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A SWISS JOURNALIST working in the United States tells a story of people from her home country asking about the Bernie Sanders phenomenon and wondering if he is some kind of dangerous radical.
She would simply reply, "He's a social democrat," an explanation that everyone understood because she was identifying him with a tradition that went back over a century in Europe.
Sanders has now written the book on social democratic campaigning in the United States — literally. It's called Our Revolution, and it's structured kind of like one of his campaign rallies (I was a Sanders delegate to the convention and therefore went to many of these events). Part one is preliminaries, and in part two Sanders talks issues, issues, issues — and it contains much more detail than any campaign rally. Either part stands on its own.
may or may not have agreed with what I said, but what they probably remember was a constant thumping sound on their radios. I was so nervous that my knee kept shaking and banging up against the table. The sound engineer kept waving his arms for me to stop, but there it was. My first radio interview — thump, thump, thump.
From there he made a few more single-digit statewide runs before being elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in 1981 — by 10 votes. In 1990, Vermont sent him to Washington, DC, a place he tells us he had been before, but "was never inside the Capitol until after I ran for Congress." He would become the longest serving Independent in congressional history by essentially supplanting the Democrats in the races he ran.
Our Revolution contains more biographical material than Sanders ever gave up on the stump. Why did the Brooklyn boy migrate to the bucolic state of Vermont? Because Boy Scout summer camp had given him a taste for things like "observing beautiful starry nights for the first time in my life." But before that he was off to the University of Chicago, getting his first campaign experience in the successful reelection campaign of alderman Leon Despres, an independent member of the Chicago City Council opposed to Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic organization, and getting arrested in a civil rights demonstration aimed at desegregating the Chicago public schools.
All the good advice notwithstanding, however, in the eyes of the national news media this venture was a non-starter. After all, he was a "socialist." But soon the surprises started.
First there was the money. As Sanders writes, "The media may not pay much attention to the ideas that a candidate espouses, but they do pay attention to your fund-raising capabilities," and the $1.5 million he raised from 35,000 donors in the first 24 hours after announcing his candidacy got their attention. Eventually this would grow to $228 million in eight million individual campaign contributions from 2.5 million contributors. Successful beyond any reasonable person's wildest dreams, the campaign's internet and social media fundraising success was almost too great, in that traditionally fundraisers have had a secondary value of bringing people together, which does not happen when you contribute online, leaving people to find each other out by other means.
And for anyone who, like this writer, had been waiting for the return of a national level electoral left since George McGovern's 1972 run, there were multiple pinch-yourself-to-make-sure-you're-not-dreaming moments, like when he said, "Let's talk about democratic socialism." Or mentioned the US Government–inspired 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran, and the 1954 overthrow of President Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala. Or when he called climate change the greatest threat to our national security.
Which brings us to the massive age gap in the Sanders vote, which turned out to be just about the exact opposite of what most expected. He had problems connecting with older voters, which he explained with five reasons: their fond memories of the Clinton years, the desire of older women to see the first woman president, their absence from social media, their belief that he must be old and tired, and negative impressions of the word "socialism" rooted in memories of the Cold War against the USSR. As contemporary polling shows, socialism is not a scary word if you're young — if you're 30 years old now, you were five when the Soviet Union ceased to exist, so for you socialism probably means Sweden. If millennials have not lived with the fear that the Reds were going to arrive on our shores, they have grappled more than their elders with the knowledge that the human race could wreck the home planet — and the fear that it is in the process of doing just that. He easily surpassed the combined Trump and Clinton under-30 primary vote.
The second part of the book provides a useful platform for anyone seeking public office, and its thoroughgoing review of economics, health care, trade policy, climate change, criminal justice, immigration, corporate media, and social welfare will likely provide any reader with greater depth in at least one area. In my case, it was higher education. I was surprised to learn that student debt has tripled since 2004 and that it is now larger than combined credit card and auto loan debt and is growing fastest among those nearing retirement. Nor did I know that tuition at public universities has nearly quadrupled since 1970 and is up 60 percent in the last decade — this with more than three-quarters of college students now attending public colleges. A country that once led the world in percentage of college graduates is running about 15th now.
There is one serious omission in this book. The second part of Our Revolution contains no section on foreign policy. And in this it is consistent with the campaign. While Sanders was the only major candidate to even challenge our continual compulsion to intervention, this has never been the center of his interests.
Tom Gallagher is a writer and activist living in San Francisco who served as a delegate to the Bernie Sanders campaign. He is the author of Sub: My Years Underground in America's Schools and The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Takes On the Military Industrial Complex.


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package org.apache.shindig.gadgets.oauth2.handler;

import org.apache.shindig.gadgets.http.HttpRequest;
import org.apache.shindig.gadgets.oauth2.OAuth2Accessor;
import org.apache.shindig.gadgets.oauth2.OAuth2Token;

/**
 *
 * Enables inject of token type handlers to add OAuth2 auth data to resource
 * requests.
 *
 * By default shindig supports "Bearer" token types.
 *
 * Matches on {@link OAuth2Token#getTokenType()}
 *
 * All matching handlers are executed.
 *
 */
public interface ResourceRequestHandler {
  /**
   * Do the handler magic for the token type.
   *
   * @param accessor
   * @param request
   * @return {@link OAuth2HandlerError} if one occurs
   */
  public OAuth2HandlerError addOAuth2Params(final OAuth2Accessor accessor, final HttpRequest request);

  /**
   *
   * @return the token type this handler handles
   */
  public String getTokenType();
}

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Intel Corporation CEO Brian Krzanich announced a series of mobile platforms including the company's new low-cost system-on-chip (SoC) for phones, phablets and tablets, a global LTE solution, innovative personal computing experiences, and a range of customers for mobile device and network infrastructure offerings. With technologies that span silicon, software and security, Krzanich said Intel was one of the few companies able to deliver solutions end-to-end, for devices, the network and the cloud.
The announcements include the Intel Atom x3 processor series, Intel's first integrated communications SoC solution for the growing value and entry device markets, and the five-mode Intel XMM 7360 LTE Advanced solution, designed for performance and worldwide coverage. In addition, Krzanich highlighted joint efforts with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson and Huawei to address the demand for new telecommunications, cloud and data center services, improve network efficiencies, and accelerate the industry's move toward a software-defined infrastructure.
Rounding out its mobile portfolio that scales from the entry to performance segments, Intel also introduced its first 14nm Intel Atom SoC, the Intel Atom x5 and x7 processor series (formally code-named "Cherry Trail") for next-generation tablets and small-screen 2 in 1s. Offering 64-bit support for Windows and Android, Intel Gen 8 graphics, and an option to pair with next-generation LTE Advanced connectivity, the Intel Atom x5 and x7 processor series will power a range of mainstream to premium devices.


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Congress Gives FOIA a Modest but Important Update For Its 50th Birthday: 2016 in Review
By Aaron Mackey
Year after year, federal agencies worked behind the scenes to thwart any attempt to reform the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In 2016, Congress finally came through and successfully amended the 50-year-old transparency statute with the goal of improving our ability to oversee our government.
For FOIA's golden anniversary, EFF and other transparency advocates were hoping for a comprehensive set of reforms (our wishlist is here). Although what Congress ultimately passed wasn't half as robust, the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 represents some of the most pronounced changes to the law in roughly a decade.
The biggest change: "the presumption of disclosure."
FOIA now explicitly limits officials' discretion to withhold records by requiring agencies to disclose them by default, with a couple of exceptions. The agency can hold back if it can point to a law other than FOIA that prohibits disclosure. The agency can also withhold the records if it can articulate exactly how disclosure would harm a specific interest protected by FOIA's exemptions, such as an individual's private medical records or classified military files.
EFF is cautiously optimistic that the presumption of disclosure rule will lead to greater transparency.
Other features of the reform bill:
The All-in-One FOIA Portal. The law mandates that the federal government create a central online portal that will allow anyone to file a FOIA request with any agency.
No More Outdated Regs. The law also requires all federal agencies to update their FOIA regulations before the end of 2016 to reflect the current law. This was a small but essential requirement, as many agencies' regulations were woefully out of date, ignoring changes to FOIA passed by Congress from as far back as 2007.
The 25-Year "Deliberative Process" Clock. The law now includes a 25-year limit on agencies' claims that records would disclose internal decision-making, in what is known as the deliberative process privilege, and required agencies to give requesters more time to appeal denied requests.
The FOIA reforms have already had an impact. One of EFF's allies, the National Security Archive, had been fighting in court for years to disclose a volume of the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion history. The CIA had long claimed that the document could not be released on grounds that it would reveal internal decision-making, i.e. deliberative process. After the law passed, the CIA reversed course and released the document to the Archive. You can read the newly released history here.
We'd like to wish a Very Sunshiny New Year to Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) for getting the bill to President Obama's desk and fixing parts of our nation's transparency law. But we'll be clinking our champagne flutes to the coalition who worked with us all year, which included: Project On Government Oversight, National Security Archive, Sunshine in Government Initiative, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, American Society of News Editors, ACLU, and, of course, the Sunlight Foundation.
And to the incoming agency heads, we'll FOIA you in January.
This article is part of our Year In Review series. Read other articles about the fight for digital rights in 2016.
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Deeplinks Blog by Aaron Mackey | December 18, 2020
Victory! Federal Appeals Court Confirms FOIA Requests Requiring a Database Query are Allowed Under the Law
At a time when the federal government is collecting and creating massive amounts of digital data that can implicate people's privacy and free speech rights, it is crucial that the public know what the government is doing with that information. A ruling from a federal appellate court earlier this month...
Press Release | November 19, 2020
Find Out How Ad Trackers Follow You On the Web With EFF's "Cover Your Tracks" Tool
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched Cover Your Tracks, a interactive tool that teaches users how advertisers follow them as they shop or browse online, and how to fight back against corporate trackers to protect their privacy, mitigate relentless ad targeting, and improve the web ecosystem for...
Deeplinks Blog by Andrew Crocker, Cory Doctorow, Naomi Gilens | October 27, 2020
Facebook's Election-Week War on Accountability is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
A legacy of the 2016 U.S. election is the controversy about the role played by paid, targeted political ads, particularly ads that contain disinformation or misinformation. Political scientists and psychologists disagree about how these ads work, and what effect they have. It's a pressing political question, especially on the eve...
Deeplinks Blog by Cindy Cohn, Sophia Cope | October 21, 2020
EFF to Supreme Court: American Companies Complicit in Human Rights Abuses Abroad Should Be Held Accountable
For years EFF has been calling for U.S. companies that act as "repression's little helpers" to be held accountable, and now we're telling the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite all the ways that technology has been used as a force for good—connecting people around the world, giving voice to the...
Deeplinks Blog by Naomi Gilens | October 9, 2020
EFF and ACLU Ask Ninth Circuit to Overturn Government's Censorship of Twitter's Transparency Report
Citing national security concerns, the government is attempting to infringe on Twitter's First Amendment right to inform the public about secret government surveillance orders. For more than six years, Twitter has been fighting in court to share information about law enforcement orders it received in 2014. Now, Twitter has brought...
EFF v. OMB (Trump 230 Executive Order FOIA)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) joined together to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government to obtain records showing whether federal agencies have cut their advertising on social media as part of President Trump's broad attack on speech-hosting websites he...
Press Release | September 22, 2020
EFF, CDT Sue Government To Obtain Records About Federal Agencies Pulling Advertising From Platforms
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the government to obtain records showing whether federal agencies have cut their advertising on social media as part of President Trump's broad attack on...
Deeplinks Blog by Saira Hussain, Cara Gagliano, Adam Schwartz | August 11, 2020
Victory! Court Orders CA Prisons to Release Race of Parole Candidates
In a win for transparency, a state court judge ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to disclose records regarding the race and ethnicity of parole candidates. This is also a win for innovation, because the plaintiffs will use this data to build new technology in service...
Press Release | July 13, 2020
EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, today launched the largest-ever collection of searchable data on police use of surveillance technologies, created as a tool for the public to learn about facial recognition, drones, license plate readers,...
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Max Hunter | June 23, 2020
OTF's Work Is Vital for a Free and Open Internet
Update 7/2: We have edited this post to add information about OTF's Localization Lab.Keeping the internet open, free, and secure requires eternal vigilance and the constant cooperation of freedom defenders all over the web and the world. Over the past eight years, the Open Technology Fund (OTF) has...

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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and/or Greed (FUDG) often play a major role in a family's decision to keep or sell the family business. Managing these emotions in the decision can have a powerful impact on the success of the process.
Several steps can be taken to manage the first three elements of the FUDG factor to the extent needed to make an informed hold or fold decision. Educating family shareholders on the products, the competitive environment, and the challenges and opportunities of the business is a good starting point. Encouraging family members to be informed on business issues in general can also help those not in the business better understand the current and future business environment in which the company operates. If the company has embraced a comprehensive strategic planning process, management should be well aware of these subjects. The planning process should also clarify the company's vision for the future and outline its plans to achieve that vision over time.
An outside board I worked with recently had a policy of asking shareholders to discuss and communicate to them their long-term vision for their ownership annually. This was done before the board reviewed and approved the annual revisions to the company's strategic plan. Building value and growing the company were the focus for many years until the shareholders responded unanimously that they wanted to prepare the company for sale within a three to five year timeline. A successful, fully priced sale was accomplished in less than three years.
The Greed factor is a bit more problematic. There is a difference between greed and rational self-interest. The need for individual financial security may become a key driver in the decision process. The question that arises is "what is enough?" When that question cannot be answered rationally, an element of greed becomes suspect and may lead to conflict before, during and after a hold or fold decision is made.
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and to some extent, Greed may always be present in one form or another in every hold or fold decision. The key to success, whether the decision is to hold or to fold, is to manage these factors effectively.


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The Ray Rice controversy is the hot button issue of the moment, not just in the sports world, but in the American consciousness.
Despite indefinitely suspending the now former Baltimore Ravens running back, the NFL has taken plenty of heat for initially only handing him a two-game suspension. Now, there are questions whether the league previously saw the video of Rice striking his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer (who recently came to his defense), in an Atlantic City elevator.
This is merely the latest scandal to rock the NFL under Goodell's watch. There have been questions about the league's policy toward drug abuse, which has been characterized as more lenient than its stance on domestic abuse. There was Bountygate, Michael Vick, Plaxico Burress, the Miami Dolphins bullying fiasco and Ben Roethlisberger's sexual assault woes. And, of course, there's the ongoing matter of head injuries, amplified by the suicides of retired players.
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Q: String manipulation - Can this be made better? Right now we're hand rolling logins and one of the requirements is to have the login page
notify the user which module they're going to login to. Now the only thing I have to work
with that has the URL they're going to land on is in a query string such as this:
Request.QueryString["ReturnURL"]

With a value like this:
~/moduleFolder/SpecificPage.aspx

Now this is the method that I created that can break that URL up by the forward slash,
take that segment seperate the words, capitalize the first word, remove the first slash,
and assign it back to the label for display. An example of the code is below:
string incomingName = Request.QueryString["ReturnURL"].ToString();
int first = incomingName.IndexOf(@"/");
int last = incomingName.LastIndexOf(@"/");
string tempName = incomingName.Substring(first, last - first);
string seperatedName = Regex.Replace(tempName, "([a-z])([A-Z])", "$1 $2");
string upperCased = seperatedName.Replace("/", "");
string portalName = char.ToUpper(upperCased[0]) + upperCased.Substring(1);
lblPortalName.Text = portalName;

Is there a cleaner or better way to write this code with out having so many different instances of a new string?

A: Yeah, the cleaner way would be like this:
private static string GetMiddleSegment(string URL)
{
    // you should probably use a library function for this kind of thing

    int first = URL.IndexOf(@"/");
    int last = URL.LastIndexOf(@"/");
    return URL.Substring(first + 1, last - first - 1); // this is correct, right?
}

private static string SeparateWords(string camelCase)
{
    return Regex.Replace(camelCase, "([a-z])([A-Z])", "$1 $2");
}

private static string Uppercase(string name)
{
    return char.ToUpper(name[0]) + name.Substring(1);
}

// ...

string incomingURL = Request.QueryString["ReturnURL"].ToString();
string nameSegment = GetMiddleSegment(incomingURL);
string displayName = Uppercase(SeparateWords(nameSegment));
lblPortalName.Text = displayName;

You'll notice that my code doesn't create less string instances.  That's because there's absolutely no way that the amount of string instances created here has anything to do with your performance when serving a request.

A: string url = "~/moduleFolder/SpecificPage.aspx";
string moduleFolder = url.Split('/')[1];
string separatedName = Regex.Replace(moduleFolder, "([a-z])([A-Z])", "$1 $2");
string portalName = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(separatedName);

A: I wouldn't change it. At best you'll save a few lines of code, but as it is, this code is probably more readable since this allows for descriptive names of the string at each step of manipulation.
Though you might look into library url functions instead of implementing your own.

A: I would write the code that gets the part between the first and second /s like this:
var tempName = incomingName.Split('/').Last();

This is quite terser and IMO no harder to understand. Plus, it saves you the trouble of doing
string upperCased = seperatedName.Replace("/", "");

so the end result is 3 lines shorter without loss of readability.
Edit:
Simplified the Split call after the OP's comment that there will only be two slashes. The .Last() call can of course be substituted with [1], although personally I prefer the way .Last() reads. It conveys intent more clearly than a magic number, especially if you are not the author of the code.

A: Based on RedFilter's regular expression you could created simple extension methods like:
private static string UrlModuleName(this string url)
{
    return Regex.Replace(url.Split('/')[1], "([a-z])([A-Z])",
                         "$1 $2").ToTitleCaseInvariant();
}
private static string ToTitleCaseInvariant(this string input)
{
    return CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(input);
}

This is a good idea to get it simple.

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Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Delhi Cantonment Surinder Singh was on Friday arrested for allegedly assaulting a New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) worker, the party's third legislator to be held in the last two months.
Singh was arrested this evening, along with his driver Pankaj and assistant Praveen, when he was called for questioning by Delhi Police.
"The MLA has been arrested for assaulting a public servant and stopping him from discharging his duty and sections of SC/ST Act. He was taken to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for medical examination," said a senior Delhi Police official.
Singh is the third AAP MLA who has been arrested in the last two months. Former Delhi law minister Jitendra Singh Tomar was held in a fake educational degree case in June and Kondli legislator Manoj Kumar was apprehended in July.
On August 4, Surinder Singh was booked for allegedly beating and manhandling an NDMC worker in Tughlaq road area when a team of NDMC officials was doing routine check and had apprehended an e-rickshaw driver to check his documents.
"Sanitary inspector R J Meena had complained to police alleging that beldar Mukesh was beaten and manhandled by Surinder Singh when the team had apprehended an e-rickshaw driver to check his documents," a senior police official said.
The MLA from Delhi Cantt constituency is also an NDMC member.
Reacting sharply to the arrest of Surinder Singh, AAP leader Ashutosh alleged the Centre was protecting the corrupt in the CNG fitness case while it is resorting to arrest "patriot" Surinder Singh, a former NSG commando, who faced bullets from terrorists during the 26/11 attack in Mumbai.


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Q: Laser Kombat, a Windows 95/DirectX 2 game runs with a low FPS on Windows 10 I managed to archaeologically dig out a game that I really enjoyed when I was younger, Laser Kombat. The problem is that it runs at literally half FPS and thus it is nigh unplayable. Are there any suggestions as to how I can make it work on my machine?
Section from the game's readme.txt:

Laser Kombat requires Windows 95, 98, NT, or 2000, with DirectX 2.0 or later. You must have graphics capabilities to display 800*600 pixels in high-color (16 bit) mode.

Laptop Specs:

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*Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz 2.30GHz

*RAM: 4.00GB

*System: 64-bit OS, x64-based processor

Things I tried:

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*Running in compatibility mode for 95, 98, XP, Vista, 8

*Running as an administrator for all the compatibilities above

*DOSBox does not work for this game.

Additional information:
This game worked fine on a Windows XP (SP 3) desktop I used to have.

A: I would highly recommend installing a Linux distribution such as Xubuntu in dual-boot with your current OS and running the game in Wine. Wine is a tool for running Windows programs in Linux, it is somewhat like an emulator, it often works much better than modern versions of Windows for running old software. I use this method for any game made for Windows XP or earlier. It does not work all the time but it works almost all the time and works for almost everything that uses DirectX 8 or lower.
If you decide to go with this route, I would also recommend adding the game to the compatibility database as there doesn't seem to be any information on Laser Kombat. You would be helping out anybody else who wants to try to run the game in the future.


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Petrobras (PBR) awards a contract to TechnipFMC, the state-owned energy company of Brazil, for subsea services valued at up to $500 million.


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Q: i have image button and i wont to change the image when i click on it I have two images, image 1 and image 2, and I have image_button which has image 1 as a button background. Now what I want to do is, if I press on this image_button, I want the image background to change to image 2, and if I take my finger off the image_button, I want the image 1 to be back again like it used to be.
How can I make this?

A: You can achieve this programatically when a click occurs :
ImageView imageIcon = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.icon);
imageIcon.setImageResource(R.drawable.other_icon);

A: You want something called a selector.  In your drawable folder, create a xml file with these contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- pressed -->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/image1" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<!-- default -->
<item android:drawable="@drawable/image2"/>
</selector>

Selectors are really useful for this kind of stuff, you should read the documentation
Basically, give this thing a name, like yourSelector.xml
You can use this the same as any other drawable, like @drawable/yourSelector or R.id.yourSelector (make sure not to write '.xml' though)


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Attacking Estonia instead of Paying Office Rent
The pro-Kremlin media has launched an aggressive campaign against Estonia, since the Russian state information bureau Sputnik ran into problems for failing to pay the rent for its office. "Sputnik is the victim of an unprecedented persecution", "Estonia oppresses Russian media". The Sputnik editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has called on the Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid "to prevent the arrest of Sputnik Estonia employees". Sputnik is quoting Iranian, Serbian, Polish and Spanish pundits, condemning Estonia's "shocking attempts to terrorize [journalists] as citizens."
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a strong statement against Estonia's actions against Sputnik's office in Tallinn:
It is bewildering that such severe measures against the media are taken in countries that include themselves among European democracies, and they are doing this under the banner of democracy.
Even Vladimir Putin commented on the issue during his annual marathon press briefing in Moscow, promising the Russia will do everything to support Sputnik's work abroad.
So what is going on? Well, to begin with, Estonia is ranking 11th on Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index, so the accusations against Estonia is entirely groundless. The current situation has emerged as Sputnik Estonia is not paying the rent for its office. In October 2019, Estonia-based branches of the foreign banks that operated the accounts of Rossiya Segodnya, the mother company of Sputnik, froze all its transfers, while other banks in Estonia refused to operate with the firm. This is the result of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Dmitry Kiselyov, the director general of Rossiya Segodnya, following the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis. Mr. Kiselyov is one of the 170 individuals and 44 entities, subject to an asset freeze and travel ban.
The Estonian authorities view any connection with Sputnik as a violation of the sanctions' regime against Mr. Kiselyov. Madis Reimand, the head of the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit of the Border Guard is quoted in Estonian media, saying:
The Financial Intelligence Unit notified people who have a contract with Rossiya Segodnya that such constraints are in place for Dmitri Kisselyov and Rossya Segodnya. In the letter we also explained that violation of the international financial sanctions is a criminal act.
Several international banks have taken similar actions against Rossiya Segodnya in line with the EU sanctions regime, introduced after Russia's illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014.
Obviously the sanctions are painful for Russia. It is hampering its economy, impeding growth, and – in this case – creating problems for the dissemination of Kremlin propaganda in Estonia. And paying office rent.


Regular readers of this blog will be no stranger to Guy Himber's Crazy Bricks, which has been classing-up the world of figs for years now with top hats, skulls, and all manner of other unique accessories. But Guy's latest offering, Crazy Arms, could be a game changer for mini-fig fans.
These patent pending replacement arms not only offer better poses for your figs, but also solve the problem of how hard it has always been to remove and re-insert the standard arms into the standard torso. How? Watch the video below to find out!
Crazy Arms will only be available through a Kickstarter project. So if you want to get your posable fleshy hands on some, you'd better back it before the end of the month!
Awesome idea, I pledged for 4 sets.


Syria: Talks or a fight to the end?
Both the United States and Russia have laid out their political stakes when it comes to negotiating with Assad.
This month marks two years since the onset of large scale anti-government protests in Syria, yet international approaches to the ensuing crisis, which has so far claimed 70,000 lives, are as conflicted as ever.
On one hand, the US appeared, over the last few weeks, to take its foot off the pedal of support for Bashar al-Assad's opponents, prompting a slew of complaints from Syrian rebel groups. At the same time, a delegation from Jordan, a staunch US ally, to Damascus offered President Assad the gift of an "Arabism" abaya - the same delegation to which Assad allegedly confided that he was "not a monster" [AR]. Despite its Sunni Islamist orientation, the Egyptian government reiterated its opposition to a military solution to the conflict and its support for dialogue.
In other signs that Russia's proposal for negotiations was gaining traction, Moscow played host to King Abdullah of Jordan, President Masoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem in quick succession, with rumours that Moaz al-Khatib, head of the opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, would follow suit. For his part, Mouallem announced that the Syrian regime was ready for talks with the armed opposition. Reports also emerged last week that al-Khatib, who recently conceded that dialogue with the government was a possibility, met with a businessman close to the Assad regime, Mohammed Hamsho.
On the other hand, upon the confirmation of Senator John Kerry as US Secretary of State, this week brought the announcement that the US, along with European partners like Britain and France, plans to step up its support to Syrian opposition fighters. While continuing to shun the (probably illegal) option of directly providing weapons and munitions to the rebels, Kerry committed to supplying direct medical and food rations to rebel fighters, and to doubling US governance aid to the political opposition. As yet, reports that the US will also help to train rebel fighters, have not been confirmed.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague heralded this ramping up of support to the opposition as a "new phase" in the Western and Arab response to the crisis. Indeed, alongside this more cautious uptick in western support, the Saudis are reported to have financed a large consignment of infantry weapons to the rebels, from Croatia via Jordan, which includes anti-tank rockets and recoilless guns. The political opposition will also soon announce the establishment of a transitional government in "liberated lands" in the North of the country.
Thus, two incompatible models for ending the crisis are being touted by the US and Russia, with the former seemingly committed to a wholesale rebel victory, and the latter urging compromise, political dialogue and gradual transition. We've been here before. For two years, the conflicting US and Russian narratives and political approaches added an unhelpful layer of global rivalry on top of local, regional and sectarian power struggles.
Since 2011, both the US and Russia have given their full verbal backing to a slew of diplomatic initiatives for ending the violence, including the Arab League proposal, Kofi Annan's six-point plan, and the Geneva agreement, while also underlining their commitment to a peaceful resolution of the crisis. Yet, in reality, these global powers found themselves fiercely divided at the Security Council and ostensibly allied with different "sides" on the ground.
In demanding for Assad to "step aside" in August 2011, President Barack Obama announced a formal US policy of regime change in Syria. The US has since led Western efforts to pressure Assad from power. For Russia, Assad's resignation could not be a precondition for resolving the crisis. Along with Beijing, Moscow was more sanguine about the possibilities for Assad to implement reforms and/or negotiate a way out of the crisis with the opposition, and called instead for a ceasefire and negotiations, followed by a comprehensive national dialogue. But how have the US and Russia justified these different prescriptions for ending the violence in Syria?
To begin with, Washington and Moscow began their problem-framing from contrasting premises: the violence was largely one-sided, for the US, whereas the violence was taking place on both sides, for Russia.
From the outset, the Obama administration was unequivocal that blame for the violence in Syria lay with the government. Even as the opposition took up arms in June and July of 2012, launching organised assaults against government positions and declaring its intention to bring down the regime militarily, the Americans remained wedded to the position that Assad and in his inner circle bore primary responsibility for the violence.
When, by the end of 2011, the US acknowledged that Syrian security forces had taken casualties, it insisted that the overwhelming majority of the violence stemmed from the regime. Both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice were adamant that there could be no moral equivalence between the actions of the opposition and those of the regime. As such, they demanded that the Syrian regime cease violence first.
The Russians, on the other hand, had warned of "destructive opposition forces in Syria" as early as June 2011. As observed by Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the UN, Moscow had its own interpretation of events in Syria: Yes, there were large peaceful protests in some parts of the country, but there was also violence used against government institutions, and that tendency was increasing as events started unfolding.
Russian officials referred to "the so-called Free Syrian Army", accentuating its attacks on government targets and the operations of armed gangs. At the UN, they opposed draft Security Resolutions and successful General Assembly resolutions for not calling on the opposition to renounce violence, and for being "written as if no armed opposition existed at all".
According to the Russians, the opposition's militancy contained two exacerbating features: first, it included terrorist acts and atrocities; second, it was being financed from abroad. Al-Qaeda was repeatedly said to be active in Syria. Car bombs, executions and "terrorist raids" were highlighted in press releases. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began speaking of the Syrian opposition with a major caveat: "if terrorists can be called opposition". The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed US State Department announcements as direct endorsements of terrorism, and suggested that it may refer Saudi Arabia to the UN's counter-terrorism body for its part in arming the Syrian rebels. "Why not unlock Guantanamo, arm its inmates and bring them to Syria to fight," Russian President Vladimir Putin asked. "It's practically the same kind of people."
As such, in contrast to Clinton's argument that the onus was on the (much more powerful) government to first lay down its arms, Lavrov argued that the process of renouncing violence should be mutual. In tension with the Obama administration's rejection of moral equivalence between the two sides, Lavrov demanded that both combatant sides be treated equally.
Both the US and Russia argued that their positions on the Syrian crisis were consistent with international law.
The US maintained, first, that its position was multilateral, supported by much of the international community, the Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the UN Secretary General, the Arab League, the GCC, regional leaders from Turkey to Saudi Arabia, and religious leaders including the head of Al-Azhar.
Second, the international community was said to be rising to its responsibilities. Not only was the regime crackdown characterised as an "ongoing threat to international peace and stability", which entailed action under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, but as with the conflict in Libya, the emerging norm of "responsibility to protect" was alluded to repeatedly. Deploying notable R2P language, Clinton referred to "the horrific campaign of violence that has shocked the conscience of the world". The implications of these crimes were that the Assad regime had forfeited its right to lead the Syrian people and that a strong international response was not only a right, but also a duty.
Third, the Obama administration argued that its position enabled, rather than interfered with, the self-determination of the Syrian people. Assad was said to be standing in the way of Syrians, and the only way to bring about the change that they deserved was for Assad to leave power. Differing with the assessment of Assad's allies (for example a Hezbollah spokesman I interviewed in Beirut in March 2012 argued that "the majority in Syria still supports Bashar"), the Americans asserted that the Assad regime and its friends were at odds with the aspirations of the vast majority of the Syrian people. The regime represented only a family, the Baath Party, a small group of insiders.
By contrast, the Russians argued that they were acting to protect the right of nations to self-determination, an important principle of jus cogens international law. According to Putin, no nation had the right to decide for another "who should be brought to power and who should be ousted". In addition, Russia was said to be protecting the rights of ("a large proportion of") Syrians who were not supportive of the armed opposition and were instead disposed towards gradual political change.
In invoking the principles of respect for sovereignty and non-intervention in the domestic affairs of states, the Russians pointed out that they had never waged colonial wars in the Arab world, and shunned the (Western) export of "rocket and bomb democracy". Not only was this policy morally wrong, it wasn't effective either.
The Russians also asserted that they sought to protect both the spirit and the stipulations of the UN Charter. In Lavrov's formulation, at stake was "whether the world will be based on the UN Charter, or a place where might makes right". They bemoaned the unilateralism of their colleagues on the Security Council and, despite having opposed and vetoed UN resolutions which were supported by a vast majority of the states eligible to vote, they declared themselves in favour of a truly collective resolution to the conflict in Syria.
Similarly, Russia repeatedly pointed out that the violent regime change sought by member states in Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) openly violated the UN Security Council's resolutions - as Churkin admitted of the latter case in particular, "we did not take that well". Indeed, the Russians focused heavily on the legally and politically unacceptable precedent of the NATO intervention in Libya, declaring that they had been effectively deceived before voting was conducted for resolution 1973 which authorised "all necessary measures" to protect Libyan civilians. They had been assured the no-fly zone was designed to safeguard civilian life, and yet it was used as a trigger for regime change instead. The situation in Syria would not be considered, by the Russians (and the Chinese), in isolation from the Libyan experience.
Ultimately, similar normative principles, and indeed the same international peace proposals, were invoked in furtherance of distinct interpretations of the values underpinning world order. Sovereignty as responsibility competed with sovereignty as ultimate authority. The self-determination of peoples vied with the self-determination of sovereign nations. Unsurprisingly, these differing conceptions aligned neatly with the national interests of their proponents.
Despite strong US support for Security Council action on Syria, the Obama administration consistently couched its position in the language of seeking peace. The UN resolutions it tabled were described as a last chance to end Assad's brutality through peaceful means. It was assumed that the violence in Syria would stop when Assad left power.
Still, the Obama administration stopped short of advancing that goal through direct military means. It extended at least $100 million worth of "non-lethal" aid to the Syrian opposition, and US military personnel were dispatched to the border with Jordan. It is also likely that CIA agents were helping to coordinate and direct backchannel arms deliveries from some Gulf States, from Turkish territory bordering Syria, where NATO also defensively stationed six batteries of Patriot Missiles in early 2013.
The US maintained that supporting the opposition in toppling Assad would bring peace to Syria. Removing Assad would also ward off a civil war. However, US support for the Syrian opposition was depicted by its critics as partisan in a dangerous and destabilising way.
The Russians argued that overtly "taking sides" only hastened, rather than averted, civil war. Draft Security Council resolutions were vetoed because they were one-sided. The aim, Moscow insisted, should be to settle the conflict without taking sides. Russia treated all parties with equal respect, and maintained contacts with both sides. Opposing the British and French-sponsored draft Security Council resolution in June 2011, Churkin argued that UN interference would escalate, rather than dampen, local tensions. Demands by Western politicians that Assad step aside could provoke a full-scale conflict in Syria and risked plunging Syria into a bloody civil conflict.
Russia's course was presented as the "the most balanced approach to the Syrian crisis". Indeed, officials insisted that Russia was not a defender of Damascus nor were its spokesmen advocates for the Assad regime. This assertion was supported by occasional statements indicating support for the non-violent opposition, combined with frank criticism of the regime's excesses.
"Thwarted", to use the White House's term, by Russia and China at the Security Council, the US sought to explain its opponents' behaviour and motivations in terms of narrow self-interest. Clinton stated that Russia, China and Iran were determined to keep Assad in power because he does their bidding, he buys their arms, and sells them oil.
Notably emotive language was used to express this frustration. "It's distressing," Clinton explained in February 2012, "to see two permanent members of the Security Council using their veto when people are being murdered." Instigating some controversy, she then labelled their actions "despicable". In using their veto power, Russia and China were also deemed to be denying Kofi Annan the key tools to advance his efforts. That is, rather than blocking foreign military intervention in Syria, Russia and China were actively obstructing international diplomatic efforts to end the crisis. Furthermore, Russia, it was suggested, was continuing "to deliver weapons to Assad".
But for Moscow, the West's approach to the crisis was steeped in double-standards, chief among which was the insistence that the regime lays down its arms, without demanding the same from the opposition. Putin noted that NATO's use of force "happens against the background of all the fuss about human rights and humanism... Don't you see a significant contradiction here between theory, the words and deeds, and the practice of international affairs?"
The implicit charge of hypocrisy was also extended to the West's allies in the Gulf. According to Lavrov, prior to the unrest, Syria enjoyed a level of civil freedoms higher than some of the countries that were now preaching democracy to Damascus. Alexei Pushkov, head of the Duma International Affairs Committee, observed that the US was closely working on the Syria file with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, where there was not even the remotest notion of what democracy is.
The real intention of the Gulf states, the argument went, was to install Sunni rule in a country governed by a Shia minority. The motivations of the US and NATO countries were also geopolitical. Their support for the Syrian opposition was aimed at a larger geopolitical game targeting Iran.
But if the US and its allies were playing politics over Syria, then the Russian position also left a number of unanswered questions.
First, it was not clear how, in the face of brutal repression, the opposition inside Syria could respond to the authorities' invitation for dialogue. Given the ferocity of the government's attacks, and its widely documented torture and execution of opposition members, in such a scenario, the regime would hold most, if not all, of the cards. For the opposition, agreeing to a ceasefire and negotiations with a regime which had previously exercised bad faith appeared too risky, if not suicidal, an option, particularly before it had taken large territories in the North. Moscow failed to address that reality and, even as the Syrian government employed shocking levels of violence in civilian areas, it clung instead to a vague proposal for "dialogue".
A potentially more sinister tension in the Russian position arose from its depiction of itself as a neutral broker, condemning hypocritical regional and international actors for sending arms to the Syrian opposition, despite the fact that the Syrian government was the largest Middle Eastern importer of Russian weapons, and Moscow continued to sign arms contracts with Damascus during the crisis. Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov declared that it would be wrong to leave the Syrian government without the means for self-defence. If valid, there is no reason why this argument could not also be used by the Gulf States, Turkey or the US with regard to the opposition.
Finally, even if it is assumed that Russia supplied no offensive arms, it is worth reflecting on whether failing to act in Syria, or failing to allow others to act (through the Security Council) is politically (and morally) neutral in a way that acting is not. Could an act of omission be as partisan as one of commission? Perhaps, by doing nothing, Russia was actively supporting the status quo and thus the regime in its actions.
However, one merit of the Russian position, whatever its incentives, was that it raised important concerns about the aftermath of a disorderly collapse of the Assad regime, which is what the opposition's regional and international supporters appeared to be aiming for.
Indeed, the US had forged a betwixt and between policy on Syria. The stakes were dramatically raised with Obama's August 2011 announcement that Assad must "step aside". At the same time, however, the US was not prepared to act decisively to effect Assad's removal from power. The demand was issued, but, in the event, with no credible ultimatum.
A policy of sanctions was in place - certainly not a short-term solution, given that Assad's friends in Tehran would still afford him access to cash, arms and fuel, via Baghdad - but the onslaught intensified. Fielding desperate telephone calls from the Free Syrian Army during our conversation, a Washington-based activist complained in July 2012 that "Obama said that Assad has to step aside, but all he's done is sanctions, which only hurt the Syrian people... The Americans haven't done anything, apart from sending 17 smart phones". The US administration appeared caught in the middle of its mixed support to the opposition, where bullish rhetoric clashed with more bearish action.
Retired US Ambassador Daniel Serwer suggested to me that that "the administration is split on this... Clinton and Rice are trying to embarrass their colleagues into doing more, but it's not working because Obama does not want to 'own' Syria".
Perhaps underlying Obama's reluctance to "own" Syria was the worry that, through increased and more direct military involvement, the US would inherit a broken state. This eventuality was suggested by a number of commentators, including Daniel Byman and Marc Lynch.
So far, the US has supported the opposition and its eager regional allies enough to encourage their violent challenge to the Assad regime, but not sufficiently to ensure the regime's collapse. For their part, the Russians' insistence on dialogue with the Assad regime, whose large-scale human rights abuses did not indicate any appetite for compromise, seemed to translate into support for the violent status quo.
Alongside this clash between the narratives and policies of the US and Russia, there has been a discernible gulf between each power's discourse and their actions. The US, the strongest military power in the world, did not use all the levers at its disposal to oust Assad from power, a cause which its own officials had so eloquently championed. At the same time, despite professions of neutrality, Russia's tireless quest to stymie Security Council action and promote a "Syrian-led dialogue", translated on the ground to tacit support for the regime, in terms of its continued dominance of the Syrian political sphere as well as its crackdown. While the US and Russia cannot be said to directly determine the dynamics of the Syrian conflict, this reality has added to the dangerous mix of categorical principles and confused policies that has characterised the international response to the Syrian crisis.
Now, after a few cautious weeks in which the US second-guessed the wisdom of backing an outright rebel military victory, and Russia seemed to concede the meaningful political transition, rather than a superficial "dialogue" led by Assad, was the only way out of the crisis, the international community appears to have split once more. This polarisation does not bode well for the aim of ending the violence, nor for the desperate situation of the families of the 70,000 dead, the close to one million refugees and the more than two million internally displaced.
Oddly, it was Hillary Clinton herself who made a clear-eyed case against military support for the opposition, when she argued in February 2012 that nobody wants a bloody, protracted civil war, that even with automatic weapons in the hands of the rebels, the slaughter would go on, and that there was a real danger that such weapons would fall into the hands of US enemies.
Perhaps the US now fears that the radical Islamist flag is rising in Syria, with or without US intervention. Thus, the attempt to shore up more democratically inclined/"US-friendly" fighters is as much aimed at ensuring that US interests are secured in a proxy war, as it is at toppling Assad. This, more than anything, represents a firm acknowledgement that the future of Syria will be settled on the battlefield. Assad's allies in Iran, unencumbered by legal restrictions and political qualms about arming foreign military groups, are sure to match every first aid kit and tin of food dispatched by the State Department, and then some. With recent developments, then, the tragic fate of the Syrian people as hostages in a proxy war appears unchanged.
Dr Alia Brahimi is a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford.
Alia Brahimi is a specialist in terrorism and political trends in the Middle East and North Africa.


Tyler's Grandfather gave us this sideboard that used to be in his home. Lovely as it is, we have nowhere to use it as a sideboard, but a media cabinet with a drop down front to hide all of the ugly electronics… That is perfect for us! Let me show you how my dad and I did it!
Here is the drawer. Luckily, the left side is exactly the right size for our cable box.
These are some really beautiful dove tails, but… they've gotta go for my vision to be realized!
Using a Japanese saw, I cut down the joint.
There was trim holding the velvet in place on the right side of my drawer. We used a chisel to gently pry it out.
These are the wooden brackets from the bottom of the drawer- they chiseled right off.
Using some wood glue and little brush, I glued the sides of the drawer to the bottom. They were pretty flimsy once the front was taken off.
I clamped them in place and let them dry for a while.
Here's the piano hinge that is going to allow the front to open and close. I need to cut it so that I could keep the separation of the drawer in place.
I clamped it and cut it to length with a hack saw.
Dad gave it nice sanding so there were no sharp edges.
Now we needed a piece of wood to place in the front of the drawer to screw the hinge into. The bottom of the drawer in only 1/4″ thick, not thick enough to hold the hinge and drawer front when moving.
Using wood glue, we attached it to the front.
Using blocks, we clamped it and let it sit overnight.
Now, we realized, when we attempted to fit the front, that the board stuck out just too much. It needed to be trimmed down.
About a 1/4″ was taken off using the table saw. You can see how much we shaved off.
This is the back of the drawer face. Here you can see the channel where the bottom of the drawer originally fit. (No picture) We shaved off all of the wood below that channel to make one big channel all the way to the bottom. So the bottom 1″ or so was thinner than the rest of the face. This was necessary so that the front had room to open completely and lay flat. We used the table saw for this.
Add the piano hinges to the bottom of the drawer and then fit them to the back of the face.
We drilled some holes in the back to allow for the cables. I also drilled the same holes into the back of the sideboard.
Here is how the drawer opens now to allow for using the media equipment and hiding away remotes.
Probably not the most sophisticated solution, but magnets hold the door shut when not in use.
Here it is when it's closed. No ugly cable box, Apple T.V or remotes around anymore.
Honestly, this job took a little bit of trial and error…Probably more error, but we got it done!
I spy some Dad feet in one of those pics… Do you?


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(27 December 1918 - 6 January 2012, USA)
John Celardo is an American artist, writer and editor, born on Staten Island, New York. He got his art studies at the Arts Students League and the New York School of Industrial Arts. He started his professional career contributing sports cartoons to Street and Smith publications in 1937. He soon turned to comics, and went to the Eisner-Iger studios.
Goldbrick Gribble
There, he did 'Dollman', 'Wonder Boy', 'Uncle Sam', 'Paul Bunyan', 'Espionage', 'Hercules', 'Old Witch' and 'Zero Comics', sometimes working under the pseudonym John C. Lardo. From 1940 he also worked for Fiction House, where he drew 'Hawk', 'Red Comet', 'Powerman', 'Captain West' and 'Kaanga'. After the War, he continued his work at Fiction House, illustrating 'Tiger Man', 'Suicide Smith' and others.
Tarzan daily (1955)
In the 1950s Celardo started free-lancing, before he succeeded Bob Lubbers on the daily 'Tarzan' comic. In the 1960s he also took on the writing of the 'Tarzan' strip and introduced many new characters from outside and inside the jungle, such as Red Chinese spies. In the late 1960s, he took over 'The Green Berets' from Joe Kubert and 'Davy Jones' from Sam Leff and Alden McWilliams. In the 1970s he returned to free-lancing and did such titles as 'Believe It or Not' for Western and several titles for National. Between 1973 and the mid-1990s he was a comics editor with King Features Syndicate, and didn't return to the drawing board until the 1980s, when he drew the 'Buz Sawyer' newspaper strip (1983-1989).
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The flight was short and sweet, I flew in Delta again, the experience is roughly the same as my previous one when flying in to Vegas. We actually landed in Seattle, before 3pm. I am so happy to finally been in Seattle after hearing about this place for so long! Grey's Anatomy is one of my very favourite all time TV Series, I am so glad to be finally in the place where the show is set in. Something adrupt happen after collecting my baggage, my luggage got damaged by the airline, so I spend a little while sorting out stuff with the airline before taking the Light Link Rail to my hotel. The ride was fast and cheap, costing only 3 USD. I love how quaint and chill Seattle is, compared to other destination, it is so much less touristy here. It also seems that the people here have a very high quality of life! Seattle also have a pretty great population of Koreans and Chinese! The University Street Station is located right in the heart of Seattle, is just steps from the Hilton. Although the street are pretty hilly, so might be a little tough with the bags!
I stayed a total of 4 nights here at the Hilton and got the Executive King Room. The rate was about 216 SGD per night. Although I used the Citi Prestige 4th night free benefit. So that brought it down to about 170 SGD. The executive room also gave us access to the lounge which I enjoyed the daily breakfast and evening drinks. They were pretty awesome, which I would share more later on. We save pretty much since we just mostly dined in the lounge and got water from there as well! The hotel main entrance is on the first floor, which sort of acted like a reception area, the bellboy is there to help as well. But the actual lobby is actually located on the second floor.
The second floor is also where you can find the main restaurant of the lobby. I have to commend on the staff here since they were really nice and polite. I even got some tape from them to stick up my broken luggage. Now, let's move on to the room itself. The executive rooms are located on the upper floors of the hotel, with my room located on the 24th floor. I would say that the rooms are on the smaller side, but still comfortable. I guess we are too spoiled with the sheer size of our room in Vegas.
Immediately after entering, the king size bed was on the right, and then opposite it is the tv set up. While the room is small, it is a good size for a couple. The bed was super plush, there is just something about Americans bed. So fluffy and nice!
The bathroom was of a good size and even feature a bathtub as well. Toiletries are the usual Peter Thomas Roth brand that hilton always use! While I love that the water pressure is good, the one thing that I hate about the toilet are the fix toilet head, I always love a handheld one so that you can bring it down.
Near the window of the hotel, there is a couch and coffee table on the side, since we are located on the 24th floor, the view out is pretty nice. You get a good view of Seattle, with the buildings and the skyline. Seattle sky is pretty dope!
Hilton Seattle at least felt pretty fresh and new, the hotel seems to be in a good condition and even on the alleys and corridors, there is even a nice sofa which seems unnecessary, although was a nice touch!
Next up let me share on the Executive Lounge, which is the favourite part of the hotel to me. I love spending my time there! The Executive Lounge is located on the top floor of the hotel. So you can expect it to boost awesome view of the surrounding! The lounge is not too big, but neither was it really packed till its uncomfortable. The people working the lounge are super polite, be it the waiter for breakfast or the lounge guy serving drinks in the evening. It did get a little loud in the evenings when group of people are having fun over drinks. The lounge is open daily, with breakfast served from 6.30 to 9am and evening reception from 5 to 7pm.
On the day of my arrival, I just nice made it for the evening reception and got the opportunity to check it out. The lounge can be access by using your key card, although most of the time the entrance is unlock. In the evening, the lounge serves up beers and wine. You can get them right at the entrance where the attendant is! I love the local beers where there are saving and surely have a few of the IPA. Superb! Its nice to see them serving up some local wines as well!
The lounge have soft drinks, water and juices. Of course you can also find tea and starbucks coffee. After all, this is Seattle, starbucks is a huge thing here. On the snacks wise you can find some veg dip, chips, soup and a hot dish. It is nice to hear that the hot dish also change daily. Sometimes its curry puffs and also chicken bites.
I love that the place have great views of the surrounding, the lounge is also very cosy. You can find seats ranging from normal tables to sofa and couches. Having a cup of the nice starbucks coffee here couldn't hurt. If you need anything you can also find a small business centre near the entrance of the lounge.
On the following day, I returned for breakfast in the morning. The range isn't broad but everything is of high quality and tasty. There are eggs, bacons, freshly bakes like croissant and muffin. Everything was tasty, although the eggs was a little tasteless. I love the amazing Pike Place 71 Roast though! I love coffee.
Overall, I think that the Hilton Seattle is a very nice place to stay at. 5 star, definitely not! But still very comfortable and nice to stay at. The executive lounge is a nice touch. Furthermore the location of the hotel is perfect, the light rail station is nearby, and it is within walking distance to the main attractions, like Pike Place Market and Macy is also nearby as well. I will surely come back here for another stay if I am ever in Seattle.
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Jets vs Titans : THe Tennessee Titans (5-6) are still alive hovering around in the AFC playoff picture as they host the New York Jets (3-8) in Nashville as Week 13 action continues on Sunday afternoon.
Titans cornerback Malcolm Butler (concussion) was the story this week as he went through protocol. Butler was cleared to play for Week 13.
Team leader on defense Brian Orakpo knows in order for the Titans to push for the postseason, they will need to take it one game a time.
The Jets don't have the luxury of good news, unfortunately. Sam Darnold (foot) will once again miss another Sunday, meaning veteran Josh McCown will be once again called on to start.


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Lithuanian officials find LGBT "tolerance promoting fairy tales harmful to minors"
According to Lithuanian reports, the Lithuanian Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics has ruled that a book of fairy stories Gintarinė širdis ("Amber heart") by local author Neringa Dangvydė, which includes same-sex relationships and other LGBT-friendly themes contains "harmful, primitive and purposeful propaganda of homosexuality," as well as "encouraging the concept of entry into a marriage and creation of a family other than stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania," and being "harmful, invasive, direct and manipulative." The Office therefore declared that the book should be marked under the local index N-14, as unsuitable for those below 14 years old. A Lithuanian parents' group and conservative politicians were apparently behind the original campaign against the book. Further details, in the original Lithuanian, are here.
The original Lithuanian report, also carried by Lithuania's National LGBT Rights Organization, states that the book, which "contains magical stories for children about people with disabilities, same-sex couples, Roma, people with a different skin colour and other socially vulnerable groups is no longer available for purchase and the information about it was removed from a database of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU), which published the book nearly half a year ago." The Lithuanian commentary also indicates that the Office's ruling regarding the Lithuanian Constitution may be false, as this does not define a family in exclusively traditional terms, and raises the possibility of an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Also, at least some of the original work seems to be available online as a PDF here.
With Lithuania in serious need of Western support against resurgent Russian territorial and ethnic ambitions, this seems a really smart message for the nation of 3 million to send to the international community. Hopefully, more tolerant voices within Lithuania will prevails.
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Tolerance? Not really. All we need to is look at what the 'Western' definition of tolerance means. It's a muddled mess at best.
In the United States it means legalized abortion for any reason during the first six months of pregnancy and for any reason an abortionist finds acceptable after that. That's our law, although European countries, with fewer racial minorities to fret about, tend to be more restrictive. Our courts have been nasty about state laws that lend even the slightest illusion that the 'fetus' is deserving of rights.
Now add to that another factor. Homosexual activists have been quite insistent on a biological cause that is either genetic or hormonal. What is the consequence if such a cause if found? A biological cause means a prenatal test and all those anti-fetus court decisions will come back to haunt the so-called 'tolerant.' If aborting a 'fetus' with Downs syndrome is acceptable, as indeed it is, then aborting one that's likely to be gay is also. No rights really does mean no rights. Part of mommy really does mean part of mommy.
This has a personal twist for me. Read the ancient Greek philosophers and you'll discover that many believed that logic could be used to distinguish between right and wrong. Find a logical flaw in the defense of one point of view, and it becomes suspect. For a long time I doubted that. Now I realize there is truth there. Inconsistency really does suggest that something championed as moral isn't.
In mid-nineteenth century America, critics of slavery often used that sort of argument. They pointed out that the laws of slave states were contradictory. Some laws treated slaves as if they were like livestock to be bought and sold. But other laws not only treated those same slaves as morally responsible creatures, something that was never done with farm animals, they even imposed more laws on slaves than on free people. Were they like cattle or were than particularly human in their moral capacities? Illogical and wrong.
Western thought, a term about fashion that is perhaps more deserving of contempt than respect, is much like that. The same people who purr with joy over 80% of babies with Downs being aborted, will turn red with outrage if similar figures prove true for homosexuality. A mother who can do the former, perhaps with tax funds, they will scream, should not be allowed to do that latter even with her own money. Therein lies madness.
The tale is too long to go into here. I'm actually writing a book about what it was like to grow up in the segregated South of the 1950s. My first social memory came in the first grade and was disgust at the stupidity of segregated schools. My first political memory came in the second grade when I discovered a sample ballot covered with the official logo of the Alabama Democratic party, a rooster crowing "White Supremacy for the Right." That told me the reason for segregation–the Democratic party. By the sixth grade I was so disgusted with the madness about race that surrounded me, I seriously considered immigrating to some country far away.
We haven't really gotten over that madness about race. Contrast the recent furor over what some billionaire said in private with the indifference toward the high murder rates of young black males in cities such as Chicago and Detroit, and you'll see that.
We now also have a madness about sex that's equally stupid. Lithuanian parents are to be condemned for not wanting their kids to read fairy tales favorable to homosexuality and yet, if science has its way, within but a few years many unborn babies with a homosexual twist are are likely not only to be aborted, but to be disproportionate aborted by one-or-two-children-an-no-more liberals who take great pride in the 'tolerance.'
Born into racial madness, I'm now forced to live surround by an equally vile and destructive sexual madness. Separate sex from responsible parenthood, the idea that's at the core of this sexual madness, and you not only get gay babies being aborted, you get tens of millions of kids growing up in the emotional deprivation of single-parent households. Evil and its associated madness really does have evil results.
Note too that the author of this article is hardly bubbling over with love. If those Lithuanian's don't agree with his POVs about sex, he threatens, then they can live under a brutally oppressive Putin regime. Keep in mind that not only means a regime that represses free speech, but one that's openly hostile to homosexuals. Do you see what I mean about bad ethics leading to illogic and madness?
To the cruelties of our racial madness we've added all the cruelties of a sexual madness. Children have replace those with a darker skin as the chief victims of that insanity. Not surprisingly, the party that was chief champion of the first now champions the latter.
That inability to learn from past mistakes is another topic for discussion.
–Michael W. Perry, Lily's Ride: Rescuing her Father from the Ku Klux Klan
In the book, there are comments on what it was like for me to grow up in the madness of segregated South, details about three members of my family who were murdered by the Klan or Klan-like groups, and specifics about that Democratic party logo. It wasn't changed until early 1966, when "Democrats" replaced "White Supremacy for the Right."


Pancreatic pseudocysts are complications of pancreatitis, pancreatic trauma, or pancreatic surgery. Pancreatic pseudocysts occur around the pancreas and are due to a break in continuity of the pancreatic duct, which leads to a leak of pancreatic "juice." This "juice" (pancreatic secretion) helps digest food. The inside lining of the intestine (mucosa) is adapted to tolerate pancreatic secretions; however, other structures of our body are not. Once the fluid leaks and touches other organs inside your body, its toxic digestive effects are immediately noticed because of the severe pain produced.
The body responds to pancreatic pseudocysts by creating a thick wall around the leak, thus protecting the rest of the body from damage. Once the wall is formed, pancreatic fluid continues to flow into this new cavity, which increases in size. This process is slow and may take weeks to months.
The symptoms are generally pain and a feeling of fullness due to increased pressure on the stomach from the growing cyst. Although this condition is benign, it makes patients feel weak and drained of energy, and so requires prompt attention.
Pancreatic Pseudocyst Surgery is a best in class treatment for this problem and patients typically make a full recovery.
One pancreatic pseudocyst treatment option is an endoscopic procedure that allows the NYC pancreatic surgeon complications specialist to place stents across the disrupted pancreatic duct to seal the leak. The cyst might then be drained into the stomach using endoscopic ultrasound technology.
When such endoscopic measures are not possible, pancreatic pseudocysts surgery is indicated. The typical surgical procedure is called "cyst-gastrostomy". This involves the surgeon opening the stomach, draining the cyst, and creating a permanent connection to allow pancreatic fluid to drain internally into the intestinal tract. This surgical procedure is commonly performed using the da Vinci robotic system or laparoscopy. If the surgery is performed using one of these minimally invasive techniques, the hospital stay ranges from 24 to 72 hours.
In very complex multiple cysts, a traditional open surgical approach must be used. In this case, additional connections to the small intestine (cyst-jejunostomy) might be created.
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namespace Intacct\Functions\AccountsPayable;

use Intacct\Exception\IntacctException;
use Intacct\Functions\AbstractFunction;
use Intacct\Xml\XMLWriter;

abstract class AbstractApPaymentFunction extends AbstractFunction
{
    public const DELETE = 'delete';

    public const DECLINE = 'decline_appaymentrequest';

    public const CONFIRM = 'confirm_appaymentrequest';

    public const APPROVE = 'approve_appaymentrequest';

    public const SEND = 'send_appaymentrequest';

    public const VOID = 'void_appaymentrequest';

    /** @var int */
    protected $recordNo;

    public function __construct(int $recordNo, string $controlId)
    {
        parent::__construct($controlId);
        $this->recordNo = $recordNo;
    }

    /**
     * @param XMLWriter $xml
     */
    public function writeXml(XMLWriter &$xml): void
    {
        switch ($this->getFunction()) {
            case self::DELETE:
                $this->writeCrudXml($xml);
                break;
            case self::DECLINE:
            case self::CONFIRM:
            case self::APPROVE:
            case self::SEND:
            case self::VOID:
                $this->writeLegacyXml($xml);
                break;
            default:
                throw new IntacctException('Cannot write XML for ApPaymentFunction ' . $this->getFunction());
        }
    }

    abstract protected function getFunction(): string;

    private function writeCrudXml(XMLWriter &$xml): void
    {
        $xml->startElement('function');
        $xml->writeAttribute('controlid', $this->controlId, true);

        $xml->startElement($this->getFunction());

        $xml->writeElement('object', 'APPYMT');
        $xml->writeElement('keys', $this->recordNo);

        $xml->endElement(); // delete

        $xml->endElement(); // function
    }

    private function writeLegacyXml(XMLWriter &$xml): void
    {
        $xml->startElement('function');
        $xml->writeAttribute('controlid', $this->controlId, true);

        $xml->startElement($this->getFunction());

        $xml->startElement('appaymentkeys');

        $xml->writeElement('appaymentkey', $this->recordNo, true);

        $xml->endElement(); // appaymentkeys

        $xml->endElement(); // GetFunction

        $xml->endElement(); // function
    }
}


All flavored e-liquids and vape juices sold by TBD Liquids.
Cereal Fiend v2 picks up where the original version left off. It's the same great Cereal Fiend you all know and love, but with milk. The citrus has also been toned down a little, making it even easier to vape all day!
Caramel Tiramisu is a caramel coffee dessert flavor. We mixed caramel w/ tiramisu and added RY4 elements to round it out.
Nana Custard picks up exactly where Monkey Juice left off, creating a tasty banana cream custard backed by a delicious graham cracker crust. This juice is a true to form dessert vape. It's satisfying, but not overwhelming. Even people who don't care much for banana seem to truly enjoy this.
Churro is without a doubt, the best dessert flavor we've done yet. Composed of many different flavorings, they all come together to form an authentic freshly baked churro vape. You can really taste the dough on the exhale, along with a perfectly balanced cinnamon sugar. Our churro is not too heavy or rich, allowing it to be easily vaped for long periods of time.
Monkey Juice is a pretty complex flavor. What started as a shameless clone of Nana Cream became its own flavor I enjoyed more than Nana Cream. Its a little lighter, and food coloring free! We have a banana base we work off of, and add flavors such as strawberry, pineapple, pear, and a special ingredient which all comes together to create this awesome juice.
Strawberry Milk v4 has been in testing for a while. We're excited to finally have it released to the public! This is a creamier more custard-like version of our strawberry milk. A light strawberry, heavier focus on the cream.


Individual plastic support strips carry four different segments of dye-impregnated indicator papers. The resulting combination of color differences gives an extremely clear and accurate visual pH value. All the dyes are chemically bonded to the paper and cannot be leached into solution; problems associated with contamination of the sample and resultant anomalous readings are avoided.
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