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School just started at KingWay on September 10, so it's not too late to enroll at http://www.KingsWayClassicalAcademy.com/ Tuition is only $500 for the year.
There is a wealth of information on the Constitution & Biblical law at Dennis' America-Betrayed website (about 300 pages), which is best accessed through the associated blog at http://www.HistoryMythBusters.WordPress.com.
Just last month Dennis developed a series of 3-minute video commentaries on Patrick Henry's 24 speeches against the proposed U.S. Constitution in the Virginia Ratifying Convention. All but 2 are completed in this series of 24 short videos.
2) Rosecrucian admixture from Francis Bacon "New Atlantis"
J. Common law ignored, but not Christian: Henry II "Father": "Gossip"
P. "I despise, I abhor that paper"
1. The class of yeomen; small freeholding farmers.
2. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 to serve as a home guard and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
"... what their real theology was, was a mixture of Christianity and natural religion, or deism, and rationalism. And they combined those three elements together into what I call "theistic rationalism," and that's the term that I coin for their religious belief system. They took elements of Christianity and elements of natural religion and then, using rationalism, they kept what they thought was reasonable, was rational, and rejected what they considered to be irrational, and so if one wants to just look for—if one comes in with an agenda and one wants to demonstrate or prove that they were secularists, then one can find snippets in which they found that way if one chooses things conveniently. One can find places in which they sound like rank secularists.
On the other side, if one comes in with an agenda to show or to try and prove that they were Christians, one can find snippets in which they agree with Christian doctrine and Christian ideas, and sound Christian. But when one takes the totality of what they said and doesn't use a lot of ellipsis (you know, the three little dots) to change the meanings of things, one finds that, in fact, they aren't really in either one of those camps. They're in the middle in what I call "theistic rationalism." "
Please read this and you will find proof that the Constitution inspired by God "this constitution" as referred to in the Constitution of September 17, 1787 has never taken effect from day one. All has been and is trickery, the oath in Article VI Clause 3 of the Constitution of September 17, 1787 was intended to bind the legislative, executive, and judicial officers of "this Constitution" but has never been taken………… read below.
The Constitution of the United States George Washington orally swore to "preserve, protect and defend" on April 30, 1789, in this Article II Section 1 Clause 8 oath: "I, George Washington, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." "So help me God," is not the Constitution of September 17, 1787.
offices: President of the United States of America, pursuant to the authority of the Articles of Confederation and President of the United States, an employment accepted by taking an oral oath, by the time the Office of President could legally be filled.
The Office vested with the executive power, the President of the United States of America, required no oath, because the United States of America was a Confederacy of States, which had retained their sovereignty, freedom and independence under the Articles of Confederation, an Organic Law, which made no provision for any oath in its original form. The oath in Article VI Clause 3 of the Constitution of September 17, 1787 was intended to bind the legislative, executive, and judicial officers of "this Constitution,"
to a new government described as temporary in the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787.
The Office vested with the executive power of the United States, the territory owned by or subject to the exclusive legislative power of the Confederacy, United States of America, was the Article II Section 1 Clause 5, Office of President, which could not be constitutionally filled until after July 4, 1790. The last item of eligibility for any person who is to fill that Office of President is "fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." The Constitution of September 17, 1787 refers to the "United States"
and the "United States of America," without defining those terms, so we must look to the clues provided by "this Constitution" and the other three preceding Organic Laws, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787, to determine which United States George Washington had to reside in for fourteen Years to qualify for the Office of President.
The first Organic Law, the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, is so universally recognized as bearing the birth date of the United States of America; it would be foolish for me to suggest that Article II Section 1 Clause 5 refers to some other" United States"
and not the United States of America. Even so, fourteen years from July 4, 1776 is July 4, 1790. Fourteen years from March 1, 1781, the ratification of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, is March 1, 1795. Fourteen years from the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance, which established a temporary government for the United States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota, would be July 13, 1801.
Fourteen Years from July 4, 1776, July 4, 1790, would have given George Washington, who was elected President of the United States of America on April 6, 1789, plenty of time to appoint someone to fill the Office of President and have that appointment confirmed by the Senate so that President could take his Office on or after July 4, 1790. That is not what happened Washington combined the two offices of President of the United States of America and President of the United States, thereby, becoming Father and Dictator of his Country and every American President has succeeded him in those Offices. Not once after all the elections and the millions of votes cast has one President, one member of Congress, one justice or judge taken the Article VI oath "to support this Constitution"
to begin the process of adopting the orphan Constitution.
D-B is a financial rating service for both 'public' and 'private' corporations. Utilities and municipal bond ratings would come under D-B perview for certain. It just really never occurred to me years ago when doing litigation discovery, research and analysis, and 'stoructured settlements' that there was seemingly anything incoherent with that fact that municipal and utility bonds are integral to D-B rating services. I never ever stopped to think about or scrutinize that fact, yet alone allow my deliberation and research skills to 'wander' or 'wonder' into research that would have disclosed what we recently found. Part of the ease of discovering the complex web of inter-related inter-locking CORPORATIONS had to do with ease of electronic research over the internet. Years ago, if one wanted to search anything within any of the rating services, including "Moody's", Standard & Poors, and Dun & Bradstreet, + others, one would have to either have to be a subscriber to the service in order to manually expedite their search-rating results, or, one would have to pay a fee and cause a search to arise.
D & B 'ratings' are effected everytime a 'public hazard bond', or 'surety performance bond', or 'indemnity bond' is complained against. An 'administrative complaint' is usually all that it takes to cause a 'tag' or book entry to be made on any particular bond. Any particular bond, once complained against three or more times, causes a change in underwriting bond 'risk'.
For bonded Bar attorneys, who in many cases may also be appointed, commissioned, or elected to 'public office' as 'Judge', 'Clerk of Court', etc. when/if their bond is complained against for good and reasonable cause, their bond may be 'pulled', and due to loss of effective bond or 'suretyship', they cannot 'practice' or 'discharge' the duty of the office held, or occupied. In short, the bond maker-issuer is the bonding party for the benefit or on behald of the 'bondee', ie. the purported 'public officer', 'employee', or 'official'. This would extend as well to all other 'public employees' and 'agents'-'agencies', etc.
Every 'person' being bonded has a Dun & Bradstreet 'bond rating'. At least it is reasonable to assume such. Once three complaints are filed against any bond, assuming they are with merit and well supported by fact and 'law' of the 'breach' of fiduciary duty, the bond is most always pulled or revoked. The 'servant' at 'risk' by assuming the responsibilities of operating in any 'official capacity' or by 'employment', can no longer be underwritten as a 'no risk' or 'low risk' contract.
One incident of 'breach' or operating 'ultra vires', or 'without the law', causes the 'immunity' provisions of the written 'law' to cease to be effective, because when one violates the law as a 'public servant', one's immunity blanket ceases to apply, thereby leaving the insurer or bondsman or bond issuer exposed to the liability arising from the servant's acts, which under any 'breach of law authority' causes or gives rise to an 'injury' which is a civil or criminal commercial liability.
Everything, whether civil or criminal or martial, is a matter of 'commerce', and admiralty law is the venue and jurisdiction by which disputes in/of commercial nature are resolved in truth and fact.
All writings of the United States of America and of the UNITED STATES, or any other 'government unit' are forms of making an 'offer to contract'.
There is no written matter of material fact or issue of fact that is 'law' which is not bonded. There is no 'office' or function of 'civil service' or 'public' function that is not bonded. If the bond is not in existence, the bondee is 'exposed' and without 'coverage' by any 'surety'.
Therefore, there is no 'guarantor' behind the agent, officer, official, or employee having 'exposure', by 'assumption of risk', of a material breach or injury in fact by the bondee [person being bonded or insured]. This leaves the person under taint or cloud of operating 'in the public interest' without the constitutionally and statutorily required bond, and therefore, in tacit violation of the constitutions and statutes under the scheme of 'law'. "Law" applies first and foremost to government, its employees, officers, and agents.
In today's rogue 'doctrine of necessity' 'de facto' environment, research has proven and documented that no person, performing as an 'officer of the court', being an alleged 'judge', being a 'Bar attorney' of the ABA or the Federal or State Bars, has a bona fide Constitutional Oath. The Bond that is supposed to be in existence sits atop the Oath. The Oath is not merely 'incidental' to the 'office' as has been ruled in some States by their corrupt court "officers". The Oath is what imparts lawful and legal authority to the man/woman coming into 'holding' a 'public office' and becoming a 'public official'.
A public servant having no proper Oath cannot have a proper Bond to encompass or include those risks associated with the 'office', 'discharge of fiduciary duty' of the office, and the various levels or elements of 'law authority' underlying the office. Hence, one may take an Oath to any office of the incorporated State, or the UNITED STATES, and not take a preceding Oath to the unincorporated de jure state or United States of America, and operate non/un constitutionally, which is all that has been going on for years, but which was not known or understood as being a material breach to the People of the State/state, causing or giving rise to material injuries in fact as a consequence of operating 'ultra vires', ie. outside the corporate charters and 'trust indentures' which create the office in the first place.
In the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, not one judge has taken the necessary Oaths of office, which include the organic 'state' de jure republic oath for "North Carolina", and the subsequent and inferior or 'lesser' oath for the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The latter 'public entity' has federal character, a Federal Employer Identification Number, a Federal Tax Identification Number, and is a federal 'instrumentality' of the CORPORATE 'UNITED STATES', and the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, under definition of 28 U.S.C. §3002(15), AND 26 U.S.C. §§7701 (a)(9) and (10). This documented fact pertains to every judge in every State court, but also applies to most every other 'public official' or 'law enforcement officer'.
I cannot address what other State public pretenders and 'District Attorneys' or "Prosecutors" do when bringing a criminal complaint against any "natural Man or Woman", which includes CORPORATIONS [YES, they are both the class of 'person' under statute 'law' definition], but in the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, when it is the bringer of the action, the People of the State are never brought in as 'party to the action'. Only the CORPORATION/DEBTOR name is found on the Criminal Complaint or Information form. Only the corporate State is present in the courtroom, trying a case before a CORPORATE JUDGE. There exists a complete breach and break from the Constitution of North Carolina, because the People of the republic North Carolina and their 'law' are not present in the action nor party to it. They are not in the courtroom, nor are they acting through any 'officer' of the People, as 'District Attorney', which Office alleges to be a 'servant of the People'. It is NOT. Event the DA does not have the mandatory and proper Constitutional Oath as condition precedent under NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES, which clearly state at Chapter 11, Section 11, there shall be two Constitutional Oaths taken.
Absent performance according to that bonded STATUTE regarding bonded Oaths, leaves a clear and certain risk-liability issue for the Bond maker-issuer. Some bonding agent has bonded the Statutes and other writings of the law of the State. Some bond issuer has bonded State 'employees', 'officers', and 'public officials'.
Some bond issuer has, therefore, "underwritten" risk on the basis of having full knowledge that there exist no Constitutional Oaths beneath the CORPORATE OATH. One cannot but presume that the bond issuer-maker has full disclosure; after all, 'they' have been registered within each State Department of Corporations, do business in all 'States' and DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, and are presumed to know the "LAW"....including the "law of the land ", which under their "UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE" and all secondary 'Civil' or 'Criminal' Codes, would find itself to be in harmony with their legislative jurisdictional 'statutes and implementing regulations' at U.C.C. 1-308, 1-207, and 1-103, wherein All Rights are Reserved, and the U.C.C. states that it is harmonious with 'all jurisdictions', which would include the jurisdiction of the "law of the land", 'common law', and the various common law Constitutions of the underlying several de jure republic 'states' of the American union, aka, United States of America.
Why would any bond underwriter knowingly underwrite these CORPORATE STATES, UNITED STATES, all of their 'sub-corporations', agents-agencies, instrumentalities, and their 'law authority' found in their various 'writings', private 'laws' etc., to operate a 'public' or 'municipal' construct as if it were 'lawful government', but knowing that it really is not? The underwriters of bonds, therefore, could not allege any defense against a massive intake of related claims by private inhabitants of any of the States or UNITED STATES who have been "compelled" under duress, extreme duress, or risk of extreme duress and prejudice of 'seizure', 'confiscation' 'impound', 'occupation', 'detainment', or injury or termination by any means of potentially lethal force?
Black's Law Dictionary, 4t Edition: "brutum fulmen": "An empty noise; an empty threat. A judgment void upon its face which is in legal effect no judgment at all, and by which no rights are divested, and from which none can be obtained; and neither binds nor bars anyone. Dollert v. Pratt-Hewitt Oil Corporation, Tex.Civ.Appl, 179 S.W.2d 346, 348. Also, see Corpus Juris Secundum, "Judgments" §§ 499, 512 546, 549.
The "Office of Sheriff" is a most important link between the People of any de jure republic 'state' and the Courts, and Offices of the State. However, it has been discovered that many Sheriffs do not, as Chief Law Enforcement Officer of any local 'county' or County, have a bona fide prior or 'precedent' Constitutional Oath to their respective republic state. Or, they may have taken a bona fide Constitutional Oath, and then disclaimed or disavowed it immediately henceforth by taking a CORPORATE Constitutional Oath. "A man cannot serve two masters".
This same "axiomatic" principal applies to 'officers' of the United States as well. How can the newly 'sworn' Attorney General of the UNITED STATES, OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL [a federal corporation] take a Constitutional Oath to the United States, or UNITED STATES, and be held to such an Oath as 'liable' for his/her breach of fiduciary duty to the people of the United States of America, or to the franchise corporate trust estate 'citizens of the UNITED STATES', when the office 'holder' enjoins by contract to the 'international purposes of INTERPOL', under its Constitution [charter-contract] at Article 30 shortly after taking said Oath? Article 30 is quite explicit in meaning and intent. If one understands the "international purposes of INTERPOL" and all other 'international agencies' was and is to 'establish a financial dictatorship within the United States/United States of America' for the benefit of undisclosed third parties, under jurisdiction and authority of the IMF-U.N, then all of the lower level 'breach of duty' by lack of proper Bond and Oath issues would begin to make clear sense.
In short, all alleged 'public servants' are serving 'public policy' and 'public administration' of the 'laws' and enforcing those laws to protect the CORPORATION, to the disinterest and detriment of the People, whom have been 'captured', 'searched', 'seized', 'boarded' as with a 'vessel', and which People have been placed into 'warehouse storeage' as 'human capital' and 'property' of the de facto King or "Sovereign", which/who has conquered and occupied the Office of the People, and subverted and subordinated it into an Office of Inquisition for YOU KNOW WHO!!
Lacking mandatory Oath, creates liability against the bond of the STATE, and every officer-agent-employee who has come to be 'employed' thereby. Breach of any underlying writing of the STATE, or State, or state, as an offer to contract in admiralty venue, is a certain "injury in fact" giving rise to a "material injustice" and resultant 'liability'. There is no longer any question about 'risk analysis' or 'damage assessment'. The only real issue is "HOW MUCH IS THE INJURY WORTH"? WHAT PENALTIES should be compelled above the mere "pecuniary" or monetary 'relief' to be sought? Treble damages? Punitive damages? Civil or Criminal or BOTH?
If Oaths and Bonds have not yet been ascertained for all relevant federal and State officers, agents, and employees, they should be compelled by FOIA request or subpoena duces tecum immediately so that the elements of contract and breach of duty by these 'public servants' under mandate of relevant Constitutions, statutes, regulations, etc., including the U.C.C. in Admiralty venue can be comprehensively determined; then, a resultant 'cause of action' constructed accordingly.
It is further axiomatic that: "Where a liability in equity arises due to injury by any party, and that party does not also provide a "remedy" for said liability, the injured party has the right and standing to create his own remedy"(Which would provide the secured right to seek Article III sec. 2 remedy for the deprivation of Natural Rights by way of a Title 18 USC sec 241 in the United States Court of Federal Claims.) This would n0t be a Title 42 USC proceeding for the U.S. citizen or person of diminished corporate status.
Persons without proper Oaths do not and cannot have proper Bonds OR satisfy the necessary requirements to "hold" a bona fide "Office", by 'commission', "election", or "appointment". In short, an 'Officer' or "Office Holder" cannot but 'occupy' the office under false and misleading pretense, misrepresentation, and FRAUD, which strips the 'individual' of 'law authority' and 'immunity' under well-seasoned law of the land and sea. Brutum fulmen!! Bonds that are attached to such juristic 'persons' are subject to claim and lien, after "adequate assurance of due performance" has been found lacking pursuant to U.C.C. 2-619. A proper Oath and Bond are but two of the three primary "poles" of "Office" [Oath, Bond, Commission]. One cannot act upon being 'duly appointed' or 'duly elected' or 'duly commissioned' simply by INCORPORATION and CORPORATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS.
NOTICE: CORPORATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS aka "Administrative Procedures Act" lacks any bona fide Constitutional nexus and is without "lawful authority", and thereby, has no nexus to the Constitutionally protected 'Right' of substantive "Due process" for the natural Man or Woman. Hence, any presumptive act or action taken against any natural Man or Woman by any oath sworn corporate 'official', 'officer', agent' or 'employee' lacking such nexus is subject to CLAIM and/or COUNTER-CLAIM in a Chancery venue and proceeding. The claim, once perfected after 'exhausting administrative remedy' is brought against the Bond and the DUN & BRADSTREET rating of that CORPORATE PERSON will be affected as a consequence. The idea is not to seek an illegitimate claim for merely punitive or monetary purposes, but to seek claim on the basis of protest, dispute, redress, relief, and 'remedy' to restore you as to being made whole once again from the damage that has been maliciously exercised for the purpose to profit off your commercial value in total disregard and summary denial of the pre-existing accessible remedy provided out of necessity and thereby operation of law to avoid the circumstance of unjust enrichment of private and public parties, both natural and fictional.
This is a very well written document.
filing (7.26.12) rebutting Lennon's (7.16.12) Motion To Dismiss Rod's case.
P.S. Here's a link to the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.
human and academic bias and editing...Thanks to a listener of AIB.
If you believe the government is doing wrong and you do nothing in response, it may be true that the government is corrupt; but it is certainly true that you are.
above has interesting biblical comments!
above is 2007 version, 2008 2nd ed. can be found with Gus's items.


Seton Hall Student Government Association at-large senator, Ronald Babiak announced that he is currently attempting to amend the SGA constitution to add an Ethics Committee.
According to the sophomore from there the committee would inquire about possible breaches of the code by SGA senators and executive board members.
The Ethics Committee will also recommend to the Senate Speaker a directive of rectification, which is a suggestion based on the committee's findings on how to move forward with possible written warnings, punishments and in the most egregious cases, expulsion.
It would be up to the Senate Speaker and Senate Leadership on how to proceed but it is important that this committee is given the responsibility to inquire and collaborate on an unbiased and fair solution to any ethical troubles that may come in the future.
Babiak's goal to create change around campus is another one of the latest student attempts at pushing for a committee of some sort.
The Concerned 44, an initiative that garnered attention from professors, students and local staff members alike, pushed for a student review board among the demands they issued to the Provost.
Although Babiak's cause is not associated with that of the Concerned 44, the results of the protests reflect the positive possibility of an Ethics Committee being approved. Meehan statement is in line with things that can be more effective for the student body, which an Ethics Committee can fulfill, according to Babiak.
"My motivation to draft this legislation for the committee creation was to provide members of SGA with ethical guidelines that we could all agree on, so that we know how to truly act in a manner becoming and fulfill our constitutional oath of office without any question about if any of our individual actions might impede us from doing so in the eyes of Senate Leadership, the executive board, or our SGA Advisor," Babiak said. "Since it says in the oath we take 'to act in a manner becoming of an officer of SGA' and many senators including myself have struggled with how to exactly do that at times because it is so vague, you could potentially be in violation of your oath without even knowing it.


I found this amazing resource online. I was researching the Naqod in today's Parsha, Pinchas. At Numbers 29:15 occurs one of the strange "Extraordinary Dots" which appear in 10 places in the Torah. Their meaning or meanings are unclear.
In this case the extra dot appears over the second vav in the word vav ayin sin raish VAV final nun. The verse "One tenth a tenth for one lamb for each of the fourteen lambs." It is taken to mean a tenth of an ephah (of fine flour) for EACH of the fourteen lambs.
By clicking on the link the extremely detailed discussion of this singular point is accessed from a text written in 1910. In brief it attributes the naqod to scribes taking into account the variant manuscripts. Other than the now standard Masoretic Version, there were many many variants. At this particular verse many do not have the repetition "a tenth a tenth". Some have more than one naqod.
This all is interesting. But. Before I looked into the whys and hows of the naqodoth (plural) I played numerology theories. I found an interesting answer not relevant to textual variants but meaningful numerologically.
The verse mentions 14 lambs. If one counts 14 letters before the VAV Naqod and 14 letters afterwards both are dalet. Dalet Vav Dalet. This is a spelling used by or for David. ד ו ד. Interesting, but more. The gematria (number value) is 4 + 6 + 4 = 14. 14 = the number of David, the number of lambs and in Matt. 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.
So this naqod marks a letter from which 14 letters can be counted backward and forward that produce the name David and the value 14. A number the Gospel writer of Matthew linked to Yeshua.


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H.R. 1291 (99th)
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Charles Price
Representative for Illinois's 21st congressional district
Reintroduced Bill — Ordered Reported
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 1578 (100th).
H.R. 1291 (99th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
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Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 1291. This is the one from the 99th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 99th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 1985 to Oct 18, 1986. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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Hal Hardaway: New Online Activist Groups Good For Alexandria
James Cullum February 10, 2020 at 3:35pm
Don't worry. Even though Hal Hardaway just closed on a house in Williamsburg, he'll still be around half the time.
If you don't know the 70-year-old Hardaway by sight, you might know his famous garage, or the emails the Old Town resident sends to more than 1,000 people on a daily basis railing about the Alexandria waterfront or videos he shares of electric scooter violators.
"I see four-year-old kids on scooters," Hardaway told ALXnow. "Multiple kids on scooters, fathers with their little toddlers, you know, hanging on, going full speed down the street without helmets. I mean, that is just wrong. And then you get to the point, and we could talk about this for three hours, of how are we going to enforce the law?"
When not fixing up classic sports cars (he has five), Hardaway, a retired U.S. Navy captain, can routinely be spotted walking around lower King Street in his baseball cap, jeans and Navy jacket. He's a historian at heart and wants to keep the city's historic appearance in tact, and jokingly refers to last year's Mirror-Mirror art display on the waterfront as "Technicolor Stonehenge."
He also once unsuccessfully sued the city for what he viewed as height violations in the Robinson Terminal South development. Recently, he made a Freedom of Information Act request for information related to scooter companies operating in Alexandria. He found that there have been no fines levied against the companies since their introduction in Alexandria last year.
Lately, Hardaway's been impressed with the Alexandrians Against The Seminary Road Diet Facebook group, and has commented on a few posts.
"This Seminary Road page is the most organized group I've seen on going after the city on these kinds of issues, and a kind of fun thing," Hardaway said. "It's really interesting, because people have got their their broad swords out now about City Hall… I wish I could have done something like this, and so I've made a couple comments this morning. I hope it expands into something greater, something beyond just Seminary Road."
An only child, Hardaway grew up with an affinity for fixing things in his father's machine and welding shop in the small town of Crewe, which is about 45 miles southwest of Richmond. After graduating with a physics degree from The College of William & Mary, he spent 30 years in the Navy and lived all over the world as a cryptologist (code breaking), even working a three-year stint as inspector general of the Naval Security Group Command under the Chief of Naval Operations.
Hardaway moved to the area in the late 1990s for his final naval tour at the Pentagon, and never left. He retired from the Navy in 2002 and then worked for eight years in the private sector before officially retiring in 2010. That was around the time that he got interested in local politics.
"I started attending waterfront meetings," Hardaway said. "The entire reason the city is here is because of the waterfront, and there isn't any signage or historical markers telling tourists why it's so important."
Hardaway is a member of the Environmental Council of Alexandria and sits on the organizing committee for the Old Town Festival of Speed and Style classic car show, the latter of which he co-founded. He recently bought a house in Williamsburg that will be able to accommodate four of his cars, and will soon be spending about half of his time there.
Like classic cars in need of repairs, he looks at Alexandria as a beautiful but broken machine, and he wants to help fix it.
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be here for years," he said. "I think some progress is being made mainly because lots more people are engaged. Look at the development of the wetlands at Potomac Yard. That's another one. The city is driven by money, and I like it here, but it's hurt the quality of life, which is going downhill."
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Sincerity is paramount to your message having an impact. If a speaker comes across insincere, we tend to discredit the speaker and dismiss their message. No one will buy your message until they buy you.
Let's take the example, "I am passionate about working on your project." These words only have meaning if the feeling comes first, those feelings then trigger a sparkle in the eye, excitement in the voice, etc… Just saying the words doesn't cause the same biochemical reaction. The simplest way to make sure that your words come across sincere is to feel the feelings first then speak the words.
The key is to believe what you are saying 100%.
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appeal to authority, that we call a supporter.
We're going to define what supporters are.
arguments, and then talk about some bad supporter arguments.
Some supporter fallacies. So first, what are supporters?
about a particular person who's making a point.
are especially compelling especially good reasons.
whatever way they, they're especially good reasons.
arguments let me give a couple of examples.
I argue as follows. Premise one.
rise, and therefore the price of gold will soon fall.
When Warren Buffett speaks, investors listen and believe.
Therefore conclusion, confidence in the dollar will probably rise.
the dollar will rise, that reason is especially likely to be true.
Why is it especially likely to be true?
Warren Buffett said it was especially likely to be true.
investors listen to what he says and they believe in him.
in the dollar, then investors will all be confident in the dollar.
Okay, so there's an example of a supporter argument.
I start off with premises particular person.
In this case, Warren Buffet.
I start off with the premise to the effect that he's listened to by investors.
Investors believe what he says.
will fall, that that reason is an especially good reason.
In this case it's especially likely to be true.
That confidence in the dollar will rise.
So there's an example of a supporter argument.
fashion, many people will now want to bring back bell-bottom pants.
Isaac Mizrahi is one of the trend setters in the fashion industry.
That's what I gather from Googling things on the internet.
But maybe one of you knows better.
as constricting, and come to see bell-bottom pants as trendy.
Issac Mizrahi and the central place that he occupies in today's fashion street.
And it ends up with a conclusion to the effect that.
reason that he gives is a reason that's especially likely to be true.
people are going to experience today's pants as constricting?
Well, it's especially likely to be true because Isaac Mizrahi said it was true.
as constricting, then that's going to make it more likely to be true.
the way Isaac Mizrahi says they should feel about clothes.
they will experience today's pants as constricting.
a return of bell-bottom pants.
Okay, so there's another supporter argument.
And once again, I think this supporter argument is a good argument.
It's not a deductively sound argument, but it's a good argument.
So there are some examples of good supporter arguments.
of bad supporter arguments, of supporter fallacies.
And we can see some of those right now.


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But this passage reminds us of the continuing tradition of morning dress for the Solicitor General's office before the Supreme Court. If it already looked stupid in 1948, it definitely looks stupid now. Adhering to tradition for the mere sake of tradition is small-minded. After Elena Kagan dumped the practice — since wearing what is essentially a tuxedo is less than flattering for a woman — there was some reason to believe it would join powdered wigs in the dustbin of American legal history. No such luck.
11. See Donna Stienstra, Jared Bataillon, and Jason A. Cantone, Assistance to Pro Se Litigants in U.S. District Courts: A Report on Surveys of Clerks of Court and Chief Judges *3 (Federal Judicial Center, 2011), archived at http://perma.cc/8TYT-7Y43 (reporting that 90 percent of the US district courts surveyed have adopted at least one procedural reform).
Closing arguments to the jury set out the facts that each side has presented and the reasons why the jury should find in favor of the client. Time limits are sometimes set by the court for closing arguments, and each side must adhere to the specified time. The plaintiff presents closing argument first and may present rebuttal to defendant's closing argument. Local Rule 39.1.
Table 4 suggests that, like the other pro se reforms that Part III considers, the pro se reforms in EDNY have not been effective in improving case outcomes for pro se litigants. The coefficient on the dummy variable indicating whether the EDNY pro se reforms were instituted is -0.59, and the 95 percent confidence interval suggests that there is some nonzero negative effect when no controls are instituted in the first model in column one.128 The results are similar for the second and third models except that, once all districts are controlled for, the negative impact of the reform is statistically significant. When dummies are introduced corresponding to the year of each case filing, this negative effect disappears and the fourth and fifth models indicate no statistically significant impact from the reform. Including the full set of controls for year and district, the 95 percent confidence interval suggests that the reforms in EDNY had an impact of somewhere between -0.43 percent and 0.51 percent on the win rates for pro se litigants, with a statistically insignificant mean estimated impact of 0.04 percent.129 These results suggest that pro se reforms were not effective at improving win rates for pro se litigants.
We will start with pro se. That's a Latin term meaning on one's own behalf and in a court setting it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers or other representatives. Now some people choose to act pro se because they have legal experience or they're otherwise very confident about their ability to convey their claim or their defence without any assistance. Other people may simply wish to avoid paying attorney's fees and the often exorbitant expenses associated with hiring a lawyer.
Authority is the information used to convince a court how to apply the law to the facts of a case. Legal authority is divided into two classes -- primary and secondary. There are two sources of primary authority: (1) constitutions, codes, statutes, and ordinances; and (2) court decisions, preferably from the same jurisdiction where the case is filed. Secondary authority, which is not cited except in certain circumstances, is found in legal encyclopedias, legal texts, treatises, law review articles, and court cases in other jurisdictions.
Taking the time to express appreciation or to compliment others around you helps create a positive environment. People who interact in these positive environments become more willing to keep that environment positive, creating mutual support and respect. It is also confidence-building to watch other people become happier and surer of themselves based, in part, on the things you have said to them.
Make sure you follow those instructions! At that point, you will be given so many days to serve the defendant with the court summons. In some districts, the plaintiff has the choice of either delivering the summons himself, a friend deliver it, or having a federal Marshal deliver it. It is most effective to have either a federal Marshal deliver the summons, or a really big guy in a suit. Whoever delivers the summons must make a note of who the summons is delivered to, what the date is, and what time it was delivered. Record this information on the appropriate form that is sent to you with the summons, and take it back to the district court.
Pro se means that you are representing yourself in court, without a lawyer. Another term is self-represented litigant. If you represent yourself in a family matter, the court will ask you to attend a Pro Se Education Program. The program helps you understand court procedures and the forms you need to file with the court. Classes are free and open to the public.
After the jury is empanelled, each side may present an opening statement. Local Rule 39.1. The plaintiff has the burden of proving that plaintiff was wronged and suffered damages from such wrong and that the defendant caused such damages; the plaintiff is therefore allowed to present his statement first. This may be followed by a statement by the defendant.
So even if it seems highly unfair, do not be surprised if you encounter initial hostility from court personnel. In your eyes, you are an individual seeking justice and doing what you have a right to do. But to the people who work in courthouses every day, you may be perceived as someone who will make their jobs more difficult. Instead of helping you, they may even attempt to put obstacles in your path, hoping that you will get discouraged and go away.
Unless your case is unusually complex, you really can represent yourself. You may not have all the legal training of a lawyer, but you do not need to go to law school to have common sense, to learn how to ask intelligent questions, or to recognize what makes people and information believable. In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of the country's most revered U.S. Supreme Court justices, "The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience." As these words suggest, your everyday life experience is the foundation of most of what you need to know to present a coherent, convincing case. Besides, as former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger was fond of pointing out, many lawyers are not such hotshots; they often come to court ill-prepared and lacking professional skills.
Before I answer the essence of your question, the Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure states and requires that "The request for admissions shall be preceded by the following statement printed in capital letters in a font size at least as large as that in which the request is printed: "FAILURE TO SERVE A WRITTEN ANSWER OR OBJECTION WITHIN THE TIME ALLOWED BY ORCP 45 B WILL RESULT IN ADMISSION OF THE FOLLOWING REQUESTS." I will presume that you complied with that requirement when you submitted your requests for admissions as the rule states that it "shall" be done in this manner. Sometimes things can sound nit picky but if a party fails to do something that it is required to do and fails to do so, it gives the opposing side ammunition to attack the relief you are requesting that you feel you are entitled to. You are correct, since the opposing side failed to answer your request(s), you now need to file a "Motion to Determine Sufficiency". You should advise the court in your motion that the opposing party has failed to answer your requests and ask the court to order that each of the matters are admitted. A motion to determine sufficiency is generally geared toward answers that were submitted but possibly not sufficient and parties then move the court to order the party to provide a "sufficient" answer, but since the opposing party failed to provide any answers in your case, you should advise the court of this fact in your motion and that you would like the court to issue an order deeming the matters as admitted. I presume when you say that the opposing party "failed to answer" you mean that the party didn't answer at all. There is a difference between "failing to answer" and submitting an insufficient answer. Be clear to the court which one it is, if the party failed to answer, so state it, but if the party provided answers that were insufficient, you need to address it in that manner and ask the court to order the opposing party to provide sufficient answers. Be sure to include a copy of the requests for admissions that you served as an exhibit to your motion for the court's ready reference. Also, under Oregon's Rule 46A(4) you may apply for an award of expenses incurred in relation to the motion.
According to the National Center for State Courts 2006 report, in the United States, many state court systems and the federal courts are experiencing an increasing proportion of pro se litigants.[1] Estimates of the pro se rate of family law overall averaged 67% in California, 73% in Florida's large counties, and 70% in some Wisconsin counties.[1] In San Diego, for example, the number of divorce filings involving at least one pro se litigant rose from 46% in 1992 to 77% in 2000, in Florida from 66% in 1999 to 73% in 2001.[1] California reports in 2001 that over 50% of family matters filings in custody and visitation are by pro se litigants.[2] In the U.S. Federal Court system for the year 2013 approximately 27% of civil actions filed, 92% of prisoner petitions and 11% of non-prisoner petitions were filed by pro se litigants.[3] Defendants in political trials tend to participate in the proceedings more than defendants in non-political cases, as they may have greater ability to depart from courtroom norms to speak to political and moral issues.[4]


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Drug policy expert develops special journal issue
Woodruff Health Sciences Center | March 21, 2014
Melva Robertson
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Health, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health
Hannah Cooper, ScD, associate professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Emory's Rollins School of Public, along with colleague Barbara Tempalski, PhD, from the National Development and Research Institute, created and edited a special journal issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy that critically examines advances in geographic research on drug policy and drug users' health.
The two serve as guest editors for the special issue, scheduled for March 21, 2014 and titled, "Place Matters: Drug Users' Health and Drug Policy."
For over a decade "place" has become increasingly prominent in research on drug use, drug users' health, and drug policy. This special issue will take a look at the measurement of risk environments, the mobility of drug users, programs, policies and drug users' networks. The18 articles were authored by renowned experts and researchers throughout the drug policy and harm-reduction fields.
Cooper's recent research focuses on the social determinants of HIV among drug users, with a particular emphasis on how specific policies and place characteristics produce racial/ethnic disparities in HIV among drug users.
"I am thrilled that the International Journal of Drug Policy is publishing this very important issue," explains Cooper. "The research included in this edition will help to transition the idea of "place" to the forefront of the drug policy discussions."
In addition to its regular print issue, the entire special issue will also be available as a virtual e-book that will be available for free access for 30 days after publication.


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CIOs Overwhelmed With Obsolete Apps
By Dennis McCafferty | Posted 04-07-2014
Subtraction by Addition
48% of CIOs and other tech leaders say their company has more applications than it needs, up from just 34% in 2011.
A Current Consideration
76% say that app modernization is important to their organization's business objectives.
About seven of 10 respondents believe that up to one-fifth of their current apps share similar functionality and should be consolidated.
Irrelevant Apps
Only 37% say that a majority of their apps are critical to their business.
Flying Blind
58% say their organizations do not have a framework and methodology to help the application portfolio meet business objectives, and 46% of those CIOs and tech leaders say such a framework is needed.
Top Strategies Used for Application Portfolio Modernization
Replacement: 36%, Enhancement: 36%, Consolidation: 28%
Budget Forecast
61% say total IT spending within business will increase over the next five years. Just 11% say it will decrease.
IT's Top Strategic Goals
Increasing efficiencies through tech systems: 55%, Boosting productivity: 47%, Cutting overall business costs: 36%, Improving quality of apps: 27%, Enabling innovation through apps: 26%
Top Disruptive Technologies Being Deployed
Cloud computing: 56%, Mobility: 54%, Social: 41%, Big data: 34%
Top Operational Challenges for CIOs
Data security: 61%, Data quality: 43%, Complexity of IT landscape: 40%, Obsolete, outdated tech: 34%, Governance and service integration: 33%
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CIOs and other senior tech executives say IT is supporting far too many apps that are no longer relevant to business support, according to a recent survey from Capgemini. Most agree that app-modernization initiatives would help address the issue, but they also say that they don't have a formal strategy to align app deployment with business objectives. This could hurt performance in the long run should the problem linger, creating issues which go far beyond those that are a relatively minor irritation for IT. "Ultimately, it's not a problem that should keep the wider business up at night," says Ron Tolido, senior vice president of applications services for Capgemini. "But in a world where all facets of an organization are starting to embrace digital transformation—and are dependent on the quick deployment of mobile, social, big data and cloud solutions for competitive advantage—a well-rationalized applications landscape suddenly becomes a much bigger, strategic imperative for the whole company." The survey also sheds light upon broader tech topics, such as IT budgets, CIO challenges and disruptive technologies of interest. More than 1,115 global CIOs and top-level IT decision-makers participated in the research. For more about the survey, click here.
Dennis McCafferty is a freelance writer for Baseline Magazine.


EL SEGUNDO – One day away from ending his frustration, Eric Belanger instead had it doubled.
Belanger aggravated his groin injury in practice Monday morning and won't play for the Kings tonight, and it's no sure thing that he will be back before the NHL takes its Olympic break in mid-February.
The injury already has cost Belanger, one of the Kings' most-valuable forwards, the past seven games. Belanger said he won't even attempt to skate again for the next four or five days.
Belanger, who has been out since Dec. 31, skated hard in practice last week and accompanied the team on its weekend road trip, and there was even some thought about Belanger playing Saturday in Buffalo.
But Belanger said Monday that he had been feeling some pain in the groin, which has a mild, second-degree tear, for the past several days. Monday's practice was to be the final tuneup before his return tonight, but Belanger had to leave about halfway through Monday's one-hour practice.
"I had some discomfort before, but I thought it was just from skating hard," Belanger said, "but when I got on the ice (Monday), I just knew it wasn't right.
Belanger went for an examination quickly after practice, but doctors found no additional damage.
Status report: Lubomir Visnovsky, listed as day to day with a cervical strain, did not practice Monday and won't play tonight. Coach Andy Murray said Visnovsky might play Thursday.
Also, Alexander Frolov missed practice with flu-like symptoms and his status for tonight's game won't be known until this morning.
Defenseman Aaron Miller, out with a back injury, skated before practice and continues to make progress, although he hasn't set a timetable for his return. Miller has been out since Dec. 21 but said his conditional improved dramatically last week after he received a second epidural shot.
"The next day, I took a huge turnaround," Miller said.
Miller is a member of the U.S. Olympic team but said he has not decided whether he will play.


Make this easy DIY gnome ornament for your holiday decor (or year-round 'cuz he's just too cute)! You can also use it in wreaths or hung on a doorknob.
We're a bit gnome-obsessed 'round these parts. So far, we've made this easy gnome family display: the large, male gnome, the female gnome with braids, and the little gnome made from rice.
But I just can't be done with these little cuties because I want them throughout the house and outside it! We used this adorable DIY gnome ornament on our Scandinavian wreath.
We make gnomes so much here on Ruffles and Rain Boots that we've created our own Amazon supplies list for making Swedish gnomes. Check it out!
Cut the foam egg in half (you can make two gnome ornament cuties or save it for another project).
Trace a 1.5-inch border around the egg and cut the fabric. Cut slits in the fabric and hot glue it to the egg form. Note: the rounded part of the gnome face won't be seen, so you don't have to make it gorgeous.
Cut the faux fur, leaving just a bit more on the edges because we'll wrap it around the rounded part of the egg.
2. Use a razor blade.
3. Only cut through the connective fabric.
Make the gnome's hat by rolling a rounded triangle of felt. Do NOT secure it all the way down the closure and do not attach the hat to the gnome ornament yet.
When rolling the felt, only hot glue the top portion because we'll need access to the inside of the hat.
To make the hanging string, we'll need to secure it (so it doesn't just rip off the hat later). I used a darning needle threaded with kite string and put it first through the side of the foam egg (yep, right through it).
I then took the same thread and sent it through the outer edge of the other side of the foam egg. Finally, I strung it up through the (not-yet-attached) felt gnome hat (inside the hat).
Once I had a loop at the top of the hat, I strung it back down through the hat and tied off the string on the back of the gnome. I made sure that the place I tied it off would be covered by the felt hat.
Using anything you have on hand in your craft stash (or your kid's craft stash), affix the gnome's nose just below the felt hat position. You want it to stick out just a bit.
I've used clay balls, beads, and in this one used a raindrop-shaped clay tag we made from red clay. The size and style is anything to get you the look you want. We're all about easy crafting 'round here.
The last step was to hot glue down the hat and secure the faux fur along the bottom of the foam egg. I just did that to tidy it up and make sure that if the gnome ornament turned around, it would still look presentable(ish).
The last step is to hot glue down the hat and secure the faux fur along the bottom of the foam egg.
We are having so much fun creating these cuties. Let us know how you're incorporating them into your decor in the comments below.
And would you please pin this to your favorite holiday board on Pinterest? Shares are how we grow and meet new crafters!


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DC's Katana Turned Japanese Stereotypes Into A Weapon
April 1, 2021 Olivia Wilde
In the Other History of the DC Universe #3, Katana shares her past and history, revealing that her legend was created by Japanese stereotypes.
Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Other History of the DC Universe #3
In the latest issue of DC Comics' The Other History of the DC Universe, the classic Outsider and hero Katana reveals one of her greatest weapons early on were Japanese stereotypes. In the issue, Tatsu Yamashiro narrates her perspective on DC's history as well as her own personal past. This includes her origins and how the legend of Katana was born, and Tatsu shares that they largely came from the result of assumptions about her tragic past and Japanese heritage that she never denied, choosing instead to forge those stereotypes into a weapon in her crusade for vengeance and later justice.
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In The Other History of the DC Universe #3 from writer John Ridley with art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, Katana reveals she didn't choose her name. Instead, the Katana name came from the blade she wielded, the very same sword that was used to take her husband's life, which she then claimed to kill her husband's killer. The attack also took the lives of her children, leaving Tatsu alone as a widow. This subsequently created significant hardship for her while she was still living in Japan. She was victim-blamed, viewed as bad fortune and a bad omen by her own people in 1980's Japan. Likewise, the sword she carried was given the name Soultaker, and a myth was born that it was equally cursed, allowing Tatsu to speak to souls the sword claimed.
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However, despite the fact Katana's sword was nothing special, she never denied the legends. Thanks to Tatsu's desire for vengeance, she eventually found work as an assassin, and the global underworld essentially created the legend of Katana from nothing but assumptions and stereotypes, claiming that she was a master martial artist (simply because of her Asian descent), and that her sword had mystical powers (also due to Asian culture and mythology). However, Tatsu used those stereotypes to her advantage despite their inaccuracy, turning them into a weapon of fear, letting her adversaries believe all that they had heard about her (regardless of the tragic truth).
While Katana managed to adapt these Asian stereotypes and make them work to her advantage, it doesn't make them any less problematic. Just like any other prevalent stereotypes that persist in the world, they harm and prevent the truth of the individual from being known, regardless of what group, race, or classification they might belong to. For Katana, those stereotypes would continue to inform how she was perceived for years to come, and it only got worse when she came to the United States and joined the Outsiders. However, Tatsu's struggle with those perceptions would improve over time. Eventually, she became more comfortable with who she was and her own identity that she chose for herself: to be a hero and a true Outsider.
The real origins of Tatsu's identity and the mythology that was built around her is a very interesting and complex dynamic, and it's also a testament to her strength of character that she eventually embraced her own identity, rather than simply thinking she had to simply accept the stereotypes that had been placed upon her at the beginning of her history in DC Comics. Katana chose to find her own way and rise above the basic ideals and expectations the world initially had for her: to simply be a Japanese assassin with a cursed blade. Instead, she's now a hero who "fights for something that is beyond the given", and John Ridley's The Other History Of The DC Universe really speaks to her epic evolution in this latest issue from DC Comics.
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The gaming industry is expected to generate sales of $100 billion this year, and they have women to thank for that!
Yep, the gaming world, which notoriously depicts women in demeaning and unrealistic ways, or ignores them altogether, and which has been regularly criticized for its treatment of female gamers, has finally recognized the importance of targeting women as a way to boost its sales.
According to the Entertainment Software Association, female gamers made up about 48% of the game-playing public in the U.S. this year, up from 40% in 2010.
The statistic that blew us away is that women over 18-years-old now represent more of the gaming population than boys under 18.
Hopefully, these new statistics will help to end geek elitism and give female gamers the respect they duly deserve!


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These are testing times. Covid-19 has reached into every sector, including the property market, and everyone is scrambling to adapt to the challenge. For those who are in the throes of buying or selling, or who have been saving to get on the ladder, what is the outlook? Fran Power finds out from some of the leading estate agents and market experts.
"The critical thing is that this is primarily about lives rather than livelihood, so people are suspending decisions about anything but the most pressing economic transactions. Their focus is on getting toilet paper rather than a three-bedroom property. And that focus is likely to be a key feature of the property market for the next several months.
"It means we will see something approaching a freeze in property transactions and that reduction means it will be difficult to move on either side. If you want to buy a property, it's going to be hard to find the one you want. If you want to sell a property, it is going to be hard to find someone who wants to step in. It is an extension of what is happening in a lot of financial markets at the moment, though without the volatility.
"However, banks are continuing, agents are continuing, removal firms are still functioning. It's not a case that anyone in the throes of a property purchase isn't going to be able to complete that transaction.
"There may be behavioural changes that affect how and what we buy in different ways in the longer term. People will think, Do I want to travel long distances? Do I want a property where I have some space to myself.
"Working from home is emphasising some of the strains and stresses that have come out of the property market over the last 10 years. People are in houses that no longer suit their needs and this will make it very clear.
"I don't think we're seeing something like the financial crisis where the rules of the game have dramatically changed – that is a big, big difference.
"It seems to me this is the perfect opportunity for government to lay out very substantial plans in terms of housing to get new supply, new forms of supply, to actually deal with social housing on one side, to deal with infrastructure on the other. It would be a great shame – and it is a tragedy in so many ways – but one of the lasting impacts is the opportunity it affords to give government more capacity to make the property market more functional afterwards."
Austin Hughes, chief economist at KBC Bank Ireland
THE MORTGAGE BROKER
"Banks are still lending [to those looking for mortgages]. All are working remotely but service levels are being maintained and there are no visible interruptions at this early stage.
"The challenge will be the significant numbers of people who are temporarily not working and what view banks will take of certain employment sectors, particularly, hospitality and retail sectors, in considering mortgage applications in the short term.
"I expect demand for mortgages to slow down for 2020 until we have the spread of the virus under control and see the fall-out on employment levels.
"Banks will have to move resources, in the short term, to deal with the number of requests for the three-month 'payment freeze'. I believe this is only the first stage of what will be a large number of borrowers who will not be able to pay their mortgage beyond the three-month period being offered.
"Interest rates will be under review. There is scope to reduce interest rates and it will help. The banks must respond and reduce interest rates as we are in uncharted territory and they must play their part.
"With most estate agents offices closed, the process of buying and selling faces significant challenges. There will be a reduction in the number of sales while we are in the 'containment' phase of dealing with Covid-19. Prospective buyers, if taking out a mortgage, will need to know that their job is secure before they agree to buy and /or take out a mortgage. I believe prices will fall in the short term."
Michael Dowling of Dowling Financial
THE SOLICITOR
"People are taking the long view, the phone is ringing and there is no panic that we have seen. There are still contracts coming in, transactions are still occurring and we're closing sales. It's just a little slower but it has not come to a stop. We're checking with banks about funds and they say moneys are there and are ready to be released.
"In terms of the mechanics of sales and contracts, most solicitors are working remotely, and are emailing contract documents to clients and then meeting via Facetime to explain and go through it in detail. Contracts are now being signed via DocuSign rather than in person.
"All closings funds are being transferred by electronic transfer. All closings are now being completed by postal closing with the vendor providing executed closing documents and with the transfer deed to be signed by the purchaser thereafter.
"There is a hard-held view that this is going to come to an end and people will still want the house, and banks are still lending money, and they still have their jobs. Everything should come back to normal, but who knows. It's unforeseen."
Joe Ritchie of Donal M Gahan, Ritchie & Co, residential and commercial conveyancing
THE ESTATE AGENT
"We decided for the safety of our staff and the public, and in the spirit of cooperating with the national call from the Government, to close our network of 80 offices and cease all viewings last Monday morning.
"However, 25pc of DNG properties have full 3D virtual tours. These will replace viewings for the short term. A team of six agents is taking enquiries on any property matter through DNG Live Chat which is available Monday to Saturday on dng.ie.
"Our sales have been strong this week but this is likely to reduce significantly as people are unlikely to make firm buying decisions without viewing properties. The number of properties coming for sale has reduced significantly in the last week and will reduce further for the rest of this month.
"In terms of valuations, we are offering sellers free valuations by Eircode. They submit their Eircode through dng.ie, live chat or by calling our Freephone number. Our agents check the property via Google Street view and overhead maps and then call back with an estimate. The owner can send through images for a more accurate figure. Our agent will then explain the sales process in detail and can make arrangements for the property to go for sale in due course.
"It is too difficult to predict any impact on the property market until we know the real effect of Covid-19 and how long it affect the ability to work and carry out normal life. With fewer properties coming for sale in the short term, it is unlikely that there will be any change at all in property prices. In a normal market a reduction in the amount of housing stock normally leads to an increase in value, but Covid-19 makes everything far from normal. We're hoping that house viewings will recommence sometime in April and that the market may return to some normality in the months following."
Keith Lowe, chief executive DNG
"All traditional viewings have been cancelled and replaced with virtual viewings [see sherryfitz.ie]. Basically using the video conferencing software Zoom, we invite buyers to attend a virtual viewing using previously shot walk-through footage. We send the buyer a link and a simple guide in advance to show them how to log in but it's very simple. They can use their phone or a PC.
"Once the buyer has joined the virtual viewing, they can hear the agent talking them through the property walk-through. They can also ask questions in real time through a live chat box.
"It's early days, but last Thursday and Friday traffic to our website from social media channels increased by 31pc, and we had 35 online offers over the weekend and last Monday, slightly above our average numbers. Last Monday alone, 18 live chats took place, higher than any other Monday in the past month, and the average browsing time on the website has increased by 16pc over the week before.
"It is really too early to ascertain the impact of these exceptional events on the market. There will inevitably be a time of uncertainty but once the virus is under control, then hopefully normal activity will re-emerge. Ireland's economy is incredibly resilient and will re-emerge as a driving force in the Eurozone, a factor which will underpin the future of the property market."
Marian Finnegan, managing director, Sherry FitzGerald
THE NEW HOMES ESTAGE AGENT
"Our offices are closed. All open views were cancelled last Sunday and now all viewsings are cancelled. It's not worth the risk. We are moving everything online. We are developing a new bespoke virtual website which will be up and running next week. All our new homes launches are postponed indefinitely.
"Obviously enquiries are down, people have other things to be thinking about. However, we've had 14 new sales this week, two cancellations on sales agreed, four contracts signed, and five closings.
"We are gearing up for launches in the summer. There were launches in the next month that we're going to bring out to market. We're not going to have a launch, we will sell online. For a lot of our schemes, people have seen the show house, they're waiting for us to release more, so they know what they are buying. There is comfort in that.
"We are working on a system for next week whereby the vendors and purchasers' solicitors all work and sign digitally so no one needs to meet in person and everything can be done on our system. It will be legally binding.
"Ironically, after Brexit this year was shaping up to be a really good year in terms of sentiment, rents are pushing a lot of people into wanting to buy. Will that change? Will rents soften? None of us know.
"While not for one moment under-estimating the devastation caused, we're trying to keep business running in this climate."
David Browne, director and head of new homes, Savills
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Georgy Arbatov, adviser to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who believed that cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union was possible, died on October 1 at the age of 87. He was a master of compromise who sought to introduce a touch of human rationality to the totalitarian system.
Arbatov was director of the Institute of United States and Canada Studies from 1967 to 1995. He paid many visits to the United States and saw grounds for cooperation, recognizing the absurdity and artificiality of each side's claims against the other, and the endemic suspicion that hindered any such cooperation.
The standoff between the USSR and the United states, which was to a great extent contrived by bureaucrats or orchestrated by Russophobes and Anti-Americans in each country, appears particularly absurd against the backdrop of the Cold War threat of a nuclear conflagration and the subsequent terrorist attacks that have, in recent decades, claimed thousands of lives.
These contrived positions rolled back in the face of real danger. In the 1970s they were replaced with détente after a long drawn-out arms race, the 9/11 tragedy in the United States was followed by cooperation in Afghanistan and the list goes on. The détente of the 1970s was Arbatov's moment of glory and one of the main achievements in his career.
Arbatov was born in 1923 and took part in the November 7, 1941 military parade in Red Square from which the troops went straight to the front to fight the Nazi invaders. His was one of the most deprived generations in Soviet history, having witnessed the cultural and economic devastation of the country as a result of the civil war , the subsequent collectivization period, the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 which only 3% of his peers survived, the difficult years of post-war recovery, and the period of the Brezhnev stagnation.
While in hospital suffering from tuberculosis in 1944, Arbatov read a newspaper report mentioning that a state institute of international relations (MGIMO) was being established in Moscow. His fate was sealed: he decided that he simply had to enroll at the institute, which after all, promised to open up the world to him.
After graduating from MGIMO he worked for the Kommunist magazine and the English-language magazine New Times. Otto Kuusinen, a Finnish-born Soviet politician who hoped to become president of Finland once the Soviet Union had won the ill-fated Winter War of 1939-1940 and who led the international communist movement after WWII, noticed this talented young journalist.
By the time Leonid Brezhnev came to power in 1964, Georgy Arbatov was a 40-year old highly respected intellectual with frontline experience, who spoke fluent English and had an open mind.
Although not often seen as such, Brezhnev was in fact a highly receptive man and by no means a simpleton. A straight-talking man of the people, he had little time for book-learning, preferring frank conversations with people instead. Brezhnev also made a clear distinction between public and private life.
Officially, he continued to use Stalinist phrases about the "aggravation of inter-imperialist contradictions" and "the historical advantages of the Soviet regime." Unofficially, he took boyish pleasure in the car that U.S. President Richard Nixon presented to him and never sought to prevent his son, or the children of his closest associates, from getting soft jobs at the ministries of foreign trade and international affairs.
To Brezhnev, words were part of a separate realm that had no connection to reality. It was under him that Russia's current crop of officials and business elite learned the art of "dual" thinking. They promised the country would overcome every crisis that beset it, while sending their children abroad to study and transferring their money to bank accounts overseas.
"Did you get the furniture ok?" That was the only question Brezhnev asked Arbatov after the establishment of the Institute of the Untied States and Canada.
Of course, this behavior could be described as progressive if compared to Stalin, who tried to reduce human life to mere distribution according to strict state rules. The deadly famine that hit Ukraine in the 1930s was provoked by "Uncle Joe," who ordered that the entire grain harvest be collected from peasants and subsequently redistributed 'equally'. As a result, the amount collected was not enough to feed everyone.
Then again, Brezhnev's practical acceptance of the fact that "Russians never live on their salaries alone" was not particularly helpful either. It generated the shadow economy and "unofficial" capitalism in the country.
And yet, as Russian writer Ivan Turgenev said, "A good word is also a good deed." The language of the U.S. political life, which crept into dissertations and subsequently newspapers thanks to Arbatov's institute, was changing the Soviet Union and preparing it for democratic reform.
Arbatov addressed the country's practical problems such as the need to cut military spending, balance internal and external stability, and improve relations with the United States and West European countries. This was a language that Soviet leaders understood and, happily, there came a day when the pragmatic Nixon administration also started speaking the same language.
The results were the détente of the mid-1970s and the Helsinki Accords. When signing the accords, Brezhnev's government wanted to improve relations with the West without improving the human rights situation in the country. (Something the current negotiators with the Untied States and the European Union also often hope for.) But then came Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika in the late 1980s, giving the Helsinki Accords a new lease on life.
Détente had breathed its last by the end of the 1970s. The octogenarian Soviet leaders, who had long since forgotten all about pragmatism, instead becoming ever more paranoid about security, approved the invasion of Afghanistan to preempt the alleged deployment of U.S. troops there.
Arbatov was pushed back into the shadows, only reappearing during Gorbachev's perestroika.
In the 1990s, Arbatov had to fight another aspect of excess in Russia's politics: the radical reform program. He criticized the idea of Russia's "accelerated Americanization" proposed by Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, who suggested importing foreign managers instead of training Russian ones.
Indeed, it is much simpler to wave a magic wand and wish to "have everything they have" than to work hard to find rational solutions to problems and train local managers.
Under Arbatov, American studies in Russia became a science, and science does not accept simple solutions without explanation, instead demanding that they are tested in practice before being applied. This was one of Georgy Arbatov's main achievements.


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Creation of 4 new emirates: Kano residents protest
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- The Kano First Forum has staged a protest to show its dissatisfaction over the creation of four new emirates in the state
- The spokesperson of the group said there is a difference between emirate and an emir, adding that it is wrong to treat both as same
- According to the group, there are more pressing issues that need urgent attention than the creation of emirates
Kano residents on Thursday, May 9, protested the creation of four new emirates in the state. The protesters under the auspices of Kano first forum, expressed dissatisfaction with the development.
Daily Trust reports that the spokesperson of the group, Yusuf Ishaq Rabi'u, said the people of the state were in dire need of improved healthcare delivery system, good schools and improved infrastructure, not additional emirates.
Rabi'u said: "It is very important to understand that there is a difference between emirate and an emir. It is wrong to treat both as same.
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"In regard to this issue, the Kano state House of Assembly has not been fair to the people of Kano State and the state as there are more pressing issues that need their urgent attention as such: education, water supply, health, and the dying socio-economic status of the state.
"It is with a heavy heart that we, the Kano First Forum, staged this protest to show our dissatisfaction over the recent issue tabled between the state House of Assembly and Kano state government."
The creation of four emirates councils of Gaya, Rano, Karaye and Bichi had been approved by Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Few hours after the creation of the additional emirates, report surfaced that the United Nations had appointed the emir of Kano, Malam Muhammad Sanusi II, as a member of the new class of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) advocates.
Legit.ng reported that the UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres made the announcement through his spokesperson, Farhan Haq, at a news conference in New York.
The SDG advocates are 17 influential public figures committed to "raising awareness, inspiring greater ambition, and pushing for faster action on the SDGs."
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On behalf of the 70,000 union construction professionals in the State of Minnesota, I want to congratulate the Minnesota Senate DFL Clean Energy Caucus for their focus on a responsible, practical, and meaningful approach to achieving our State's clean energy future.
The Minnesota State Building and Construction Trades Council supports policies that meet the energy needs of today and help us build toward a clean energy future by advocating for the expansion of renewable energy, power storage, energy efficiency and innovative technologies.
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Investments must be made in the operations, maintenance and repair of Minnesota's energy infrastructure.
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Investments must be made to increase energy efficiency in industrial commercial and residential buildings, retrofit and upgrades to schools and public buildings and to make our communities safe and resilient.
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Australian cricket emerges into light as David Peever falls on sword
Sam Perry
The primary protagonists of a corporate-heavy era are now gone. The game will be better for it
Thu 1 Nov 2018 13.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 1 Nov 2018 13.02 EDT
Cricket Australia now has the opportunity to tilt itself back toward something a little more whole. Photograph: David Crosling/AAP
Political and public life feels so inverted these days, it was forgivable to wonder whether this episode would, or could, reach its logical conclusion. Cricket Australia chairman David Peever had been long untenable, but there was always the sense that didn't make his departure inevitable. Until Wednesday, he had been unabashed as he personally zigzagged his way through the mounting hazards, all the while reinforcing his air of that classic figure in private sector life: the corporate survivor.
David Peever resigns as Cricket Australia chairman
But by Thursday he had found that long lost sword, and then fell on it. As a result, Cricket Australia now has a little light and air. The game will be better for it. Each of James Sutherland, Pat Howard and Peever were the primary protagonists of this muscular corporate-heavy era, and with Peever's departure, the governing body regains a social licence to operate.
Though a product of the old regime, new CEO Kevin Roberts has already struck a softer, more conciliatory tone in his public utterances. He presents as personable, and for that reason alone his association with the Peever, Sutherland and Howard cabal always felt a little incongruous.
In contrast, Peever infrequently exhibited any semblance of the common touch. Through the MOU negotiations, broadcast negotiations, and over-engineered re-election, he cut the figure of the classic corporate alpha: combative, bullish, never taking a backward step. But while James Sutherland and Pat Howard initially copped the brunt of that characterisation, their respective departures – both in Sutherland's recent case and Howard's pending case – hastened the emergence of Peever as the walking, talking embodiment of Cricket Australia's cultural toxicity.
It was for good reason. Presiding a period of compounding tumult, his forays into the public sphere rarely endeared him to the masses. Both Monday's press conference and his ensuing performance on the ABC will live long in the memory, and could form case studies for media training consultants nation-wide on how not to run an interview. He was a kind of wooden Gordon Gecko, and his public appearances merely reinforced the view CA was being run by a cold, corporate automaton.
Now, the lessons must be learned. Like the corporate tide that goes in and out, Cricket Australia has the opportunity to tilt itself away from the optics of a pragmatic, profit-motivated machine, and back toward something a little more whole. While the last few years have blazed harsh floodlights on the darker elements of Australian cricket nature, it should be remembered that the country retains many excellent, principled people within it. Whether the now-refreshed leadership can harness the nation's better angels, at all levels, is the overarching question, and one that will endure for some time.
Should Smith and Warner bans be reduced? Guardian cricket writers have their say
In the immediate term, people will now want to know if the original ban given to the Cape Town trio will be reassessed. Following the ACA's pronouncements on Monday, there's already a hint that such a move would fail to pass the great intangible pub test. It certainly provides Roberts an opportunity to showcase the sort of "principled leadership" Simon Longstaff urged in the culture review. Looked at simply, it's hard to see how any move to alter the ban could be well received by the public, and it would take a focused campaign to convince people any change is not secretly and cynically motivated by the sheer will to win.
There may be a world, however, where Cricket Australia earnestly explains how they got that decision wrong. How, when re-examined away from the moral panic of March, the "disrepute" that informed the bans were partly of their making. There is no doubt Smith, Warner and Bancroft's bans were about more than the incident at Cape Town. They were about everything Australia had done wrong. In this new light, that is manifestly unfair. And, if explained sincerely, CA would immediately signal a departure from the "arrogant" and "controlling" era, as coined by Dr Longstaff, to something a little more humble.
This, coupled with the inevitable pain of a first Test defeat at the hands of a rampant Virat Kohli, may soften the public's posture.
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From Oregonlive comes this article on oregonian Robert Maddox, the worlds top pulse jet engine builder/designer. The engine is currently selling on ebay for a cool $1200 (+ $95 for shipping/handling), however if you really want to splurge you can throw down $8500 for a fully assembled jet bike from Bob. The engine pumps out 100lbs of thrust and there is a 'warning' on the ebay post that states 'jet engines are dangerous, buy at your own risk, and that the engine runs at 140 decibles'…so you may want to think twice before firing it up in the suburbs. Bob has been working on pulse jet engines for about 10yrs, and now his handiwork brings the possibility of becoming the Rocketeer to your fingertips (if you can afford it). Here's a video which shows the bike in action, but averaging 1.5 gallons of fuel per mile this is probably not the best way to commute to the office. If you commute by bicycle regularly, riding on this thing will probably put you there in record time.
When wide open, it will top out at around 75mph so before you hop on you may want to up the payout on your life insurance policy.
The jet engine makes the bike into super bike.It is great experience to ride this one.To ride this bike on the highway is like moving on the air.