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Border Dog
Alejo said:
Lucas Furtado the attorney general in Brazil requested this Friday to remove President Jair Bolsonaro from the administrative and hierarchical functions of the Ministries of Health, Economy and Civil House, to prevent him from intervening in the management of the coronavirus crisis.
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The current general attorney (prosecutor) is " Augusto Aras ", choosed by Bolsonaro and approved by Congress.
the usual name is PGR -- Prosecutor General of Republic, the only one who can Represent Against Bolsonaro.
Vice-Attorney is a bureaucratic hierarchical position, which only works in the absence of the Attorney General.
( .. bellow, Tribunal is equivalent to Court .. )
TCU (as Tribunal Accounting of Union) has no jurisdiction over presidential government.
Only STF (as Supreme Tribunal of Federation) can judge and sentence federal politicians,
which include all congressists, the president and its ministery, so called Privileged Forum.
TCU checks accounts, not acting preventively under any circumstances.
Legal Contortionism is currently nothing new here in this country. Its Subversion !
Don't exists Half-President, so it's no possible "impeach" part of the governance.
Even if STF sentence the president, it must be approved by Congress (senators).
Anyway, the final word about president impeachment is dued by Congress.
(not by TCU, neither by STF, althought they can request to open a process).
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you said " it's not a party issue nor an ideology issue " but use party/ideololy biase source of info
I ask if you can share infos or support the mainstream media narratives you like ?
I could perfectly explain what "really" is happening in the government actions and behind the scenes, but given the insistence on favoring globalist left narratives sponsored by Foro de São Paulo I just say ... We'll See!
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Lyndi Lama
Border Dog said:
Getting impression that Bolsinaro is a good leader, cares about the country and is actually pretty balanced, but under attack of course.
An aside, NGO's try to take over managing resources based on incorrect info. From studies I read, cattle graze start to finish because the land is suited to raising them. Row crops, GMO ?, soy, corn, much of crop, I remember, is shipped out of the country as it is not needed for the Brazilian cattle. Intentional burning is predominantly needed for row crops not cattle. So the vegetarian push against cattle is wrong-headed. From what I read, contrary to headlines, they are not burning the lungs of the earth in Brazil, though I'm open to learning that corruption may favour development and displacement of indigenous tribes. There was a way worse burning in 2014. I don't recall the reason. There is a rhythm to burning as farmers in the east do burn crops at end of season, also. The burning season is a very, very dry part of the year. Rains usually extinguish fire.
What I actually know further about Brazil fits the head of a pin. Just appreciate Border Dog perspective as Bolsinaro seems strong enough to resist the control narrative, for now anyway.
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.. under attack of course.
thank you very much, for participating in the discussion with a good eye for the content "infos".
at first, we have another media maneuver orchestrated by the fronts of opposition, which are relatively desperate with the federal money cuts, to which they have become accustomed in previous governments.
at least this journalist (bellow) knows that only Congress supported by the Supreme Court can act against a presidential mandate prerogatives.
It is necessary to take the power of Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro's sociopathy infected the National Congress and the Supreme Court.
At this moment, in the midst of a sanitary collapse, it is necessary to form a war cabinet that, in practice, removes the powers of the President of the Republic in the fight against the epidemic.
being eloquent does not mean being realistic.
who is the sociopath ?
who is infecting the others ?
who can form a federal war cabinet ?
who is the enemies of that supposed war ?
I'm sorry to that, but many brazilians are not so fools.
Bolsonaro is not Saint (but was the least worst option)
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I am not sure what you mean by this Border Dog
the quote you did omitted the context focus
BTW, I rephrase the question, to give (again) the benefit of doubt
If one support party/ideology (globalist) biase infos, why this one can say " it's not a party issue nor an ideology issue " ?
TCU sub-attorney Lucas Rocha Furtado, on first year (2019) of Bolsonaro government "request" to TCU do 45 inspections in the accounts of the presidency and federal autarchies. Of Course, the job of TCU is check "accounts", but in these terms it is pure partisan legal activism, to create confusion and waste of time of Court Accounting
G1 portal, is Big Media, commited with globalism and left-wing activism, which daily publishes biase negative news about current government.
I started to post on this thread, because I'm brazilian and I know that Bolsonaro It's not a Hitler.
He is not Saint, but is surely friend of people. If one still have doubts, please watch this yesterday video:
Ok I think I understand what you meant, that because I shared an article where an official was calling for Bolsonaro to be removed from certain functions pertaining the virus in Brazil, that I support the globalist agenda? is that it? because of the link I chose to share here? how does that support the notion of me supporting a globalist agenda? I don't understand.
I don't think anyone here is saying that Bolsonaro is hitler, the very idea of this discussion was to address that very question, and I shared the link to show that there's an effort to oust him from power using the narrative that he's an evil man period. Which is beyond wrong, and then I stated that trying to remove him from power had nothing to do with him being a conservative (i.e. not an ideological victory of left vs. right), it has more to do with him being an inconvenient leader of a decently powerful nation, visible in his stance regarding the virus.
If he was obedient, whether left or right wing, they would leave him alone.
Stating that there's a clear effort to remove him from power, isn't the same as supporting said effort. So I think you're perhaps confusing my describing the situation with my support for it, which isn't the case.
And when I try to clarify this, you answer in evasive ways with subtle accusations that are far removed from what is actually being said. Why?
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Bolsonaro leads motorcycle parade in São Paulo: 'I will never force you to stay locked in your home!'
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Lula seems to have won 2022 elections. It looks like "Left" is celebrating as Bolsonaro was compared to Trump and Bolsonaro's coup threat is compared to "fake" coup of last year that was blamed on Trump . Biden, Trudeau etc. congratulated him. Whether this support is for public consumption or some thing else, we will have to see.
Lula beats far-right President Bolsonaro to win Brazil election
The results bring to a close the most consequential election in Brazil in decades. Now, President-elect da Silva faces the huge task of reinvigorating Brazil's economy.
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With nearly all the ballots counted, official returns gave da Silva, who is a former two-term president, 50.8% of the vote compared to 49.2% for Bolsonaro. Da Silva will be sworn-in for a four-year term on Jan. 1.
His victory will help consolidate a leftward shift in Latin America where, from Mexico to Argentina, the biggest countries are run by leftist presidents.
World leaders were quick to congratulate da Silva on his victory.
"I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil following free, fair, and credible elections," President Biden said in a statement. "I look forward to working together to continue the cooperation between our two countries in the months and years ahead."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a tweet that he anticipated working with the leader on mutual priorities, like protecting the environment.
"The people of Brazil have spoken," Trudeau said.
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seek10 said:
Yep,
I saw the writing on the wall years ago, when Lula was left out of jail and everyone thought it would be a return of the Dilma Rousseff days of BRICS and Brazilian sovereignty, not so much.
Lula right now aligns with the left take over, he is simply more attuned to the current global agenda than Bolsonaro was, same thing happened in Colombia where a leftist candidate had never won, ever. And this year we have Gustavo Petro winning the elections.
But we shall see, maybe they're making a mistake? and Brazil will start to regain its sovereignty, and Venezuela won't be as isolated anymore and regional integration can make the region stronger? I suppose it's too early to tell, but I do not allow myself to feel hopeful for a Lula Da Silva victory in Brazil.
This left take over in South America is not the same one that was there when Chavez, Kirchner and Evo Morales were in power, this is designed to look the same, but the goal is entirely different, me thinks.
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FWIW, these are the official numbers for the 2nd round (source):
Lula 50,90% 60.345.999
Bolsonaro 49,10% 58.206.354
null and blank 4.59% 5.700.443
Abstention rate 20,95% (source).
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Yes. Sadly, from what I've heard from him in the past few years, Lula seems to have steered further into the left-woke-globalist agenda. Some of it is probably meant to please his left-wing voters, but it is difficult to know what the man truly thinks.
After listening to him speak over the years, I began to think of him as a spellbinder. He reverses his opinions and twists facts according to the audience (you know, lying); he is really able to control the attention of the public; he is skilled at innocuous answers and redirecting any discussion in his favor; he seems incapable of any mea culpa related to the crimes of the party he leads (which are very much real, for example, retirees from the largest public pension funds in the country have ~30% deductions to compensate for the amounts lost due to corruption during his and Dilma's governments). These are just some examples that came to mind, the point being that I no longer find it unreasonable to think that he has psychopath-ish traits.
Among the multiple factors that contributed to people voting for Lula despite the massive rejection of his party, such as the mainstream media mostly supporting him against Bolsonaro, and all presidential candidates of any relevance supporting him for the 2nd round, it was brought to my attention that Bolsonaro himself is rejected by many, particularly among the youth, because of his stance regarding covid.
Indeed, I don't know what made Bolsonaro see through the sham of coronapocalypse, but he was the sole voice of reason among the political class in Brazil during covid. For all the talk of him being a Hitler from the tropics, fascist etc, he was the one constantly defending freedom while people were being locked up and businesses going under. Lula, on the other hand, was very much into the fear mongering and has repeatedly asserted Bolsonaro's stance as genocidal.
As you can see from the numbers in the previous post, the population is very much divided. Lula won by a narrow margin and congress and state governorship have record number of conservative politicians. Curiously, Lula won even in some states that elected pro-Bolsonaro governors, kind of fishy, I think. Which brings us to the possibility of fraud in the electronic voting system, but that will remain to be seen whether a conservative opposition will be able to bring anything to light.
In sum, I venture to guess that the years ahead are likely to be tumultuous, particularly if fraud allegations are brought forth, not unlike what happened in the US and also here after Dilma got reelected in 2014, which eventually led to her impeachment in 2016. And in the case of a new round of covid we are likely to fare much worse with the federal government fully onboard with the lunacy.
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There is speculation on social media the election was rigged. I have yet to find anything solid to back up this claim, but it wouldn't be a surprise considering the nature of elections these days.
Have any Brazilian members (or anybody else) seen reports pointing to election fraud? Something similar to what happened in the last US election?
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According to the numbers, Bolso won in all regions except the Northeast:
Jefferson said:
There were a few articles about it during the first round of the elections on Sott:
Brazil election result 'surprises' globalist media, but is foul play afoot against Bolsonaro?
Bolsonaro shows huge early lead, but sees it disappear as statistically impossible one-way vote dumps put Lula ahead
I guess Klaus won another election
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The recently published book by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski describes the president's routine eating habits: a quick gobbling of two Big Macs, two Filet of Fish sandwiches, and a chocolate malt. A fourth food group, if available, is pizza. Bags of salted crunchy snacks are always available between meals and Trump's routine dessert of choice is Oreos, sugar bombs made with high fructose corn syrup.
It doesn't take a physician to let you know that eating like this is simply asking for trouble, especially for a 71-year-old man who never exercises, sleeps poorly, and is under constant stress and prone to attacks of rage.
And now we learn the president downs an average of 12 cans (yes, two six packs) of Diet Coke every day.
The arguments about the health dangers of diet beverages have bounced back and forth ever since the drinks were introduced decades ago. Two facts are pretty certain: they don't cause cancer and there's never been a link between them and direct weight gain. However, regular users of diet drinks often gain weight, believing that because their beverage is as fattening as water they can eat more food. Just watch people at any fast-food restaurant: customers walk away with hugely caloric trays of food while juggling a super-sized diet drink.
When the president's Diet Coke addiction was revealed–and you must admit 12 cans daily is an addiction–some newspapers and magazines (oddly enough, Forbes) made reference to a study published in the medical journal Stroke, in April, 2017, linking diet beverage consumption among people over 45 (average age 62) to increased strokes and dementia.
Of 2888 participants, 97 developed strokes and 81 dementia (63 Alzheimer's, 18 small-stroke dementia). These numbers are quite high, considerably higher than those in people who drink sweetened beverages. The full-sugar group gets diabetes and obesity instead. As you might expect, the stroke and dementia numbers rise significantly when unhealthful dietary habits and physical inactivity are factored into the equation.
A recent Twitter storm raged over the president's slurred speech during his announcement about Jerusalem. Could he have suffered a mini-stroke? Is this a sign of dementia? I watched the clip several times and must admit I agree with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that he likely had a bad case of dry mouth.
Still, I do have major concerns about the effect of the president's eating and drinking habits on his decision-making skills. We've all seen or read about Trump's angry outbursts, paranoid thinking, and mood swings, which any physician will tell you can be the first signs of Alzheimer's or multi-infarct (mini-stroke) dementia.
Such behavior should be especially worrisome as the President threatens to initiate a nuclear war with North Korea. In August, he threatened Kim Jong-un that his country "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen" if he made any more threats to the US. Senator Lindsay Graham revealed "Trump has 100 percent made up his mind that he's not going to let Kim Jong-un deploy a missile that could hit the US." Most political writers read this as a presidential willingness to initiate a nuclear war based only on the threat from North Korea.
The problem is that the president believes that any country with a large nuclear arsenal and a saber-rattling dictator will actually use it. He forgets that both China and Russia also have had immense nuclear reserves and dictators, but both countries, fearful of a highly likely mutually-assured destruction, have kept the peace for the past 75 years.
It might be useful to remind everyone how long we've been in suspense about "something nuclear" ending our lives. I do wish the president would read a little history.
As for myself (the president and I are roughly the same age), I was born shortly after the US defeated Japan by dropping a pair of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My generation grew up in the shadow of that ominous mushroom cloud of destruction. We saw pictures of it everywhere. When we learned Russia had its bomb, we began air-raid drills at school. We learned how to duck and cover by watching how Burt the Turtle hid in his shell when he saw the first atomic flash. If you have a minute, watch this short but chilling educational movie that my classroom sat through a dozen times at Oglesby School in Chicago.
Then came the fallout shelter fad. Families moved to the suburbs to escape the euphemistically-called "changing neighborhoods" and Russian bombs. Anxious dads spent hundreds of dollars building fallout shelters in their basements or backyards. Along Chicago's lakefront through the l950s and 1960s were numerous Nike missile sites and radar stations aimed allegedly toward Russia, but probably only capable of hitting Flint, Michigan.
We watched dozens of bad movies with mushroom clouds and monsters created by nuclear fallout. Did you know the very first Godzilla was awakened and empowered by the nuclear radiation we dropped on Japan?
But we also learned the real horrors of atomic warfare in John Hersey's report "Hiroshima," finally giving in to the cynical black humor of Dr. Strangelove, whose subtitle "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" says it all.
Americans endured years of saber-rattling presidents long before Trump. Kennedy had to struggle with the Joint Chiefs of Staff who wanted to drop atomic bombs on Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During Vietnam, so-called hawks like Nixon and Goldwater, fed up with Ho Chi Minh, simply wanted to nuke Hanoi out of existence.
Okay, okay. Buried in all this history is a Health Tip. Junk diets will clog your arteries and increase your risk for heart attacks and strokes. Diet colas will increase your risk for early dementia.
Don't you wish the president would schedule a visit with one of our WholeHealth Chicago nutritionists? It could actually benefit our longevity as well as his.
Great health tip! To be sure, you're probably preaching to the choir, where both the President and diet are concerned, but the choir always loves good sermons, so bring it on!
It's not the sugar or sugar-substitutes, the calories or zero-calories in the soft drinks — it's the phosphates! Seriously toxic in high, repetitive doses!
The lack of sleep is very concerning,too. (along with so many other things) It really messes with your brain & thinking. I always enjoy your informative emails and thoughts, Dr.E. Many thanks!
Yes! He could start with a psychological work up and go on down the line!
Good medical advice dispensed with politics and recipes! I'm in.


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Q: Move Conditional Rendering to a Separate Component In my code, I take an input from the user, run a graphql query and then conditionally render some items according to the results (via showUsers functions). However, instead of using showUsers here as a function, I want to make it a separate component where I can pass userData.
export const AddContactTry: React.FunctionComponent = () => {
  const validationSchema = phoneNumberValidationSchema;

  const { values, handleChange, handleSubmit, dirty, handleBlur, isValid, resetForm, isSubmitting, setSubmitting, touched}= useFormik({
    initialValues: {
      phoneNumber: '',
    },
    validationSchema,
    onSubmit: (values: FormValues) => {
      handleSubmitForm(values);
    },
  });

  const [isSubmitted, setIsSubmitted] = useState(false);
  const [userData, setUserData] = useState<UsersLazyQueryHookResult>('');
  const navigation = useNavigation();
  //const validationSchema = phoneNumberValidationSchema;

  const [
    createUserRelationMutation,
    {
      data: addingContactData,
      loading: addingContactLoading,
      error: addingContactError,
      called: isMutationCalled,
    },
  ] = useCreateUserRelationMutation({
    onCompleted: () => {
      Alert.alert('Contact Added');
    },
  });

  const showUsers = React.useCallback(
    (data: UsersLazyQueryHookResult) => {
      if (data) {
        return (
          <View style={styles.users}>
            {data.users.nodes.map(
              (item: { firstName: string; lastName: string; id: number }) => {
                const userName = item.firstName
                  .concat(' ')
                  .concat(item.lastName);
                return (
                  <View style={styles.item} key={item.id}>
                    <Thumbnail
                      style={styles.thumbnail}
                      source={{
                        uri:
                          'https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/avatars-xmas-giveaway/128/afro_woman_female_person-512.png',
                      }}></Thumbnail>
                    <Text style={styles.userName}>{userName}</Text>
                    <View style={styles.addButtonContainer}>
                      <Button
                        rounded
                        style={styles.addButton}
                        onPress={() => {
                          addContact(Number(item.id));
                          setIsSubmitted(false);
                          setUserData(null);
                        }}>
                        <Icon
                          name="plus"
                          size={moderateScale(20)}
                          color="black"
                        />
                      </Button>
                    </View>
                  </View>
                );
              },
            )}
          </View>
        );
      }
    },
    [createUserRelationMutation, userData],
  );

  const addContact = React.useCallback(
    (id: Number) => {
      console.log('Whats the Id', id);
      createUserRelationMutation({
        variables: {
          input: { relatedUserId: id, type: RelationType.Contact, userId: 30 },
        },
      });
    },
    [createUserRelationMutation],
  );

  const getContactId = React.useCallback(
    (data: UsersLazyQueryHookResult) => {
      //resetForm();
      if (data) {
        if (data.users.nodes.length == 0) {
          Alert.alert('No User Found');
        } else {
          setUserData(data);
        }
      }
    },
    [addContact],
  );

  const [loadUsers] = useUsersLazyQuery({
    onCompleted: getContactId,
    onError: _onLoadUserError,
  });

  const handleSubmitForm = React.useCallback(
    (values: FormValues) => {
      setIsSubmitted(true);
      const plusSign = '+';
      const newPhoneNumber = plusSign.concat(values.phoneNumber);
      console.log('Submitted');
      loadUsers({
        variables: {
          where: { phoneNumber: newPhoneNumber },
        },
      });
      resetForm();
    },
    [loadUsers],
  );

  return (
    <SafeAreaView>
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <View style={styles.searchTopContainer}>
          <View>
                <View style={styles.searchFieldContainer}>
                  <View style={styles.form}>
                    <Item underline style={styles.newFieldInput} >
                      <Icon name="mobile" color="black" size={26}></Icon>
                     <Input
                      onChangeText={handleChange('phoneNumber') as (text: string) => void}
                      onBlur={handleBlur('phoneNumber') as (event: any) => void}
                      value={values.phoneNumber}
                      placeholder="49152901820"
                    />
                    </Item>
                  </View>
                  <View style={styles.buttonContainer}>
                <Button
                  block
                  success
                  disabled={!isValid || !dirty}
                  onPress={handleSubmit}
                  style={styles.button}>
                  <Text>Speichern</Text>
                </Button>
                  </View>
                </View>
          </View>
          {isSubmitted && showUsers(userData)}
        </View>
      </View>
      {/* <User data={userData}></User> */}
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

Currently, the rendering happens here:
 {isSubmitted && showUsers(userData)}

Now, to move the rendering to a separate component, I tried to do this. Currently, this works:
export const AddContactTry: React.FunctionComponent = () => {
  const validationSchema = phoneNumberValidationSchema;

  const { values, handleChange, handleSubmit, dirty, handleBlur, isValid, resetForm, isSubmitting, setSubmitting, touched}= useFormik({
    initialValues: {
      phoneNumber: '',
    },
    validationSchema,
    onSubmit: (values: FormValues) => {
      handleSubmitForm(values);
    },
  });

  const [isSubmitted, setIsSubmitted] = useState(false);
  const [userData, setUserData] = useState<UsersLazyQueryHookResult>('');
  const navigation = useNavigation();

  const _onLoadUserError = React.useCallback((error: ApolloError) => {
    Alert.alert('Oops, try again later');
  }, []);

  // const [
  //   createUserRelationMutation,
  //   {
  //     data: addingContactData,
  //     loading: addingContactLoading,
  //     error: addingContactError,
  //     called: isMutationCalled,
  //   },
  // ] = useCreateUserRelationMutation({
  //   onCompleted: () => {
  //     Alert.alert('Contact Added');
  //   },
  // });

  // const showUsers = React.useCallback(
  //   (data: UsersLazyQueryHookResult) => {
  //     if (data) {
  //       return (
  //         <View style={styles.users}>
  //           {data.users.nodes.map(
  //             (item: { firstName: string; lastName: string; id: number }) => {
  //               const userName = item.firstName
  //                 .concat(' ')
  //                 .concat(item.lastName);
  //               return (
  //                 <View style={styles.item} key={item.id}>
  //                   <Thumbnail
  //                     style={styles.thumbnail}
  //                     source={{
  //                       uri:
  //                         'https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/avatars-xmas-giveaway/128/afro_woman_female_person-512.png',
  //                     }}></Thumbnail>
  //                   <Text style={styles.userName}>{userName}</Text>
  //                   <View style={styles.addButtonContainer}>
  //                     <Button
  //                       rounded
  //                       style={styles.addButton}
  //                       onPress={() => {
  //                         //addContact(Number(item.id));
  //                         setIsSubmitted(false);
  //                         setUserData(null);
  //                       }}>
  //                       <Icon
  //                         name="plus"
  //                         size={moderateScale(20)}
  //                         color="black"
  //                       />
  //                     </Button>
  //                   </View>
  //                 </View>
  //               );
  //             },
  //           )}
  //         </View>
  //       );
  //     }
  //   },
  //   [createUserRelationMutation, userData],
  // );

  // const addContact = React.useCallback(
  //   (id: Number) => {
  //     console.log('Whats the Id', id);
  //     createUserRelationMutation({
  //       variables: {
  //         input: { relatedUserId: id, type: RelationType.Contact, userId: 30 },
  //       },
  //     });
  //   },
  //   [createUserRelationMutation],
  // );

  const getContactId = React.useCallback(
    (data: UsersLazyQueryHookResult) => {
      //resetForm();
      if (data) {
        if (data.users.nodes.length == 0) {
          Alert.alert('No User Found');
        } else {
          setUserData(data);
        }
      }
    },
    //[addContact],
    [],
  );

  const [loadUsers] = useUsersLazyQuery({
    onCompleted: getContactId,
    onError: _onLoadUserError,
  });

  const handleSubmitForm = React.useCallback(
    (values: FormValues) => {
      setIsSubmitted(true);
      const plusSign = '+';
      const newPhoneNumber = plusSign.concat(values.phoneNumber);
      loadUsers({
        variables: {
          where: { phoneNumber: newPhoneNumber },
        },
      });
      resetForm();
    },
    [loadUsers],
  );

  // if (!addingContactLoading && isMutationCalled) {
  //   if (addingContactError) {
  //     Alert.alert('Unable to Add Contact');
  //   }
  // }

  return (
    <SafeAreaView>
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <View style={styles.searchTopContainer}>
          <View>
                <View style={styles.searchFieldContainer}>
                  <View style={styles.form}>
                    <Item underline style={styles.newFieldInput} >
                      <Icon name="mobile" color="black" size={26}></Icon>
                     <Input
                      onChangeText={handleChange('phoneNumber') as (text: string) => void}
                      onBlur={handleBlur('phoneNumber') as (event: any) => void}
                      value={values.phoneNumber}
                      placeholder="49152901820"
                    />
                    </Item>
                  </View>
                  <View style={styles.buttonContainer}>
                <Button
                  block
                  success
                  disabled={!isValid || !dirty}
                  onPress={handleSubmit}
                  style={styles.button}>
                  <Text>Speichern</Text>
                </Button>
                  </View>
                </View>
          </View>
          {/* {isSubmitted && showUsers(userData)} */}
          <User data={userData}></User>
        </View>
      </View>
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

type UserProps = {
   data: UsersLazyQueryHookResult;
   //isSubmitted: boolean;
  };
  export const User: React.FunctionComponent<UserProps> = ({
    data,
    //isSubmitted,
  }) => {
console.log('user called');
    const [
      createUserRelationMutation,
      {
        data: addingContactData,
        loading: addingContactLoading,
        error: addingContactError,
        called: isMutationCalled,
      },
    ] = useCreateUserRelationMutation({
      onCompleted: () => {
        Alert.alert('Contact Added');
      },
    });

    const addContact = React.useCallback(
      (id: Number) => {
        console.log('Whats the Id', id);
        createUserRelationMutation({
          variables: {
            input: { relatedUserId: id, type: RelationType.Contact, userId: 30 },
          },
        });
      },
      [createUserRelationMutation],
    );

      if (!addingContactLoading && isMutationCalled) {
    if (addingContactError) {
      Alert.alert('Unable to Add Contact');
    }
  }
     //if (isSubmitted){
      if(!data) return null;
    return (
        <View style={styles.users}>
          {data.users.nodes.map(
            (item: { firstName: string; lastName: string; id: number }) => {
              const userName = item.firstName
                .concat(' ')
                .concat(item.lastName);
              return (
                <View style={styles.item} key={item.id}>
                  <Thumbnail
                    style={styles.thumbnail}
                    source={{
                      uri:
                        'https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/avatars-xmas-giveaway/128/afro_woman_female_person-512.png',
                    }}></Thumbnail>
                  <Text style={styles.userName}>{userName}</Text>
                  <View style={styles.addButtonContainer}>
                    <Button
                      rounded
                      style={styles.addButton}
                      onPress={() => {
                        addContact(Number(item.id));
                        //setIsSubmitted(false);
                        //setUserData(null);
                      }}>
                      <Icon
                        name="plus"
                        size={moderateScale(20)}
                        color="black"
                      />
                    </Button>
                  </View>
                </View>
              );
            },
          )}
        </View>
      );}

But I have commented out setIsSubmitted(false); and setUserData(null);in the Usercomponent. How can I pass them such that they'll be updated in the original screen too?
Or is there a better way with which I can move out only the rendering list?
Edit:
Trying this now but I get Cannot find name 'onAddContact'. Did you mean 'addContact'?
type UserProps = {
  data: UsersLazyQueryHookResult;
  onAddContact: any;
};
export const User: React.FunctionComponent<UserProps> = ({
  data,
  onAddContact,
  //isSubmitted,
}) => {
  console.log('user called');
  const [
    createUserRelationMutation,
    {
      data: addingContactData,
      loading: addingContactLoading,
      error: addingContactError,
      called: isMutationCalled,
    },
  ] = useCreateUserRelationMutation({
    onCompleted: () => {
      Alert.alert('Contact Added');
    },
  });

  const addContact = React.useCallback(
    (id: Number) => {
      console.log('Whats the Id', id);
      createUserRelationMutation({
        variables: {
          input: { relatedUserId: id, type: RelationType.Contact, userId: 1 },
        },
      });
    },
    [createUserRelationMutation],
  );

  if (!addingContactLoading && isMutationCalled) {
    if (addingContactError) {
      Alert.alert('Unable to Add Contact');
    }
  }
  if (!data) return null;
  return (
    <View style={styles.users}>
      {data.users.nodes.map(
        (item: { firstName: string; lastName: string; id: number }) => {
          const userName = item.firstName.concat(' ').concat(item.lastName);
          return (
            <View style={styles.item} key={item.id}>
              <Thumbnail
                style={styles.thumbnail}
                source={{
                  uri:
                    'https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/avatars-xmas-giveaway/128/afro_woman_female_person-512.png',
                }}></Thumbnail>
              <Text style={styles.userName}>{userName}</Text>
              <View style={styles.addButtonContainer}>
                <Button
                  rounded
                  style={styles.addButton}
                  onPress={() => onAddContact(Number(item.id))}
                  // onPress={() => {
                  //   addContact(Number(item.id));
                  // }}
                  >
                  <Icon name="plus" size={moderateScale(20)} color="black" />
                </Button>
              </View>
            </View>
          );
        },
      )}
    </View>
  );
};

<User onAddContact={onAddContact} data={userData}></User>

A: Could you try the following?
{isSubmitted && userData && userData.users && userData.users.nodes ? <User data={userData}/> : null}

Ideally you would destruct data.users.nodes
const { data: {users: {nodes: userNodes} = {} } = {} } = userData || {};

and pass just an array
{isSubmitted && userNodes ? <User data={userNodes}/> : null}

--Edit
Delegate action to parent as User is presentational component
 export const User: React.FunctionComponent<UserProps> = ({
    data,
    onAddContact,
  }) => {

onPress={() => onAddContact(Number(item.id))}

const onAddContact = (id: number) => {
  setIsSubmitted(false);
  setUserData(null);
  createUserRelationMutation({
    variables: {
      input: { relatedUserId: id, type: RelationType.Contact, userId: 30 },
    },
  });
}

<User onAddContact={onAddContact} data={userData}></User>


For the spring season 2013, Magasin 3 is proud to present a solo exhibition featuring works by Mika Rottenberg, spanning from the early 2000s to today.
Mika Rottenberg's video installations show an imaginative world of surreal scenes where inane objects are produced in protracted processes resembling factory assembly lines. The workers in Rottenberg's videos are often played by women who earn their living on their distinctive physical features, such as extreme obesity, muscularity, height or unusually long nails or hair. In the claustrophobic settings she constructs, these women engage in the production of maraschino cherries, dough, make-up and wet-wipes in the most astonishing ways. The sets Mika Rottenberg designs for the characters in her videos also partly extend into the exhibition space. The aesthetics of the mundane take on new significance when the web of production and consumption that surrounds us is experienced as both intimately familiar and intuitively unsettling.


Painted Turtles: Midland, Eastern, or Intergrade?
Eastern painted turtles usually have an immaculate plastron.
Midland, Eastern, or Intergrade? That is the question.
As a kid I was either skipping school to watch a warbler migration or out bugging the local (Springfield, MA) herp populations. It seemed then that either of these pursuits was a whole lot better than sitting in a classroom.
One of the herp populations that I enjoyed visiting was the huge population of painted turtles in the water lily/lotus ponds of erstwhile local park/zoo, i.e. Forest Park. I didn't know much about herps back in those early days (I'm not sure I do now!) but I did know that there was a dramatically different suite of characteristics in those turtles. Some had plain yellow plastrons, some had plastrons smudged with dark pigment, and the plastron of others bore a well-defined central figure. I also noticed at some point in time that the carapacial scute sutures (costals and vertebrals) of those having the solid yellow plastrons went nearly straight across the carapace from side to side (excluding the marginals) while the costal sutures of the painted turtles with the plastral figures were not in line with the vertebral sutures. I don't remember the carapacial suture configuration on the turtles with the smudged plastrons.
So, what did we have in these painted turtles? Employing the description still used today we had eastern painteds, Chrysemys picta picta (solid yellow plastron and nearly straight side to side scute sutures), midland painteds, C. p. marginata (well defined plastral figure and offset costal-vertebral sutures) and intergrades (smudged plastrons).
And therein lies the problem, a problem unbeknownst to me then, and of no interest to the turtles either then or now. But while the easterns and even the intergrades could be easily explained, the presence of 2 well defined subspecies, the eastern and the midland, in the same puddles should not have occurred. Could our descriptive criteria be faulty? Awww heck. As long as the turtles don't care why should it bother us.
Continue reading "Painted Turtles: Midland, Eastern, or Intergrade?"
Hatchling rusty whipsnakes are bright green.
Most herpers are familiar with the ontogenetic changes (orange as neonates/hatchlings and green as adults) of emerald tree boas and green tree pythons. But fewer among us are familiar with the color changes of the rusty whipsnake, Chironius scurrulus.
The rusty whipsnake is a hefty and often feisty Amazonian species. Although 4 to 5 feet in length is the most commonly seen adult size, a few may exceed 6 feet by a few inches. Subadults and adults are often found along watercourses where they feed on amphibians and (I have been told but have not verified) fish. The term "rusty" fits the adults to a T—they are a rusty orange, often with scattered black scales dorsally and laterally. The head may have a dusky hue.
The hatchlings, however, are semiarboreal and are a beautiful leaf green. The green dulls quickly with age and growth and within 2 or 3 shedding cycles the once bright green baby has become a dull olive, an ontogeny 180 degrees reversed from the better known emerald boas and pythons.
Continue reading " Reversed Ontogeny"
Once common, today the Tucson shovel nosed snake, C. o. klauberi, can be difficult to find.
The insectivorous (some arachnids are also eaten) genus Chionactis, the shovel-nosed snakes, contains 2 fossorial species, palarostris and occipitalis. The former, the Sonoran shovel-nose, Chionactis palarostris, contains 2 subspecies (palarostris and organica) while the western shovelnose, C. occipitalis, contains 4 (occipitalis, annulata, klauberi, and talpina) .
The ground color of both species is white (or cream or yellow), with well separated saddles of black or brown and (often) saddles, or at least a hint, of red (or orange) alternating with the black. Some saddles, especially the dark ones, may extend ventrally and encircle the body. Colors and patterns vary both subspecifically and individually.
These small (14-17 inches), slender, burrowers feed on insects and arachnids. Seldom seen (unless flipped) by day, they are often found above ground at night and can be remarkably abundant when atmospheric conditions are ideal.
Rarely seen in the United States, the range of Chionactis palarostris, includes nwSN and extreme scAZ. Conversely, C. occipitalis, the western shovel-nose, ranges primarily in the sw USA (scAZ and scCA northward to sNV), entering MX only in nBaja and nwSN.
Continue reading " Shovel-nosed Snakes, Fossorial Beauties"
That Trimorphodon vilkinsonii are out there, there is no doubt—no doubt at all. There is also not the least bit of doubt that I can't find them. Others find them, sometimes mere minutes before I arrive or after I have left. I know this for a fact for sometimes I've been allowed to photo the found snake.
I began looking for this elusive nocturnal snake on Texas trips in the '50s with my friend and mentor, Gordy (E. Gordon) Johnston. We drove (actually Gordy drove and I rode) back and forth, and failed to find them. Subsequently I have failed to find them on many of the same roads, right up until today, some 55 years later. If not anything else, at least I am consistent—except for one time. That one time about 15 years ago, Kenny and I were driving through the Chinati Mountain ghost town of Shafter, Texas. In the middle of the town (population once about 4,000, now about 11) we found a DOR lyre snake. The DOR snake was rather fresh and I wondered where the car that had killed it had come from, where it was going, and if the killing of the snake had been deliberate or accidental. It just seemed impossible that with that little traffic the paths of car and snake should have crossed.
Since then I have looked with reasonable regularity during all kinds of weather at all hours of darkness, and never again glimpsed one. Hugh tells me they're fairly common. Ron tells me they're very rare. I know only that I have driven and walked the rockcuts in their known TX range for more than half a century and have not only failed to find them, but failed dismally. Time to switch to birding.
Continue reading "Chihuahuan Lyre Snake—A Lament"
The question--will ontogenetic changes turn this little western coachwhip pink?
One of the most noteworthy snake features of the Big Bend region is to be found on adult western coachwhips, Masticophis (you are free to call them Coluber if you choose!) flagellum testaceus. The adults assume a bright (some call it "screaming") pink coloration. The juveniles—up to at least a 3 foot length—are typically a straw tan with broad, light, bands.
Coachwhips and the related whipsnakes are usually very evident in the Big Bend region. Since both Jake and I hoped to surprise and photograph one of the pink adults, we made a point of searching for them on several mornings. On most of those days we drove for at least 50 miles on our searches, and on one occasion we drove for more than 200 miles. Zero coachwhips, zero whipsnakes. If you're thinking "what a failure," just imagine how we felt. We had failed to find one of the most conspicuous and commonest of Big Bend's diurnally active snakes. This stationary high pressure system was really crimping our style (and our hopes). With our allocated trip duration quickly drawing to a close we decided to move up to northeastern Presidio County. Could (or would) a change of venue make a difference in our success (or lack of same)?
Did it make a difference? Well, we at least saw a coachwhip—a straw colored juvie-- streaking across the roadway. We saw Texas horned lizards and lesser earless lizards. We saw desert box turtles. And we saw Ron and Daniel Tremper who had just seen an adult pink colored coachwhip cross the roadway and stage one of their oft-duplicated yet always surprising disappearing acts—probably by scooting down a ground squirrel hole.
But, and for us this was an important "but," Ron and Daniel presented to us without ceremony a 30" western coachwhip that they had chased down (all I can say is a respectful "WOW"). It now sits in a place of honor as the only snake in my very small herp collection. I get bitten by it almost every day but I'm hoping that as it grows and if it drinks enough blood it will assume the beautiful pink of its Presidio County brethren. I've gotta get that picture somehow! Thanks, Ron and Daniel. I'll keep you posted on the ontogenetic changes—if any.
Trans-Pecos rat snakes were the species most commonly seen.
With several mobile homes (cabins) scattered over the hilly terrain, and having a herp-friendly owner, Wild Horse Station is a magnet for herpers and birders. Although Jake and I had failed to make reservations earlier, we had lucked out. Mrs. Hammer (owner) still had one unrented cabin. We rented it and decided on an afternoon nap to prepare us for a night of herping.
Although it had poured here the night before we arrived, the low pressure system had then been replaced by a high that was to persist for the 5 days we were in the Study Butte-Terlingua region. Weatherwise, things did not look overwhelmingly in our favor for snake movement. But after having driven 1500 miles with high hopes firmly entrenched, adversity is difficult if not impossible to accept.
So anyway, here we were, still with high hopes, at Wild Horse Station for 5 days. Luckily, our friends from last year, Charles and Wendy Triche, were in the next cabin so we could visit and commiserate.
The nights cooled quickly allowing the few snakes that were out and about to move shortly after nightfall. But let me tell you how bad conditions (I really don't think it was our searching techniques!) were; on a 30-mile stretch of road where we usually see a dozen or more rattlesnakes of 4 taxa, in 5 nights we saw ZERO, and on that whole trip we saw only a half dozen Trans-Pecos rat snakes! Even the prey items, the pocket mice, kangaroo rats, and other desert rodents, were at an all time low.
The half dozen Trans-Pecos rat snakes, Bogertophis subocularis, we found were all normals (no blondes, but Bob Hansen' s group found a blonde the night after we moved northward—congratulations Bob and gang). The few variable ground snakes, Sonora semiannulata, found were pretty but none were of the more colorful banded phases. And after dozens of runs and rock checks through prime habitat, finding our principal target taxon, a Chihuahuan lyre snake, Trimorphodon vilkinsonii, remained only a dream.
Will there be a trip next year? Only time will tell. If so will it show better results. Only Mother Nature and Jupiter (the God of weather) can say.
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I think the underlying problem is again the use of "size()" instead of "visibleSize()".
And if we assume the view "v1" from above is made to work (by changing the appropriate "size()"
are there other places where this same change needs to be made but we haven't found them yet?
be good if the respective files for those three examples could be updated as necessary.
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I apply the patch for DERBY-681 (only 7 pass without your changes).  So we're getting better.
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Dr. Matt Flynn is a Reader of Age and Work at Middlesex University Business School and the Director of the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce. His research interest focuses on the impact of ageing societies on the world of work. He has carried out research for the UK government and European Union and has conducted research in the UK, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. He is currently leading an ESRC study which applying the Capabilities Approach to work to retirement transitions as well as a study for the Trades Union Congress on the impact of the abolition of the default retirement age on older workers.
Part of the Wai Yin Centre's 20 year anniversary exhibition © Hin Pang.
As part of a collaborative project, Wai-Yin, a community centred organisation in Manchester, and the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce are working together to explore the views of older Chinese migrants about rises in the State Pension Age and broader public policy measures meant to encourage workers to delay retirement.
Over a six week period, we have worked with a group of eight older people within the Manchester Chinese community to explore the feasibility of working longer in the kinds of work which they do. We also interviewed members of the Wai Yin executive board to find out the big challenges facing the community with regard to employability.


Small, brown mottled snout beetles up to one-fourth inch (6mm) long with humps on their rounded backs, and distinctive long beaks, or snouts. Overwintering adults emerge quite suddenly in mid-spring, when mid-season apples are in bloom. They find their way to blossoms and immature fruits, which they eat as they find mates. Females then lay eggs in fruits, and cut a crescent-shaped expansion scar in the fruit so the larvae will have room to grow. Fruits that look like they have been pierced with a fingernail have been visited by curculios.
The growing larvae may not last long in apples, because expanding apples push so hard on the larvae that they cannot feed. Plum curculio larvae have much more success in plums, peaches and other softer fruits. Curculio feeding and egg-laying sites often become starting points for fungal diseases.
Growing a diversity of plants and maintaining habitat for birds can keep populations from getting out of control. Allowing poultry to forage under fruit trees can suppress plum curculios, too.
At about the time apples drop their petals, go out in the cool of the morning, spread sheets beneath fruit trees, and shake all the limbs you can to dislodge curculios. Collected specimens can be drowned in a pail of soapy water.


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Muslims are no Different, or why Bill Maher's blood libel is Bigotry
Comedian Bill Maher puts himself in the company of "9/11 liberals" who believe that Islam as a religion is different and decidedly worse than all other religions. He said Friday that 'at least half of all Muslims believe it is all right to kill someone who insults 'the Prophet.' His bad faith is immediately apparent in the reference to 9/11, not the work of mainstream Muslims but of a political cult whose members often spent their time in strip clubs.
Now, it may be objected that Maher has made a career of attacking all religions, and promoting irreverence toward them. So Islam is just one more target for him. But that tack wouldn't entirely be true. He explicitly singles Islam out as more, much more homocidal than the other religions. He is personally unpleasant to his Muslim guests, such as Keith Ellison. His reaction to the youth of the Arab Spring gathering to try to overthrow their American-backed dictators was "the Arabs are revolting." Try substituting "Jews" to see how objectionable that is.
Maher ironically has de facto joined an Islamophobic network that is funded by the Mellon Scaife Foundation and other philanthropies tied to the American Enterprise Institute, etc. which is mainly made up of evangelical Christians, bigoted American Jews who would vote for the Likud Party if they could, and cynical Republican businessmen and politicians casting about for something with which to frighten working class Americans into voting for them.
Maher is a consistent liberal and donated $1 million to the Obama campaign, so he is in odd company in targeting Muslims this way. So what explains this animus against Muslims in particular? The only thing he has in common with the Islamophobic Right is his somewhat bloodthirsty form of militant Zionism. He strongly supported the Israeli attack on helpless little Lebanon in 2006, in which the Israelis dropped a million cluster bombs on the farms of the south of that country. He talks about how the besieged Palestinians of Gaza deserve to be "nuked." His interviews with Likudnik Israeli officials are typically fawning, unlike his combative style with other right wing guests.
In short, Maher is in part reacting as a nationalist to Muslims as a rival national group, and his palpable hatred for them is rooted not in religion but in national self-conception. It is a key tactic of militant Zionism to attempt to demonize and delegitimize Muslims; you don't have to apologize for colonizing or imposing Apartheid on Palestinians, after all, if they aren't really human beings. In addition, like many Americans, Maher sees the United States, Europe and Israel as 'the West' locked in a rivalry with an alien, Islamic civilization that is intrinsically fanatical and backward (his fellow-traveller on this issue, Pamela Geller, uses the word 'savage.') Maher is aware of the history of Christian bloodthirstiness, of course, but he often speaks of it as being in the past. He seems to see contemporary Muslims as having the same sorts of flaws (Inquisition, Crusades) as medieval Christianity.
Maher is not important, but his thesis is widely put forward, and it matters in real people's lives. There is a nation-wide campaign by religious bigots (most of them sadly evangelical Christians) to prevent American Muslims from building mosques in their communities, and one of the reasons often given is 'fear' that the Muslims are homicidal and so the mosque is a conspiracy to commit murder waiting to happen. Maher's singling out of Muslim as different willy-nilly encourages people to treat them as different, i.e., to discriminate against them.
It is significant that Maher tries to pin the label 'murderer' on the Muslims (or half of them?) Because one of the centerpieces of classical Western hatred of Jews was the blood libel, the allegation that they stole the babies of Christians and sacrificed them in secret rituals. It is hard to see what the difference is between that and arguing that some 3 million American Muslims are walking around like a grenade with the pin pulled out. Both blood libels configure a non-Christian group as homicidal, and locate the impulse for their alleged killing sprees in secret religious beliefs opaque to the normal Christian.
Refuting Maher would be tedious and, as others have noted, like nailing jello to the wall, since he doesn't have a cogent set of testable theses about Muslims, he just despises them. For what it is worth, It is fairly easy to show that Maher's specific assertions about Muslims, and more especially about American Muslims, are simply not true. Most reject militant groups, and nearly 80% want a two-state solution on Israel and Palestine, i.e. they accept Israel assuming Palestinian statelessness is ended.
Crowd politics is different in various parts of the world and it is certainly true that riots can be provoked in each culture by different things. It is a straw man to say Muslims "would" kill people for insulting Muhammad. How many such killings happen each year? where? And it stacks the deck against them to single out their motive from other possible impetuses to violence. Is the complaint that they are more violent than other people (not in evidence)? Or that their motives for violence are peculiar (depends on how you classify them)? In the United States, the police beating of Rodney King resulted in 3000 shops being burned down in Los Angeles. Race seems to be the thing that sets off riots in the US. Rioting over race relations is so common that major such incidents, as in Cincinnati, often do not even get national press.
The touchiness of Muslims about assaults on the Prophet Muhammad is in part rooted in centuries of Western colonialism and neo-colonialism during which their religion was routinely denounced as barbaric by the people ruling and lording it over them. That is, defending the Prophet and defending the post-colonial nation are for the most part indistinguishable, and being touchy over slights to national identity (and yes, Muslimness is a kind of national identity in today's world) is hardly confined to Muslims.
In India, dozens of Christians have sometimes been killed by rioting Hindus angry over allegations of missionary work. Killing people because you think they tried to convert members of your religion to another religion? Isn't it because such a conversion is an insult to your gods?
In Myanmar, angry Buddhists have attacked the hapless Muslim minority, sometimes alleging they were avenging an instance of the rape of a Buddhist girl (i.e. these are like lynchings in the Jim Crow South).
Or then there have been Sri Lanka Buddhist attacks on Tamil Christians. In fact, Sri Lanka Buddhists have erected a nasty police state and shown a propensity for violence against the Tamil minority, some elements of which have had revolutionary or separatist aspirations (not everybody in the group deserves to be punished for that).
And, militant Israeli Jews have set fire to Muslim mosques in Palestine and recently tried to "lynch" three Palestinians in Jerusalem. If Maher thinks only Muslims are thin-skinned, he should try publicly criticizing Israeli policy in America and see what happens to him.
Since Iraq didn't have 'weapons of mass destruction' and wasn't connected to 9/11, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that 300 million Americans brutally attacked and militarily occupied that country for 8 1/2 years, resulting in the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, the wounding of millions, and the displacement of millions more, mainly because Iraq's leader had talked dirty about America. Now that is touchy.
Americans tut-tutting over riots in the Arab world appear to have led sheltered lives. In most of the world, crowd actions are common over all kinds of issues, beyond the ones of race, class and college sports teams that routinely provoke them here. When I was living in India there were always items in the newspaper about a bus driver accidentally running over a pedestrian, and then an angry mob forming that killed the bus driver. Neighborhood nationalism. The same sort of crowds gather when a blaspheming author drives his discourse into the sanctity of their neighborhood. It is appalling, but I'm not sure what exactly you would do about that sort of thing. It certainly isn't confined to Muslims.
In fact, the crowd that attacked the US embassy in Cairo was just 2000 or so people, tiny by Egyptian standards. A demonstration that only attracted 2000 people would usually be considered a dismal failure in Cairo. Likewise, for all its horror and destructiveness, the crowd that assaulted the US consulate in Benghazi was very small, a few hundred people. Many of them have now been chased out of town by outraged Libyans disturbed at this affront to their city's reputation as a cradle of a revolution made for the sake of human rights. A careful comparison in percentage terms of the size of the crowds that protested Mubarak's rule in Cairo (hundreds of thousands) with the size of those who protested the so-called film attacking the Prophet Muhammad, shows that the latter is hardly worth mentioning.
Maher is using his position as a comedic gadfly to promote hatred of one-sixth of humankind, and that is wrong, any way you look at it.


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Minister: Women's Economic Empowerment is Key to Stronger, More Resilient Economy
APEC Women and the Economy Forum Wellington, New Zealand | 24 September 2021
Ministers and officials in the APEC region renewed their commitment to gender equality and women's economic empowerment and to creating conditions that will drive inclusive, effective and enduring economic growth after the COVID pandemic subsides.
Addressing the significant and disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women and girls, ministers, officials and business leaders pledged to implement policies that will improve women's access to capital and markets, strengthen women's labor force participation, increase access to leadership positions and support women's education, training and skills development.
Leading the discussion at the 2021 APEC Women and the Economy Forum, which was held virtually, New Zealand Minister for Women Jan Tinetti called attention to how the pandemic has driven many women out of the workforce and negatively affected their well-being.
"We know that much of the essential work has been carried out by women, and that they have been crucial to our COVID response—as scientists, healthcare professionals, educators and other essential workers," Minister Tinetti said. "We also know that women often carry out significant unpaid care responsibilities."
According to the updated APEC Women and the Economy Dashboard, the shift to digital technologies during the pandemic has increased the burden of employed women who are working from home to shoulder the bulk of domestic tasks and care work.
Related: Women's Economic Opportunities in APEC Improve, but Persistent Gender Biases Stifle Progress
Minister Tinetti urged member economies to join together and take bold, collective actions to minimize the risk of COVID-19, which has set back years of hard-won progress. Members are united to intensify the collection, analyses, dissemination and usage of sex-disaggregated data to get more clarity about existing barriers and inform an effective response to backsliding.
"The current challenges present officials with a great opportunity to reset, change the status quo and enable women and girls to fulfil their potential, for the benefit of all," Minister Tinetti, who chaired the forum on Friday, added. "We know our economies stand to gain substantially from achieving our goals for women and girls, including by creating the conditions for greater productivity, prosperity, innovation and improved quality of life."
Member economies agreed to carry out policies that enable and promote women's participation in the formal economy by addressing gender-based pay gaps and occupational segregation as well as tackling discriminatory legal and regulatory barriers for women entrepreneurs and women-led small businesses.
Ministers also pledged to promote work-life balance and equal sharing of unpaid domestic work and care by exploring measures that expand affordable and accessible child and elder care facilities and access to social protection systems. Members will continue to share best practices incorporating technological and digital solutions, which can improve the ability to manage paid and unpaid work.
"The decisions and responses that we make now can lay the foundation for a stronger future for women and girls, and a more resilient, inclusive economy," Minister Tinetti noted.
Minister Tinetti highlighted that while achieving equality is no easy task, gender-responsive policies and approaches are "critical for effective, inclusive and sustainable growth, especially in the wake of the pandemic.
"Together, we can seize the opportunity before us to address long-standing structural barriers to women's full and meaningful participation in the economy," Minister Tinetti concluded.
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Singapore | 15 December 2022 Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy


The Whitman-Hanson Golf team defeated Quincy today at Ridder Farm Golf Course 231-309. It was a complete team victory as 5 of the 8 players in the match shot 5 over par or better. The Panthers evened their record at 1-1.


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Injured Joe Swash eliminated from The Jump
"It's fitting," says Swash who was unable to compete in this week's moguls event and failed to leap higher than Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding
By Emma Daly
Sunday, 21st February 2016 at 7:59 pm
Joe Swash is the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Channel 4's The Jump.
The I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here NOW! presenter hasn't had an easy time on the show. He arrived as a back-up contestant – as other contestants pulled out with injury – only to subsequently chip a bone in his own shoulder in training.
Tonight he was unable to compete in the live moguls challenge. His place in the wintery reality show therefore came down to a pre-recorded jump off of the air jump, which fell short of his closest rival Sarah Harding. While the Girls Aloud star recorded a height of 8.59m, Swash put 8.31m up on the scoreboard.
"It's fitting," he admitted, saying it was only fair Harding went through given she had competed in the moguls.
On the night former Superman star Dean Cain was once again victorious in the knee-twisting event, which saw the celebs race down a bumpy piste. He saw off competition from both Heather Mills in his heat and The Wanted's Tom Parker in the final battle. For his efforts he earned another mini cowbell trophy.
The remaining celebrities – Sid Owen, Tamara Beckwith, Brian McFadden, Dean Cain, Tom Parker, Ben Cohen, Sarah Harding and Heather Mills – are all through to next week's semi-final, which will see them compete in Ski Cross.
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Hi, it would be awesome if we could ad a custom logo to the page.
It is actually possible. If you head over to the 'Theme' tab, go to the header section with the black dropdown menu and choose a setup with logo (like 'Menu right, logo left'), you get an upload field.