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Teacher Appreciation Week: More than a Quarter of K-12 Teachers are Career Changers, Finds University of Phoenix Survey
National Teacher Survey looks at how the teacher shortage is affecting classrooms, why career changers are critical and the reasons teachers recommend the profession to others
PHOENIX, May 2, 2016 — Teaching is one of the most visible and publicly debated professions in the workforce, and a recent University of Phoenix® College of Education survey indicates more than nine-in-ten (92 percent) K-12 teachers are satisfied with their career choice, and more than two-thirds (67 percent) would recommend the profession to others. Eighty percent of teachers who joined the profession within the last ten years would recommend it.
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, University of Phoenix surveyed more than 1,000 K-12 teachers across the nation to explore how they feel about the profession and what can be done to attract high-quality teachers in the midst of a critical teacher shortage1. The online survey was conducted on behalf of University of Phoenix by Harris Poll in April.
How the K-12 Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Districts and Schools
Nearly two-in-five (37 percent) K-12 teachers indicate at least one full-time teaching position is unfilled in their schools, with an average of 2.6 unfilled positions. Twelve percent say there are five or more unfilled full-time teaching positions in their schools.
Some of the issues teachers report due to potential teacher shortages include larger class sizes (42 percent), needing to teach subjects in which they are less fluent (23 percent) and more teaching toward the middle with less differentiation and individualized instruction (21 percent).
"At a time when schools nationwide are facing teacher shortages while trying to help students stay competitive in areas such as STEM, it is critical to highlight the incredible opportunities that exist in the classroom," said Pamela Roggeman, Ed.D., academic dean for University of Phoenix College of Education and former 17-year K-12 teacher. "Retiring baby boomers and fewer people entering the profession are contributing significantly to today's shortage, and attracting high quality candidates with diverse backgrounds is vital to future school success."
Career Changers in the Classroom
The survey also reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of K-12 teachers switched careers to enter the classroom. When asked why they made the switch to teaching, 37 percent of career changers said they always wanted to be a teacher, 28 percent wanted a change of pace and 18 percent decided to re-enter the workforce after some time away.
"Every child deserves an amazing teacher and career changers can play a huge role in helping address the nation's critical teacher shortage," said Roggeman. "Career changers bring rich experiences to the classroom because their backgrounds often help connect lessons to real-world applications."
Why K-12 Teachers Specifically Recommend the Profession
More than three-quarters (78 percent) of K-12 teachers say the ability to profoundly affect students' lives is a key reason to join the teaching profession. Other top reasons include: The variety that exists because no two days are alike (49 percent) and the lifelong learning opportunities (48 percent) that exist in the profession.
Teachers' roles are also evolving. Nearly half (49 percent) of teachers who have been in the classroom for at least five years indicate they have gotten more opportunities to assume leadership roles in their schools than they did five years ago.
"There is arguably no other profession in which individuals regularly seek you out 20 years later to share the impact you had on their life choices," said Roggeman. "Many Americans feel stuck in their careers, but as the survey indicates, teaching not only allows you to affect others, but also provides variety and the ability to constantly grow your own skills. It is a great time to be a teacher."
There are many diverse pathways to the classroom. Roggeman recommends some tips to get started:
Become a substitute teacher. This is a great way to get engaged in K-12 schools and determine which level you feel most suited to teach.
Volunteer in a school or with community youth organizations. This can help you better understand how children learn and stay engaged.
Research alternative licensure programs. Explore the programs that lead to licensure. There are many options for those who want to make career changes and are working full-time.
Do informational interviews. Talk to teachers and administrators about the field and qualities and preparation that lead to fruitful teaching careers.
Find a mentor. Once you've decided you want to pursue teaching, seek out a mentor who can provide coaching and feedback about what it's like to be in a classroom.
For more information about teacher preparation programs, continuing teacher education and professional development programs at University of Phoenix, visit phoenix.edu/education.
For general information about University of Phoenix programs, including on-time completion rates, the median debt incurred by students who completed the program and other important information, please visit phoenix.edu/programs/gainful-employment.
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of University of Phoenix between April 14 and 25, 2016. Respondents included 1,005 U.S. residents employed full-time as teachers in grades K-12 who have at least an undergraduate degree. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact Tanya Burden at tanya.burden@apollo.edu.
About University of Phoenix® College of Education
University of Phoenix College of Education has been educating teachers and school administrators for more than 30 years. The College of Education provides bachelor's and master's degree programs for individuals who want to become teachers or current educators and administrators seeking advanced degrees to strengthen their professional knowledge. With education programs available throughout most of the U.S., the College of Education has a distinct grasp of the national education picture and priorities for teacher preparation. Faculty members on average bring more than 17 years of professional experience to the classroom. For more information, visit phoenix.edu/education.
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Q: If(!empty($_POST)) TRUE all the time? Despite hours of debugging, searching and reading, I can't figure out why the code below isn't working!? For debugging I have placed echo '1';, echo '2'; and echo '3'; in the code and I only get 1 on the screen when I run the code. And the most strange thing is that I get 1, both if the fields in the form are empty or not!?
I have followed a video tutorial from PHP Academy on Youtube, and I'm pretty sure I have written exactly the same code as in the video.
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Preciate some help to be able to continue!
EDIT 1: Have changed bio_name to bio
EDIT 2: Have changed firts_name to first_name
EDIT 3: Added created in SQL query
if(!empty($_POST)){
if(isset($_POST['first_name'], $_POST['last_name'], $_POST['bio'])){
    echo '1';
    $first_name = trim($_POST['first_name']);
    $last_name = trim($_POST['last_name']);
    $bio = trim($_POST['bio']);

    if(!empty($first_name) && !empty($last_name) && !empty($bio)){
    echo '2';
    $insert = $db->prepare("INSERT INTO people (firts_name, last_name, bio, created) VALUES (?, ?, ?, NOW())");
    $insert->bind_param('sss', $first_name, $last_name, $bio);

    if($insert->execute()){
        header('Location: index.php');
        echo '3';
        die();
      }
    }
  }
}

A: You're checking $_POST['bio'] in the first conditional and assigning $_POST['bio_name'] to $bio, which is probably empty and fails the second conditional.

Also, your insert query seems wrong - you are listing 3 fields and 4 values to insert. It should have the same number of listed fields and values:
 INSERT INTO
     people (first_name, last_name, bio, <LACKING FIELD>)
     VALUES (    ?,          ?,      ?,       NOW()     )

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2009, R, 143 min. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Emilie de Ravin, Stephen Dorff, Billy Crudup.
REVIEWED By Kimberley Jones, Fri., July 3, 2009
When photos circulated last week on the web of Johnny Depp in full dress and make-up as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's forthcoming Alice in Wonderland, one could hardly suppress a yawn. Any other major Hollywood star in white pancake, green-tinted contacts, and Bozo the Clown-like red mange, there might have been a stir, but we expect this sort of thing from Depp. He seems almost perversely drawn to outsized, heavily lacquered characters: the demon barber, the pirate swish, that sad-eyed topiary stylist. Sure, Depp knows how to act on a human scale – he's never been more thoughtful or convincing than in Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape – but it doesn't always feel like comfortable ground for him. Where he is rock-solid here is in capturing the innate charisma and confidence of John Dillinger, one of the title's public enemies – the famed bank robbers, common hoods, and Robin Hoods of the Thirties who enjoyed rat-a-tat nicknames and the fascination, even hero worship, of a Depression-rocked nation. When "Pretty Boy" Floyd (Tatum) is gunned down in the film's opening, he renounces the shorthand and reclaims his birth name as he burbles up blood; lyrically shot and performed, the scene foreshadows a thematic tension between the public and private persona, as well as a dozen more deaths to come, many at the same hand (or is it trigger finger?) as Floyd's – J. Edgar Hoover's rising star and yes-man, Melvin Purvis, played by Bale with the same ramrod cheerlessness that's dogged his Aughties work (somebody hire this guy to do a romantic comedy-as-cleanse, please). Purvis tightens his focus, as does the film, to his public enemy No. 1, John Dillinger. Fans of Mann's masterful Heat might have hoped for another cat-and-mouse game, but the story (by Mann, Ann Biderman, and Ronan Bennett, adapted from Bryan Burrough's nonfiction book) is too blocky for sustained dramatic tension, and Bale, as with other seemingly essential supporting players, drops in and out of the action erratically. The title's pluralization aside, this is Dillinger's show and Depp's, and the actor does some cheeky, exhilarating work when he is all cockiness and resolve, as with the first on-camera heist, scored brilliantly to bluesman Otis Taylor's kicky "Ten Million Slaves" (though it should be said that the film's sound mix awkwardly foregrounds music and artillery, giving short shrift to dialogue) and later in a bravura sequence that charts a captured Dillinger's nighttime transfer to an Indiana jail, then to a holding pen, which he shanghais for an impromptu press conference, and ends in a jailbreak that is simply and thrillingly rendered. Mann doesn't consistently plot the action so cleanly; a DV convert, the director sometimes sacrifices spatial awareness for a you-are-here nearness and lurch. (One scene using handheld camerawork has the up-and-down hum of a moving passenger car.) The DV format also allows Mann to digitally tweak Public Enemies' color composition to stunning effect – moody grays, blinding bursts of an old-time camera flash, a diseased-looking, late-afternoon yellow at a Miami horse track. Mann doesn't manipulate color just to stylistically wank off: The beautiful but sickly off-shade of sunlight waning has everything to do with the emotional key of the scene, in which Dillinger tries to assure his girlfriend that, well, he's going to live forever. It's a crucial moment in the film's trajectory, but Depp doesn't sell it; the emotional depth and heft it requires come off tinny and inauthentic. Which is a shame, because Depp has a marvelous foil in Marion Cotillard, a French actress who won an Oscar for her high-wire portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. As Dillinger's girlfriend Billie Frechette – a former res-kid, now coat-check girl – Cotillard doesn't look part Native American or sound like a Thirties Chicago moll, but damned if she isn't a sight and sound to behold. Whatever her technical limitations, she rises above them to breathe a flesh and blood and battered-woman verisimilitude into the part. You can't tear your eyes off her any more than you can Mann's flawed but still engrossing picture.
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Diogo Rodrigues de Azevedo, auch Rodriguez oder Roys (* nach 1500 in Portugal; † 21. April 1577 in Goa, Indien) war ein portugiesischer Seefahrer, Entdecker und Kolonialherr in Indien.

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Diogo Rodrigues fuhr als Steuermann mit der Flotte Pedro Mascarenhas nach Indien.
Dabei segelten sie vom Kap der Guten Hoffnung ostwärts in kaum bekannte Gewässer die neue Route nach Goa. 1538 entdeckte Rodrigues bei einer solchen Fahrt entlang der Inselgruppe der Maskarenen die nach ihm benannte Insel Rodrigues.

Später blieb Rodrigues in Indien, lernte die Landessprache, war Kommandant des Forts von Goa und Gouverneur der Insel Salsette (später Mumbai). Auch bei der Verteidigung der Festung Diu unter João de Castro und deren Wiederaufbau war er beteiligt. Im Zuge der Christianisierung von Goa ließ er 1567 Hindutempel und neun Pagoden zerstören. Auf seinem Grabstein in Goa steht: Hier liegt Diogo Rodrigues, (genannt) "o do forte – der aus dem Fort", Kapitän des Forts, der die Pagoden dieses Territoriums zerstörte. Er starb am 21. April 1577.

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by Mitch Albom | Oct 25, 1996 | Detroit Free Press | 0 comments
ATLANTA — Andy Pettitte looks like a character out of "The Lords of Flatbush" — dark wavy hair, sunken eyes, thick lips, heavy stubble. He looks like a guy who would watch the Yankees, who would adore the Yankees, who would dream one day of playing for the Yankees, even though he grew up in Deer Park, Texas, a long way from the Bronx. Never mind that small contradiction. The Yankees drafted him, put him in their farm system, and he began to look more like a guy who'd take the D train every day.
Now Pettitte plays for the Yankees. And on Thursday night he pitched them to within two outs of a complete-game World Series shutout. Then he came into the dugout, put a towel over his head, and there, in the roar of the sellout crowd, he prayed for the right ending.
He prayed when Atlanta's Javy Lopez came to the plate, with the tying run on third, and he exhaled when he heard the crowd moan, for he knew Lopez had made an out. That left one to go. Still the towel was on his head. He rubbed at the sweat that wouldn't stop dripping down his forehead. He prayed some more.
Then, a crack of the bat. He heard the crowd scream with excitement, and he gave up, he tossed the towel and peeked between his teammates, who were on their feet watching the ball head for the seats.
"I could just see between a couple guys," Pettitte would say, "and I could make out Paul O'Neill running for the ball. And then I couldn't see him. I was blocked. So I just watched my teammates' reaction.
"When they jumped up and down, I knew what had happened."
O'Neill had grabbed it, on a dead run, a few feet from the wall. Final out. The Yankees had won. And Andy Pettitte, the new Lord of Flatbush, had just dropped a bomb on the Atlanta Braves.
Joy of October baseball
"This is the greatest moment I've had all year," Pettitte said after his five-hit, 1-0 victory moved the Yankees within one win of the World Series crown. "I can't believe it."
He's not the only one. Pettitte is only 24 — is it me, or are there more amazing kids in this Series than any in recent memory, what with Andruw Jones, Jermaine Dye, Derek Jeter — and now Pettitte, who couldn't last three innings in the Series opener last Sunday, yet sealed the Braves on Thursday like a Ziploc bag. That's right. No runs. Goose egg. A shutout. These same Braves who have scored, 15, 14, and 12 runs in postseason games this year. Pettitte twisted them like pretzels. He confounded them into double plays. He kept it low, he kept it away, he kept it in his catcher's mitt.
And he kept the game in check.
And now the Yankees — who were the team that didn't have enough starting pitching, remember? — have won three in a row in this World Series and are heading back to their home stadium with a well-rested relief staff, thanks to Pettitte.
And thanks to the little things, the delectables of October baseball upon which so many championships turn.
Like the fourth inning, where New York's Charlie Hayes lofted an easy fly ball to right-centerfield, but Atlanta's Dye, just a rookie, crossed in front of Marquis Grissom, who lost sight of the ball, just for a moment, and dropped it. Cecil Fielder came up two batters later and poked a shot down the leftfield line — perfect under the conditions — and Hayes raced in and the Yankees had the lead.
Little pellet.
Or was it the sixth inning, when Pettitte allowed two men to reach base, had nobody out, and was looking at trouble. But he charged in on a Mark Lemke bunt, and spun to third base and fired. In time. One out. And Pettitte got the next batter, Chipper Jones, to chop a ball back to the mound, and once again the game was in Pettitte's hands, and once again he made the right play, a sharp throw to second to start a double play that ended the inning, and may well have ended the Atlanta Braves.
Let's face it. The Braves, once huge favorites, are now coming apart like a rock band that keeps blowing its amplifiers. They lost Game 3. They blew Game 4. And they couldn't get enough wind to lift off the ground in Game 5.
And aren't we surprised?
Lesson: Don't call the race early
There is a very good lesson in all of this. When the Braves won the first two games of this Series, by a combined score of 16-1, we pundits were in a hurry to bury New York. Here in Atlanta, they wrote stories saying "Why bother even playing the rest?" One columnist said, "Forget the 1996 Yankees. Bring on the 1927 Yankees."
This is nothing new. Year after year, in everything from sports to politics, we seem in a frenzy to call the race early. We want to tell you the president before the polls close. We want to predict the Super Bowl before they kick it off. It is part of the frenzy to call attention to ourselves by calling something early — even though, inevitably, we are wrong as often as we are right.
Where's the shame in waiting until it's over to say it's over?
There is none. So let us learn from that mistake. "Anything can still happen," said a grim Bobby Cox, the Atlanta manager, and on that, at least, he is correct. The home team has lost every game in this crazy series, so how could you possibly declare anything true today?
Except maybe this: Andy Pettitte, on Thursday night, had one of those baseball moments that makes young kids from Deer Park to Flatbush want to pick up the ball and throw it against a backstop. He looked every bit a New York Yankee out there. Even the towel fit him perfectly.


Who knew? Following our Hot Topics debate about security in midsize businesses, such IT vs. employee tension would break out.
Last week we look at how most data breaches come from within and how employees are constantly at fault for malware issues and general data loss. However, there has been more discussion regarding the topic – more specifically from the employee side.
Many reoccurring themes can be seen. Trends such as consumerisation and Bring-Your-Own-Device (tips for BYOD can be found here) are dominating the airspace with IT professionals worrying about the potential downfalls.
It is the ultimate battle. One where both sides will always try to win. One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability.
With IT departments producing thick, unread security manuals, it's hardly surprising that employees are choosing convenience over security. Managing Directors may be happy that employees are driving business, but the potential downfalls are bigger.
Security is different for different users and different situations, but IT professionals and business owners must increase simpler security policies with real consequences. Make them known. And make them obvious, not tucked up in page 262 of a 600 page policy.
The sheer convenience of doing business on the web has embedded itself into consumers everyday routines to the point where the ability to quickly complete a multitude of tasks online has come to be expected. This is comprising security. There has to be some middle ground.
IT professionals believe that security polices drive behaviour, not the other way round. After all, this is the Internet age. Users expect there to be security. If IT professionals had the time and explained why applications behave the way they do, with certain 'inconveniences' in place, and are all for the company's and clients' benefit of securing their data, then maybe no one would complain as much.
Users want easy to use application, but they also want to know that who they do business with has their protection in the front of their mind instead of their usability. Everyone will understand. If this is the case then employees will change their behaviour to conform to security policies.
Just to make it abundantly clear, this blog is not advocating insecure computer practices. What it is advocating is freedom and some general understanding. However, with freedom comes consequences. If your employee wants his own data exposed by having auto log-in enabled and not local the screen with the screensaver, then it is only their data exposed, IT departments will need to relax a little bit.
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Damien Carême, the mayor tackling climate change, unemployment poverty and much more. (c) european parliament.
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I think 70% of the [environmental] fight must be at local level. Councils have a role to play in housing, public transport, energy and food. At Grande-Synthe, measures we introduced include serving 100% organic and local food in school canteens and helping market gardeners set up in the town.
We worked to provide low-energy housing and would only give contracts to landlords who followed the high environmental standards we set. We encouraged people to walk more by planting trees to make roads more pleasant and introduced cycle lanes and bike parks – 30% of children now go to school by bicycle.
Public transport is free and high-performance – 83% of the population live less than 300 metres from a bus stop and buses pass every 10-15 minutes. If you do not have an efficient service, people will not use the bus. Electricity in the town's buildings, such as sports halls and the mairie, is 100% renewable. We have a network of renewable gas taken from recuperating energy from big industries around the town and, by 2021, 100% of the town's buildings, the hospitals and social housing will use this form of heating. That is 5,600 tonnes less CO2 in the atmosphere.
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It is a false argument to say that environmental policies cost more. We have organised meeting areas where people can share tools, materials and skills to avoid making unnecessary purchases and that does not cost the inhabitant one centime. Serving organic food in schools is not more expensive – in fact, you can reduce costs. We saved money by cutting back on lighting in the town to improve biodiversity. We reduced the number of lights, switched to LEDs, turned off 50% after midnight and 75% after 02.00. Our electricity bill is €500,000 cheaper and we give that money to residents living under the poverty line. Measures to improve the environment improve people's lives.
Health is better because people eat organic food. We make our own cleaning products to avoid the endocrine disruptors used in many commercial products. Another example is the shared gardens for blocks of flats where people not only produce their own food, but also create social links with neighbours they might otherwise not talk to. We take care of people and we take care of the planet.
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There is a phrase I like in politics: showing an example is not the best way to convince others, it is the only way. For 18 years, I showed what is possible. I was invited to many debates in local councils during the run-up to the local elections and I can see that more and more people are interested in making changes.
In this year's local elections, many big towns and cities, including Tours, Poitiers, Bordeaux, Besançon, Strasbourg, Marseille and Lyon elected a green mayor. It is true there are around 35,000 communes and the majority are not "green", but I think the experiences from the big towns will filter down.
It will take time. The next elections will show a bigger change because Covid is making people realise we cannot continue with the way we live now. The state has a massive role to play too because it controls agricultural policy, housing and transport networks. Governments have not adhered to many of the charters, including the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.
I am the mayor who took the government to court at the end of 2018 over its failure to act against climate change, and we should have the results from the Conseil d'Etat by the end of the year. When I travel round France, I am struck by the number of people who tell me they are frightened of the water they drink, the food they eat and the air they breathe, because it is likely to be polluted.
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We are the country which consumes the highest level of antidepressants. Such high anxiety shows our society is in a bad way. But we can save the environment, take care of our health, live better and no longer be frightened of what we eat, drink or breathe. The role of the citizen is to recognise the problem and fight for change, and then accept a certain number of changes themselves – for example, to use more public transport and consume less. I am confident people have the intelligence to change and, after that, we will all be much happier than we are today.
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Governor candidates focus on future of public education in Iowa | News, Sports, Jobs
Reynolds headshot courtesy of Iowa governor's office; DeJear headshot courtesy of Iowa Senate Democrats Deidre DeJear, right, is the Democratic challenger to Gov. Kim Reynolds in the 2022 campaign.
Gubernatorial candidates focusing on public schools is far from new.
But in the Iowa race for governor, both candidates have spent significant time on the campaign trail discussing their plans for the future of education in Iowa amid rising polarization on issues from vaccine and mask mandates to book bans and state funding.
While Gov. Kim Reynolds has not spent much time discussing her policy goals while campaigning for re-election, she has made education a top priority. In campaign speeches and ads, she highlights how her administration worked on reopening public schools which went to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa schools went back to in-person learning earlier than many other states, when she signed an order in July 2020 requiring students to receive at least half of their schooling in classrooms. She signed legislation in 2021 requiring school districts to provide a full-time classroom option for parents who request it.
Parents having a larger say in their children's schooling is a recurring theme in the governor's campaign.
"We're going to put parents back in charge of their children's education," Reynolds told supporters at a rally for US Rep. Ashley Hinson in August.
Calls for 'parental control' in schools
Reynolds said it is "common sense" for parents to make decisions on masking and vaccination in schools. That idea extends beyond COVID-19 policies: She has also called for parents to have a greater say in how schools approach transgenders students.
The discussions in Iowa arose after Linn-Mar Community School District adopted a policy whereby transgender students can adopt a "gender support plan," the district can require employees and other students use the individual's preferred name and pronouns, and facilities will match students' gender identity at school.
The policy states that students can decide whether their parents or guardians participate in the school's "gender support plan meeting."
The governor has referenced these public school policies as another reason Iowans should support her voucher proposal. Reynolds said in May that families need more choices in education, and those choices should not be limited if the parents can't afford to transfer theri children to a private school.
"I think that's one of the reasons I think parents need an option," Reynolds said. "If they feel that their child is not being educated in a safe environment, or they feel that their values aren't being represented at school, or they feel that the school district is not focused on a quality education."
During a recent fundraiser, Reynolds highlighted legislation she signed into law earlier this year which prohibits transgender girls and women from playing on women's teams in most Iowa public schools and colleges.
"When we protected girls' sports for girls, they called it discrimination," she said. "The Iowa Democratic Party has lost sight of hard-working Iowans, and if elected, all of the things we've done over the last four years will go away."
Michelle Veach, a Johnston parent, wore a shirt that stated "we do not co-parent with the government" to a Reynolds fundraiser earlier this month. She said one of the major reasons she supports the governor is because some of the material taught or available in public schools is inappropriate for children.
As a parent of children in Johnston public schools, Veach has spoken at multiple Johnston School Board meetings where she read excerpts of the books "The Hate U Give" and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," books which are in the high school English class curriculum. Reynolds took their concerns seriously when she and other parents visited the Iowa State Capitol to discuss the books and other inappropriate content in schools, she said.
"She has listened to parents and worked with us whenever possible," Veach said. "We want to be the authority with our kids education, our schools work for us. And we've lost that in our culture."
Democrats call for more funding
Reynolds has highlighted issues like remote learning as a major problem in Iowa public schools. But her opponent, Democrat Deidre DeJear, says the problem is insufficient funding.
On the campaign trail, DeJear and other Iowa Democrats have repeatedly pledged to bring Iowa back to its position as a top state for education, an accolade that has slipped in recent years. In the most recent US News and World Report's state education rankings, Iowa placed 18th.
"We know as Iowans that's not where we belong and that's not what our children deserve," DeJear told a crowd this summer.
The decline, she said, is due to state government's failure to match education funding increases with rising inflation. The state legislature approved a 2.5% increase to Iowa's per-pupil education funding this year, which Democrats say meets neither the pace of inflation, or makes up for underfunding in previous years. She told the Des Moines Register she supports appropriating $300 million from Iowa's budget surplus so that it can be used for education and compensate for the funding deficits.
Iowa's public universities are also facing funding shortages. The Iowa Board of Regents raised the annual tuition at Iowa's three public universities by more than $300 this year, as the state legislature only approved a $5.5 million increase in general aid while the schools requested $15 million after facing a $7 million cut in 2020. Student activists have said the tuition increases could prevent some Iowans from attending college.
The governor discussed college costs on the campaign trail as well, as she rallied against President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness program. Reynolds and Republican attorneys general in five other states filed a lawsuit in September challenging the Department of Education's authority to forgive student loans.
Taking on the costs of higher education is a personal choice, Reynolds said, and the program would force taxpayers to take on that burden.
"By forcing them to pay for other people's loans – regardless of income – President Biden's mass debt cancellation punishes these Americans and belittles the path they chose," Reynolds said in a statement about the lawsuit.
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Atropa belladonna, the deadly nightshade, is a member of the solanaceae family, which includes other very poisonous plants, such as Datura stramonium, the thorn apple or devil's trumpet, and Hyoscyamus niger, the black henbane, but also such friendly plants as the tomato, the potato, green and red peppers and the eggplant, as well as the protective mandrake and the seductive, but not so harmless, tobacco plant.
Nature is the great mother of symbols. She reveals much of her inner mysteries in the external characteristics of her creations. The appearance, growth pattern and habitat of a plant form a symbolic expression or signature of the hidden, therapeutic genius lying latent within. So it is with Belladonna.
The deadly nightshade is widely distributed over Central and Southern Europe and is almost confined to chalky or calcareous soils. Early homeopaths soon discovered that a close relationship exists between Belladonna and Calcarea carbonica, which is derived from the chalky, middle layer of the oyster shell. People of the Calc carb constitutional type often develop acute conditions that require treatment with Belladonna.
The nightshades have been described as the "gypsies of the roadside and abandoned places". Many thrive best where there is human garbage and refuse, on rubbish dumps and compost heaps. Belladonna loves waste areas, old quarries and ruins – places forsaken by man.
The plant shows a curious responsiveness to light and shade. In shady places, on wooded hills and especially if on limestone, it grows vigorously and luxuriantly, even to the height of a tall man, but specimens exposed to the sun are, by comparison, weak and dwarfed. Paradoxically, however, the more sun and light a plant is exposed to the more poisonous it becomes, due to the increased concentration of the toxins (alkaloids) it contains. Belladonna is one of the most frequently indicated remedies for sunstroke.
The extreme vitality of the plant is witnessed each year in the rapid and vigorous growth that erupts from the thick, fleshy, whitish perennial root – older plants attaining a height of five to six feet in one season. Ailments that yield to Belladonna therapy come on suddenly, even explosively, and most often in vigorous, robust children and adults. Pains are intense and come on suddenly and disappear suddenly. The mental and physical symptoms it produces and cures are generally of a violent nature. Inflammatory states are characterised by extremely high fever and locally by severe throbbing pains, a bright redness, which quickly changes to bluish-red or purple, marked tenderness, swelling and heat. It is remarkable how swiftly a Belladonna condition can move to suppuration. Typical examples of this are tonsillitis and whitlow.
Despite being highly poisonous, the only sinister aspect the plant presents is the flower, which appears in June and July in the axils of the leaves and continues blooming until September. These are pendent, bell-shaped and are a dark, congested, purplish colour, tinged with green and possess five lobes. The calyx, which embraces the base of the inflorescence, has five clefts.
Even the number of petals of a flower has significance. In the ancient lore of numerology the number five possesses certain analogies – freedom, independence, changeability, rebelliousness, volatility, youth and adolescence, the five faculties and the sense pleasures. Five is also connected with fire and the colour red, which emotionally indicate passion and physically suggest inflammation. Fire is also symbolic of initiation, cleansing and regeneration.
Red is the colour of the first or root chakra, which reflects consciousness at a survival level – aggression and animal sexuality. The shadow aspect of the number five reveals insatiable desire for sense gratification, luxury, promiscuity, the abuse of recreational drugs and alcohol, and the destructive emotions – jealousy, hatred, pride, aggression, viciousness and malice. As a red, fire number, five has an affinity for anything hidden, occult, esoteric or mysterious. This may focus on meditation, rituals, witchcraft, Satanism, tantra, sexual and drug "magick", and interests, which may prove either enlightening or detrimental to the individual. A study of the history, folklore, uses and remedy pictures of the poisonous solanaceae and comparison with the above, reveal powerful evidence of their correspondence to the number five – a correspondence which begins with Belladonna and becomes more pronounced in Stramonium and Hyoscyamus.
The berry that follows the blossom, far from being repulsive, is as big as a small cherry and acquires an intense, shining black colour, which enticingly catches the eye and beckons to the unwary. Like a rare jewel it attracts the fingers, whilst the mouth already anticipates the intensely sweet taste of the dark, inky juice it contains – an attraction that has often proved fatal to children. The berries' lethal seductiveness, the frenzied, demoniacal mania they induce and their homicidal reputation gave them the name "Devil's Cherries" or "Naughty Man's Cherries". As we might anticipate the symptoms of poisoning develop rapidly and violently and soon threaten life.
The species name belladonna "beautiful lady", alludes to the custom, of fashionable Italian ladies of the Renaissance, of dilating their pupils by instilling a drop of the berry juice into their eyes, rendering them darker and more brilliant, to enhance their beauty and allure. The Latin scientific generic name of the plant, atropa, derives from Atropos "the inevitable", one of the three Fates of Greek mythology – she who, at the bidding of Lachesis, cuts the thread of life woven by Clotho. The common name "nightshade" most likely refers to Nah-Skado, alluding to the Celto-Teutonic goddess Skadi – "the destroyer" – "Queen of the Shades" or "Mother Death" – active in the darkness of the night (nah) – (Prisma). As such Skadi is the equivalent of the Hindu, Kali, "the black goddess" – "she who creates that she may destroy and destroys that she may create". She is akin to the black Madonna of Christianity.
Behind the sternness of these mother goddesses abides a nurturing, infinite love for mankind working with seeming ruthlessness towards the destruction of the false-ego and the transcendence of the human psyche from the shadows towards the light.
It would seem that nature intentionally fashioned the herb for a special role in the treatment of the human psyche, particularly when beguiled and entranced by the seductive ways of the world into a state of forgetfulness and detachment from its divine origin and spiritual nature. Its toxic alkaloids become more aggressive to animal life in direct proportion to brain development, being least active in lower animals, such as rabbits and goats, more intense in carnivorous animals and highly toxic and even lethal in homo sapiens.
In humans furthermore, this gradation of toxic intensity is evidenced in proportion to intellectual development – being most dangerous in those of high intelligence and those who show left cerebral dominance, characterised by a sharp intellect, a logical, analytical approach to life and a masculine energy (regardless of gender). Hufeland asserted that the mentally retarded are unusually resistant to the poison. Since the left cerebral hemisphere governs the functions of the right side of the body, the physical symptoms of Belladonna are more frequently right-sided.
The disproportionate development and dominance of the intellect and the masculine principle is often at the expense of both instinct and intuition. The stage upon which life is enacted is then too much in the head and too little in the heart, too much in the mind and too little in the feelings. The false-ego becomes inflated and worships at the altar of intellect and materialism. The sense of oneness with the creation and with Mother Nature is lost, the divine aspects of the true-self become disconnected and are lost in the Shadow-self, unrealised, unfulfilled and most often not even aspired to. Belladonna like its solanaceae cousins is most active in the treatment of those whose eternal qualities and awareness have been forgotten and whose true-self has been replaced by a false-self filled with fear and anger.
The Shadow, or personal abyss, grows apace with the development of the false-self and is filled with all the characteristics we are ashamed of and therefore repress, all our unresolved emotions, dating back to our conception, and our unrealised, divine aspects. This is particularly true of those who fail to feel and live out their emotions. In the Shadow lurks also the personal devil or "beast" structure, a proud, selfish, destructive, hateful, dark energy, which resides in varying degrees within us all, easily recognised in a Hitler but difficult to own and face in ourselves. The Devil has many symbols and some loom large in the collective, human unconscious, such as the wolf, the cockroach, with its long horns (antennae) and gleaming armour, the rat and the snake. The devil wolf is black, snarling, threatening, with glowing, baleful eyes and bared, slavering fangs, a malevolent and terrifying image – or it is the mad dog, the rabid, mutant wolf, black, fiendish, savage and unpredictable, a "Hound of the Baskervilles" – a carrier of death and destruction. These images are imprinted not only in the Shadow of humanity but also in Belladonna, Stramonium and Hyoscyamus, remedies of inestimable value in the treatment of rabies and hence for the treatment of the Shadow. Fear of water (hydrophobia) is a characteristic of rabies and also of these three remedies. In analytical psychology water is understood to symbolise the unconscious, hence fear of water symbolises fear of what lies in the unconscious – an innate fear of the Shadow.
She attempted to bite and strike her attendants, broke into fits of laughter and gnashed her teeth. The head was hot, the face red, the look wild and fierce. He was possessed by an inclination to bite those about him and to tear everything about him to pieces. Raging, violent fury; such fury that she had to be held constantly, lest she should attack someone; and when thus held, so that she could not move, she spat continually at those about her. Visions of wolves, dogs, giants and fire; cockroaches swarming about the room; rats; snakes; worms; unclean beasts, black creatures. Sees black dogs; snakes in and around her. Everything he looks at seems red; everywhere she sees fire and conflagration.
Such ghastly visions and violent anger indicate some awful abuse in the past, experiences so horrible that they have been consigned to the Shadow, out of memory. The Shadow is our own, hidden, waste area, our rubbish dump, our forsaken realm. Yet within its confines lie riches beyond measure. Like the deadly nightshade, it is in the realising of the Shadow that we can grow spiritually with vigour and luxuriance and advance beyond the toxic, spiritually dwarfing, light of the false ego and the intellect. Even in the acute Belladonna state, with its high fever and violent symptoms, a more subtle process is at work, the releasing of repressed energy from the Shadow realm, an evolution that is further developed and fulfilled in the states of Stramonium and Hyoscyamus.
The solanaceae, when indicated, expedite the individuation of the soul, the advancement towards spiritual maturity. They embody the intense, all embracing love of the "Black Goddess", the "Queen of the Shades", whose sustaining power overshadows us when we finally face our Shadow in the "Dark Night of the Soul".
David Lilley MBChB FFHom trained at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital and developed his practice in South Africa over the last 35 years. He is internationally renowned as a teacher of the materia medica.


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The Visby Strand Hotel grew out of the old Visby Brewery, run by the same family for three generations. In 1982 the family converted the brewery facilities into a small family hotel with 13 rooms. The modern hotel, still run by the same family, now boasts 110 rooms and suites, but the familial atmosphere has been carefully preserved.
The BEST WESTERN Strand Hotel occupies several beautiful medieval buildings over several streets, and the designers have made excellent use of every niche in the historical structures. No two rooms are alike – each has its own special flair to charm our guests and put them at ease.
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AOC and the self-absorbed left
Feminism has taught too many women that narcissism is desirable
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Raise your glass to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who hypocritically escaped record Covid cases in her home state of New York to drink cocktails and attend a drag brunch in free Florida. It's not uncommon for a politician's vacation to become the subject of national criticism, but in response, AOC has managed to deploy the worst communications strategy since "hiking the Appalachian trail" became code for banging your mistress in Argentina.
After being called out on Twitter for her newly attained snowbird status — and her boyfriend's gaudy choice in footwear — AOC declared that her critics are just upset that they don't get to sleep with her.
"If Republicans are mad they can't date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend's feet. Ya creepy weirdos," she tweeted.
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The selfish and cynical 'resistance'
It's no secret that people who seek political power usually have big egos, but AOC's level of self-absorption is truly impressive. She doesn't believe any criticism of her is legitimate because her detractors are blinded by her hotness. Critics are either hopelessly in love with her or intensely jealous. She is the Capitol Hill version of Regina George, who cries "Why are you so obsessed with me?" when presented with evidence that she was a bad friend to Janice Ian. Really, she is obsessed with herself.
You don't have to look far to see other leftist female politicos reveling in their selfishness. Randi Weingarten used the pandemic as a means to rake in extra benefits for teacher's unions, treating innocent children like incubators of death so her employees could work from home and collect emergency pay. A doctor recently bragged on Twitter that she only ordered delivery during the pandemic, failing to acknowledge that she was merely outsourcing her risk of contracting the virus to working-class Americans who couldn't afford to stay home. Georgetown University's chief public health official shut down indoor events and gyms for students, declaring it "unsafe," but had no problem attending an event with her friend at the Kennedy Center.
Narcissism used to be considered a personality flaw. Now, when it is displayed by women, feminists celebrate. After all, it is modern feminism that encouraged women to be selfish. They should put their careers ahead of starting a family. They should sleep around, then just get an abortion if they get knocked up. They should always talk about how great they are, lest anyone forget. Doing any of the above earns women a "yas queen!" and the label "boss bitch."
But while modern feminism claimed selfishness would empower women, its renunciation of duty and responsibility to family and community left many women feeling bored, unfulfilled, and desperate for external validation.
The Atlantic recently published "A Divorce Story," the sad tale of a mother who blows up her family because she is sick of the Cheerio crumbs on her kitchen floor. She admits that she longed for self-actualization, but never describes herself as "happy" in the aftermath of her divorce, only "raw." The piece itself is a request for permission; she needs others to tell her that it was okay to elevate her desire to try lesbian sex over the wellbeing of her children because she can't justify it to herself.
Compare this to Governor Ron DeSantis stepping away from his job to take his wife to cancer treatments. DeSantis didn't need to blast this to the press as proof that he's a good person because devotion to something other than the self is fulfilling enough.
Popular culture is finally picking at the dark side of vanity. Television and movies for years portrayed "girlboss" women in trendy oversized blazers and sharp blunt bobs as the peak of success. HBO's Succession flips this narrative on its head, casting Shiv Roy as one of the show's most hated characters as her myopic focus on taking over her father's company causes her to brutally mistreat her husband and engage in self-destructive behavior. In season four, her tale turns tragic as we learn her egoism is likely a result of her own mother treating her as an inconvenience.
AOC's delusions about the sexual fantasies of her critics are funny, yes. But it is mainly sad to see the real insecurity wrought by the selfishness promoted by the left.
Amber Athey is The Spectator's Washington editor. She is a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute and formerly White House correspondent for the Daily Caller.
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Lancaster House é um palácio de Londres situado no distrito de St. James's, no West End da capital britânica. Fica próximo do St. James's Palace e muito do espaço que ocupa fez parte, em tempos, daquele complexo palaciano. É um listed building classificado com o Grau I.

História
A construção da Lancaster House foi iniciada em 1825 para Frederick, Duque de York e Albany, o segundo filho do Rei Jorge III, sendo inicialmente conhecida como York House, no entanto, aquando da morte do príncipe era apenas uma carcaça vazia. O exterior foi desenhado principalmente por Benjamin Dean Wyatt. Foi construído em Pedra de Bath, num estilo neoclássico, sendo o último palácio de Londres a usar este estilo essencialmente georgiano. O edifício possui três andares de altura, com as salas de aparato no primeiro andar, ou piano nobile, as salas de estar da família no andar térreo e os quartos no segundo andar. Também possui uma cave contendo salas de serviço. O interior foi desenhado por Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Sir Charles Barry e Sir Robert Smirke, tendo ficado concluído em 1840.

O edifício foi comprado e concluído por George Leveson-Gower, 2º Marquês de Stafford (mais tarde 1º Duque de Sutherland) ficando conhecido por Stafford House durante quase um século. Foi avaliado para efeitos de cálculo de impostos de propriedade como a casa privada mais valiosa de Londres.

As políticas liberias de Sutherlands e o amor às artes atraíu muitos convidados ilustres, incluindo o reformador fabril Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7º Conde de Shaftesbury, a autora anti-esclavagista Harriet Beecher Stowe e o líder revolucionário italiano Giuseppe Garibaldi. Quase tão influente como as visitas era a decoração, a qual representou a moda das salas de recepção de moda durante quase um século. Os interiores, principalmente em estilo Luís XIV, criaram um esplêndido fundo para a impressionante colecção de pinturas e objectos de arte dos Sutherland, muitos dos quais ainda podem ser admirados no palácio actualmente.

"Vim da minha Casa para o seu Palácio" terá afirmado a Rainha Vitória à Duquesa de Sutherland ao chegar a Stafford House. Com a sua ornada decoração e dramática extensão da grande escadaria, o Grande Vestíbulo é uma magnífica introdução a uma das mais refinadas casas de cidade em Londres. Mais de um século depois, a sua grsndeza permanece esplendorosa, permanecendo inesquecível para aqueles que o visitam.

Em 1912 o palácio foi comprado por Sir William Lever, 1º Baronete (mais tarde 1º Visconde Leverhulme), um fabricante de sopas e filantropo, o qual renomeou o edifício em honra do seu condado natal, o Lancashire, tendo-o oferecido à nação no ano seguinte. A partir de 1924, e até pouco depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Lancaster House acolheu o London Museum', mas actualmente é usado para recepções do governo, encontrando-se encerrado ao público, com excepção de raros dias de abertura.

A Comissão Consultiva Europeia reuniu-se em Lancaster House no ano de 1944. Em Janeiro de 1947, um enviado especial teve reuniões no palácio para discutir assuntos relacionados com a Áustria ocupada. Em 1979 serviu de cenário ao Acordo de Lancaster House, o qual consistiu no contrato de independência da Rodésia (actual Zimbabwe) em relação ao Reino Unido.

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Kochs Renew Selfish Ex-Im Opposition
Why would the Koch brothers' political network oppose an entity that fostered $28 billion in American exports and supported more than 160,000 domestic jobs in 2014? Because that cash wasn't flowing to their entities. With congress set to reconvene in the coming weeks, the Koch network is again ramping up their opposition to the Export-Import Bank and twisting the arms of politicians who benefit from a steady flow of Koch-cash.
The Kochs' opposition to the Ex-Im bank isn't based in some lofty, idealistic opposition to so-called corporate welfare. Like everything the Kochs do, it's based in self-interest. Read more here.
FIRST LOOK: CONSERVATIVE GROUP RALLIES RYAN AGAINST EX-IM RESCUE: Koch-backed advocacy group Freedom Partners is urging House Speaker Paul Ryan to block efforts to restore the Export-Import Bank to full power through the appropriations process, per Pro Financial Services' Victoria Guida.
The export credit agency hasn't been […]
Kochs' "Employee Freedom Week" Is A Blatant Attack On Working Families
The Kochs' "Employee Freedom Week" is a transparent attack on America's working families. Charles and David Koch don't hesitate to put their selfish agenda over the interests of America's working families. And that's why they've worked hard to combat workers' efforts to achieve fair wages and guarantees of fair treatment in the workplace. From West Virginia to Missouri and Wisconsin, Koch candidates and front groups have pushed for right-to-work-for-less laws that reduce workers' ability to ensure they're treated fairly. And the Kochs had a major role in engineering the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case, a brazen attack on public employees.
Across the country — including at the national level — Charles and David's groups have similarly launched campaigns against minimum wage increases, measures to fight income inequality, rules that would protect families from predatory financial lending, and even opposed paid sick and family leave mandates.
Engineered by Koch-linked and funded groups, so-called "Employee […]
New Koch Front Group Joins Their Hypocritical Crusade Against Electric Cars
The Koch brothers' crusade against renewable energy and the electric vehicle continued this weekend with the announcement of the "Fueling U.S. Forward" group. At the Red State Gathering, Charles Drevna, the group's president and CEO, spoke about the Kochs' latest initiative:
"We need a sustainable energy to ensure the future of the country," Mr. Drevna told the audience.
The source of that energy? That which Mr. Drevna labeled "reliable, abundant, efficient and sustainable fuels."
"Folks, that's of course the fossil fuels," he immediately added.
Apparently there was a distinct absence of dictionaries when Drevna wrote his speech as he was unable to correctly use "sustainable" in a sentence.
Drevna previously worked for the Koch-funded Institute For Energy Research as a distinguished senior fellow. The president of the newest Koch front group also told the Red State crowd that he wasworking directly with Koch Industries Board Member James Mahoney and that Koch Industries […]
Koch "Ban The Box" Push Based 100% In Self-Interest
In a PR push, the Koch brothers are asking their political network to "ban the box" inside their companies.
The Kochs only became interested in criminal justice reform after executives at their companies were indicted for felony violations of environmental regulations. The Kochs' underlying interest is changing mens rea laws so that corporate executives in their companies can avoid prosecution. Koch Industries has been convicted of felonies in state and federal courts and has to check the box the Kochs seek to ban.
Don't Worry About Inequality, Just "Make The Best Of What You Have"
Another Koch-group staffer made a silly mistake: telling the truth about what the Kochs believe. The Koch brothers' carefully constructed facade of caring about poverty too often crumbles when Koch mouthpieces start talking.
The Kochs' focus on poverty casts government as the cause of inequality. A Koch Industries video accused government of "picking winners and losers," a favorite refrain of the billionaire brothers. Income inequality is a purely political talking point for the billionaire brothers. Stand Together–a non-profit arm of the Koch empire–was launched with a focus on poverty. The stated goal of Stand Together is to win over moderate and disengaged voters. (Not to actually do anything about poverty.)
Then someone opens their mouth and betrays the real thinking of the Koch network. In an interview with Freedom Action Network, Americans for Prosperity North Carolina Communications Director Joseph Kyzer dismissed concerns about economic inequality and tax cuts that only benefit […]
The Kochs' "Millennial" Group Is Attacking Social Security
Over the last week, the Kochs' millennial-outreach front group has placed generic anti-Social Security op-eds in newspapers across the country, including in Colorado, Missouri, Florida,Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
Written by the group's policy director, David Barnes, the op-ed approaches the group's anti-Social Security agenda with fearmongering pessimism, claiming that:
"Social Security's math no longer works";
"Millennials are out of luck";
"This is a full brown crisis"; and, last but not least,
"Social Security is an unsustainable relic of a bygone era that threatens to take us down with it."
Beyond the op-ed campaign, the Koch group has similarly exposed its mission to destroy Social Security by promoting grassroots campaigns "petitioning" and "tabl[ing]" for "#liberty and #SocialSecurityReform."
Previously, the group's resorted to violent imagery to fearmonger over the supposed Social Security "crisis," tweeting out the image of a a young professional being held up with a gun to […]
Kochs Continue To Ramp Up Senate Spending
The Kochs may not be thrilled with the top of the GOP ticket, but that won't stop them from building a coalition to elect their political puppets down the ballot (and if that helps out Donald Trump along the way, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
According to The Hill, the Koch brothers and their political front groups have "already spent more than $24 million in Senate races and [made] advertising reservations for the fall totaling at least $42 million." They've signaled their support for vulnerable Republicans in Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, among others, and plan to make a buy in North Carolina.
Take a look at how over the past couple of weeks the Koch network has invested in each state to insure the Senate and the House is full of people who will do the brothers' bidding, even if it hurts the voters who elected them:
It's no […]
Charles And David Koch Get A Beatdown In Their Own Backyard
Incumbent Congressman and Koch favorite Tim Huelskamp was successfully primaried yesterday — in Charles and David's own backyard. The Kochs have invested thousands of dollars into Huelskamp over his career. In fact, Koch Industries has been Huelskamp's top career campaign contributor, as Huelskamp's received upwards of $40,000 from individuals associated with the company and its PACs, according to OpenSecrets.
And despite his loss, the Kochs' didn't sit out Huelskamp's primary, either. Americans for Prosperity bolstered him with "six figures on [his] behalf…putting the money into mail, newspaper, digital ads and door-knocking canvassers," according to Politico. Furthermore, in the days leading up to Tuesday's election, AFP was "flooding homes with campaign mailers aimed at protecting conservative incumbents and portraying challengers as sinister liberal extremists," reported the Witchita Eagle's editorial board.
It's very much a quid pro quo arrangement and Huelskamp's done his part to prove to the Kochs that he's a […]
Koch Funded Johnson Center's Mission To Destroy Pensions
The Kochs' infiltration of college curriculum is well documented, but the Kochs are now beginning to see their investment in higher education pay dividend. The Johnson Center at Alabama's Troy University is heavily funded by the Charles Koch Foundation. The Kochs' financial influence translates into the Kochs "completely and thoroughly" driving the educational agenda at The Johnson Center.
The Kochs influence–wielded through The Johnson Center–extends beyond indoctrinating students, however. Faculty members sympathetic to the Kochs' agenda are using the Center as a vehicle to undermine Alabama's pension system and push for privatization of retirement accounts. In the echo chamber of Koch "academia", Johnson Center professors are using another Koch entity, the Mercatus Center to publish works pushing for privatization of the state's pension system.
In a presentation given to the Association of Private Enterprise Education–another group funded in part by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation–Johnson Center professor George […]
Selfish Billionaires Who Fight Policies That Help Working Families Pretend To Care
Charles And David Koch Oppose Fair Wages, Paid Sick And Family Leave, Pay Equity, And Collective Bargaining.
This weekend the Kochs and their donor-network of millionaires and billionaires gathered at the swanky Broadmoor resort to pay lip-service to the problem of income inequality. Hollow rhetoric aside, the Kochs only care about preserving their profits. The industrialist duo have habitually pushed back on any meaningful solutions to narrow income inequality and help working families.
"Charles Koch has spent his entire life creating income inequality by helping to elect the Kochs' cadre of puppet-politicians to pass legislation that pads the Kochs' bottom line," said Eddie Vale, Vice President of American Bridge. "The Koch network spends hundreds of millions of dollars on elections and lobbying for their self-serving agenda. Whether it's a minimum wage increase, the right to collectively bargain, pay equity, paid sick leave, protection of retirement income, or any issue […]
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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti il Pisa Sporting Club nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 1976-1977.

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Washington women crushing it in cannabis
Shoutout to Washington women who continue to pave the way for legal cannabis
Fri., March 6, 2020
Joe Butler EVERCANNABIS Writer
Who are some the inspirational women you know in the cannabis industry? Share their stories with us at evercannabis@spokesman.com so we can continue to highlight this community of business owners and activists.
If you looked at everyone who helped Washington's legal cannabis program get off the ground and then helped it stay aloft, you're going to see plenty of women, starting with attorney Alison Holcomb, who famously crafted the legal language for Initiative 502. More than one person has compared the whole legalization process to building an airplane after takeoff. But, in this case, the essential people involved have proven to be expert mechanics and pilots. Since 2012, many Washington women have taken on leadership roles working to lobby lawmakers or their communities, and have proven able to bring together diverse groups of cannabis enthusiasts with strong passions and opinions. Others have focused on growing their own businesses, and helping owners manage theirs. This may mean some long days and nights, or the need to drive to Seattle, Olympia, or anywhere else their representation is needed or there's a request for a load of cannabis or cash. Those who are parents face the same struggles as other working mothers – sick kids, childcare demands or meal times – but they can't have their children on-site at their family-owned business or farm. We know we're not breaking new ground here, since many female cannabis entrepreneurs have received significant credit over the years for their accomplishments. Women-focused political groups like Women of NORML have chapters around the state and country. Podcasts like "Maria & Jane," "High Tea Life" and "High Friends" highlight women's voices and experiences in the cannabis industry and culture. National cannabis magazines even occasionally give the spotlight to innovative cannabis enthusiasts nationwide who happen to be women. But Evercannabis would still like to take this opportunity to salute many of the women involved in helping the cannabis industry grow and thrive, especially those within our readership and community. Many of the following women of business have already appeared in our pages over the last four years, sometimes as story sources, sometimes as guest columnists, and some as Evercannabis correspondents. We've greeted them at events, trade shows, vendor days and public hearings. We've heard them speak at cannabis and non-cannabis events. Their opinions are respected and welcomed. Take a moment to get to know some of the women who continue to play important roles in helping normalize cannabis and iron out some of the state's initial framework to get where we are today: Crystal Oliver is co-owner and co-founder of Washington's Finest Cannabis, a cannabis farm in Deer Park. She is also the executive director of the Washington Sungrowers Industry Association, a trade organization that supports the work of outdoor cannabis farmers around the state. Recently, Oliver has been active promoting the "craft cannabis" bill that would allow farmers of a certain size to sell directly to the public. Lara Kaminsky recently stepped down from her role as executive director of The Cannabis Alliance, which she held for more than four years but remains active. She was active in putting the organization together and getting to know the ins and outs of the entire industry. Her efforts took her to Olympia, to Gov. Inslee's office, to Washington, D.C., and all around the state. Danielle Rosellison is the owner of Trail Blazin' Productions, a cannabis farm in the Bellingham area that may have been the first Washington cannabis business to become a member of its local chamber of commerce. Rosellison was the first president of the Cannabis Alliance and personally contacted several groups of growers, patients and advocates to come together. Her company focuses on ensuring all of its products are tested for quality, something that's optional in the industry for adult-use. Stephanie Lamb was hired to run the kitchen at Blue Roots Cannabis. The company already had some popular edible items but she added more including infused chips and cookies. She was given more leadership roles in the organization including sales and operations, and has also been involved in developing its new brand, Crave. Shilo Morgan and her husband David own Lucky Leaf, a downtown Spokane retailer. They originally opened in Tri-Cities, but zoning restrictions led them to relocate further east. The shop has become a popular gathering place for a diverse cross-section of Spokane life and also hosts monthly art exhibitions. Ahnya Smith is co-founder of the Colored Cannabis Collective, a non-profit organization dedicated to community service and improving representation for people of color, especially those involved in the cannabis industry. The group also focuses on changing some of the social stigma around cannabis as well. The CCC has scheduled community clean-ups and other beneficial projects. Vicki Christopherson is the head of the Washington CannaBusiness Association, which engages with the cannabis community and elected officials. The group has been active in working with the Legislature and the Liquor and Cannabis Board to improve procedures for 502 businesses. It also created a fund to help medical patients who can't afford cannabis for their conditions.
Joe Butler is a longtime marketing writer and editor at The Spokesman-Review. He's an enthusiast of Star Wars, commemorative spoon collecting, and the Oxford comma.
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x1, y1, and z1 are the coordinates of one corner of the block of bricks that we want to create; x2, y2, and z2 are the coordinates of the other corner. The block-id is the type of block that we want to use. Some blocks require another value called data; we will see this being used later, but you can ignore it for now.
We have to work out the values that we need to use in place of x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2 for our walls. Note that what we want is a larger outer block made of bricks and that is filled with a slightly smaller block of air blocks. Yes, in Minecraft even air is actually just another type of block.
I'm looking at this, and also writing this comment on my Raspberry Pi.
Amazing code skill and creative idea!
First sentence should say "Happy Birthday person's-name" – originally surrounded "name" in brackets in my reply and that lead to it being omitted automatically after posting went up.
I am new at this but i'm not understanding the shell, what I mean is what is the shell you start off with. I've read the whole thing and still don't understand……..


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Q: XmlReader read continually I have a very large xml file. This is the simplified version of xml format.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Sender>
 <SenderID>571099948</SenderID>
 <Sponsors>
  <Sponsor>
    <SponsorID>TEST01</SponsorID>
    <Contracts>
      <Contract>
        <ContractID>000001</ContractID>
        <Member>
          <SSN>1111111111</SSN>
          <Gender>M</Gender>
          <Benefits>
            <Benefit BenefitType="AAA">
            </Benefit>
            <Benefit BenefitType="BBB">
            </Benefit>
          </Benefits>
        </Member>
        <Member>
          <SSN>4444444444</SSN>
          <Gender>F</Gender>
          <Benefits>
            <Benefit BenefitType="AAA">
            </Benefit>
          </Benefits>
        </Member>
      </Contract>
      <Contract>
        <ContractID>0000002</ContractID>
        <Member>
          <SSN>2222222222</SSN>
          <Gender>F</Gender>
          <Benefits>
            <Benefit BenefitType="CCC">
            </Benefit>
            <Benefit BenefitType="DDD">
            </Benefit>
          </Benefits>
        </Member>
      </Contract>
      <Contract>
        <ContractID>0000003</ContractID>
        <Member>
          <SSN>333333333</SSN>
          <Gender>F</Gender>
          <Benefits>
            <Benefit BenefitType="CCC">
            </Benefit>
          </Benefits>
        </Member>
      </Contract>
    </Contracts>
  </Sponsor>
  <Sponsor>
    <SponsorID>TEST02</SponsorID>
    <Contracts>
      <Contract>
        <ContractID>0000011</ContractID>
        <Member>
          <SSN>1111111111</SSN>
          <Gender>M</Gender>
          <Benefits>
          </Benefits>
        </Member>
      </Contract>
      <Contract>
        <ContractID>0000002</ContractID>
        <Member>
          <SSN>2222222222</SSN>
          <Gender>F</Gender>
          <Benefits>
          </Benefits>
        </Member>
      </Contract>
    </Contracts>
  </Sponsor>
</Sponsors>
</Sender>

I want get all information of contract node, as well as SponsorID from the parent node.  Here is the code to partially read xml file using XmlReader:
        static IEnumerable<XElement> SimpleStreamAxis(string inputUrl, string elementName)
    {

            using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(inputUrl))
            {
                reader.MoveToContent();
                while (reader.Read())
                {
                    if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
                    {
                        if (reader.Name == elementName)
                        {
                            XElement el = XNode.ReadFrom(reader) as XElement;
                            if (el != null)
                            {
                                yield return el;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
    }

Here is the issue.  I cannot use this, because the whole sponsor tree may be too large for the memory.
var sponsor = SimpleStreamAxis(file, "Sponsor");

I cannot use this either, because I cannot tell SponsorID with only Contract node info.
var contract = SimpleStreamAxis(file, "Contract");

Is there a way that I can read the SponsorID in Sponsor, move cursor forward, and read all the Contract nodes under this Sponsor, then move to next Sponsor and read SponsorID and its Contract nodes and so on?

A: Yes, this can be done assuming that SponsorID always precedes the Contract nodes.
The basic idea is to read through the XML file until you find elements with the desired names "SponsorID" or"Contract", then yield them for higher processing
    public static IEnumerable<XElement> StreamNamedElements(XmlReader reader, IEnumerable<XName> names)
    {
        var nameSet = new HashSet<XName>(names);

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element && nameSet.Contains(XName.Get(reader.LocalName, reader.NamespaceURI)))
            {
                XElement el = XNode.ReadFrom(reader) as XElement;
                if (el != null)
                    yield return el;
            }
        }
    }

In cases where SponsorID is always present and precedes Contract, this will enumerate through these elements correctly.  However, if a sponsor ID is missing or out of order, the sponsor ID from a previous sponsor might get picked up.  This error can be trapped by restricting the scope of each "SponsorID" to the containing "Sponsor" element using ReadSubtree():
    public static IEnumerable<XmlReader> StreamNamedSubtrees(XmlReader reader, IEnumerable<XName> names)
    {
        var nameSet = new HashSet<XName>(names);

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            if (reader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element && nameSet.Contains(XName.Get(reader.LocalName, reader.NamespaceURI)))
            {
                var subReader = reader.ReadSubtree();
                yield return subReader;
                ((IDisposable)subReader).Dispose(); // Be sure to advance to the end of the subtree if the caller did not.
            }
        }
    }

And then use it like:
        using (var sr = new StringReader(xml))
        using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(sr))
        {
            foreach (var subReader in StreamNamedSubtrees(reader, new[] { (XName)"Sponsor" }))
            {
                XElement sponsorID = null;
                foreach (var el in StreamNamedElements(subReader, new[] { (XName)"SponsorID", (XName)"Contract" }))
                {
                    if (el.Name == "SponsorID")
                    {
                        sponsorID = el;
                    }
                    else if (el.Name == "Contract")
                    {
                        if (sponsorID == null)
                            throw new InvalidOperationException();
                        // Example "higher processing"
                        Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("{0}: {1}", sponsorID.Value, el.ToString()));
                    }
                }
            }
        }

A: Try this:
using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create("file.xml"))
{
    while (xmlReader.Read())
    {
        if (xmlReader.ReadToFollowing("SponsorID"))
        {
            string sponsorId = xmlReader.ReadElementContentAsString();

            // process SponsorID
            Console.WriteLine(sponsorId);

            if (xmlReader.ReadToFollowing("Contract"))
            {
                do
                {
                    XmlReader contractSubtree = xmlReader.ReadSubtree();
                    XElement contractElement = XElement.Load(contractSubtree);

                    // process Contract
                    Console.WriteLine(contractElement.Element("ContractID"));

                } while (xmlReader.ReadToNextSibling("Contract"));
            }
        }
    }
}


Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and road is of major importance for the organisation and financing of public transport services by bus, tram, metro and rail in the Member States. Its aim is to create an internal market for public passenger transport services while confirming Member States' competence to defining public transport services according to the needs of the population. The Regulation achieves this by complementing the general rules on public procurement. It also lays down the conditions under which compensation payments stipulated in public service contracts and concessions for public service obligations in public passenger transport services shall be deemed compatible with the rules of the internal market in the EU and exempt from prior State aid notification to the Commission, which would be otherwise required.


Rodney Atkins will host his seventh annual "Music City Gives Back" concert on Tuesday, June 6th, unofficially kicking off a week of country music festivities in Nashville ahead of the CMT Music Awards and CMA Music Festival. The popular star-‐studded event, which benefits W.O. Smith Music School, will take place near 5th Avenue and Demonbreun Street in downtown Nashville and will include performances by Atkins and more artists to be announced in the coming days.
The concert is free and open to the public and performances will begin at 4:55 p.m. Select artists will also be available to sign autographs in the free, no-‐ticket-‐required sponsor activation area from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., where guests can have a drink, get some food and meet their favorite artists.


Voting rights for women, 1912.
A meeting of the Women's Suffrage Association will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1912, at 2 p. m. at the residence of Mrs. J. M. Dowsett, the President. It is desired the members and friends congregate at that time.
Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XVII, Helu 45, Aoao 1. Novemaba 9, 1912.
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Calabria is a compact growing variety. Broccoli a member of the cabbage family is an excellant source of vitamines, potassium, iron, fibre and calcium. Sow early spring in frames, prick out once by transferring partially developed seedlings to larger pots before their roots become too entwined, and plant out later.
Sow the seeds thinly into drills in a seedbed and cover them over with a thin layer of soil. Spray with water and keep the seed bed moist. When the Broccoli plants are about 2.5cm tall, thin the seedlings to about 7.
5cm apart in the rows. The seedlings are ready to transplant to their final growing position when they are about 15cm tall, water the site the previous day. For best results dig in plenty of well rotted manure or compost the autumn before planting time.
Plant the seedlings in well drained soil.


5 Bedroom Detached House For Sale in Haslington for Asking Price £339,950.
ONLY TWO REMAINING!! Part Exchange and Help to Buy available, Stamp Duty Paid and 1000 towards legal fees. The Kellingside forms part of the Stewart Milne range, it is a terrific detached family home neatly arranged over three floors. To the ground floor there is an expansive lounge with wide walk in box-bay window, a kitchen/dining/family room which stretches across the entire width of the home. Separate utility room, WC/cloakroom. To the first floor there are three well proportioned bedrooms, bedroom two has an en-suite and walk-in wardrobe. Both the master bedroom with en-suite, and bedroom five are positioned on the second floor. Delightful gardens and garage.