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A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations
05 Oct 2010Working Paper Summaries
by Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas
Considering that the topic of workplace diversity often garners unhappy discussions of prejudice, isolation, and conflict, it's not surprising that many researchers avoid the topic altogether. Only 5 percent of articles published in management journals from 2000-2008 included race or gender in their keywords. In this paper, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas propose a positive approach to studying diversity, with hopes that this will lead managers to feel more positive about adopting diversity policies in the workplace. Key concepts include:
Most workplace policies governing issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation come out of traditional studies that focus on discrimination.
Because these policies are borne of these traditional studies, they often yield negative consequences--such as a manager refraining from honest discourse for fear of a discrimination lawsuit.
A positive approach to diversity research could lead to policies that feel more organically productive and less threatening to managers.
In this article, we distinguish between positive findings in diversity research and a positive approach to studying diversity. First, we review and integrate research on diversity from organizational behavior, social psychology, and sociology from 1998 to 2010 that has already documented positive findings in relation to diversity. We discuss this research using two broad categories: (1) What is positively affected by diversity (positive for what)? This category consists of research that has shown instances of intergroup equality, positive intergroup relations, and the high performance of diverse groups. (2) When is diversity positive (positive when)? This category describes organizational and individual-level conditions under which intergroup outcomes, relations, and group performance are positive. Second, we discuss a positive approach to studying diversity and describe some examples of organizational scholarship that have taken such an approach. We also discuss some of the limitations of taking a positive approach to diversity and propose some ways that diversity scholars interested in taking a positive approach can overcome these limitations. By illuminating both positive findings in diversity research and a positive approach to studying diversity, we hope to spark more research that examines the beneficial and empowering aspects of difference for individuals and groups in organizations.
Working Paper Publication Date: September, 2010
HBS Working Paper Number: 11-024
Faculty Unit(s): Organizational Behavior
Lakshmi Ramarajan
Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration
David A. Thomas
Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus


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Q: get user info via google api client I'm recieving token-id from android client.
In the first step I'm validating the token via following code:
            $tokenId = $request->get('token-id');
            $google_client = new Google_Client();
            $google_client->setApplicationName("Ashojash");
            $google_client->setClientId(env("GOOGLE_KEY"));
            $google_client->setClientSecret(env("GOOGLE_SECRET"));
            $google_client->setIncludeGrantedScopes(true);
            $google_client->addScope(['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login']);
            $credentials = $google_client->verifyIdToken($tokenId);
            if ($credentials)
            {
                $data = $credentials->getAttributes();
                // validate aud against server client_id

                return $data['payload']['sub']; // user ID
            }
               return false;

received data from Google is:
 array:2 [
"envelope" => array:2 [
"alg" => "RS256"
"kid" => "23e5872762976b37944c33e4b2602656093ece91"
 ]
"payload" => array:12 [
"iss" => "https://accounts.google.com"
"aud" => "346904023124-73h70s03c0dipla8ltcbcd2ko076ft43.apps.googleusercontent.com"
"sub" => "111167217866315036918"
"email_verified" => true
"azp" => "346904023124-lehbs8510nibuq5ci125h8mu6u2ir4q1.apps.googleusercontent.com"
"email" => "jhon.f.kenedy777@gmail.com"
"iat" => 1452178925
"exp" => 1452182525
"name" => "john F.kenedy"
"given_name" => "john"
"family_name" => "F.kenedy"
"locale" => "en"]
    ]

After I've validated token-id, How do I get user info?
What I'm interested in are:
1-Email
2-User basic information
3-Google plus info
I've installed Socialite too, so if possible include your answers with Socialite too.

A: Using google-api-php-client library, once you get the result from $google_client->verifyIdToken you can access all the attributes you already posted in your question.
Tested with:
define('ROOT_PATH', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
require_once (ROOT_PATH.'/google-api-php-client/src/Google_Client.php');

$ClientID_debug = 'xxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com';
$ClientID_release = 'xxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com';
$mToken = $_POST['mToken'];
$build = $_POST['build'];

$google_client = new Google_Client();

if($build=='DEBUG'){
   $google_client->setClientId($ClientID_debug);
}else{
   $google_client->setClientId($ClientID_release);
}

$google_result = $google_client->verifyIdToken($mToken);

if ($google_result){
  $data = $google_result->getAttributes();
  $tokenUserID = $data['payload']['sub'];
  $tokenAudience = $data['payload']['aud'];
  $tokenEmail = $data['payload']['email'];
  //etc..

  //send result back to Android client (could also use JSON to send all attributes)
  echo($tokenAudience);
}

Call from Android using AsyncTask:
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

    try {
        //Always use https to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks!
        URL url = new URL("https://www.example.com/validateTokenID.php");
        Map<String, Object> HTTPpostParams = new LinkedHashMap<>();

        if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
            //debug build
            HTTPpostParams.put("build", "DEBUG");
        }else{
            //release build
            HTTPpostParams.put("build", "RELEASE");
        }

        HTTPpostParams.put("mToken", MygoogleSignedInAccount.getIdToken());

        StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
        for (Map.Entry<String, Object> param : HTTPpostParams.entrySet()) {
            if (postData.length() != 0) postData.append('&');
            postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(param.getKey(), "UTF-8"));
            postData.append('=');
            postData.append(URLEncoder.encode(String.valueOf(param.getValue()), "UTF-8"));
        }
        byte[] postDataBytes = postData.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");

        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
        conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", String.valueOf(postDataBytes.length));
        conn.setDoOutput(true);
        conn.getOutputStream().write(postDataBytes);

        Reader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
        StringBuilder strB = new StringBuilder();

        for ( int c = in.read(); c != -1; c = in.read() ) strB.append((char) c);

        return strB.toString();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        //this.exception = e;
        Log.e("MyApp", e.getMessage());
        return e.getMessage();
    }

}

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PROLINE, a hand tools manufacturer was founded in 1998 and has been immediately appreciated by specialists and by demanding amateurs. PROLINE tools are tested under extreme conditions, their creators put special attention to the resistance and quality of production.
This line includes full product mix of tools used in professional assembly of building hardware, among others: measuring tools, saws, crowbars, hammers, etc. Additionally, the company offers equipment for tools transport and equipment improving the comfort of work, which helps in optimizing the working time. Similarly to others partners of the Oknaaluminiowe.pl program, PROLINE supports the Good Fitting educational campaign.
The owner of the brand is Profix - a company founded at the turn of 1993 and 1994, one of the largest distributors of tools in Poland. To keep the best possible parameters of their products, PROFIX has created a research and development unit that watches over the quality of the products.


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Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI)? How to calculate GMROI?
Gross Margin Return on Investment Definition
The GMROI is an inventory profitability ratio that analyzes a company's ability to convert inventories into cash above the cost of inventory. It is calculated by dividing the gross margin by the average cost of inventory. GMROI is used frequently in the retail industry.
GMROI is a useful measure as it helps an investor or manager see the average amount of inventory returned on its cost. A ratio higher than 1 means the company is selling more than it costs it to buy and shows the business has a good balance of revenue, yield, and cost of inventory.
The opposite is true for ratios below 1.
- GMROI shows how much profit inventory generates after covering inventory costs.
- A higher GMROI is usually better, as it means that each inventory unit is generating higher profits.
- The GMROI can show significant variance depending on the market segment, period, item type, and other factors.
The formula for calculating GMROI
GMROI = Gross profit / Average inventory cost
In order to calculate the gross profit-to-stock ratio, two numbers must be known: gross profit margin and average inventory. Gross profit is calculated by subtracting COGS from the company from sales. The difference is then divided by its revenue. The average inventory is calculated by taking the total ending inventory for a specified period and dividing the total by the number of periods.
How to use GMROI
For example, let's say the luxury goods retailer ABC has a total revenue of $ 100 million and a cost of goods sold of $ 35 million at the end of the current financial year. As a result, the company has a gross margin of 65%, which means it retains 65 cents for every dollar of revenue it generates.
Gross margin can also be expressed in dollars, not percentages. At the end of the fiscal year, the company has an average inventory cost of $ 20 million. This company's GMROI is 3.25, or $ 65 million / $ 20 million, which means it makes a revenue of 325% of the cost. Therefore, ABC Company is selling the goods at a price higher than the cost of buying it.
Assume luxury retailer XYZ is a competitor to company ABC and has a total revenue of 80 million dollars and the cost of goods sold of 65 million dollars. As a result, the company has a gross profit margin of $ 15 million, or 18.75 cents, for every dollar of revenue the company generates.
The company has an average inventory cost $20M. Company XYZ has a GMROI of $15 million / $20 million (0.75). As a result, it earns 75% of its revenue and gets $ 0.75 of gross profit for every dollar invested in inventory. This means company XYZ is selling the goods at a price lower than the cost of the acquisition. Compared to company XYZ, Company ABC could be a more ideal investment based on GMROI.
➤ Learn more: Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Definition - Everything you need to know

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All private haulers of refuse and recyclables operating within the City of Watertown are required to be licensed.
The annual fee for this license is $250, which includes the use of one collection vehicle. There will be an additional license fee of $125 for each additional collection vehicle.
Each collection vehicle must be inspected and registered on an annual basis in order to ensure that certain minimum standards are met. The inspection and registration fee per vehicle is $45.00.
You must provide a comparable recycle collection service to all of your customers.
The permit application, proof of City inspection and fees must be turned into the City Clerk's Office.


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A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living
Liz O'Donnell
Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced career in marketing and raising two children when both of her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the same day. In the challenges she faced and the choices she made, readers will learn how they can navigate their own caregiving experiences and prepare for when they are inevitably called on to care for their parents.
Working Daughter sparks the conversation we so desperately need to have about women and the workplace. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day and a shortage of caregivers predicted in the next few years, it's time we talk about how family caregivers and their employers will face the impact of a rapidly aging society. There are plenty of books about managing career and children, but little advice on how to balance career and parents – along with children, marriages, and friendships. Working Daughter provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers. This book is for women who want straight talk and real advice about the challenges of eldercare, the choices they will need to make, the aspects of caregiving they can control, and that which they cannot. And finally, Working Daughter shows family caregivers how they can achieve the caregiver's gain—the underreported but well-documented upside to caring for an aging parent.
978-1-5381-2465-9 • Hardback • July 2019 • $30.00 • (£19.95)
978-1-5381-2466-6 • eBook • July 2019 • $28.50 • (£18.95)
Subjects: Family & Relationships / Eldercare, Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Later Years, Self-Help / Aging
Liz O'Donnell is a marketing executive and the founder of WorkingDaughter.com, a community for women balancing eldercare and career. She is the author of Mogul, Mom & Maid: The Balancing Act of the Modern Woman (2013). Liz lives in Boston, Mass.
1 Accept
2 Absolve
3 Prioritize
5 Choose
6 Manage
7 Disrupt
8 Renew
10 Reflect
Aiming her words at the many women in the sandwich generation, O'Donnell presents a blueprint for managing a career, children, and aging parents. She applies her own experience and that of others to talk plainly about the challenges of eldercare, the choices to be made, the aspects of caregiving that can and cannot be controlled, and the upside to caring for an aging parent. O'Donnell further considers common issues such as setting boundaries, caregiving with siblings, managing disruptions, and practicing self-care. VERDICT This book provides much-needed support for the growing population of women caregivers. Highly recommended for both public and personal collections.
— Library Journal, Starred Review
What happens to women who spend more time with their ailing parents than with their husbands and kids? They can feel overburdened and resentful, writes O'Donnell, a mom of two kids who was the primary caregiver for her now-deceased parents. On the same day in 2014, doctors diagnosed her father with early-onset Alzheimer's and her mother with ovarian cancer. In this honest, advice-filled memoir, O'Donnell admits to feeling like a "horrible, selfish" person and an overwhelmed one, too. At one point, this super-daughter, who was also working full time, had 196 items on her to-do list for her parents. She advises parents to remove the word "should" from their vocabulary and to choose some "non-negotiables," like being present in their kids' lives and staying employed. "Perfect is overrated" and "impossible," she says. After her father's death in July 2017, she feels a "sense of freedom." But it's temporary. Her 51-year-old husband gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The lesson seems to be to expect the unexpected and to place more value on loving and caring for family members.
— Booklist
Liz O'Donnell, an expert on life challenges faced by working women, tackles an issue that most will eventually face: how to help an aging parent while keeping up with work and everything else a modern woman is often juggling. This book provides essential understanding, encouragement, and practical advice. I especially loved her suggestions on how to manage at work and how to handle the inevitable expectations and judgments that women encounter (not the least of which come from themselves). This is a great resource to help "working daughters" and I'd also recommend it to employers and policy-makers, who need to do more to support the many working family caregivers of aging adults.
— Leslie Kernisan, MD, Geriatrician, Founder of BetterHealthWhileAging.net and HelpingOlderParents.com
Women might be able to shoulder both work and motherhood, but throw an elderly parent's care into the mix, and these mighty women can collapse into a heap of wine, cheese dip and tissues. Liz O'Donnell gives them some guidance on how to accept their fates, manage the mess, and even find some joy in the moment.
— Virginia Morris, author of "How to Care for Aging Parents"
Liz O'Donnell is a woman who knows how to write, how to be brutally honest, how to tell caregivers' unique stories, and how tell a bigger story about the new normal we're all experiencing as our parents live so much longer than any generation before now. I love this book so much. It's required reading for every grown-up with a loved one to care for. Heck, it's just required reading about modern American life.
— Anne Tumlinson, National aging expert, and founder of Daughterhood.org, a community of caregivers
Finally a book that respects and addresses the challenges faced by women in the workforce who are simultaneously caring for aging parents. Working Daughter is an essential guide that will help and empower caregivers at a time when they need it most.
— Dr. Nanette Fondas, D.B.A., M.Phil., author of "The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line"
Working Daughter is an essential tool for the millions of families facing the crisis of elder care in this country. Liz crafts a gripping narrative that describes her own experiences and combines her story with a treasure trove of practical strategies that are universal in application. The book is a must-read for both daughters and sons of aging parents.
— Lauren Stiller Rikleen, president, Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership, and author of "The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace"
Caregivers are joined by stories, because it is through our stories where diversity meets to the road to combat a common cause. And our common cause is caregiving. By sharing her caregiving story, Liz O'Donnell provides her readers with real-life stories, filled with real-life emotions, complemented by tried and tested solutions so that your caregiving journey just might be a tad bit easier. Well Done Liz!
— Christopher MacLellan, M.A.; Author, Host of the Healing Ties Podcast, Coordinator Caregiver Assistance Program for the South Florida Institute on Aging
Drawing from her own raw experience caring for her aging parents while juggling young children and working as her family breadwinner, in Working Daughter Liz O'Donnell offers hard-won lessons on dealing with shame, guilt and unrealistic expectations, as well as how to navigate the complex, confusing and woefully inadequate elder care system in America. A welcome and practical guide to anyone struggling to honor and care for aging loved ones while seeking to live their own lives fully.
— Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist, author of the New York Times bestselling "Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time," and director of The Better Life Lab at New America
Well done Liz for giving permission to women (and men) to cut the perfection garbage that hurts everyone around elder care. Liz has captured the incredibly hard challenge and the joy of care-taking our parents while having a career. Every CEO should read this book so they can figure out how to help make it easier for people to do both.
— Jodi Detjen, Clinical Professor of Management, MBA Program Director, Suffolk University
Working Daughter is an unflinchingly honest, sharp, often funny guide to caring for an aging parent while holding down a job. If you've ever wished you could just talk to someone who understands what you're going through - and also offers the best advice - you've found her.
— Ashley Milne-Tyte, Host, The Broad Experience podcast
This is a must-read for anyone who is in the midst of carrying a heavy caregiving load. Begin reading, and know there is benefit to what you are doing - not just for the person in your care, but for you. It is not all about distress, because caregiving stress is actually good for us in some ways. The trick is in knowing how to work with it and not let it become caregiving distress! And, knowing what to do when it does become distress.
This is a book worth having and reading. Even if you only use one of her fifty suggestions in Chapter 8: Renew, maybe just for five minutes at a time, do it! It is part of what can help you take care of you. And, as Liz shares, if you are going to reap the benefits of caregiver stress, you will want to start some new habits of self-care. Little habits, but ones that help you be the person you are becoming through your new normal.
What is so engaging and absolutely beneficial about this book is that it is real and it is hard, at times. Liz has also, however, included details and specifics on how you find the special and utterly unforgettable and invaluable moments in the care experience. Liz has used her story of care provision for two parents while working, parenting, and living to develop a resource for others that is practical, evidence-based, and meaningful. She uses her experiences to humanize and individualize a very complex and overwhelming role of a working daughter, who may also be a wife, mother, employer, care plan manager, insurance policy interpreter, care facility realtor, unit manager… you get the drift.
I love how Liz captures action items and places them in lists or categories for the reader to consider, after sharing the personal portion of her journey that got her to that list. She also provides bits of research that help support what she is offering and sharing. It is always helpful to hear the science behind the recommendations, and she is great at adding it into the recipe.
As a well-known and passionate advocate for people living with dementia and their care providers and families, I found this book a helpful read and a useful resource. Personally, I really enjoyed the revelations of what gave Liz moments of relief and joy at the end of a long, hard, impossible to do more day.
I am adding Working Daughter to my library of recommended offerings when families are looking for either the why, the how, or the when in the role they may be considering or the role they have found themselves in.
— Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dementia Care and Training Specialist, Owner, Positive Approach, LLC
12/17/2019: Liz O'Donnell quoted in The Boston Globe; "As labor crunch tightens, employers offer more flexibility to those serving as family caregivers."
Link: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/12/17/labor-crunch-tightens-employers-offer-more-flexibility-working-caregivers/1PuCRALqlSAvXYMiHw8PBI/story.html


The management, University of Ilorin has reopened the remedial portal for interested applicants to apply. The recently closed portal was reopened today so that interested individuals who couldn't register for the program before the portal closed can now do that now.
NB: We don't know how long this would last but, interested applicants should make good use of this open window.
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Videogame Review: Dead By Daylight
Zach Martin August 1, 2016 Newest ArticlesToys/Games
Developed by Behaviour Interactive and published by Starbreeze Studios.
Reviewed on PC
My tech specs:
Core i7-5820k (water-cooled) @ 3.30GHz (not overclocked)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980ti
Corsair Vengeance 16gb Ram DDR4
24in 1920×1080 monitor, 144Hz (also briefly tested on a 4k TV running 60Hz)
Around a month ago I became aware of this game through my roommate, who is also a gamer like me only much more hardcore. He told me about a new game called "Dead By Daylight" that was looking like it was going to be a survival game in the same vein as Left 4 Dead, and began to describe the game. Within a few moments I was fully sold on the premise and pre-ordered the game. I would find out after about a week later, he told me he got a refund on it. Oh if I were so lucky.
The gameplay itself is the main meat of the game and by that I mean, if you're a survivor, the way the current game is set, you're toast. I have played the game around thirty-five hours at this point and I swear that at least 7 times out of 10, the killer finds and kills me first. Could this just be bad luck? Sure but its incredibly infuriating. The main objective of the survivors is to start five generators. These generators will then activate the gates to escape. If there is only one survivor left, a randomly generated hatch will open and the remaining survivor will either have to fix the remaining generators or find and escape through the hatch. This in itself would be simple, if it wasn't for the killer being completely overpowered in every regard. Nothing feels balanced when it comes to fairness of the two kinds of players.
On the killers side of things, it's fantastically brutal. What do I mean by that? Let me back up. The whole reason to continue playing is to get two different things during the trials: "Bloodpoints" (points earned by doing objectives, surviving, helping others and being bold) and getting "Pips" or tick marks that helps you level up. So if you win a round as a survivor with enough points you earn a pip, but if you die without earning one, you lose one. Making a simple task of leveling up a literal impossibility for me. The vast majority of people that join the match are still ranked level 20 (or base level with Level 1 being the best). Each round that god smiles upon me and I earn a pip is dashed within the next round due to the killers being too powerful.
Now as I said before, on the Killers side of things, this is fantastic for leveling up. Currently I'm at rank 16 having very rarely lost a pip from any match while being a killer, which then makes me ask the question: why even bother being a survivor if I have a 90% chance or higher of dying? It's incredibly one-sided and completely broken. In matchmaking a players rank isn't taken into consideration, making the experience feel again, very one-sided. For example when starting a match as a survivor, one might be teamed up with someone level 20, 1, 19 and 20 whereas the killer is rank 15. There definitely needs to be an overhaul of the games mechanics and while there has been small changes put in place the game simply isn't ready for release.
I did some searching on the Steam discussion boards to see if other people were having the same issues as me, and there was a very vocal group begging for a patch to fix the issues I have listed. Unfortunately the comments to these posts were a myriad of "get good m8" or "looks like you just suck". Well to those anonymous users, you're an asshole.
One simple thing that NEEDS to an immediate change is the lack of communication from teammates. Not only is there no voice comm. available, but also text chat is nowhere to be found other than in the games lobby. To make insult to injury, when in game the steam voice chat (from one user to another) is disabled making taking to friends while in game impossibility without a third-party call system (Skype, facebook, Vent, etc.). This needs to be changed at once and is insulting for not having in game. For example if you want to restrict info between players, why not have your mic only be able to be heard within a certain amount of distance! It baffles me why this has been implemented and who approved it.
Story? What Story? Oh! Yeah, if you want any back-story, or even character development you the player must go online and read the instruction booklet that is not downloaded with the game. Kinda lame right? Well it turns out that it really doesn't matter other than this: the girls can run fast and the guys can sabotage, while the killer is bad. That's all you really need to know as far as a plot. But for the sake of this review, there really is no plot. The questions I would beg to ask, as a survivor is, HOW DID WE GET HERE? No answer is ever provided and even digging into the games own lore, did I find an answer giving me the impression that the game designers had an idea, but no way to connect it to a simple story. The Lore online is about a guy named Benedict (who is not in the game) discovering what the Entity (main evil) is and what it does to the mind. As for the killers and survivors, their whole back-story and life's story is provided but it really doesn't mean much in the long run when it's never integrated into the main game.
On the flip side of the story, I'm actually ok with the killers not having much back-story other than "kids on muh property!", but apparently each killer had some tragic back-story that doesn't add anything. You kids gon learn today.
The Graphics
Unfortunately Dead By Daylight is frame locked at 60 frames per second, with sometimes going up to 62fps weirdly enough. Graphically it looks ok, with the biggest problem being textures that don't load properly in till around twenty or so seconds after starting a match. I only encountered this issue about ten or so times and quickly became familiar with it. The biggest issue the game has graphically is the animation with some events being completely bungled with sometimes having only four to five frames of animation show up, for example, like when a character gets injured. It's extremely easy to get taken out of the moment when something like this happens.
One would think to simply mess around in the options menu of the game but one will find only misery there. The options listed for resolution is a slider bar while the quality has a low to ultra limit. Other than that you can adjust if you would like it in full screen, headphones or change the Y-Axis. That's about all there really is. I wish I were joking. This is really kinda insulting considering that this is a full release of a non-console game in 2016. Half-Life 2 from 2004 had more setting and ways to customize than this. The Graphics as a whole come off as competent but the options menu is completely unacceptable.
So being chased around by a killer in the middle of nowhere should sound great right? Wrong. The game's atmosphere is simply all right. You get the usual, bugs, wind blowing or general atmosphere but at no point does it ever become immersive, as it should be. The Killer also has a radius of "terror" that gives an audible heartbeat that gets louder and faster depending on how close he is, giving you an indication that you better run. Aside from that, I have noticed several times while playing as the killer that I can mistake my own footsteps (in a corn field for example) for a survivor, and gone in circles thinking it's a person close to me. This should be fixed, in my opinion, or at least toned down compared to others. There's nothing inherently wrong about the sound mix or use of it, other than there's nothing special about it. There's nothing to write home about and that really is a sad thing.
Bonus Content, or Replay Value
The only bonus content currently in the game is different skins for the survivors or upgrades to items in game. There is no paid DLC as of yet, but the developers have stated before that there eventually will be, mostly cosmetic. The devs have also come out and said that, in due time, free DLC will be added to enhance the game. As to what this means, no one knows.
As for replay value, as Albert Einstein put it, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results" and for playing for around thirty five hours at the time of writing this, I feel like the game has serious potential, but is just simply not ready for release. There's a nugget of goodness in there but until the devs find the right amount of balance, I simply cannot recommend Dead By Daylight.
Overall (Not an Average) 4/10
Gameplay 4/10
Graphics 6/10
Sound 6/10
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ERB 25th Anniversary Opening Ceremony cum the 9th ERB "Manpower Development Scheme" Award Presentation Ceremony
Over 100 awards were presented and the "ERB Trainee Skills Contest and Service Day" was held concurrently
The Employees Retraining Board (ERB) organised the ERB 25th Anniversary Opening Ceremony cum the 9th ERB "Manpower Development Scheme" Award Presentation Ceremony today (11 March 2017) at the MacPherson Playground in Mongkok. The officiating guests were the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Stephen Sui Wai-keung, JP, the Permanent Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Miss Annie Tam Kam-lan, GBS, JP, the Chairman of the ERB, Mr. William Leung Wing-cheung, SBS, JP, the Vice-chairman of the ERB, Mr. Yu Pang-chun, SBS, JP and the Executive Director of the ERB, Mr. Stanley Ng Ka-kwong, BBS. The event was attended by around 350 guests.
Addressing the ceremony, the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Stephen Sui, paid tribute to the ERB for its invaluable contribution in assisting the general public and those with special needs to acquire value-added job skills and develop their careers. In view of Hong Kong's ageing population and the shrinking workforce, the ERB plays an important support role in unleashing the potential of our population in joining the workforce. He welcomed the ERB's effort in launching innovative courses and services to improve the quality and employability of the labour force and motivate people to join the labour market.
The ERB Chairman Mr. William Leung said in his opening address that the ERB has provided altogether some 2.3 million training places since its establishment in 1992. Its service targets now comprise 2.5 million Hong Kong people. Over the past 25 years, the ERB has all along been dedicated to the implementation of new initiatives. In recent years, the ERB has launched a series of new courses and training schemes, including the "Squad 3S Programme", "Foundation Certificate in Pork Butcher Training", "Fitness Coach Training" course series, "Foundation Certificate in Workplace Re-entry" course series, "First-hire-then-train" pilot programme, and "Modular Certificates Accumulation Scheme", to cater for the diverse background and needs of its service targets. The "Smart Starter" part-time job referral platform set up in 2016, working in conjunction with the "ERB Service Centres" and "ERB Service Spots", constitutes a comprehensive and effective district-based support network. The ERB has also considerably widened its information channels. Social media and online platforms are more actively used to communicate and interact with the public, and this has motivated more people to pursue learning and enrol in ERB training courses.
Mr. William Leung said that the Opening Ceremony marked the moving into the 25th Anniversary of the ERB. Adopting "infinity" as the design concept, The unveiled ERB 25th Anniversary logo adopts "infinity" as the design concept and comes with vibrant colors. It symbolises the commitment of the ERB in offering diversified training courses and services over the past 25 years with the objective of unleashing the potentials of the general public. A series of promotional activities have been planned to commemorate the special occasion. The "We Love Upgrading Scheme" will be launched in July 2017 to allow eligible people to enrol in the half-day or evening courses of the ERB free of charge. In August and September 2017, the ERB will organise its "ERB Trainees Service Days" during which trainees will provide complimentary massage and hair-cut services to social groups with special needs. These activities will be promulgated through the ERB 25th Anniversary website and the "My ERB" Facebook Fan Page in due course.
The ERB "Manpower Development Scheme" Award Presentation Ceremony has moved into its ninth year. Altogether 103 awards have been presented to employers, trainees, instructors and training bodies to acknowledge their invaluable contributions to the ERB "Manpower Development Scheme". As for trainee awards, a total of 19 trainees including mature adults, middle-aged women, young people, new arrivals and a rehabilitated person are awarded the "ERB Outstanding Award for Trainees" or the "ERB Merit Award for Trainees" as a result of their commendable work performance.
This year, a total of 40 establishments receive the employer awards. These winning establishments have been outstanding in offering employment opportunities for ERB trainees, providing on-the-job training and career development opportunities for new recruits, investing in continuous learning, assisting in the promotion of ERB courses and services, advocating corporate social responsibilities, and helping the underprivileged to land on jobs.
The ERB organised the "ERB Trainee Skills Contest and Service Day" together with the Presentation Ceremony. ERB trainees demonstrated their vocational skills acquired from different training courses in offering about 30 free services to social groups with special needs and members of the public. These services included coffee and milk tea brewing, pastry making, hair-cut, massage, makeup, manicure, photo-taking and blood pressure measuring. Twenty-three social services organisations arranged some 1,000 people to receive the free services, including persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, elderly, new arrivals, single-parents and families on Comprehensive Social Security Assistance. Six ERB graduates participated in the skills contest to showcase their specialties in coffee making and beauty make-up. Twenty-four training bodies also provided information on ERB training courses and services and accepted course enrolment on the spot.
Please refer to Chinese version for the award winning lists and background of the Outstanding Trainees.
Post Date:11/3/2017


I've been asking a lot of clients and friends about their new year's resolutions. I'm not looking for the usual "I want to lose 20lbs" answers. I don't want typical. I want real and doable goals to accomplish.
Let's face it, 2017 was hard, harder than anyone expected after the Hell that was 2016. I know a lot of you are not expecting 2018 to be a banner year for a happy, stress free string of successes. Most of us are just hoping to still draw oxygen a year from now with a roof over our heads. I know, a bleak outlook, but I am realistic if anything.
a. Buy only necessary items. Food, shampoo, cat litter and the like. Use only the money you have in your account to reduce credit card spending. If you have significant debt, pay back as much as you can afford each month. Review any automatic charges - memberships you don't use, etc.
b. If you must buy something that is usually more expensive, check your local neighborhood sale pages. Someone may be selling what you need. The money goes right into the pocket of someone who will put that money to better use.
c. Keep a daily expense tracker - either on paper or in your phone/tablet. This will help you stick with your budget and know where your money is actually going.
a. Meet at least one friend per month for coffee, lunch, jog, or just a walk at lunchtime. Connect in real time, face to face. No phones allowed.
b. If you find that your social life is taking over every other responsibility, take one day each weekend to get all of your chores done. Laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping. Then you can go out and be the little butterfly you are stress free.
a. Exercise three times a week for at least 30 minutes. This really shouldn't be an optional item. It is one of the most important things you can do for your health, along with NOT SMOKING.
b. Eat clean - no junk food, fast food, soda, sugary drinks. Eat more fruit, vegetables, lean proteins and fish, beans, whole grains. Drink a lot of water. You'll feel better almost instantly. Get support from friends and peers who are also trying to do this. Pack lunch to work each morning so you aren't tempted to go to The Golden Arches. This doesn't have to be about pounds lost, if you want to quantify improved health, get your blood work done now, and again in a year.
c. Cut back on alcohol. If you think you need to do this, then you probably do. Alcohol might be tasty and fun but it goes straight to the gut with empty calories, and probably some other unhealthy choices along the way.
a. Depending on your profession, you may have to do some learning to maintain your job, or certifications. Learning doesn't have to be a chore, if you have some flexibility, then find a class or training that makes you excited to go.
b. Read a book, article, blog post, watch a video, a month on the topic of your profession. Keep a list of what you have read and what you learned.
c. If you have thought about a career change, now is a good time to look into your choices. What will it cost? Is it right for you? How long will it take to make the switch?
a. I wouldn't be a good therapist if I didn't bring this up. Be honest with yourself. Has your anxiety, depression, drinking, anger, gotten in the way of enjoying the things you usually enjoy? Your relationships? Your environment? Your job? It's a good time to find a friendly neighborhood therapist and work through some of the barriers that are keeping you from living life to the fullest. You deserve to.
b. Like many people this year, there was a lot of anger. Make a resolution to get politically involved, join a campaign for a candidate you support, write to your current elected officials. Run for office if you have what it takes. Confront the things that are making you angry but have open dialogues with people to find solutions.
a. Keep a list of things you have always wanted to do. Ride a motorcycle, skydive, scuba dive, travel to Japan, adopt a pet. What would it take for you to accomplish one of these this year? With money saved (above) could you afford one of these things? Could you start planning to do one or more of these things in the next 5 years? Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it can't be done ever. Just maybe not right this instant. That's what a goal is - something to reach for, over time, and many steps to take. Make a vision board to keep you focused on it - cut out magazine photos of Ireland and put $5 in a jar every pay day. You can get there.
Along with looking forward, take stock of what is behind you in the last 12 months. You probably accomplished more than you realize, even if your old list isn't all checked off. I personally had a few ideas fall flat, but there were other good surprises that made up for it. It's important not to overlook those, after all. What is the saying about the best laid plans are paved with good intentions? That's all you really need: the will to move ahead.


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Democratic Primaries 4/26: Exit Poll anomalies (continued)
April 27, 2016 (updated May 26)
There were three exit polls yesterday in CT, MD, PA. Sanders exit poll share declined from the poll to the vote in two of the three elections. As usual, the exit polls were forced to match the recorded vote.
The difference between Clinton's adjusted exit poll and recorded share were:
CT 0.01%; MD 0.10%; PA -0.17%
In 21 of 23 primaries, Sander's exit poll share exceeded his recorded share.
The probability of this being due to chance:
P = 1 in 30,000 = binomdist(2,23,0.5,true)
In 9 of 23 primaries, Sanders exit poll share exceeded his recorded share by more than the margin of error. The probability of this being due to chance:
P = 1 in 441 million = 1-BINOMDIST( 8,23, 0.025, true)
The pollsters ALWAYS force the unadjusted exit polls to match the recorded vote. Where are the unadjusted exit polls? The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) discusses the matching process in Explaining Exit Polls.
In close races, the projection models also employ actual vote totals, first in sample precincts as it becomes available and then at the county level for all counties in a state as they become available. It is important to note that after the votes have been counted, the exit poll results are adjusted to match the actual election outcomes. It is in this way that the final exit poll data can be used for its primary and most important purpose – to shed light on why the election turned out the way it did.
Note: It's not just in close races. Unadjusted exit polls are adjusted to match the recorded vote in ALL races. The pollsters need to provide the actual exit poll respondent data for all precincts. They need to provide the data and then explain the rationale for making the adjustments to match the vote. But they won't. Ask yourself WHY?
The AAPOR never mentions election fraud as a likely cause of the discrepancies. In actuality all of the adjusted exit poll crosstabs contaminate the true statistical results and are misleading as they do not reflect the the actual responses of those exit polled.
Exit pollsters at Edison Research should not be making adjustments. But it is standard operating procedure. It is unscientific and hides the actual exit poll results. It serves to cover-up the fraud which is measured by the recorded vote discrepancy .
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/2016/03/02/ma-primary-unadjusted-exit-poll-indicates-bernie-won/
Final Adjusted Exit Polls (forced to match the recorded vote)
1234 total respondents
Pct Clinton Sanders
men 39% 43% 55%
women 61% 57% 41%
Total 51.54% 46.46%
2-party 52.59% 47.41%
Recorded 52.60% 47.40%
Diff 0.01%
Diff -0.17%
May 26 update:
THE CONNECTICUT EXIT POLL
How did Sanders early poll drop from 55% to 47%? It would be nice to know how many were polled at this point. According to Edison Research, about 2/3 of the total polled (1223).
The MoE for 815 respondents is 4.5%. For 1223, it is 3.6%. So Sanders exit poll dropped by 8%, far above the 4.5% MoE.
Should we add CT to the list of 11 of 26 exit polls which exceeded the MoE for Sanders? The 1 in 77 billion probability would become 1 in 2.4 TRILLION.
"Edison Research exit poll interviewers call in exit poll results three times during election day – once in the late morning, once in the mid-afternoon, and once shortly before the polls close in a state. The exit poll data that is released at 5PM to the news organizations comprising the National Election Pool (NEP members are ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and the Associated Press) and any other news organizations subscribing to the exit poll include about two-thirds of the interviews that will be conducted on an election day. The exit poll results that are released around poll closing include nearly all of the voter interviews that are conducted during election day."
The table below was created by Theodore de Macedo Soares (tedsoares@yahoo.com)
CNN is the source of the state exit polls which were downloaded shortly after closing.
The NY Times is the source of the reported vote counts.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGxtIofohrj3POpwq-85Id2_fYKgvgoWbPZacZw0XlY/edit#gid=1591963017
http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/pa/Dem
Tags: Democratic Primary exit polls, election fraud, richard charnin
47 responses to "Democratic Primaries 4/26: Exit Poll anomalies (continued)"
Has anyone done any research into Edison? They don't have a Wikipedia page, and the only thing I can find about Mitofsky says he refused to release the actual numbers for the 2000 General election, which makes me suspicious of the whole enterprise.
Check out the Edison Research website.
Is it possible to obtain the unadjusted exit polls by contacting CNN or other news networks? I thought it was odd that they simply said "our exit polls tell us it's too close to call" in all states but Maryland (for Dems), but they didn't show the actual percentages for their exit polls like they usually do. I wonder if they've caught on to the problems that you and others are raising concerning the consistent anomalies in Hillary's favor.
You can contact them. Perhaps they will agree to your request
Edison Research requires a subscription to get the raw data. I'm willing to bet CNN won't give you something they paid for.
Have you seen this yet, Richard? Rawstory has a story about you and others, and the author and rawstory are shilling for the abusive right-wing owned evidence-free e-voting/e-scanning machines which in the first place necessitated the strategy of analyzing exit polling – unajusted – to try to check a system with no evidence or hidden evidence.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/on-tim-robbins-election-fraud-and-how-nonsense-spreads-around-the-internet/
On Tim Robbins, election fraud and how nonsense spreads around the Internet
We need to prove our Democracy. It is that simple.
Instead, the msm accepts the removal and hiding of real evidence (paper ballots hand counted in public and posted in precinct on election night, or as with caucuses the public evidence of a open hand/head count) as a perfectly good standard…without proof.
Here is the strongest evidence in support of Richard's statistical analysis which cannot be explained in any way other than fraud and theft by the political party leaders:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGxtIofohrj3POpwq-85Id2_fYKgvgoWbPZacZw0XlY/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=815759394
New York Is Included, but not Tuesday's results yet:
Sanders Average Vote Shares:
65% in 13 Caucuses
(with real evidence of public hand/head counts, or paper ballots hand-counted in precinct)
31% in 22 Primaries
(with removed or hidden evidence by e-voting, e-scanning machines owned by the right, selecting the right-most candidates in both parties)
MSM is okay with no evidence. You know exactly why. It is time to Prove Our Democracy. If you support a democracy, that is no problem. If you do not support a democracy that is a big, YUUUUGH problem for the powers that what to force their control over all of us and the world.
Hopefully this is not a repeat. But, I had a typo in my first post that I want to correct.
This is the ultimate proof of election fraud that Richard has been warning all people about so that we could save our democracy finally, this time during this primary, in order to get better leaders who will save our future economy, jobs, health, education, climate, and perhaps even our species:
New York Is Included, but Not Yet Tuesday's Results:
(my note: Caucuses have real evidence of public hand/head counts, or real evidence of paper ballots hand counted)
(my note: Primaries DO NOT HAVE EVIDENCE. Real evidence is removed by e-voting machines, and hidden by e-scanning machines owned by the extreme right to control our fates, and given the seal of approval by the bought off media)
PROVE OUR DEMOCRACY NOW during these primaries and caucuses. Media should support evidence if they support democracy. It looks to the world, that the media do not support democracy, preferring the fraud of NO EVIDENCE instead.
Richard, did you see the following article that is about you and some other election integrity people?
It is a doozy, that supports NO EVIDENCE in elections, and does not support the only INDIRECT EVIDENCE available to try to double check results and report on this YUUUUUUGE problem for an accountable democracy.
The spreadsheet was created by Richard Charnin, who writes a blog devoted to "JFK conspiracy and systemic election fraud analysis." Charnin's spreadsheet appears to be the basis of a broad swath of viral Internet content alleging widespread election theft during the 2016 primaries, including the work of Free Press editors Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis. Charnin seems to think that exit polls can reveal that virtually all our elections have been rigged, writing, "in the 1988-2008 presidential elections, the Democrats won the exit polls by 52-42%; they won the recorded vote by just 48-46%, an 8% discrepancy."
After the New York primary, which was a total mess, Charnin sent an email to his list with a detailed statistical analysis based on the assumption that 5 percent of New York voters had been disenfranchised, and that 75 percent of them would have voted for Sanders if they'd had the chance. Given that pre-election polls showed Clinton leading the state by 13.5 percent — and that New York City, where the biggest irregularities occurred, was a Clinton stronghold — this is what statisticians call "pulling an assumption out of your ass."
I exchanged some… interesting correspondence with Charnin. After calling me "very biased and misleading" for a recent piece, he claimed that "ALL exit polls are forced to match the recorded vote." I asked him whether the exit poll data in his spreadsheet were unadjusted, and he said that they were the data released by major media organizations. He then told me that "the mainstream media won't dare touch the Third Rail – ELECTION FRAUD," but it's cool because "Tim Robbins just talked about it." Finally, the truth emerges.
Americans know that our political system is completely rotten. Just two days ago, NBC News published the results of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. It found the following:
"Nearly seven-in-10 registered voters say they couldn't see themselves supporting Republican frontrunner Donald Trump; 61 percent say they couldn't back fellow Republican Ted Cruz; and 58 percent couldn't see themselves voting for Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton."
Above quote from: http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/04/new-york-does-elections-like-it-does-wall-street-with-its-finger-on-the-scale/
New York Does Elections Like It Does Wall Street: With Its Finger on the Scale
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 20, 2016
Consistent with numerous other polls, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll also found that "just 19 percent of all respondents give Clinton high marks for being honest and trustworthy."
So how did Hillary Clinton beat out the popular Senator Bernie Sanders in New York State where he was born and raised? Where he was drawing rallies of tens of thousands of supporters in the week before the primary? Where his ground game had the engaged support of thousands of members of the Working Families Party and Occupy Wall Street activists? The system was rigged to guarantee the outcome just as the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington guarantees that looting the little guy remains a lucrative business model on Wall Street.
via Richard Charnin https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGxtIofohrj3POpwq-85Id2_fYKgvgoWbPZacZw0XlY/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=1476097125
Those states marked in yellow on the spreadsheet indicate Fraud. There are a lot of states that were stolen.
We need Evidence. Prove Our Democracy.
Pardon the double posting, I saw my mistake and tried to stop above comment from loading, unsuccessfully. The correction I had to make was:
Another correction: Some Precincts, some Counties that have Primaries do not use e-voting, e-scanning machines, but rather the real evidence of hand-counted paper ballots, counted and posted in precinct on election night. In those precincts, there is the same divergence in numbers: with evidence, Bernie has higher numbers; without evidence, Hillary has higher numbers. Demand evidence, always. Now.
And, you have to take into account the abusive right who own those machines:
Here is the article that informed me of Sibel Edmonds reporting on and goal of removing these criminals, and their crimes against the state and crimes against children, from government to create a better future for kids and for our nation.
via: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/whistleblower-powerful-congressman-hasterts-corruption-goes-far-beyond-sex-with-a-student.html
(Sibel Edmonds) Whistleblower: Powerful Congressman Hastert's Corruption Goes FAR Beyond Sex With a Student
by WashingtonsBlog
The REAL Hastert Scandal
In comments:
http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1315
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Still-Evil-after-All-These-by-Charles-M-Young-120910-472.html
Still Evil after All These Years: The Franklin Scandal and Pedophilia in High Places
By Charles M. Young Posted by Dave Lindorff
The Omaha World-Herald was the foremost local cheerleader for persecuting teenagers instead of investigating their claims. One of its own columnists, Peter Citron, had a long history of arrests for pedophilia and child porn and was implicated by two witnesses at Larry King's sex parties. The long-time publisher of the World-Herald, Harold Anderson, was a big supporter of Larry King and had raised money for the Franklin. During the 18 years that King presided over the Franklin, the newspaper never noticed that King was living a hugely expensive lifestyle when he was supposedly making $17,000 a year in salary. The World-Herald Company is co-owner of Election Software and Systems (also known as ES & S and associated with Diebold and more), which counts half the election ballots in the United States.
Americans have plenty of obvious reasons to hate the rich and powerful. Wars for oil, rampant pollution, the destruction of individual rights, the constant lying about everything. It's all on the front page, and it's like old furniture in the living room. It's hard for most people to notice. Boutique evil of the Gerry Sandusky sort affects fewer victims, but is more easily understood once the initial denial breaks down. If the denial of the Franklin Credit Union scandal ever breaks down, the consequences will reverberate far higher than happened at Penn State. Except for all those who died in suspicious accidents and suicides, the witnesses are still out there. Some might even talk about it. They talked to Nick Bryant.
http://franklinscandal.com/
FRANKLIN SCANDAL: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
by Nick Bryant
The FRANKLIN SCANDAL is the story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful. The ring's pimps were a pair of political powerbrokers who had access to the highest levels of our government. Nebraska legislators attempted to expose the network in 1989 and 1990, but the legislators' efforts were followed by a rash of mysterious deaths and the overpowering responses of federal and local law enforcement, including the FBI and Justice Department, which effected an immaculate cover-up of the trafficking network.
The publisher is donating 50% of the book's proceeds to organizations that assist abused children.
The above article shows how convicted criminal former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert could ever be elected to the third highest office in the U.S. and head a sub committee on protecting children….
Hastert was sentenced today. Yesterday boingboing had an article that was disgusting, and shows how important our efforts are to try to save democracy and to try to save kids.
http://boingboing.net/2016/04/24/leading-republicans-send-lette.html
/ Cory Doctorow /
Leading Republicans send letters in support of Dennis Hastert, pedophile
http://www.forums.mlb.com/discussions/Chicago_Cubs/General/ml-cubs/1?tsn=70&nav=messages&tid=443191
The GOP's New Plan for Voter Suppression
In comments: I posted a link to election mathematician/statistician Richard Charnin's article to above site because it shows how Illinois, the home state of Dennis Hastert, has a 74.3% probability of having been stolen from Bernie Sanders, and from voters, to a commenter's article, The GOP's new plan for voter suppression (my note: it is not just the GOP) at the Chicago Cubs site, because kids have always thought of baseball players as heroes, and many people now urgently need to save kids and democracy.
Get rid of HAVA the subversively named Help America Vote Act which put many more of those evidence removed/hidden e-voting, e-scanning machines in our voting process. Who put that in place? Another convicted criminal Jack Abramoff was the lobbyist who got/blackmailed politicians to adopt that law and those machines.
via: https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/election-fraud-models-cumulative-vote-shares-and-true-vote-analysis/
This is difficult but necessary to know to get rid of HAVA and to save kids and democracy itself. I thought I should quote Stew Webb's research. Stew Webb was a whistleblower that helped in the charges brought against the frauds at Silverado, HUD, and other cases. He has already proved himself brave. He needs a proofreader as he suffered injuries from being run off the road three times and believes angels helped him survive:
http://www.stewwebb.com/2014/02/03/aipac-and-abramoff-operated-child-sex-blackmail-ring/
AIPAC and Abramoff Operated Child Sex Blackmail Ring
Posted by Stew Webb
Out of the DC Hilton, Ritz Carlton, Sheraton Hotels, Little Boys and Girls for Military and Defense Contracts, Congressman, Senators, Media and others Blackmailed
By Stew Webb Federal Whistleblower-Activist
This is a story of the U.S. Shadow Government tied to Organized Crime, Foreign intelligence, current and retired FBI Trolls and stooges and how they have Blackmailed, Imprisoned, Murdered, defamed and tried to destroyed their reputations, those who have exposed their crimes or got in their way.
U.S. senators and congressmen are covering up the Dusty Foggo government lobbyist and military prostitution and pedophilia ring in Washington involving legislators, news reporters, military officers and high government officials. Alberto Gonzales and President Bush fired San Diego U.S. Attorney Carol Lam because she was probing the Dusty Foggo / Jack Abramoff D.C. sex ring.
Is child sex and prostitution in exchange for defense contracts and votes for war too explosive for the American people to hear?
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4719
Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn't in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is
by Gerry Bello
Our research did find links much more frightening.In 2010, Scytl purchased a 100% interest in SOE software, an up and coming player in the American elections market with their Clarity Software Suite which is used in 525 jurisdictions in 19 states. SOE has a strategic partnership with ES & S, the major marketer of electronic voting systems in the US. ES & S was sued by the US DOJ in 2009 on anti-trust grounds after purchasing Diebold's elections division, Premier Election Solutions. ES & S subsequently sold Premier to rival manufacturer Dominion. Bob Urosevich, founder of ES & S, was also President of Diebold. In 2006 Urosevich was listed as managing director of Scytl Americas, although his name has subsequently been removed from their website.
http://www.thelandesreport.com/VotingSecurity.htm
The Case For Open Voting
by Lynn Landes
There is no transparency to our current voting system. Congress has legalized election fraud by allowing, if not mandating, non-transparent voting systems that prohibit direct access to a paper ballot and meaningful public oversight
Making matters worse, our public voting system has been privatized and outsourced to a handful of domestic, foreign, and multi-national corporations, most of whom have close ties to the right wing of the Republican Party. Just two companies, ES&S and Diebold, started by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich, electronically process (using touchscreen machines or optical scanners), 80% of all votes. Their employees are in a perfect position to rig elections nation-wide. And evidence is mounting that elections in America have been computer programmed to prefer conservative candidates of both political parties.
And, the right lies, cheats, and steals in every way:
http://www.gregpalast.com/
http://www.gregpalast.com/let-give-little-history/
"Let Me Give You A Little History"
If you were looking for a primer on election theft, here's the video for you.
Investigative journalist Greg Palast, gave a talk at actor and activist Mimi Kennedy's home, where he laid out 16 years of vote theft history. From his first investigation into voter suppression during the 2000 election, Palast moves election by election explaining the evolution of how the vote is stolen.
It's an excellent set-up for the upcoming release of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.
You can also watch Mimi Kennedy and Harvey Wasserman's talks.
For 15 years, Greg Palast has been uncovering voter suppression tactics in investigative reports for BBC Television, The Guardian, Harper's and Rolling Stone.
Later this year, Greg Palast will be releasing his new feature film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, which includes his award-winning investigation Jim Crow Returns.
The filming is 90% complete… but we still need help to get us over the finish line.
Donate and get your name in the film credits!!
– See more at: http://www.gregpalast.com/let-give-little-history/#sthash.gD97vbrz.dpuf
http://showmethevotes.org/2016/03/05/an-open-letter-to-bernie-sanders/
An Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2016/01/liberals-have-stopped-snickering-at-bernie-sanders-hugely-popular-campaign/comment-page-1
A 12-Step Program to Save US Democracy
1. Repeal the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
This step will inevitably follow an in-depth investigation of how HAVA came to be.
(see above)
Update from whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her current NEWSBUD fundraiser to create a coalition of journalists to report on with the purpose of removing egregious politicians and their crimes against children and crimes against the state for a better future. Please help her now if you can:
Support a 100% People-Funded Online News Outlet, Phase 1
This project will only be funded if at least $150,000 is pledged by Wed, Jun 22 2016 1:03 AM CDT.
Here is the article that informed me of Sibel Edmonds reporting on and goal of removing these criminals, and their crimes against the state and crimes against children, from government to create a better future for kids and for our nation. How else could a person as criminal and blackmailable as former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert ever get elected to the third highest office in the U.S. and also head up a subcommittee on protecting children. Who owns those evidence-removed voting machines?
In comments:
http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1315
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Still-Evil-after-All-These-by-Charles-M-Young-120910-472.html
The World-Herald Company is co-owner of Election Software and Systems (also known as ES & S and associated with Diebold and more), which counts half the election ballots in the United States.
Our research did find links much more frightening. In 2010, Scytl purchased a 100% interest in SOE software, an up and coming player in the American elections market with their Clarity Software Suite which is used in 525 jurisdictions in 19 states. SOE has a strategic partnership with ES & S, the major marketer of electronic voting systems in the US. ES & S was sued by the US DOJ in 2009 on anti-trust grounds after purchasing Diebold's elections division, Premier Election Solutions. ES & S subsequently sold Premier to rival manufacturer Dominion. Bob Urosevich, founder of ES & S, was also President of Diebold. In 2006 Urosevich was listed as managing director of Scytl Americas, although his name has subsequently been removed from their website.
And, now new evidence found by Bev Harris implicating the same voting machine companies as above. Bev Harris's real evidence corroborates and confirms Richard Charnin's work: Get Rid of Those Voting Machines.
http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/
Fraction Magic – Part 1: Votes are being counted as fractions instead of as whole numbers
By Bev Harris May 12, 2016
1 – Summary – This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States. The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by pre-setting desired vote percentages to redistribute votes. This tampering is not visible to election observers, even if they are standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the decimalized vote feature is unlikely to be detected by auditing or canvass procedures, and can be applied across large jurisdictions in less than 60 seconds.
GEMS vote-counting systems are and have been operated under five trade names: Global Election Systems, Diebold Election Systems, Premier Election Systems, Dominion Voting Systems, and Election Systems & Software, in addition to a number of private regional subcontractors. At the time of this writing, this system is used statewide in Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont, and for counties in Arizona, (upcoming) California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. It is also used in Canada.
A pastor/reporter contacted Edison for a story he was writing on this and they never called back…. I'll see if I can find it. I'd love to get a look at their contract!
Here's the story: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/21/new-york-primary-why-is-exit-poll-data-adjusted-to-match-final-voting-results/
He talks about Edison toward he end.
There's also this: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/26/to-clear-the-air-sanders-should-challenge-new-york-vote/
I'm trying to contact them too!
Cillary Hinton
You have no idea what you're taking about. All polls are adjusted to deal with sampling not matching the electorate. This is the weakest claim of fraud I've ever seen.
I have no idea what I am talking about?
You claim that all polls being adjusted to match the recorded vote is the weakest claim of fraud you have ever seen.
You have not seen much.
If a poll requires impossible adjustments to match the recorded vote (as it did in 1988,1992,2004 and 2008) what does that say about the recorded vote?
Do not just give a typical one-line reply with no refutation.
Prove that my statement is wrong.
Ted Apelt
It is one thing to adjust for demographics, another altogether to match what some magical mystery machine says is the truth.
A wonderful interview of Richard Charnin if you ever wondered what his voice sounded like (honest is what it sounds like to me). There are two topics and two interviews, both worth listening to. Richard's talk beings at 27 minutes, 27 seconds:
http://prn.fm/solartopia-green-power-and-wellness-hour-03-10-16/
Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 03.10.16
Posted on March 10, 2016 by Jason in Green Power And Wellness
MAJOR DEFECT AT 98 OF 99 US NUKES revealed by 7 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission experts. The "NRC7" has filed a rare public report warning that the electrical defect threatens the safety of virtually all US nukes. We talk about it with the great DAVID LOCHBAUM of the Union of Concerned Scientists. The "regulatory" agency responsible for our safety has ignored this for years.
We then ask statistician RICHARD CHARNIN whether Bernie Sanders was in fact the rightful winner of the Massachusetts Primary. We're joined by BOB FITRAKIS to investigate a key primary which, if Bernie had been given credit for it, would've shifted the entire race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. According to Charnin, the evidence is pretty clear the Bernie was, in fact, the victor, a shocking conclusion that casts doubt on the entire electoral process.
In incorrectly assume a probability of 50%. Changes in votes are not random events, so the probability should not be selected to be 50%. Many things other than voter fraud can cause discrepancies, not least of which are exit poll respondents who refuse to participate or falsely report their vote.
Exit poll participants for each candidate who refuse to participate would be expected to cancel each other out.
The same goes for those who would falsely report their vote.
Do you have any evidence of either of the above canards?
The two myths have been refuted as inconsequential.
The reluctant Bush responder (rBr) theory was debunked in 2004 by the exit pollsters own data.
And the myth is perpetuated every time by so-called exit poll naysayers.
"Exit poll participants for each candidate who refuse to participate would be expected to cancel each other out." This isn't true at all. This is only true if the propensity to refuse or lie is similar among candidates. This isn't the case and there is a long history of differential refusals between a candidate's supporters — especially those most distrustful of the government (like Bernie supporters). Public Opinion Quarterly and the Journal of Official Statistics is chalked full of articles that show a 50% assumption is not a valid one.
Hi Richard,
First I want to thank you for sharing these ideas with the world. They're picking up steam. Secondly, as they are picking up steam, they're picking up criticism, and I was hoping you could help me debunk some of the criticism I've received when discussing the chart on this page.
I was told the numbers used in your chart are the "early numbers." Is it pure, raw data or has it been adjusted to account for non-response bias (i.e. there are more young folks (likely Sanders supporters) filling out the survey)?
They are not early numbers. The numbers are as of closing. They had not yet been adjusted to match the recorded vote.
Joe Lenski of Edison Research admits that the exit polls are are adjusted during the day as the vote come in.
Why do we look at exit polls instead of pre-election polls?
Exit polls tell us how people voted. They are more accurate than pre-election polls which attempt to predict how they will vote.
Those polled pre-election may not vote or change their mind.
Ahmed R Teleb
Now, how is early voting or vote by mail figured in? A possible explanation for the discrepancy is that Clinton voters tend to be older adults who opt to vote by mail.
Exit polls are conducted at the polling site.
Voting by mail in the primaries has been highly suspect in a number of primaries.
There is no reason why Clinton should do so much better (25%+) in VBM.
Was there ballot stuffing?
uncle tungsten
Love your site Richard. What is the comparison between Clinton and Sanders in VBM votes? Do they each get similar volumes or is Clinton better organized?
Hillary has done about 25% better than Sanders in VBM/absentees.
Activists view this as suspicious.
The deviation should not be that great.
I don't know about other states, but I don't see how ballot stuffing could happen in vote by mail in Florida. There is an inner envelope that contains the actual vote, and this is placed in an outer envelope that the voter signs across the line where this envelope gets opened. You would need thousands of fake inner envelopes with the votes you want, and you would need to do the swap on Election Day when the votes get counted, and when the elections office is very busy with a lot of people there, poll watchers from both (or more) sides, and possibly cameras. You would need to time it just right so the swap happens after the outer envelopes get opened and before the inner envelopes get opened – and you had better not get caught! You would need to do this in all counting places across the state. I just don't see anyone doing this. The same resources would be better spent actually campaigning.
Please do everything you can to get people to by mail using the Florida system.
austrogirl
I have a feeling you would see even more election fraud in early Republican primaries than even the Democratic ones based on some bizarre facts, such as that JEB had $150MM of superpac money to Trump's zero yet JEB went backwards and Trump crushed it, also Trump got 25 times the coverage by CNN of all other GOP candidates combined (just to name two–here are more–https://themonicaperezshow.com/2016/02/24/trump-spends-zero-is-crushing-it-heres-why/)…if the game is to get Hilary elected, controlling who she's up against in the general would be a must…I'm not saying no one likes Trump, I'm just saying that it looked to me that there was lots of funny business afoot to get him his momentum and I bet you of all people could find it, especially in the early GOP primary contests…
I have not done any work on the GOP primaries and won't start now.
But thanks for the complement.
I will be visiting your blog.
I don't blame you – it's a circus that even I've washed my hands of! As for my blog, our politics don't match (I'm a hardcore libertarian), but I think these desperate times rise above ideology – I for one am grateful to find any honest person pursuing the truth!
Yes, but what if both needed to be in the general election so they could force "the party unity" to get Hillary in ?
You should not assume that our politics don't match. I am no longer a Democrat. I am an independent. I worked for conservative defense, banking and industrial corporations.
I support Bernie. What is the alternative? Only Jill Stein.
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Anybody here in Florida? I know of a candidate, Ronson Biedrzychi, who is now listed on my website: http://www.ntbprog.org/candidates.html, who's main issue is getting money out of politics. As it turned out, he was unable to get enough signatures to qualify for the 2016 ballot, but will be running again in 2018. In the meantime, he is starting an organization called Floridians for Free and Fair Elections (FFFE) whose main concern will be getting money out of politics, but there is no reason why it could not also take a stand on electronic voting machines, and try to get a state Constitutional amendment that would ban those machines from the state of Florida. This is because in 2017 there will be a once in 20 year opportunity to get such an amendment without the need to get crazy amounts of signatures.
If you are interested in this effort, whether you are in Florida or not, please join my discussion group at https://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northtbprogressives.
Thank you very much for your important work Mr. Charnin. It is greatly appreciated.
I want to share with you how I was taught to approach data like yours. My training is in the social sciences, where with human data points sampling procedure becomes very important. Since participation in exit polling is not mandatory the question quickly becomes how does the profile of those not participating in the surveys differ from those who answered the survey questions.
The statistical analysis of the exit polling you have performed reports a persistent and practically significant association between voting for Bernie and official reported vote counts, i.e. Bernie voters were exit polled at a higher rate than they show up in official figures. You have quite fairly posited that the association is a reflection of election fraud that is undercounting votes for Bernie in official figures. The other alternative that comes to mind is that Bernie voters are more likely to participate in exit polling than Hillary voters. (Of course attempting to explain such a difference would be yet another research question.)
The selection you cited from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) which discusses the matching process in "Explaining Exit Polls," describing their practice of adjusting figures to accord with official vote counts overlooks the question of the integrity of the vote count, and instead addresses why did the Bernie voters make their decision to vote for Bernie, and the Hillary voters vote for Hillary. This matching process is a crude mechanism to make adjustments for the voters that chose not to participate in exit polling. It is standard practice in the social sciences for decisions about how to treat variations in data to be part of the investigative report. The assumptions made therein of course affect the quality of the investigators' conclusion. And it is entirely appropriate for someone like you to come along and offer an alternative analysis.
To the extent that my analysis is on target it would thus not be fair to say that you have provided conclusive proof of voter fraud. Rather you have posited voter fraud as an alternative account of why more Bernie voters have participated in exit polling than Hillary voters in comparison to official vote counts. If you can identify any flaws in my reasoning I would be thankful for pointing them out.
Thanks again for your years of labor on this important matter. Cheers, Paul Frank
1 in billions or trillions odds against the exit poll discrepancies occurring by chance is proof to me of election fraud.
The proposition that Bernie voters are more likely to participate has no basis in fact.
That is a canard that never goes away. It cannot explain the discrepancies.
It was disproved in 2004. Remember the reluctant Bush responder (rBr) theory put forth by the exit pollsters to explain the 6.5% discrepancy?
That was proved false by the pollsters own data.
In a criminal trial, typically 1 in 100 odds is considered proof to convict.
Thank you very much for your response Mr. Charnin. I am very interested in what was "disproved in 2004". (Any association of that strength is beyond practical question. That is not the issue.) Do you recall how the rBr "was proved false by the pollsters own data" ?
Thanks so much. I greatly appreciate you helping us understand.
Cheers, Paul
This is a comprehensive set of proofs.
http://www.electionmathematics.org/em-exitpolls/USCV_exit_poll_analysis.pdf
http://www.richardcharnin.com/ToBelieveBushWon2007.htm
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/a-simple-arithmetic-proof-that-bush-stole-the-2004-election/
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/the-unadjusted-2004-national-exit-poll-closing-the-book-on-the-returning-gore-voter-false-recall-myth/
http://www.richardcharnin.com/ExitPollResponseOptimization.htm
http://www.richardcharnin.com/FurtherConfirmationOfaKerryLandslide.htm
http://richardcharnin.com/SimpleNumericalProof2004ElectionFraud.htm
http://richardcharnin.com/2004TurnoutProof.htm
Alas! First problem already. My references to 'voter fraud' should instead be to 'election fraud'. My apologies for the inconvenience.
Paul Frank (@paulrfrank)
Thank you very much for the set of links. (I am sorry for the delayed response, but they did not show up as a reply.) They comprise what — to use USAID's nomenclature from its guide on "Assessing and Verifying Election Results" (https://yali.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/01/Assessing-and-Verifying-Election-Results-Summary-Document.pdf) — is election forensics, that is an analysis of the patterns in the results looking for things that don't make sense. (I think of it as comparing to a CPA combing through a business's financial records.) The USAID guide takes exit polls by themselves as the weakest form of checking election results. Exit polling can be an important part of election forensics. I can tell you as a social scientist that that there is certainly no prima facie reason to suppose that voters for different candidates would not participate in exit polls at different rates.
In particular have started to work through the Baiman, Dodge, & Dopp article the best I can and find its focus on target, i.e., do the different response rates make sense. Being well outside of my area of expertise I have sought out peer review of the material. The best I have found at this point are some secondary sources reporting on academic criticisms of the work. While they have raised questions about the work, the comments are so general to not be clear that they are critiquing final, complete versions of the argument. If you are aware of reviews by competent observers I would be thankful if you passed them on.
Regardless, I thank you for indulging my ignorance and assisting my efforts to understand. Cheers, Paul
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Here is some more info on the discrepancies in the vote. Read it and get ready for a real eye opener that the RICO case is going to bring forth. Pass it on.
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At least 11 of 26 (does not include CT)
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Buying a serviced apartment or villa at your favourite vacation destination not only ensures complete privacy for you but is also a good investment. People are buying properties in Goa and hills of North India.
Neelam Kumar looks for her private space when she is holidaying but alas, that is at times unavailable even in a five-star hotel. This quest for her own space and corner has led her to buy and furnish a flat in Goa, one of the country's hottest luxury vacation spots, which she rents out when not living there herself.
"I have an apartment in Goa where I stay when I visit and rest of the time I give it out for rent on a daily basis," Neelam Kumar says. During peak season (December-January) an apartment can cost around Rs 15,000 per day. In November the rent is around Rs 10,000 and during off season, the rent hovers around Rs 7,000, she says.
It is an upcoming trend in Goa and in the hills of north India, where people are buying plush villas and apartments with service support for self-use and also renting out on a daily basis.
Unlike independent houses, which are rented out to tourists, mostly foreigners, where they need to fend for themselves, these are independent apartments with full support systems similar to that of a hotel. "Washing clothes, making breakfast and some room services are taken care by well-trained staff which are employees in the apartments."
"People like holiday homes by the sea or in the mountains. Hence, Goa is a potential place for the business to thrive," Varun Nagpal, managing partner of Vianaar Constructions, which has six projects in Goa, including two under construction, says.
Nagpal who entered Goa around six-seven years ago says: "Youngsters look at it from an investor's point of view."
Taking a cue from the West, these luxury holiday apartments are flourishing in India. "People go over there to enjoy life. Goa has everything. Elderly people come over here to relax while the youngsters come to have fun by the beach," he said.
Another builder in the same space, Sameer Karan Mutreja, director of Scapes, says: "This industry of luxury vacation rentals has been going on in an unstructured manner. Goa is the most popular destination. After Goa, people look at the hills like Kasauli (in Himachal Pradesh) and areas near Ranthambore and the Corbett National Park."
Mutreja said customers often feel that their private space is infringed in big hotels.


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Readers' letters
By Mercury News Readers |
May 5, 2015 at 8:40 a.m.
Wake up: You already drink recycled water
T.A. Barbella (Letters, May 3) states that he "won't drink recycled toilet water." He already is drinking it. He must not realize it, but all water is recycled. There is no new water in the world. Who knows, he may have just injested a few molecules of Julius Caesar's last trip to the bathroom.
Ian Jacobsen
Parking garage solves soccer field problems
Build a parking garage underneath the (Santa Clara) soccer fields that are next to Levi Stadium.
If that's not feasible, build a garage above ground and put the soccer fields on the roof.
Vaughn Warriner
San Jose, Stockholm hardly comparable
The new concept of Vision Zero is the liberal version of Repeal and Replace — with what? According to Sam Liccardo, this is for the people. Well, we want more choices, and there will always be deaths and accidents.
The city is taking this concept from Stockholm Sweden, which has seven subway lines and 10 light rail lines and an extensive bus system. People in Stockholm have choices to get around, but here in Santa Clara County we are limited to the car and the VTA, which has buses and two very slow light rail lines that have no real destination.
Stockholm has 800,000 in population, San Jose just over 1 million. In two to four years we will be stuck in traffic without a good public transportation system.
This is very prosperous area, but still government doesn't get that we need a good public transportation system. Maybe we should go back to horse-and-buggy days.
Michael McWalters
Alviso
Palo Alto can do more to save Buena Vista
The residents of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park are our neighbors, and they are in imminent danger of losing their homes, a catastrophe for these families that will also tear a gaping hole into the heart of our community.
Written into Palo Alto's Comprehensive Plan is the recognition that Buena Vista is the site of "essential affordable housing" and that the city has a duty to "maintain and preserve" this site "if feasible."
We have an opportunity to protect that resource.
The city has another $8 million to $9 million in its housing fund beyond the $8 million it already set aside for Buena Vista acquisition. Santa Clara County has now set aside a total of $11 million, up from an initial $8 million.
The city should match or surpass the county.
I also encourage foundations and individual donors to step up to the plate to save the homes of our neighbors.
Rev. Eileen Altman
East Palo Alto Associate Pastor, First Congregational Church, UCC, Palo Alto
Now we have a number for immigration cost
I read with shock your front page article about $740 million dollars for illegal immigrants.
I was not shocked at the amount or the recipients. I was shocked that we no longer pretend that the recipients are not a burden to Americans or that they pay their own way.
I have no doubt it will pass in the current Californian political climate. I have always wondered how much of the bloated state budget was directed to illegal immigrants but buried in various programs meant for deserving Americans.
Now we will have a clear amount targeted for them.
Bob Morgan
Steph Curry shows he's a true champion
The most telling quote from NBA MVP Steph Curry's news conference was his response to the notion that having a good team and good teammates might hurt his MVP chances.
Curry's response?
"If that were the case then I wouldn't want the award, because it's about winning. It's a team game."
Barry Bonds won seven MVPs's and you would be hard pressed to find a single reference to his team in any of his acceptance speeches.
Humility is what separates the true champions from the posers.
Barry Goldman-Hall
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