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Woman Suing Prince Andrew for Abuse Settled With Epstein for $500,000
The prince's lawyers are expected to argue that Virginia Roberts Giuffre's suit should be dismissed because of the earlier settlement's terms.,
The prince's lawyers are expected to argue that Virginia Roberts Giuffre's suit should be dismissed because of the earlier settlement's terms.
A woman who is among Jeffrey Epstein's most vocal accusers received $500,000 in 2009 to resolve a lawsuit in which she accused him of repeatedly sexually abusing her when she was a teenager, according to a settlement agreement unsealed on Monday.
The agreement was made public as part of a lawsuit filed by the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, against Prince Andrew, who was friendly with Mr. Epstein and who Ms. Giuffre has said raped her when she was 17.
Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, has denied Ms. Giuffre's allegations, and his lawyers are expected to argue at a hearing on Tuesday that her suit, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan, should be dismissed.
Andrew B. Brettler, a lawyer for Prince Andrew, declined to comment on the terms of the 2009 settlement or its potential ramifications for Ms. Giuffre's lawsuit against his client.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre has accused Prince Andrew in a lawsuit of raping her when she was a teenager being sexually trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. Credit…Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press
Ms. Giuffre says in the suit that she was trafficked and abused by Mr. Epstein and others in his circle, including Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, starting when she was 16.
The prince, 61, was a friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and longtime companion of Mr. Epstein's who was convicted last week of conspiring with him to recruit, groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
Understand the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
After days of deliberation, a jury found Ms. Maxwell guilty of all but one charge in the sex trafficking case against her.
Recapping the Trial: Prosecutors painted Ms. Maxwell as deeply complicit in Mr. Epstein's abuse, while the defense challenged the credibility of her accusers.
Understand the Case: Mr. Epstein's shadow loomed large during the trial, and his bond with Ms. Maxwell is at the center of the case.
The Accusers: Testimony provided by the accusers detailed how Ms. Maxwell ensnared and manipulated young girls, leading to years of abuse.
The Charges: Ms. Maxwell faced six counts in the trial and could be sentenced to a lengthy prison term.
Timeline of the Case: Here are some of the events that led to the highly anticipated trial.
Ms. Giuffre's suit against Prince Andrew, which seeks unspecified damages, accuses him of abusing her "at Epstein and Maxwell's invitation" in New York. She says the prince also abused her in London and on an island Mr. Epstein owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ms. Giuffre did not testify at Ms. Maxwell's trial.
Prince Andrew's lawyers have argued that Ms. Giuffre's suit against him is invalid, in part because of her 2009 settlement with Mr. Epstein. In addition to the sum she received, the filing unsealed on Monday shows her agreeing to drop claims against Mr. Epstein and anyone else "who could have been included as a potential defendant."
In a statement on Monday, David Boies, a lawyer for Ms. Giuffre, said the details of the 2009 agreement were "irrelevant to Ms. Giuffre's claim against Prince Andrew." The settlement, Mr. Boies said, did not mention the prince by name and he "did not even know about it."
Prince Andrew "could not have been a 'potential defendant' in the settled case against Jeffrey Epstein both because he was not subject to jurisdiction in Florida and because the Florida case involved federal claims to which he was not a part," Mr. Boies said.
Mr. Boies said that he and Ms. Giuffre's other lawyers had sought the public release of the settlement filing to rebut claims made by Prince Andrew's legal team. The prince's lawyers have argued that Ms. Giuffre was seeking a "payday" by suing him.
A fund created by Mr. Epstein's estate to compensate his victims has paid out at least $121 million to more than 135 people.
Ms. Giuffre, who now runs a nonprofit group called Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, filed her suit against Prince Andrew almost exactly two years after Mr. Epstein killed himself in a federal jail in Manhattan while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges. He had been accused of sexually exploiting dozens of women and girls at his various homes.
Prince Andrew had stepped back from public life in 2019 after a disastrous interview with the BBC about his links to Mr. Epstein. Ms. Giuffre's suit, which included a picture of her and the prince together, undermined his assertion in the interview that he could not recall meeting her.
The continuing questions about Prince Andrew's conduct come at a difficult time for Britain's royal family, which has endured a public rift within its ranks and is confronting worries about the health of Queen Elizabeth, 95, after the 2021 death of her husband, Prince Philip.
Britain's tabloid newspapers have seized on tensions within the royal household that were exposed in a series of interviews in which Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, described royal life as a kind of gilded prison and said that family members held retrograde views on race.
Toward the end of last year, the queen canceled some engagements because of concerns over her health, but she did deliver her annual televised Christmas message. She made no mention of either Prince Harry's decision to step down from duties as a senior member of the royal family or Prince Andrew's legal battle.
Stephen Castle contributed reporting.


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Quest Diagnostics and Unilab in Discussions to Amend Terms of Merger Agreement - Companies in Divestiture Discussions with a Third Party
TETERBORO, N.J., and TARZANA, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX) and Unilab Corporation (Nasdaq: ULAB) announced that they are in discussions to amend the terms of their previously announced transaction in conjunction with discussions with a third party to sell certain assets in Northern California to address concerns of the Federal Trade Commission regarding the transaction.
The proposed changes would include reducing the value of the overall transaction by approximately $60 million, based on the closing price of Quest Diagnostics common stock on November 29, 2002. This would result in Unilab shareholders having the right to elect either 0.3424 shares of Quest Diagnostics common stock or $19.10 in cash. Quest Diagnostics would not issue more than the 8.5 million shares or pay more than the $297 million in cash currently contemplated by the existing Merger Agreement. Based on these amounts, up to but not more than approximately 42% of the outstanding Unilab shares may be exchanged for cash and up to but not more than approximately 66% of the outstanding Unilab shares can be converted into Quest Diagnostics shares. Under terms of the existing Merger Agreement, Unilab shareholders would have received a blended value of $20.67 per share based on the closing price of Quest Diagnostics common stock on November 29.
Currently, the Merger Agreement between Quest Diagnostics and Unilab can be terminated by either party at any time after November 30, if the Cash Election Exchange Offer has not been completed on or before that date. The proposed changes would also include extending the termination date of the Merger Agreement until January 31, 2003. The Cash Election Exchange Offer is currently scheduled to expire at midnight on Thursday, December 5, 2002, unless extended.
The companies now expect the transaction to be completed within 30 to 60 days.
Quest Diagnostics and Unilab are strongly committed to completing the transaction. They continue to be involved in active discussions, which include settlement discussions, with the Federal Trade Commission. Quest Diagnostics and Unilab continue to believe that the transaction is not anti-competitive. Any agreements reached regarding the potential divestiture are subject to FTC approval.
In addition, the proposed changes are subject to the approval of the Boards of Directors of the respective companies at meetings anticipated to be held later this week. If approved by the Boards, additional details, including the terms of the proposed divestiture, are expected to be announced promptly thereafter; the changes will be described in the parties' respective SEC filings and distributed to Unilab stockholders.
Merrill Lynch is the Dealer Manager for the exchange offer and may be contacted toll free at 866-276-1462.
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Unilab Corporation is the largest provider of clinical laboratory testing services in California through its primary testing facilities in Los Angeles, San Jose and Sacramento and over 400 patient service centers and rapid response laboratories located throughout the state. Additional information is available on the Company's website at: http://www.unilab.com .
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This communication contains certain forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements, which may include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the financial condition, results of operations and business of Unilab, are based on management's current expectations and estimates and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are described in Unilab's most recent reports on Form 10-Q, most recent reports on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed by Unilab with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is the nation's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, providing insights that enable physicians, hospitals, managed care organizations and other healthcare professionals to make decisions to improve health. The company offers the broadest access to diagnostic laboratory services through its national network of laboratories and patient service centers. Quest Diagnostics is the leading provider of esoteric testing, including gene-based medical testing, and empowers healthcare organizations and clinicians with state-of-the-art connectivity solutions that improve practice management. Additional company information can be found on the Internet at: http://www.questdiagnostics.com .
This communication contains certain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, which may include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of Quest Diagnostics and Unilab and the benefits expected to result from the contemplated transaction, are based on management's current expectations and estimates and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences may include, but are not limited to, the risk that the conditions relating to the required minimum tender of Unilab shares or regulatory clearance might not be satisfied in a timely manner or at all, risks relating to the integration of the technologies and businesses of Quest Diagnostics and Unilab, unanticipated expenditures, changing relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners, conditions of the economy and other factors described in the most recent reports on Form 10-Q, most recent reports on Form 10-K, and other periodic reports filed by Quest Diagnostics and Unilab with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
On May 15, 2002, Quest Diagnostics filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4, as amended, and a Schedule TO, as amended, and Unilab filed a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, as amended, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the transaction. A Prospectus, which is part of the Registration Statement on Form S-4, the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9, and related exchange offer materials, including a letter of election and transmittal, has been mailed to stockholders of Unilab. In addition, Quest Diagnostics has previously filed a Statement on Schedule 13D, as amended, relating to its agreement with Kelso Investment Associates VI, L.P. and KEP VI, LLC. Investors and stockholders of Unilab are urged to read all of these documents carefully. These documents contain important information about the transaction and should be read before any decision is made with respect to the exchange offer. Investors and stockholders are able to obtain free copies of these documents through the website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov. Free copies of these documents may also be obtained from Quest Diagnostics by directing a request to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated at One Malcolm Avenue, Teterboro, New Jersey, 07608, or from Unilab by directing a request to Unilab Corporation at 18448 Oxnard Street, Tarzana, California, 91356.
In addition to the Registration Statement on Form S-4, Schedule TO, Prospectus, Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 and related exchange offer materials, both Quest Diagnostics and Unilab file annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
You may read and copy any reports, Statements or other information filed by Quest Diagnostics or Unilab at the SEC public reference room at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20549, or at any of the Securities and Exchange Commission's other public reference rooms in New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois. Please call the Securities and Exchange Commission at 800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference rooms. Quest Diagnostics' and Unilab's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are also available to the public from commercial document-retrieval services and at the website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov.
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Bring on the summer with casual entertaining on the deck, by the pool. or even on the beach! I love enjoying the long, warm evenings visiting with friends, nibbling a little food, sipping a little drink.
Coastal Living's Beach Cocktails (Oxmoor House, 2017), has been published just in time to enliven summer fun. Its beautiful photos, matte finish, and tasty variety of recipes also make this a great Mother's Day gift.
I love cookbooks that have stories to tell, and Beach Cocktails gives us the low-down on tiki bars, tells us the origins of famous drinks, helps us make our own mixers, and advises us on equipment and glassware. It's a pleasure just to flip through the book, looking at the photos of beaches and of beautifully garnished drinks.
The cocktails themselves run the full range. Beach Cocktails includes classic Manhattans and martinis, old favorites like margaritas and pina coladas, and newer drinks like Indian Summer (bourbon based) and Christopher Robin (vodka based). Never mixed a drink? No worries. The recipes in Beach Cocktails don't require a degree in mixology; they're all easy to put together.
You aren't a drinker? Again, relax. There's a whole chapter on mocktails with fruit-based drinks in beautiful summer colors with grownup flavors and garnishes. Try a Florida spritzer (grapefruit juice based) or a mango smoothie. All the non-alcoholic drinks look like the perfect refresher for a hot afternoon.
Of course, if you're drinking, you'll probably want to do a little snacking. Fortunately, Beach Cocktails includes a handful of tiki bar munchies. The variety of salsas are easy to make as are the Maine crab cakes.
One of the great features of the book are the recipes for mixers: flavored syrups, grenadine, bitters, sour mixes, and more. Homemade is almost always better than a bottled mix, and most of us welcome having the chance to leave out the preservatives and other unwanted ingredients.
Coastal Living's Beach Cocktails is the single-resource book to slip into your bag before your beach or resort vacation. Kicking back and relaxing in the summer sun and surf--whether you're partial to rum drinks, champagne, or fruit, you'll find cocktails or mocktails to suit your taste. You might even be inspired to make glazed chicken wings to get you through the cocktail hour.
Because today is Kentucky Derby Day, here's the drink I'm making tonight. You'll find it on page 222 of Beach Cocktails.
Combine the first three ingredients in a 2-quart pitcher. Crush with a spoon until mint is bruised. Stir in the bourbon and tea. Serve over ice. Garnish as desired.
Thanks to Time-Life Books for the review copy; all thoughts given here are entirely my own.
Mixed drinks are amusing to read about -- I follow one blogger who often features a classic or newer drink, with history and recipe. In my actual drinking life, though, I always find myself more tempted by wine than by a cocktail. Fun to read your review, though.
I don't drink but I still love this type of book. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I, too, tend to wine or beer. But I do like a traditional cocktail like a Rob Roy or a Bloody Caesar!
However, I totally steer clear of anything with anything sweet in them!
I'm heading to the beach a week from today - I need to pick up a copy of this for the condo!
Great review. I love Coastal Living magazine and its recipes and this book looks like it would be a fabulous addition to my my cocktail book collection.
I'm with Mae, mostly have a glass of wine or occasionally sherry, but every once in a while, like last night, mix up a cocktail, and for that it's great to have a handy guidebook. I write in new ones on any blank spaces.
OOPS! I somehow posted an old link before I had a chance to enter the new one. Sorry! My pasta link is from a while back.
I'm in Florida now, I definitely want to get this one.
I'm sorry I haven't been around for weekend cooking. Just very busy these days.
Happy Summer to you too! I'm copying the recipe for Mint Julep Iced Tea. I missed it for Derby Day, but I'm going to save it for Memorial Day. Thanks for sharing.
How fun-new cocktails for hot summer days. Have a good day.


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Nvidia's CES presentation this year managed to be both a highlight and a truly frustrating example of the absence of pricing and availability for anything at the show. While any talk of pricing is still off the table, it looks like we can expect to see Project Shield and the Tegra 4 platform in Q2 of the 2014 fiscal year.
The Steambox is on its way, and if it succeeds it will be a huge nail in the PC gaming coffin. Since you can't fit a high end gaming laptop in your hands, and no one wants to connect their high end gaming desktop to the big screen on the other side of the living room, Project Shield is designed to act as a middle ground for both groups.
The idea is fantastic, offering a not quite portable console with access to the best in mobile and PC gaming. You can connect it to your television, if you're the type to use a 20ft HDMI cable, and you can even push all of that great content to your television. Whether or not Shield is a good idea isn't totally relevant, as long as they can beat Valve on either pricing or availability. If the Steambox isn't on shelves before July, Shield will be the first thing people see.
Due to some technical delays, Nvidia won't be releasing the Tegra 4 platform or Project Shield until Q2. While this means that technically Shield could drop anytime between May and July, the chances are good that the technical delays will push it to the end of that timeframe. The launch of Shield also means that Nvidia's partners will be able to start releasing Tegra 4 based gadgets, no doubt starting with a refresh to hardware lineups from ASUS and others. The Tegra 4 release window will put many manufacturers in line to release competitive pieces of hardware in time for the holiday season, and the LTE capabilities of the chipset will likely mean we will see at least one high end mobile device on a US carrier by the end of the year running Tegra 4.
Nvidia is plenty prepared to keep their fanbase interested in Project Shield. Last week their YouTube channel started releasing Shield focused videos twice a week, one day to show off an Android game and another to show off a PC game running on the platform. The videos show the handheld up close, playing a few minutes of each title flawlessly. While it's hard to imagine that these videos will be enough to keep the hype going until July, it will be great to see the console power through the most popular games on the market and attempt to grow interest as each new PC game is released.


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RUSH: So I'm watching CNN this morning, I have it on, all of a sudden I look up and I see Christine Todd Whitman. Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey and quintessential Republican establishment type, RINO, if you will, right out of the McCain wing of the party. You know what she's talking about? The need for serious climate change action.
She's quoting from the Trump administration climate change report which, for about the gazillionth time now in the last 30 years, warns us that we only have 10 years left to address these dire circumstances or else by the end of the century, 82 years from now, we're gonna die. We have 10 years. And if we don't do what these people say needs to be done in 10 years, then in another 82 years, we are gonna die.
I looked at that just on the surface of it. How do we even have a chance when brain-dead RINOs even fall for this stuff? And by the way, I mean brain-dead falling for it. It could well be that they're just their own version of pro-government, leftist type activists and sign on to it just because the government says so. But I also wonder how many people on our side who buy into this stuff really just don't know, they just accept it because they think the sources are credible?
Well, it turns out — and of course one of the selling points in this latest climate report, "Well, it came from Trump's own administration!" And the media's loving running around saying that Trump's saying I just don't believe it. "Well, what do you mean? Your own administration put out the report." And Trump said (paraphrasing), "I didn't put out the report. It may have come from people who work in Washington, but they're not part of my operation. I did not put out the report. I do not believe it."
Then they start mocking him and making fun of him as being a full-fledged idiot. And if you're just patient, if people are just patient and we eventually will find out, "Andrew Light, who worked on the 2015 Paris accord negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change under Secretary of State John F. Kerry, served as a review editor for the assessment –" In other words, an Obamaite wrote this climate report in the Trump administration.
"Andrew Light, who worked on the 2015 Paris accord negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change under Secretary of State John F. Kerry, served as a review editor for the assessment, overseeing the pivotal final chapter that concluded under a worst-case scenario that global warming could wipe out as much as 10 percent of the U.S. economy by 2100."
"Mr. Light also spent five years as senior fellow and director of international climate policy at the Center for American Progress, which was founded and now led by longtime Democratic insider John Podesta. The center is also financed by liberal billionaires such as Mr. Soros and Mr. Steyer."
So this Trump administration, like any other, has career appointees. The left gets themselves appointed to these career positions, they never leave, and they serve to corrupt. Even though we have a new president from a New Party, Obamaites still populate much of Washington in the bureaucracies and in the cabinet level departments and so forth, like FDA, EPA. I mean they're all over the place, just like the left appoints judges who are left-wing activists, not really judges, and they are there to provide election loss insurance.
And so here we basically have somebody that worked for John Kerry and this phony special envoy on climate change who had the final review of the Trump administration National Climate Assessment.
"The involvement of Mr. Light and other figures known for their climate change advocacy has raised questions about the credibility of the report, which has been widely depicted as a politically neutral, scientific document." Yes, everything the left does is never said to be liberal. It's never said to be socialist.
It's always said to be nonpartisan. It's always said to be neutral. It's always said to be scientific, put together by disinterested specialists, just like Mueller is a disinterested, dispassionate enforcer of the law. So, once again, the nation has been totally misled. An uber-left-wing hack climate change activist disguised as a scientist and envoy writes the final review, the last chapter review of the whole thing. It gets published under false premises.
This is why Trump is so valuable. You realize how many people would cave to the pressure on this? Most would say, "Well, if my administration put it out, I have to back it. If my administration put this out, I can't disavow my own administration." But there's Trump doing so.
This is deep state, folks.
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RUSH: Yes, yes, yes, I know about it. There's a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska, and the cable news networks are on the case showing the damage. There are predictions of tsunamis, tsunami warnings in some of the coastal areas. Do you know what a tsunami is? Most people I would submit to you do not know what a tsunami is. And you can't blame 'em. They've watched movies with tsunamis. A tsunami is portrayed as a gigantic wave that comes out of nowhere and drowns everybody, 30-foot, 40-foot waves.
No, that's not what a tsunami is. A tsunami can result in the overall water level, sea level climbing. But a tsunami — this actually kind of hard to explain, knowing full well that there are scientific experts. Remember in the old days, Mr. Snerdley, when I would attempt to explain something scientifically and they would all call and tell me to shut up, that I'm not a scientist and I ought not be trying to explain these things? Since those days, I have established myself as a scientific expert primarily in the area of climate change.
By the way, I asked myself a question earlier: How in the world is it that somebody like Christie Todd Whitman, a Republican establishment member extraordinaire is out reciting climate change gibberish in terminology exactly like any run-of-the-mill leftist. And the answer is they're paid. They work at think tanks. They're paid. People promote studies. They're paid to have these beliefs in many areas, scientific areas, special interests. Not political — see, that's another brilliant aspect of this. Climate change is not categorized as a political issue, which is all it is. It's not science.
They want you to believe that it's science, but it isn't. If it's science, then there cannot be any legitimate claim to climate change because not every scientist agrees! And science is not up for a vote. Scientific fact is scientific fact. It's not scientific opinion. So a consensus of scientists believing anything does not make it science. And there are some really brilliant scientists out there who tell you that the so-called science behind climate change is as bogus as anything they've ever seen. So it's all politics. But it takes place under the rubric of science, like the Mueller investigation is happening under the umbrella of the legal system and the Department of Justice, when it's nothing more than a political opposition research campaign being run by a lawyer. That's all it is.
Now, CNN — oh, the tsunami. What a tsunami is basically, you can't see it. It's beneath the surface. And it's because of an earthquake which also, in terms of the ocean, is beneath the surface; so the ocean floor moves. This causes essentially — there's two phases to it. Water will be seen to be receding from the shoreline, and then when it comes back, it comes back at a much higher level.
Now, there can be, if it's really dramatic, there can be some waves on the surface associated with it. But most of the waves of a tsunami are beneath the surface. They result in flooding. They can result in a massively elevated sea level. But a tsunami is not automatically this gigantic wave that you see from way over on the horizon and you say, "Man, Mabel, we got 10 minutes to maybe outrun it," because you can't see it coming.
Remember, there was an earthquake in I think Central America, South America, some ten years ago, and they issued tsunami warnings for as far away as Hawaii. So CNN and cable news networks fired up the cameras on the shoreline at Oahu and the Big Island and they're waiting for the gigantic wave. Remember this? And there is no gigantic wave, but yet the tsunami is happening. And people who knew what they were doing in Oahu got on their boats and took the boats out because a wave wasn't gonna swamp them.
The tsunami could flood their boat theoretically, depending on how it reacted with the shoreline. But you get away from shore, you get out there and you just ride the tsunami as it comes in and goes out. But you don't, for the most part, most tsunamis you'll not see it. It's all beneath. You see the results of it. So it was kind of funny.
The media didn't know. The media was expecting this gigantic wave. And at the moment the U.S. Geological Survey or whatever was telling people, "This is it, the tsunami is hitting right now." CNN's anchors are looking out over the ocean, "I don't see it yet, Brooke, do you, huh? We got a sharp eye out over here Anderson. We're looking for the wave, but we don't see it." But it was happening right in front of 'em.
Now, it turned out to be a very minor tsunami effect as far away as Hawaii. But they had people tracking it as it was moving from off the coast of Chile or wherever it was all the way across the Pacific. They had their scientific algorithms and their diagrams, and they were trying to show where. And people were looking for this gigantic wave because just like in the China Syndrome, nuclear power means a meltdown and a poisoning of everything. Tsunami means this gigantic tidal wave. A tidal wave is not necessarily associated with a tsunami.
You've seen people out there surfing on these 15, 20-foot waves. No tsunami caused that. That's just a confluence of meteorological factors, largely wind creating waves on the surface of the ocean. But a tsunami, a legitimate tsunami resulting from an earthquake is gonna happen beneath the surface of the water. Because the earthquake can't happen on the ocean. The ocean can't move on its place. It's a bunch of water. It will go wherever its container lets it go. (interruption) The ocean floor moves, yeah, with an earthquake, obviously. And when the ocean floor moves and rearranges itself that has effect on all the water above it.
A tsunami is a giant sucking of water away from the coastline and then bringing it back. But it doesn't happen instantly. It takes a while. We're talking about a massive amount of water that has to be moved. But you can see the sea level climb and get big. Now, in some cases they are so massive that you will see a wave on the surface. But for the most part a tsunami is not something you actually see. You see the results of it, but you don't see it actually happening.
I imagine your phone's ringing off the hook and there are people saying, "He doesn't know what he was talking about. I saw a tsunami once and it ruined my hut." Could be Obama's brother calling.
RUSH: Open Line Friday and to Centerville, Utah, next. This is Kevin. Great to have you, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Yes. Thanks for taking my call, Rush. Got my bucket list completed. I'm only 60 so I'm gonna have to add to it. I noticed on the evening news from the lamestream media that they're showing all these normal, what we consider normal, storms as these big climate events. They're having the weather babes on there talking about it almost every night. They're talking about weather. They're just normal storms, it seems like to me.
RUSH: You're exactly right. It's very shrewd of you to notice this. This is part of the… See, what happened was, they initially called it global warming, and then a 15-year period of no warming happened. In fact, we're still in it. I have no reason to lie to anybody about this, folks. I'm not in the business of being wrong, and I don't say things I don't believe just to be provocative or to get noticed. 'Cause I don't have that problem.
I'm hell-bent on being right and being able then to persuade people. I'm telling you, researching this more than anybody's researched anything for a term paper or a doctoral thesis. I'm telling you, we're in the middle of a gigantic hoax. By the way, stand by for sound bites 23 and 24 just to show you this in a minute here. We've had two of the chilliest years, these past two years overall, recorded temperatures. You ever noticed that when it's a cold day and people say, "Well, what about climate change?" They say, "You can't compare the weather every day to climate. They're two different things."
And yet when it's 110 degrees in July, they say, "See? Climate change." But overall, worldwide temperatures are down the past two years. So they had to come up with a new term, "climate change." Since there wasn't any warming. And that allows any weather event to be portrayed as extraordinary, unusual, outside the normal pattern. See? Climate change. See? You're quick. You're very shrewd out there to notice this, sir. 'Cause it's all part of the politics of selling it.
Here. This afternoon, CNN International. Christiane Amanpour has a show, and she was talking to U.K. astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees about his new book on the future prospects for humanity. And Christiane Amanpour said (impression), "When you look towards what is the biggest existential threat to our planet, is it an asteroid colliding with the mother ship, that would be earth? What is the biggest existential threat to our plant?"
REES: What I worry about most are the kind of risks that are induced by us humans, either collectively on the climate or the environment, or individually because technology is so powerful that even a few people can have a really catastrophic effect that cascades globally. And as I say in my book, I look at this (from an) astronomical perspective, and the Earth's been around for 45 million centuries but this is a first when one species, namely the human species has the future of the planet in its hands, because what we do in this century will determine whether we leave a depleted planet for future generations or whether we can survive sustainably.
RUSH: I remember 30 years ago when I started telling people you wait, they're gonna start saying the greatest threat to the earth is humanity, and they're now doing it. And this guy, Lord Martin Rees, Royal Lord Martin Rees' new book on the future prospects for humanity (impression), "We are the first species in 45 million centuries that hold the fate of the planet in our very hands."
Now, if I had been hosting this program instead of Christiane Amanpour I would have said, "Okay. Well, let's say that somebody ordered you to destroy the planet and gave you a government directive, destroy the habitat. What would you do? What would you advise? Forget whether you agree with it or not. Your superior demands that you destroy the earth, what would you do? How would you do it?"
I would love one of these clowns, 'cause I know what they would say. "Well, nuclear detonation…"
"Wait a minute. Nuclear detonation isn't climate change. And you're not gonna destroy the habitat. You might destroy it for human beings, but you're not gonna destroy life on the planet. Nobody's ever gonna be able to do that. Life will survive no matter what, somewhere, somehow."
The point is, this is how they get people hating themselves, blaming themselves, and this is when they set up redemption for all of this damage you're causing. You can make amends by voting Democrat, voting Big Government, what have you.
RUSH: I'm sure it has already happened somewhere, but the 7.0 earthquake near Anchorage is going to be chalked up to climate change. It's axiomatic. It's automatic. It's a given. And people are not gonna question, "Well, what did we do to cause the earthquake?" "Uh, well, the pressure we're putting on the earth. So many cars, shipping so many fossil fuels, pipelines!" Make up whatever it takes to make neophytes believe that if it weren't for humanity doing whatever humanity does, there wouldn't have been an earthquake.
If it's really got severe damages, they're gonna say, "Even this kind of an earthquake would not have caused this kind of damage years ago, but because of climate change…"
They just throw it at everything. If you don't doubt me, I mean, now the greatest threat to the earth is human beings — and this isn't new. They have been trying to promulgate this for as long as I have been doing this program. Now, the people that have been doing it up to now have been armchair scientists, political activists. But now this! This is U.K. Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees, and he's talking to Christiane Amanpour on CNN International, and she followed up that previous answer. She was in a state of disbelief. She was so excited, she could barely contain herself.
AMANPOUR: Do you know that's an extraordinary comment! The earth has been around for that many millions of decades —
REES: Mmm-hmm!
AMANPOUR: — but this is the first time —
REES: Yeah!
AMANPOUR: — that a species, our species faces a catastrophic extinction?
REES: Well, it's — it's up to us. We — we could cause a catastrophic extinction but let's hope we don't. But, uh, uh… There's been never been a state when one species has so dominated the planet and we are uniquely empowered by, uh, technology, of course.
AMANPOUR: So, basically you're saying that the existential threat to our planet is us?
REES: Yes.
RUSH: Man, oh, man. I contend to you that only one thing really would permit somebody to readily agree with such glittering ignorance, and that is politics. Saying something along the lines (impression), "Humanity, the human species… The only thing forcing catastrophic extinction is the human species." The only way you would possibly believe that is if somehow it fits with your political agenda, and the way this fits with political agenda is the solution, which is Big Government, massive power investment in Big Government.
Government regulation, punitive regulation — telling people how they can and cannot live, what they can and cannot do, what they can and cannot eat. It's all predicated on the fact that human beings — unregulated, uncontrolled, left to their own devices — are the biggest agents of destruction on the planet. And only the learned of the species — the Robert Muellers and the McCabes and the Lord Martin Reeses and the James Hansens and the Elon Musks.
Only they will have the freedom to behave as they wish while directing and telling others what they can and can't do. It is the epitome of totalitarianism, and that's what they're striving for. And they get dupes like Christiane Amanpour to think this kind of thing is brilliant and brave. Very, very brave to make such a statement. "Humanity with our technology, of course, leading to catastrophic extinction. Gee. I hope we don't… I hope we don't," he says. You wonder why young people are scared to death to leave the basement?
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2019: INEC cannot be trusted for a credible, free and fair general elections- PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to put itself into proper shape before the 2019 general elections in the country, saying the present state of the Commission is worrisome.
The country's main opposition party stated this in the wake of recent cases of alleged registration of under-age voters in the recently held Local Government election in Kano State.
Addressing a world press conference on Tuesday, the party's spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, stressed the need to revamp INEC's image, pointing out that the electoral body had lost the trust reposed in it by Nigerians to conduct free and fair elections under the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led administration.
It said: "Nigerians have completely lost confidence in INEC under Professor Mahmood Yakubu and we urge him to take the path of honour and do the needful before it becomes too late.
"The credibility of our electoral process under the current INEC is hugely in doubt. The nation was last Wednesday terrified by the commission's Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, who announced that INEC registered minors because its agents were threatened by members of the communities in those States.
"By this alarming and unpatriotic statement, INEC under Professor Yakubu has completely discredited and disqualified itself and cannot be trusted to conduct a credible, free and fair general elections in 2019.
"The import of this statement is that INEC under Professor Yakubu is not firm in its acts and will consequently cave in and accept any form of irregularities once it is put under pressure by members of a voting community."
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FAQ: Who Won College Softball World Series 2016?
1 Who won the 2017 College Softball World Series?
2 Who won the College Softball World Series 2018?
3 Who has won the most College Softball World Series?
4 What college softball player has the most home runs in a college career?
5 What was the longest softball game ever?
6 What's the longest college softball game?
7 How many national championships does Alabama softball have?
8 Who won the Women's College World Series in 2016?
9 How many teams go to college softball World Series?
10 Who did Florida State softball beat in 2018?
11 Who is in the Softball World Series 2021?
12 Where is College Softball World Series 2021?
13 Who has the most College World Series?
Who won the 2017 College Softball World Series?
NCAA softball tournament 2017: Oklahoma defeats Florida, repeats as national champion. Eight softball teams traveled to Oklahoma City to name a Women's College World Series national champion. In the end, Oklahoma defeated Florida for the title, the Sooners' second in as many years and fourth overall.
Who won the College Softball World Series 2018?
There were a lot of firsts Tuesday night in Oklahoma City as the Florida State Seminoles became 2018 Division I softball national champions. The Seminoles capped off a two-game sweep of Washington in the Women's College World Series finals with an 8-3 Game 2 win over the Huskies Tuesday evening.
Who has won the most College Softball World Series?
The Bruins are among the most decorated programs in NCAA softball, leading all schools in NCAA championships with 12, 13 overall WCWS championships, championship game appearances with 22, Women's College World Series appearances with 29, and NCAA Tournament wins with 187.
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What college softball player has the most home runs in a college career?
Oklahoma's Lauren Chamberlain capped her college career in 2015 as the college softball all-time home run leader, slugging 95 home runs over a sensational four-year career.
What was the longest softball game ever?
They returned Tuesday afternoon, nearly 170 hours later, to complete this historic, even controversial, game. It took 13 minutes. Brooklyn Cividanes was hit by a pitch from New Britain's Cristina Velez and Adriana Aponte jogged home to score the winning run, giving Platt a 44-43 victory.
What's the longest college softball game?
The longest game in Women's College World Series history occurred on May 24, 1984 – a 1-0 Texas A&M Softball win against Cal Poly Pomona Broncos in 2⃣5⃣ innings.
How many national championships does Alabama softball have?
It has placed in the top five at the NCAA Championships 25 of the past 29 years and won national championships six times: in 1988, 1991, 1996, 2002, and most recently won back to back titles in 2011 and 2012. Alabama has also won nine SEC Championships including 1988, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2015.
Who won the Women's College World Series in 2016?
The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2016 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City in which the Oklahoma Sooners were crowned the champions.
How many teams go to college softball World Series?
The Division I Softball Championship provides for a field of 64 teams to compete in the national tournament. Of the 64 teams, 32 teams will receive automatic qualification with the remaining best 32 teams selected on an at-large basis by the Division I Softball Committee.
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Who did Florida State softball beat in 2018?
The 2018 season saw the Seminoles win the ACC regular season title for the sixth consecutive year and the ACC tournament title for the fifth consecutive year, defeating Pittsburgh in the ACC championship game with a walk-off homerun. securing a spot in the NCAA Tournament as the sixth overall seed.
Who is in the Softball World Series 2021?
No. 1 Oklahoma wins the 2021 national championship with 5-1 victory over No. 10 Florida State. The Sooners have done it.
Where is College Softball World Series 2021?
The tournament culminated with eight teams playing in the 2021 Women's College World Series at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.
Who has the most College World Series?
Here are the DI college baseball programs with the most national championships.
12 — Southern California (1948, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1970-74, 1978, 1998)
6 (tied) — LSU (1991, 1993, 1996-97, 2000, 2009)
6 (tied) — Texas (1949-50, 1975, 1983, 2002, 2005)
5 — Arizona State (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981)


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Contractors from Utah and New Mexico were elected to positions with the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA).
Stephen Richards, of Richards Sheet Metal Works Inc., Ogden, Utah, was elected to SMACNA's board of directors. Meanwhile, Keith Wilson, of Miller Bonded Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., was elected to SMACNA's board of directors to serve as secretary/treasurer.
Each contractor's term began at the close of the association's 60th annual convention, held recently in Washington.
Richards is glad to participate in SMACNA.
"I feel that service to our industry is important for protecting and advancing the industry, as well as being personally rewarding," he said.
Currently a chapter councilor on SMACNA's Council of Chapter Representatives, Richards served as a member of the Director Nominating Committee, the Custom Fabricating and Manufacturers Council Steering Committee, the Director Nominating Committee, and the FMA Liaison Task Force.
Richards is a member of the Sheet Metal Contractors Association of Utah's board of directors, as well as trustee to the Pension Fund and chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee. Richards also served as president of the Bid Depository Board of Governors. In his community, he is an active member of the Board of Enable Industries, an agency providing skill training and employment for disabled persons. He is past chairman of that organization.
Wilson, on the other hand, will act as officer to the Products and Programs Coordinating Committee. In addition, he is chairman of the Investment Committee and the Budget and Finance Committee, as well as a member of the Employee's Pension Plan Trust, High-Performing Contractor Task Force, and the National Energy Management Institute Marketing Task Force.


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This weekend I had my last traditional Sunday run. Every weekend for fifteen years (give or take a year) I have met a friend and we've run 4-22 miles together. We've run in snow, rain, heat, and darkness. We've trained for marathons. We've run through miscarriages, depression, pregnancy, divorce, and marriage. My friend and I have never lived more than five miles apart. Friday she moves 19 miles away.
The routine has changed over the years, but it's always involved meeting at her house before 8:00 and running. I remember finishing runs with eyelashes covered in frost, blood running down my leg, or tears in my eyes. I remember running wondering if she would ever shut up, and I'm sure she remembers runs wondering the same about me and my current gripe, aggravation, or crisis. The running therapy was sometimes one sided, but that was how the weekend runs went: sometimes one of us needed to talk and sometimes one of us needed to listen. We both spent time as the therapist and the patient.
Before kids we saw each other socially, but since our families arrived our friendship has dwindled to a dinner or two a year and a run every weekend. The lack of variety has not diminished the value of the time together, in fact, I think it's grown more important. When you have kids making time for yourself and your friendships gets difficult, but while other activities have gone by the wayside the Sunday run was constant.
I exaggerate a bit. Life did interrupt our runs from time to time. Vacations, surgeries, and weather would cancel the runs, but that was the exception, not the rule. For me the exercise and the chatting meant my week started with a clear head and was worth making an effort. We talked about our kids, our parents, our husbands, our friends, our jobs, and our health. Our insecurities around parenting, our bodies, our relationships, and our careers were common topics. For an hour every week we didn't have to start and stop a discussion to parent, wife, or work. Together we focused on ourselves while pounding the pavement.
We both hate treadmills and dislike gyms. Neither of us runs with headphones and her dog always keeps us company. There was never a negotiation about any of those details, so it was easy. When we first started running she was so much faster than me that I'd have to run half a lap around the park with her and then turn to walk the opposite direction to recover. When she caught back up I'd turn around and run again. I worried about keeping up with her, but then we got to the same pace and it was easy. At one point we could run a 7 minute mile, but now we've slowed to a comfortable 9-10 mile per hour pace for our Sunday morning runs. She runs every morning and her inflexibility is the reason this tradition has continued on. I know because we've had other friends come and go from the run but she has been the constant and I've gone along for the run. It just happens every weekend.
We can keep running – and I'm sure we will meet up from time to time to run the trails by her new house or the parks by my house – but it will require planning and schedules. It will become difficult, and that's what makes me sad. All of my friendships right now require negotiation and calendars and texts and cancellations and rescheduling. The run was easy, and easy is in short supply in my friendships.
For our last run Sunday I imagined some epic last meeting. We'd take selfies (that I could post on my blog). I'd bring a present. We'd reminisce about all the runs over the years. None of that happened. Another friend joined us and we ran a lap. We talked about our kids and the move. Then our friend went off to church and we ran one last lap together just chatting, bitching, and running: same as always. Tears were blinked away, not about our last run, but about her son. No selfie was taken, and our goodbye was a quick hug, since I hadn't showered in three days and she had to mow the lawn. It wasn't until I got in my car that I let myself mourn the end of the Sunday morning run. Then I wiped my eyes and went to pick up bagels for my family, just like I've done every other week.
Next week she moves, and the week after that I'm on vacation and then…who knows. I'll have to plan something, but maybe this hour a week with a friend is worth it even if it's hard. For now I'm sad that it won't be easy anymore.
A good friendship is always worth the effort.
Adulting is so hard. I hope that you are still able to find some much needed time with your friend.
Thanks Amie. No time together so far but she was moving and then I was on vacation. The next two weeks will be the test. Adulting IS hard.
I love this story about your friendship and the running. Change is so hard sometimes but what a blessing to have had that constant in your life for so long.
I like the change of focus to gratitude for the years of companionship we've had together. The change is hard but the past we've had was amazing. Thanks for your perspective.
You'll have to make sure you keep in touch. This friendship is stronger than most – someone who both runs and listen? Yikes! Invaluable.


The epitaph on the granite base of the statue in the English town of Bedford simply states, "No white person has done more for South Africa than Trevor Huddleston," the words of Nelson Mandela.
I don't know if Father Trevor, as we used to call him in Sophiatown, would be totally comfortable with the fact that a 12-word précis of his life should include the descriptor, "white". Why did Madiba not use a nationalist or professional reference instead, such as, "No English person" or, "No Christian person"?
No. Madiba was right. When we grew up, the colour of our skins was what defined who we were, where we lived and what we were allowed to be. It was fundamentally important that Trevor Huddleston was white.
His kindness and compassion, his servant leadership, were evidence that not all white people had horns and tails. He taught us that the limitations imposed on us by apartheid were in fact false ceilings, that the sky was the limit.
One of the earliest and most painful memories of my childhood is accompanying my father, a school principal, to the shop – I think it was in Ventersdorp – and witnessing him being humiliated by a young white shop assistant… being addressed, "Ja, boy?" by one much younger than himself, and being forced to swallow his pride.
But I believe the most defining moment of my life occurred when I was about nine years old, outside the Blind Institute in Roodepoort where my mother was a domestic worker. We were standing on the stoep when this tall white man in a black cassock, and a hat, swept by. I did not know that it was Trevor Huddleston. He doffed his hat in greeting my mother.
I was relatively stunned at the time, but only later came to realise the extent to which it had blown my mind that a white man would doff his hat to my mother. It was something I could never have imagined. The impossible was possible.
I subsequently discovered that this was quite consistent with Trevor Huddleston's theology: that every person is of significance, of infinite value, because they are created in the image of God.
A few years after that meeting in the street, I was admitted to Coronation Hospital, in Coronationville, where I was diagnosed with TB. I was to spend 20 months in hospital. Trevor Huddleston visited me regularly; he made me feel very special.
I remember drawing a birthday card for Father Trevor in 1947, and later listening to the wireless broadcast of the wedding service of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh.
It was not that I was extra-special in any way. He made so many people feel special, everyone he touched. He was one of us, a member of our family, God's family. When he wore a white cassock it quickly became grubby from all the little hands that tugged him and hugged him. Then he'd shoo us out of the office because he had to meet someone "important". The fact is, he made us all feel important – because we all are!
There was a boy called Hugh, for example, who – like me – was pretty much a little township nobody. Hugh was pretty good at blowing the trumpet, not that he could afford one of his own. The next thing, Father Trevor made contact with Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and a trumpet for Hugh was on its way from the US. Bra Hugh Masekela went on to become one of the world's top trumpeters.
Of course, Father Trevor was eventually to leave Sophiatown. After 13 years of service, in 1956, he returned to England. In 1960 he was appointed Bishop of Tanzania, and in 1978, Archbishop of the Province of the Indian Ocean. He was a founder member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, was appointed vice-president of the movement in 1961 (serving for 20 years), and served as president from 1981 to 1994.
Trevor Huddleston's humanity, and the passion with which he opposed apartheid – and other injustices and indignities – were attributes I have sought to emulate throughout my life.
As a nation that is still seized with the necessary process of healing the divisions of its past, we would do well not to allow the contributions of giants, such as Father Trevor, to be lost in the mists of time.


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Hungarian Rhapsody No. 8, S.244/8, in F-sharp minor, is the eighth Hungarian Rhapsody composed by Franz Liszt for solo piano. It was composed in 1847 and published in 1853. It has been nicknamed "Capriccio". It utilizes a melody of Hungarian folk song Káka tövén költ a ruca in the slow section. The allegro motif was also used by Liszt in his symphonic poem Hungaria (1856).

A typical performance of the work lasts about six to seven minutes.

Sources of the melodies
The first part of this rhapsody is based on a Gypsy song heard by Liszt in the autumn of 1846, Káka tövén költ a ruca. The second part is based on the middle section of Mark Rózsavölgyi's Víg szeszély csárdás.

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More on Yoo
Glenn Greenwald, as you might expect, has a very fine column on the Yoo memorandum and how it reflects on the Administration and the country. Read the column in its entirety, please. One very important point he makes:
While Yoo's specific Torture Memos were ultimately rescinded by subsequent DOJ officials — primarily Jack Goldsmith — the underlying theories of omnipotent executive power remain largely in place. The administration continues to embrace precisely these same theories to assert that it has the power to violate a whole array of laws — from our nation's spying and surveillance statutes to countless Congressional oversight requirements — and to detain even U.S. citizens, detained on American soil, as "enemy combatants." So for all of the dramatic outrage that this Yoo memo will generate for a day or so, the general framework on which it rests, despite being weakened by the Supreme Court in Hamdan, is the one under which we continue to live, without much protest or objection.
Here's the beginning of the column:
Yet again, the ACLU has performed the function which Congress and the media are intended to perform but do not. As the result of a FOIA lawsuit the ACLU filed and then prosecuted for several years, numerous documents relating to the Bush administration's torture regime that have long been baselessly kept secret were released yesterday, including an 81-page memorandum (.pdf) issued in 2003 by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo (currently a Berkeley Law Professor) which asserted that the President's war powers entitle him to ignore multiple laws which criminalized the use of torture:
If a government defendant were to harm an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner that might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al Qaeda terrorist network. In that case, we believe that he could argue that the executive branch's constitutional authority to protect the nation from attack justified his actions.
As Jane Mayer reported two years ago in The New Yorker — in which she quoted former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora as saying that "the memo espoused an extreme and virtually unlimited theory of the extent of the President's Commander-in-Chief authority" — it was precisely Yoo's torture-justifying theories, ultimately endorsed by Donald Rumsfeld, that were communicated to Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the commander of both Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib at the time of the most severe detainee abuses (the ones that are known).
It is not, of course, news that the Bush administration adopted (and still embraces) legal theories which vest the President with literally unlimited power, including the power to break our laws. There are, though, several points worth noting as a result of the disclosure of this Memorandum:
(1) The fact that John Yoo is a Professor of Law at Berkeley and is treated as a respectable, serious expert by our media institutions, reflects the complete destruction over the last eight years of whatever moral authority the United States possessed. Comporting with long-held stereotypes of two-bit tyrannies, we're now a country that literally exempts our highest political officials from the rule of law, and have decided that there should be no consequences when they commit serious felonies.
John Yoo's Memorandum, as intended, directly led to — caused — a whole series of war crimes at both Guantanamo and in Iraq. The reason such a relatively low-level DOJ official was able to issue such influential and extraordinary opinions was because he was working directly with, and at the behest of, the two most important legal officials in the administration: George Bush's White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, and Dick Cheney's counsel (and current Chief of Staff) David Addington. Together, they deliberately created and authorized a regime of torture and other brutal interrogation methods that are, by all measures, very serious war crimes.
If writing memoranda authorizing torture — actions which then directly lead to the systematic commission of torture — doesn't make one a war criminal in the U.S., what does? Here is what John Yoo is and what he did:
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Quality of care for pregnant women and newborns — the WHO vision (8)
The recent WHO recommendations on optimizing health worker roles for maternal and newborn health (OptimizeMNH: http://www.optimizemnh.org/) include a number of recommendations for lay or community health workers (which was defined to encompass trained TBAs), including misoprostol administration to prevent PPH, continuous support for women during labour and a range of health promotion activities (see http://www.optimizemnh.org/intervention.php ). The administration of oxytocin to prevent and treat post-partum haemorrhage was recommended in the context of rigorous research in this guidance.
Reproductive and maternal health
Childbirth and Postpartum care
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Simon Lewin
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https://dgroups.org/hifa2015/discussions/phvk9atv
HIFA profile: Simon Lewin is a health systems researcher at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services (www.nokc.no) and the Medical Research Council of South Africa (www.mrc.ac.za). His work is mainly in the field of implementation research, including systematic reviews of health systems interventions; the development and evaluation of strategies for changing professional and user behaviours and the organization of care; and the use of lay or community health workers to deliver care. He is an editor for the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group and the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group. He is also a member of the HIFA Working Group on Community Health Workers http://www.hifa2015.org/chws/ Email: simon.lewin AT nokc.no
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Главная > Pages in English > Investigative Committee confirms veracity of Romanov remains, examinations continue to remove even slightest doubt
Investigative Committee confirms veracity of Romanov remains, examinations continue to remove even slightest doubt
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In the course of its work and its battery of genetic examinations initiated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2015, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has confirmed the veracity of the remains said to belong to Royal Martyr Nicholas II and his martyred family, though research and examinations continue in order to remove even the slightest doubt, senior investigator Marina Molodtsova said in an interview with Izvestia published on Thursday, the feast of the Royal Martyrs.
"Since case was resumed in 2015, 37 new forensic examinations have been carried out, including forensic (anthropological), molecular genetic, trace evidence, and handwriting analysis among others," she stated. "In addition, various kinds of investigative experiments were conducted as part of the investigation. In some cases, their results allowed us to reconstruct a more complete picture of events."
"Based on numerous examinations, the investigation has concluded that the remains belong to Nicholas II, his family, and their entourage," the senior investigator said. "Nevertheless, we continue to collect materials and conduct further forensic examinations which we deem necessary in order to eliminate the slightest doubt. At the end of all examinations, their results will be evaluated in aggregate," Molodtsova added.
For example, experts are now talking about making a 3-D model of the hat Tsar Nicholas was wearing when he was injured in the head in Japan, which is kept in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, in order to compare the damage to the hat with the injuries on the skull believed to belong to Tsar Nicholas.
"According to the conclusion of molecular genetic examinations, the remains of two persons found in the summer of 2007 near the burial site of nine other victims belong to the daughter and son of Nikolai and Alexandra Romanov," Molodtsova also noted. "The biological relationship of both parents is established with the maximum probability for both Alexei and Maria."
Several theories have also been disproven through the Committee's work, she said, including that the Ipatiev House basement room was too small to hold so many people, and that the bodies of the Royal Martyrs were destroyed by sulfuric acid and fire.
The Committee has also pored over 2,000 historical sources related to the murder of the Royal Family.
The Association of Members of the Romanov Family hopes for a speedy resolution to the situation that could allow the remains of Sts. Alexei and Maria to be buried by the 103rd anniversary of their martyrdoms next year.
The Investigative Committee earlier stated in July 2018 that it had confirmed the veracity of the remains.
A grave with nine bodies was found on Staraya Koptyakovskaya Road near Ekaterinburg in July 1991. The remains were identified as those of Emperor Nicholas II, his 46-year-old wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, their daughters Olga, 22, Tatiana, 21, and Anastasia, 17, and their servants Eugene Botkin, 53, Anna Demidova, 40, Alexei Trupp, 62, and Ivan Kharitonov, 48.
Members of the imperial family were buried at a sepulcher of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
The remains of two more people were discovered during archaeological excavation works 70 meters south of the first grave on July 26, 2007. The remains have still not been buried, but numerous expert analyses indicate that the remains were most likely those of Tsarevich Alexei and his sister Maria.
Источник: orthochristian.com
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Q: Spring Security and multiple ldap configuration I use Spring Security to manage user and group securities.
All datas are stored in a ldap server. My configuration is the following:
  <authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">
         <ldap-authentication-provider
           user-search-filter="(mail={0})"
           user-search-base=""
           group-search-filter="(uniqueMember={0})"
           group-search-base="ou=groups"
           group-role-attribute="cn"
           role-prefix="ROLE_"
           user-context-mapper-ref="contextMapper">
         </ldap-authentication-provider>
         <lda
  </authentication-manager>

  <beans:bean id="contextMapper" class="com.mycompany.CustomContextMapper">
    <beans:property name="indexer" ref="entityIndexer" />
  </beans:bean>

  <ldap-user-service  server-ref="ldapServer" user-search-filter="(mail={0})" />

  <ldap-server manager-dn="cn=admin,dc=springframework,dc=org" manager-password="password" url="ldap://server/dc=springframework,dc=org" id="ldapServer" />

All runs like a charm. Now, I want to add a second ldap server if the first one is down (fallback). I can't find an easy way to do it.
So, my question si simple: how to add a second ldap server in this config to provide a fallback if the first one is down ?

A: That's so simple that I missed it.
Just configure multiple url separated by a space as it:
<ldap-server ... url="ldap://server1/dc=springframework,dc=org ldap://server2/dc=springframework,dc=org" />

A: The previous answers are correct.
I wanted to add information on LDAP server redundancy. Since that is the objective for adding multiple LDAP urls, hope it is useful.
I tested few scenarios:
For LDAP Server urls(url1, url2)
If  both LDAP servers specified by urls are down, application login will fail.
If one LDAP server is down. Consider server1 as  url1 : ldap://url1
(irrespective  of url1 position 1st or 2nd), application works fine.
If either url is syntactically malformed: url1 : ldap://MALFORMED_URL , the application will fail to startup.

A: Use space delimited value for url attribute:
url="ldap://server1/dc=springframework,dc=org ldap://server2/dc=springframework,dc=org"

Ref: LDAP & LDAPS URLs

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In 2009, a court ruling removed the requirement to have a Federal Low Explosives Permit (LEUP) in order to buy and transport high power rocket motors. A California Pyrotechnic Operator-Class III does need to be supervising any high power flights.
LUNAR has a WIKI and mail list for Class 3 information and discussions.
Tony Cooper has an excellent WEB page outlining the Class 3 process.
The process isn't hard. The requirements and the test material is taken directly from NAR Level 2 material, with a heavy emphasis on site dimensions and distances. Since I think most of the L2 test should be a L1 test anyway, I really like the idea of taking the Pyro Class 3 test prior to being able to certify L1.


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By Roger Lucas
A golf champion gets the nod of history
In the late 1950s and well into the '60s, a number of Idaho athletes were at the edge of dominating their respective sports.
Shirley Englehorn, from Caldwell, Idaho, at the west end of the Boise Valley, was one of them.
She won 11 times on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour and posted another win, not part of the tour.
She was born in 1940 and turned pro in 1958, winning her first tournament, the Eastern Open, by a three-stroke margin in 1962.
Her career was closely watched by everyone at the Idaho Statesman, where Publisher James Brown spent the evening hours checking the wire services to see what Idaho athletes were doing. Or he would come by the desk to get the latest information on Idaho athletes.
I met Shirley on one occasion, and wrote of her accomplishments as she stroked her way up the leaderboard in tournament after tournament. When she was doing well, publisher Brown would stop by and see how I was playing the story. If he approved, he would give a little nod.
She continued winning in every additional year in the '60s, with the exceptions of 1965 and 1969. She won twice in 1970.
No one likes to play the game "what might have been," but it would have been interesting in Shirley's case.
Her career was seriously affected twice because of accidents. In her first, in 1960 while in Augusta, Georgia, to follow Masters Tournament play, she fell off a horse and was tossed into a tree, fracturing six vertebrae. Visitors at the hospital included Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, giving a clue to her status in the golf world. She was back on the tour a year later and chalked up another win some 28 months after her accident.
The second injury accident was in 1965, when a car she was driving left the road in Florida, leaving her with a crushed ankle.
She came back a year later to win again.
Perhaps her most prized win was the 1970 Women's PGA Championship. In her winning career, she defeated such golfers as Jackie Pung, Ruth Jensen, JoAnne Carner, Kathy Whitworth, Sandra Haynie, and Carol Mann.
No one can predict how the two major accidents took their toll on her playing career.
Shirley graduated from Caldwell High School in 1958, and entered the pro tour the next year.
She was the talk of the valley during her highly successful amateur tour, becoming the youngest player, at 15, to win the Dorothy Pease Trophy.
Shirley turned to a golf teaching career and earned her LPGA Master Professional certification in 1979.
She did, however, gain Hall of Fame honors, but as a teaching professional; that was in 2016. Golf was never far from Shirley's lifestyle, and she excelled in all areas in which she was involved.
I will always remember publisher Brown asking, "How did Shirley do, and how are you playing it?"
He was a dedicated promoter of Idaho sports figures.