Through lawsuits and new legislation, Native American tribes are trying to avoid massive — and, they say, unjust — Obamacare penalties. "It's going to financially cripple our tribe," one administrator said.
People sit in the waiting room of the Indian Health Service clinic in Crow Agency, Montana, in 2008.
Native American tribes are locked in a battle with the federal government over who pays for health care in Indian country. At stake: millions of dollars in fines that many tribes say they can't afford.
At the root of the trouble is a clause in the Affordable Care Act that requires large employers — and tribes — to provide private insurance for nearly all employees.
But some tribal leaders say that, although tribes do often employ a lot of people, buying insurance for their employees would be prohibitively expensive. Others say that options offered on the national exchange offer better services at better prices than the tribe would be able to afford.
And most frustrating of all, they say, Native Americans living on reservations already qualify for government-sponsored health services. The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, was set up in 1955 to provide comprehensive government-sponsored health care to all indigenous tribes.
"The United States made a commitment to the Indian tribes to provide health care to them. And yet the federal government is reneging on that," Devin Delrow, director of federal relations at the National Indian Health Board, a Washington D.C. advocacy group, told BuzzFeed News.
Here's the legal conundrum the tribes are fighting: The "employer mandate" within the Affordable Care Act requires them to pay for private insurance in addition to the public services the IHS provides.
But failure to comply with the ACA mandate could also be costly.
Those costs would be "an added cost to the tribe in an already poverty-stricken area," Brandon Sazue, chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, which has about 3,500 members, told BuzzFeed News.
The Northern Arapaho tribe of Wyoming was among the first to challenge the employer mandate in court.
Dr. Lynelle Noisy Hawk examines a patient at the Standing Rock Indian Health Service in Fort Yates, North Dakota, in 2008.
About a month before the employer mandate came into effect, the tribe sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Treasury, arguing that Congress never intended for the employer mandate to apply to tribes.
Also, the tribe argued, their employees would be getting superior services at a better rate if they bought insurance in the marketplace as individuals, rather than getting it from the tribe.
Matching the services as an employer would cost the tribe up to $5 million a year, Mark Howell, a spokesperson for the Northern Arapaho told BuzzFeed News. With revenue from a casino and businesses in oil and gas, this tribe is wealthier than many. And yet, about 42% of the 10,000-strong membership is unemployed, and 62% lives below the poverty line. "For an impoverished tribe in the middle of Wyoming, that's a pretty big hit," Howell said.
The Arapaho lost, but appealed the case, which is currently in mediation. Even so, it set off a groundswell of activity: Tribal leaders became aware of the mandate and advocacy groups kicked into high gear.
"We believe that tribes of this nation were never intended to be included in the employer mandate," Stacey Bohlen, executive director of the National Indian Health Board, told BuzzFeed News. According to an NIHB case study, meeting the mandate could cost one Montana tribe $9 million per year.
In conversations with the White House, the Department of Treasury, the IRS, the IHS, and the HHS, the NIHB has been pitching short-term fixes, among them a delay to the end June deadline for employers to report compliance to the mandate that could buy tribes time to secure a legislative fix.
Treasury has been "willing to work with us to mitigate the impact," Delrow said. But the department has been "resisting" the idea of a delay in implementing the mandate, and has so far rejected the possibility of an exemption. "They said they don't have the legislative authority to do the full exemption," Delrow said.
The IRS and the HHS declined to comment to BuzzFeed News.
Now two bills formally propose that tribes should not be subjected to the mandate.
Evelyn Espinoza, health director of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, speaks to a group of Great Plains tribal leaders on April 5, 2016.
The first, introduced by South Dakota Representative Kristi Noem in July of last year, is now being reviewed by the House Committee on Ways and Means.
The other, presented last summer by Senator Steve Daines of Montana, and co-sponsored by Senators Mike Crapo, John Thune, and Mike Rounds, was referred to the Senate Committee on Finance.
But neither bill has moved very far through the legislative pipeline. So tribes are now attempting petitions to lawmakers.
In October, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board, an advocacy group that represents 18 tribes, passed a resolution that requested the IRS to consider waiving the requirement. The resolution also requested Congress to consider passing legislation that would correct the apparent oversight.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has also requested the IRS waive this requirement, but has not received a response.
Besides the economics of it all, some advocates say the ACA mandate undermines the spirit of historical treaties under which the tribes relinquished their land to the government.


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How To Build A Successful Writing Career Through Self-Publishing
MeiMei Fox Contributor
NY Times Bestselling Author
When I recognized how underrepresented black characters were in children's books, I made it my life's purpose to fill the diversity gap
But being an author is not luck. You write or you don't. You finish or you don't. You have 100% control over whether or not you're an author. Only you.
These days, aspiring authors don't have to rely on the miracle of finding a literary agent and securing a deal with a traditional publishing house. Self-publishing makes it easy to get your words out there – the tricky part is ensuring that your work gets read. That requires self-promotion. These three women are experts, bestselling authors who have built highly successful careers through the free self-publishing services offered by Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), while also being sure to create entire brands around their literary creations to generate income and further secure their fan base.
Crystal Swain-Bates aims to include more diversity in children's books.
Crystal Swain-Bates
Crystal Swain-Bates is a bestselling author from Atlanta intent on filling the diversity gap in children's literature. A former CIA employee, she began writing children's books, including Big Hair, Don't Care, for black and brown kids in order to boost their self-esteem and celebrate the beauty in their differences. She chose self-publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) over traditional publishing because she wanted to retain greater creative control. She has since published more than a dozen of her own books, reaching sales of 100,000-plus on Amazon.
Entrepreneurially minded, Swain-Bates took her success in writing to the next level by starting her own publishing company, Goldest Karat. Here, she sells not only her books but also merchandise, including kids' party supplies based on characters she has created. In addition, the publishing company helps aspiring and underrepresented authors publish their books and share their stories.
" When I recognized how underrepresented black characters were in children's books, I made it my life's purpose to fill the diversity gap in children's literature," Swain-Bates says. "I continue to fulfill my mission by helping other diverse authors get published, thereby reducing the invisibility of black characters in children's books. It feels incredible to earn a living while making a difference at the same time."
Swain-Bates advises aspiring authors to stop Googling and start writing. "Don't spend so much time researching and working on the details of creating a book that you miss your chance to actually write the story that's in your heart," she says. "The world needs your voice, so focus on writing first. The rest will come together."
Kristen Ashley's goal is to improve the self-worth of women.
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Kristen Ashley is a New York Times bestselling author of self-published romance novels, including the Rock Chick series, that don't fit the typical fairytale mold. Her books depict real people with relatable stories. "I try to guide women, through my books, not only to accept themselves but also to think they're pretty darned awesome just as they are and to look at their sisters the same way," Ashely says. She has parlayed her success in publishing through KDP into a website selling merchandise ranging from T-shirts, hoodies, and mugs, which donates all proceeds to charity. In addition, she hosts Rock Chick events for fans across the country.
After earning a degree from Purdue University with a minor in women's studies 30 years ago, Ashley made it her mission to define her own self-worth and support other women in doing the same. She first began writing in her 20s with a strong theme of sisterhood, encouraging women to see their own strength and beauty and to celebrate those around them. "Society puts expectations on women that are impossible to attain – our body size, what we wear, how we decide to live our lives (stay-at-home mom, working mom, not a mom), and so on," Ashley says. She seeks to combat those judgments.
If you have a vision of being published, don't get bogged down by what a publisher or a reader might want, Ashley advises. "Write simply because you love to write. Do I love it that people read my books? Absolutely. But I feel certain that they do so because I write my stories as they come to me. I give my stories, my characters, their unadulterated voice. I don't write like others. I don't want to write like others. I write my own stories."
Penny Reid writes smart romance books for readers, featuring current events and issues.
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A former biomedical researcher, Reid writes "smart romances." Her first novel, Neanderthal Seeks Human, was rejected by agents and publishers in 2013 as being too odd, with a lead character who "had too many thoughts and used too many big words," and subject matter that was "too challenging" for romance readers – meaning women. So Reid chose self-publishing.
Now, Reid is happy she ended up without a traditional publishing contract. She sets her own schedule and priorities, which includes writing one book a year for charity. Last year, she donated the entire first month's royalties, over $30K, for a novel entitled Kissing Tolstoy, to The Hispanic Federation to benefit victims of Hurricane Maria. This year, she will be donating the proceeds of the next novel in the series, entitled Kissing Galileo.
In addition, thanks to a lack of commitment to a publisher, Reid owns the copyright to all her characters and books. She therefore has started her own small publishing business for authors who wish to write within the fictional universe she has created. Twelve authors will be publishing full-length novels in this universe in the next year.
"I've always considered my life's purpose to be doing the most good for the greatest number of people by exploiting my innate talents," Reid says. She uses her stories as a means to encourage discussion and promulgate knowledge of current events and topics such as cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, the Nigerian oil crisis, the impact of lobbyists on the governance of the US, big pharma, the foster care system, and advances in artificial intelligence. "I believe that reaching women (and men) who are hungry for character-driven stories discussing contemporary subjects of consequence has the potential for doing a great deal of good for a great many people."
The question Reid receives most often from writers is: How do I know if my book is any good? "This is the wrong question," she replies. "No book, movie, painting, art in any form is universally loved. The real, important question is: How do I find my audience? She offers the following advice for eliminating as many barriers as possible to your audience finding, accessing, and discovering your book:
Find an editor who loves your voice. Query several. Interview them.
Edit mercilessly for pacing and flow.
Pay for a fantastic cover that makes your intended audience pause and take a second look. The cover is about the content of the book and should reflect both the content and you (the author) equally.
Go where the readers are (e.g. Goodreads, a social media website for readers).
Tell your readers where to find you and be there consistently (Facebook, Twitter, email, website, newsletter).
Build your audience. Slowly. Carefully. Methodically. Never let them go. Don't look over their heads for new readers. These first passionate readers will use word-of-mouth to promote you and your work—forever—if you treat them with respect.
Don't sacrifice quality for short term gains.
Finally, being an author is not luck. Yes, there is an element of luck in successfully making a living as an author. But being an author is not luck. You write or you don't. You finish or you don't. You have 100% control over whether or not you're an author. Only you.
Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out my website.
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MeiMei Fox is a New York Times bestselling author, coauthor and ghostwriter of over a dozen non-fiction books and hundreds of articles for publications including Huffin

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Kingsburg is a city in Fresno County, California. Kingsburg is located 5 miles southeast of Selma at an elevation of 302 feet, on the banks of the Kings River. The city is half an hour away from Fresno, and two hours away from the California Central Coast and Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The population was 11,382 at the 2010 census.


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The Way States Count Test Results Matters As Antigen Testing Comes Online In Mountain West
KUNC | By Rae Ellen Bichell
Published September 28, 2020 at 4:43 PM PDT
Antigen tests look for proteins on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19. While other tests including PCR require laboratory work to process, some antigen tests can yield quick results much like a pregnancy test.
Antigen testing is expected to become a more common way to test for COVID-19. It looks for the virus' surface coating, rather than pieces of its genetic material. It's faster and easier to administer than other tests.
But, as Kaiser Health News has reported, Mountain West states differ in how they handle the results, representing three of the approximately 20 states that were lagging when it came to collecting the results of antigen tests. However, over the past few weeks, the states have broadened the scope of the test results they collect.
Reporting antigen test results is critical, experts say, because they can help quickly detect the shifting scale of an outbreak.
"We need complete and accurate data to make informed policy decision making," said Bailey Fosdick, a statistician with Colorado State University who is currently working on studies of COVID-19 prevalence.
Colorado now requires providers to report the result of all COVID-19 antigen tests, both positive and negative. Wyoming receives some positive antigen test results. And Montana requires positive results to be reported. Spokespeople with the Wyoming and Montana state health departments said antigen testing has only recently begun in their states, and that the vast majority of COVID-19 testing continues to be PCR.
Fosdick said antigen tests are more likely to give false negatives, occasionally designating someone "negative" when in fact they had the virus on board. Still, with this pandemic, the more data the better.
"We want to have that data for understanding what's going on today: 'What is the current state of the epidemic?'" she said. "But we also want this data so that months — years — from now, we can look back and say 'What was going on? How did our policies affect transmission of the virus in our area?'"
And, she pointed out, if antigen testing continues to grow in popularity in coming months, states will need to collect both positive and negative results in order to calculate test positivity, an indicator often used to determine how widespread an infection is (and sometimes whether a state is testing enough, too).
Sue VandeWoude, a virologist also working on coronavirus surveillance with Colorado State University, said antigen tests might not be as good at detecting every positive, but there's some evidence they may be better at indicating if someone is actually contagious.
"So there's a balance I think with the antigen test, that while they may miss infections much more commonly than PCR, the hope is that they would actually detect infections that matter more in terms of transmitting the virus to other people," said VandeWoude.
As researchers at Harvard and the University of Colorado Boulder wrote in a draft article earlier this month, it's more important to be able to test for COVID-19 frequently than it is to use a test that doesn't miss a single positive.
"From that perspective, this is really the future in how we can hopefully begin to open up safely because we'll have a better pulse on what's going on," said statistician Bailey Fosdick. "And it's OK if a few of those infections get through the cracks as long as we're catching the large majority of them."
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUNR in Nevada, the O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Montana, KUNC in Colorado, KUNM in New Mexico, with support from affiliate stations across the region. Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Novel Coronavirus In Nevada: Sept.30-Oct.6, 2020
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7:00 p.m. | October 6, 2020Nevada Reports 479 New Cases Of COVID-19By Lucia StarbuckThe Nevada Department of Health and Human Services reported 479 new…
Winter Is Coming. It May Be Time To Start A 'Quaranteam' If You Haven't Already
Winter is coming, and that means outdoor socializing is about to get harder. Health officials in other countries have endorsed something called a "social bubble," also known as a "pandemic pod," or "quaranteam." An epidemiologist shares some tips on how to start one.


I was patting myself on the back for the improvement in my running. Anything I have done pales in comparison to this... A Knoxville runner is going to do a Double Boston Marathon. He's going to begin at the finish and run to the start. Then he will complete the marathon with everyone else going from start to finish. That's 52.4 miles. And he's doing it to raise money for some people that were injured in the bombing last year. The couple has connections to Knoxville. Wow.


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Q: Does anyone know how to make a magnifying glass that appears while the user is dragging in SwiftUI? This is how it works right now
I want the magnifying glass to pop up when the user is dragging, and show a zoomed in view of the photo to help the user drag the line to the right spot.  I can't get the X and Y coordinates right, so it just goes wherever.
This is the ZStack that contains the magnifying glass...
ZStack{
                    Image("demo")
                    .resizable()
                    .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
                    .cornerRadius(50)
                    .frame(width: 500, height: 500, alignment: .center)
                    .position(x: CGFloat(self.magnifyX), y: CGFloat(self.magnifyY))

                }
                .frame(width: 100, height: 100, alignment: .center)
                .clipShape(Circle())
                .overlay(
                    ZStack{
                        Circle().fill(Color.black).frame(width: 5, height: 5, alignment: .center)
                        Circle().stroke(Color.black, lineWidth: 4)
                    }

              )
                .position(x: CGFloat(self.magnifyX), y: CGFloat(self.magnifyY-75))

I'd be open to other ways of doing it as well, if this is not the correct way to do it.
Thanks for the help!

A: Not an answer, but I can't comment yet... Are you able to share your code for magnifyX and magnifyY?
Looking at the screen capture you shared, the magnification seems to be following the line, it's obviously just higher, but it's also the opposite of/mirroring your movements, i.e. as you move left to right, it's moving right to left.

A: Have a look at the code below, the only thing I am still unable to fix/implement is to prevent the image moving off-screen:
import SwiftUI

struct ContentDetailPhoto : View {

    //Properties
    @State var scale: CGFloat = 1.0
    @State var touchScale: CGFloat = 2
    @State var isTouchingScreen = false
    @State var isZoomedIn = false
    @State var pointTouchedOnScreen: CGPoint = CGPoint.zero
    @State var panSize: CGSize = CGSize.zero
    @State var fingerState: String = "Finger is not touching the image"
    @State var prevSize: CGSize = CGSize.zero

    //@State var counter  = 0
    @State var touching = false
    @State var xPos = 0
    @State var yPos = 0

    //let timer = Timer.publish(every: 0.1, on: .main, in: .common).autoconnect()

    var cakeName: String

    var body: some View {

        ZStack {

            Image("\(self.cakeName)")
                .grayscale(0.999)
                .opacity(0.5)

            GeometryReader { reader in

                Image("\(self.cakeName)")
                    .resizable()
                    .cornerRadius(10)
                    .offset(x: self.panSize.width, y: self.panSize.height)
                    .scaleEffect(self.isTouchingScreen ? self.touchScale : 1, anchor: UnitPoint(x: self.pointTouchedOnScreen.x / reader.frame(in: .global).maxX, y: self.pointTouchedOnScreen.y / reader.frame(in: .global).maxY))
                    .aspectRatio(contentMode: self.isZoomedIn ? .fill : .fit)
                    .frame(maxWidth: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width - 10, maxHeight: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.height * 0.7, alignment: .center)
                    .gesture(DragGesture(minimumDistance: 0, coordinateSpace: .global)

                        .onChanged {  (value) in

                            self.fingerState = "Finger is touching the image" // for debug purpose only

                            self.isZoomedIn = true

                            self.isTouchingScreen = true

                            self.pointTouchedOnScreen = value.startLocation

                            self.scale = self.touchScale

                            self.panSize = CGSize(width: (value.translation.width * self.touchScale/2), height: (value.translation.height * self.touchScale/2))
                    }
                    .onEnded { _ in

                        self.fingerState = "Finger is not touching the image" // for debug purpose only

                        self.isZoomedIn = false

                        self.isTouchingScreen = false

                        self.panSize = CGSize.zero

                        self.prevSize = CGSize.zero
                    })
                    .cornerRadius(10)
                    .animation(.easeInOut(duration: 1))
                    //.offset(x: 0, y: -50)
            }.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.top)

            //             Add a watermark on top of all the layers
            //            Image("logo_small")
            //                .resizable()
            //                .scaledToFit()
            //                .opacity(0.05)
            //                .frame(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width - 10, height: UIScreen.main.bounds.height - 10,  alignment: .center)
            //                .clipShape(Circle())

        }
    }
}

#if DEBUG
struct MapView01_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {

        Group {

            // iPhone SE
            ContentDetailPhoto(cakeName: "cake_0000")
            .previewDevice("iPhone SE")

            // iPhone X
            ContentDetailPhoto(cakeName: "cake_0000")
            .previewDevice("iPhone X")

        }
    }
}
#endif

A: It looks like you're SwiftUI in an iPhone app, using the iOS simulator. The simulator simulates touches. There is no actual API on the iPhone that supports that because you're finger can't magically turn into a magnifying glass (there is no other pointer input).
macOS and iPadOS is a bit of a different story. On macOS you could use the Hover API to natively change the pointer using NSCursor, or make use of the new UIPointerInteraction on iPadOS.

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What's the deal with yoni eggs?
Could a semi-precious stone bring you better orgasms, increased bladder control, and a stronger core? Fans of yoni eggs think so.
Yoni eggs, also known as jade eggs or love eggs, are small egg-shaped stones inserted into the "yoni" or vagina. According to legend, yoni eggs were used in ancient China by empresses and concubines to tap into their sexual power and maintain their health. Today, dedicated users also cite a variety of other benefits, like less painful periods, increased lubrication during sex, and tighter vaginal walls. (However, doctors have warned of the inherent risks of yoni eggs.)
We called up Anya Yurenya, who sells eggs through her website, Love Stone, to ask her about her own yoni egg practice. Here's what she said to say.
What are yoni eggs and how do they work?
They've become popular in recent years, but it's an ancient practice, kind of like yoga. It's been around for thousands of years, and it only became popular in the recent decades in the West. The yoni egg practice is not separate from tai chi and qi gong, it is also working with energy. This is our primordial creative energy. We don't necessarily need to use it for sex; we can use it for healing, we can channel it into creativity, we can channel it into our generosity, [and] how we show up in the world.
How do you pick your egg?
Traditionally, you would start with jade. The jade egg is a small stone that was carved in the egg shape and polished, so it has a really smooth surface to it. It's usually pretty small. Our medium egg, which is what most people would want to use, is 30 millimeters in diameter, and 43 millimeters length.
Once you have your egg, what comes next?
You've got your stone; then, you need to clean it. You might want to bond with it at first, so maybe carry it around, maybe meditate with it. You can sleep with it, kind of feel into it, [and] prepare yourself for this practice. It's a big step for a lot of us.
How do you start the practice?
You make the time, and it can be anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. You can start by meditating, or maybe dancing a little bit. Do something that gets you into your body and out of your head " that's really important. Then, you start self-massaging. You can do a breast massage and you can massage your entire body. Then, you massage your pelvis, and your yoni. After that, you'd take the egg and then, hopefully, you'll have enough natural lubrication by then. But, if not, you can use organic coconut oil.
When do you insert the egg?
Well, you'd start making little circles around the opening of the vagina, and then you can ask your body, feel into your body, and you actually ask your body if it's ready. If you get a "no," either continue the massage until you get a "yes," or you stop right there, and that's fine. Your body might not be ready, and that's fine. It's good practice. Once you get a "yes," then you accept the egg into your vagina. On the inhale, your vagina opens, and then you hold the egg at the opening, wherever feels like a good angle. You insert it with the thicker end, not with the sharper end.
What sort of exercises do you do once you've inserted the yoni egg?
You can start engaging the different groups of muscles so, eventually, you might be able to differentiate the different sections of the muscles. You might be able to move the egg up and down inside your yoni. [And] then, if you have two eggs, you might be able to roll them around together. Just start with five minutes, because most people, in the beginning, they might not feel the egg. They might not be able to differentiate the muscles because, most of us, we haven't been using those muscles for our entire life.
Two eggs?!
Yeah, people lift weights with their vaginas. The eggs will be drilled on the end, and then you put a rope through it, and then you attach the weights to the rope. But I'm not going to recommend anybody do that without proper guidance from an instructor, because you can damage your muscles.
How often do you do the practice?
It can last anywhere from 10-15 minutes to an hour, two to three times a week. You don't want to overdo it. Some people get super enthusiastic, and they're like, "Okay, I've got the egg, now I'm just going to wear it all day long, all week." You can start cramping; your muscles get tired, just like after any workout.


Earlier this year I tried to open a can of worms by asking what if any ethical responsibilities do I have as a political professional and an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University? That question in turn begs the question: if I have a responsibility, to whom or what do I have it?
Figuring out to whom or what one has a responsibility can help figure out the rest. For example, if the responsibility is "to the law" then what is allowable or not is pretty clear — the "red line" that Bush advisor Nicolle Wallace said White House staff should not cross is that which breaks the law.
If on the other hand one need only be true to one's self, without regard to others, to community norms, to external codes of conduct, and so forth then the answer is equally easy; whatever one does is allowable by virtue of it having been done.
To my view, neither answer is satisfactory.
The legal argument narrows our democratic experiment to technicalities. It is Vice President Gore asserting there was "no controlling legal authority" preventing him from fundraising on the job, and President Trump spending time (and a lot taxpayer money) at Trump properties. These legally allowable actions feel somehow not right in part because the law isn't the point. Working toward as fair and just society as possible (or whatever one's view of role of politics is) — is the point. One ought to do what is right because it is the right thing to do, not because it isn't technically illegal. Laws set boundaries, but they emerge from something prior to the law. For example, the Bill of Rights sets principles on which laws may or may not be based, but the amendments are not themselves laws.
The personal argument is worse. Every individual claiming they don't have to agree about ethics with anyone else makes it pretty hard to have a functioning community. It is the moral wildness into which critics say Foucault and others led legions undergraduates. While post-structuralism and post-modernism no more broke American than Ayn Rand did, the risks of relying on either absolute relativism or absolute individualism are real (however attenuated those positions are from the writings of Foucault, Rand, and others).
The American Association of Political Consultants has a code of ethics (yes there is such a thing, and yes they have such a thing) that is equally disconnected from a philosophy, an external conception of 'the good,' or a transcendent notion of justice. The code dictates that a consultant's first responsibility is to the profession of political consulting, then to one's clients, then to certain norms (equal voting rights, not lying to the press, and so forth). The final obligation is to the code itself — you have an obligation to be obligated. There is no explanation of why one should "candidly answer questions" or why one should "work for equal voting rights and privileges for all citizens." One does not, for example, have an ethical obligation to the Constitution or Bill of Rights, to a pluralistic notion of democracy, or to promoting fair and honest debate, ideas that are operationalized through voting and a free press.
Political norms — and the assault thereon — are getting a lot of attention. But these provide another "what" rather than a "to whom." Whose norms? Is there a shared moral or ethical basis from which they are derived? If so, what is it? What should one do when norms conflict? Is it OK to violate a norm in the name of the higher (or greater) good?
Another option is that we have an obligation to what has been called America's civil religion (a topic about which I've written elsewhere). This is Richard Rorty's call for the political left to speak to a shared set of values on the assumption that America has both done bad things in the past and can continue to get better into the future. As a nation and an idea, America is neither beyond redemption nor fully moral and just — America, like the rest of us, is trying to learn from its mistakes and get better every day.This is the America of President Obama's 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention and his speech on race in 2008, the America of Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) in the wake of Charlottesville, and the America of Joe Kennedy III in the face of a hate gathering in Boston. For these speakers, we have an ethical responsibility is to an optimistic idea of America that was here before us, and if we don't screw up too badly will be here long after we're gone.
So I put it to you: If those who work in politics have an ethical responsibility, to whom or what are they responsible? Law? Themselves? A code? Norms? A poetic quasi-religious notion? Or something else?


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1919: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867 – 1928) was born in Valencia, Spain. Blasco Ibáñez (Spanish naming conventions put the family name, Blasco, second to last) was a political activist Spain's transition from a monarchy to a republic, from a republic back to a monarchy, and the loss of much of their western territories to rebellion and conquest in the Spanish-American War. He was briefly exiled and later imprisoned for his political support of Cuban independence. In 1910, he founded two colonies in Argentina: Nueva Valencia and Cervantes. His best known novels (in the English speaking world) are Blood and Sand (Sangre y Arena) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Los Cuatros Jinetes Del Apocalipsis), both of which became films in the early 1920's, launching the career of silent film star Rudolf Valentino.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was published in Spanish in 1916, and translated to English in 1918.
So what's it about?
The story starts with Argentinean youth Julio Desnoyers on a ship to France. Half French himself, Julio is travelling with a number of French and German travelers returning to Europe. The first section of the book is split between Julio's life as a wealthy libertine 'artist' in Paris and his father Marcelo's life in Argentina after fleeing France to avoid service in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The story continues to split its focus between Julio and his father. The second section is lauding the brave service of the soldiers going out to war, and criticizing the cruelty and arrogance of the Germans. Considering that the novel was published while the war was still ongoing, much of the pro-Allies discussion can be seen as propaganda, or at least an attempt to persuade readers of the time to enlist in the fight.
The book is strong throughout, but it shines at two points. The history of the Desnoyers family in Argentina and the German invasion and defeat during the Battle of the Marne. The prose beautifully displays the tragedy and inhumanity of war:
He went on toward the village – a mass of black walls with a few houses still intact, and a roofless bell tower with its cross twisted by the fire. Nobody in the streets sown with bottles, charred chunks of wood, and soot-covered rubbish. The dead bodies had
disappeared –"
Why was it so popular?
In 1919, World War One was still on everyone's mind, with over 100,000 American deaths and over 200,000 wounded in a war that changed who wars were fought. Blasco Ibanez was already popular in Europe, and the book is quite good.
Why haven't I heard of it?
Blasco Ibáñez's popularity in the United States has decreased over the decades since his death. As with Mr. Britling Sees It Through, this novel has, like most World War One fiction, been overshadowed by non-fiction works and by novels about the Second World War. Also like Mr. Britling, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was published in 1916, and doesn't cover the end of the war. Likewise, the propaganda aspect can be unappealing to some readers.
Should I read it?
Unless you can't stand war novels, the answer is a resolute 'yes.' Despite its occasional preachiness, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a great novel.
You can read The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on Project Gutenberg
You can watch the 1921 film version on Internet Archive
Also published in 1919:
The Budding Within by Marcel Proust
Demian by Herman Hesse
The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Trans. Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1965. Print.
Day, A. Grove and Knowlton Jr., Edgar C. Blasco Ibáñez. New York: Twayne Publishers. 1972. Print.
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David March 30, 2013 at 5:50 PM
As a bibliophile interested in the history of bestselling fiction in English, I am thoroughly enjoying reading every entry.
capewood November 14, 2014 at 6:11 AM
I really enjoyed this one. I thought it was interesting to contrast this and "Mr. Britling" since they are sort of about the same thing. Both are about World War I. Both are about father's who's sons go to war. This book is more involved in the war, as much of it takes place in France. And the father actually gets in the war for a brief time. It was almost comical as Marcelo stumbling around his castle, first when the Germans occupy it and loot it, then when the French shell it. In the midst of horrible carnage, he manages to escape without a scrape. The scene where he visits the trenches to see his son was very well done.
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After enjoying a long reign as the king of streaming, Netflix faces a tough fight to keep its crown.
It lost almost 1m subscribers between April and July, as the number of people quitting the service accelerated.
But that was not as many as the streaming giant had feared.
Asked what may have stopped subscriptions sliding further, the firm's chief executive, Reed Hastings, said: "If there was a single thing, we might say 'Stranger Things.'"
The new season of the hit drama has been a phenomenal success, and may have helped stem the exodus of Netflix customers.
The company reported its first subscriber loss since 2011 in April, news that was followed by hundreds of job cuts.
Rivals are challenging its dominance, while price hikes have taken a toll.
The subscriber losses reported on Tuesday were the biggest in the firm's history, with the US and Canada home to the highest number of cancellations in the quarter, followed by Europe.
Guy Bisson, executive director at Ampere Analysis, said it was "inevitable" that Netflix would start to see its grip on the market loosen.
"When you're the leader, there's only one direction to go, especially when a large amount of competition launches, which is what Netflix has seen in the last couple of years," he said.
It is a stark change for Netflix, which enjoyed years of seemingly unstoppable growth, as it revolutionised the way people around the world consumed entertainment.
Its position as a global behemoth was cemented when the pandemic hit in 2020 and people, stuck at home with few other options for entertainment, flocked to monster hits like Squid Game and The Crown.
But as pre-pandemic habits return, Netflix has struggled to attract new sign-ups – and maintain the loyalty of existing members, especially as the cost of living crisis leads to belt tightening.
The company also faces fierce competition from the likes of Apple TV, HBO Max, Amazon Prime and Disney+. Netflix was once the disruptor, making video rental stores like Blockbuster redundant. But the disruptor is fast becoming the disrupted.
Nteflix's move to make its service more expensive has also put off some customers.
Price hikes more 'risky'
A "standard" plan in the US – which allows people in the same home to watch on two devices simultaneously – now costs $15.49, up from $14 in January and just $11 in 2019.
In the UK, basic and standard plans have both increased since January by £1 a month to £6.99 and £10.99 respectively.
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"At some point, yes, they're going to reach a threshold where a significant number of people say enough is enough," Mr Bisson said. "Because of the additional choice… price hikes are a more risky strategy."
For now, surveys suggest that Netflix is managing to lure back a higher share of deserters than its rivals. Many households also continue to identify it as the streaming option they would retain if forced to have only one.
In all, the company had roughly 220 million subscribers at the end of June – still well north of its closest competition.
But the company, long accustomed to posting double digit growth, is grappling with its most serious slowdown in years, with revenue in the April-June quarter of $7.9bn, up just 8.6% year-on-year.
The value of the firm's shares has dropped more than 60% so far this year, as investors sour on its prospects.
"Netflix's subscriber loss was expected but it remains a sore point for a company that is wholly dependent on subscription revenue from consumers," said Insider Intelligence analyst Ross Benes.
"Netflix is still the leader in video streaming but unless it finds more franchises that resonate widely, it will eventually struggle to stay ahead of competitors that are after its crown."
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In-state cornerback recruit Theran Johnson's rise catching Notre Dame's attention
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The third start of Theran Johnson's high school career was one of nightmares.
As a sophomore at 5-foot-9, 160 pounds, the undersized Johnson had to cover a towering 6-1, 200-pound wide receiver in a game with high stakes. North Central faced its longtime rival across town in Indianapolis who ranked No. 1 in Class 6A: Warren Central. Both teams were undefeated.
How that receiver terrorized Johnson played a large part in Warren Central dismantling North Central 58-27. That receiver won the state title later that season and finished the 2019 cycle as a four-star recruit. That receiver signed with Purdue and claimed Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors last season.
That receiver was David Bell.
"That was rough," said Johnson, a three-star cornerback in the 2021 recruiting class. "I remember everything from that game. That was a big learning experience."
Johnson has come a long way since being torched that night for 230 yards and three touchdowns on 10 catches. Only until recently did his progress begin to show and pay dividends, however. This September has proven to be the most eventful month of Johnson's otherwise tame recruitment.
Northwestern offered Johnson a scholarship during his unofficial visit on March 12. He verbally committed to the Wildcats on May 3. The COVID-19 pandemic limited Johnson's opportunities to accrue more offers and improve his spot in the recruiting rankings by visiting campuses and impressing at recruiting camps.
Then Johnson flashed on film after starting his senior season last month. He's tallied 20 tackles, one interception and two pass breakups through five games. He began playing more wide receiver and has recorded 22 catches for 332 yards and four touchdowns.
The Notre Dame coaching staff liked what they saw and became the second Power Five program to offer Johnson last Tuesday. At the time, Notre Dame appeared to be taking a chance on Johnson. He ranked as 247Sports' No. 98 cornerback and No. 1,114 overall player in the class. Johnson has since significantly elevated in the rankings. He's now No. 41 at that position and No. 543 overall. Rivals pegs Johnson as its No. 68 cornerback.
Cincinnati, Miami (Ohio), Ball State and Central Michigan are among Johnson's other offers.
"Playing on the offensive side has really opened a lot of people's eyes about how versatile I am," Johnson said. "I can play a lot of different positions. I can play receiver, slot, safety, corner. That plays a big part in it, too. Just playing multiple positions and the confidence I built up over this summer has played a big part."
The Irish project Johnson at corner but are open to him playing other positions. Their interest dates back to when defensive line coach Mike Elston watched Johnson practice in the spring of 2019. He marked him down as a player to watch.
North Central head football coach Kyle O'Shea said he heard from special teams coordinator Brian Polian earlier this month. Polian, Elston and defensive coordinator Clark Lea have since been involved with Johnson's recruitment.
"As we were talking, he pulled up his film," said O'Shea about his initial conversation with Polian about Johnson. "First thing Brian said was, 'Damn, he's fast.' I said, 'Yeah. He is.' Then after a couple more he started to say, 'He's pretty athletic, too.'"
With 18 verbal commits in its 2021 class, Notre Dame is looking to add at least two more defensive backs. The Irish have landed pledges from safety Justin Walters and cornerbacks Philip Riley, Chance Tucker and Ryan Barnes.
O'Shea said Johnson brings 4.42 40-yard dash speed at 6-0, 182 pounds. He will enter his third season as a starter for North Central's basketball team and has shown short-area quickness and athleticism on the hardwood.
"Very good ball skills, and he will hit you," O'Shea said. "A lot of times you get a corner, and they just like to play soft and not like to hit people. No, Theran will hit you."
Whether Johnson will flip his commitment to the Irish remains to be seen. The coaching staff is still in the early stages of his recruitment. Johnson said he still needs to learn more about Notre Dame's football program and campus life. He may even visit Notre Dame soon.
With the recruiting dead period extended through Jan. 1, Johnson will not be able to take an official or unofficial visit to campus. He can't meet with academic advisors, tour facilities or be in the company of official team personnel while on campus.
Northwestern and Notre Dame are the only two programs Johnson is communicating with at the moment. He said he's keeping an honest dialogue open with both schools about his status.
"It has the same prestigiousness as Northwestern, and the academics are really well known," Johnson said about Notre Dame. "But the difference there is the football. Football is a really big priority at Notre Dame. They win. It's all in their record. That's just the big difference. And the amount of people that they send to the NFL."
North Central hired O'Shea in 2017 after winning just one game in three seasons. O'Shea credits Johnson as a player who helped North Central ditch its label as a basketball-only school. The Panthers went 3-7 in O'Shea's first season. Then they went 9-3 in 2018 and captured a share of the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference title. North Central's football program had never won a conference title.
That 2018 season included Johnson's unpleasant experience against Bell. He looks back on that game as a critical point for his development. The Irish hope his rise since then is far from over. And that his potential is more than what his recruiting ranking and offer list suggest.
"I believe in myself," Johnson said. "I feel like if I went to these camps, there's no doubt in my mind that I would have (landed) a lot of offers and probably be a four-star (recruit) right now. But you can't really do anything about it, so you just have to keep on moving forward."


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"All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy."
"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harrassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."


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By: Associated Press April 16, 2013
WASHINGTON — Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation's monuments in Washington, New York City and elsewhere, agency officials told Congress on Tuesday.
The House Government Oversight and Reform committee met for about three hours to hear the impact of across-the-board budget cuts on the nation's treasures at the Smithsonian, National Archives and National Park Service.
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough testified that the museum complex had made administrative cuts but must now reduce its security contract for gallery attendants because of the budget cuts. As a result, the Smithsonian can't keep all galleries open at once and will begin rolling gallery closures after May 1.
Facing a $41 million reduction in its budget, the Smithsonian will likely postpone or cancel some exhibits for 2014 and 2015, Clough said. One example is an initiative exploring the origins of democracy at the National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian also is cutting some education programs, including an outreach publication for teachers with digital lesson plans that serves 80,000 schools.
"There is no question sequester will have an impact on our ability to serve the American people," Clough said. "We will face hard decisions."
The most popular exhibits will not be closed, though, and families and school groups should not cancel their plans to visit the Smithsonian, said spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas. Still, visitors may find signs that read "third floor galleries are closed to the public" for a day.
Separately, the National Archives saw a $20 million cut and already has reduced its operating hours at sites in Washington and suburban Maryland.
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Meanwhile, the police force that guards the monuments and memorials on the National Mall, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York City and sites in San Francisco is being forced to furlough its 767 officers. They will have to take off up to 14 days unpaid from their jobs due to the budget cuts.
National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis told the congressional panel that the agency had to make $153 million in cuts this year across 400 parks. Salary cuts were avoided in most areas, though about 900 positions have been left unfilled.
The U.S. Park Police budget, however, is primarily devoted to salaries. So furloughs became necessary to achieve the savings Congress mandated, Jarvis said.
"It was a very, very difficult law to implement halfway through the year," Jarvis said. "We do not want to impact the public."
Safety and security will remain the agency's top priority, Jarvis said. Some lawmakers questioned the wisdom of furloughing police officers around prominent memorials and sites after the bombing attack at the Boston Marathon. Jarvis said he needs Congress to give him authority to transfer expenses between park service accounts, rather than mandating cuts in each unit of the agency, in order to avoid such furloughs.
California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who called the hearing, expressed annoyance with Jarvis for speaking publicly about the negative impact of budget cuts, calling such statements "political." Jarvis has said previously that he is worried the cuts will mean bathrooms won't be cleaned and trash won't be picked up enough in parks.
Issa also said Jarvis failed to respond quickly to his request for documents and information on the park service budget.
"Americans need to know their government can save money," Issa said. "The fundamental question is: Can we do better with less?"
On the National Mall, Jarvis said the memorials would remain open 24 hours a day. But officials may cut back staffing at ranger stations after 10 p.m. Currently rangers are on duty until about 11:30 p.m. to interact with visitors who come to see the memorials at night.
Some lawmakers said the park service should have started planning sooner for Congress' budget cuts to avoid reductions in service.
If the budget cuts continue into the next fiscal year, Jarvis said he would need authority from Congress to offer buyouts to reduce the workforce.
Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings said Congress needs to know how the budget cuts are affecting the public.
"I will say this over and over again: Cuts have consequences — duh," Cummings told the three agency heads. "I'm not starting with the position that you're trying to screw the public."
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Bank Of Canada Governor Calls For More Innovative Mortgage Products
Advertisment Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz is calling for more options when it comes to the home mortgages that are available to Canadians.
In a speech Monday that was delivered in Winnipeg, Governor Poloz said changes he'd like to see include encouraging loan terms longer than five years, the creation of a market for private mortgage-based securities, and the launch of shared-equity mortgages for first-time home
buyers. The central bank governor added that greater innovation would boost flexibility for borrowers, lenders and investors, while lowering risks to Canada's financial system.
"To be clear, the system is not broken — it has served Canadians and financial institutions well," he said during a speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce.
"But we should not stop looking for improvements and I invite all of you to join this effort."
Looking forward, Poloz said he expects the Canadian housing sector to start growing again later this year as the Vancouver and Toronto markets stabilize. He said fundamentals such as population growth and job creation remain "really strong" and expects they've "put a
floor" under the adjustment process. Still-low interest rates remain attractive to people looking to enter the housing market, he added.
Poloz also said that he supports the tougher mortgage guidelines instituted by the federal government in Ottawa, which brought in interest-rate stress tests. He said the more stringent guidelines have helped improve the quality of loans and put a stop to speculative increases in house prices in Vancouver and Toronto.
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Ever since the release of Windows XP, one of my favorite features as always been Remote Desktop. In case you're not familiar with Remote Desktop, it is a built-in Windows feature that allows you to connect to your computer remotely by using the RDP protocol. For example, if you are at home and you need to access something from your computer at the office, you could use a Remote Desktop session to remotely control your office PC from home. Remote Desktop is built on the same technology, and uses the same protocol as the Windows Terminal Services.
As handy as Remote Desktop is, it can sometimes be problematic. While the sessions are usually solid, there are a number of things that can go wrong during the connection and authentication process. In this article, I will explore some various troubleshooting techniques that you can use when things go wrong with Remote Desktop.
Probably the most common Remote Desktop problem is that Remote Desktop has trouble locating the remote PC. There are a number of things that can cause this problem. Probably the simplest cause is misspelling the name of the remote computer. Therefore, if you're having trouble connecting to remote computer, just take a second and make sure that you've spelled the remote machine's name correctly.
If the remote computer's name is spelled correctly, the problem may be DNS related. Remote Desktop uses the RDP protocol, which piggybacks on top of the TCP/IP protocol. As you probably know, TCP/IP does not use computer names as a mechanism for identifying the systems. The only reason that it is possible to specify a computer name is because a DNS server resolves the computer name to an IP address.
If you find yourself having name resolution problems, there are a couple of different things that you can try. One option is to try using the remote system's fully qualified domain name as opposed to its NetBIOS name. This won't always help you to establish a connection, but in certain situations it will help.
Another option is to specify the remote machine's IP address rather than its name. Generally speaking, using an IP address tends to be much less problematic than using a host name when connecting. Even IP addresses can be problematic, though.
The biggest factor that tends to make connecting with IP addresses problematic is the use of dynamic IP addresses. If you are using Remote Desktop to connect to a server, this probably won't be an issue, because most servers use static IP addresses. Workstations, on the other hand, almost always use dynamic IP addresses. Therefore, the IP address that your workstation is using today will probably be assigned to a different workstation tomorrow. If the machine that you are connecting to does use dynamic IP addresses, then you will practically have no choice but to specify a host name when connecting rather than specifying the machine's IP address.
Another factor that can make it difficult to connect to a host machine using remote desktop is firewalls. The Remote Desktop Protocol is designed to work across TCP port 3389. If you are attempting to connect to a remote machine that sits behind a firewall, then the firewall must allow traffic to flow through TCP port 3389. Of course blindly opening this port on your firewall can pose a huge security risk. You might choose instead to enable port forwarding so that inbound RDP traffic is forwarded to a specific IP address, rather than someone on the outside being able to attempt an RDP connection to any machine on your network.
On many networks, you won't have a choice but to use port forwarding for RDP traffic. The majority of networks use private IP addresses on their networks, and only the router uses a public IP address. The router uses Network Address Translation (NAT) to proxy traffic between the Internet and hosts on the private network. If you are trying to establish an RDP connection from across the Internet with a host that sits behind a NAT firewall, then you will have to configure the firewall to forward RDP traffic to the target host.
Of course this assumes that you are attempting to establish a connection directly from outside the perimeter network. If you are connecting to the private network using a VPN or a dial up connection, then you will have to worry about reconfiguring a NAT firewall, because your VPN or dial-up connection provides you with a connection to the private network. The remote access server that is used for establishing VPN or dial-up connections almost always sits behind a firewall, and you'll have to insure that this firewall allows RDP traffic to flow to the private network.
While I am on the subject of firewalls, I want to point out that Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista both contain a built-in firewall. If you are attempting to establish a connection to a machine running one of these operating systems, you'll have to insure that the Windows firewall is configured to allow RDP traffic.
The local policy of the system does not permit you to log on interactively.
Windows displays this error message if the user who's logging lacks the necessary permissions to log in using the Remote Desktop Protocol. You can correct the problem by adding the user account to the Remote Desktop Users group or to the local Administrators group.
Because of an error in data encryption, this session will end. Please try connecting to the remote computer again.
This error message is almost always related to using an outdated remote desktop (or terminal service) client. When Microsoft released Windows 2000, they created an add-on called the Administration Tool Pack. The Administration Tool Pack included a client component that could be used to establish a remote session. Although this client initially appears to be compatible with Windows XP, it isn't. Using the Windows 2000 version of the Administration Tool Pack to establish a Remote Desktop session with Windows XP will usually trigger the error message that I mentioned above.
Although Remote Desktop usually works fairly well, it can sometimes be difficult to establish an initial connection. In this article, I have discussed some of the most common causes of Remote Desktop problems and some possible work arounds.


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Gavin Rossdale Wrote 18 New Songs + New Bush Album 'Should Be Done By May'
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Gavin Rossdale says he's written 18 new songs and Bush's new album "should be done by May." The musician has a studio in his house which he's been putting to good use.
The Bush frontman told May The Rock Be With You that he spent his downtime during the coronavirus pandemic working on new music. Once the band gets into the studio with a producer they'll "rearrange - hopefully not too much - the stuff I've done. We choose the songs we're gonna do. We either might use what I started, the tracks, or we might just try nixing them and doing it fresh. Each song will dictate that."
Gavin Rossdale says they'll spend eight days in the studio before going to Australia to tour with Cheap Trick and Stone Temple Pilots. After Bush returns from Australia, they have a few days off which is when they plan to finish the album. According to Gavin Rossdale the new Bush album "should be done by May.'
The album's sound will be similar to their 2020 album The Kingdom, which Gavin Rossdale describes as "the launchpad" for their new album.
Looks like having a studio in Rossdale's house is working out well for him. The Bush leader says, "I've got a studio in my house now and it's been such an amazing time. You have the tools at your fingertips now to make songs and make music. It's just staggering. It's so much fun."
You can watch the full interview with Australia's May The Rock Be With You, where Rossdale talks about how exciting writing new music is and his prediction for Bush in 2022.
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More on UCSD's Che Cafe: Alumni Appeal to Save the Historic Cafe
by Source on June 20, 2014 · 1 comment
in Civil Rights, Education, History, Organizing, Politics, San Diego
Dear UCSD Activist Alumni,
By Monty Reed Kroopkin
The OB Rag and San Diego Free Press have published a fine article, written by the Che Cafe Collective. Please circulate it widely. OB Rag / SDFP editor, Frank Gormlie, is an alum of UCSD. Alumni of the UCSD co-ops are mounting a call for all alumni to write to the University telling them we are cancelling the "planned giving" that we previously intended to do upon our demise, until and unless they back off and treat the Che Cafe and all the co-ops with proper respect.
As a union activist (SEIU steward and IWW San Diego Organizing Caucus and formerly, in my grad school days, Press Representative of my AFT TA local in Oregon), I am interested in working with people to try to get all the unions at UCSD (and the SD-Imperial Counties Labor Council) to issue support statements and consider donating money to the collective for legal expenses and for facility maintenance.
We also need to see if the Teaching Assistants union can pressure the Graduate Students Association to reverse its harmful stance.
As an alum of the New Indicator Collective, I recall well that the administration told the staff of the original official campus newspaper, the Indicator, to disband and to join the staff of the new mouth-piece for the Regents, the Triton Times.
This happened in the late 1960's, before all the landmark 1970's Supreme Court decisions recognizing the First Amendment rights (including funding rights) of campus newspapers. So at the time it was still legal for the Regents to shut down funding of an official campus newspaper for editorials in support of the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement, and student rights.
I recall that the Indicator staff defied the Regents and obtained sustaining subscriptions and continued publishing independently for a few years. I recall that remnants of the Indicator staff, and new recruits, changed the name of the paper and convinced the administration to allow funding of a "subsidiary journal" starting in 1972, which evolved from Crazy Times, to North Star, to New Indicator and which last published in 2002.
It was the North Star Collective that held the first meetings to start the bookstore collective that is now Groundwork Books (we called it the North Star Bookstore while it was in the planning stages and it officially opened as the Changing Times bookstore). The constant struggle to get adequate funding and the frequent machinations of administrators to convince student government committees to defund the newspaper led me to become an experienced lay advocate representative for the collective's many grievance hearings.
That experience led me, after graduation, to the USD paralegal program and membership in the National Lawyers Guild. That, in turn, has guided my years of work as a union steward, representing workers employed by the County of San Diego.
As a former co-chair of the student government (during the time we had no Associated Students and had co-chairs instead of a President) and as the chair of the student government's budget committee the year before that, I remember well when Vice Chancellor Watson froze the entire 1976-77 student government budget at the end of the spring 1976 term (as students were leaving for the summer) without any stated basis of any policy or legal violation by the committee or by the student government (i.e., the Student Cooperative Union).
The administration was plainly upset that a left majority had pushed through funding priorities for over 100 student organizations that were contrary to what the administration (and the Right) wanted. Watson used the false, fabricated pretext of funding "irregularities" to whip up student support for a 1977 referendum to decertify the Student Cooperative Union and restore the Associated Students (which had been dumped in a 1972 student referendum).
The administration mouthpiece rag, the Guardian (formerly Triton Times) propagandized the "irregularities" and the imagined dysfunctionality of the SCU (the open student body assembly, New England Town Meeting form of constitution) and grossly under-reported when Watson unfroze all the budgets for the student organizations in the fall of 1976 (he hadn't been able to find any credible basis for the budget freeze).
As a UCSD alum, I am interested in working with people to
get the Alumni Association to issue a statement of opposition to destruction of the building, on the basis that it was the first student center and should be preserved for historical and cultural reasons. The building is less than 100 years old – practically brand new by East Coast or Old World standards. It is a good 20 years younger than the house that my wife and I own and we certainly have no plan to level it. And
to try to get the Alumni Association to assist (with its contacts info and its newsletters, etc.) in organizing an official sub-division — the UCSD Co-ops Alumni (to include not only the officially recognized co-ops but also those, like the New Indicator, which fell under the "Media" funding bureaucracy which was separate from the Student Center/co-ops funding bureaucracy).
As a citizen of California, I am interested in organizing public support, especially from teachers and professors, for the position that the co-ops are a vital educational activity that warrants greater support from the Regents, rather that the constant neglect and/or open hostility.
The co-ops provide a highly successful laboratory for students to learn about worker-owned and operated enterprises. Unions have increasingly taken over operation of productive facilities that corporate CEO's wanted to shut down. Co-operatives of many varieties are and have long been a significant part of the economy. The skills that students learn in co-op staff meetings and in running the co-ops also translate very well into what people need to know to become sole proprietors or partners in starting new small and medium sized businesses.
This hands-on laboratory education is stuff you simply cannot learn in a classroom. We all know that the Regents are appointed by the Governor almost exclusively from the corporate CEO class in society.
Getting the Regents to enthusiastically support and promote the co-ops is rather like asking all the CEO's of all the electric companies to promote legislation to put solar panels on all the buildings in the country. It flies in the face of who the Regents are. However, that never stopped us from demanding Third World studies, ethnic studies, women's studies, et cetera. This is a public university and the public has the right, the responsibility, to demand that the kinds of education that WE want is available at our university.
Please email me <<mkroopkin AT juno.com>>if you want to team up on any of this.
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Stevo June 24, 2014 at 3:24 pm
From my understanding a majority UCSD students do not even know where the Che Cafe is?
Why are they using student fees to keep floating this dump?
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PS VR Release Date Set For October 13th, Will Have 50 Games At Launch
By Paul Morris | June 14th, 2016
Sony has raised excitement levels in the virtual reality game by announcing additional release details about its upcoming PlayStation VR (PS VR) headset for PS4. If you don't keep abreast with the comings and goings in the exciting world of VR, then you may or may not know that Sony had previously announced a general October release date for the hardware, along with some early information about the product. In this latest product update, the Japanese company has now provided additional granularity, confirming that the product will be released later this year exactly on October 13th, 2016.
Sony used the 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this year to introduce the PlayStation VR to a captive audience, making a rather big deal about the fact that the headset would be one of the cheapest, most performant virtual reality products on the market at around the $400 mark.
Of course, consumers would be required to actually own the PlayStation 4 console, that's a requirement to make this thing work, so there are definitely secondary costs involved for anyone wanting to run a PlayStation VR.
If you've been eagerly waiting for the companion VR headset for your PlayStation 4, then October 13th is the date to enter into your diary. Sony will be pushing the product out into the North American market first, retailing at $400, but it's worth noting that the initial price-tag may seem cheap in comparison to the Oculus Rift and HTV Vive, but that doesn't include the PlayStation Camera. Camera purchases will cost another $60, which still makes it a cheap purchase in comparison. The PlayStation VR price doesn't include the Move Controllers either.
Of course, if you don't want to make all of those purchases, you can just use the existing DualShock controller from the PlayStation 4 which offers motion-tracking via the lightbar if you own the PlayStation Camera.
From a gaming and entertainment perspective, Sony has promised that its virtual reality system will have 50 supporting games by the close of the year. We will be sure to bring you more about the PlayStation VR as it emerges from this year's E3 Conference, such as when additional markets can expect to be able to take advantage of the product's 5.7-inch OLED display and 1080p gaming at 120 frames-per-second.


Recently, in our house, we celebrated several birthdays. Celebrations like birthdays, Christmas, Hanukkah, Mother's Day, Easter, and so forth always seem to involve some form of gift for others. Well, when it comes to designing your quizzes in Captivate, you can also give yourself a gift. The gift of GIFT files. GIFT stands for General Import Format Technology and is a format by which you can create quiz question outside of Captivate and then import them directly into your eLearning.
GIFT files can be extremely helpful in working with Subject Matter Experts and other team members who may not have access to Captivate, but still could be creating questions for you. In the past, you may have asked them to submit a series of questions over email or intranet, formatted as a Word document or a PDF file and then you'd have to manually transfer those to Captivate–a tedious, time-consuming process.
Now, with the use of GIFT files you can have them write the questions (following a specific format that we'll delve into below) and then submit the GIFT file to you. Then, you take that file and import it directly into Captivate.
Let's look at the process of using GIFT files.
A quick internet search turns up at least half a dozen GIFT format generators. Each of these has its pros and cons, but all are certainly a good start. I'd suggest finding one, creating a couple of questions and then opening the .txt file to get feel for the formatting.
For many people anytime they see something even slightly resembling code, they get cold sweats and look for the nearest escape route, but GIFT files don't need to scare you off if you fit into that category.
The double forward slash (//) indicates a comment.
A single backslash (\) is used to indicate special characters that could have other meanings if not preceded by the \.
Plain text is used for the body of the question.
There's a great, in-depth explanation of the format and the other conventions you can use on the Moodle site, here: https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/GIFT_format.
NOTE: The ending bracket (}) needs to be separated from the next question by a carriage return for the file to work properly in Captivate.
Once the file is created, make sure to save it as a text document with the .txt extension. Then you're ready for the next step.
Now that you have the GIFT file created, open Captivate and click on the Quiz drop-down menu and select Import GIFT Format File.
Then browse to your GIFT file and, voila!, the questions are imported into your Captivate project. The slides are created automatically and the questions are formatted according to the style parameters you have set previously.
Once the questions are in your Captivate project, you can edit and configure them as you normally would.
GIFT files are great if you want a question pool that can be carried across multiple courses. To import into your question pool, just open the Question Pool Manager (Quiz>Question Pool Manager), and then select Import GIFT File.
The questions are imported and you see them in your pool.
Again, you can edit and configure them as you see fit.
Using GIFT files to create your question pool means that you can create files from just about anywhere. You don't need anything more than a simple text editor (available on almost any device), and a knowledge of a couple of the key syntax parameters. They can save you a lot of mouse clicks and time when compared to creating the questions directly in your Captivate quizzes.
So give yourself the gift of GIFT files in your eLearning course creation today!


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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Coretta Scott King testified Tuesday that a civil suit against a Memphis man is aimed at finding the truth behind the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. more than 30 years ago.
"We're concerned about the truth, having the truth come out in a court of law," said Mrs. King, widow of the slain civil rights leader.
Mrs. King was the first witness called in the King family's civil case against a man who the family alleges has said he played a role in the assassination.
The King family charges there was a conspiracy involved in the April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis, and that Lloyd Jowers, a 73-year-old former restaurant owner, was part of it.
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Jowers owned a cafe that overlooked the Lorraine Motel where King was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony.
In his opening statement, King family lawyer William Pepper told jurors there has been a cover-up of the evidence in the assassination.
"I suggest to you that some of the evidence you hear may go to the essence of this republic," he said.
According to the lawsuit, Jowers told Dexter Scott King, son of the civil rights leader, that he played a role in the alleged conspiracy, handling funds on behalf of a businessman who wanted King killed, and handling the rifle he said was used.
Jowers' lawyer, Lewis Garrison Jr., told jurors that there was indeed a conspiracy. He said he agreed with 80 percent of the allegations, but he minimized Jowers' role.
"I think you'll find he was a very small part -- if any, if any -- in the assassination of Mr. King," he said in his opening statement.
James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to killing King and quickly recanted, died last year. Toward the end of Ray's life, the King family accepted his claims of innocence.
In testimony on Tuesday, one witness, Nathan Whitlock, told the court that he had been told by a businessman, Frank Liberto, who has since died, that Liberto had ordered King's assassination and that Ray had not committed the crime.
Some scholars are skeptical of Jowers' account and say there is ample evidence that Ray did commit the murder.
Law enforcement authorities in Tennessee have maintained they believe Ray was the killer.
The suit claims Jowers said there was an area near the restaurant where the killer was supposed to stand in order to shoot King. Jowers allegedly said he took a still smoking gun and hid it.
He said a man named Raoul brought him a gun used in the assassination, the suit says.
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Long-term ambient air pollution levels in four Chinese cities: inter-city and intra-city concentration gradients for epidemiological studies.
The field data collection of an air pollution epidemiologic study was carried out from 1993 to 1996 in four Chinese cities of Lanzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou. In each city, an urban district and a suburban district were selected. Ambient concentrations of total suspended particles (TSP), size-fractionated particulate matter including PM2.5, PM2.5-10, and PM10, sulfur dioxide (SO2), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) were measured in these districts. The results indicate the presence of wide inter-city and intra-city gradients in long-term ambient levels of these measured pollutants. Across the eight districts, the 1993-1996 4-year means of TSP, SO2, and NOx ranged from 198 to 659 microg/m3, from 14.6 to 331 microg/m3, and from 31.5 to 239 microg/m3, respectively, and the 1995-1996 2-year means of PM2.5, PM2.5-10, and PM10 ranged from 51.5 to 142 microg/m3, from 29.2 to 107 microg/m3, and from 80.7 to 232 microg/m3, respectively. These pollution ranges substantially extended the upper end of the pollution ranges of previous air pollution epidemiologic studies conducted in North America and Europe. In each district, significant correlations among the measured pollutants were observed for daily concentrations. However, the gradient patterns in long-term means of different pollutants were different across the eight districts. (e.g., PM2.5-10 and TSP were highest in the Lanzhou urban district, PM2.5 and PM10 were highest in the Guangzhou urban district, SO2 was highest in the Chongqing urban district, and NOx was highest in the Guangzhou urban district). In general, seasonal variations were present in the ambient concentrations with high levels often occurring in winter months. The eight districts may be classified into four district clusters based on integrated levels of all measured pollutants. These features of the ambient air pollution have important implications for epidemiological studies and may provide unique opportunities to study exposure-effects relationships in the four Chinese cities.
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