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Q: Saving Locally Array of Custom Class in Swift 3 I'm trying to save locally Array of Custom Class called Lokacija (English: Location) in xCode 8, Swift 3.
I tried saving it with UserDefault, but unfortunately it doesn't work with custom classes. So i found this article: http://ioscake.com/how-to-archive-and-unarchive-custom-objects-in-swift-or-how-to-save-custom-object-to-nsuserdefaults-in-swift.html. I tried both solutions, but none of them worked for me. BTW Article was written in Swift 2.x, and as I said I am using Swift 3, so I had to translate it.
I firstly tried this:
    class Lokacija: NSObject, NSCoding {

        var _name : String
        var _address : String
        var _long : Double
        var _lat : Double

        init(name : String, address : String, lat : Double, long : Double) {
            _name = name
            _address = address
            _lat = lat
            _long = long
            //day month year
        }

        func encode(with aCoder: NSCoder) {
            print("ENCODINGGG!!!")
            aCoder.encode(_name, forKey: "name")
            aCoder.encode(_address, forKey: "address")
            aCoder.encode(_long, forKey: "long")
            aCoder.encode(_lat, forKey: "lat")
        }
    }

//in custom .swift "Utils"

static func saveLocations(lokacije: [Lokacija]) {
    let dataBlob = NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject: lokacije)

    UserDefaults.standard.set(dataBlob, forKey: "lista")
    UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()
}

static func loadLocations() -> [Lokacija]? {
    guard let decodedDataBlob = UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "lista") as? Data, let loadedLocations = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(with: decodedDataBlob) as? [Lokacija] else {
        return nil
    }

    return loadedLocations
}

    //on action
lista.append(selectedLoc)
Utils.saveLocations(lokacije: lista)

//in view did load
    if let listaBase = Utils.loadLocations() {
        lista = listaBase
        self.plannerTable.reloadData()
        print(listaBase.count)
        print(lista.count)
    } else {
        print("PATKA MOREEE!!!")
    }

Problem was that it didn't write anything in listaBase, it was empty.
Then I tried second solution:
class Lokacija: NSObject, NSCoding {

    var _name : String
    var _address : String
    var _long : Double
    var _lat : Double

    init(name : String, address : String, lat : Double, long : Double) {
        _name = name
        _address = address
        _lat = lat
        _long = long
        //day month year
    }

    func encode(with aCoder: NSCoder) {
        print("ENCODINGGG!!!")
        aCoder.encode(_name, forKey: "name")
        aCoder.encode(_address, forKey: "address")
        aCoder.encode(_long, forKey: "long")
        aCoder.encode(_lat, forKey: "lat")
    }

    required convenience init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        print("DECODEDDD!!!")
        guard let unName = aDecoder.decodeObject(forKey: "name") as? String, let unAddress = aDecoder.decodeObject(forKey: "address") as? String, let unLong = aDecoder.decodeObject(forKey: "long") as? Double, let unLat = aDecoder.decodeObject(forKey: "lat") as? Double
            else {
                return nil
        }
        self.init(name: unName, address: unAddress, lat: unLat, long: unLong)
    }

    private class func getFileUrl() -> NSURL {

        let documentsDirectory = FileManager().urls(for: (.documentDirectory), in: .userDomainMask).first!
        let archiveURL = documentsDirectory.appendingPathComponent("lista")

        return archiveURL as NSURL
    }

    class func saveLocations(locations: [Lokacija]){

        let success = NSKeyedArchiver.archiveRootObject(locations, toFile: Lokacija.getFileUrl().path!)
        if !success {
            print("failed to save")
        }

    }

    class func loadLocations() -> [Lokacija] {

        if let locBase = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(withFile: Lokacija.getFileUrl().path!) as? [Lokacija] {
            return locBase
        }
        print("NIL")
        return [Lokacija]()
    }

}

//on action
    lista.append(selectedLoc)
    Lokacija.saveLocations(locations: lista)

    //on view did load
    if Lokacija.loadLocations() != nil {
    let retrivedLocations = Lokacija.loadLocations()
    lista = retrivedLocations
    self.plannerTable.reloadData()
    print(retrivedLocations.count)
    print(lista.count)
}
else {
    print("FAILL!!!")
}

And I got exactly the same problem.

A: There's problem with the way you're decoding the Double values. Use following code for your decoding initializer, it will work:
required convenience init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    print("DECODEDDD!!!")
    guard let unName = aDecoder.decodeObject(forKey: "name") as? String, let unAddress = aDecoder.decodeObject(forKey: "address") as? String else {
            return nil
    }

    let unLong = aDecoder.decodeDouble(forKey: "long")
    let unLat = aDecoder.decodeDouble(forKey: "lat")
    self.init(name: unName, address: unAddress, lat: unLat, long: unLong)
}

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Behind the Covid Numbers in Haiti
"The PHTK [ruling party] virus is more dangerous than Corona." (Photo by Réginald Junior Louissaint/K2D)
By Jane Regan, The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), June 9, 2020
The official Covid-19 death toll in Haiti stood at only 54 as of June 7, with 3,538 confirmed cases. But the numbers don't tell the story.
The virus is now in all 10 departments, and medical authorities—organizations like the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders—warn that the country's few Covid-ready hospitals and triage centers may soon be overwhelmed. Police officers and doctors have died. Children have died. The disease has reached the country's overcrowded prisons.
Many thousands of Haitians have likely already had Covid. In the village of Cayes-Jacmel, nearly every family has had someone ill with the symptoms. In the capital, 90 percent of those tested are Covid-positive.
But lack of, and fear of, testing mean that thousands go undiagnosed and that hundreds, or perhaps even more, have died—untested and uncounted—due to a combination of factors that are as much political and economic as they are related to the weak public health system.
But as important? Distrust in the discredited government.
Disbelief and Distrust
One recent afternoon, Solange Pétion, 58, was in her usual spot next to a lottery stand not far from the National Palace, trying to sell hot coffee, hot chocolate, and bread. Even though the government asked people to stay home and threatened those without masks with a fine of $300—about half a year's income for more than half the population—most are maskless.
"If that sickness was really in Haiti, it would have already killed many people," she said.
Not far away, Charles, who would not reveal his last name, was trying to sell new and used books to students milling about, even though the government shuttered all schools and universities.
"Yes, I've heard it's in other countries, but here in Haiti, everybody lies. I don't trust the government," he said.
And so no wonder that protestors have scrawled graffiti like "Where is the Corona money?" on walls, mimicking the slogan from the past two years' anti-government anti-corruption protests: "Where is the Petrocaribe money?"
People like Charles believe rumors that say Covid-19 is a fiction invented by President Jovenel Moïse—repeatedly and credibly accused of corruption and now ruling by decree since January because elections for lawmakers were not held—so that he and his cronies can attract financial aid from abroad. They also do not trust international humanitarian actors, whose repeated promises in the wake of the 2010 earthquake did not deliver the promised Haiti "built back better."
And in any case, the vast majority of Haitians—trying to eke out a living as farmers or working in the informal sector—cannot afford to stay at home or to follow the other impossible rules laid out in a May 21 presidential decree, like the daily disinfection of tap-taps, the pick-ups used for mass transit.
Thus, pandemic or not, almost all of the country's 11 million people are out and about. And so, across the country, people are sick and dying of what they call the "epidemi lafyèv" (fever epidemic).
"Some have all symptoms, but most have a very mild disease," explained Jean William (Bill) Pape, M.D., executive director of the GHESKIO Centers, on June 2.
A renowned public health doctor and Weill Cornell Medical College professor, Pape has worked for years on HIV-AIDS and TB in Haiti and today co-heads the commission overseeing Haiti's COVID fight, the Multisectoral Pandemic Management Commission COVID-19, with the Minister of Health.
"This is indeed COVID 19!" Pape noted, although most people are not tested, "When they have the mild form, they think that it is a cold. As they need to work daily and are used to hardship, so they resume their activity. This way they are likely to transmit the virus."
Because they fear being stigmatized or forced to quarantine, scores are not seeking medical assistance. In some communities, people have attacked or ostracized those who are sick.
Another problem are the religious leaders—especially Evangelical preachers—who have said the disease does not exist and that "if we rely on Jesus Christ,we have nothing to worry about," Pape said, adding: "In fact today, one of those preachers, unfortunately, died."
A Plan, But Little Cash
The government commission is working on fighting the disinformation, Pape noted, as part of its $176 million Covid attack plan, which includes establishing 30 Covid-ready centers or wards with a total of 300,000 "Covid beds" equipped with an oxygen supply.
But as of June 3, the country had only about 450 beds for a population of over 11 million, and the plan remains mostly unfunded, according to Paul Auxila, the commission's controller.
The government spent $20 million on material and the private sector donated $3.5 million, Auxila said, but aside from a World Bank pledge of $20 million, Haiti's usual donors have not stepped up with funding. Meanwhile, the World Bank money hasn't arrived yet.
While UNICEF and other UN agencies, nonprofits such as Doctors Without Borders, and various bilateral and multilateral partners such as CARICOM and the French government have sent materials or provide administrative support, Auxila stressed that Haiti needs cash.
"If everything goes well, [pledges] will arrive in 8 to 10 weeks," Auxila explained in a recent webinar. "I hope that we will not need it by then because by then we will have been successful or everybody's dead."
Weakened Healthcare System
The establishment of a Haitian-led commission to oversee aid efforts is an advance over previous disasters.
During the 2010 earthquake, scores of church groups, charities, nonprofits, and bilateral agencies operated all over the country, often with little oversight or coordination, earning Haiti the nickname: "The Republic of NGOs." The ineffectiveness of international NGOs frequently draws criticism from academics, politicians and local organizations.
In fact, Haiti's health system today is a jumble of several large nonprofits like the GHESKIO Centers and Partners in Health (PIH), private clinics, and poorly funded and staffed public facilities.
It is no surprise the commission has to beg for donations.
A recent World Bank study notes that government funding for healthcare in 2014 stood at only $13 per person, compared with $336 per person in Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Domestic financing as a share of total health spending has been steadily decreasing since the 1990s," the report notes.
What the report does not point out is why that number has decreased.
Since the 1980s, Washington and the multilaterals have forced successive Haitian governments to apply neoliberal "structural adjustment policies," which have often involved cutting public funding. Nonprofits have stepped in for the impoverished, and Haiti's elite usually just head to Florida, France, or Cuba for their care.
In a May 16 analysis of the pandemic, the director of the Haitian Platform for an Alternative Development Camille Chalmers wrote that the country has been "dragged down by a wave of privatization and unprecedented commodification of our public services that led to the collapse of our public healthcare system."
Doctors and nurses lucky enough to work at PIH's Mirebalais University Hospital, which opened its Covid ward in March, have protective gear, but the same is not true at some of the state facilities where some doctors and nurses have refused to come to work due to a lack of equipment and news of sick colleagues.
The government ombudsman recently denounced the lack of protection for doctors at the capital's largest hospital resulting in "nearly empty hallways."
Migration and Deportations
Deportations by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency have also added to the spread of the disease.
Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research has counted eight ICE flights to Haiti since the outbreak, many of them with Covid-positive deportees aboard. The government has been able to quarantine some of them, but at least one man escaped his hotel room.
U.S. congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is cosponsoring a bill calling for temporary halt to the flights. Still, speaking in an online meeting with Wilson and others on May 29, Johnston noted that advocates should focus also on the root causes of migration, including "decades of failed aid policies" and "billions in aid [that] have borne little fruit on the ground."
Another source of spread comes from the neighboring Dominican Republic, which had almost 20,000 cases and over 500 deaths as of June 7.
Even though the border is officially closed, people still move back and forth for work, commerce, or because they have family in both countries. Almost 160,000 people entered Haiti from the Dominican Republic between March 17 and May 31 according to the UN migration agency, some forcibly deported and others returning voluntarily because they lost their jobs due to the pandemic. During that same period, Haitians crossed into the Dominican Republic at least 100,000 times, with thousands more likely crossing unofficially.
PIH is testing those at the border who give consent, but not everyone does.
Disaster for the people, good for the government?
Officials predict the pandemic could kill up to 20,000 Haitians, but do those numbers also take into account people who will die from hunger, or from inability to pay for drinking water or transportation to the market?
Haitians outside of Haiti are the reason many people inside the country survive. A 2017 report estimated that remittances account for about one-third of the nation's GDP, contributing over $3 billion in 2019.
But because of the pandemic, remittances are already down by 30 percent, according to Pape. (The World Bank predicts they will fall by 20 percent.)
That decline in hard currency, the drop in tourism and interruption of supply chains have added to the country's economic tailspin. Continued double-digit inflation has caused the prices of essentials to skyrocket, further impoverishing the population, half of whom have no access to potable water and adequate sanitation and where one in three people need food aid.
Prior to the pandemic, Haitians in the streets, and also in the board rooms, were increasingly frustrated with the president, now ruling without a parliament.
"The virus ended the discussions on the legitimacy of the de facto government," noted a platform bringing together the country's main peasant movements, as well as five Left parties and organizations, the Papaye Patriotic Platform (PPP).
Moïse's pandemic decree also sets a curfew and says people are not allowed to meet in groups of more than five. Many, including the director of the Haitian Platform of Human Rights Organizations, say the Moise government is taking advantage of the virus to quell dissent and mobilization.
To raise awareness, PPP member organizations are launching "Solidarity Committees" in the packed urban neighborhoods and in the countryside in order to educate and raise awareness.
Doctors, teachers, and traditional healers affiliated with the movement have already held conferences and seminars in several of the countries' 10 departments.
"Our struggle to work with the people to protect everyone from the coronavirus cannot be done without linking it to the political struggle," the PPP said, "to get rid of the government and to work to change the country."
Jane Regan is award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and community and alternative media scholar. She co-launched and then served as coordinator and executive editor of three community- and student-based newsrooms: one in Somerville, Mass., and two in Haiti, where she lived and worked for almost half of her 35-year career. She has held full-time teaching positions at Salem State University and Boston University and has also worked for numerous outlets including PBS, BBC, Miami Herald, Associated Press, Reuters, Latinamerica Press and Inter Press Service. Regan was the co-recipient of NACLA's Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism in 2004. http://www.janevregan.org.

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Are desmosomes more than tethers for intermediate filaments?
Kathleen J. Green*, Claire A. Gaudry
Desmosomes are intercellular adhesive junctions that anchor intermediate filaments at membrane-associated plaques in adjoining cells, thereby forming a three-dimensional supracellular scaffolding that provides tissues with mechanical strength. But desmosomes have also recently been recognized as sensors that respond to environmental and cellular cues by modulating their assembly state and, possibly, their signalling functions.
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Green, K. J., & Gaudry, C. A. (2000). Are desmosomes more than tethers for intermediate filaments? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 1(3), 208-216. https://doi.org/10.1038/35043032
Green, Kathleen J. ; Gaudry, Claire A. / Are desmosomes more than tethers for intermediate filaments?. In: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 2000 ; Vol. 1, No. 3. pp. 208-216.
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package net.glowstone.generator.objects.trees;

import java.util.Random;
import net.glowstone.util.BlockStateDelegate;
import org.bukkit.Material;
import org.bukkit.World;
import org.bukkit.block.BlockState;
import org.bukkit.material.Dirt;
import org.bukkit.material.types.DirtType;

public class AcaciaTree extends GenericTree {

    /**
     * Initializes this tree with a random height, preparing it to attempt to generate.
     *  @param random the PRNG
     * @param delegate the BlockStateDelegate used to check for space and to fill wood and leaf
     */
    public AcaciaTree(Random random, BlockStateDelegate delegate) {
        super(random, delegate);
        setHeight(random.nextInt(3) + random.nextInt(3) + 5);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canPlaceOn(BlockState soil) {
        return soil.getType() == Material.GRASS || soil.getType() == Material.DIRT;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean generate(World world, Random random, int blockX, int blockY, int blockZ) {

        if (cannotGenerateAt(blockX, blockY, blockZ, world)) {
            return false;
        }

        float d = (float) (random.nextFloat() * Math.PI * 2.0F); // random direction
        int dx = (int) (Math.cos(d) + 1.5F) - 1;
        int dz = (int) (Math.sin(d) + 1.5F) - 1;
        if (Math.abs(dx) > 0 && Math.abs(dz) > 0) { // reduce possible directions to NESW
            if (random.nextBoolean()) {
                dx = 0;
            } else {
                dz = 0;
            }
        }
        int twistHeight = height - 1 - random.nextInt(4);
        int twistCount = random.nextInt(3) + 1;
        int centerX = blockX;
        int centerZ = blockZ;
        int trunkTopY = 0;
        // generates the trunk
        for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {

            // trunk twists
            if (twistCount > 0 && y >= twistHeight) {
                centerX += dx;
                centerZ += dz;
                twistCount--;
            }

            Material material = blockTypeAt(centerX, blockY + y, centerZ, world);
            if (material == Material.AIR || material == Material.LEAVES) {
                trunkTopY = blockY + y;
                delegate.setTypeAndRawData(world, centerX, blockY + y, centerZ,
                    Material.LOG_2, 0);
            }
        }

        // generates leaves
        for (int x = -3; x <= 3; x++) {
            for (int z = -3; z <= 3; z++) {
                if (Math.abs(x) < 3 || Math.abs(z) < 3) {
                    setLeaves(centerX + x, trunkTopY, centerZ + z, world);
                }
                if (Math.abs(x) < 2 && Math.abs(z) < 2) {
                    setLeaves(centerX + x, trunkTopY + 1, centerZ + z, world);
                }
                if (Math.abs(x) == 2 && Math.abs(z) == 0 || Math.abs(x) == 0 && Math.abs(z) == 2) {
                    setLeaves(centerX + x, trunkTopY + 1, centerZ + z, world);
                }
            }
        }

        // try to choose a different direction for second branching and canopy
        d = (float) (random.nextFloat() * Math.PI * 2.0F);
        int dxB = (int) (Math.cos(d) + 1.5F) - 1;
        int dzB = (int) (Math.sin(d) + 1.5F) - 1;
        if (Math.abs(dxB) > 0 && Math.abs(dzB) > 0) {
            if (random.nextBoolean()) {
                dxB = 0;
            } else {
                dzB = 0;
            }
        }
        if (dx != dxB || dz != dzB) {
            centerX = blockX;
            centerZ = blockZ;
            int branchHeight = twistHeight - 1 - random.nextInt(2);
            twistCount = random.nextInt(3) + 1;
            trunkTopY = 0;

            // generates the trunk
            for (int y = branchHeight + 1; y < height; y++) {
                if (twistCount > 0) {
                    centerX += dxB;
                    centerZ += dzB;
                    Material material = blockTypeAt(centerX, blockY + y, centerZ, world);
                    if (material == Material.AIR || material == Material.LEAVES) {
                        trunkTopY = blockY + y;
                        delegate.setTypeAndRawData(world, centerX, blockY + y,
                            centerZ, Material.LOG_2, 0);
                    }
                    twistCount--;
                }
            }

            // generates the leaves
            if (trunkTopY > 0) {
                for (int x = -2; x <= 2; x++) {
                    for (int z = -2; z <= 2; z++) {
                        if (Math.abs(x) < 2 || Math.abs(z) < 2) {
                            setLeaves(centerX + x, trunkTopY, centerZ + z, world);
                        }
                    }
                }
                for (int x = -1; x <= 1; x++) {
                    for (int z = -1; z <= 1; z++) {
                        setLeaves(centerX + x, trunkTopY + 1, centerZ + z, world);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        // block below trunk is always dirt
        Dirt dirt = new Dirt(DirtType.NORMAL);
        delegate.setTypeAndData(world, blockX, blockY - 1, blockZ, Material.DIRT, dirt);

        return true;
    }

    private void setLeaves(int x, int y, int z, World world) {
        if (blockTypeAt(x, y, z, world) == Material.AIR) {
            delegate.setTypeAndRawData(world, x, y, z, Material.LEAVES_2, 0);
        }
    }
}

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How to watch the Olympics – the cycling events for road, track, and mountain bike
Bike racing at the Olympics starts with the July 23 men's road race and continues through track events on August 8. Here is the full TV schedule.
July 16, 2021 Ben Delaney
The Tokyo Olympics begin July 24 with the men's road race kicking off the cycling events. As Japan is well ahead of the U.S. in timezones, many of the events will be shown live on the previous night in the United States. For instance, the men's road race will be live at 7 p.m. PST on July 23.
NBC owns the Olympic coverage rights in the U.S., and the Games will be shown across local NBC stations, USA, NBCSN, CNBC, the Olympic Channel, and Telemundo. However, not all channels will cover all sports.
For cycling, the events will be broadcast on the USA Network, NBCSN, and CNBC.
Highlights will also be shown across multiple NBC channels and NBC's internet site Peacock (which has replaced NBC Sports Gold Cycling). Peacock's schedule does not include any full-length coverage of any cycling events.
Here are the televised cycling events by date, network, and time. All times are Pacific Standard Time.
July 23-24 / Men's road race / USA / 7 p.m. to 1:15am
July 24-25 / Women's road race / USA / 9 p.m. to 1:20am
July 26 / Men's cross country / USA / 10:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. (replay)
July 26-27/ Women's cross country / USA / 11:00 p.m. to 2 a.m.
July 27 / Women's time trial / CNBC / 7:45 to 9 p.m.
July 27-28 / Men's time trial / CNBC / 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
August 2 / Women's team sprint, women's team pursuit, men's team pursuit / USA / 3 to 4 a.m.
August 3 / Men's team sprint, women's team pursuit / NBCSN / 3 to 4 a.m.
August 5 / Women's Keirin, men's omnium, men's sprint / USA / 3 to 4 a.m.
August 5 / Women's Keirin / CNBC / 11 p.m to midnight
August 6 / Men's sprint, women's Madison / USA / 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
August 6 / Unspecified track event finals and women's handball / CNBC / 5 to 6 p.m.
August 7 / Men's Madison / NBCSN / 3:30 to 4:30 a.m.
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WHEREAS, the Council of the Village of Antwerp authorizes the Mayor to enter into a Fourth Addendum to the Agreement for the one (1) year period extension.
Section 1. That the Village of Antwerp elects to extend the one (1) year period of the Agreement with Real Waste Disposal, LLC for the collection, transportation and disposal of residential solid waste within the corporate limits of the Village of Antwerp, Ohio, for a one (1) year period beginning on April 1, 2019, and ending on March 31, 2020, and the Mayor is authorized to enter into a Fourth Addendum to the Agreement for this extension, which Addendum is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
Section 2. That if any other prior ordinance or resolution is found to be in conflict with this Ordinance, then the provisions of this Ordinance shall prevail. Further, if any portion of this Ordinance is found to be invalid, only that portion shall be held invalid and the remainder shall be in full force and effect.
Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions of the Council concerning or relating to the passage of this Ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of the Council, and that all deliberations of the Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal actions, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements including all lawful ordinances and any applicable provisions in Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.
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Cornwall Central School District
CORNWALL ON HUDSON, NY
#1 Best School Districts in Orange County
Junior: There are very many opportunities once high school comes around. Lots of extra curricular activities for artistic, athletic, scientific, musical and politically driven people. Unfortunately, many teachers are not reviewed enough, and their very poor teaching skills are overlooked. I'm not sure how this happens but there have been teachers who sleep, do yoga, rant about their personal lives, and do many other things during their own classes. Like most schools, a lot of important topics and life skills are untaught, such learning how to do taxes, write checks, cook, etc...Read 39 Reviews
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Monroe-Woodbury Central School District
CENTRAL VALLEY, NY
Parent: A great school district, with passion for student learning, early intervention to help kids with their reading and math. For a large school district, it is very organized amd well cordinated. Wonderful, and caring teachers all around!...Read 36 Reviews
Warwick Valley Central School District
WARWICK, NY
Freshman: Warwick Valley Central School district is a great school for people who love to learn and have fun, teachers are always open to questions from students and are always willing to give up their time to help students. The only reason I gave this school system four stars is because nothing is perfect, for example, not all teachers are the best, but that gives us students a true image of what the real world is like!...Read 54 Reviews
Tuxedo Union Free School District
TUXEDO PARK, NY
Parent: The TUFSD just aced all of their state tests, especially when compared to the local surrounding districts, not to mention at the state level. Why? Because of the exceptional, fully rounded education being offered at this great district...Administration is receptive, teachers are available digitally and in person, and copious services for students that are looking for extra help as well as extra educational challenges.Read 5 Reviews
Goshen Central School District
Senior: Generally speaking, Goshen High School is a very good school. It is quite modern with an intuitive structural design. Its teachers are, for the most part, quite well-chosen with few exceptions. The food is alright, and the extracurricular opportunities are extensive...Read 34 Reviews
Washingtonville Central School District
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY
Senior: WHS offers a community feel, school spirit, and an outstanding academic curriculum. The teachers are personable, supportive, and dedicated to all students. WHS offers competitive courses including fun college and AP level classes. Eventhough the courses can be tough, the teachers provide guidance which has allowed for me to be successful. The positive environment is always present and keeps students like me actively engaged in the classroom. ...Aside from academics there are many clubs and sports teams. Many students attend the sporting events to support their classmates. The events are fun and full of school spirit. My personal favorite is football and cheer season. Although there are current social distancing restrictions, I know the students and faculty will make the best of the season. I am very excited to begin my college career, but will miss my high school peers. I will have the best of memories as a proud Washingtonville Wizard. We always say, once Wizard always a Wizard...Read 38 Reviews
Highland Falls Central School District
HIGHLAND FALLS, NY
Parent: We have two children who are graduates of the high school. It is a great school that is placing many of its graduates in top universities every year. It has the highest average SAT scores in Orange County. The curriculum is first rate with robust AP offerings. The school size is perfect because kids have a chance to participate in any activity they desire from sports to the arts. The music program is excellent and the choir teacher in particular is unbelievable...Read 6 Reviews
Valley Central School District
MONTGOMERY, NY
Senior: Within the Valley Central School District, there have been many amazing opportunities to discover more about college, life after high school, future career paths and more. Teachers and staff create a great learning environment and a safe place to be creative and grow as not only students, but as individuals. Through a plethora of clubs, honor societies and extra circulars, students who attend Valley Central can explore their interests, and in turn, have the ability to truly find what they like and dislike. This helps students have a greater chance at choosing a career path that is the best fit for them. Although there are AP classes offered at Valley Central, an expansion of these classes along with other opportunities to earn college credit would be a great addition to the curriculum. By doing this, students going to college for different majors would have more of a variety of classes to help them prepare for their future...Read 47 Reviews
Minisink Valley Central School District
Senior: Overall, I think Minisink Valley is a great school! The teachers are great and will help students with their classwork. I've also made great friendships during my time here.Read 35 Reviews
Pine Bush Central School District
PINE BUSH, NY
#10 Best School Districts in Orange County
Alum: Pinebush Highschool like many other schools has its faults but as you know nothing's perfect. One thing about this school is the staff is great! They build wonderful bond with the kids that they have and help them out with personal problems as well as any problems they have with school. Whether it be from the security guards to the teachers or the guidance counselors they're always involved in the well being of the student body...Read 40 Reviews
Port Jervis City School District
PORT JERVIS, NY
Alum: I have been through the Port Jervis City School District and graduated with honors in 2013. I was able to take college courses that transferred to the college in which I earned my Bachelor's degree. They offer many sports and after school curricular activities that engage students and involve their families in a positive manner...Read 13 Reviews
Florida Union Free School District
FLORIDA, NY
Senior: I like how the school is slowly becoming more diverse, and how friendly everyone is. The school pushes you to give your full potential so students can achieve academic success. They have some courses that are challenging to see how far you will go to achieve great grades. Love the school!...Read 4 Reviews
Newburgh City School District
NEWBURGH, NY
Sophomore: Newburgh is very helpful in preparing you for the real world and college. They have many resources which are very helpful for the school being located in a low income community. It is very diverse which is also very nice to see people from all backgrounds whether it be financially, physically, or ethically. The guidance counselors are especially helpful when it comes to mental health, they reach out &' check in very often, those in need of toiletries and basic necessities that they cannot get access to, there are many places they go to in the school building if they feel comfortable to ask. The North Campus has many pathways that can set you up for success later in life such as the CNA program, Criminal Justice Program &' the P-Tech Program where you can graduate with your associates degree. Newburgh Free Academy is very good place to start your successful career...Read 42 Reviews
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Middletown City School District
MIDDLETOWN, NY
Senior: I've been a part of the Middletown school district since I was in kindergarten. I've also been a part of numerous clubs and sports including volleyball, lacrosse, key club, math team and sports medicine. All of my coaches, and teachers have worked tirelessly to put their best forward and help me whenever it was needed. Middletown has wonderful programs and outstanding technology. I've partaken in the biomedical program and have learned a lot about the medical field. There are endless opportunities within the Middletown school district and especially if you are a high achiever. I highly recommend Middletown high school!...Read 61 Reviews
Chester Union Free School District
CHESTER, NY
Works Here: I worked in Chester Union School District as a substitute teacher. The students were always well behaved and in a small school they all showed respect for one another. The teachers were real nice and for the most the most part left great lesson plans. The administration and staff members were always helpful with everything. Chester is an amazing school all around. I had a great experience working here...Read 7 Reviews
Greenwood Lake Union Free School District
MONROE, NY
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Parent: A K-8 education at The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine is the best decision you can make for your child. Cathedral's rigorous academics, bountiful arts curriculum, and its groundbreaking identity/character/leadership programs prepare students to be articulate, confident citizens of the world. Beautiful 13-acre campus with 2 playgrounds...As a result of her experience at Cathedral, my daughter was better prepared for high school than the students at her new high school who had been at that school since K. Leadership, sports, club, and extra-curricular opportunities at Cathedral enrich the students' lives to educate the whole child. The school's 7 core values (Cooperation, Courage, Passion for Learning, Integrity, Kindness, Respect, and Responsibility) are at the heart of EVERYTHING... 6:1 student/teacher ratio...experienced, caring, creative, outstanding teachers...It's an amazing school!...Read 18 Reviews
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At the Altar, God becomes "El-Mekaodishkem", the one who sets apart, cleanses our sins, and redeems us by blood.
After the "Way of Reconciliation", the Brazen Altar, the next step was the "way of separation" the Brazen "Laver" made out of brass or copper shine to sheen served as a mirror reflecting upon your past and revealing your present.
At Calvary's Cross, the two events first being the Altar, and second the Laver, merged into one main event as the Roman soldier pierced Jesus' side, both blood and water emerged from Emmanuel's body to "pay the price of judgment" (death), washing and cleaning us all from sin.
These three steps were for the preparation that would allow man to enter into the presence of the Holy one.
Light is one of the Bibles most complex symbols, without light one could not find his way. More importantly God is the "source" of light and without His illumination all would be "lost". He and He alone is the "giver-author" of "revelation and information". Without Him, we could never see or know or find our "way" to His salvation. The seven candlesticks reveal the seven spirits (ways) of God. Here, God reveals himself as: "El-Nissi" (Light against Darkness).
The Priest at this point precedes "The Table of Shrew Bread" the "way" of provision. John 6:35 "I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger…" Thus revealing one of the many characters of God, "Jehovah Jireh", The God who provides; the one who sustains His people with natural and spiritual provisions.
The way of intercession is at the "Altar of Incense" Heb. 13:15 "….let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name." This is the place where we have the intimacy to speak with God to actually commune with Him on a personal basis (prayer). At this place, the "Altar of Incense", was a crucial point in the step towards reconciliation and intimacy.
On the Day of Atonement the horns on the Incense Altar were sprinkled with the blood of the sin offering. The Lord required the special incense be burned "constantly" on the altar. The mixture of the spices was to be used precisely for this occasion only. Any deviation of this recipe was to prove deadly! Lev 10:1-2, It was called "strange fire".
This action demonstrates the precision of God.
Any procedure to worship God outside of His border may prove to be contemptuous. One can not come to God on his own terms. To worship God any other way would be "Idolatry". Intimacy with God is "sacred", He does not take this issue lightly. We should be very careful in our approach to Him. God does not receive just "anything" or "anyway", God is exclusive! Here, God expresses Himself as "El-Tsidkenu" (The Lord of Righteousness).
If the Priest was able to make it through the "gauntlet" (the steps and procedures) unscaved, he could now "pass" through the "veil" entering the other side where the Almighty Himself resides. The Veil represented a barrier between God and man.
The entire focus of the Tabernacle was the "Ark". This is what it is all about, to find the "Ark of Safety", the covenant that God made with man. The place where the "final" sprinkling of blood on the "Mercy Seat" atoned for all sin's of the world. This was the place and these were the events where God reached out to man and made it "possible" for humanity to "know" Him.


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Daniel Powley from our Tunbridge Wells office has achieved the highest mark worldwide for his accountancy examination, ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Paper Joint P2, with a score of 89 out of 100.
Daniel, who joined the practice as a trainee accountant in October 2013, sat the examination in December. He received a letter last month confirming his results and will now be recognised for his achievement by ACCA and receive £200 prize money along with a certificate of merit.
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Zhou, L. et al. Stability and Self-passivation of Copper Vanadate Photoanodes under Chemical, Electrochemical, and Photoelectrochemical Operation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00473C (2016).
Self-passivation under operational conditions is observed for several copper vanadate photoanodes, demonstrating their viability for durable solar fuels devices.
Long-term stability is being increasingly recognized as a critical requirement for deploying solar fuels technology. Through a series of detailed evaluations of their stability, we demonstrated that copper vanadates can self-passivate in pH 9 electrolyte, further bolstering their promise as technology-enabling materials.
–Copper vanadate composition libraries were synthesized by reactive sputtering and characterized using a combination of synchrotron and benchtop X-ray diffraction techniques.
–Stability was assessed by computationalcalculations of Pourbaix behavior for Cu-V-H2O systems.
–Stability was evaluated by experimental measurements of bulk and near-surface composition alternations resulting from chemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical operation.
Reprinted with permission from Zhou, L. et al. Stability and Self-passivation of Copper Vanadate Photoanodes under Chemical, Electrochemical, and Photoelectrochemical Operation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00473C (2016).
The composition, V/(V+Cu), of the bulk and near-surface before and after a (a) 48 hour chemical soak, (b) 2 hour electrochemical operation, and (c) 40 min PEC operation. Reprinted with permission from Zhou, L. et al. Stability and Self-passivation of Copper Vanadate Photoanodes under Chemical, Electrochemical, and Photoelectrochemical Operation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00473C (2016).


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Effect of Changing the Joint Kinematics of Knees With a Ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament on the Molecular Biological Responses and Spontaneous Healing in a Rat Model
Am J Sports Med. 2016 Nov;44(11):2900-2910. doi: 10.1177/0363546516654687. Epub 2016 Aug 9.
Takanori Kokubun 1 2 , Naohiko Kanemura 3 , Kenji Murata 3 , Hideki Moriyama 4 , Sadao Morita 2 , Tetsuya Jinno 5 , Hidetoshi Ihara 6 , Kiyomi Takayanagi 3
1 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama, Japan kokubun-takanori@spu.ac.jp.
2 Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
3 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama, Japan.
4 Department of Rehabilitation Science, Graduate School of Health Science, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.
5 Division of Orthopaedics, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
6 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyushu Rosai Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Background: The poor healing capacity of a completely ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has been attributed to an insufficient vascular supply, cellular metabolism, and deficient premature scaffold formation because of the unique intra-articular environment. However, previous studies have focused on intra-articular factors without considering extra-articular factors, including the biomechanical aspects of ACL-deficient knees.
Hypothesis: Changing the joint kinematics of an ACL-ruptured knee will improve cellular biological responses and lead to spontaneous healing through the mechanotransduction mechanism.
Study design: Controlled laboratory study.
Methods: A total of 66 skeletally mature Wistar rats were randomly assigned to a sham-operated group (SO), ACL-transection group (ACL-T), controlled abnormal movement group (CAM), and an intact group (IN). The ACL was completely transected at the midportion in the ACL-T and CAM groups, and the CAM group underwent extra-articular braking to control for abnormal tibial translation. The SO group underwent skin and joint capsule incisions and tibial drilling, without ACL transection and extra-articular braking. The animals were allowed full cage activity until sacrifice at 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks postoperatively for histological, molecular biological, and biomechanical assessment.
Results: All injured ACLs in the ACL-T group were not healed, but those in the CAM group healed spontaneously, showing a typical ligament healing response. Regarding the molecular biological response, there was an upregulation of anabolic factors (ie, transforming growth factor-β) and downregulation of catabolic factors (ie, matrix metalloproteinase). Examination of the mechanical properties at 8 weeks after injury showed that >50% of the strength of the intact ACL had returned.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that changing the joint kinematics of knees with a ruptured ACL alters the molecular biological responses and leads to spontaneous healing. These data support our hypothesis that the mechanotransduction mechanism mediates molecular responses and determines whether the ACL will heal.
Clinical relevance: Elucidating the relationship between the mechanotransduction mechanism and healing responses in knees with completely ruptured ACLs may result in the development of novel nonsurgical treatment that enables the ACL to spontaneously heal in patients who are not suitable for reconstruction.
Keywords: anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); mechanical property; mechanotransduction; spontaneous healing.
© 2016 The Author(s).
Anterior Cruciate Ligament / surgery*
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries / surgery*
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction / methods
Biomechanical Phenomena
Knee Joint / surgery*
Matrix Metalloproteinases / metabolism
Mechanotransduction, Cellular
Rats, Wistar
Rupture / surgery
Tibia / surgery*
Matrix Metalloproteinases


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BRANCHING OUT: KMS Research Inc. has embarked on a campaign to raise the profile of the KMS brand among salon professionals beyond the West Coast, the KAO Corp.-owned brand's home territory. For starters, hairstylist Nick Arrojo has led a...
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BRANCHING OUT: KMS Research Inc. has embarked on a campaign to raise the profile of the KMS brand among salon professionals beyond the West Coast, the KAO Corp.-owned brand's home territory. For starters, hairstylist Nick Arrojo has led a series of KMS demonstrative hair shows in Boston, Montreal and Chicago to audiences of 500 salon professionals. And, KMS' biggest biannual show, Style Council, will be held in January — the first to feature Arrojo as U.S. artistic director. This past spring the company opened its inaugural concept salon, a 4,000-square-foot space on Manhattan's Varick Street, called Arrojo Studio. The salon is expected to reach sales of $1 million and could double that figure in the next year.
33 NEW FLAVORS: Extracts, the trade show for aromatherapy, personal care and fragrance, is expecting 33 new companies to exhibit at its fall show, held at the Jacob K. Javits Center Sept. 19-22. Some of the first-timers include Rachel Perry, MD Salon Services and French companies Comptoir Sud Pacifique and Roger & Gallet.
WAITING TO EXHALE: Exhale, a new urban spa concept, has opened its first location — a 10,000-square-foot space —on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. The spa's first-year sales are estimated to be around $2 million. Exhale is also launching a six-item product line, which includes a cleanser, body lotion, shampoo, conditioner and two intensive skin care items, 28-day Skin Care Transformation and Serum 3. A second, 12,000-square-foot location on Central Park South is scheduled for late November.
CLEAN THERAPY: Caldrea home cleaning products is reintroducing its Pineapple Nutmeg scent for holiday. Hand soaps, dish liquids and countertop cleansers in the special scent will be available this month through December at stores such Epicure Market in Miami Beach and Ricky's in New York. Products are fragranced with essential oils of nutmeg, black pepper, cinnamon and orange.
MINTY FRESH: The Aura division of Naturelle, Inc., a part of Zotos International, is launching a five-item hair care collection infused with rosemary and mint. A shampoo, rinse, styling gel, mousse and cream wax is now available under the Aura brand at salons and beauty supply stores nationwide. Aura Rosemary Mint retails for $4.99 for the shampoo and conditioner and $5.99 for styling products.
NEW BOSS: Dunnan Edell has been named president and chief operating officer of CCA Industries. Prior to this position, Edell served as senior executive vice president. Edell's father, David Edell, former president and chief operating officer, continues to serve as chief executive of the company, as well as chairman of the board. CCA makes Solar Sense sun care products and Bikini Zone cremes and gels.
WHITE OUT: One of Manhattan's newest spas doesn't offer Thai massage or a hot stone facial. Instead, teeth services are listed on Quickbleach's treatment roster. One of the newest services is a one-hour teeth-whitening treatment for $399. For two people, the cost drops to $750. And for those seeking a true bargain, six power-bleaching sessions, performed biannually, costs $999, a savings of close to $300. Quickbleach, which is located at 127 E. 56th Street, staffs dentists and uses Rembrandt branded products.
KEVIN'S SHOW: Hair stylist Kevin Murphy, formerly of Kusco-Murphy hair care, has branched out on his own and developed a line of seven styling products. Murphy said his aim was to design an easy-to-understand line that provides instant results. The line includes fresh.hair, a spray that removes dirt and excess oil from dry hair with the rub of a towel and easy.rider, designed to give hair a soft hold and glossy sheen.
ENVIRONMENTAL RULES: When clients speak, Pamela Rae listens. Rae, the owner and operator of Solavie Spa Retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, and also a biochemist, wanted to help out her well-traveled clientele who were often complaining that their beauty products didn't perform consistently in different climates. So Rae set out to design a line formulated for six different environment types. There are face, hair and body washes designed to stand up to the conditions of desert, mountain, urban, tropical, beach and plains living. Products, which cost approximately $28 each, even snap together for easy travel usage. Solavie is available in Flight 001, as well as in OraOxygen, an airport-based Oxygen Wellness Spa in Calgary, Amsterdam and Detroit.


Chad Connelly is director of faith engagement for the Republican National Committee and oversees its new digital outreach initiative to conservative believers, GOPfaith.com.
(RNS) The Republican National Committee on Friday (June 27) launched its first web-based effort to rally conservative believers behind the party, a sign of how crucial voter turnout will be in this fall's close-fought midterm elections and an indication that the GOP cannot take its evangelical Christian base for granted.
"This shouldn't be outreach, this should be who we are — it is who we are," said Chad Connelly, director of faith engagement for the Republican National Committee and the force behind this new initiative, GOPfaith.com.
The problem, however, is that even though evangelicals identify more closely than ever with the GOP, they have not been turning out at the polls in sufficient numbers to carry Republican candidates to victory.
That came back to haunt the party, he said. He cited surveys showing that while 89 million Americans identify as evangelical Christians, just a third of them voted in the 2012 election — and more than a fifth of those voters pulled the lever for President Obama.
RNC chair Reince Priebus set up the RNC's Faith Engagement group last year, its first-ever strategic initiative aimed exclusively at conservative faith-based voters. Priebus tapped Connelly to head it, and this new get-out-the-vote campaign — "an online home for all of our efforts, all around the country," as he says in a video on the site.
In past years, the party didn't need to make such efforts. Conservative believers reliably turned out for the GOP, often mobilized by adjunct organizations like the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition.
But those groups are gone or greatly diminished, and the GOP can now use digital tools — much as Democrats have done to great effect — to directly reach constituents who may support their agenda but who are not always showing up on Election Day.
The aim of the website is, as it says, "to build an army of conservative pro-faith activists" — sympathetic believers of all faiths, but in particular conservative Christians. The plan is to identify 100,000 believers who will spread the word at the grass roots, especially in churches.
Central to the effort are pastors, who Connelly said have been too reticent to preach about political issues. Under federal law, houses of worship could jeopardize their tax-exempt status if they endorse individual candidates.
The immediate goal of this initiative is to "maximize the faith vote" in key Senate races, especially in red or purple states like Kentucky, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. Winning those seats is essential to the GOP dreams of retaking the majority in the Senate this year.
While conservative Christian voters, and white evangelicals in particular, are probably not by themselves sufficient to put a Republican in the White House in 2016, they can make the difference in local and state races.
The new effort is also a signal that despite the internal feuds over whether the GOP should downplay divisive issues like abortion and gay marriage, the party's leadership knows it needs religious conservatives if it hopes to capitalize on Democratic weaknesses in November.
"Many Republican leaders are tired of losing, they see some real opportunities to win, and that means they have to fire on all cylinders, if you will. And this is a key constituency," said John Green, head of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and a leading expert on religion in American politics.
"They don't have to woo them to the party as much as they need to woo them to the polls," Green said of conservative evangelicals.
The more the GOP panders to the most extreme members of it base, the more they drive off moderates.
Pretty soon the GOP will consist of nothing more than a handful of old white men.
I'm really sick and tired of these conservative politicians taking exclusive custody of the "Faith" vote. Jesus would be condemned by today's GOP as a socialistic liberal illegal alien, and yet they persist in claiming sole possession of the title. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Republican Dominated Senate/Congress and Exec Office 2000-2006 = No Law Outlawing Abortion.
Evangelicals have seen through the GOP.
GOP doesn't have to do much. The Dems are assuring they will take the WH and the senate.
This is news? They've only been doing it for 40 years or so … !
They do it for one simple reason: It works! Believers in this country long ago largely ceded their power to "conservative" Christian politicians. They vote for them reliably and consistently.
I wonder if this is where the problem lies, and where the solution is, too. Maybe it's time to remind your fellow believers that they're voting for the wrong people?
The typical political agenda of Evangelical's is so divisive, unpopular (and unconstitutional) that under sane conditions it has zero chance of advancing on anything but local levels. Even then, it creates such backlash that it has little to no staying power. In 2012 Mitt Romney had to play up his fiscal conservative credentials ("I'm rich and powerful, listen to me") in order not to be swamped by a sea of bible thumping loons in the GOP primaries.
The relationship is dysfunctional but for Evangelicals, they are happy someone even pretends to take them seriously.
No one here even pretends to take you seriously.
Keep voting for people who want to reduce you to serfdom because they are "in tight with God". See if I care.
Americans will have no choice but to reject it.
Nothing is more unAmerican than a Theocracy. Even Christians are too smart to fall for that.
The GOP has been the Christian Party for as long as I've been alive. Far from working to their disadvantage, it's about the only thing that garners them votes. "God, guns and gays," as President Obama put it, are the only issues they've got.
Except that the GOP was also once a party for separation of church and state – as I recall – which was why they made such a big issue of John F. Kennedy's Catholicism.
Now the GOP doesn't mind being the Theocracy Party. And That is what the democrats could crush them with. Theocracy is anathema to most Americans – even the churchgoers.
What's really indicative of the illiteracy of the vast majority of qualified voters is that they are just as ignorant about religion as they are about politics. Literacy testing for voting is very, very wrong–I guess–but how can we have a humane, functioning government, much less a real democracy, when the voters who hire the government are so illiterate about issues and candidates?
The present condition of the Republican Party and their cause of a do-nothing Congress, to say nothing of our Catholic-dominated, life-termed Supreme Court that defies our Constitution rather than protecting it, does not make for democracy.
Add to the problem of illiteracy the laziness of that same electorate in which potential voters do not exercise their right and duty in hiring our government. They hurt themselves. They make our government worse and worse.
Money must be removed from our elections in the way that it is considered speech. Corporations have never been people, only collections of people who have the right and opportunity to exercise their voting rights individually to hire a government that works for their benefit.
instead of berating the concept of government.


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Seneca Nation requests federal review of agreement with state on casino revenue
The Seneca Nation is requesting a federal review of a compact amendment.
In 2002, the state and the Seneca Nation signed a gaming compact set to expire in 2023. The compact details how much money the Seneca Nation was to give to the state in the agreement's first 14 years.
In those years, Seneca officials say $1.4 billion was given to the state. Some of that money goes back to places like Buffalo and Niagara Falls, which have Seneca casinos.
What the compact did not specify, is how much the state is to be given after the first 14 years.
Seneca Nation President Rickey Armstrong, Sr. says that with an arbitration panel's ruling, payments will continue to be made to the state, although the 14 years have passed.
"The arbitration panel's members, instead of interpreting the clear language of the Nation-State Compact, took it upon themselves to effectively and materially amend the agreed upon terms of the Compact, and they did so without regard for federal law and required procedures that govern both the Compact and the amendment process," Armstrong, Sr. said. "Their ruling creates an obligation on behalf of the Seneca Nation that does not exist in the Compact as it is written, or as was reviewed and deemed approved by the Secretary of Interior in 2002. To allow this amendment to take effect without review by the Department of Interior would undermine the process by which the federal government carries out its trust responsibility to the Seneca Nation, and other sovereign Nations across the country."
The Seneca Nation says its casino operations employ more than 4,000 people.