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By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb
WASHINGTON — With nearly 6 million Americans unemployed and regular bouts of layoffs in the U.S. tech industry, major American tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel Corporation are nonetheless moving key operations, billions in investments, and thousands of jobs to Israel — a trend that has largely escaped media attention or concern from even "America first" politicians. The fact that this massive transfer of investment and jobs has been so overlooked is particularly striking given that it is largely the work of a single leading neoconservative Republican donor who has given millions of dollars to President Donald Trump.
To make matters worse, many of these top tech companies shifting investment and jobs to Israel at record rates continue to collect sizable U.S. government subsidies for their operations while they move critical aspects of their business abroad, continue to layoff thousands of American workers, and struggle to house their growing company branches in Israel. This is particularly troubling in light of the importance of the tech sector to the overall U.S. economy, as it accounts for 7.1 percent of total GDP and 11.6 percent of total private-sector payroll.
Furthermore, many of these companies are hiring members of controversial Israeli companies — known to have spied on Americans, American companies, and U.S. federal agencies — as well as numerous members of Israeli military intelligence as top managers and executives.
This massive transfer of the American tech industry has largely been the work of one leading Republican donor — billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who also funds the neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Islamophobic and hawkish think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), and also funded the now-defunct Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI).
Singer's project to bolster Israel's tech economy at the U.S.' expense is known as Start-Up Nation Central, which he founded in response to the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to use nonviolent means to pressure Israel to comply with international law in relation to its treatment of Palestinians.
This project is directly linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who in recent years has publicly mentioned that it has been his "deliberate policy" to have former members of Israel's "military and intelligence units … merge into companies with local partners and foreign partners" in order to make it all but impossible for major corporations and foreign governments to boycott Israel.
In this report, MintPress identifies dozens of former members of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit who now hold top positions at Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
Singer's nonprofit organization has acted as the vehicle through which Netanyahu's policy has been realized, via the group's close connections to the Israeli PM and Singer's long-time support for Netanyahu and the Likud Party. With deep ties to Netanyahu, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and controversial tech companies — like Amdocs — that spied on the American government, this Singer-funded organization has formed a nexus of connections between the public and private sectors of both the American and Israeli economies with the single goal of making Israel the new technology superpower, largely at the expense of the American economy and government, which currently gives $3.2 billion in aid to Israel annually.
Researched and developed in Israel
In recent years, the top U.S. tech companies have been shifting many of their most critical operations, particularly research and development, to one country: Israel. A 2016 report in Business Insider noted that Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple had all opened up research and development (R&D) centers in recent years, with some of them having as many as three such centers in Israel, a country roughly the size of New Jersey. Other major tech companies that have also opened key operation and research centers in Israel include Sandisk, Nvidia, PayPal, Palantir and Dell. Forbes noted last year that the world's top 10 tech companies were now "doing mission-critical work in Israel that's core to their businesses back at HQ."
Yet, some of these tech giants, particularly those based in the U.S., are heavily investing in their Israeli branches while laying off thousands of American employees, all while receiving millions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies funded by American taxpayers.
For example, Intel Corporation, which is the world's second largest manufacturer of semiconductor computer chips and is headquartered in California, has long been a major employer in Israel, with over 10,000 employees in the Jewish state. However, earlier this year, Intel announced that it would be investing $11 billion in a new factory in Israel and would receive around $1 billion in an Israeli government grant for that investment. Just a matter of months after Intel announced its major new investment in Israel, it announced a new round of layoffs in the United States.
Yet this is just one recent example of what has become a trend for Intel. In 2018, Intel made public its plan to invest $5 billion in one of its Israeli factories and had invested an additional $15 billion in Israeli-created autonomous driving technology a year prior, creating thousands of Intel jobs in Israel. Notably, over that same time frame, Intel has cut nearly 12,000 jobs in the United States. While this great transfer of investment and jobs was undermining the U.S. economy and hurting American workers, particularly in the tech sector, Intel received over $25 million dollars in subsidies from the U.S. federal government.
A similar phenomenon has been occurring at another U.S.-based tech giant, Microsoft. Beginning in 2014 and continuing into 2018, Microsoft has laid off well over 20,000 employees, most of them Americans, in several different rounds of staff cuts. Over that same time period, Microsoft has been on a hiring spree in Israel, building new campuses and investing billions of dollars annually in its Israel-based research and development center and in other Israeli start-up companies, creating thousands of jobs abroad. In addition, Microsoft has been pumping millions of dollars into technology programs at Israeli universities and institutes, such as the Technion Institute. Over this same time frame, Microsoft has received nearly $197 million in subsidies from the state governments of Washington, Iowa and Virginia.
Though Israeli politicians and tech company executives have praised this dramatic shift as the result of Israel's tech prowess and growing reputation as a technological innovation hub, much of this dramatic shift has been the work of the Netanyahu-tied Singer's effort to counter a global movement aimed at boycotting Israel and to make Israel a global "cyber power."
Start-Up Nation Central and the Neocons
Paul Singer | AP photo archive
In 2009, a book titled Start Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, written by American neoconservative Dan Senor and Jerusalem Post journalist Saul Singer (unrelated to Paul), quickly rose to the New York Times bestseller list for its depiction of Israel as the tech start-up capital of the world. The book — published by the Council on Foreign Relations, where Senor was then serving as Adjunct Senior Fellow — asserts that Israel's success in producing so many start-up companies resulted from the combination of its liberal immigration laws and its "leverage of the business talents of young people with military experience."
"The West needs innovation; Israel's got it," wrote Senor and Singer. In a post-publication interview with the blog Freakonomics, Senor asserted that service in the Israeli military was crucial to Israel's tech sector success, stating that:
"Certain units have become technology boot camps, where 18- to 22-year-olds get thrown projects and missions that would make the heads spin of their counterparts in universities or the private sector anywhere else in the world. The Israelis come out of the military not just with hands-on exposure to next-gen technology, but with training in teamwork, mission orientation, leadership, and a desire to continue serving their country by contributing to its tech sector — a source of pride for just about every Israeli."
The book, in addition to the many accolades it received from the mainstream press, left a lasting impact on top Republican donor Paul Singer, known for funding the most influential neoconservative think tanks in America, as noted above. Paul Singer was so inspired by Senor and Singer's book that he decided to spend $20 million to fund and create an organization with a similar name. He created the Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC) just three years after the book's release in 2012.
To achieve his vision, Singer – who is also a top donor to the Republican Party and Trump – tapped Israeli economist Eugene Kandel, who served as Netanyahu's national economic adviser and chaired the Israeli National Economic Council from 2009 to 2015.
Senor was likely directly involved in the creation of SUNC, as he was then employed by Paul Singer and, with neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, co-founded the FPI, which Singer had long funded before it closed in 2017. In addition, Dan Senor's sister, Wendy Singer (unrelated to either Paul or Saul), long-time director of Israel's AIPAC office, became the organization's executive director.
SUNC's management team, in addition to Eugene Kandel and Wendy Singer, includes Guy Hilton as the organization's general manager. Hilton is a long-time marketing executive at Israeli telecommunications company Amdocs, where he "transformed" the company's marketing organization. Amdocs was once highly controversial in the United States after it was revealed by a 2001 Fox News investigation that numerous federal agencies had investigated the company, which then had contracts with the 25 largest telephone companies in the country, for its alleged role in an aggressive espionage operation that targeted the U.S. government. Hilton worked at Microsoft prior to joining Amdocs.
Beyond the management team, SUNC's board of directors includes Paul Singer, Dan Senor and Terry Kassel — who work for Singer at his hedge fund, Elliott Management — and Rapheal Ouzan. Ouzan was an officer in the elite foreign military intelligence unit of Israel, Unit 8200, who co-founded BillGuard the day after he left that unit, which is often compared to the U.S.' National Security Agency (NSA). Within five months of its founding, BillGuard was backed by funding from PayPal founder Peter Thiel and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt. Ouzan is also connected to U.S. tech companies that have greatly expanded their Israeli branches since SUNC's founding — such as Microsoft, Google, PayPal and Intel, all of which support Ouzan's non-profit Israel Tech Challenge.
According to reports from the time published in Haaretz and Bloomberg, SUNC was explicitly founded to serve as "a foreign ministry for Israel's tech industry" and "to strength Israel's economy" while also aiming to counter the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement that seeks to use a nonviolent boycott to end the illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Israeli apartheid, as well as the growth of illegal Jewish-only settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.
Since its founding, SUNC has sought to transfer tech jobs from foreign companies to Israel by developing connections and influence with foreign governments and companies so that they "deepen their relationship with Israel's tech industry." Though SUNC has since expanded to include other sectors of the Israeli "start-up" economy, its focus has long remained on Israel's tech, specifically its cybersecurity industry. Foreign investment in this single Israeli industry has grown from $227 million in 2014 to $815 million in 2018.
In addition to its own activities, SUNC appears to be closely linked to a similar organization, sponsored by Coca Cola and Daimler Mercedes Benz, called The Bridge, which also seeks to connect Israeli start-up companies with large international corporations. Indeed, SUNC, according to its website, was actually responsible for Daimler Mercedes Benz's decision to join The Bridge, thanks to a delegation from the company that SUNC hosted in Israel and the connections made during that visit.
Teaming up with Israel's Unit 8200
Members of Israel's signals intelligence Unit 8200 work under a Saudi flag. Photo | Moti Milrod
Notably, SUNC has deep ties to Israel's military intelligence unit known as Unit 8200 and, true to Start Up Nation's praise of IDF service as key to Israel's success, has been instrumental in connecting Unit 8200 alumni with key roles in foreign companies, particularly American tech companies. For instance, Maty Zwaig, a former lieutenant colonel in Unit 8200, is SUNC's current director of human capital programs, and SUNC's current manager of strategic programs, Tamar Weiss, is also a former member of the unit.
One particularly glaring connection between SUNC and Unit 8200 can be seen in Inbal Arieli, who served as SUNC's Vice President of Strategic Partnerships from 2014 to 2017 and continues to serve as a senior adviser to the organization. Arieli, a former lieutenant in Unit 8200, is the founder and head of the 8200 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program (EISP), which was the first start-up accelerator in Israel aimed at harnessing "the vast network and entrepreneurial DNA of [Unit] 8200 alumni" and is currently one of the top company accelerators in Israel. Arieli was the top executive at 8200 EISP while working at SUNC.
Another key connection between SUNC and Unit 8200 is SUNC's promotion of Team8, a company-creation platform whose CEO and co-founder is Nadav Zafrir, former commander of Unit 8200. In addition to prominently featuring Team8 and Zafrir on the cybersecurity section of its website, SUNC also sponsored a talk by Zafrir and an Israeli government economist at the World Economic Forum, often referred to as "Davos," that was attended personally by Paul Singer.
Team8's investors include Google's Eric Schmidt, Microsoft, and Walmart — and it recently hired former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, retired Admiral Mike Rogers. Team8 described the decision to hire Rogers as being "instrumental in helping strategize" Team8's expansion in the United States. However, Jake Williams, a veteran of NSA's Tailored Access Operations hacking unit, told CyberScoop:
"Rogers is not being brought into this role because of his technical experience. …It's purely because of his knowledge of classified operations and his ability to influence many in the U.S. government and private-sector contractors."
In addition to connections to Unit 8200-linked groups like Team8 and 8200 EISP, SUNC also directly collaborates with the IDF in an initiative aimed at preparing young Israeli women to serve in Unit 8200. That initiative, called the CyberGirlz Club, is jointly funded by Israel's Defense Ministry, SUNC and the Rashi Foundation, the philanthropic organization set up by the Leven family of Perrier-brand water, which has close ties to the Israeli government and IDF.
"Our aim is to bring the girls to this process already skilled, with the knowledge needed to pass the exams for Unit 8200 and serve in the military as programmers," Zwaig told Israel National News.
Seeding American tech
The connections between SUNC and Unit 8200 are troubling for more than a few reasons, one of which being that Unit 8200, often likened to the U.S.' NSA, closely coordinates with Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, and is responsible for 90 percent of the intelligence material obtained by the Israeli government, according to its former commander Yair Cohen. Cohen told Forbes in 2016, that "there isn't a major operation, from the Mossad or any intelligence security agency, that 8200 is not involved in." For obvious reasons, the fact that an organization founded by an American billionaire is actively promoting the presence of former military intelligence officers in foreign companies, specifically American companies, while also promoting the transfer of jobs and investment to that same country, is very troubling indeed.
Particularly troubling is the fact that, since SUNC's founding, the number of former Unit 8200 members in top positions in American tech companies has skyrocketed. Based on a non-exhaustive analysis conducted by Mintpress of over 200 LinkedIn accounts of former Israeli military intelligence and intelligence officers in three major tech companies, numerous former Unit 8200 alumni were found to currently hold top managerial or executive positions in Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
At Microsoft, managers for at least 15 of the company's products and programs — including Microsoft's lead managers for engineering, product strategy, threat analytics and cloud business intelligence — publicly listed their affiliation with Unit 8200 on their LinkedIn accounts. In addition, the general manager of Microsoft's Israeli Research and Development Center is also a former member of Unit 8200. In total, of the 200 accounts analyzed, 50 of them currently worked for Microsoft.
Similarly, at Google, 28 former Unit 8200 members at the company were identified from their LinkedIn accounts. Among them are Google's Engineering Director, its strategic partner manager, two growth marketing leads, its lead technical manager, and six product and program managers, including Google's manager for trust and safety search.
Facebook also has several Unit 8200 members in prominent positions, though fewer than Google and Microsoft. MintPress identified at least 13 Unit 8200 alumni working for Facebook, including its director of engineering, lead manager for express wi-fi, and technical program manager. Notably, Facebook has spent the last several years collaborating with Israel's government to censor Israel's critics.
Of course, there is likely much more influence of Unit 8200 on these companies than this non-exhaustive analysis revealed, given that many of these companies acquired several Israeli start-ups run by and staffed by many Unit 8200 alumni who subsequently went on to found new companies and start-ups a few years or shortly after acquisition. Furthermore, due to the limitations of LinkedIn's set-up, MintPress was not able to access the complete list of Unit 8200 alumni at these three tech companies, meaning that the eye-opening numbers found were generated by a relatively small sample.
This jump in Unit 8200 members in top positions in tech companies of global importance is actually a policy long promoted by Netanyahu, whose long-time economic adviser is the chief executive at SUNC. During an interview with Fox News last year, Netanyahu was asked by Fox News host Mark Levin if the large growth seen in recent years in Israel's technology sector was part of Netanyahu's plan. Netanyahu responded, "That's very much my plan … It's a very deliberate policy." He later added that "Israel had technology because the military, especially military intelligence, produced a lot of capabilities. These incredibly gifted young men and women who come out of the military or the Mossad, they want to start their start-ups."
Netanyahu further outlined this policy at the 2019 Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv, where he stated that Israel's emergence as one of the top five "cyber powers" had "required allowing this combination of military intelligence, academia and industry to converge in one place" and that this further required allowing "our graduates of our military and intelligence units to merge into companies with local partners and foreign partners." The direct tie-ins of SUNC to Netanyahu and the fact that Paul Singer has also been a long-time political donor and backer of Netanyahu suggest that SUNC is a key part of Netanyahu's policy of placing former military intelligence and intelligence operatives in strategic positions in major technology companies.
Notably, just as SUNC was founded to counter the BDS movement, Netanyahu has asserted that this policy of ensuring Israel's role as a "cyber power" is aimed at increasing its diplomatic power and specifically undermining BDS as well as the United Nations, which has repeatedly condemned Israel's government for war crimes and violations of international law in relation to the Palestinians.
Building the bi-national surveillance state
A Google data center in Hamina, Finland. (AP/Google)
Top U.S. tech companies have filled top positions with former members of Israeli military intelligence and moved strategic and critical operations to Israel, boosting Israel's economy at the expense of America's, and SUNC's role in this marked shift merits scrutiny.
A powerful American billionaire has built an influential organization with deep connections to the U.S.-Israel lobby (AIPAC), an Israeli company that has been repeatedly investigated for spying on the U.S. government (Amdocs), and the elite Israeli military intelligence unit (Unit 8200) that has used its influential connections to the U.S. government and the U.S. private sector to dramatically shift the operations and make-up of major companies in a critical sector of the U.S. economy.
Further consider that U.S. government documents leaked by Edward Snowden have flagged Israel as "leading threat" to the infrastructure of U.S. financial and banking institutions, which use much of the software produced by these top tech companies, and have also flagged Israel as a top espionage threat. One U.S. government document cited Israel as the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S. behind Russia and China. Thus, Paul Singer's pet project in Start-Up Nation Central has undermined not only the U.S. economy but arguably U.S. national security as well.
This concern is further exacerbated by the deep ties connecting top tech companies like Microsoft and Google to the U.S. military. Microsoft and Google are both key military contractors — Microsoft in particular, given that it is set to win a lucrative contract for the Pentagon's cloud management and has partnered with the Department of Defense to produce a "secure" election system known as ElectionGuard that is set to be implemented in some U.S. states for the 2020 general election.
Top Photo: Paul Singer | AP photo archive
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
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We're answering visitors' questions about art at the Getty. Today's question: How many lips have touched this glass?
The answer, as I found out: Not nearly as many as you'd think.
The glass has a functional purpose, of course, but it's also a luxury collectible. Glasses like these were expensive even in the Renaissance, made for wealthy merchants and aristocrats who would display them as evidence of their status and artistic eye.
Collecting glass from Venice was particularly in style among wealthy Europeans of the 1600s and 1700s. The most spectacular collection, which still stands at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, is the "Glass Cabinet" built by Danish King Frederik IV, with glass from floor to ceiling, silk wall coverings, and a painting of the god of wine looking down on the entire thing.
In other words, it's pretty unlikely that many people actually drank out of this goblet over the centuries. But when I brought the question to Getty Museum curator Jeffrey Weaver, he pointed out a hidden clue that suggests that the glass did get handled (and maybe filled with wine, too): Look closely and you can see that the gold paint is worn away in several spots—perhaps by the hands of its original owner.
Today, in its peaceful retirement at the Museum, the glass is handled by three people only: a curator in charge of the glass collection, a conservator who specializes in decorative arts, and a preparator who moves the glass if it ever needs to journey around the Museum. Needless to say, none of them ever drinks from it!
Why Is This Glass in a Museum?
The glass is part of the Getty Museum's decorative arts collection, which is entirely devoted to functional objects—furniture, porcelain, lights, mirrors—that are so beautifully designed and crafted they rise to the level of art. Tucked away in the North Pavilion, one small Museum gallery presents rows of glass drinking vessels, vases, and bowls, including this goblet.
Venice, where our goblet was made, was the Silicon Valley of glassmaking in the Renaissance. Venetian glass was famous throughout Europe for its cutting-edge technology, creative shapes, blingy decorations, and simulated gems of enamel paint. The design of this particular goblet, in which nearly the whole bowl is covered with leafy gold ornament, is unusual; another example appears on this beaker in London's British Museum.
Interesting side note: This glass reveals a story about the talent and skill of immigrants to Europe. Islamic artists created the technique of gilding glass, and Syrian artists specialized in enameling on glass to imitate precious jewels—both of which are seen on our goblet. Perhaps some of them had a hand in its creation.
Objects found in museums today have survived for all sorts of reasons—often because they were cherished and loved by generation after generation. So while we don't know how many people touched or drank from this glass or who they were, we do know that it was considered precious enough to protect for over 500 years.
PS: To browse more gorgeous glass, see this book in Getty Publications' Virtual Library, and this article from the Corning Museum of Glass (where they know a thing or two about glass).
It was so amazing to view the art collection in this museum. I traveled n visited museum in various parts of the world, n I have never seen the vast of porcelain collection ornated with gold gilded bronze add-on to the original piece. Absolutely amazing.


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For those who missed it, here is one of the best film about the life of Nikola Tesla.
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Serbo-Croatian: Tajna Nikole Tesle), is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which details events in the life of the discoverer Nikola Tesla (portrayed by Serbian actor Petar Božović). Tesla was born to ethnic Serb parents in 1856 Croatia (at the time, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He arrived in New York in 1884, became an American citizen in 1891, made immense contributions to science and died in Manhattan at age 86 during World War II in 1943.
This biography includes references to his amazing abilities of detailed mental visualization as well as the slowly intensifying personal habits, indulgences or eccentricities for which he became nearly as well known. The film portrays Tesla in a battle with Thomas Edison over the clear superiority of Alternating Current over Direct Current. It also depicts Tesla's dream of supplying consumers all around the globe with limitless free energy.
Croatian director Krsto Papić assembled a cast which includes three American actors playing iconic personalities of 19th and early 20th century America, J. P. Morgan (1837–1913), Thomas Edison (1847–1931) and George Westinghouse (1846–1914). Morgan is portrayed by Orson Welles, while Croatian actress Oja Kodar, Welles' companion for the last 24 years of his life, has the role of Katharine Johnson (1855–1924), with whom Tesla corresponded for many years, and whose husband, Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) (portrayed by Croatian actor Boris Buzančić) was a poet, scholar, diplomat and Tesla's longtime friend and supporter. The other Americans in the cast are character actors Strother Martin (who died six weeks before the film's September 12, 1980 English-language premiere at the Toronto Festival of Festivals) and Dennis Patrick as Westinghouse and Edison, respectively.
He has produced nothing tangible for a long time, but he still remains one of the foremost living inventors of electrical apparatus. His day comes once a year. On his birthday Manhattan newshawks seek him out in some hotel, listen closely to his words. Wearing an outmoded brown suit, he received the Press one day last week in a Hotel New Yorker reception room. That day Nikola Tesla was 78.
The first thing Nikola Tesla invented was a hook for catching frogs. That was not long after he learned to talk, in the Croatian hamlet of Smiljan where he was born. He studied physics and mathematics at two universities, got into telegraph engineering, went to Budapest, to Paris, to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. Soon he had a research laboratory of his own. Four years later he patented the induction motor, first effective utilization of alternating current. He discovered the rotary magnetic field principle used today in the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls. He invented dynamos, transformers, induction coils, condensers, arc and incandescent lamps. He was acclaimed a great genius.


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Quote of the Day I
"But regardless of your background, regardless of the history they have, if we're taking something somebody said in their home and we're trying to turn it into something that leads to you being forced to divest property in any way, shape or form, that's not the United States of America. I don't want to be part of that."
-- Mark Cuban
Quote of the Day II - On the Nerd Prom AKA the White House Correspondent's Dinner
"The correspondent's dinner was a thoroughly medieval spectacle. Never was a lord's hall so earnestly thronged by grateful peasants as that venue. The comparison was nearly exact since it featured jesters, court ladies and the obligatory men-at-arms hovering outside the drawbridge of the castle. Royalty was of course in attendance, resplendent in its dazzling gowns and chic elegance. The designated buffoon of the evening was Kathleen Sebelius who was employed as a sight-gag as an obligatory adjunct to something broken as if she could absorb for herself the sins of the King."
Thought Policing Comes to the Sports Leagues
Cuban's point, though, is a valid one. It is, as he says, a "slippery slope" for NBA owners-or the owners of any sports franchise-to decide who should be able to enter their club based on the righteousness of their thinking, because who is to determine what is righteous?
As if to prove Cuban's point, Esquire's four-eyed, multi-chinned, monomaniacal hack in residence, Charles P. Pierce, took to the digital pages of his glorified lad mag to call for Adam Silver to enact similar sanctions on the owner of the Orlando Magic. His thought crime? Opposing same sex marriage. Note: The owners of the Magic have not been accused of, say, banning gay people from the arena or making them uncomfortable at games. Simply engaging in the political process in a wholly legal manner is enough for Pierce to call for their defenestration.
Similarly, Washington, D.C.'s fake congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, issued a call for Roger Goodell to sanction the owner of the Washington Redskins for profiting off of racism. Ace has handled the idiocy of referring to the name "Redskins" as racism better than I can; allow me to simply note that this only helps prove the NBA owners are setting a dangerous precedent if they vote to strip Donald Sterling of his property for saying offensive things and holding offensive thoughts
VDH: Who Among Us is Pure Enough to Own the Clippers?
Certainly not some of Sterling's more vocal critics.
Then there is the issue of the nature of Sterling's more direct stone throwers. After Sterling's ostracism, which of them can and cannot buy a NBA or equivalent sports franchise? Perhaps Spike Lee, who has appeared in NBA-affiliated commercials?
But Mr. Lee has made it clear that the very sight of interracial couples offends him. So do white moms in strollers in formerly black neighborhoods ("When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers."). Lee not long ago tweeted the wrong address of George Zimmerman's parents, in a failed crude effort to incite mob violence against his family-which resulted in threats to a completely different Zimmerman family and a law suit. After visiting South Africa, Lee thundered, "I seriously wanted to pick up a gun and shoot whites. The only way to resolve matters is by bloodshed." Should Lee be blacklisted from NBA games and his NBA commercial work dropped? Is publicly advocating racial violence worse than privately expressing racist ideas?
Charles Barkley (of the NBA: "we are a black league") has also weighed in. Could Mr. Barkley join an effort to buy the Clippers? Unlike Sterling, his racist outbursts are a bit more direct ("That's why I hate white people") and were not private. Was that a joke or just letting off steam?
Perhaps Shaquille O'Neal could head a consortium to purchase the Clippers? But O'Neill just posted a tasteless video of himself mocking someone suffering from a disfiguring illness. But that was not new, given that not too long ago he parodied NBA star Yao Ming's Chinese ancestry.
Black Christian Minister May Lose his Day Job in California Because of his Sermons
Pasadena city officials placed Public Health Director Eric Walsh on temporary paid administrative leave Thursday after they learned of controversial statements he had made about homosexuality and evolution in online videos and audio clips.
...Students for Social Justice found some of Walsh's videos online.
"We very quickly realized that there were a lot of communities that would be offended by Dr. Walsh," said Sarah Belknap, a fourth-year student and member of Students for Social Justice.
The group compiled a list of Walsh's controversial public statements, then published excerpts on Facebook and emailed them to media outlets.
Is The DOJ's 'Operation Choke Point' Causing the Closing of Porn Star Bank Accounts?
But porn stars are just the most visible victims. Already gun retailers are having a hard time getting credit card companies to do business with them. Now they may not even be able to open bank accounts.
Under "Operation Choke Point," the DOJ and its allies are going after legal but subjectively undesirable business ventures by pressuring banks to terminate their bank accounts or refuse their business. The very premise is clearly chilling-the DOJ is coercing private businesses in an attempt to centrally engineer the American marketplace based on it's own politically biased moral judgements. Targeted business categories so far have included payday lenders, ammunition sales, dating services, purveyors of drug paraphernalia, and online gambling sites. "Operation Chokepoint is flooding payments companies that provide processing service to those industries with subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and other burdensome and costly legal demands," wrote Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association, at The Hill.
Oh and the government also wants to monitor your investment accounts. For your own safety citizen.
In December, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees how investments are sold, proposed what it calls Cards, an electronic system that would regularly collect data on balances and transactions in brokerage accounts...
Under Cards (which stands for Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System), Finra would collect-probably weekly-a record of activity at all of the more than 4,100 brokerage firms nationwide.
Finra would scour the data continuously, looking for any hints that a firm or a broker might be taking advantage of a client: excessive trading or commissions, switching from one mutual fund to another, overcharging for bond E*TradeETFC +0.04%s, overconcentrating in risky or illiquid securities, and so on.
Cards "would provide us with a treasure trove of information and the ability to focus quicker on firms that are placing investors at high risk," Richard Ketchum, Finra's chairman and chief executive, said in an interview.
The Party Of Science Has Absolutely No Clue What It's Talking About
Democrats love to pat themselves on the back as believers in science and rational inquiry as opposed to the anti-science knuckle-dragging superstitious right. But when it comes to applying scientific methods and analyzing data on the effectiveness of policy policy, it all falls away before the One True Religion of progressivism.
For decades, a series of studies have raised red flags. Surgery patients, cancer victims, and transplant recipients who were enrolled in the program were all found to fare worse-not merely than privately-insured patients with presumably easier lives, but worse than equally poor people who lacked any insurance at all. This literature was capped off by the landmark "Oregon study," a brand-new analysis that marshals gold-standard methodology to compare Medicaid recipients with uninsured people.
The scholars found mixed results. Medicaid does lower psychological stress and increase financial stability, results we would expect from any transfer program. But the program actually increases unnecessary trips to the emergency room. And remarkably, Medicaid coverage has no measurable impact whatsoever on clinical health.
To an intellectually honest observer, these findings compel more questions. What are reasonable expectations for health insurance? Should we be satisfied if Medicaid helps people sleep easier but makes them no healthier? Even if so, is health insurance the most effective way to convert taxpayer dollars into peace of mind for the poor?
But no person on the left will ask these questions or even accept them as legitimate ones.
The theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once quipped that "the first principle" of science is "that you must not fool yourself-and you are the easiest person to fool." If we take the genius at his word, "the party of science" starts to look like a paradox. To insist that only your ideology is empirical and enlightened is to conclusively prove that it is neither.
Slate: The Autistic Boy Was Fair Game
Granted the 16 year old boy likely has Asperger's which means he wasn't completely helpless but then there's no question the two high school girls took advantage of and abused him - albeit with his consent. Should they be prosecuted and face jail (possibly decades for the 17 year cheerleader)? No, but they should have some consequences. And what they did was still wrong.
Because it's Star Wars day. This video is at least 15 years old but still awesome even if they had to change the theme song. I still laugh when the jawas catch on fire.
Nuts Magazine RIP
Nuts started as a print and then online lads magazine in the U.K. just about a decade ago. In that time, it's hard to count on hands and toes and other appendages how many fine looking topless lasses they've brought to our attention. Now, they are closing shop. Online and off. It's a melancholy moment for those 99.9% of us who love funbags.
It might not be common knowledge, but it's very economically difficult to run an R-rated journalistic endeavor. You're too racy for Victorian era corporate advertisers but you're not racy enough for people willing to spend money for their passions. It's the nightmare that keeps me awake at night, before I have some warm beer and ease back into slumber. We will miss Nuts. They were good, earnest, boobtastic loving folks. Of course, the glamour models will continue on in other venues, but as with any loss, things will not be entirely the same forever more.
Warning: Link is NSFW. Because boobs.
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Q: Disabled submit button if form is invalid angularjs I currently have a form with many different inputs. In the example below I have created a form with two inputs for simplicity. I am trying to make it so my submit button is disabled when the form isn't valid - that is, when all the required inputs have not been filled out.
This is what I have tried so far:

angular.module('myApp', []);
angular.element(document).ready(function () {
  angular.bootstrap(document, ['myApp']);
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.4.8/angular.min.js"></script>

<form name="myForm">
  <input type="text" placeholder="name" required/>
  <input type="number" placeholder="age" required />
  <input type="submit" ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid" />
  {{ myForm.$invalid }} <!-- prints "false" -->
</form>

As you can see from the above snippet, myForm.$invalid is false even though I haven't filled out the required inputs yet. Is there some different property which will tell me if the required inputs have all been filled out?
I have looked at different posts such as this one but when I try and use myForm.$valid it just gives me the negated version of myForm.$invalid, which doesn't help much either.

A: You are missing ng-model in the form fields. You need to add ng-model as it detects the changes in the form fields.
Try this:

angular.module('myApp', []);
angular.element(document).ready(function () {
  angular.bootstrap(document, ['myApp']);
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.4.8/angular.min.js"></script>

<form name="myForm">
  <input type="text" ng-model="name" placeholder="name" required/>
  <input type="number" ng-model="age" placeholder="age" required />
  <input type="submit" ng-disabled="myForm.$invalid" />
  {{ myForm.$invalid }} <!-- prints "false" -->
</form>

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Home	Basketball	What channel is Duke vs. Kentucky on today? Time, TV schedule for 2021 Champions Classic game
What channel is Duke vs. Kentucky on today? Time, TV schedule for 2021 Champions Classic game
by Lucia November 10, 2021
written by Lucia November 10, 2021
The second game featured in the 2021 Champions Classic is between two of the big blue schools, No. 9 Duke vs. No. 10 Kentucky.
Although both of these teams typically do well each college basketball season, last year they both did not make the NCAA March Madness tournament. It was the first time since 1995 that Duke didn't make the tournament.
This year, Duke will be under a spotlight because it's coach Mike Krzyzewski's final season as a head coach. Coach K is the winningest coach in college basketball history with a 1,170-361 record in 46 years as a coach, and a 1,097-302 record in 41 years as Duke's head coach. He has won five national championships and has 12 Final Four appearances, which is tied for the most in NCAA history.
In its 10th year, the Champions Classic has happened every year on opening night of college basketball, with Kansas, Michigan State, Duke and Kentucky rotating who they play. Duke vs. Kentucky will follow on Tuesday after the Kansas vs. Michigan State game. The event is held in New York City at Madison Square Garden.
The Blue Devils open as slight favors over the Wildcats.
Below is all the info you need to watch Duke vs. Kentucky on Tuesday, including tip-off time, TV channel and both teams' upcoming schedule.
MORE: Watch Duke vs. Kentucky live with fuboTV (7-day free trial)
What channel is Duke vs. Kentucky on tonight?
TV Channel: ESPN
Live stream: ESPN+, fuboTV
Duke vs. Kentucky will be shown on ESPN as the second game of the Champions Classic.
Dan Shulman and Jay Bilas will broadcast from the booth, while Holly Rowe will report from the sidelines. Dick Vitale will miss his first Champions Classic due to his chemotherapy treatment.
Additionally, ESPN's streaming service ESPN+ will show the game, along with fuboTV, which offers a seven-day free trial.
Duke vs. Kentucky tipoff
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 9
Time: 9:30 p.m. ET
The first game of the Champions Classic doubleheader will tipoff at 7:00 p.m. ET. Following the Kansas vs. Michigan State game, Duke vs. Kentucky will tipoff at 9:30 p.m. ET.
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Date Opponent Time (ET) TV Channel
Nov. 9 No. 10 Kentucky 9:30 p.m. ESPN, fuboTV
Nov. 12 Army 7:00 p.m. ACC Network, fuboTV
Nov. 13 Campbell 8:00 p.m. ACC Network+, ESPN+, fuboTV
Nov. 16 Gardner-Webb 7:00 p.m. ACC Network+, fuboTV
Nov. 19 Lafayette 8:00 p.m. ACC Network, fuboTV
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Nov. 9 No. 9 Duke 9:30 p.m. ESPN, fuboTV
Nov. 12 Robert Morris 7:00 p.m. SEC Network, fuboTV
Nov. 16 Mount St. Mary's 7:00 p.m. SEC Network, fuboTV
Nov. 19 Ohio 7:00 p.m. SEC Network, fuboTV
Nov. 22 Albany TBD N/A
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This is a long-overdue post (I have a LOT of catching-up to do...maybe a winter project).
Back on August 17th I was birding Griswold Point in Old Lyme, CT and was lucky enough to have a juvenile "Eastern" Willet associating with a juvenile "Western" Willet - a side-by-side that isn't often seen so well in Connecticut.
On Western (at rear), note paler upperpart coloration, less contrast between scapulars and wing coverts (less-heavily marked upperparts overall), and subtly more elongated rear-end.
On Western (left), note larger size and longer, thinner bill.
"Western" Willet is a lankier bird overall, while "Eastern" is more compact.


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The Rising of the Shield Hero Ranks on Anime News Network's Worst Anime of 2019 List: "Actively, Politically Awful"
The Rising of The Shield Hero anime adaptation has ranked among the worst anime of last year according to a recently released list compiled by Anime News Network staff specifically due to the series' subject matter rather than any inherent quality issues.
On January 3rd, Anime News Network published their annual "Worst of Anime" list, which is determined by a selection of site staff members. The first review featured in their compilation was from Anime News Network writer Steve Jones, who ranked The Rising of the Shield Hero as the worst anime of 2019 and labeled it a "rallying point for the worst impulses of some of the worst people" and portrayed its premise as "a glorification of misogyny and slavery."
"If I'm calling an anime the worst of the year, it's not sufficient that it merely be a "bad" show. It needs to be something actively, politically awful. It needs to be rallying point for the worst impulses of some of the worst people. Admittedly, these are factors that are often outside of the control of creators, and there are countless examples of genuinely good and kind media being subsumed into a pile of internet swamp scum. The Rising of The Shield Hero, however, is not one of these shows. With a premise predicated on a glorification of misogyny and slavery, it earns all the ire directed towards it. That it was animated by Kinema Citrus, who have made recent and wonderful standouts like Made in Abyss and Revue Starlight, and produced by Crunchyroll, which is the premier anime streaming service in North American, just twists the knife. This is the worst kind of nerd power fantasy to put on any pedestal besides the specific one I'm featuring here."
Related: Kadokawa Producer States No Outrage in Japan Over Crunchyroll's The Rising Of The Shield Hero
As is apparent from reading Jones' review, his consideration of the series as one of the "worst" of 2019 is less based in criticisms of the show's production and more based on his personal feelings towards the appropriateness of the subject matter and humor as viewed through the lens of social justice theory.
Jones' review stands out even amongst his fellow Anime News Network reporters, whose criticisms were related to various issues ranging from art styles to poor writing. On the same list, fellow Anime News Network writer Rebecca Silverman notes that Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka "got worse when it began to use sexualized torture as titillation" but also recognizes that "Schlocky sexualized violence may have a place in the entertainment landscape" instead of docking the series for having sexual content in general:
"This category came down to a tie between this show and Kemono Michi: Rise Up for me, but what made Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka the winner (or loser) is how drastically it failed its characters and subject matter. Yes, Kemono Michi: Rise Up had lots of cruel jokes of questionable taste, but it was at least attempting to be a comedy, however misguided it was. Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka, on the other hand, at first purported to be an edgy dark magical girl show looking at what happens to the girls after the battles are over, and how they might cope with having to go back into the fray. The problems began when the show completely disregarded the mental health issues it set up for Asuka, and things only got worse when it began to use sexualized torture as titillation. It devolved into a fetish-filled mess that trampled all over its initial premise, failing to treat subjects like child soldiers, combat veterans with PTSD, and the manipulation of vulnerable people's psyches with the gravity they both deserve and need. Schlocky sexualized violence may have a place in the entertainment landscape, but this most assuredly is not it."
Related: Despite Detractors, The Rising of the Shield Hero Becomes Wild Success With Over 6.2 Million Copies Printed
Despite Jones' declaration that The Rising of the Shield Hero "earns all the ire directed towards it," there may be little to be found among general audiences, as the series placed 11th in Anime News Network's own open poll which asked readers to select their top five anime series of the year.
The series' original light novels and manga adaptations have had a collective total of 6.2 million copies printed in Japan. At last year's Crunchyroll Expo, it was announced that the anime adaptation would be receiving a second and third season.
Related: Crunchyroll Announces Nominees for Their Annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards
The series has also received three nominations in the annual Crunchyroll Annual Anime Awards, with Raphtalia being nominated for "Best Girl," Kevin Perkin for "Best Score," and Billy Kametz's performance as Naofumi for "Best VA Performance (English)."
YouTuber Hero Hei commented on Steve Jones's "review" saying, "Part of what they look at in critiquing anime is how it relates to politics. This is the exact thing we are fighting against. We want your politics out of our entertainment. We do not want to be used."
What do you make of Jones' review of The Rising of the Shield Hero? Have you seen the first season? What did you think about it?
Anime News NetworkThe Rising Of The Shield Hero
Spencer is the Associate Editor for Bounding Into Comics. A life-long anime fan, comic book reader, and video game player, Spencer believes in supporting every claim with evidence and that Ben Reilly is the best version of Spider-Man. He can be found on Twitter @kabutoridermav.
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Carol Leeming, FRSA, is a multi-genre writer, singer, songwriter, performing artist and actor. Her work includes film, stage, poetry and music. Some of her poems have been featured in anthologies including "Out of Bounds" (Bloodaxe, 2014), "Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge" (Five Leaves, 2015) and "Welcome to Leicester" (Dahlia Publishing, 2016).
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In working life
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According to the Finnish Act on Occupational Safety and Health, employers are required to take care of the safety and health of their employees while at work.
Employers pay for vaccines required by their employees due to work-related reasons and business travel. Employers are compensated for these occupational health care expenses by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.
The occupational health care provider also administers the basic vaccines and boosters included in the National Immunisation Programme.
People employed in certain special industries may require a more extensive immunisation schedule due to the nature of their work. Vaccinations protect employees and the people they work with.
Ensuring the appropriate immunisation of those who work with children, the elderly and sick people is particularly important. Separate vaccination guidelines have also been issued for groups including waste management employees, prison personnel, police officers and people who work outdoors in various positions. More information is available on the website of the National Institute for Health and Welfare.
For information on vaccinations for employees going on expatriate assignments, please refer to the Traveller's Health Guide published by the National Institute for Health and Welfare.
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Kang Ho Dong And Block B's P.O Are Surprised To Ring Seohyun's Doorbell On "Let's Eat Dinner Together"
Girls' Generation's Seohyun made an unplanned appearance on JTBC's "Let's Eat Dinner Together"!
On the April 3 broadcast, IZ*ONE's Jang Won Young and Block B's P.O walked around the neighborhood of Chungdam to find dinner companions.
At 6 p.m., they separated into two teams (P.O and Kang Ho Dong, Jang Won Young and Lee Kyung Kyu) to succeed at their mission. Lee Kyung Kyu and Jang Won Young were walking around and ringing doorbells when one of them happened to be the home of former "The Return of Superman" cast member Lee Hwi Jae.
The cast and staff did not know in advance that Lee Hwi Jae lived there, and Lee Hwi Jae was equally confused as he opened the door. "I thought it was a delivery," explained the TV personality.
When Lee Kyung Kyu asked why he was home at this time, Lee Hwi Jae replied, "I don't really go out much. Seo Jun, Seo Eon, and my wife went out and it'll take about 30 minutes before they come home. Dinner isn't ready at all."
Lee Kyung Kyu then turned around, and told Kang Ho Dong and P.O about this unexpected encounter when they met up again.
Kang Ho Dong and P.O then rang the doorbell of a different home. While calmly carrying on a conversation with a homeowner over the intercom, they quickly learned that they were speaking to Seohyun! This was not her first surprise appearance on the show as the singer-actress previously ran into Kang Ho Dong and Lee Kyung Kyu on the streets while driving by in her car in 2016.
She said, "I don't have any makeup on. I'll ask my parents." In the end, Seohyun turned down their request but said that she would come downstairs to say hello.
When she arrived on the first floor, Kang Ho Dong and P.O greeted her with the choreography to Girls' Generation's "Genie." Seohyun asked, "Do you know my house?" and Kang Ho Dong replied, "I don't, but [we see you] every time we film in the neighborhood of Chungdam. Seohyun has made various kinds of appearances on 'Let's Eat Dinner Together.'"
The MC then asked why she turned them down, and she explained, "I would have accepted if I lived alone, but my parents already finished eating. I brought some snacks from home that I eat and enjoy." Seohyun handed the two stars a bag filled with rice crackers and dried persimmon.
Thanking her for the snacks, Kang Ho Dong added, "I hope the new drama you're preparing for will do well. I hope you'll go from being the best South Korean singer to the best South Korean actress who gives others joy."
Kang Ho Dong and P.O then gave her some positive energy and Seohyun thanked them. Shaking the MC's hand, Seohyun added, "I'll appear on 'Let's Eat Dinner Together' sometime in the future."
Lee Hwi Jae
Let's Eat Dinner Together


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Halvergate won by a huge 19-5 points margin at Horsford BC in the first leg of their Bure Cup tie with Horsford. Ray Lamb, Roy Walker & Simon Warnes won their games by 4-3, 8-4 & 6-4 to take maximum points from their three games. Also unbeaten were Mike Tate, Jason Woods & Robbie Lamb who won their opening game 13-3, then drew 3-3 against Dennis Seaton's triple, before winning their last game 5-2. With little chance of overturning the huge deficit Horsford BC elected to concede the tie without playing the second leg at Halvergate. In the semi-finals Halvergate will meet Kirby Bedon. Halvergate also won 4-0 at Hevingham in the Tens League winning on all four mats. In the pairs Ryan Fox & David Lamb won 17-9 and David Knights & Keith Cooke won 19-13. The triples weighed in with Robbie Lamb winning 13-8 and Steven Lamb winning 15-10 as Hevingham endured a disappointing evening at their home venue.


Kibichūō (吉備中央町, Kibichūō-chō) is a town located in Kaga District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
As of August 31, 2004, the town has an estimated population of 14,546 and a density of 54.13 persons per km². The total area is 268.73 km².
Kibichūō was founded on October 1, 2004 by the merger of the town of Kamogawa, from Mitsu District, and the town of Kayō, from Jōbō District.


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Here the life history respondents' musical experiences as adults are the starting point for an analysis of their varied routes into lifelong musical engagement. The perspectives of teachers, performers, adult learners and concert-goers are considered, although a search for trends in their experiences reveals only the idiosyncrasy of musical chances and choices. The case is made for greater recognition of the rich layer of music-making which lies outside the professional sphere, with music in worship, community settings and private homes providing examples of fulfilling musical lives.


Life in Dubai for the Deaf like me.
I am planning to live and work in Dubai, as a professional polo player for my new startup charity for the deaf. Also, I deal with Art and music as well.
Most important is I am deaf since birth, and I would like to know if Dubai have any facilities for deaf people, such as hearing aids, batteries, awareness, etc.
Does anyone have any relative who is deaf and live in Dubai??
Does Dubai have anything better than being in the United Kingdom??
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HomeJokesThree trees & a woodpecker
Three trees & a woodpecker
Hicham Ouafi March 19, 2021
It is hard to find a joke today without a dirty word or two in it, but Here is one:
Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small Tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, 'Is That a son of a beech or a son of a birch?' The birch says he cannot Tell, but just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.
The birch says, 'Woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell if That is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?'
The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree and replies, 'It is Neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch. It is, however, the Best piece of ash I have ever poked my pecker into.
Now wipe that smile off your face. And pass it on…
Philippa April 2, 2021 at 7:02 AM
That's very funny


Economist Tyler Cowen is in Mexico, in San Agustin Oapan, a Nahua town on the Rio Balsas River valley in the State of Guerrero.
Thirty-five years ago the trip down to the main road involved an arduous climb and then descent, usually with burro, lasting six to eight hours. Ten years ago the trip down to the main road involved a slow four hour drive (but only 25 km) on a dirt road. Come February, when the paving of the road is finished, it will be a 70-minute drive to the nearest Wal-Mart.
And if you are thinking "Wal-Mart — how degrading" there's another side to modernization.
There was no rain this summer and hardly any corn was harvested. Forty years ago this would have meant starvation but now it is a mere fluctuation in real incomes. People buy more food from stores, albeit at higher expense. By the way, this is one reason why the Oapan corn farmers do not seem worried about the importation of U.S. corn under NAFTA.
Half the girls now wear jeans instead of dresses. I don't know about that.


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The "Nigels" would not approve!
Teaser for "Dead Stick Takeoff Flying Adventures" video - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tHXnQCE0kG0#)!
Right much like glacier ops... jes' without all the sticky snow that wants to complicate one's way.
Seems to have mislaid his tailwheel at one point - being able to lift the tail power against brakes obviously has its advantages if you break your aeroplane in that way!
Well indeed that is possible but you have to admit that this guy knows his airoplane well, knows what it can do and seems to be a better pilot then most of us.
I guess he is now retired and is enjoying life to the full and just loves flying for the fun of it.
We all have to go sometime and I truly hope that he doesn't die by crashing. But think of the alternatives, cancer, stroke, althimers, heart attack etc. Better to go quickly while having fun than some of those conditions.
The audio is a bit of a worry. Sounds like he accidentally spliced in the soundtrack from one of his "home groan" videos, where he had the camera hidden in the corner under a pile of jocks - an old trick.


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