While the US is seemingly tearing itself apart through narrow-minded interpretation and megalomaniacal levels of self interest, it's invigorating to see a movie that explores the way in which we communicate with each other. Through a step-by-step deconstruction of language, context, and meaning, Arrival reminds us that we're all just one small piece in a very large puzzle that's still being put together.
Before seeing Arrival, I imagined the worst. From the trailer and synopsis it looked like an ultra-serious re-packaging of Independence Day. While it's true that Arrival is an alien invasion movie of sorts, it's more concerned with asking bigger questions about the intentions of a superior life form rather than depicting an alien overlord that's hell-bent on Earth's destruction for no reason whatsoever. It's definitely a cerebral and methodical film, but it's an engaging, thrilling, and mysterious ride. I can honestly say that Arrival kept me guessing from start to finish, and — when most movies follow a "paint by number" blueprint — that is a rare and refreshing thing.
Arrival is directed by cinematic auteur Denis Villeneuve. This is only the second of Villeneuve's movies that I've seen — the other being the equally fantastic Prisoners from 2013 — and, I have to say, I'm a big fan. Arrival is the kind of movie that would make the "Big Three" of science fiction (Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke) proud; it's chalk-full of big concepts, hard science, and beautiful storytelling.
I would argue that the movie's ending could have been trimmed by about 5 minutes, it over-explains itself in a lingering final montage, but that's just splitting hairs.
Arrival is a breathtaking examination of life's most important questions. Who are we? Why are we here? What do we want?


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India's topmost health icon, says the leading preventive healthcare platform GOQii, is Narendra Modi. In GOQii's annual listing of 'health influencers', Modi has beaten yogi-turned-tycoon Ramdev for the second time in a row. Actor Akshay Kumar, who has a black belt in taekwondo and pretensions of being the Bruce Lee of Bollywood, is placed second, followed by Ramdev. Then there are a host of film stars, cricketers, starlets and sportspersons, most of who have been brand-ambassadoring for health products.
"Modi was instrumental in instituting the International Day of Yoga 2015, which is now observed globally," says the GOQii report. "He is not only keen on improving India but keen on improving the health and fitness of Indians as well. Despite all the tasks at hand, the 68-year-old still manages to stay fit."
Don't we know? At 68, the gent is fit as a fiddle, and flies a few thousand airmiles every now and then, beats the jet-lag, speaks into radios, poses for photos, reads files, holds meetings, addresses rallies, cracks jokes, coins acronyms, performs yoga, promotes yoga videos, contests polls, pounds Pakistan, mollifies China, talks to Trump, thumps a 56-inch chest, rules over a sixth of the human race and yet finds time for breakfast and to fast for Navratri. Hats, caps, turbans and topis off to you, sir.
Yogis in India have been performing asanas since the days of Patanjali, and yoga has had several illustrious practitioners in the modern times from Vivekananda and his mentor Ramakrishna to B.K.S Iyengar. Theories abound about Jesus Christ having come to India and learnt hathayoga, but we have not heard of anyone here who walked on water like the Nazarene did. Remember, Lord Ram hired the services of ferryman Guha to cross the Ganga, and contracted an army of Vanaras to build a bridge across the sea.
We have also had prime ministers who practised yoga. Nehru did it every day but kept it all to himself; except getting photographed upside down once or twice. Indira had a yoga guru in Dhirendra Brahmachari, but it was his non-yogic activities that attracted attention. Morarji Desai is said to have practised yoga, but it was an another health fad, an abominable one, that he promoted more. Incidentally, the yoga institute that the Brahmachari set up in Delhi has since been named after Desai.
Yoga has had hundreds of such illustrious and not-so-illustrious practitioners, but none had promoted it like Modi has. Modi got the UN to declare June 21 as the International Day of Yoga, and has been galvanising Guinness gatherings of yogis on the Rajpath ever since. As had been written in this column earlier, Modi's asanas on the Rajpath have caught the imagination of the masses in mother India, and the fancy of foreigners in vasudhaiva kutumbakam. Yoga is now a fashion statement among India's new-gen.
Tailpiece: What Modi is to yoga, Rajiv Gandhi was to jogging. Rajiv made jogging a fad among India's youth, and organised mass marathons down the Rajpath.
Rajiv's run, too, had its element of nationalism. 'Running for the country' became a fashion statement in the 1980s, especially with the slogan 'Mera Bharat Mahaan'. Patriotism was merchandised into jogging shoes and branded wrist-bands in Rajiv's India.
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Dan Ellis apologizes for Twitter salary gripes and the world moves on
By Joe YerdonSep 8, 2010, 7:53 PM EDT
You could say that Lightning goalie Dan Ellis has had a rough couple of days on the Internet lately but you'd be downplaying things wildly.
We outlined the Twitter ramblings that got Ellis in hot water with fans yesterday and while I was coming off more like a disappointed father saying that Ellis should be more respectful of his eager audience on Twitter, others like Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy pulled no punches with his wildly misplaced ramblings about having issues with losing 18% of his $1.5 million contract thanks to escrow payments to keep the salary cap at its current level.
Today, Ellis offered an apology for what he said and Lightning Strikes' Damian Cristodero wraps it up for us.
Said Ellis Wednesday in a statement released by the Lightning: "I am deeply sorry if I offended anyone via my recent statements on Twitter. I should have known better. In the future I will aim to be more sensitive while continuing to offer fans access to me through Twitter. I enjoy the interaction and I think the fans do to."
If you're thinking Ellis is just hiding behind the skirt of the team by releasing a statement through them, he's not and
While we can put this to bed, the worst thing he can be accused of is having a lack of foresight, a lack of respect for his fans and being a bit poor with tact. He's not an awful person here, just a guy that forgot his position in the world. Seeing a guy get roasted the way he was on Twitter makes me very uncomfortable because I think of what it would be like to be in his shoes and to know you screwed up by sounding off.
Lost in all this is that Ellis does have a complaint to make about getting 18% of his paycheck lopped off for seemingly no good reason. He just needs to voice those concerns to the NHLPA instead of his followers on Twitter.


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While discussing English tenses, as well as those in any other language, it is extremely important to explain the relations between TIME and TENSE, as well as to emphasize the crucial difference between the two concepts: the one of time (extra linguistic), and the strictly linguistic one – the concept of tense.
Time, being an extra linguistic concept, and existing independently in the universe, encompasses three, more or less distinct, segments or categories: past, present and future. On the other hand, the tenses are considered to be a strictly linguistic concept, i.e. verb forms used to express actions, events, or states occurring in time.
This becomes particularly important in view of the fact that in English, as indeed is the case with some other languages, there is no strict or unambiguous correspondence between time and tense: a present tense may be used to express actions happening in the future and past time.
The Simple Present Tense, as its name clearly implies, is formed of only one element, i.e. of the base form of the verb, with the addition of the ending –s or inflectional suffix (following a vowel) or –es (following a consonant) in the third person singular.
In order to express the negative form, a special auxiliary verb do is used: does not / doesn't for third person singular and do not / don't for the remaining persons, either singular or plural.
As far as the interrogative form is concerned, the same verb forms of do are used (i.e. the auxiliary verb do functioning as the operator), following the word order of to do + subject + main verb (inversion of the verb).
The most common use of the tense is to express the present state of affairs or a general fact.
present state: He likes sailing.
general fact: The water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
Zagreb lies on the River Sava.
He always drives to work.
The Present Continuous (or Progressive) relates to the imperfective aspect and is complex in its essence, i.e. formed of two elements: the present tense of the verb to be + -ing form (the present participle of the main verb).
The train is leaving the Victoria Station now.
I am reading an interesting story at the moment. (i.e. I was reading it yesterday, I have not finished yet, and I will continue reading it later).
He is always arriving late.
The train leaves for London at 11 o'clock this evening.
Macbeth murders the King of Scotland, who is staying at his castle.
Hacker passes the ball to Short, but Burley wins it back for United.
The tense is formed by either adding the –d or –ed to the base form if the verb is regular, or using the special forms if it is irregular (e.g. write-wrote, see-saw, take-took, hurt-hurt). It may be noted that, with the Simple Present Tense, it is the only simple tense in English, all the other tenses representing complex verb phrases formed, apart from the main verb, by means of primary and/or modal auxiliaries.
I saw her at the party but I didn't speak to her.
did + subject + the base verb form, i.e. without the past ending.
Did you speak to her at the party last night?
The basic use of the Past Simple involves the action started and completed in the past, i.e. definite past actions.
I bought this interesting CD yesterday.
The earthquake happened in the 1905.
The Romans had a huge Empire.
She was a beautiful girl indeed.
Once upon a time a Princess went into a wood and sat down by a stream.
He often went to rock concerts..
Često je odlazio na rock koncerte.
Peter told me what the matter was.
If I were you, I would ask him what the matter is.
If I had lots of money, I would travel round the world.
I would tell you the answer if I knew what it was.
If only I saw her now!
I wish you weren't so rude.
She looks as if she were excited.
In all of the above examples, the past verb forms somehow signify distance from the speaker's reality.
The tense is formed using two elements: the present form of the auxiliary to have (have or has for the third person singular) and the past participle form of the main verb. The verb can be either regular, thus having its past participle and past tense forms identical, or irregular, its past participle form being unique.
The interrogative form is obtained by the inversion of the two elements, inserting the subject in the middle. The important thing to notice is that the verb remains in its participle form, unlike the Past Simple Tense where the base form of the verb is used.
In order to form the negative, the negative form of the auxiliary is to be used: either have not / haven't or has not or hasn't (third person singular).
I have seen this man.
She has been to the States.
The visitors have arrived. (The visitors are here now).
Someone has broken the vase. (Its pieces are scattered on the floor).
A: Have you ever ridden a horse? B: Yes, but not since I was about twelve.
I've ridden horses lots of times.
Time expressions typically associated with the Present Perfect are as follows: just, recently, already, lately, so far, ever / never, today, this morning/evening, for weeks/years, since 1990, this morning / today / this week / month etc.
It has been windy this morning. (The morning is not over yet.).
Robert Taylor acted in more than fifty films. (His career (and life!) is over).
There has been a serious accident on the M6. It happened at ten o'clock this morning when a lorry went out of control and collided with a car.
The new furniture has arrived. It came yesterday.
The Past Progressive is formed from the past form of the verb to be (was for singular / were for plural) and the –ing form (present participle) of the main verb.
The negative is formed using the negative form of the verb to be (was not / wasn't or were not / weren't) and the –ing form (present participle) of the main verb.
At three o'clock in the morning I was lying there wide awake.
I travelled round the world last year. It was a marvellous experience.
I was travelling from February to December.
The rescue services were working all night.
The rescue services worked all night.
In the first two of the above example, the speaker intends to emphasize the duration, but in the third no such emphasis is expressed).
It was raining at ten o'clock.
It was raining when I left.
John was washing up when the doorbell rang.
When/While/As we were waiting in the traffic line, a man broke our car window.
We walked along the beach. People were lying in the sun. The children were playing.
While Jane was washing her hair, her husband was cooking.
In order to emphasize the completion of both actions, the Simple Past may be used twice.
While Jane washed her hair, her husband cooked the dinner.
When the doorbell rang, her husband went to open the door.
My mother loved this house.
The woman had long dark hair.
The thieves were wearing / wore masks.
I'm using her office while she is away.
I was using her office while she was away.
I was on my way to the restaurant. I was meeting someone there.
When I was younger, I was always getting into trouble.
The Present Perfect Progressive Tense is formed using the present forms of the verb to have (have / has), the past participle form of the verb to be (been) and the main verb in its –ing form (present participle).
The negative is formed by the negative form of the verb to have (have not / haven't or has not / hasn't), all the rest of the structure remaining unchanged.
I have been waiting here for half an hour.
The carpet is wet. The roof has been leaking.
I have been attending French classes.
I have washed the car, so it looks rather cleaner now.
I have been washing the car, so I am tired now.
I have tried to phone her at least twenty times.
I have been trying to phone her all day.
I have always hated hospitals.
Jane has been living / has lived there since May.
I have been working / have worked there for a month.
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The Past Perfect Simple Tense is formed with the past simple form of the verb to have (had) and the past participle form of the main verb (either regular –ed or special irregular form).
The negative is formed by had not / hadn't and the past participle form.
The interrogative is formed by the inversion of the auxiliary to have and the subject, the main verb remaining unchanged.
Jane lay on her bed. She was depressed because her boyfriend had left her.
The writer "looks back" from the described situation to a time preceding it.
The floor is clean. I have just washed it.
The floor was clean. I had just washed it.
When the shot rang out, everyone threw themselves to the floor.
When Jane had written the letter, she posted it to her sister.
After Jane wrote/had written the letter, she posted it to her sister.
When she arrived, the performance began. (She was on time).
When she arrived, the performance had begun. (The performance started before she arrived, so she was late).
The printer went wrong before it printed / had printed a single sheet.
We didn't want to stop until we finished / had finished the job.
She told me she had arrived. ("I have arrived.") (She arrived, and then she told me that).
He said he had been studying all day.
If you had studied more, you would have passed the exam.
(The action of the dependent clause actually wasn't fulfilled).
I wish / If only I hadn't spoken to him like that!
(When the verb form is negative, the action of the dependent clause actually happened).
He looks as if / as though he had just seen a ghost!
It is formed by had, the verb to be in its past participle form (been) and the main verb in its ing form (present participle).
The interrogative is formed by the inversion of had and the subject, thus resulting in the word order: had+subject+been+main verb (-ing).
The negative is formed by adding the particle not (had not / hadn't) to the rest of the structure that remains unchanged.
The driver who died in the accident had been drinking.
I was tired then because I had been walking for hours.
Although it expresses the idea of futurity in English, it is not considered a tense in the strict sense of the word because, while denoting future time, it frequently has modal connotations.
It is formed from the modal auxiliary will and the base form of the main verb.
The negative is obtained by adding the particle not (will not / won't), the base form remaining unchanged.
The interrogative form is made by inverting will and the subject. The respective word order is thus will+subject+main verb.
The structure is used only for some concepts of futurity in English, the other concepts being expressed in different ways, usually by means of other tenses.
Southern England will stay dry and sunny over the weekend.
It's raining. I'll take an umbrella.
My friend speaks Italian. She will translate it for you.
I won't put up with such laziness!
The structure is formed by be going to form (am/is/are going to) and the base form of the main verb.
Mary is going to have a baby. (We can see she is pregnant).
Beware; this cup is going to fall! (It is on the edge of the table).
It's going to rain. (It's dark and cloudy).
I'm going to start my own business.
They are going to build some new flats here.
The Future Continuous is formed from the modal auxiliary will, the base form of the auxiliary verb to be, and the –ing form of the main verb (present participle).
The interrogative is obtained by the inversion of will and the subject, observing the following word order: will+subject+main verb (-ing).
The negative is formed by adding the particle not (will not / won't), the rest of the verb phrase (base form of to be and the main verb in its ing form) remaining unchanged.
This time next week I will be flying to Greece.
I'll be working all day tomorrow.
The crowd will cheer when the Queen arrives.
The crowd will be cheering when the Queen arrives.
(It will start cheering before she arrives and will continue to do so after her arrival).
The tense is formed by the modal auxiliary will, the base form of the auxiliary to have , and the past participle of the main verb.
The interrogative is formed by the inversion of will and the subject, resulting in the following word order: will+subject+have+main verb (past participle).
The negative is formed as usual, by adding the particle not to will, followed by have+past participle (both remaining unchanged).
I will have finished my studies by 2012.
I will have read my book by Tuesday.
It is formed by the modal auxiliary will followed by the perfect infinitive of the verb to be, i.e. have been and, finally, as is the case with all continuous (progressive) tenses, the main verb in its – ing form (present participle).
The interrogative is formed by inverting will and the subject, resulting in the following word order: will+subject+have been (perf. inf.) +main verb (-ing).
The negative is formed by adding the particle not (will not / won't), the rest of the structure remaining unchanged.
By October, I will have been teaching there for five years.
By the time he retires he will have been working for forty years.
The Future Perfect Continuous may therefore be regarded as the future equivalent of the Present Perfect Continuous.


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Chef's Platter
Native American culinary movement
Chef Sean Sherman from South Dakota is pioneering a movement to preserve and promote Native American cuisine traditions of his region, and has in turn become a role model for new generation of chefs who want to learn about an indigenous culinary craft. By Sudipta Dev
Written by Sudipta Dev
January 17, 2016 8:40:01 am
Chef Sean Sherman grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. A member of Oglala Lakota tribe, he is a chef in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul in Minnesota. He has a business called the Sioux Chef and his focus is on Dakota and Ojibwe food which are the two main groups of the region. "We do all pre-contact food – removing all European influences and using what was there before the pre-reservation days – wild foods from the region, a lot of agricultural foods that were produced before the Europeans came. We have bounties like wild rice and maple. Lots of animals around our region. We do not use beef, pork or chicken, only animals that were there before like venison, rabbit, turkey, bison, duck. And of course different kinds of fish," says Chef Sherman. Most innovation is in terms of presentation. Interestingly most of the food is plant based – it is mostly vegan.
Indigenous products
Modern dishes are made with traditional food products and ingredients, using indigenous food products and vegetation. "We do it in a modern sense. We have a catering business and do a lot of food for groups, events and parties. We also have a food truck in partnership with a native American urban group," states the chef, adding that they do not serve beef, chicken, dairy, wheat flour, sugar or processed food. "Only fresh and healthy food is served as we want people to think about traditional foods and the health facts associated with it," he says, pointing out that there is a lot of fun being a pioneer in this business. "We are getting a lot of followers and people are getting the understanding of businesses like these ones," he adds.
Chef Sherman started working in restaurants since he was 13 years old, and continued to do so all through his high school, college and after college years. He moved to the city in the late 90s and became a chef. Originally he wanted to go to a school of art but realised that he could create art with food. "I studied many kinds of cuisine ranging from Ethiopian, Japanese, French, South American, Mexican. I always spent a lot of time reading and studying about the native American food culture and realised that not many people knew about it. I had to study and learn about the wild food – forging and wild food gathering. I read a lot about ethnobotany and learnt which plants were there before the arrival of the Europeans," he mentions.
He contacted elders in the community to know what Native American food system used to be, how it can be applied in modern state with new businesses. "Economically it could help indigenous food producers which will help in bringing money back into the community. Our business models can be used as a job skills training ground for youth in our region who can learn how to cook indigenous food. It will give them pride about the culture and the foods that were there before," opines Chef Sherman. Pointing out that there are many health benefits of these food traditions, he states that before Europeans came and people were living on indigenous diets there were no health issues like tooth decay, heart diseases and Type 2 diabetes. "All the diseases that are common today, is primarily because of bad food choices," he asserts.
He acknowledges with humility, "All the work that I am doing is way bigger than myself. This information I want to share and reach a large group of people. This can stretch out to all the indigenous communities across the world, even if the food systems have been lost it can be brought back. It is kind of taking the first steps and setting the correct path for our indigenous cultures." Originally he was going to open a restaurant but realised there is a better way to reach people. "Now we are working on a non-profit organisation and hope to build an indigenous culinary school in Minnesota. That is our future goal," says the chef. He wants to train youngsters in all the foundations of food systems, that is indigenous agriculture, including soil management, land management, etc; along with forging, ethnobotany, gathering, how to harvest. There is also the medicinal side of it, along with a history to understand and go forward with it.
Documentation is rare in most instances as tribes were wiped out, and languages lost. He believes that people are making bad choices in food because it is cheaper and easier to buy junk food than grow a garden or preserve food or use traditional methods of cooking. "Now I see a big movement in – people want to bring food systems back and a lot of positive energy moving forward. People are really getting interested in Native American foods. My focus is on my exact region but it has opened my mind to what is happening in whole of North America. I feel a lot of the work I am doing applies to all over the world in different regions," says the chef.
The produce of the region includes many varieties of corns and beans. There is wild rice, which has been an important staple for people of the region for centuries. Maple sugar is used for sweetening drinks and seasoning food. Wild fruits/ tubor (onions/ garlic, turnips, ginger), wild moss, wild greens, plants that grow in water. "Animals are the easy part as they are still there, like bison and rabbit. The seasons are short so the trick is to gather things and use them throughout the year," he mentions.
It is important to have role models to take this movement forward. The culinary school will go a long way in encouraging the younger generation to learn and take the Native American food traditions forward.
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Glasgow 2014: Max Whitlock Wins Second Commonwealth Gold in Men's Gymnastics All-Around
By Nick Howson in Glasgow
Updated July 30, 2014 17:25 BST
England's Max Whitlock stormed to a second Commonwealth gold after adding the men's all-around title to his team success in Glasgow.
The 21-year-old led throughout the six disciplines to win his first major all-around gold with a total score of 90.631, to finish ahead of silver medallist Daniel Keatings of Scotland and fellow-countryman Nile Wilson, who won bronze.
Scottish pair Daniel Purvis and Frank Baines were unable to stage genuine campaigns for a medal after both claimed silver in the team final, as England's gymnastics dominance in The Hydro continued.
"It feel absolutely unbelievable," said Whitlock. "I've had goosebumps all over my body the whole competition and the atmosphere has been unbelievable an the support has been great but to finish on top of the podium is an amazing feeling.
"Since London 2012 the all-around has been the massive target for me and to pull it off and for it to all to come off on the day is great.
"Part of the reason I do it [go hard on every routine] is to give myself the experience. The whole idea is hopefully to be as good as I can."
Much like the team final on Tuesday, which saw England prevail over Scotland, the all-around final was billed as another duel between Great Britain team-mates.
Whitlock laid the foundations for his campaign with a solid floor routine to lead Purvis and Keatings, before a 15.866 on the pommel horse saw his advantage extended.
Meanwhile Wilson, 18, fresh from his maiden senior medal, was showing calmness far beyond his years to thrust himself into the top three after two routines, while Frank Baines' and Purvis' campaign unraveled after coming off the pommel horse.
Rings allowed Whitlock to extend his lead over Keatings by over a mark as the competition reached the mid-way point, while Wilson and Purvis were in hot pursuit.
The latter thrust himself back into medal contention behind Wilson as Whitlock's nerve continued to hold, with a score of 14.500 seeing him slalom another unfavoured piece of apparatus as he continued to pull away from Keatings.
Baines went down on the vault, but the leading quartet kept their nerve heading into the final two pieces.
Ahead of the individual final on Thursday, Whitlock – the two-time European champion – stayed in front on the parallel bars but Purvis was unable to make inroads on Wilson in bronze medal position as the youngster closed in on Keatings in silver.
But under pressure in second, Keatings delivered with a perfect high bar routine of flair and technique to assure himself a top three finish but Wilson couldn't reply in kind as he was forced to settle for bronze.
However, the afternoon belonged to Keatings who put together a solid high bar to claim gold with a flourish.
The 18 year old Wilson said: "I didn't come here thinking I could win an individual medal. The team gold was unbelievable yesterday ad I came into today not expecting much, just focusing on my job and try and hit my routines and I am just really, really happy to win a bronze medal."


The long awaited squad numbers have finally been announced!
Why is Koo listed as a forward? Did Hong do that or is that just uneducated newspapers?
If Kwak Tae Hwi or Ki Sung Yong was a FW we'd gave a problem.
I know he's not a striker or something, just found it strange how he was listed as FW.
Hong/the KFA have officially listed Koo as a forward.


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Transcript: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 12/15/21
Guests: Ruben Gallego, Jacqueline Campbell, Norm Ornstein, Rosa DeLauro, Derrick Johnson, Kristina Lawson
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) admits to sending one of the texts revealed by January 6th committee. President Biden surveyed the tornado damage in Kentucky today, but Kentucky`s Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul did not accompany the president in Kentucky today. Last month the House of Representatives passed President Biden`s Build Back Better legislation, which would extend that child tax credit for another year. Senate Democrats are still negotiating the details of that legislation and haven`t voted on it yet.
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LAWRENCE O`DONNELL, MSNBC HOST: Good evening, Rachel.
And I have a suspicion that president of the United States has been watching your show and possibly heard -- because in Kentucky today it just moved up to the top of the Biden agenda. He said there`s -- it`s the most important thing. He said that today when he was in Kentucky, but there`s just nothing more important than voting rights. That`s a new shape of the Biden agenda in the priorities.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: I doubt -- I wouldn`t ever take credit for anything I thought myself. I would not put it past the president that he watched Senator Warnock, either in the Senate when he was giving that speech, or maybe he saw us clip it.
But yeah, I mean, I -- the Democrats in the United States Senate and every cause that Senator Raphael Warnock believes in is lucky to have him as their messenger, my God is he a good spokesperson for what he believes in, and he made that case so effectively last night I could hardly stand it.
O`DONNELL: Yeah, it`s -- it`s a fascinating turn. We`ll see whether this actually is an agenda shift. It appeared to be in the way he said it today, but we will see.
MADDOW: Yeah, indeed. Thanks, Lawrence.
O`DONNELL: Thank you, Rachel.
As I was just saying, it does seem as if the Biden agenda shifted today when the president spoke in Kentucky. President Biden traveled to Kentucky today to survey the tornado devastation there. The lieutenant governor of Kentucky will be joining us tonight.
Before leaving Kentucky, President Biden said, quote, there is nothing domestically more important than voting rights. It`s the single biggest issue, the single biggest issue. If that is true, then president Biden should logically suspend his negotiations with Senator Joe Manchin over the Build Back Better bill and spend all of his time with Joe Manchin trying to convince him and the rest of the Democrats in the Senate to pass a voting rights bill immediately even if they have to change the rules of the Senate to do that.
The pressure to do that has increased this week, with the dramatic revelations delivered by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the capitol, the committee continues to add detail to the conspiracy led by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election on January 6th with the support of Republican senators and Republican members of the House. It was at every step a plot to violate the law.
The January 6th committee has not released the names of any of the Republican members of Congress whose texts have been revealed. Some of them have been revealed since Sunday, and no Republicans are proud of those texts. None of them are proud of their texts, not one of them stepped forward when their texts were made public and eagerly said, hey, that`s me. I wrote that one.
When Mark Meadows defied a committee subpoena for his testimony, his co- conspirator, Congressman Jim Jordan, publicly expressed his gratitude for Mark Meadows` attempt to cover up what both of them did and said on January 6th.
Last night, Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said that he would not -- that we would not be surprised when the committee eventually reveals which Republicans wrote which texts.
We all knew Jim Jordan was going to turn out to be the author of at least one conspiratorial text. Earlier today, a leak started to spread through the media about which text Jim Jordan wrote, and only at that point, only then when it was leaking did Jim Jordan decide that it was time to admit that he wrote a text prior to January 6th that was revealed by Congressman Adam Schiff at the committee`s meeting on Monday.
Here`s that text.
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REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA): On January 6th, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as president of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.
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O`DONNELL: Jim Jordan could have put his hand up on Monday right away and very proudly said, hey, hey, hey, that was me. That was mine. I sent that text. But he didn`t. He stayed quiet.
He could have said something all day and all night Tuesday when that text was making news all over the country and in his congressional district in Ohio, but Jim Jordan said nothing. That is exactly what Jim Jordan is accused of doing by members of the Ohio state wrestling team when Jim Jordan was an assistant coach of the team and some of the members of the team were being sexually abused by the team doctor. Jim Jordan said nothing.
Members of the team have insisted under oath that Jim Jordan knew. They insist Jim Jordan knew that the doctor was sexually abusing teammates who Jim Jordan had an obligation to protect. Jim Jordan had an obligation to those teammates he was coaching. He had an obligation to their parents who sent them off to college. He had an obligation to the university. He had an obligation to the law, and he had an obligation to his own conscience.
And he stands accused of violating all of those obligations by members of that team. They say Jim Jordan knew about sex crimes, and he stayed silent just like he stayed silent about his text until his identity was leaking today, and then Jim Jordan complained that the committee did not quote his entire text. The committee acknowledged that they did not include the entire text in their first quoting of that text.
This is Jim Jordan`s entire text, which he says he was forwarding from someone else to Mark Meadows. On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence as president of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all -- in accordance with guidance from Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence.
No legislative act, wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78 contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. The court in Hubbard versus Lowe reinforced this truth that an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion, appeal dismissed.
Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.
That text in full describes a criminal act that the text urges the vice president to carry out. First of all, Alexander Hamilton was not referring to anything involving the Electoral College in that particular quote written before the government of the United States was actually formed. And the Supreme Court has never held that the vice president of the United States or any elected member of the government can decide unilaterally what is or is not constitutional.
The text Jim Jordan sent to the White House chief of staff is a jumble of historical and legal madness that amounts to nothing less than Jim Jordan urging the vice president of the United States to commit a crime. Maybe that`s why Jim Jordan stayed silent about his text.
Maybe that`s why Jim Jordan did not object immediately on Monday night and say, hey, wait, you didn`t quote my entire text. You left out the Alexander Hamilton bit. Here`s what I actually wrote.
Jim Jordan was afraid of that text becoming public. Jim Jordan is afraid tonight of the January 6th Committee. We will eventually know all of their names, the names of all the Republicans in Congress who were active in the criminal conspiracy to steal the presidential election after the voters` votes were counted and Joe Biden won.
They, along with Jim Jordan, are all living in fear tonight of what else the January 6th Committee will reveal about them. But we already know and the president of the United States already knows that they were all trying to steal a presidential election on January 6th, and that`s why the president of the United States discussed voting rights today and said it`s the single biggest issue.
Leading off our discussion tonight is Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego of Arizona. He is a Marine Corps combat veteran and served in Iraq. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Thank you very much for joining us tonight, Congressman.
Your reaction to the unsurprising revelation that it was Jim Jordan who was the sender of that text urging an illegal act by the vice president.
REP. RUBEN GALLEGO (D-AZ): Yeah, I feel like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca right now -- absolutely not a surprise. But Jim Jordan is a traitor. He`s a traitor to the Constitution of the United States. He has been a traitor to the Constitution of the United States for a while, and now, we actually have it in text.
But we shouldn`t be surprised, and why is anybody surprised? We saw it on the floor when they were calling out, you know, Arizona for example, the place that I represent and saying that there was fraudulent votes, and they made up lies on the House floor.
So how are we surprised right now? How is anybody surprised by any of this, right?
My biggest issue isn`t Jim Jordan. My issue is the fact that there are a lot of people who are not taking this serious. The fact that there is a slow moving coup that is happening right now all over this country that are led by the Jim Jordans, and you know, and other people.
So instead of people being dressed up in, you know, uniform or want to be uniforms storming the Capitol, now they`re actually trying to win state house seats, state Senate seats, secretary of state seats, county recorder seats, so they could actually overturn the future election, right?
So the coup is ongoing. The traitors are still there, and they`re going to continue to try to destroy our Constitution every opportunity they have.
O`DONNELL: President Biden has had a sequencing plan for his agenda, and voting rights was to come after the domestic spending agenda was settled and the build back better plan was passed. He actually said I think it was a couple of months ago, that he`s not bringing up the voting rights issue now because that might -- especially the question of changing a Senate rule to do it, because that might lose him or would lose him a couple of votes on the Build Back Better plan.
Today, he said that voting rights is absolutely the most important thing. That is a change of priority for him. It is a change of tone.
What do you think that means?
GALLEGO: Well, hopefully it means that they recognize that the threat is here. It`s omnipresent, and it`s going to continue, but no matter what you want to look at it this way. The filibuster is a problem to get anything done. You know, we`re talking about abortion rights. We`re not going to be able to protect Roe v. Wade once the Supreme Court overturns it because we`re never going to have the 60 votes to protect Roe v. Wade.
You`re talking about any type of legislation to help working class people. It`s not going to happen. You don`t have a Republican Party that wants to compromise to help working class people.
I`m glad the president understands the threat to democracy happening here. The threat is ongoing. I mean, I`ve been in Arizona politics for quite a while, ask I`ve seen a lot of attempts to destroy the power of people to elect their own leadership, and not have the leadership try to select who they are. And every day that we don`t take that serious is another closer day that we have an illegitimate election potentially in 2022 and 2024.
So I`m glad they`re taking this serious, but I`m going to be honest, everyone else needs to take this serious. You know, the fact that we see so many Trump supporters that show up on TV as legitimate spokespersons when they took part in an attempted coup, the fact that we accept them still in modern society. You see them on corporate boards, nonprofit boards. You see them at the cocktail parties all over Washington, D.C., as if nothing happened.
There`s a reason why they keep trying because we all keep looking the other way, when n in fact there was a real coup that happened that night, and for some reason Washington, D.C., is just whistling past the graveyard at this point.
O`DONNELL: Congressman, you`re the target of a personal threat from Russia, host on a Russian state-controlled TV show said that you should be kidnapped, that the Russians should kidnap you wherever you travel, transport you to Russia. They should be looking for you to try to grab you.
What did you do to get Russia`s attention?
GALLEGO: Well, I exposed the truth about what they`re doing in Ukraine, and I travelled to Ukraine with a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans, all veterans of different wars, and we were there to do research to see what both Russia is doing but what we can do to help Ukraine. Ukraine is a democracy, and we`re certainly not going to let another democracy fall to some Russian autocrats.
And as for this guy that`s threatening me, you know, he can get in line. I`ve been threatened by insurgents in Iraq, I`ve been threatened by insurgents here in the United States, by cartels are from other parts of the world, and so I`m not exactly the kind of guy that shies away from a fight, and you know, his little -- his little words aren`t going to make a difference.
At the end of the day, you know, democracy is just as important here as any other part of the world, and I`m going to be here to do anything I can to support Ukraine democracy and democracy everywhere else, and you know what, you want to throw threats at me, we`ll see what happens.
O`DONNELL: Congressman Ruben Gallego, thank you very much for starting our discussion tonight, really appreciate it.
GALLEGO: Thank you.
O`DONNELL: Thank you.
And joining us now is Eugene Robinson, associate editor and Pulitzer Prize- winning opinion columnist for "The Washington Post". He`s also an MSNBC political analyst.
Eugene, big surprise, Jim Jordan was the author of one of the most clearly criminal plots sent over to Mark Meadows.
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: You know, that doesn`t surprise anybody. I think it`s going to be the usual suspects. We know who they are, and it just happens that Jim Jordan was the author of this particular text as you said. He in cowardly fashion did not own up to it until it was leaked, and then made this complaint that the whole ridiculous nonsensical part was not included, which is basically that Mike Pence should have overthrown the election. That was the punch line that Adam Schiff wanted and that was the import of the text.
O`DONNELL: And, Jim, they all -- everyone who knows they are the authors of these texts, they`re all hiding and they all must be living in fear of this committee.
ROBINSON: Yeah, I think they are, actually. I mean, this committee, you know, I wrote a while ago, I wish this committee made more noise. They started making a lot of noise by releasing some of these communications. They`ve got tons and tons more.
And so it certainly got my attention. I think it`s getting the country`s attention, and it does really highlight the urgency of voting rights legislation, and so these two things happened simultaneously, create a kind of synergy that gives new momentum to the voting rights.
O`DONNELL: Yeah, Gene, Bennie Thompson was on this program last week, and I read pieces of your column to him where you were suggesting the committee had to find a way to make real news on television and get the kind of attention that these investigative committees normally get by interviewing witnesses on television, which this committee is not ready to do. They sure figured out this week how to make real news and get their attention. I`m not sure how much your column had to do with nudging them along, but we never know.
Eugene Robinson, thank you very much joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you.
And coming up, the lieutenant governor of Kentucky will join us after President Biden surveyed the tornado damage in her state today, Kentucky`s Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul did not accompany the president in Kentucky today. That`s next.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: People just come out of nowhere to help as a community, and that`s what we`re supposed to be doing. That`s what America`s supposed to be. There`s no red tornados or blue tornados. There`s no red states or blue states when this stuff starts to happen, and I think, at least in my experience, it either brings people together or knocks them apart. Moving you together here.
O`DONNELL: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear was with President Biden as he surveyed damage in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, the hometown of Andy Beshear`s father.
GOV. ANDY BESHEAR (D), KENTUCKY: I hope the people of Kentucky know that I care deeply about them and the president does too. He`s here in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, because we`re hurting.
President Biden and the federal government have offered more aid and acted faster than we have ever seen in the history of the United States of America. I received three personal calls from the president on day one. First when he could get through and then at the end of the day saying what else do you need.
O`DONNELL: Kentucky`s Senators did not join the president in Kentucky today. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has opposed emergency relief aid to all states except Kentucky.
Joining us now is the lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Jacqueline Coleman.
Lieutenant Governor, thank you very much for joining us tonight on what I know is a difficult night for you.
What are the state`s needs at this point in the recovery?
LT. GOV. JACQUELINE COLEMAN (D), KENTUCKY: Well, thank you so much for having me, Lawrence, and let me just say that your opening clip showing the president and Governor Beshear leading with compassion and swift decision making is exactly what you want to see out of your elected leaders. I`m so proud of their leadership and their compassion and the way that they are wrapping their arms around this commonwealth.
Of course I knew that about Governor Beshear and was really happy to see that from President Biden today in person. It really is remarkable. But in terms of what we need, there are three ways that I would say that folks can help.
The first is we have a fund that we have set up for the folks in Western Kentucky where every single penny goes directly to support the boots on the ground, the cleanup and recovery, all of it, because this is going to be a long road. And that site can be accessed. It`s called teamwkyrelieffund.ky.gov. So, that`s the first way.
The second thing we`re asking for is for folks to donate blood at their local blood banks. The governor and I will actually be taking part in a blood bank that he is hosting right here in the capitol on Friday this week, and last but not least, our first lady who you also saw in the opening clip with the governor, who has a heart of gold, has started a toy drive to help the kids and the families in western Kentucky.
We are two weeks away from Christmas, and the damage that you`re looking at is these people`s lives, and so the thing that we want to make sure we can do is help these kids have as good of a Christmas as we can help them have, and so the toy drive information can be access the at firstlady.ky.gov/toydrive.
O`DONNELL: Everyone in the region has some experience with tornados, has seen some tornado devastation in the past. I`ve covered tornado devastation down there in that region after tornados.
What has it been like for you to see what`s happened on this one? Because this really does look like the worst we`ve seen.
COLEMAN: It`s unlike anything that I`ve ever seen, and I will tell you that you can be -- you have to see it to believe it, and even after you see it, it`s hard to do it justice with words. The devastation is like nothing I`ve ever seen and the stories that I`m hearing from Kentuckians are heartbreaking, but also they give you tissue-- restore your hope in humanity in a lot of ways.
I met a gentleman, a family in Campbellsville, Kentucky, actually where 70 homes were destroyed, and the lady was telling me about her husband going down the road once the storm passed and literally digging through rubble and physically pulling his neighbors up out from under their basement where the house had caved in on them. He did that at a couple houses. Woke up the next morning to find his fence lines gone, his feed ruined. He lived on a farm in Campbellsville, so he loaded up 40 head of cattle and took them to the stockyards, had to sell every one of them.
And do you know what that man does for a living? He drives a school bus for the local school district.
O`DONNELL: Wow.
COLEMAN: These are everyday heroes who are literally saving each other`s lives, stepping up for each other. And as sad as that story is, my goodness, what an amazing act of humanity that we were able to see.
O`DONNELL: Kentucky Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
COLEMAN: Thank you, Lawrence.
O`DONNELL: And joining us now is congressional historian Norm Ornstein. He`s an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Norm, it`s one of those days where, you know, you have Rand Paul who`s basically opposed to all aid, emergency aid to any state not named Kentucky, and when the president goes to Kentucky, he finds himself after saying everything he needed to say about the situation in Kentucky, he finds himself saying that the most important issue now, the most important issue is voting rights, and it seems as though the revelations of the January 6th committee have raised the level of priority for voting rights in the Biden administration.
NORM ORNSTEIN, CONGRESSIONAL HISTORIAN: I`m very encouraged by this and also by what I`m hearing from people in the Senate. I think we`re moving to a point where there is a much broader understanding that this has to happen, and it`s going to have to happen without Republican support, so they`re going to need to change the rules to make it happen.
You know, just a word on Rand Paul, this is not the first time we`ve seen a level of breathtaking hypocrisy by Republicans in Congress, many of whom staunchly opposed aid when it came to Hurricane Sandy for New York and New Jersey, and then turned around when it was Mississippi or Alabama or Kentucky, they wanted it.
But for Paul who`s opposed aid because he says it has to be offset with the same -- with his offsets, there wasn`t any word of that now. It raises the stakes here in many ways getting back to voting rights because it makes it clear that if we don`t make changes in the election system, we`re not just going to lose our democracy. We`re going to have it taken over by a group of people who are ideological fanatics beyond blowing up the rights of democracy.
And so, the fact that Joe Biden understands this and is starting to move on it is extraordinarily encouraging.
O`DONNELL: Norm Ornstein, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you.
And coming up, the focus of the Biden agenda shifted to voting rights today. NAACP President Derrick Johnson met with some Democratic senators including Kyrsten Sinema today, and at least one of those senators has now come away saying that it is time for the Senate to change the rules to pass voter protection legislation. That`s next.
O`DONNELL: The last monthly payment of the expanded child tax credit is scheduled to be delivered today. Last month the House of Representatives passed President Biden`s Build Back Better legislation, which would extend that child tax credit for another year.
Senate Democrats are still negotiating the details of that legislation and haven`t voted on it yet. But today in Kentucky President Biden said something that could change the sequence in the Biden legislative agenda.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There`s nothing domestically more important than voting rights. It`s the single biggest issue.
Joining us now is Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut. She is the chair of the House Appropriations Committee and has advocated for the child tax credit since 2003.
Congresswoman DeLauro, the Senate hasn`t acted yet. The last check`s going out today. What -- there`s not much you can do from the house to get the Senate to act to get those checks to continue into next year.
REP. ROSA DELAURO (D-CT): Well, first of all, it`s wonderful to be with you, Lawrence, and I wish you and your family happy holidays.
We`re going to continue to do everything we can to make sure that the child tax credit, the tax cut, the biggest tax cut for families in decades is extended. And if you think about it today, Lawrence, today the Treasury, the IRS distributed $16 billion to 61 million children in this country.
DELAURO: This is the most transformative piece of legislation that we have seen in decades. It is already having a significant effect on the lives of families in this country. It`s a lifeline for the middle class. It`s been advantageous to working families, to the most vulnerable families.
And what we are looking at is since July -- now this is the sixth payment - - December is the sixth payment, and just this month 3.8 million -- in November, 3.8 million children were lifted out of poverty. And that is the highest number. They started at 3.5 in July. It is critical.
Listen to what families are saying about the use of the child tax credit. They are buying food. They are buying diapers. They`re buying school supplies. They are buying necessities.
One woman told me that she hasn`t been able to pay for orthodontist for her child. Another woman who has an autistic child and could not afford to pay for child care. This is helping her to pay for child care. And not only is it helping her to pay for child care, it is allowing her to go to work so that she can, in fact, even provide more economic security for her family.
It is social security for children and we need to extend it. And I`m optimistic that we are going to get to where we need to go.
O`DONNELL: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro still optimistic as you always are. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you.
DELAURO: Thank you, take care. And again, happy holidays.
O`DONNELL: Same to you. Thank you very much.
And joining us now is Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP. He met with a group of senators virtually today to discuss the path forward for voting rights. Thank you very much for joining us tonight.
It turns out John Hickenlooper, one of the senators in that meeting after the meeting came out and tweeted basically that -- there it is, "Enough. It`s time to change the filibuster to protect voting rights."
Did you know that Senator Hickenlooper was going to do that after the meeting?
DERRICK JOHNSON, PRESIDENT/CEO, NAACP: Well, we didn`t know he was going to do that. We are glad he did. The NAACP along with our partners Urban League and National Action Network, we issued a score card. And in that score card we identified 13 members of the Senate who had an incomplete. And we have worked aggressively since that point to get those senators to make the necessary commitments to ensure voting right protections was a priority before the end of the year.
And so we`re glad Senator Hickenlooper made that statement. Senator Bennett came on board in the midst of that meeting. Senator Peters organized the conversation.
So we are moving this process forward. There is no more urgent issue before the Senate at this time than voting right protections. And we urge the Senate to ensure that our democracy is protected and to allow voters to fully engage in this democracy.
O`DONNELL: Does Senator Sinema seem ready change the Senate rule in order to pass this?
JOHNSON: Well, we are encouraged. She was on the phone. She didn`t speak, but we were encouraged that she listened in. And it`s really important to understand that this is not a partisan activity, and the needle had moved.
The rules of 2005 and 2006, we`re living in different political climate where individuals are willing to subvert democracy in order to score political points or advance partisan interests, that is anti-democratic, and we cannot be touting democratic principles globally as we did two weeks ago if we`re not protecting democracy here domestically.
O`DONNELL: You know, I just want to note for the record and the audience, I`ve been in an awful lot of meetings with an awful lot of senators in situations like this. I`ve never heard of a senator not speaking.
This was a group of one, two, three, four -- about six senators and to have one of them not speak at all, as you`re telling us Senator Sinema did, is a pretty strange piece of Senate behavior.
You heard Joe Biden today saying voting rights is now the number one issue. He said that with a clarity that he hasn`t had before.
JOHNSON: Well, that is a shift from last week. That`s a shift from last month. At NAACP and the civil rights community, we are clear. We cannot advance public policy if we`re not protecting the right of voters to participate.
But more importantly, after the first of the year, legislative bodies will be convening all across the country, but particularly in the south where a majority of African Americans live and they will be considering redistricting plan.
This will be the first time since 1960 that we won`t have a federal standard to ensure that racial gerrymandering, political gerrymandering is not the primary use or tool used to draw political boundary lines.
JOHNSON: So we must adopt voting right protections to ensure that voters can elect candidates of their choice and that we can have a true representative democracy.
O`DONNELL: The Senate is a narrow one-lane road, and any legislation that`s on it has to wait for the legislation that`s in front of it. Build Back Better has always been in front of voting rights on that road.
Is it time to let Build Back Better pull over to the side and have voting rights pass in front of it?
JOHNSON: Let`s be clear, IT may be a narrow road but the bridge will collapse if we don`t put our priorities in order. Priorities should be just as it was last week when they made exceptions and they lifted the -- lifted the standards in terms of our debt limit.
We have to do the same thing for our democracy. The full faith and credit of this country is important. The full faith in our democracy is also important, so there should not be anything in terms of priority, voting rights protections for all American citizens.
And that`s the work of the NAACP. That`s the work of the civil rights community. And this has to be a priority before the end of this calendar year.
O`DONNELL: President Derrick Johnson of the NAACP, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it.
JOHNSON: Thank you.
And coming up, the president of the California Medical Board says she was stalked and ambushed by men who claimed to be part of a Trump aligned anti- vaccine group. She will tell us what happened next.
They ambushed me. That is what the president of the California medical board said members of a prominent COVID-19 disinformation group did to her. Kristina Lawson, an attorney who served as mayor of Walnut Creek, California, was appointed to the board by former Democratic Governor Jerry Brown in 2015.
Last week Kristina Lawson said strangers parked outside her home in a white SUV. She also says someone flew a drone over her house. The white SUV then followed her to work and parked head to head with her car in a parking garage.
Kristina Lawson said that when she left the office building and entered the parking garage later that evening, four men jumped out of the SUV with cameras and recording equipment and confronted her. She says the men identified themselves as members of a group that has been investigated by the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis for profiting from unproven and potentially dangerous treatments for COVID-19.
The leader of that organization, Simone Gold is a Beverly Hills doctor who was arrested for her role in the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Simone Gold pleaded not guilty to all five federal charges she is facing.
Joining us now is Kristina Lawson, president of the California Medical Board. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. This sounds like the kind of harassment that election officials around the country have been facing.
KRISTINA LAWSON, PRESIDENT, CALIFORNIA MEDICAL BOARD: Lawrence, well, first of all, thank you for having me. I think it`s so important that we shine a light on these terrorizing tactics.
And while it`s unfortunate that it occurred to me and to my family last week, you make a good point. It`s occurring and happening to people across the country these days.
O`DONNELL: And so we have it happening with election officials. It`s happening with state medical officials, not just in California. Yours is one of the most dramatic cases that I`ve heard of, but there`s a state medical official in Florida where they were protesting outside of his house for months screaming at him, screaming at his children. So this is something that has been spreading.
LAWSON: Yes, and one of the things I think is unique about my personal experience is that I, of course, knew that they were following me all day because my 12-year-old son noticed a drone flying over our house at about 8:00 a.m. when we left for school that day.
Had he not noticed that drone, I might have never made the connection between the white SUV at the end of my driveway and the one that was in the parking garage later that evening.
O`DONNELL: Are you afraid? Is your family afraid?
LAWSON: Look, I`m not afraid, you know, law enforcement in Walnut Creek, California where I live has just been terrific. Of course the law firm that I work for has been terrific as well.
And you know, I`m not going to be intimidated by these terrorizing tactics. It`s un-American that they`re doing this to public servants and leaders across the country. And I`m just not going to be intimidated by it.
O`DONNELL: What do you tell your 12-year-old about this?
LAWSON: Well, I tell my 12-year-old that this is not the way that we have a conversation in -- you know, in society if we want to change somebody`s mind.
And you know, the group that approached me didn`t approach me with any particular concern. They didn`t send me a note like so many organizations do that, you know, advocates for a particular position. They showed up for the sole purpose of terrorizing me.
I`m a former mayor and city council member. I`m used to having public commenters come to meetings. We welcome that at the medical board of California. But this isn`t the way to participate in our society. This isn`t, you know, a civilized discourse.
O`DONNELL: Going forward, do you have changes to your routines, not that you can share -- would share with us, but this must affect your behavior?
LAWSON: Unfortunately I`ve had to have some private security over the past week or ten days and that may continue for some time. And of course law enforcement at the state level does work with the medical board to make sure that all of our board members and all of our staff, frankly, all of California`s public health officials are protected as well.
So that`s been an unfortunate experience for us all. But we thank the brave women and men of law enforcement for all of their support.
O`DONNELL: Kristina Lawson, I`m sorry this is happening to you and your family. And thank you very much for joining us.
LAWSON: Thank you for having me.
And coming up, the remarkable Joyce Chisale returns with an update on her schooling, next in tonight`s LAST WORD. Many of you met Joyce Chisale on this program when she was 15 years old. She`s now a first-year student at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine thanks to your help.
That`s next.
O`DONNELL: Five years ago on this program, we introduced you to the remarkable Joyce Chisale, who was then 13 years old and had just been sent home from high school in Malawi because her family could not afford to pay the school fees. Public high school in Malawi is not free.
When I met Joyce, I told her she wouldn`t have to worry about school fees anymore, because thanks to your generosity, she would receive a scholarship from the KIND Fund, Kids in Need of Desks, the partnership I created between MSNBC and UNICEF to deliver desks to schools in Malawi and provide scholarships for girls to attend high school because the girls` graduation rate is less than half the boys` graduation rate from high school.
Joyce told me on the day that we met that she wanted to be a doctor and a poet. And then recited a poem that many of us will never forget.
JOYCE CHISALE, KIND FUND SCHOLAR: My poem is entitle "Little By Little".
O`DONNELL: "Little By Little".
CHISALE: Yes.
O`DONNELL: Ok.
CHISALE: Little by little we`ll go. No matter how far the distance is, we are not shaken. Little by little we`ll go and reach our destination.
Little by little we`ll go. No matter how bumpy or rocky the road is, we are not going to turn back. Little by little we`ll go and see through our dreams.
Little by little we`ll go. No matter how narrow the path is, we`re going to force ourselves to pass.
And little by little we`ll go, and reach the promised land.
Don`t be shaken. Don`t turn back. Little by little you`ll go and reach your destination.
O`DONNELL: Joyce has reached the next stop on the road to her destination. And a few days ago, she told us how it`s going in her first year at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine.
CHISALE: My journey at the university for my first year has been good. It has been exciting. And it`s been an adventure, as well as stressful because there`s a lot of work.
The workload is very huge as compared to the workload I had in high school. So yes, it has been stressful. But it`s been wonderful at the same time, because I`ve learned a lot of new ways on how to manage my time, how to tackle my workload. Yes. It has been good.
O`DONNELL: Joyce has the enthusiasm for her classes of a student who feels very lucky to be there.
CHISALE: My favorite classes here have been biology, chemistry, as well as mathematics. In biology, it has been exciting because yes, we learned a lot of things about the human anatomy. We went deeper and it`s been good to be so (INAUDIBLE) -- and chemistry has been challenging. We`re going to find out more about the chemical reactions of bodies. Yes, the chemical equations. So, yes, it has s been good.
O`DONNELL: And now, it`s time for Joyce`s first college exams.
CHISALE: We`ll be studying our end of the year -- end of year examinations soon. And the evaluations are very good. Yes. There are some things that are difficult, but it`s been wonderful to have friends to help me. We had good discussions.
So I`ll be very glad to finish my foundation year so that I can actually start my first year of medico-laboratory sciences.
O`DONNELL: You can continue to help other students achieve their dreams and your dreams for them by going to lastworddesks.msnbc.com.
You can give a desk or a girl scholarship as a gift to anyone on your holiday gift list, and UNICEF will send them an acknowledgment of your gift. No contribution is too small.
When Joyce and I were talking she made me promise she really wanted to do this. She made me promise that she would get this LAST WORD tonight from her heart to yours.
CHISALE: To the people who are donating to the KIND Fund scholarship, you`re doing a great job out there. You are helping a lot of girls including me.
And on behalf of all the girls I would like to say thank you for your support. May you continue having that heart to support others. May God bless you.
O`DONNELL: Joyce Chisale gets tonight`s LAST WORD.
"THE 11TH HOUR" starts now.


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Q: How to put 403 page when user try to access a file directly?(.htaccess) I am using apache server,consider this is my website: www.domain.com.
I saved my all my files,images,videos in sub-domain like-> http://sub.domain.com/file.jpg
I am acessing all files(i.e, image,videos) from sub-domain.
If any user tying to access my file directly in address bar(http://sub.domain.com/file.jpg), it should show 403 forbidden page.
If any user tying to access my website( www.domian.com ), it should allow to access.
I tried following .htaccess code,
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?sub.domain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?sub.domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png|avi|mp3|swf")$ - [F]

but the problem is, it also give 403 forbidden result, when i access my website.
UPDATE:
index.html in (domain.com)

Example Page

Output: (when i trying to access "domain.com")
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image is not loading. it shows 403 forbidden in "console".

A: http:// won't be present in the referrer, only the domain name. Try the following instead:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(www\.)?sub\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png|avi|mp3|swf)$ - [F]

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Last Friday I talked about a new breed of superfast broadband heading our way, however it would seem that in the current day many users still aren't achieving anywhere near the maximum speeds promised by their ISPs.
Several months back my parents had their Virgin Media line upgraded from a 2Mbps to a 10Mbps connection free of charge, due to the discontinuation of the older package. This week my father mentioned that he hadn't noticed a difference and so I performed a quick speed check which confirmed he was still on the old package; an issue resolved by a single phone call to Virgin.
I had a similar issue when Virgin upgraded me to 20Mbps without replacing my old, slow modem; once again a quick speed test provided me with the fodder to give them a call and get a new, faster broadband modem free of charge.
It is always important to check that you are receiving something that at least resembles what you're paying for and fortunately a quick visit to www.speedtest.net will do just that. Simply click on 'begin test' and within around thirty seconds you will be given the current download and upload speed achieved between your computer and the closest server – in our case, Maidenhead.
Please remember that the speed quoted by your ISP is most often a maximum obtainable speed and it would be completely reasonable to get something less. This is especially true if you connect using ADSL via a convention phone line rather than via a fibre optic (Virgin Media) connection as the speed is heavily influenced from your distance to the closest exchange.
– Talk to them – In many instances your ISP will be able to run tests to ensure that your poor performance isn't due to a fault such as excessive line noise. I've seen customers have their connections increased in speed exponentially by simply reporting a fault and having an inherent problem removed; this work is paid for by the phone provider. Even in a worst case scenario where the line speed cannot be increased, it is possible that you could get moved down to a cheaper package while suffering no loss in performance.
– Update your router firmware – Most of us nowadays will connect to the Internet via a router which, if not doing its job properly, will result in slower download speeds. Problems with a router can in many instances be rectified by updating it with the latest software via a free firmware update provided by the original manufacturer. These updates are usually distributed free of charge online and serve as a way of the manufacturers improving the features, security and speed of their existing products as and when improvements are discovered.
– Clean up your PC– Many cases of connection slowdown are caused by a needlessly large amount of software in the background either slowing down the computer itself or hogging a proportion of the Internet bandwidth. Ensure that your Operating System is always kept clean and most importantly ensure that peer to peer file sharing programs (such as BitTorrent) aren't set to run in the background as these will certainly slow your connection.


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Active Transmissions Origami Tessellation
Within the origami tessellations genre there are three distinct sub-sections.
There are twist fold tessellations. There are flagstone tessellations. And there are collapsed shape tessellations.
I've always found twist folds are easier to execute and generally less fussy.
Collapsed shapes are in general, trickier to work.
Flagstones are kind of a hybrid of twists and collapses. I think they're easy, but very time consuming.
Each style offers its own unique array of possibilities for a finished design.
This is an example of a collapsed shape tessellation.
I came up with it just fiddling around with combining an assortment of shapes native to the grid.
At its most basic it's just different sized rectangles around hexagons.
The real handiwork is actually getting all those competing shapes to coalesce.
It's a tessellation probably best attempted in the dead of winter when it's very dry. But I went ahead with it even though it's been soggy here.
For a while, it felt like it might fail and I wouldn't complete it, but stubbornness prevailed.
Crease pattern for it is included below.
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NPA-led Financial Times articles generates huge interest in US trade deal issues
By	Alistair Driver on	 June 18, 2020 Brexit, News, NPA
An article in the Financial Times, initiated by the NPA, has generated huge interest around a US trade deal and the potential implications for unfair import competition for UK farmers.
FT journalist Peter Foster spoke to NPA chair Richard Lister and visited vice chair Rob Mutimer's farm in Norfolk last week, with the article published online yesterday (subscription required) and the front page and page 3 of the paper today.
It went into detail about the nature of UK pig production, how it differs from other countries' pig herds, and what the major pitfalls could be of allowing unrestricted access to US pork imports.
"Ministers often say the UK will not dilute 'our' welfare standards after Brexit. But they don't say how they will protect us from imports produced to much lower standards, like those in the US. We have to have a level playing field," Mr Mutimer said.
Mr Lister said: "The media has latched on to 'chlorinated chicken' and 'hormone beef', but the real issue is welfare standards. Without protection, we'll be sitting ducks."
NPA senior policy adviser Ed Barker added that even if the UK maintained the EU bans on the feed additive, ractopamine, which is widely used in the US, it was lower welfare standards that really enabled US producers to lower costs, a point backed up by figures. Commenting on the Government's move to block amendments to the Agriculture Bill that would have legally required equal standards on imports, he said: "If the government is sincere, then why not write it into law?"
The article generated a huge response after it was shared on social media by Mr Foster, with thousands of shares, likes and comments, including from prominent figures in the industry and national media.
In an article on the NPA website, Mr Barker explained how the NPA set the article up and how the day on Mr Mutimer's far unfolded.
"Peter Foster was keen to get beyond a debate on 'chlorine chicken' and instead really understand how a new trade policy in the UK could affect British pig producers at on farm," he said.
"What was refreshing was that he not only grasped the issues really quickly, but was absolutely clear he wanted to focus on commercial scale UK pig farms, and not the utopian smallholdings that are sometimes presented by media outlets or celebrity chefs!"
Mr Mutimer said: "This was a tremendous opportunity to get the message across about what a trade deal really could mean on farms – and take it beyond the headlines about chlorine-washed chicken, which only tell a fraction of the story."
The main picture, taken by Ed Barker, shows Rob Mutimer being interviewed by Peter Foster at his farm in Norfolk.


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By ABC News | September 6, 2022
Collective Soul's Ed Roland reflects on being "the opening band for everybody"
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It'd be hard to beat Collective Soul's collection of tour mates.
The "Shine" rockers have shared the road with artists including Metallica, Aerosmith, Van Halen, The Cranberries and Styx over their 30 years as a band. Speaking with ABC Audio, frontman Ed Roland shares he feels "blessed" to have such an extensive touring history.
"We're like the opening band for everybody," Roland laughs.
As for what makes Collective Soul able to fit on so many different kinds of bills, Roland's explanation is simple: "We're just a rock 'n' roll band."
"We've just never put ourselves where we have to be this sound or this vibe," he says. "It's all about that song at that moment — how is this song gonna translate to what makes us feel good?"
Collective Soul now has a new band to add to the roster in Switchfoot, who they've been touring with since July. Roland feels his group and the "Meant to Live" rockers share a common "spirit of the music" and "attitude."
"They take it serious, we take it serious," Roland says. "It's just the values of everybody in the band. They're very family oriented."
Fittingly, both Collective Soul and Switchfoot are literal bands of brothers. Roland's brother Dean Roland plays guitar in Collective Soul, while Switchfoot features siblings in frontman Jon Foreman and bassist Tim Foreman.
More than that, though, Roland feels the two bands are both "appreciative of where we are in life."
"We're appreciative of people enjoying our music," he says. "I think that is what bonds us together."
Collective Soul's tour with Switchfoot is scheduled through the end of September. Their new album, Vibrating, is out now.


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Let it swing! Mercedes-Benz sponsors the 25th Stuttgart jazzopen.
As premium sponsor of the 25th Stuttgart jazzopen Mercedes-Benz not only ensured a great atmosphere on the main stage. Also, the supposedly more unknown stars had their big gig – on an X-Class.
Mercedes-Benz Lifestyle: Culture.
The Schlossplatz in Stuttgart – an international stage.
The Schlossplatz in Stuttgart: with its magnificent "Neues Schloss" (new palace), its huge baroque park and the renowned state theatre, the wide square offers splendid views of the vibrant part of the Swabian capital. It is located right next to the Königsstraße, the largest shopping mile in Europe. Within eyeshot, the Mercedes-Benz star sits proudly atop the tower of Stuttgart's main station. Once a year, the Schlossplatz magically draws thousands of fans and numerous celebrities of the international jazz, blues, soul and pop scene to the southern German car manufacturing city: during the jazzopen Stuttgart.
Grand entrance for the X-Class.
Lenny Kravitz & Gary Clark Jr., Jamie Cullum & Joss Stone, Gregory Porter and the Kraftwerk techno pioneers – with its 25th edition, the festival once again showed that it is on a par with the major European stages. On top of that, Mercedes-Benz came up with a special attraction for the anniversary edition. The music lovers had just been preparing for the show of Jamiroquai when soulful tunes rang out. But where from? They did not come from the main stage. They came from the band Soul Diamonds, that spread a good mood in advance by playing music right next to the X-Class. Singer Eva Leticia Padilla was even using the truck bed as a mini-stage for her performance.
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The lifestyle vehicle is received well by musicians, too.
Besides the concert of the Soul Diamonds, Mercedes-Benz organised four additional concerts like this. Among others, the Tübingen-based brass band The Louisiana Funky Butts performed on the vehicle. Consisting of a strong five-part brass section, a drum duo and an exceptionally deep sounding sousaphone they made the X-Class swinging. On the contrary, the saxophonist Derek Brown was playing on his own. With his unique style of making music, which includes producing beat-boxing sounds with the saxophone, he was equally drawing the attention of the visitors. In this way, even the supposedly more unknown artists had their "big stage".
The shuttle service is provided by the S-Class and V-Class.
Moreover, the brand with the star made life a lot easier for the musicians by setting up an exclusive shuttle service for them. "Die Fantastischen Vier", Twana Rhodes, Omer Avital, Pat Metheny and others were conveniently taken to their venues during the ten days of the festival by Mercedes-Benz S-Class and V-Class vehicles.
Dreams aglow.
Photo production with an infrared camera: You have never seen these Mercedes-Benz dream cars looking the wa...
Rendezvous in Paris.
In France he is a star: Kyle Eastwood, first-born son of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood. Join us as we pay...
Stars of the north.
A boat and road trip beyond the Arctic Circle with the Mercedes-Benz Club Norway.
The new GLC and GLC Coupé with Jessi Combs.
The new GLC and its muscular brother, the GLC Coupé, are being put to the test by Jessi Combs.
Take a closer look at the Mercedes-AMG GLA 35 4MATIC.
Mercedes-AMG presents the GLA 35 4MATIC, a sports car in the compact class.
Here you can download the CLS 350 d as a wallpaper or browse through our picture gallery.
Let the fashion, lifestyle, art, adventure and culture that you will find here inspire you.
Mercedes-Benz Apps.
Discover and network with the world of Mercedes-Benz – always and everywhere with the Mercedes-Benz apps.
Fashion, stars and models: Mercedes-Benz presents news from the runways, designer portraits and everything ...
The designers at Mercedes-Benz are reconciling tradition and modernity in designing the cars for the future...
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Check your vehicle's data or take a look at your contracts – this is the future of mobility with Mercedes m...
G-Class world.
Discover the multifaceted world of the G-Class and be inspired by the values that this exceptional off-road...


You can earn an information security certificate. Note that not all courses for each program can be offered every semester.
You will need to successfully complete a minimum of 18 Credit Hours.
This course provides students with the skills to acquire advanced knowledge in each of the stand-alone Microsoft Operating Systems and experience with the Linux and MAC operating systems. Topics include: network connectivity, installation, command line interface, registry editing, troubleshooting, security, recovery, and file systems.
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This course will prepare students to pass the CompTIA Security+certification. CompTIA Security+ not only ensures that candidates will apply knowledge of security concepts, tools, and procedures to react to security incidents; it ensures that security personnel are anticipating security risks and guarding against them.