaka ett ryskt anfall mot Viborg.

Februari
 2 februari – Cirka 850 000 personer omkommer vid en jordbävning med flera skalv i Kina.

Mars
21 mars – Stillestånd sluts mellan Sverige och Ryssland i Käräjäkallio.

Juni
27 juni – Gustav Vasas son, hertig Johan (III) erhåller Åbo och Kumogårds län i Finland samt Åland som ärftlig förläning.
29 juni – Hertig Johan tar över sina besittningar och blir styresman över hela Finland samt högste befälhavare över krigsfolket där.

November
5 november – Stormogulen Akbar den store besegrar sin upproriske minister Hemu i det andra slaget vid Panipat.

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Anne Hathaway – William Shakespeares hustru.
Sofia Johansdotter (Gyllenhielm), dotter till Johan III och Karin Hansdotter.
Sophie Brahe, dansk astronom.

Avlidna
21 mars – Thomas Cranmer, engelsk ärkebiskop av Canterbury, avrättad för kätteri som en av Oxfordmartyrerna.
31 juli – Ignatius av Loyola, jesuitordens grundare, helgon (kanoniserad 1622).
21 oktober – Pietro Aretino, italiensk författare, poet, dramatiker och satiriker under renässansen.
Jörgen Kock, borgmästare i Malmö.
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Commentary March 29, 2018 March 29, 2018
What The Right And Left Have Already Gotten Wrong About The 'Roseanne' Reunion
Growing up, even in a very Reagan/Bush conservative home, "Roseanne" was a major part of familial television watching.
Even though my parents' politics didn't mesh hardly at all with that of Roseanne and Dan Conner, there was enough in common between all the Boomers for my parents to enjoy the show. They didn't really like all the pro-liberal politics that seemed to be injected into the show — the story lines about unionizing, out of wedlock motherhood, and LGBTQ equality made them squeamish — but they still watched it and enjoyed it, because at the end of it all, the Conners were good, decent people just trying to make it work.
20 years later, it appears my folks have a lot more in common with Dan and Rosie than they did before.
I haven't had a chance to talk to my parents about the new "Roseanne" yet, but I'm sure they liked it. Their super libtarded son did too. To listen to both of the partisan extremes in this country, you'd think that only Trumpers watched the show's return, and that it's some kind of sign the real majority in this country are the white working class voters who were duped into voting for the Reality-TV Tyrant. You know, Trumpers.
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The left wants to paint the show as some sloppy blowjob for Don the Con. And while the jokes about people who want universal health care being bad at math are sloppy and stupid — per capita spending on socialized medicine is objectively cheaper than for profit medicine — it wasn't some ham fisted handy for the tiny handed fistula. The first episode, which show writer Whitney Cummings says is the only episode that deals with politics — was a very even bash at both of the camps. It's okay and needed for liberals to laugh at themselves, as evidenced by how great "Portlandia" is. Humans are capable of doing mock-worthy shit, and liberals are humans, so…
My advice to progressives is to watch the show.
As Jackie, Roseanne's sister, tells her in the first episode, we need to understand why they voted the crazy way they did. I saw one op-ed from the left that argued the show sanitizes the horrible parts of Trumpism. I disagree. I think it tries to show that within the Trump movement there are people who get swept away in it all, and who may have perfectly reasoned — if not incorrectly reasoned — motivations for voting for the piece of shit. Look, at some point we on the left have to reckon with this crazy notion that not every Trumper is a Nazi. Just the ones who do Nazi shit, the rest are sadly duped, desperate people.
Maybe if we learn about them, we can bring them back to our side, because I haven't seen too many regular Joe conservatives losing their shit over Darlene's son wearing girl's clothes, or Becky wanting to be a surrogate.
This show is trying to get us all to have dialogue. It seems like the writers, who are some pretty progressive comedians and writers themselves — are trying to get Americans to laugh at themselves. Both of these are noble endeavors, and I plan on watching the whole series' run, just to see how they make the titular character reconcile who she voted for with her beautiful, modern, mixed family. It's interesting, for instance, that the second episode dealt with Roseanne defending her grandson from bullying for his decision to wear girls' clothes the same week the president she and the actress who play her banned transgender people from the military.
My hope is that they do in fact make Rosie's idea of who Trump is and what he represents collide with who he really is, but regardless, none of this means that American conservatives are on target when they proclaim the new "Roseanne" as some watershed moment for conservatism. There were plenty of jokes knocking Trump. Jackie called him out for being a massive liar after Rosie went on a tirade about how Hillary was a "liar, liar pants on fire."
"I think we all know who's a liar and who's on fire, Roseanne," Jackie, played by the truly awe inspiring Laurie Metcalf, quipped so perfectly.
I actually had a fun exchange with NY Post tripe producer John Podhoretz today over his laughable column that called the show a "Wake Up Call for Hollywood." As I pointed out in my emails, which he responded to with all the intellectual effort you'd expect from his hack ass, the ratings success of the first two episodes isn't a boon for Trumpers or Anti-Trumpers. It's a boon for America.
Podhoretz tried to argue that the 18 million households that "Roseanne" got was somehow on a huge order of magnitude higher than that of the recent "Will & Grace" reunion, which pulled in 15 million. Firstly, with streaming we have no idea what the real numbers are, but secondly, there were most assuredly millions of anti-Trump libtards like me watching "Roseanne," so no, Trumpers, this show isn't proving anything other than Americans left, right, and center were ready for a cultural icon to come back and show us her take on things again.
Conservatives would do well to remember that ultimately Roseanne is still pro-choice and pro-LGBTQ equality. Even Dan Conner's misguided effort to butch-up his grandson was done out of a caring for his health and safety. Not that it makes Dan's decision right, but they still had the guts to put it on the air, so that we can all discuss it. People on both sides that tend to cloister away in their own bubbles will not be happy with this new "Roseanne," but the revival largely hits on exactly what the old show was. It was never about great acting aside from Goodman and Metcalf, it was about issues.
If the first two episodes are an indication, that commitment to examining the issues honestly and hilariously is still there, and in my stupid opinion, I think they accomplished what they did all those years ago. Here's hoping the trend continues and we keep talking about how Hillary and Trump supporters are whining or crowing about "Roseanne."
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Review: Leprous – Malina
September 2, 2017 Robert
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Norwegian prog outfit Leprous have been around for quite a while now and have built a pretty good name for themselves in the progressive metal/rock scenes. Their first full length album came out in 2006, and they've released several others since then, including 2015's The Congregation, my #1 favorite album of that year. It saw the group branching out into more melodic and nearly operatic musical territory while refining their songwriting chops and managing to hold on to aspects of their heavier roots. Naturally, my own expectations were pretty high when Leprous announced their follow-up this year, and it's now out in the form of their 6th studio album Malina.
The album continues the trend towards emphasized melody that The Congregation wholeheartedly embraced. The album opener "Bonneville" starts very delicately with an off-kilter harmonic guitar melody with a soft ghost note-heavy drum pattern and some atmospheric staccato synths. It's a very beautiful opener, but it does remember to bring the heaviness in the back half with some particularly djenty low-end guitars. It's a logical extension of The Congregation's style, and the subsequent tracks continue like this, featuring syncopated guitar chords and tight drum grooves mixed with intricate fills on top of that. "From The Flame" in particular has a distinct chord structure/rhythm that the drums lock into pretty well at the start, and I like when the drums shift into a variation of a four-on-the-floor rhythm in the second verse. It's a cool bit of songwriting to show off how exactly the guitars sync up with the main pulse of the song.
Perhaps the most immediately obvious addition to the Leprous formula is the addition of cellos and string compositions into the mix, contributed by Raphael Weinroth-Browne. When combined with the consistently excellent vocal/keyboard work of frontman Einar Solberg, it pushes the operatic nature of their current sound into more grandiose territory. The most stunning example of this is in the title track, which opens with a twinkling keyboard melody with some delicate violins to help amplify the vocal performances/arrangements. The song keeps at this for about 2 minutes before the drums finally enter with an alternatingly slow/fast pounding tom pattern, with the guitars following suit as the song swells and flows through loud and delicate segments, with the strings tying it all together. Special attention should also be made of the track "Coma", which is also the heaviest track on the record. It comes swinging right out of the gate with a rapid-fire pounding drum beat and tremolo guitar pattern with a staccato keyboard melody that's also repeated in the guitars later on. The violin/string arrangements here amplify the propelling tempo of the song, and it adds a really over-the-top dramatic and menacing tone to the composition.
There's quite a lot to love about this album, from the intricate rhythms and instrumental interplay to Solberg's fantastic vocal performances, and it may very well end up making it on my albums of the year list… but I can't say it's as good as their previous release. To be fair, that's not the worst problem in the world. The album still stands strong on its own and continues the evolution they've been doing since last time in a really interesting way, but I feel like there's a few things on this album that aren't as tight as the record. It's worth noting that this is the first Leprous release to not feature any harsh vocals at all, which wouldn't be an inherently bad thing given the compositions at play here are more theatrical and melodious than heavy. However, with songs like the aforementioned "Coma" that emphasize a driving aggressive tempo, some visceral bellowing screams and growls would have gone a long way to help tie everything together. On a similar note, "Mirage" is mainly characterized with a steady tempo and a bass/synth rhythm consisting of a few incredibly low-end notes that spread and sustain in an off-kilter manner akin to a lost track from Meshuggah's Koloss album. In fact, much like a great deal of Meshuggah's catalog, the song knows how to balance these low-end riffs/notes with great upper-register chord progressions. There's a great "1+2+3+4+, 1+2+3+4+5" rhythmic progression throughout the main verses that aids the djenty vibes of everything, and the song gets particularly heavy with a great ending blowout near the 5:20 mark. However, once again, there are no harsh vocals to help aid the ominous and intense vibe of much of the instrumentation.
While a good deal of the songs have a particularly dynamic flow to them and varied song structure, it feels like the songs don't ebb and flow as well as on The Congregation. "Stuck" is one of the more straightforward tracks in the Leprous library, coming right out of the gate with a steady sound/set of riffs and drums, and it just maintains that same structure and volume for the entire duration. The same can be said of "The Weight of Duration", which has one of the most simplistic chord structures on the album, and the song just flows back and forth between this introductory segment, a melodic verse, and a triumphant chorus in kind of a predictable fashion.
Despite these minor gripes, Malina is another satisfying entry in the band's discography. Might have a few nitpicks with the songwriting and song structure here, but even Leprous on a decent day is still better than a lot of bands on a good day. The instrumentation and musicianship is as tight as ever, the string arrangements add a new dimension to their sound, and the drumming is even probably the tightest on a Leprous record to date. Seriously, for his second record with the band, Baard Kolstad is a great fit with the band (pay extra attention to the dynamic shuffling groove of "Illuminate" for proof positive of that). If you've never heard a Leprous album before, this is a pretty good jumping-on point, and I highly recommend it.
Verdict: Buy it. Allow the luscious tones of Solberg's beautiful singing voice to wash over every inch of your being. …I have no clue where I was going with that.
Malina is available from Inside Out Music on CD, vinyl, digital download (iTunes, Google Play, etc.), and streaming services. Check out the band online on Facebook, Twitter, and their official website.
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When Terry Cannon accused fossil fuel corporations of genocide for continuing to explore for oil, gas and coal, he caused eyebrows to rise. Yet some of his other remarks to the final session of the conference on community-based adaptation to climate change – and to a short parallel course on monitoring and evaluation – may prove to be both less sensational and more controversial (not least because he told me later that he had not intended to use the g-word).
For example, he questioned the morality of non-governmental organisations that were interested only in the people in their project areas. Given that these projects touched only a small proportion of the public, he said, unless NGOs designed activities so that they could be scaled up without cost, they would be failing. Is that ethical, he asked.
"If we don't help everyone adapt, there will be hunger and crisis," he told participants on the course, run by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, set up in Dhaka by Saleemul Huq, who is also one of the organisers of the conference.
That wasn't Cannon's only challenge.
He questioned the very idea of "community": "Communities are not warm and cuddly… it's we who find community convenient. It fits in with what we want to do and what funders want. Let's not be afraid to talk about class and power."
There was also a need to design top-down policies that would help people adapt to climate change, he said: not a revolutionary idea in itself, but not the sort of language that participants in community-based activities – proud of their bottom-up approach – are accustomed to hearing.
Investment in community-based adaptation was infinitesimal compared with the billions spent annually on subsidies for fossil fuels and agriculture and on fossil fuel exploration: "We are tiny gnats trying to push an elephant," he commented. "I'm not convinced agencies are interested in scaling up. They are comfortable working in projects."
Cannon, a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, also said that NGOs needed to experiment if they were to find policies to deal with climate change, and that meant they should seek funds for research rather than projects. It might mean, too, going into partnership with academics and research organisations, and becoming more scientific – donors would demand that they do so.
This blog post is part of SciDev.Net's coverage of International Conference on Community-based Adaptation which takes place 22-25 April 2013, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. To read further news and analysis please visit our website.
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Attending a conference under the title of 'Women in Science and Technology in the Arab Countries', I expected to find a distinct and remarkable presence of female and male scientists from most of the Arab countries.
I therefore felt a bit down when I found that many countries were not represented, particularly countries from the Gulf that have begun to have effective impact on science field in the region, such as like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
While the number of attendees did not exceed 100, more than 20 per cent of them were from countries outside the Arab region, including India and Pakistan.
When I asked the organisers about this, they replied that they had contacted many institutions in most of the Arab countries, but had received a weak response and not much enthusiasm towards the conference.
This might reflect the lack of support that many women scientists in Arab countries face, particularly with obtaining leadership positions.
On a more positive note, a high number of Arab women scientists were persent in the conference sessions.
However, this highlighted the very weak presence of male scientists – the hall was packed with women, while you could barely find one or two men and there was only one male among the speakers.
The situation raised some laughter during the sessions, with women pointing out that although "there is no science of women and science of men", male scientists appeared to have kept their distance.
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While the armed conflict in Syria is closing its second year, a gathering of more than 100 Arab women scientists in Kuwait take this as chance to remember the loss of their Syrian colleague, scientist Ahlam Imad who were assassinated by armed groups in June 2011.
The professor at the Faculty of Petrochemical Engineering Faculty at al-Baath University in Homs was killed when a group of gunmen broke into her family house and shot her down along with five of her family members, including three children.
"She was one of the active members of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World [OWSD] and just before she died she was about to establish a national chapter of OWSD in Syria," Rokshana Ismail, chemistry professor in Aden University told the attendees of the International conference on Women in Science and Technology in the Arab Countries (21-23 April), in Kuwait City.
Imad is not the only scientist that was killed during the last two years in Syria, a nuclear scientist Aws Abdul Karim Khalil assassinated in Homs in September 2011, the science professor and missiles expert Nabil Zougheib was killed with his wife and two sons on 21 July 2012 in Damascus, Issa Al Khouli, head of Hamish military hospital was killed in Damascus in February 2012.
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A conference on community-based adaptation to climate change in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is in lock down because of a "hartal", or general strike, which aims to bring commercial life in the city to a halt. The strike makes it risky to leave the hotel that is staging the meeting and where most participants are staying. Demonstrators use sticks and stones and occasionally fire to enforce their action, and the conference hotel has "strongly recommended" guests not leave the premises during the 36-hour protest.
That solves the problem faced by all such conferences of participants going for walks or shopping and failing to attend sessions on time. But the organisers have provided in-house entertainment with a number of "out of the box" sessions, the star of which was a climate change game under development by game champion Pablo Suarez. For more than an hour groups of participants representing communities, doctors and governments rolled dice, jumped up, sat down, made instant decisions and gambled beans competing fiercely with each other and with the clock.
The extraordinary thing about such games is how quickly players of all genders, cultures and roles assume the identities they have been assigned and enter into the spirit of role-play.
Suarez, associate director for research and innovation for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre – and a member of the Games for A New Climate Taskforce – is an enthusiastic proponent of games, which he says are an entertaining and effective way of learning.
"They can elicit behaviour that is likely to happen in the real world", he says, and can vividly illustrate elements such as complexity, risk and unexpected events – "Knowing what is likely to happen is useful but is not enough".
He says that "serious games" involve brain power and emotions, "and everyone engages".
Judging by the whoops of excitement from the winning groups and the buzz and applause at the end of the session, every conference needs a game.
In a later session, a comment by Gareth Jones of Oxfam introduced a different form of reality. He told the organisers that the proceedings were engendering "a sense of false optimism". True, said conference host Saleemul Huq, "but we wouldn''t be here if we were no't optimistic."
Rising from the ashes of revolution: women scientists in Yemen
Yemen scores poorly in the fields of science and technology, ranking alongside some of the world's least developed countries, such as Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.
But in recent years, Yemen has also produced some distinguished women scientists, according to Rokshana Ismail, professor of chemistry at Aden University, Yemen.
"We do not have specific science policies, like Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar and Tunisia, where they have [made] great strides in the field of scientific research" Ismail says.
The scientific community in Yemen is trying to invest in the Arab spring revolution to bring about change without further bloodshed, she adds.
Ismail says there are new policies in the Arab countries that aim to drive fresh insights, and that Yemen should invest in these policies positively through giving priority to scientific research.
"Unfortunately, after the Arab spring revolution, the funding priority of many funding organisations was to attempt to save and rebuild what had been torn down", she told attendees at the International conference on Women in Science and Technology in the Arab Countries (21-23 April), in Kuwait City.
For example, if a scientific researcher approaches a funding body with a research proposal, the organisation would reject it because new research is not a priority in the current situation.
In spite of this, 30 per cent of the total number of high school graduates in Yemen specialise in the fields of science and technology. A good share of these students are women, and there are some distinguished women scientists in the country, including Huda Omer Ba Saleem.
Ba Saleem is a Yemeni scientist who has been working to establish a network of women scientists in the Arab world. She was among five researchers to receive the first Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World, an award scheme launched in 2012.
Leadership role models 'lacking' for Arab women scientists
Female Arab scientists are still under-represented in key positions and in many departments, according to Rowaida Al-Ma'aitah, a professor at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Amman.
"Although women scientists in the Arab world have leadership qualifications, the lack of female scientists in leadership positions limits our influence," she says. "Women advance more slowly than men into academic leadership positions."
Some of the most important barriers to leadership for women in academia, in Al- Ma'aitah's opinion, are the lack of access to career advice, mentoring and socialising for women faculty; as well as invisible factors that keep women from rising to the top.
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"I told him, do whatever you want because I am staying," she says. "And after a few months he saw my performance and the difference I had made, and he appreciated me very much since then."
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Q: WPF: Animate Height of ListView when final height is unknown I have a ListView, that is defined very simply in my XAML like so
<ListView Name="myListVew" MaxHeight="200" Visibility="Collapsed">
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridViewColumn Header="Line" Width="Auto" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Line}" />
            <GridViewColumn Header="Error" Width="Auto" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Error}" />
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

When I want the ListView to appear, I want to animate the height of the list view from 0. The problem is, I don't know the final height of the ListView since it will depend on how many items are shown inside it. Is there anyway of doing this?

A: Don't you hate it when you search for hours for a solution, post a question to a forum and then find the answer yourself 10 minutes later?
Anyway, I got it working by applying a layout scale transform like so
<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetName="ErrorDisplay" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(FrameworkElement.LayoutTransform).(TransformGroup.Children)[0].(ScaleTransform.ScaleY)">
    <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00" Value="0"/>
    <SplineDoubleKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.3000000" Value="1"/>
</DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames>

A: This isn't exactly the same scenario but it may help someone else.
I had a border that had a height of Auto and I wanted it to animate to a specific height.
My border looked like this:
<Border Name="ContainerBorder">
  <!-- Stuff... -->
</Border>

I created this storyboard:
<Storyboard x:Key="EditIn">
  <DoubleAnimation Storyboard.TargetProperty="Height"
                   Storyboard.TargetName="ContainerBorder"
                   Name="BorderAnimation"
                   To="45"
                   Duration="0:0:0.8" />
</Storyboard>

The button that triggered the animation had some codebehind:
private void Edit_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
  Storyboard sb = (Storyboard)FindResource("EditIn");
  //Find the border animation
  DoubleAnimation da = (DoubleAnimation)sb.Children.Where(t => t.Name == "BorderAnimation").FirstOrDefault();
  if (da != null) { da.From = ContainerBorder.ActualHeight; }
  sb.Begin(this);
}

So, I simply found the border and set the "From" property of the animation to the FrameworkElement's ActualHeight.

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, dit le Borgne (en ), né en 1090 et mort le  à Alzey en Franconie, de la dynastie des Hohenstaufen, fut duc de Souabe de 1105 à sa mort. Son frère cadet Conrad a été élu roi des Romains en 1138. Il est le père de Frédéric Barberousse, couronné empereur en 1155, et l'arrière-grand-père de l'empereur  (souvent désigné par les historiens comme « Frédéric de Hohenstaufen »).

Biographie
 est le fils du duc  et de son épouse Agnes, de la dynastie franconienne, une fille de l'empereur . Son père a obtenu le titre de duc de Souabe pendant la querelle des Investitures et l'insurrection de Rodolphe de Rheinfelden en 1079, conjointement avec la main de la princesse. Les Hohenstaufen se trouvaient donc confrontés à la concurrence de la maison de Zähringen. En 1102, ils créent l'abbaye de Lorch en tant qu'une nécropole de la famille.

À la mort du duc  en 1105,  âgé de quinze ans prend sa succession. En 1108, il accompagnait la campagne du roi  contre Coloman de Hongrie ; en 1110, il le suivit en Italie pour l'audience du pape . Lui et son frère Conrad, temporairement nommés régents du Saint-Empire, peuvent ainsi conforter leur position de force en Souabe et en Franconie au nord, où ils ont acquis des territoires étendus.  est également connu pour avoir construit de nombreux châteaux en Alsace, y compris une forteresse sur une île de la Moder vers 1115, autour de laquelle se fonda la ville de Haguenau. Ce château est devenu palais impérial sous le règne de Frédéric Barberousse.

En 1120,  se marie avec Judith (morte vers 1131), fille du duc  de la puissante famille des Welfs. Deux ans plus tard leur fils Frédéric naît, possiblement à Haguenau. L'alliance des Hohenstaufen et des Welf n'a pas tardé à se révéler très fragile.

Lorsque la dynastie franconienne s'éteignit à la mort de l'empereur  le 23 mai 1125,  de Souabe, son  neveu, devient candidat naturel pour le titre de roi de Germanie. Les princes se rassemblèrent le  à Mayence ; cependant, bien qu'il bénéficie du soutien de son plus jeune frère Conrad et de plusieurs familles, Frédéric perd l'élection au profit du duc Lothaire de Saxe. Selon certaines sources, l'archevêque Adalbert de Mayence, l'ancien chancelier de , avait influencé de façon déterminante le choix.

Peu de temps après déjà, des disputes violentes surgirent : en novembre, Lothaire a convoqué une diète à Ratisbonne, où il a déclaré que les domaines royaux de la dynastie franconienne devaient lui être restitués par les Hohenstaufen ; toutefois, ils n'ont pas tenu compte de l'appel et le roi doit donc imposer le ban de l'Empire. Lors d'une assemblée à Goslar en 1126, il faisait agir les princes militairement contre  et Conrad. Lothaire et ses alliés ont alors occupé les territoires en Lorraine, en Franconie et en Alsace ; il n'osa pas d'attaquer les domaines familiaux des Hohenstaufen en Souabe. En 1127, le roi assiégea Nuremberg mais il n'a pas été en mesure d'occuper la ville.

Lors de combats,  a perdu un œil (le Borgne) et ne pouvait donc être considéré comme candidat au trône. Ensuite, son frère Conrad a pris la tête et parvint à réunir suffisamment de soutiens pour se faire élire antiroi le  à Nuremberg. En même temps, Frédéric fait constamment campagne pour regagner la ville de Spire ; toutefois, tous les territoires franconiens, Nuremberg et l'Alsace furent perdus.

Après la mort de sa première femme, Frédéric épousa Agnès (morte après 1147), une fille du comte Frédéric de Sarrebruck. En 1134, Lothaire, couronné empereur à Rome, s'attacha de nouveau à lutter contre les Hohenstaufen, dans l'alliance avec son gendre le duc . Frédéric était incapable de faire face à cette force supérieure et finit par se soumettre à Lothaire à Bamberg dans le courant du printemps 1135, suivi de son frère Conrad. Les Hohenstaufen, retournés en grâce, ont pu garder leur influence en Souabe et en Franconie. Lorsque Lothaire mourut en décembre 1137, Conrad a été finalement élu roi de Romains l'année suivante.

 est décédé le 4 (ou 6) avril 1147 à Alzey. Il a été enterré dans l'église Sainte-Walburge de Walbourg en Alsace, de même que sa veuve Agnès de Sarrebruck. Selon les chroniques de son demi-frère l'évêque Othon de Freising, « Frédéric fut un chevalier si fidèle à son souverain et un ami si utile à son oncle que par vaillance, il a soutenu l'honneur du royaume chancelant, luttant courageusement contre ses ennemis [...]. » Son fils Frédéric Barberousse lui a succédé comme duc de Souabe et a été élu roi des Romains en 1152.

Descendance
Avec Judith de Bavière, il eut :
 Frédéric Barberousse (1122, mort en 1190), duc de Souabe, roi des Romains et empereur romain germanique ;
 Judith-Berthe de Hohenstaufen (1123, morte en 1195), mariée au duc .
Avec sa deuxième épouse Agnès de Sarrebruck :
  (1134, mort en 1195), comte palatin du Rhin ;
 Clarisse/Judith de Hohenstaufen (1135, morte en 1191), mariée au landgrave  ;
 Luitgarde (morte après 1155).

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
     Duke of Swabia  sur le site Medieval Lands Consulté le 9 mai 2014.
 Anthony Stokvis, Manuel d'histoire, de généalogie et de chronologie de tous les États du globe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, préf. H. F. Wijnman, éditions Brill, Leyde 1890-93, réédition 1966, Volume 3,  et tableau généalogique n° 87 « Généalogie des ducs de Souabe, : Les Hohenstaufen  » 219.

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Duc de Souabe
Frédéric de Hohenstaufen
Personnalité alsacienne du Moyen Âge
Naissance en 1090
Décès en 1147
Décès à Alzey


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Nicole Vogler, Staffer| September 28, 2021
The stage lights are on, and the company of Allen High School's current fall play, "Treasure Island," all agree they could not be more ecstatic about having the chance to tell a story to the community once more.
From the actors, to all of the students working behind the scenes on marketing, set building, lighting design and costumes, every member of the company is preparing to kick off the school year with what is traditionally an adventurous play that students say they hope will allow them to explore the boundaries of their creativity.
"I didn't know how in-depth you had to get to portray a character. I really find it unique; this is really a hard process to go through," Junior Gavin Moore, who portrays Israel Hands the pirate, said.
"Treasure Island" has been a great experience for many students to try out new things and experiment with different theatrical jobs. Taking on the role of assistant director, stage m
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anager, or crew head, the show is full of students pushing themselves to adopt leadership positions and get the play ready for opening night.
"Everyone has put so much work into this: the scenic, the props, the costumes, the actors. I just know when it all comes together, it's going to be an experience like no other," senior Megan McMurray, said.
McMurray serves as a costume crew head for the production and has been working hard to dress the whole cast as pirates living in the 1700s. Senior Benny Goode, also serves as a member of the costume crew.
"I've jammed my finger several times and poked myself with a needle, but I still wouldn't trade the experience for the world," Goode said.
However, cast and crew members say the process has had its ups and downs.
"There's a lot to do in little time," junior Sarah Swan, a costume crew member, said.
As the opening night approaches — rather early in the school year for a large production — everyone in the company is feeling pressure as they go into tech week. There's a lot of aspects to a big production such as "Treasure Island," and getting everything together in a short six weeks has been difficult work, but most of the cast and crew say they have remained optimistic.
The scenic crew building the set and adding finishing touches. Photo by Evan Arnold.
"It is just overall a beautiful story that the whole family can enjoy. Especially to be back in a full live audience will be something so special," senior John Regan, who portrays Captain Smollet on stage, said.
The cast and crew of "Treasure Island" invites you to "escape for a little bit, have a little bit of a distraction and just enjoy art", as you watch them in the lights together once again. The show will open on Thursday, with more performances on October 1 and October 2. Tickets can be purchased at AllenPAC.org.
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10th May 2022 By Carers Trust
The Government today laid out its legislative programme for the coming year in the Queen's Speech.
Responding to the Queen's Speech and what it means for unpaid family carers, Carers Trust's CEO, Kirsty McHugh, said:
"The nation's seven million unpaid carers bore the brunt of the pandemic. It is therefore astonishing that today's Queen's Speech did not contain the promised Employment Bill, honouring the manifesto commitment to bring forward measures to support unpaid carers trying to juggle caring and working.
"We had hoped for a clear announcement of legislation for a week's unpaid leave for carers and a day-one right to request flexible working.
"Both of these measures, while only a start, would have been incredibly welcome to unpaid carers, not least because Carers Trust research found that almost half of unpaid carers say they have given up or scaled back on work due to caring. This in turn is causing financial pressures, a loss of life alongside caring, as well as depriving the economy of valuable experience, expertise and tax revenue.
"Given so many carers have already been pushed into acute financial hardship as a result of cost of living pressures, the urgent need to upgrade Carers Allowance and the continuing lack of investment in local carer services, it is no surprise that almost nine out of ten unpaid carers feel successive governments have ignored them."
For further information, and to arrange interviews,
Matt Whitticase on mwhitticase@carers.org and 07824 539481.
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The direct sale of goat milk is illegal in West Virginia and violations carry significant fines. State officials in West Virginia object to the sale and distribution of "raw" (unpasteurized) milk based on fears that consumers will contract certain infections from consumption, including listeria and salmonella. A counter-argument posed by milk producers is that the act of pasteurization can destroy good bacteria in the milk along with the bad. Furthermore, although it is true that unprocessed (unpasteurized) milk may contain bacteria that can cause serious illness, the threat can be minimized by proper sanitary precautions during milking (which should be practiced by all dairy operations) and proper storage and handling of the milk by the consumer. If properly managed and maintained, fresh, unprocessed goat milk is a healthy product that can be safely consumed–even by people who suffer from lactose intolerance. As a child, David Umling and his family were all raised on fresh, unprocessed cow milk from the family's dairy farm without any milk-induced illnesses.
In essence, West Virginia (like many other states) still regards unprocessed milk as a potential elixir of death even though many other processed, packaged, and inspected foods have caused similar illnesses (as has periodically occurred regionally and nationally with spinach, ice cream, meat, and other food products). As a compromise in this seven-year legislative debate, West Virginia adopted new legislation in 2016 that allows milk producers to execute special agreements with consumers wishing to acquire "raw" (unprocessed or unpasteurized) milk. These agreements allow the consumer to effectively purchase a share of a dairy goat or cow herd in a manner similar to Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA) agreements. As a part "investor" in the animals producing the milk, it is not considered by the state to be an illegal "sale or distribution" of unprocessed milk, since the part-owner of an animal is entitled to a share of the fresh milk it produces. It is a way to allow a farmer to share unprocessed fresh milk within interested off-farm consumers. The complex nature of arranging these special agreements and establishing a fair price for each "share" of the herd, in addition to specific testing requirements and notification requirements in the event of any potential customer illness or infection, effectively assures unsupportive State officials that the distribution of so-called "raw milk" to interested consumers will be tightly controlled and limited. Even the exclusive use of the term "raw milk" in the law instead of "unprocessed" or "fresh" milk reflects the reluctance of state officials and the Legislature to embrace direct farm to consumer milk sales as a valid and potentially healthy alternative to processed milk. What professional marketing agent would ever recommend the use of the term "raw milk" to promote sales of farm-fresh, unprocessed milk?
We believe that the new law should be revised to simplify unprocessed fresh milk transactions (as other states allow) and to better ensure that milk producers are not subject to improper notification requirements when the source of a customer's illness has not be definitively determined. The current wording of the law requires a farmer (and the Department of Agriculture) to notify all herd share customers and cease all milk distribution immediately after being notified that a customer has suffered a food poisoning illness without ensuring that the source of the illness has been established. Since listeria and salmonella infections can be caused by other foods (as has been documented), why should the law be worded in a way that presumes unprocessed milk consumption must be the cause? That false presumption was initially made by state officials on the day the herd shares agreement bill was passed–when illnesses occurred after celebrants consumed unprocessed milk–only to discover later that the milk was not the cause. We further contend that the law should encourage the creation of a meaningful competitive price market to ensure that commercial dairy processors will pay farmers a fair and more sustainable wholesale price for the milk they produce. Such a balanced and competitive unprocessed milk market would only support, promote, and perhaps revive commercial dairy farming in West Virginia.
Since Peeper Pond Farm does not intend to become a commercial dairy producer and we are not satisfied with the current law, we are not prepared to offer "herd share agreements" with consumers at this time. However, circumstances may arise in the future when our herd becomes large enough or productive enough to justify one or more herd share agreements. If and when that time occurs, we will evaluate this option further and post an agreement on this page. In the meantime, it is our hope that state and elected officials will reconsider their distaste for fresh, unprocessed milk and agree to a better, more supportive legal process for its distribution. We also hope that future improvements in the law will be made that will allow us to reconsider our current position on so-called "raw milk" agreements.


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