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If you would want to build your ideal home here there are great possibilities of having awesome sea views.
This land is ideal for farming, tourism and with the correct approval from the local municipality there could even be the chance of a sub-division for holiday accommodation.
The Skaapkop river is to be found at the lower (northern) border of the farm . Top right there is already provision made for a good sized dam.


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A Night in a Dead Man's Hut
While spending the night in an unmanned settler's hut from 1903 (the original owner of which didn't return home one night after perishing in the surrounding forests) wasn't high on my to-do list for 2018, Riley and I somehow ended up on the dead man's doorstep.
With the darkness drawing in, we had been on the road all day, most of it off sealed roads (sorry to our little Toyota Corolla). Our chosen campsite wasn't looking good either – set in Namadgi National Park, we feared it would be a stretch too far down an unforgiving single track for our city vehicle. With the time we were making, the idea of setting up a tent in the dark appealed to neither me nor Riley. That was when Brayshaw's Hut appeared out of the trees, set rather innocently in a clearing, surrounded by kangaroos and a few inquisitive wallabies. We pulled up in the car, intending only to check it out briefly before continuing on our way – however, the allure of the little dwelling and its story (and weariness from travelling) would later cause us to stay.
Our only company.
The notice board revealed that the hut once belonged to a man named David Brayshaw. This was very interesting – let me tell you about Mr Brayshaw, who came to a tragic end not far from his hut. His pad was built for him in 1903, most likely by his brother Edward who was a fine carpenter, and made from materials sourced from the surrounding land. Its one of only two remaining timber slab and shingle buildings in the national park.
Brayshaw lived in this little two-room shack for 28 years, which was a lonely existence as he never married or raised a family. There was a shortage of women in the area back then compared to men so this was a common occurrence for blokes living in remote farming districts.
Poor old Brayshaw needn't have worried who was going to care for him in his old age however, as in August 1931 his life came to a tragic end at the age of 79. He was riding home from his brother's crib in a nearby village when something went wrong. Its unclear what prompted the incident, but Brayshaw never made it home that night and two days later his horse was found, minus its rider. Brayshaw wasn't far – his body was lying on the ground, feet still in stirrup irons, hat and whip strewn across the forest floor alongside him. The cause of death was labelled exposure to the harsh conditions, and now a pile of white rocks is all that marks his final resting place in the valley.
His home has been lived in since. After his death it was taken over by his nephew and his family and then kept by another family until 1973. Many structures have come and gone over the years and in 1993, it was restored to its 1930s design by the Kosciuszko Huts Association with ACT Parks and Conservation Service. Visitors can go and view inside the cabin and read about its past on site.
Old newspapers that had been used as wallpaper.
So now you know the background of the hut's owner and its history, let me tell you about our night spent in Hotel de la Brayshaw. Firstly, I took a lot of persuading. This, I'm sure, mainly comes from having watched way more horror films than Riley. I know what happens to the couple that go out into the woods, find a spooky cabin and decide to stay the night. They get murdered. Horribly. At the very least, there's bound to be spooky noises and unnatural goings on! Media aside, we were in the middle of nowhere and the hut was in no way secure. We couldn't lock the doors, it was very accessible from the outside, there was gaps in the planks that made up the floor, roof and walls and I was well aware there could be other hikers passing through that may stumble across the place and get the same idea as us.
All this wasn't made any easier to swallow due to the fact earlier in the day, we had picked up a hitchhiker named Bruno. Bruno, who I'm sure is a genuinely nice guy, had been hiking for 4 days by himself, with only a tiny flask of water for fluids that he was filling up in streams as he went, and he still had something like 6 days left to go until he reached his destination. A spontaneous effort he'd said after taking some time off work. He also mentioned casually while in the back of our car that he killed a snake with his machete and ate it the night before. Pretty metal dude, but it gave me food for thought. We're spending the night in a cabin where we can't lock the doors and there's people like Bruno wielding machetes and hiking the forests round about us. Great.
So understandably, I wasn't vibing the place but ever keen for a story and having a persuasive boyfriend, I was finally convinced to stay. We grabbed in the camp beds and set up in our sleeping bags in the room that was the main access point for both doors leading into the property, deciding the other room was not only creepier but less safe in that if someone came in during the night, we wouldn't know about it. Well I would because there was no way I was ever getting any sleep in that place, I decided.
Beds all set up 👍
As darkness finally came upon us, we brought in some firewood and made use of the old fireplace in the main room. Riley, super chuffed with his manly endeavours, managed to get quite a warm blaze lit with little resources (cue major boyfriend points and an impressed girlfriend). With the room feeling a little more comfortable and a warm glow lighting our evening, we sat down to a picnic dinner and toasted to Mr Brayshaw for letting us stop in his hut for the night. In my slightly superstitious head, I hoped this small thanks was enough. When we started to get tired, we pulled the camp beds together in the middle of the room (facing the doors on my request) and cosied down for the night. Riley fell asleep without too much trouble after spending majority of the evening reassuring me we were perfectly safe. Still, subconsciously I was doubtful and no amount of comforting words was going to convince my deeply-rooted anxiety that this situation was safe.
Riley getting the fire started.
Impressive or what?
Minutes ticked into an hour and I found myself slowly favouring keeping my eyes off the doors in the room as the fire died down and began casting odd shapes on the wooden planks surrounding us. I didn't want to give myself anymore excuses to stay awake and "keep watch" (the silly occupation my mind had assigned my body to) but every creak of wood or shuffle of kangaroo outside had me jolt awake again. As comforting as it was to have the presence of so much wildlife outside in the form of all the marsupials surrounding the hut, (that didn't seem too phased by our arrival), their coughs or odd noises sounded vaguely human, each one setting my heart and imagination racing until I had reassured myself this time.
I dozed off a few times to be woken by a gust of wind creaking through the hut or a roo outside and on one occasion a bird making an ungraceful landing in the rafters. I checked my phone, haven been woken by the eighth or ninth time, thinking surely the sun won't be long in rising, it must be nearly 6. But no. The screen read, rather disappointingly, 4:15am. Just as I put my phone back in my pocket, there was a rumble on the track where we'd left the car, a short walk from the cabin. I held my breath to listen. The rumble got louder, it sounded like a large vehicle, a big van perhaps as I couldn't imagine a truck making it down such a rocky dirt track. This is it, I thought, someone has come to murder us. I lay quiet, and watched the headlights light up the opposite wall.
The van engine didn't stop abruptly however like it would if it had stopped, instead the noise trailed off into the distance. Convinced it had passed but still not feeling entirely relaxed, I tried to get back to sleep for the last few hours of the night.
The full moon outside.
I couldn't have been more glad when the sun came up and drenched the hauntingly dark hut in daylight. We made it. We survived. I was glad we did it, it had been an exciting night, I remarked. Despite my nerves, the fear of being murdered didn't get the better of me and I managed at least a couple hours of sleep.
Then there was that familiar noise of tires on the track again. This time the engine didn't fade off into the distance. It stopped. I nudged Riley awake, deeming this a more suitable time to seek a second opinion on a noise I'd heard.
We both got up, minorly worried we were about to have company. Sure enough, our car wasn't the only one parked up on the verge any longer. It had been joined by a silver vehicle and a man was retrieving something from his back seat. We couldn't see very well, so retreated back into the hut and closed the door back over. Quickly packing up our things, I checked the mans whereabouts periodically through a gap between planks of wood. He had been joined by another figure and both were making their way briskly down the track towards the hut.
They stopped to read the tourist board several metres up the hill from the door, reassuring us a little that we weren't about to get murdered after all. Their next likely step however would be to unsuspectingly open the door to the hut to see inside, so rather than startle both parties, Riley opened the door and called out a casual "good morning!" to make our presence known. The couple looked surprised but returned the greeting none the less before asking a couple of directions and, more nervously, if we'd still be in the hut when they came back through the clearing. The answer to that was of course, no, we would not. As great an experience as sleeping over at Brayshaw's was, Riley and I were both keen to get back on the road and a proper bed for the night was calling us in Sydney.
I wouldn't rush to sleep in a dead settler's hut again but if it was our only option I wouldn't knock it, its been inhabited before after all and someone once called this place home. I just thank Mr Brayshaw for being so accommodating, wherever he is, and for not keeping us involuntarily awake all night!
View from outside the rear of the hut.
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The significant topic of The Seven-Point brain education is to make the freeing passage from constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the nice and cozy kinship with otherswhich happens with the cultivation of cherishing others much more than oneself.
In the same way, mind has an illuminative quality that can bring brilliant knowing. However, the mind of an ordinary person has no control over itself and is blown about by external factors therefore, its innate illumination does not come out very strongly. If the mind is protected from that distraction, the illuminative quality of the mind can come on very strongly and bring brilliant knowing. The way to make the mind without distraction is to train it so that it can abide steadily and calmly wherever it is put.
Any and all of them are useful. For any one person, whichever sense object is clear at any given time can be used for the practice. For some people, 66 K EY PO IN T S O F M IN D : SH AM AT H A sights are easiest, for some sounds, and so on. Use whichever of them you find is easiest. Say you are listening to sounds. You have a pain. You think to yourself, "I am listening to sounds. The pain is no good. I must not look at the pain. I must listen to sounds". " If that happens, you have not understood the key points of this type of meditation.
Through this kind of process, dualistic mind can be abandoned all together. To meditate using the visual forms as a support for meditation, it is good to place a small object, for example a flower, before you and look at that. W hen you look at the flower, the mind will initially stay with the flower then, after that, it will go off somewhere else. W hen it wanders away and you notice that it has wandered, look at the flower with your eyes and mind again. If you do that repeatedly, the mind will become more tranquil, it will be tamed, and the discursive thoughts and afflictions will be alleviated.


Belize NMS: Mainly fair and warm conditions will prevail.
24-hour forecast: Mostly sunny today and partly cloudy tonight. Showers or thunderstorms will be isolated except for a few more over the maya mountains this afternoon and over the south tonight.
General Outlook: A few showers will develop mostly over northern areas Thursday morning and inland Thursday afternoon becoming generally isolated Thursday night.
Today E-NE 5-15 kts Choppy 3-4 ft GENERALLY ISOLATED SHOWERS.
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Outlook E-SE 10-20 kts Choppy 3-5 ft GENERALLY ISOLATED SHOWERS.
Upper level cyclonic wind flow is moving across the area that is between 80W and 90W, including across Central America. Scattered to numerous strong rainshowers are in western Nicaragua, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean from 12N to 16N between 90W and 94W, mostly in the coastal waters from El Salvador toward the Isthmus of Tehuantepec of southern Mexico. Isolated moderate to locally strong rainshowers cover parts of northern Guatemala and the SE Yucatan Peninsula.
The monsoon trough is along 08N74W in northern Colombia, through Panama and southern Costa Rica, beyond 09N85W, into the eastern Pacific Ocean. isolated moderate rainshowers are in inland sections and the coastal waters of Panama.
Atlantic high pressure will maintain fresh to locally strong trade winds across the Caribbean Sea, south of 18N east of 80W, through the upcoming weekend, with highest seas of 9 feet off the northwest coast of Colombia. Large northeast swell will reach the tropical waters northeast of the Virgin Islands on Friday, and reach the northeast Atlantic Ocean Passages on Saturday, with seas then subsiding from the east on Sunday.
On Ambergris Caye this morning the sea is flat calm and sky clear. We have a breeze from the Southeast at 2 mph. The expected high today is 89 f.
There is very significant ITCZ activity around, a very large area up near Cuba, helped by high level cloud coming down from the north, others around but not near Belize at present. We had our hottest day of the year on Monday and hottest night last night, both significantly above the typical temperatures. This would tend to indicate we will be getting significant rains relatively soon, perhaps within the next 2 - 3 weeks or so. Chunky lines of Caribbean cloud coming up from the ESE, already building up along the Belize northern coast line. There is another small swellup just to the west of Toledo. Presently no rain on or near Belize.
Looks like today will be hot and humid, could be isolated rain, even thunder in parts this afternoon.
Not looking comfortable. The heat and cloud building in Guatamala as the Sun gets hotter there. It is already pushing out air in most directions, particular over Belize. So will be sending hot air our way.
Only a guess at this time, but looks as if today could be a hot day, even compared to yesterday.


Spine and Sport's licensed therapists are experts in treating a wide variety of patients, including those with musculoskeletal injuries, neurological disorders, sprains and strains, balance problems and other conditions. Their goal is to restore patients to the highest possible level of function, as quickly as possible with active care treatments and evidence-based medicine approaches.
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Aquatic therapy can be utilized in acute, post-surgical patients as a "stand alone" therapeutic intervention or as a compliment to land based treatment. The state of the art SwimEx therapeutic temperature controlled pool can provide variable resistant current. This variable resistance enables the rehabilitation of a wide variety of clinical populations from highly debilitated individuals to competitive athletes. Once the patient demonstrates stability they are progressed to appropriate functional restoration and/or home exercise programs.
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BackStrong is a variable angle roman chair device which can safely and progressively load the spine in order to increase strength and range of motion in low back pain patients. The BackStrong machine is a very practical and therapeutic device with broad application in the treatment of persistent back problems. The gradual progressive resistance allows a therapeutic exercise program for even the most tentative exercise candidate. The use of the BackStrong machines are innovative because they may be utilized complementary to existing low back pain intervention programs such as McKenzie therapy, spinal/pelvic stabilization exercises, spinal manipulation or computerized high/tech lumbar rehabilitation (MedX).
These computerized and highly advanced spinal rehabilitation protocols have the ability to specifically isolate the cervical and lumbar musculature. These measures objectively document the presence or absence of functional disability caused by soft tissue injury. This allows doctors to establish or rule out medical necessity for spinal rehabilitation and treatment. For the past 10 years, MedX equipment has been researched and utilized worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of patients. The results of this research have established MedX as the leader in spinal rehabilitation by reducing ratable factors of disability in approximately 81% of chronic spinal pathology patients.
The ELC is a standardized functional lifting evaluation that can determine at what level a subject can safely perform the functions of a job. Data obtained with the ELC can also demonstrate if a worker has any functional strength deficits that need to be addressed before returning to work. ELC testing information can be used for placement reference or reassignment of employees by matching there abilities of the Physical Demand Characteristics of Work. ELC testing will be performed by a certified technician (2.5 hours depending on job description).
The Multidimensional Task Ability Profile (MTAP) is a computeradministered patient reported outcome questionnaire. The MTAP identifies specific functional limitations and the general effect of functional limitations on a persons ability to work, provide self-care in activities of daily living (ADLs), and participate in other home and community activities. Patient reported outcome measures are recommended by the American Medical Association, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine guidelines, and mandated by Medicare. The MTAP assesses a wide range of activities of daily living, from self care to cooking, and light housekeeping to heavy home maintenance, lawn and garden tasks.
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Nicolas Aubert, Head of Great Britain for Willis Towers Watson, took office as the new President of the Insurance Institute of London (IIL) for 2018-19 at the AGM on Monday 24 September.
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Helical piers, large diameter piles, and micropiles are installed with a drive head mounted on a machine. Backhoes, skid-steer loaders, and other excavators can be rigged with an appropriate drive string assembly to install piles and anchors.
The drive head selected must be compatible with the hydraulic flow (gallons per minute) of the machine on which it is mounted. Larger diameter piles require more torque, while most helicals can be installed with small, low-impact equipment and smaller drive heads.
Danbro has 22 years of experience in creating drive-string assemblies to install helical piers. We assist new and existing installers in selecting the drive tools, torque indicator, and drive head that will best comport with your machine and the nature of your construction business. Virtually any hydraulic equipment can be adapted to install helical piles. Not only will we help you select the correct component parts to best suit your needs, we will join you in the field to assemble and test them.
Featuring precision planetary gears and bearings in an oil-filled, sealed gear case with durable, heavy duty output housing and bearings, foundation drive heads are vehicle-mounted and hydraulic-powered with available torque ratings of 6,000 or 11,500 ft lbs. They are suited for vertical installations of foundations, screw-type anchors, and bumper posts. The dual-pin mounting provides drive head positioning for controlled installations and a bail flange, mounted to gear case housing, provides balanced load-sharing torque restraint. Our drive heads accept earth augers for hole digging; hose assemblies are available. A 3/4″ diameter hose is recommended for hydraulic flow of more than 20 gallons per minute; for flow rates of 20 gallons per minute or less, a half-inch hose may be used. Swivel joint and swivel joint adapters are furnished. Thread size is 1″- 11 1/2″ National Pipe Straight Mechanical.


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A redacted version of the Mueller report was released Thursday. Our reporters are digging through the findings of the 22-month investigation into possible collusion and obstruction of justice.
Thanks for joining us. That wraps up our live coverage for the day. Please see our updated main stories below.
President Trump persistently tried to curtail or shut down the special counsel's investigation, according to Robert Mueller's report, which also gave a detailed account of Russia's election interference and its efforts to communicate with the Trump campaign.
Now that the Mueller report has been released, Democrats are grappling with the politically risky decision of what to do next: Use it to campaign against President Trump's re-election bid or try to impeach him first.
President Trump has often said he wanted an attorney general who would protect him. Two months into the job, critics say that William Barr is emerging as that man.
After almost two years of investigation, political psychodrama, public name-calling and private intrigue, it should come as no surprise that special counsel Robert Mueller's report left almost nobody completely happy.
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday drew criticism from the Democratic chairmen of six House committees for his characterization of why special counsel Robert Mueller had opted not to render a verdict on whether the president obstructed justice.
Mr. Barr said Thursday morning that Mr. Mueller told him that his decision not to charge Mr. Trump for obstruction was not solely based on Office of Legal Counsel guidelines that a sitting president can't be indicted.
"He was not saying that but for the Office of Legal Counsel opinion he would have found a crime; he made it clear that he had not made the determination that there was a crime," Mr. Barr told reporters.
Mr. Mueller in his report is more nuanced. In describing the factors that guided the obstruction investigation, Mr. Mueller first cites the Office of Legal Counsel opinion on indicting sitting presidents and adds that aside from the office's constitutional view, "we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President's capacity to govern."
Mr. Mueller then cites three other points: The first, that investigators conducted a "thorough factual investigation in order to preserve evidence," noting that the OLC opinion does not give a president immunity after he leaves office; the second, that "fairness concerns" led investigators not to "apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the president committed crimes" and the third, that investigators could not conclude that the president had not committed any criminal conduct.
In other words, Mr. Mueller didn't determine whether the president committed a crime because of the way he opted to approach the investigation—in which the Office of Legal Counsel opinion was a factor.
The Democratic chairmen in their statement said Mr. Barr's assertion was in "direct contradiction" to Mr. Mueller's report.
"The Special Counsel stated that fairness concerns counseled against potentially reaching that judgment of criminal conduct when no charges can be brought,'" they wrote. "Nor do we believe it was the Attorney General's place to make such a judgment, either, and it is now apparent that the Special Counsel expressed no desire to have Barr make that decision himself."
Attorney General William Barr will give a dozen senior lawmakers a look at a less-redacted version of the special counsel report starting next week, he said in a letter to members of Congress on Thursday.
Mr. Barr will enable the House and Senate leaders of both parties as well as top Republican and Democrat on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees in both chambers of Congress to view a more comprehensive version of the report than the one made public Thursday, he told lawmakers. Those select members of Congress can also designate a staff member for access to the report.
Those lawmakers will review the report at the Justice Department in a special reading room next week during business hours, or on Capitol Hill the week of April 29, Mr. Barr said.
The department will allow the lawmakers and their staffs to take notes, but have asked that Justice Department retain possession of the notes. They have also asked lawmakers and members to keep what they see confidential.
Mr. Barr said that he will make as much information available to these members of Congress as possible, but stressed he cannot share grand jury information. Lawmakers will be able to see the material that was redacted from the public version for reasons of classification, personal privacy and to protect ongoing investigations.
Members of Congress have demanded access to the full report. House Democrats authorized subpoenas for the report, but have not yet issued them. They have also asked Mr. Barr to get a federal judge to approve the sharing of grand jury information with Congress. Typically such information cannot be shared without the permission of the court.
After Trump's victory in presidential elections in 2016, Russian government officials and prominent businessmen in Moscow scrambled to find out whom to contact in Washington -- but apparently didn't know anyone in the Trump campaign, the Mueller report said.
"They appeared not to have preexisting contacts and struggled to connect with senior officials around the President- Elect," the report said.
The frenzied reach for contacts began on election night, when Vladimir Putin himself failed to get through to Trump to offer his congratulations, the report said.
At 3 a.m. on election night, Trump campaign secretary Hope Hicks got a call on her cell phone and on the other end,was a voice that sounded foreign and she had difficulty understanding - but "she could make out the words 'Putin call'," the report said.
Ms. Hicks told the caller to send her an email. The next morning one arrived in her Gmail account with the subject line "Message from Putin," the report said.
"Attached to the email was a message from Putin, in both English and Russian," the report said, in which an embassy employee conveyed a message from Mr. Putin to congratulate the president-elect.
Ms. Hicks suspected the email was a joke, and forwarded it to Jared Kushner asking, "Can you look into this? Don't want to get duped but don't want to blow off Putin!"
Mr. Kushner said in congressional testimony that he wanted to verify its authenticity, but couldn't remember the name of the Russian ambassador. Five days later Messrs. Trump and Putin spoke by phone, in the presence of Trump's transition team.
The paucity of contacts between the Russian elite and the Trump campaign were apparently another reason for the flurry of attempted meeting between the Russians and Mr. Trump's entourage after the election.
the difficulty faced by the Russian government in getting in touch with the incoming Trump Administration, the report said.
"According to Aven, Putin indicated that he did not know with whom formally to speak and generally did not know the people around the President-Elect," the report said.
President Trump weighed in Thursday afternoon for the first time on the report's details of his efforts to curtail the Mueller investigation.
"I had the right to end the whole Witch Hunt if I wanted. I could have fired everyone, including Mueller, if I wanted," he tweeted on his way from Washington to Florida, where he is spending a long weekend. "I chose not to. I had the RIGHT to use Executive Privilege. I didn't!"
Attorney General William Barr said earlier Thursday that the White House counsel's office had reviewed the redacted report for executive privilege, but that the president opted not to exert it.
Traveling with the president to his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, is White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
The Mueller report details extensive efforts by Mr. Trump to influence the course of the investigation, including unsuccessfully directing his White House counsel to seek Mr. Mueller's dismissal and pressuring then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to publicly criticize the probe.
In the report, Mr. Mueller and his team explicitly rejected a legal theory advanced by Attorney General William Barr in a legal memo he wrote while still in the private sector that cast a shadow over his confirmation hearings.
In a June 2018 memo, Mr. Barr argued that a president's exercise of his lawful authority can never amount to obstruction of justice.
"The constitution itself places no limit on the president's authority to act on matters which concern him or his own conduct," Mr. Barr argued in his memo.
Mr. Barr argued in the memo that a president can be accused of obstructing justice under the relevant legal provision if he destroyed evidence or encouraged a witness to lie, for example.
But it cannot be a crime simply for a president to do something he is lawfully allowed to do, Mr. Barr argued. In the context of the special counsel investigation, Mr. Barr was arguing that Mr. Trump's dismissal of his FBI director could not be obstruction, because it was a valid exercise of the president's power.
Not so, argued Mr. Mueller. The special counsel's team did not conclude that Mr. Trump obstructed justice in firing FBI director James Comey. But they did reject Mr. Barr's expansive view of presidential power in their own legal analysis.
"We were not persuaded by the arguments that the president has blanket constitutional immunity to engage in acts that would corruptly obstruct justice through the exercise of otherwise-valid Article II powers," the special counsel wrote, referring to the section of the constitution laying out the president's powers.
"A general ban on corrupt action does not unduly intrude on the president's responsibility," the special counsel report argues. Congress can write laws that constrain some of the president's actions to avoid the appearance of corruption, argued the report.
Mr. Barr's memo was a major controversy during his Senate confirmation to be attorney general — with many Democrats voting against him over his robust view of executive power and citing concerns about the memo.
At the end of the day, neither man's legal position has been considered by a judge. And with no charges being brought against Mr. Trump on the question of obstruction, its unlikely the matter will be tested in court any time soon.
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Instead, by clearing President Trump legally while also declaring he couldn't exonerate him fully, Mr. Mueller has merely ensured that the argument over what Team Trump did and didn't do will move out of the legal forum and into the political arena. There, it is certain to continue in Congress—and ultimately figures to be settled by voters in the 2020 presidential campaign.
President Trump didn't answer questions from reporters as he left Washington for a long Easter weekend in Florida.
Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukrainian-born aide to Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort who the FBI says has ties to Russian intelligence, remains an outstanding riddle in the Mueller report, as he has been since the beginning of the investigation into Russian meddling.
Mr. Kilimnik, whom Mr. Mueller's prosecutors have indicted on obstruction of justice charges, remains outside the reach of investigators and lives in Moscow.
The Mueller report did not say definitively that Mr. Kilimnik ever worked for Russian intelligence, but noted several facts supported the notion. Among them was information that he had worked for seven years as a translator in the Russian military, that he had worked later in the armaments industry, and that he had traveled once in 1997 to the U.S. on a diplomatic passport.
Mr. Manafort told investigators that his interactions with Mr. Kilimnik were innocuous, but the report notes that Mr. Manafort lied to a grand jury about some of them, and "his unreliability on this subject was among the reasons" that a district judge found that he breached a cooperation agreement with prosecutors.
The report says that Mr. Kilimnik communicated several times with Mr. Manafort during the presidential campaign and after Trump was elected president. During the campaign, Mr. Manafort told investigators that he purveyed polling data to Mr. Kilimnik, with the expectation that he would then give it to people in Ukraine and to a former client in Russia, oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Mr. Manafort implied to colleagues that sharing the data might be good for his business in Ukraine, and told investigators he wanted to share data with Mr. Deripaska to resolve an outstanding lawsuit between them.
Investigators were not sure whether to believe Mr. Manafort.
"Because of questions about Manafort's credibility and our limited ability to gather evidence on what happened to the polling data after it was sent to Kilimnik, the Office could not assess what Kilimnik (or others he may have given it to) did with it," the report said.
A Trump social media account posted about an IRA event in Miami.
Russian operatives groomed and tracked Americans on social media, and also closely monitored the Trump campaign's responses to the fake content they seeded and promoted online, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's report released Thursday.
The report provides fresh details about the Russian strategy to influence the U.S. election through misinformation posted on social media, as well as new examples showing the extent of that effort. In one instance, Russians used social media to recruit an American to walk through New York City wearing a Santa Claus suit and a Donald Trump mask, the report says.
The Russians also succeeded in getting a number of officials closely associated with the Trump campaign to promote their messages -- via retweets or responses -- including Donald Trump Jr., then-digital-media director Brad Parscale and conservative commentator Sean Hannity. There is no evidence they knew the social media they were interacting with was being produced by Russia.
The report says Kremlin-aligned propaganda shop Internet Research Agency reached out to the Trump campaign, starting in June 2016, to coordinate pro-Trump rallies. They claimed to be U.S. political activists, and requested signs for rallies. Trump campaign volunteers agreed to provide the requested support. The report hasn't identified evidence that any campaign officials understood the requests came from foreign nationals.
The report says IRA employees also monitored the reaction of the Trump campaign and, later, Trump administration officials to their tweets. On Aug. 23, 2016, for example, an IRA account on Facebook sent a message, noting that Mr. Trump had posted about an IRA event in Miami. "This is great!" the message said.
The section of the Mueller report devoted to social media is among the more heavily redacted portions of the nearly 400-page document.
It says Russia's efforts to influence the U.S. election started on social media as early as 2014, as directed by the IRA. The IRA ran social-media accounts posing as U.S. groups and citizens, and instructed its employees to target Americans who could be used to advance its goals, the report says.
The report describes a strategy that attempted to glean information about the American public and political players. Previous disclosures about the Russian influence campaign have focused instead on the effort's attempts to sow information, rather than collect it. The report also suggests the Russians may have intended to groom Americans for more aggressive future participation.
Mr. Mueller's office identified dozens of U.S. rallies organized by the IRA, beginning with a "confederate rally" in November 2015. The rallies the IRA organized continued even after the 2016 presidential election.
"Putin has won." That was the message sent to Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of Russia's sovereign wealth fund who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Nov. 9, 2016, as news had spread that Donald Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton to win the White House, according to the Mueller report.
The identity of the sender is redacted to protect sources and methods of intelligence collection.
Mr. Dmitriev is one of several Russians named in the report who had contacts with the Trump campaign or its associates. He is described as focusing on trying to repair U.S.-Russia relations after the election.
Donald Trump Jr., perhaps more so than any other member of the president's orbit, was the subject of constant rumors about his imminent indictment. In his report, Mr. Mueller lays out why he decided not to prosecute the president's eldest son, who was involved in several episodes the investigation probed.
The report reveals that Mr. Trump Jr. declined to be interviewed by the special counsel, unlike several other associates of the president—including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met twice with investigators.
Mr. Mueller said he decided not to pursue criminal campaign-finance charges against Mr. Trump Jr. or other members of the campaign related to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin, because he believed it would be difficult to prove both that the campaign officials knew their conduct was unlawful and that the value of the information promised to the campaign in the meeting exceeded the $2,000 threshold for a criminal violation.
Mr. Trump Jr. arranged the Trump Tower meeting after being told that the Russian government wanted to pass on information damaging to Democrat Hillary Clinton that had been collected as part of the country's effort to bolster the Trump campaign. No such information was presented in the meeting, according to participants.
Investigators did not finding evidence that the meeting's participants—who also included Mr. Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort—were familiar with laws banning foreign contributions to a campaign. Mr. Mueller also said the government did not have "strong evidence of surreptitious behavior or efforts at concealment at the time of the June 9 meeting."
Mr. Mueller also said the first amendment could restrict a prosecution on such charges, although much of that section is redacted, citing "harm to ongoing matter."
"The Report confirms that the June 9, 2016 meeting was just what Don said it was, and nothing more, and that there was nothing improper about potentially listening to information," said Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Mr. Trump Jr.
The report is also redacted for grand-jury material in a section about Trump associates' response to news reports about the Trump Tower meeting. "On July 12, 2017, the Special Counsel's Office ... Trump Jr. ... related to the June 9 meeting and those who attended the June 9 meeting," the report reads. It's not clear what whose grand-jury testimony that redaction is referencing.
The special counsel's report, in revisiting the relationship between President Trump and then-FBI Director James Comey, ultimately finds Mr. Comey to be the more credible of the two men.
It was Mr. Trump's firing of Mr. Comey in May 2017 that triggered the appointment of Robert Mueller and launched an investigation that ran almost two years.
Mr. Trump's schedule corroborates Mr. Comey's well-known account of his January 2017 dinner with Mr. Trump, for example, the report said.
After Mr. Comey's version of the dinner became public, Mr. Trump disputed that he had asked for any loyalty and told NBC that he thought Mr. Comey "had asked for the dinner" and "wanted to stay on."
But the president's daily schedule confirmed that Mr. Trump himself extended the dinner invitation to Mr. Comey, the report said.
The memos Mr. Comey wrote about his interactions with Mr. Trump also outlined three instances in which Mr. Comey told Mr. Trump the FBI wasn't investigating Mr. Trump personally, which the president confirmed to others, the report said.
"Substantial evidence corroborates Comey's account," the report said.
Other administration officials confirmed Mr. Comey's account of another meeting between Messrs. Trump and Comey in which Mr. Comey alleged that the president shooed his other advisers out of the room, the report noted.
In a previously unknown episode involving Mr. Comey, on the day after Mr. Trump's former national security adviser Mike Flynn resigned in February 2017, the president asked former New Jersey governor Chris Christie to call Mr. Comey and tell him he was "part of the team." Mr. Christie thought the request was "nonsensical," the report said, and he thought that it would be uncomfortable to pass on the message, according to the report.
After Mr. Comey's firing became public, the White House asked the Justice Department to put out a statement saying that Mr. Comey's firing had been the idea of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the report said. But Mr. Rosenstein said he would not participate in putting out a "false story," the report said.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders then told reporters that "countless members of the FBI" had indicated they did not support Mr. Comey, and that Mr. Rosenstein decided "on his own" to review Mr. Comey's performance. Ms. Sanders then told Mr. Mueller's team that the comment about FBI agents was a "slip of the tongue" and "not founded on anything," according to the report.
The two-volume report weighs in at 448 pages, or 138 megabytes on disk.
It is about 16,500 lines long, including footnotes. About 2,050 lines—12.4% of the report—are blacked out.
1,260 lines, or 61% of all redacted lines, are redacted for the reason "Harm to ongoing matter"
500 lines, or 24% of all redacted lines, are redacted for the reason "Grand Jury Material"
170 lines, or 7% of all redacted lines, are redacted for the reason "Investigative technique"
130 lines, or 6% of all redacted lines, are redacted for the reason "Personal privacy"
Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to President Trump, called Thursday "the best day since he got elected" following the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report.
"When I needed to find negative information about Hillary Clinton I looked no further than Hillary Clinton," she said.
She added that "never once" did Mr. Trump express those kind of feelings to her, either during the campaign or his presidency.
Ms. Conway repeatedly referenced Democrats who have vowed to continue their probe into Mr. Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct justice, and said that "the burden is increasingly on those" who wish to dig into these allegations.
Earlier in the day, Vice President Mike Pence said that the American people have the right to know if the origins of the special counsel's investigation were "in keeping with long-standing Justice Department standards — or even lawful at all."
Mr. Pence said that the report confirms "there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and there was no obstruction of justice."
"We must never allow our justice system to be exploited in pursuit of a political agenda," he said, and warned that many Democrats will now cling to "discredited allegations."
Robert Mueller's report offers the most comprehensive accounting yet of Moscow's expansive operation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, which included hacking and releasing embarrassing Democratic emails and weaponizing social media to inflame political and social divisions and boost then-candidate Donald Trump's presidential bid.
But it also reveals some of the forensic challenges encountered by investigators, and suggests some questions about the Russian operation and that WikiLeaks' exact role in releasing emails may never be fully known.
The Mueller report acknowledges publicly that investigators encountered hurdles trying to obtain communications between the GRU, the Russian military unit behind the pilfering of Democratic emails, and WikiLeaks, which received those emails and dumped them online during the lead-up to the 2016 election.
The second half of the following sentence is redacted: "Thus although it is clear that the stolen (Democratic National Committee) and (John) Podesta documents were transferred from the GRU to WikiLeaks ..."
That redaction, which the report says was made to protect an investigative technique, leaves it unclear what questions investigators may have not been able to answer due to their limited ability to view the communications.
The special counsel's Russia report offers new glimpses into the strained tenure of Mr. Trump's first attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Mr. Trump was openly and privately critical of Mr. Sessions almost as soon as he was sworn in, making the decision early in his tenure to recuse himself from the Russia investigation due to his own close ties to the Trump campaign.
Mr. Trump more than once confronted the attorney general himself to pressure him to "unrecuse" and regain control of the investigation, the report says. In one such encounter in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump told the attorney general he would be a "hero" if he took back oversight of the probe."I'm not going to do anything or direct you to do anything," Mr. Trump said, according to the report. "I just want to be treated fairly."
But Mr. Sessions did not unrecuse, and Mr. Trump repeatedly lamented not having an attorney general who would protect him, the way he believed former attorneys general Robert Kennedy and Eric Holder had shielded the presidents who appointed them.
"The President made statements about being able to direct the course of criminal investigations, saying words to the effect of, "You're telling me that Bobby and Jack didn't talk about investigations? Or Obama didn't tell Eric Holder who to investigate?"
The report says the they apparently became so taxing on the attorney general that he prepared another resignation letter and for the rest of the year carried it with him in his pocket every time he went to the White House. He was ultimately pushed out in November 2018.
Special counsel Robert Mueller sought for more than a year, starting in December 2017, to interview President Trump for the investigation, according to the report.
Nearly a year later, in November 2018, the president submitted written responses in which he on more than 30 occasions said he "does not 'recall' or 'remember' or have an 'independent recollection,' " the report details. The next month, Mr. Mueller told the president's lawyers the written answers were insufficient and again requested an in-person interview. Mr. Trump declined.
The special counsel's office considered whether to issue a subpoena for his testimony, Mr. Mueller wrote. "But at that point, our investigation had made significant progress and had produced substantial evidence for our report," he said. "We determined that the substantial quantity of information we had obtained from other sources allowed us to draw relevant factual conclusions on intent and credibility."
Mr. Trump's answers to the special counsel's questions were broad and mostly brief, the report shows. Asked about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin, Mr. Trump said he did not recall learning during the campaign that the meeting had taken place and that he had "no recollection" of being told during the campaign that a foreign government had provided or wanted to provide help to his campaign. "I was aware of some reports indicating that President Putin had made complimentary statements about me," Mr. Trump wrote in his responses.
Mr. Trump also said he did not recall being told that Roger Stone had discussions with WikiLeaks about the release of emails stolen from Democratic servers, and said he had "no recollection of the specifics" of any conversation he had with Mr. Stone between June and November of 2016.
In all, Mr. Trump submitted less than 2,500 words in answer to Mr. Mueller's more than 60 questions. In a letter Mr. Trump's lawyers sent to the special counsel along with the president's answers in November—which was not included in the report but was released by the president's legal team on Thursday—the lawyers criticized Mr. Mueller's questions as "vague and ambiguous," with some being "overbroad" and others "duplicative and confusing."
The special counsel found that President Trump engaged in "multiple acts" that could have exerted influence on law enforcement investigations, but that his efforts were "mostly unsuccessful" because his subordinates refused to carry out his orders.
The special counsel's office noted FBI director James Comey's refusal to end an investigation into national security adviser Mike Flynn and White House counsel Don McGahn's refusal to order the Justice Department to fire the special counsel.
They also document an incident where Mr. Trump asked his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was not in government, to carry a message to Attorney General Jeff Sessions telling him to limit the jurisdiction of the special counsel.
"The president's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests," the special counsel found.
President Trump asked a top White House official to write a letter attesting that he had not directed former national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact the Russian ambassador, the special counsel's report said, despite the official's lack of firsthand knowledge about the events the president asked her to describe.
Mr. Trump asked his then-deputy national security adviser K. T. McFarland to attest in a letter that he had not directed Mr. Flynn to make contact with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Mr. Flynn served for less than a month as Mr. Trump's national security adviser before being forced to resign for lying to administration officials about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
Ms. McFarland was asked to write the letter after she was fired from her White House job shortly after Mr. Flynn's resignation. But she was also was told told by White House officials she would be offered an ambassadorship to Singapore, the report says. At the same time, the president asked then-White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to have Ms. McFarland write the letter.
"McFarland told Priebus she did not know whether the president had directed Flynn to talk to Kislyak," the report says. After telling Mr. Priebus she was not comfortable with writing such a statement, she was advised to talk to White House lawyers.
A White House lawyer advised Ms. McFarland not to write the letter—concerned that the president's request could be interpreted as a quid-pro-quo for her ambassadorship. She never wrote the letter and Mr. Priebus told her to forget about it, the report says.
Ms. McFarland was nominated to be ambassador to Singapore but never confirmed by the Senate. She withdrew from consideration last year after her nomination was held up in the Senate by Democrats. They had been demanding that she answer questions about her interactions with Mr. Flynn.
"The evidence does not establish that the president was trying to have McFarland lie," the special counsel report concludes. "The president's request, however, was sufficiently irregular that McFarland—who did not know about the full extent of Flynn's communications with the president and thus could not make the representation that the president wanted—felt the need to draft an internal memorandum documenting the president's request."
The special counsel's report reveals new details about President Trump's conversations with his former lawyer Michael Cohen during the 2016 campaign about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, which Mr. Cohen told prosecutors were far more extensive than the president has publicly indicated.
Mr. Cohen—who last year pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 when he said the project negotiations had ended in January 2016, before the Iowa caucuses—told prosecutors that Mr. Trump asked him in March or April 2016 "if anything was happening in Russia," according to the report. Mr. Cohen also recalled briefing Donald Trump Jr. that spring.
Mr. Cohen also told prosecutors that Mr. Trump said he would be willing to travel to Russia during the campaign if Mr. Cohen could "lock and load" on the deal. Mr. Trump didn't ultimately travel to Russia. That summer, Mr. Trump publicly proclaimed he had "nothing to do" with Russia and, Mr. Cohen told prosecutors, "shortly afterwards privately checked with Cohen" about the status of the Moscow project.
Mr. Cohen also told prosecutors that after the election, he developed together with Mr. Trump talking points to "dismiss the idea of a substantial connection between Trump and Russia." Mr. Cohen said those talking points included his assertion to a New York Times reporter in early 2017 that the Moscow project negotiations had ended in January 2016.
"Cohen said that he discussed the talking points with Trump but that he did not explicitly tell Trump he thought they were untrue because Trump already knew they were untrue," the report says.
The report also details conversations between Mr. Cohen and lawyers for the president ahead of his 2017 congressional testimony, a time when Mr. Cohen was part of a joint defense agreement with the president. The statement Mr. Cohen prepared contained multiple falsehoods, including that Mr. Cohen had never received a response from the Kremlin to his outreach regarding the proposal.
Early drafts of that statement included a sentence that said: "The building project led me to make limited contacts with Russian government officials." That line was deleted in the final version, a decision that Mr. Cohen was told was made in accordance with the joint defense agreement. Mr. Cohen did not push back.
Mr. Cohen also told the special counsel that he discussed with the president's lawyers that there "were more communications with Russia and more communications with candidate Trump than the statement reflected." The president's lawyer, who is not named, told Mr. Cohen to keep his statement "tight" and that it wasn't necessary to include those details because the project didn't progress. Mr. Mueller said he sought to interview the president's lawyer about those conversations, but that the lawyer declined, citing privilege concerns.
Mr. Mueller's report also examined the president's public statements about Mr. Cohen and how they shifted from praising his then-lawyer to attacking him after Mr. Cohen publicly broke with the president. "The evidence concerning this sequence of events could support an inference that the President used inducements in the form of positive messages in an effort to get Cohen not to cooperate, and then turned to attacks and intimidation to deter the provision of information or undermine Cohen's credibility once Cohen began cooperating," Mr. Mueller wrote.
For months, House Democratic leaders have hoped to avoid a conversation about impeachment proceedings against President Trump, viewing the topic as a political loser.
Now, that conversation is starting to look inevitable.
The coming debate, in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) are the central participants, will turn on themes of abuse-of-power and behavior incompatible with the presidency, all of which Democrats have pursued for months in various committees but not at a national level.
In the report, special counsel Mueller concluded that "Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice."
"The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law," the report states.
"It's now up to the House to decide whether they think that what they read in the Mueller report rises to the level of impeachment," said Harold Koh, a professor at Yale Law School. "Criminal law is about crimes against the state or crimes against the people. Impeachment is about crimes against the constitutional system. One branch of government is not suppose to obstruct the operation of other branches of government," he said, adding that the House "might have enough to persuade a majority of the House that what they did amounted to a crime against the Constitution."
House Democratic leaders haven't wanted to go there, and spent Thursday focused on their next move: asking Mr. Mueller to testify next month before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Mrs. Pelosi has already set a high bar for pursuing impeachment, saying that the process is so divisive that it should only be pursued if evidence is overwhelming, and then on a bipartisan basis.
But cracks in that strategy are showing. On Wednesday night, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) telegraphed where the conversation was headed.
"I'm not for impeachment just to be impeaching, but if there is something there in this report that is immoral or unethical, I think we ought to take a hard look at that," Mr. Clyburn said on CNN.
The three categories of conduct that constitute grounds for impeachment are abusing the power of office, behavior incompatible with the function and purpose of the office, and misusing the office for personal gain, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Since the Democrats took control of the House in January, committees have launched investigations that they believe touch on such matters -- into Mr. Trump's finances, businesses, relationships with foreign states, White House security clearances and other avenues.
In July 2017, President Trump sought to prevent disclosure that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had arranged a meeting during the 2016 campaign after being promised information that would be damaging to Democrat Hillary Clinton that he was told had been gathered by the Russian government, according to the special counsel's report.
Ms. Hicks later in the flight again urged the president to be "fully transparent" about the meeting, convinced the emails about it would leak. Mr. Trump told her: "You've given a statement. We're done," according to the report.
Days later, Donald Trump Jr. posted redacted images of his emails setting up the meeting, after being told the Times was planning to publish the emails, according to the report. Mr. Trump's lawyer "repeatedly and inaccurately" denied that the president had been involved in drafting the statement, the report said.
The interactions over the Trump tower meeting were one of 10 episodes the special counsel investigated while probing any obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump. He and his investigators didn't ultimately reach a conclusion, noting that they didn't exonerate Mr. Trump but that they deferred on a judgment out of "fairness concerns" given that they didn't believe it possible to bring criminal charges. Attorney General William Barr and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein reached their own conclusion that Mr. Trump's conduct didn't meet the legal bar for a crime.
One of those people was Barbara Ledeen, a longtime Senate staffer who worked for Sen. Chuck Grassley, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Another was Peter Smith, a veteran GOP donor and political operative based in Illinois.
The Wall Street Journal has reported extensively on Mr. Smith's campaign to find Mrs. Clinton's emails. He was found dead in May 2017 at 81. His death was ruled a suicide.
The Judiciary Committee, under Mr. Grassley's leadership, was one of several panels on Capitol Hill probing Mrs. Clinton's email arrangement. But Ms.Ledeen's efforts were not part of any congressional investigation effort and were undertaken on personal time, said a spokesman for Mr. Grassley, the former Judiciary Committee chairman, on Thursday.
While she was Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton deleted roughly 33,000 emails from her personal server which her lawyers deemed personal. Many Republicans believe that those emails were improperly deleted and should have been disclosed to the public.
Mr. Smith and Ms. Ledeen had been in touch about collaborating as early as 2015 on a project to find Mrs. Clinton's emails — before Mr. Trump asked his associates to find them. They decided against working together, but continued on parallel efforts to find the deleted emails that lasted well into 2016.
Ms. Ledeen at one point obtained a cache of emails from the "dark web" that were purportedly from Mrs. Clinton's server. With the assistance of Erik Prince, a defense contractor and Trump supporter, it was determined that they were not authentic.
Mr. Smith kept at least one Trump campaign figure apprised of his efforts. He sent an email to Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis about his efforts, claiming to be meeting in D.C. with groups that could assist on his email question. In other emails, he claimed to be in touch with hackers.
"The investigation did not establish that Smith was in contact with Russian hackers or that Smith, Ledeen or other individuals in touch with the Trump campaign ultimately obtained the deleted Clinton emails," the special counsel concluded.


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W 1954 roku RCA po raz pierwszy używał taśmy magnetycznej 3M do nagrywania programów telewizyjnych, a w 1962 roku siedziba firmy 3M została przeniesiona do Maplewood.

W 1978 roku niebieskie logo firmy zostało zastąpione na te w kolorze czerwonym i przybrał nazwę 3M Red.

W 1990 roku zaprezentowano komputerowe filtry prywatności, które pozwalały na ochronę danych wyświetlanych na monitorach, natomiast w 2004 roku firma osiągnęła 20 miliardów dolarów ze sprzedaży swoich produktów, a w 2013 – 30 miliardów dolarów.

W 2016 roku w głównej siedzibie 3M zostało otwarte nowe laboratorium badawczo-rozwojowe.

3M w Polsce
Spółka 3M Poland powstała w 1991 r. Jej siedziba w Kajetanach wybudowana została w 1997 r. Przedsiębiorstwo ma w Polsce 6 zakładów produkcyjnych – we Wrocławiu, Janinowie i Rabce oraz centrum dystrybucyjne w Dąbrowie Górniczej. Ponadto we Wrocławiu działa centrum usług wspólnych, centrum badawczo-rozwojowe, centrum innowacji i centrum szkoleniowe. W 2021 r. 3M zatrudniała w Polsce 4,2 tys. pracowników, a łączne inwestycje spółki wyniosły 2,5 mld zł.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona internetowa 3M Global
 Oficjalna strona internetowa 3M Polska

Przedsiębiorstwa z siedzibą w Minnesocie
Przedsiębiorstwa chemiczne
Spółki notowane na NYSE

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Some more shows in the city - Rameshwar Singh at Crimson Art Resource & Manju Hassan at 1 Shanti Road.
Incidentally, the latter ends on 25th this week and I must catch it before that as the images Manju sent have piqued my interest! I have to say I am a little surprised at the venue - a paintings exhibition at Suresh Jayaram's place - that's a rare phenomenon!!! Those of you who are familiar with 1 Shanthi Road will know that it is 'the place' for experimental art and a wonderful space that nurtures alternative art practices.


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Home > Fitness Testing > Tests > Aerobic Endurance > PACER Test
PACER Fitness Test
The Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) test is a variation of the Beep Test, and is part of the FitnessGram and Brockport test batteries. It is a maximal aerobic fitness test, where the participants runs 15m or 20m shuttles at increasing speeds. The speeds and levels of the 20m PACER test is based on the original details of the shuttle run test developed by Leger et al. (1988).
equipment required: Flat non-slip surface, marking cones, up to 20m measuring tape, PACER test cd, cd player, recording sheets.
pre-test: Explain the test procedures to the subject. Perform screening of health risks and obtain informed consent. Prepare forms and record basic information such as age, height, body weight, gender and test conditions (indoors/outdoors, weather, running surface). Measure and mark out the course. Perform a standard warm-up. See more details of pre-test procedures.
procedure: There are two variations of this test, with the lines placed either 15 or 20 meters apart. The 15 m test distance is used for the 2nd and 3rd grade students or when there are space limitations. The test involves continuous running between the two lines in time to recorded beeps. The initial speed is 8.5km/hr, which increases by 0.5km/hr each level (approximately every minute). The time between recorded beeps decrease each minute (level) requiring an increase in pace. The subjects continue until they are unable to keep pace with the beeps. (see details of PACER test levels ad speeds).
scoring: The score is the level and number of shuttles reached before the athlete was unable to keep up with the recording for two consecutive ends. The test scores can be entered into the FitnessGram software for analysis. If the 15m version is used, there is a conversion chart to convert scores on the 15m PACER to a 20m score to enter in the FitnessGram software.
target population: The test is suitable for sports teams and school groups of all ages, but not for people in which a maximal exercise test could be considered dangerous.
reliability: Reliability would depend on how strictly the test is run, and the practice allowed for the subjects. Several practice trials would be ideal.
advantages: Large groups can perform this test all at once for minimal costs. Also, the test continues to maximum effort unlike many other tests of endurance capacity. If there is not enough room to conduct the 20m test, there is a 15m version. If required you can convert the score for the 15m to 20m versions.
disadvantages: Practice and motivation levels can influence the score attained, and the scoring can be subjective. As the test is usually conducted outside, the environmental conditions can also affect the results.
This test is a maximal test which requires a reasonable level of fitness - care must be taken with subject who are sick, of poor fitness or elderly.
The FitnessGram cd also provides the cadences for the curl-up and push-up portions of the test battery
Leger LA, Mercier D, Gadoury C, Lambert J. The multistage 20 metre shuttle run test for aerobic fitness. J Sports Sci. 1988; 6:93-101.
Mahar, M.T., Welk, G.J., Rowe, D.A., Crotts, D.J., & McIver, K.L. (2006). Development and validation of a regression model to estimate VO2peak from PACER 20-m shuttle run performance. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, VOL 3; SUPP/2, pages S34-S46.
McClain, J., Welk, G.J., Ihmels, M., Schaben, J.W. (2006). Comparison of two versions of the PACER aerobic fitness test. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, VOL 3; SUPP/2, pages S47-S57. also abstract published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise: Volume 36(5) Supplement May 2004 p S5. conclusion: Overall, the results suggest the 15m and 20m PACER protocols provide similar information about aerobic fitness in youth. The 15m PACER protocol provides a useful alternative to the 20m protocol for schools with smaller physical education facilities.
buy the 20m or 15m PACER test cd - this recording provides pacing for the shuttle run portion of the test as well as cadences for the curl-up and push-up tests.
buy the Fitnessgram/Activitygram Test Manual which includes a DVD with video clips and the PACER test cd.
Similar Tests
15m Bleep Test - a shorter version of the beep test
The conversion chart to assist converting scores on the 15m PACER to a 20m score.
PACER Test 15m & 20m Levels and Speeds.
This test is part of the FitnessGram and Brockport Test battery.
Guide to Variations of the beep / bleep test
more Modified Beep Tests
The complete guide to the beep test for comprehensive information about the beep test
Maximizing Your Score - to get the most out of the beep test.
Beep Test Guide


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Since the beginning of 2016 the Peter Ustinov Foundation has supported the children's painting school "Infantilarte" which is part of the "Casa de los tres Mundos" - House of the Three Worlds. "Culture should not be a luxury!" Based on this conviction, actor and author Dietmar Schönherr launched the 'Pan y Arte' projects in Nicaragua. Pan Y Arte has been supporting children for more than 20 years now. The painting school is for children between the ages of 6-13 years. Furthermore, it fills a cultural gap, because there is no art education in the state school system. Regardless of their background, young talents can here develop their creativity. Important topics from her daily life, such as environmental protection, social ills or customs and traditions are artistically treated and expressed.
The Children's Painting School
The children's painting school is open to children from 6 to 13 years of age and offers them two-month courses in drawing, painting, engraving and handicrafts. The classes are held three times a week for 2 hours each afternoon. The project important contribution to cultural life in the municipality of Granada for children from all social backgrounds who already possess or wish to discover an artistic skill or talent since art is not part of the regular curriculum in schools. The school aims to ensure that in Granada, with the Casa de los Tres Mundos Foundation, there is always an open center for the promotion and preservation of the arts and culture for all children. The courses that are currently offered in the Taller INFANITLARTE usually take two months. On average, a total of 25-30 children participate in them. Until 1996, all the exhibitions, courses and publications of the painting school were run by the artist Carolina Florez, who is now a teacher of the engraving workshop.
History of the "Casa de lost res mundos"
In the historic city of Granada, the cultural center Casa de los Tres Mundos was founded in 1988 by the actor Dietmar Schönherr and the theologian Ernesto Cardenal. The two acquired the former residence of the heirs of Julio Cardenal. After extensive renovations, the opening of the international cultural center was celebrated in 1992. In the 'Casa' daily care for most children and adolescents is the only possible cultural offering beside school. But the cultural center is not just a destination for the youngsters of Granada: concerts, exhibitions, festivals, cinema screenings, readings and other celebrations form a colorful array of events. It attracts the inhabitants of Granada, cultural workers and visitors from all over the world. For many people, the 'Casa' has long since become a second home.
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Situated in Thann, La Dolce Vita features accommodation with free WiFi. At the apartment you will find a restaurant serving Italian cuisine. La Dolce Vita offers a terrace. Colmar is 46 km from the accommodation, while La Bresse is 39 km from the property. The nearest airport is Basel Airport, 51 km from the property.


They say the best things in life come in small packages. Well that's certainly true for San Marino. It's one of the 5 smallest countries in the world, yet this tiny enclave in Italy, on the border between the region of Emilia Romagna and Marche, has everything you need for a truly marvellous family camping holiday. Wonderful Italian ambiance and cuisine. Charming, culturally rich towns. Fantastic weather and stunning natural surroundings. Beach lovers are in for a treat in San Marino. Just a short drive from the campsite the beaches of Rimini, Riccione, Cattolica and Bellaria await. Culture lovers take the cable car up to Monte Titano to the capital San Marino city, to admire the Basilica di San Marino and watch the changing of the guard in their green uniforms on the Piazza della Libertà. Looking for some retail therapy? Then you'll be in shoppers heaven here. A lot of the goods are tax free in San Marino. All this shopping made you hungry? Then relax at one of the many piazza's for a delightful lazy lunch. Enjoy the local speciality, the Piadina flat bread sandwiches, with a spectacular view of the Adriatic down below.
Choose from 1 campsite in San Marino with Vacansoleil.
Camping by the beautiful San Marino countryside: The National Park of the Casentino Forests, The Parco Delta of Po Emilia-Romagna and Park of Sasso Simone and Simoncello.
Not far from the campsite in San Marino, you'll find 4991 hectares of the Sasso Simone and Simoncello Park. This fabulous faunistic park has some truly stunning countryside and is home to deer, wild goats, boar and the famous golden eagle. It's the perfect place for a lovely family walk and a great spot for children to learn more about nature. Also close by is the National Park of the Casentino Forests. One of Europe's oldest forests and an imposing woodland area which houses boar, deer, mountain sheep, falcons, woodpeckers, salamanders and the extremely rare Apennine wolf. Go on an organized nature tour and discover the fascinating secrets of this magical place. Prefer your countryside with a little more water? Then head for the wetlands of the Parco Delta of Po Emilia-Romagna. This amazing delta nature reserve is home to over 300 species of bird, such as rare wild geese, the white heron and the Pink Flamingo. Spend the day exploring this magnificent eco-system, which will both intrigue and entertain the whole family.
Cultural highlights near your campsite in San Marino, San Leo, Cesena, Ravenna and Urbino.
San Marino city is the country's capital and the cultural highlight of any camping holiday here. This picturesque medieval town houses the beautiful Basilica di San Marino and the majestic Three Towers of San Marino, that rest on the peaks of Monte Titano. San Leo is smaller and less touristic, but is home to the impressive 12th century San Leo Cathedral. A gorgeous, sandstone example of Lombard-Romanesque style architecture. Ravenna is a real treasure for art and architecture. Famed for the exquisite and colourful mosaics which adorn the octagonal Basilica di San Vitale, the 6th-century Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo and the cross-shaped Mausoleo di Galla Placidia. It also houses the tomb of Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy. For real art lovers Urbino is a must see. Its Palazzo Ducale, contains the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche and one of the most important collections of Renaissance paintings in the world, including its most famous son, the painter Raphael. Historians head for Cesena to marvel at the monastery of Abbey of St Maria del Monte. A 1000 year old Benedicine masterpiece.
Camping In San Marino means you're never far from the sea. Some spectacular beaches await you, just a short drive away. Rimini is the most well- known and popular seaside resort. With big, broad stretches of sand and a hedonistic hustle and bustle. For a more tranquil pace, head for Bellaria and the beaches of Igea Marina. 7 kilometres of fine, golden sand, ideal for a great family day out at the beach. If you prefer private beaches with comprehensive facilities, then visit Riccione's Playa del Sol resort. A magical affair, with a pool, restaurant, entertainment, a spa and even a kids club to keep the little ones entertained. The beaches at Cattolica are also perfect for families with small children. The sea slopes gently here and the beaches are protected by breakers, keeping the sea very calm. For a taste of classic Italian seaside pleasure, visit Pesaro. It has gorgeous golden sands, colourful beach huts and great beach facilities. All set to a lush green hilly back ground, that inspired Rossini to compose his masterpieces. After a great day at the beach, hop down to Piazza del Popolo and relax at one of the superb cafés for a refreshing drink and a tasty bite to eat.
During a camping holiday in San Marino, you are really spoilt when looking for great days out for all the family. When holidaying with younger children, visit the excellent Fiabilandia amusement park in Rimini. This seaside theme park has some superb rides, water games & a delicious seafood buffet restaurant. Ever wondered what Italy would look like if you shrunk it? Drop in at Italia in Miniatura in the Viserba part of Rimini. The park has 273 miniatures of famous Italian buildings. For the perfect view of the San Marino area, take the cable car up to Monte Titano. The surrounding landscape will take your breath away! Looking to combine some fun with a little bit of history? Then take a trip through time at the Wax Museum of San Marino, which depicts historical figures through the ages.
Racing fans are in for a treat here in San Marino. Not far from the campsite, at the foot of Mount Titano lies the Maranello Rosso Ferrari Museum. This Vintage Car Museum houses a remarkable collection of cars from the Formula 1 era, including the first Ferrari Spyder and famous cars owned by Enzo Ferrari and Marilyn Monroe. Real Ferrari fans head for Imola, just an hour's drive away, to see the famous old F1 Ferrari racing circuit. Visit the fabulous museum which takes you on a trip through the history of motor racing. For the ultimate Ferrari experience, drive one of these race monsters around this thrilling circuit!


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class Cms::LinkCheckController < ApplicationController
  protect_from_forgery except: :check
  skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token, raise: false unless SS.config.env.csrf_protect
  before_action :accept_cors_request

  def check
    result = {}
    url = params[:url]

    raise "400" if url.blank?
    url = url.values if url.is_a?(Hash)
    url.each do |link|
      next if result[link]
      result[link] = check_url(::URI.escape(link))
    end

    respond_to do |format|
      format.json { render json: result.to_json }
    end
  end

  private

  def check_url(url)
    proxy = ( url =~ /^https/ ) ? ENV['HTTPS_PROXY'] : ENV['HTTP_PROXY']
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      proxy: proxy,
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    200
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  rescue => _e
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  end
end