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September 29, 2022 | Health Care, Abortion, Reproductive Rights
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Allison Case, a family medicine physician, spends much of her time working in a hospital where she delivers babies and provides reproductive health care services, including abortions…In the U.S., more than a dozen states severely restrict access to abortion, and almost as many have such laws in the works. Across the country, since Roe v. Wade was overturned, clinics that do provide abortions have seen an increase in demand. Many clinics rely on help from physicians out of state, like Case, who are able to alleviate some of the pressure and keep wait times down by providing services via telemedicine. But as more states move to restrict abortion, these providers are finding themselves navigating an increasingly complicated legal landscape. Is abortion by telemedicine legal? Experts differ. Medication abortions work for most people who are under 11 weeks pregnant, and research suggests medication abortion via telemedicine is safe and effective. Yet many states have enacted legislation to ban or limit access to telehealth abortions. But it's not always clear what that means for doctors like Case who are physically located in a state with abortion restrictions but have a license that enables them to provide care via telehealth to patients in states where it is legal. Case says she has consulted several lawyers about the legality, and none of them had a concrete answer for her. "One lawyer was like, 'If anyone tells you they think they know [or] they have certainty about this stuff, they're out of their mind'," she says. In many states, patients seeking a telehealth abortion have to be physically present in a state where telemedicine abortion is legal, even if it's just to have a brief virtual consultation with a provider, who may be located in an entirely different state. These providers are finding themselves in a murky gray area legally, having to weigh how much risk they're willing to assume to care for their patients, or consider halting this aspect of care altogether. Katherine Watson, a law professor and medical ethicist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, says this is uncharted territory. "The stakes are so high. We're talking about something that's a protected right in one state and a felony in a sister state," Watson says. "And the map is a patchwork. So this is an absolutely radical change." People have to understand the distinction between the letter of the law and the enforcement environment, she says. Even if the law does not explicitly criminalize what doctors like Case do, the enforcement environment can ensnare some of them in legal trouble.
California Abortion-Info Law Ups Stakes in Online War Between States
Axios, September 29, 2022
California's unprecedented new law to bolster protections for abortion-related personal information held by tech companies marks a new phase in the deepening legal fight between red and blue states over digital regulations. Why it matters: With Congress deadlocked over national laws to govern online privacy and free speech, states are stepping into conflicts over abortion rights and censorship and setting their own, sometimes contradictory rules. Driving the news: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Tuesday an abortion rights bill with a provision that protects reproductive digital information housed by companies headquartered or incorporated in the state. The law allows those firms to resist efforts by other states to serve them with warrants in the course of enforcing anti-abortion laws. The big picture: California's move follows conflicts in Texas and Florida over laws intended to prevent tech platforms from discrimination against "points of view." Different Federal appeals courts have dismissed Florida's law but upheld Texas', setting up an almost certain Supreme Court case to resolve the conflict. Between the lines: As the partisan divide between Democratic-led and Republican-dominated states grows, states are increasingly passing laws governing the digital realm that put them at direct odds with one another. What they're saying: The new California law, AB1242, "gives [tech companies] a way to protect the privacy of their customers... We have given a tool to our tech companies to be our partner in protecting health privacy," California assembly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan told Axios. "It's a really strong step forward if the goal is to make California sort of this sanctuary state for abortion information," Hayley Tsukayama, a legislative activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Axios. "We're seeing legislative strategies in states that are outlawing abortion, so we're trying to respond in kind, where abortion is legal." What's next: Bauer-Kahan said she and California attorney general Rob Bonta are working with the White House to tell other states about the bill and urge them to pass similar laws: "The more states that would like to do this, the better." Yes, but: "For the tech companies, it's a tight spot to be in," Aaron Cooper, a partner at D.C. law firm Jenner & Block and former Senate counsel, told Axios.
Abortion Upends the Battle for a Dozen Key Governorships
POLITICO, September 25, 2022
The battle over abortion rights will be won or lost in state capitals, not Washington. That reality has in the past three months upended battleground governor races — where the winners could quite literally determine the level of access to abortion for millions of women. And the way candidates are running on the issue could hardly be more polarized: Democrats are going all in. Republicans want to change the topic. Spending on abortion-related ads shows how thoroughly abortion has transformed these races, giving Democrats an opening to go on offense in an otherwise challenging year for them to be on the ballot. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, Democratic gubernatorial candidates and outside groups have spent nearly $34 million on television ads that mention abortion, according to data compiled by the ad tracking firm AdImpact. Republican gubernatorial candidates, by contrast, have collectively spent around $1.1 million on TV ads mentioning abortion. Instead, they're focusing on issues such as the economy or crime, arguing Democrats are ignoring the issues they believe voters care about the most. Thirty-six states are holding governor contests this year, and about a dozen of them are expected to be competitive. The issue is top of mind for voters in states like Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, where pre-Roe laws banning abortion in nearly all cases are being challenged in court — and where the governor will play a key role in setting policy when legislatures reconvene in 2023. On Friday, an Arizona court said that a 19th-century abortion ban can take effect, drawing cries of outrage from Democrats there — and mostly silence from Republicans. "I'm mourning today's decision," Katie Hobbs, the Democratic nominee for the state's open seat, said in a statement. "We now must turn our anger into motivation to win in November and restore our fundamental rights." Republicans control more gubernatorial mansions across the country heading into November, 28 to 22 for Democrats. But more Americans live in a state with a Democratic governor than a Republican one, a balance that forecasters predict will be unchanged after the election. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, told an election forum earlier this month that abortion is the rare issue that animates both parties' bases and moderate voters at the same time.
How Overturning 'Roe' Affects College Students From Anti-Abortion States
Rewire News Group, September 28, 2022
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, abortion rights supporters turned out in droves to protest the loss of the constitutional right—especially young people. College students across the country are demanding their universities take action in the fight for reproductive rights, but few have outwardly shown support. With abortion banned or threatened in 12 states and threatened in another 14, students are left wondering how to safely seek abortion care while avoiding unwarranted legal implications. People in their 20s obtain 60 percent of abortions in the United States. Teenagers between 18 and 19 years old obtain another 12 percent. In this post-Roe world, young people face even more obstacles and anxiety in seeking reproductive care, and for those in college, accessing care adds another complicated layer, as those who attend school outside their home state risk the security of insurance coverage. Most schools encourage their students to maintain health insurance while registered for classes—some even require it. For students who are not covered by their parents' insurance plans, universities often offer a school-sponsored health-care program. Under these plans, like New York University's Wellfleet coverage, students are covered for all University Health Center visits and procedures, in-network physician's visits, and some out-of-network physicians with small co-pays. While some take advantage of college health programs, many students choose to stay on their parent's health insurance plans, even if it means technically being insured in another state. Catherine Cohen, a scholar at the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA Law, said this is where the biggest risk lies for students, especially under bounty hunter laws like Texas SB 8. A student from an anti-abortion state could be sued for obtaining reproductive care in their college town. They are still considered to be traveling to obtain care, just on a longer timeline (the duration of a semester or school year). "The statute is, in theory, if you live in Texas, you grew up in Texas, that's where your parents are and you have some sort of ties back to the state—maybe you're still registered to vote there or you're being claimed on your parents' taxes—and so you're still considered to be in Texas," Cohen said. "You could still be sued while you're in California. Well, not you, but somebody could be sued for helping you get an abortion because Texas still holds some claim over you and you're violating their law."
Democrats Introduce New Path to Protect Troops' Abortion Access
Defense One, September 28, 2022
Democrats are renewing their push to protect service members' access to abortion ahead of the midterm elections, arguing that troops shouldn't be stripped of rights based on where the military stations them. The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the flood of abortion regulations enacted by more than a dozen states that followed left 40 percent of active-duty women stationed in the United States with "no or severely restricted" access to abortion, according to a RAND report released this month. Advocates for troops freedom of choice argue that, unlike civilians, people in the military don't get to choose where they live, and can be ordered to go to several states with large military footprints, including Texas and Florida, that are implementing abortion bans or restrictions. In June, Democrats introduced legislation that would remove the restrictions that forbid Defense Department medical facilities to perform abortions except in cases of rape or to save a mother's life. The legislation, intended to ensure troops can access abortions regardless of where they're stationed, has so far been stalled in Congress. Now lawmakers are looking at other ways to make it easier for troops and dependents to access the procedure. On Wednesday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., plans to introduce an amendment to the 2023 defense authorization bill that would ensure troops have the time and money needed to cross states lines for an abortion if they are stationed in a state that bans the procedure, according to text of the proposal shared with Defense One. The amendment would provide "convalescent leave" to troops who need to travel for an abortion. Service members stationed in the continental United States would get 10 days, while those based internationally would get 20. Anyone having to travel more than 50 miles from their base would also be eligible to receive an allowance for the transportation expenses under the Joint Travel Regulations.
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using Google.Apis.AdExchangeBuyerII.v2beta1;
using Google.Apis.AdExchangeBuyerII.v2beta1.Data;
using Google.Apis.Services;

using System;

namespace Google.Apis.AdExchangeBuyer.Examples.v2_x
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Retrieves all Marketplace publisher profiles.
    /// </summary>
    public class ListPublisherProfiles : ExampleBase
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Main method, to run this code example as a standalone application.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="args">The command line arguments</param>
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            AdExchangeBuyerIIService service = Utilities.GetV2Service();
            ExampleBase example = new ListPublisherProfiles();
            Console.WriteLine(example.Description);

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        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a description about the code example.
        /// </summary>
        public override string Description
        {
            get { return "This code example lists all Marketplace publisher profiles."; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Runs the code example.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="service">An authenticated AdExchangeBuyerIIService</param>
        public override void Run(BaseClientService service)
        {
            AdExchangeBuyerIIService adXService = (AdExchangeBuyerIIService)service;
            string accountId = "INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE";

            ListPublisherProfilesResponse response = adXService.Accounts.PublisherProfiles
                .List(accountId).Execute();

            Console.WriteLine("========================================\n");
            Console.WriteLine("Listing Marketplace publisher profiles");
            Console.WriteLine("========================================\n");

            if (response.PublisherProfiles.Count == 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("No publisher profiles found.");
            } else
            {
                foreach (PublisherProfile publisherProfile in
                    response.PublisherProfiles)
                {
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                        publisherProfile.PublisherProfileId);
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                        publisherProfile.Seller.SubAccountId);
                }
            }
        }

        public override ClientType getClientType()
        {
            return ClientType.ADEXCHANGEBUYERII;
        }
    }
}

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Progressivism Wants the "Moral Paradigm Shift" in the Catholic Church
Mathias Von Gersdorff	February 12, 2018 One Comment
Cardinal Reinhard Marx's and Bishop Franz-Josef Bode's recent plea in favor of blessings for homosexual partnerships has provoked shock and dismay around the world.
However, the démarche of the two Germans is not an isolated act. On a broad front, progressivism is sounding the attack against the traditional teaching of the Church.
This was most clearly expressed by none other than the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Parolin. He speaks about a veritable "paradigm shift in morality," based on a liberal interpretation of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Cardinal Parolin explained in an interview with Vatican Radio concerning Amoris:
It's a paradigm change, and the text itself insists on this, that's what is asked of us – this new spirit, this new approach! So every change always brings difficulties, but these difficulties have to be dealt with and faced with commitment.
The cardinal secretary of state did not reveal in the interview how this paradigm shift would take shape. Others do that work for him. For example, the Italian moral theologian Maurizio Chiodi said at a lecture in mid-December 2017 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome that artificial contraception is in certain situations not only acceptable, but even required.
Chiodi is anything but a lightweight. He teaches moral theology at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Milan. In June 2017, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life. He did not stop at the December Gregorian lecture; since then, he has been able to express his views several times in the daily newspaper Avvenire (the official organ of the Italian Episcopal Conference), as well as in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's newspaper.
His talk was considered by many the beginning of the deconstruction of the encyclical Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI from the year 1968. In this encyclical, the pope affirmed Catholic sexual morality and the Church's teaching on marriage and family. In particular, he confirmed that sexual intercourse is ethically permissible only in a validly contracted marriage – between a man and a woman (which must be added today). The sexual act must also be open to reproduction, which is why artificial contraception is prohibited. This teaching was confirmed by Pope John Paul II in 1981 in the apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio.
These two papal writings, Humanae Vitae and Familiaris Consortio, have been the biggest obstacles for progressivism in reshaping moral theology. Now, thanks to Amoris Laetitia, they may well have come to the point of breaking with traditional teachings, which would require the elimination of Humanae Vitae.
Kathpress, the Catholic Press Agency in Austria, reported about aspirations in this regard and steps in this direction:
Whether the Vatican will actually soon come up with a new interpretation of the "pill encyclical" is uncertain. The head of the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Alejandro Cifres, recently confirmed to the news agency Kathpress the fact that a commission on behalf of the pope investigates the genesis of Humanae Vitae.
The debate that followed the publication of Amoris Laetitia was unique in Church history in its dimension, sharpness, and polemics. The positions could not be more contrary: while some say nothing has changed in the teaching of the Church, others say the apostolic exhortation breaks with traditional doctrine.
No matter where one stands on Amoris Laetitia, one has to realize that the second group is currently anxious to create facts. Otherwise, one cannot understand the war cry of Cardinal Parolin toward a paradigm change in moral teaching.
As far as progressivism is concerned, one can say: "When Rome calls into the (German) forest, it echoes back out of Munich, Mainz, and Berlin." Speaking just about Cardinal Marx, he has long been active in favor of the homo-agenda.
In his Whitsun sermon in 2015, Marx spoke out in favor of a welcoming culture for everybody and then also mentioned homosexuals:
… [t]he North Germans and the Bavarians, the middle class and the Hartz IV recipients [people with unemployment benefit], the unemployed and the directors of the banks, the Greens [members of the Green Party] and the Blacks [members of the Christian Democratic Party CDU], the homosexuals and heterosexuals, divorced and spouses, refugees and mountain shooters.
During the family synod in the fall of 2015, Cardinal Marx said the Church should even apologize to homosexuals. The demand for blessings of homosexual couples is therefore not entirely surprising.
The only person who can end the post-Amoris chaos is the pope himself. But he does not seem to be willing to clarify. Dr. Markus Büning, an author who supported the Francis-friendly initiative "Pro Pope Francis" last year, wrote:
In my view, it is now clearly up to him who holds the highest teaching office in the Universal Church – the pope. If he is silent with regard to such a demand – supposing that he knows of this bold demand of the C8 [sic] – Cardinal Marx [member of the pope's council of nine cardinals] – one necessarily has to conclude that he approves of it. Then also the pope has a problem! … [Should] the pope do it [approve of Marx's approach], he would not fulfill his office and mission to preserve the unity of the Universal Church in questions of Faith and Morals in a credible manner.
The pope, however, recently indirectly encouraged progressivism in his apostolic constitution Veritatis Gaudium – "On the Ecclesial Universities and Faculties" (published on January 29, 2018) to continue addressing academicians with a call for a "cultural revolution" (footnotes omitted):
This vast and pressing task requires, on the cultural level of academic training and scientific study, a broad and generous effort at a radical paradigm shift, or rather – dare I say – at "a bold cultural revolution." In this effort, the worldwide network of ecclesiastical universities and faculties is called to offer the decisive contribution of leaven, salt and light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the living Tradition of the Church, which is ever open to new situations and ideas.
No word was there addressed to the progressivists to moderate or to stick to traditional teachings.
The "normal Catholic" is increasingly confused by this panorama. But there is no reason to be confused, because many dignitaries still spread and defend the church's unfailing and unchangeable teaching on sexuality, marriage, and the family. Lately, the bishops of Kazakhstan did so with the "confession of immutable truths about sacramental marriage." In this document, it is made clear:
The constant Magisterium of the Church, beginning with the teachings of the Apostles and of all the Supreme Pontiffs, has preserved and faithfully transmitted both in the doctrine (in theory) and in the sacramental discipline (in practice) in an unequivocal way, without any shadow of doubt and always in the same sense and in the same meaning (eodem sensu eademque sententia), the crystalline teaching of Christ concerning the indissolubility of marriage.
Editor's note: The above article was first published in German, on Mathias von Gersdorff's own blog. We print it here in English, as submitted by the author himself.
Mathias Von Gersdorff
Mathias von Gersdorff was born in Santiago de Chile in 1964. He studied economics in Heidelberg and Bonn and graduated 1989. He worked several years as a banker in London and Frankfurt/Main. From 1990 he became an activist in Germany's Pro-Life movement (Aktion SOS Leben) and in the German Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – TFP. Since 1993 he coordinated the activities of the campaign "Kinder in Gefahr" against pornography, blasphemy, and violence in the media. During the government of Gerhard Schröder he organized many campaigns against "homosexual marriage".
Mathias v. Gersdorff is the author of many books about family and media issues. He also writes regularly for many newsletters and is the editor of several publications. He is the president of the German Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – TFP.
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The Sager House () or Sager Palace (Sagerska palatset) is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Sweden, located at Strömgatan 18 in central Stockholm.

Location
The Sager House is located in the Stockholm borough of Norrmalm, on the street Strömgatan, on the north side of the Norrström River.

Adjacent landmarks
The Sager House lies between: Rosenbad, the Government Chancellery (on the west); and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (the former Arvfurstens Palats) and the Royal Swedish Opera on Gustav Adolfs torg (on the east).

It lies across from the Parliament House (Riksdag) building (on the island Helgeandsholmen), and the Royal Palace (on the island Stadsholmen), and is connected with them over the Norrström River through the Riksbron and Norrbro bridges, respectively.

History
The first historical records of a building on the site are from the 1640s. In 1880 the property was purchased by the Sager brothers. The Sager Palace was owned by the Sager family from 1880 to 1986.

In 1988 the building was purchased by the Swedish State to be turned into the official residence of the Prime Minister of Sweden. Before it was bought, there was no official residence in Stockholm for the head of government. The first Prime Minister to use the building after an extensive renovation for its new use was Göran Persson (1996–2006). Fredrik Reinfeldt moved in after the 2006 Swedish general election.

Architecture
In 1893 Robert Sager had the palace remodeled, including the addition of a new floor within a Mansard roof and a French Baroque Revival style facade with Neo-Rococo details, that are still seen.

See also
Architecture of Stockholm
Harpsund Manor — another official residence of the Swedish Prime Minister.

References

External links

Official residences in Sweden
Palaces in Stockholm
Prime ministerial residences
Baroque Revival architecture

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Marvel cancels Howard the Duck and Tigra & Dazzler series
James R | On 28, Jan 2020
Marvel has cancelled its planned Hulu series Howard the Duck and Tigra & Dazzler.
The projects, which were announced almost a year ago, were two of a new quartet of animated shows, designed to build to a crossover event series, The Offenders: Howard the Duck, overseen by Kevin Smith and Dave Willis, Tigra & Dazzler Show, co-written by Chelsea Handler and Erica Rivinoja, Hit-Monkey, brought to life by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, and M.O.D.O.K., shepherded to the screen by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum.
Now, Variety has confirmed that two of them have been scrapped, which means that The Offenders is also off the table, although Hit-Monkey and M.O.D.O.K are reportedly still in the works.
A source told the trade that Marvel made the call to cancel the series. Tigra & Dazzler's cancellation comes as no surprise, after Erica Rivinoja and the writers departed over creative differences. With Hulu's live-action Ghost Rider series also scrapped, and with Hulu's Runaways also airing its final season at present, it's clear that Marvel is not about to reverse its trend for shutting down projects in works at other streamers or broadcasters.
Indeed, Marvel TV is on the way out, with Jeph Loeb, who was going to oversee The Offenders and also stewarded The Defenders at Netflix and ABC's Agents of SHIELD, departing so that all of Marvel's TV shows can be taken under the wing of Marvel creative chief Kevin Feige. Not that there are many left: the only remaining legacy Marvel show is Agents of SHIELD, which will air its final season this year, although Helstrom remains in the works.
Marvel is now focusing its efforts on its Disney+ series, including Falcon & Winter Soldier, Loki and WandaVision.
Marvel and Hulu team up for Howard the Duck and other series
Marvel fans may get a case streaming deja vu very soon, as the comics titan and VOD service Hulu have inked a deal to release a string of new superhero series. Howard the Duck will lead a new quartet of animated shows from Marvel TV, which will build to a crossover event series – a deal that strongly recalls the pact for The Defenders Marvel signed with Netflix not so many years ago.
The VOD landscape has changed since then, however, and Marvel owner Disney's merger with Fox is about to see its ownership stake in Hulu jump from 30% to 60%. As a result, it's expected that the House of Mouse will use Hulu to stream some of its more adult-friendly content, while focusing on more family-friendly material for its own subscription platform, Disney+.
The deal follows Hulu's existing Marvel series Runaways, and covers four projects. Howard the Duck, who had his own 1986 movie and briefly appeared in the Avengers franchise, will have his solo series overseen by Kevin Smith and Dave Willis.
Chelsea Handler will exec-produce and write Tigra & Dazzler Show alongside Erica Rivinoja, following the progressive duo as they "try to get their superpowered heads, hands and hearts around life in the City of Angels".
Marvel's villain Hit-Monkey will be brought to life by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, while M.O.D.O.K., which follows a Japanese snow monkey taking on Tokyo's crime underbelly, will be shepherded to the screen by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum.
All four series will be steered and co-produced by Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb, with Loeb then exec-producing the crossover special, The Offenders, which will see all four solo outings collide.
The news came at the TCA press tour this week and follows the cancellation of several Marvel projects at Netflix, including Iron Fist and Daredevil. The only two of Hell's Kitchen's characters left standing are The Punisher and Jessica Jones, both of which are expected to eventually have the plug pulled on them too.
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'I never saw anything like this': Former Bush staffer says Trump's concealment of political calls is 'unprecedented'
One of the key aspects of the impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump is not just that he apparently tried to extort dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but that he hid the details of the call using a secure system designed for classified information — and recent reporting suggests he did the same for calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
On Friday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," former George W. Bush White House adviser Michael Green told anchor Erin Burnett that this is essentially unheard of.
"Mike, there are key issues here that we all need to understand," said Burnett. "First of all, as you point out, the highly unprecedented nature of moving a call to the server in the Ukraine call. So it happens, from your experience dealing with this. Sometimes rarely or is it close to unprecedented. Is that a fair word to use?"
"I've never heard of it, and I've asked colleagues who were in the Obama Administration in similar jobs and they've never heard of the memorandum of a telephone conversation being placed in a restricted, highly restricted server or system with the most compartmented and classified information. Very, very unusual," said Green. "Look, I worked for President Bush, and he was calling leaders about Iraq and nuclear weapons, and these were sensitive discussions, and I never saw anything like this in that case."
"Want to ask you about that just specifically, because you did create transcripts like this in your role," said Burnett. "You'd be on the call and you'd create it and check the facts and make sure it's there for the historical record. There are some people out there, Mike, does this stuff just happen normally? They get to know each other at these events and they talk off-the-cuff and do each other favors and this is the nasty, dark side who don't see and that's all this is. Is that possible or are those people just wrong about how these calls happen and how they're handled?"
"What's clearly different this time, and you can see it in the memorandum and the transcript that was released, was the president was asking for a personal favor for information on a political opponent," said Green. "That is unprecedented as far as we know, and furthermore, he was doing it in a way where the intent was to conceal it in the server where it would not be known to the diplomatic service or the intelligence officials who were responsible for policy."
"That is a significant diplomatic event," added Green, "and things flow from that, and the others would take actions, and the intelligence community and maybe the Secretary of Defense need to know the gist of what was discussed, because it will affect their interactions and their deployments of military equipment and their diplomatic interactions. And that's why we've never seen this before, where a transcript was essentially hidden in a highly classified system."
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'The president is not very smart': George Conway tells CNN how Trump played right into Adam Schiff's hands
President Donald Trump on Wednesday bragged about withholding key documents from impeachment investigators -- and conservative attorney George Conway said that statement would blow up in his face.
During a talk with reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump boasted that Democrats "don't have all the material" that they need to make their case of the president's guilt and also asserted that "we have all the material."
George Conway goes nuclear on Trump lawyers' 'utterly mendacious' impeachment presentation on CNN
Attorney George Conway, the husband of Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, went off on both President Donald Trump's attorneys and Senate Republicans for their performance at the Senate impeachment trial during a lengthy interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.
First, Conway tore apart Trump attorney Pat Cipollone for blatantly lying about the impeachment process that took place in the House of Representatives last year, and in particular zeroed in on the false claim that Republicans were not allowed to attend closed-door impeachment hearings.
"That whole sequence was just mendacious and it ended with a falsehood," he said. "It's not possible for me to think that he didn't know what the truth was. Three committees, three full committees of the House of Representatives, were entitled to attend those depositions, and that includes every Republican member. There were at least 40 of them at least."


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Anime Tourism: Explore "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" World!
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The school, cafe, town you saw in anime becomes real-life things!
Let's go on a tour to visit the real-life places of the huge succeeded anime all over the world, "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya".
You will visit Nishinomiya and Koyoen, which are the places where the author grew up. Since it is his hometown, there are a lot of spots you want to visit that are described in the anime.
You will first visit the station where the SOS Brigade used to hook up. The cafe of which they were regulars is busy with Haruhi fans so you might find a mate to have a chat over the anime.
You will experience a daily life in Japan that you saw in the anime including the school SOS Brigade attended to. Visit the world of Haruhi with your otomo guide!
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Anime Tourism
・Visit spots that are described in the anime! otomo guide will take you to spots that are difficult to get to by yourself!
・otomo guide will tell you the best camera angle resembles the anime!
・On the way, you might stop by spots recommended by locals if lucky!
・Nishikita Park (Nishinomiya north exit, Northwest ports): The meeting point where the member of SOS Brigade hook up! You might be familiar with this spot since it appeared many times in the Anime like when they strolled around the city in Episode3.
We will also meet here just like Haruhi and start our tour!
・Coffee-ya Dream: The original spot of the cafe that the member of SOS Brigade used to gather. It has relocated and renovated itself so it looks slightly different from the anime, but there are still a lot of fans so you will feel the vibe!
・Shukugawa Station: You will take the train to go to the high school Haruhi attends to. The station and train are the same as the ones in the Anime!
・Around Koyoen Station: There are a lot of must-see spots in Koyoen such as the apartment of Nagato, the railroad crossing where Haruhi monologized, Kyon's school road.
・Kitayama Botanical Garden: It didn't appear in the Anime, but it is a worth seeing spot where you can take a look over the greenery of this area and those derived from outside Japan for free.
・Nishinomiyakita Highschool (Kita Highschool): The original high school where everyone in the Anime attends to. It almost looks the same as in the Anime!
・Please come in comfortable clothing, as this tour involves a lot of walking.
・The tour begins and ends in different locations. If you would like to change the location of where the tour ends, please consult with your tour guide.
・Nishinomiyakita Highschool is a spot only for authorized personnel. You can take pictures only outside the premises.
-Travel expenses and entrance fees (about JPY 1100)
The North Gates of Nishinomiya-kitaguchi Station, Hankyu Line
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Many extensions of Petri nets have been proposed to model the behaviors and time relations of embedded system, yet these models are all based on some assumptions about the behaviors of embedded systems. Especially they all do not have the actual ability to model interrupt mechanism of embedded system. A new net which is called Extended High Level Timed Petri Nets (EHLTPN) is introduced in this study. It shows how to extend High Level Petri Nets (HLPN) with time, actions and interrupt mechanism. Interruptible subnets corresponding to different interruptible resources are introduced to model the behaviors and time relations of distributed embedded real-time systems. Each interruptible subnet realizes interrupt mechanism by an Interrupt Switch Transition and a set of Resuming Transitions. We give an informal description of this new model and show how this model be formally defined. A transform rule presented shows that each subnet corresponding to an interruptible resource in EHLTPN can be transformed into a behaviorally equivalent subnet of HLTPNAT with priority. This model makes it possible to create the compact and comprehensive models for distributed embedded real-time systems.
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Technology has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last few decades, and the benefits of technology are there for all to see. In addition, finding a part time job which allows you to work directly with technology would allow you to gain the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in this field not only presently, but also in the future. That means ensuring the ICT skills of current school leavers are fit for the future. Since many of these sources are open source or funded by advertising, students can access these materials for free. Leveraging big data, like real-time traffic information, could cut journey times, making the school run easier, and the morning commute more manageable. That is a staggering statistic and you can't help but admit that technology is one of the underlying causes.
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The state-of-the-art technology has improved our means of communication as well as our educational standards. One basic drawback that has taken place is that people are becoming lethargic due to high trends in technology. He has served as the Vice President for Research at YeungNam University, and is currently a member of the Expert Committee in the National Science and Technology Council in Korea. Working with a larger budget gives a school system more freedom and flexibility to purchase new tools and technology to use in the classroom. Knowledge can be easily procured with the help of Internet technology now, and it is easier to help children with special needs as well. We are becoming so dependent and comfortable with technology that we don't stop to think about what negative effects could be associated with technology.


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Fifteen companies are taking part in an Invest Northern Ireland trade mission to South Africa, from 31st October to 10 November. The delegation will be exploring opportunities for trade, joint ventures and technology transfer with South African businesses.
The mission is travelling to Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and is being assisted by commercial staff at UK Diplomatic Posts in all three centres.
Most of the companies in the delegation are new to the South African market and are keen to develop business relationships with firms there, for example, through the appointment of distributors.
Five of the participating companies are already represented. They are: Farmwizard, developer of an internet herd management system; FG Wilson (Engineering), a global leader in diesel power gensets; RFD Beaufort, a market leader in aviation and marine survival systems; and RW Pierce Security Print Solutions, a printer of security products.
Learning Pool, a developer of e-learning procurement products for the public sector, will also be announcing a £20 million deal to supply its procurement technology to a client in Johannesburg.
The group is broadly representative of industry in Northern Ireland in that it includes engineering especially in terms of diesel power generation and screening, conveying and recycling, as well as ICT, life sciences, and agri-products.
Leading the delegation is Dr Vicky Kell, Invest NI Trade Director, who describes the mission as "an important initiative to strengthen business and other relationships with the South African business community".
Dr Kell adds: "South Africa is a rapidly developing market with strong economic growth and high potential offering Northern Ireland companies a breadth of opportunity for innovative and export focused business.
"I also believe there is substantial potential for companies in South Africa to explore new markets or expand their sales in Europe by making use of our experience of the EU marketplace. By working with Northern Ireland businesses, South African companies can gain access to a total solution to their European requirements in manufacturing, marketing and customer support services.
"Similarly, South African partnerships make good business sense for Northern Ireland companies interested in developing their sales and presence in the South African region," Dr Kell says.


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Colin Cowherd Has Bold Opinion About Popular Team With Rabid Fanbase
Some stunning stuff from the FS1 airwaves this morning as power player Colin Cowherd assembled a Top 10 list for the upcoming NFL season devoid of a certain star-shaped franchise. This came either before or after he compiled a list of five obvious takes. So many assorted numerical-based pieces of content to keep track of all at once. The man has the mental capacity of the entire 2014 Buzzfeed newsroom working together.
Anyway, Cowherd does not believe the Dallas Cowboys are going to be any good this season. Instead, he thinks they'll be average. Nine and seven is average remember. Here are his reasons, some of which are quite reasonable. In fact, Dallas might not be the 14th -or 15th- most successful team when the smoke clears.
"I don't have Dallas in my Top 10. In fact, I don't them 11, 12, or 13... The Cowboys are going to be average. Send the hate mail." — @ColinCowherd pic.twitter.com/hJY5gH3UDI
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) September 9, 2020
Oh man, he really went and did it. He went both negative and contrarian about a popular franchise. Then invited them to react accordingly. Not an expert but it certainly seems like a recipe for engagement.
Hope he knows what he's in for.
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This almost impossibly detailed picture is meticulously painted. And magnificent. The actual subject of the painting is in the foreground: the Roman nobleman Gaius Mucius has thrust his hand into a burning fire to avoid divulging the participants in a failed coup against the Etruscan king Porsena, who had besieged Rome. The painting is part of a series on famous classical battles, commissioned by William IV of Bavaria. Several of these works were taken as war bounty by Swedish troops in Munich in 1632.


DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and is characterized by extracellular plaques formed by the deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide and intracellular tangles comprised of hyperphosphorylated forms of the tau protein. Another common pathology in AD is cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), caused by Aβ deposition in the walls of cerebral vessels leading to vascular dysfunction and hemorrhage. The strongest genetic risk factor for both AD and CAA is ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, but multiple recent genome-wide association studies have proven that a similar apolipoprotein, Clusterin (CLU), also confers risk for AD. The role of CLU in CAA is unknown, but we have strong evidence that CLU is critically involved in the formation of CAA. While much is known about apoE receptor biology, the only known receptor for Clu, LRP2/Megalin, is very poorly expressed in the adult brain, suggesting other receptors are present but undiscovered. We have found that Plexin A4 (PLXNA4) is a novel receptor that regulates the levels of extracellular CLU in mice and in humans. PLXNA4 levels are significantly decreased in mouse models of AD as well as human AD brain tissue compared to controls. The objective of this proposal is to define how CLU regulates Aβ metabolism and deposition in brain parenchyma and cerebrovasculature. Using a combination of cell culture, biochemistry, mouse genetics, pharmacology, and pathologically defined human tissue, we will determine how the CLU and PLXNA4 affect AD by studying functional endpoints such as histopathology, vascular dysfunction, neuritic dystrophy, electrophysiology, and behavior. Deciphering this pathway could lead to new therapeutic targets not only for AD, but also for stroke and breast cancer, given the emerging role of CLU in those respective fields.


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MediaCom USA helps TOMS launch first paid campaign
The campaign unveils TOMS Marketplace with the tagline, "This Is Bigger Than Us."
TOMS, the seven-year-old shoe company and pioneer in the "buy one give one" commerce space launched its first paid media campaign today. The campaign unveils its new TOMS Marketplace with the tagline, "This Is Bigger Than Us."
The new marketplace initially includes 30 companies with a similar socially conscious business model to TOMS, which gives away a pair of shoes for every pair it sells.
WPP's MediaCom, which TOMS hired earlier this year, orchestrated the media portion of the campaign, which is timed to the holiday shopping season and includes search engine marketing and optimization, paid social, online video, native ads, billboards in New York and Los Angeles and video spots in New York City taxi cabs. Creative is handled in house at the client.
"It's not really a brand campaign," said Adam Potashnick, senior vice president and group account director at MediaCom. "The Marketplace is a totally different way to shop." The campaign is designed to create awareness of the Marketplace and to steer people there to buy products and gifts for the holidays, he said.
One the social efforts features the founders of the 30 initial Marketplace companies on Instagram sharing their stories. Online videos feature some of the founders of those companies talking about their work. One video delves into how the purchase of products promotes a cause such as a backpack funding a scholarship or a wooden toy supporting reforestation.
To date the company's awareness efforts have been driven in large part by earned media. And that will still be a key driver going forward. Company founder Blake Mycoskie has been on the media circuit this week, including appearances on Good Morning America, CNN, Bloomberg among other outlets to talk about the new Marketplace.
"Everything we do from an advertising and marketing standpoint is about inspiring and not just selling," said Mycoskie, who took on the chief marketing officer function a few months back after returning to the company after a year-long sabbatical. Doing both, he said, is critical to building a company for the long term.
While the company's core consumer in the past has skewed younger and more female, TOMS has recently added more products for men. But the target consumer is less about age and more about attitude, says Mycoskie. "Every demographic has a sub-segment of consumers who care about giving and want to make purchases that count" for something beyond just their personal consumption, he said.
The in-house creative team came up with the "This Is Bigger Than Us" tagline for the marketplace. "That really sums it up," Mycoskie said. "It's a movement."
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Photos: Hartland Village Board honors trustee Richard Landwehr's 53 years of service
Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr (left) and his wife Janet (seated) celebrate with family, friends and members of the community during a retirement reception to honor Richard's 53 years of service on Monday, April 8, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Jim and Cathy Wilson of Delafield chat with Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr (right) during a reception in his honor on Monday, April 8, 2019. Richard is retiring from the board after 53 years of service. Scott Ash/Now News Group
A cake is decorated to celebrate Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr's 53 years of service during his retirement reception on Monday, April 8, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr (center) poses for a photo with former Village Board President David Lamerand (left) and current Village Board President Jeffrey Pfannerstill during reception to honor Landwehr's 53 years of service on Monday, April 8, 2019. Landwehr also served as Village Board President from 1985 to 1987. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Nick Emme of Manitowoc and other attendees enjoy appetizers during a reception to honor Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr on Monday, April 8, 2019. Richard is retiring from the board after 53 years of service. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr and his wife Janet open gifts during reception in Richard's honor on Monday, April 8, 2019. Richard is retiring from the board after 53 years of service. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr displays a humidor he received from the board during a reception in his honor on Monday, April 8, 2019. Richard is retiring from the board after 53 years of service. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Hartland Village Board trustee Richard Landwehr and his wife Janet (both seated) pose for a photo with family members during a reception in Richard's honor on Monday, April 8, 2019. Richard is retiring from the board after 53 years of service. Scott Ash/Now News Group
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In this work we study the implementations of deflation and preconditioning techniques for solving ill-conditioned linear systems using iterative methods. Solving such systems can be a time-consuming process because of the jumps in the coefficients due to large difference in material properties. We have developed implementations of the iterative methods with these preconditioning techniques on the GPU and multi-core CPUs in order to significantly reduce the computing time. The problems we have chosen have a symmetric and positive definite coefficient matrix. We have further extended these implementations for scalability on clusters of GPUs and multi-core CPUs. We outline the challenges involved in making a robust preconditioned solver that is suitable for scaling in a parallel environment. To start with, we experimented with simple techniques to establish the feasibility of implementing specialized preconditioning schemes (deflation) for specific problems (bubbly flow). We provide an analysis for the choices we make for implementing certain parts (e.g. solution of inner system in deflation) of these operations and tune the data structures keeping in mind the hardware capabilities. We improve our solvers by refining the choices we make for the application of these techniques (Neumann Preconditioning and better deflation vectors). For different options available we compare the effect when varying problem parameters (e.g. number of bubbles and deflation vectors). After testing our methods on standalone machines with multi-core CPUs and a single GPU we make a parallel implementation using MPI. We explore different data divisions in order to establish the effect of communication and choose the more scalable approach. In order to make our results more comprehensive we also test the implementations on two different clusters. We show the results for two versions of our code: one for multi-core CPUs and another one for multiple GPUs per node. Our methods show strong scaling behavior. To further evaluate the use of deflation combined with a simple preconditioning technique we test our implementation of the iterative method for solving linear systems from porous media flow problems. We use a library with many different kinds of preconditioners on parallel platforms. We test implementations with and without deflation. Our results show good performance of the iterative methods we use in combination with deflation and preconditioning for a number of problems. Through our experiments we bring about the effectiveness of deflation for implementation on parallel platforms and extend its applicability to problems from different domains.


The Speaker of the House of Commons, Rt Hon John Bercow officially unveiled the Association for Project Management's Royal Charter at a ceremony on Friday 17 March in Princes Risborough.
Following the unveiling, Rt Hon John Bercow MP said: "Chartered status is a recognisable mark of quality, setting standards of professionalism and performance. The Association for Project Management has met the rigorous standards required to be awarded this honour. It demonstrates a commitment to developing assured professionals who can lead on the delivery of complex projects which are so vital to today's economy and society, and developing a diversity of talent pools for the next generation".
A central pillar in raising the standard of project, programme and portfolio delivery will be the launch of a new Register of Chartered Project Professionals in Spring 2018. The register will offer to clients, employers and the public confidence of quality across the rich diversity of skills involved in project management.


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