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The Russia Investigation: Mueller Testimony Moved to July 24
By whoknew, January 9, 2017 in The Politics Forum
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48 minutes ago, Don't Noonan said:
😄 It wasn't a group of people and you know better.
Ren and I and others have correctly called this Russia nonsense as a farce. Just eat some crow and move on.
No crow for me to eat, nice try though. I never claimed Trump conspired directly. My thoughts were, still are, he was/is financially tied to Russia deeply and didn't/doesn't want to upset the apple cart.
SaintsInDome2006 37,267
The % of people believing that Trump coordinated with Russia has gone up 10 points since January, 6 points since Barr's letter.
Edited June 17 by SaintsInDome2006
Pompeo not super thrilled with Fox asking him impossible to answer questions.
Priebus recalled that McGahn said that the President had asked him to "do crazy ####"...
White House counsel talking to the White House Chief of Staff.
When the President called McGahn a second time to follow up on the order to call the Department of Justice, McGahn recalled that the President was more direct, saying something like, "Call Rod, tell Rod that Mueller has conflicts and can't be the Special Counsel."581 McGahn recalled the President telling him "Mueller has to go" and "Call me back when you do it."
McGahn told Donaldson that the President had called at least twice and in one of the calls asked "have you done it?"591
The OLC opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office.4
Ruffrodys05 1,467
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6 hours ago, ren hoek said:
Yeah, I don't believe you. Good calculated guess though. Now, really, what color is the sky on your world? Bet it's orange.
>>Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.<<
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5 hours ago, Ruffrodys05 said:
Yellow, being the complimentary hue to blue, would seem more fitting in bizarro world
Glenn Greenwald might be up to something in Brazil. Not sure if any of this is true however...
https://twitter.com/felipebayan/status/1140485487775408128?s=21
15 minutes ago, Bucky86 said:
Seems neither Trump nor 2016 election related, no?
Anyway, it does seem interesting at the very least
pecorino 1,162
I think you meant to say 'red'.
13 minutes ago, msommer said:
Dunno if it's true, but paying Russian hackers to find info against political opponents under the guise of "reporting." Seems kind of related. Isn't the new Brazil president a far-right kind of guy?
4 minutes ago, Bucky86 said:
He's been called the Trump of Brazil. He says a lot of stupid stuff too. Not as incoherently as Trump but stupid nonetheless
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13 hours ago, Don't Noonan said:
Ren has been 100% correct on this Russia nonsense all along and you are calling him out as crazy? Awesome.
Completely false. To this day, I don't think Ren had acknowledged Russia's role in the DNC hack. That alone puts him at 50% at best.
2 hours ago, Bucky86 said:
This looks like bull####
TobiasFunke 28,969
2 hours ago, TripItUp said:
Hi fellas, Just checking in on the impeachment...we there yet? Year 3 or Year 4?
At what point do you guys and CNN give up?
As always, the fundamental conflict between left and right in the age of Trump is about perspective. The left, despite its many faults and squabbles, ultimately wants to do what's in the best interests of America and its people. The right under Trump cares only about winning points in some sort of fictional "contest" with the left. You can see it here, where a right-leaning poster checks in to mock the idea of impeachment for no purpose other than to accomplish the dictionary definition of online trolling. It doesn't even occur to this poster that when you believe something is important you don't give up on it after a year or two, which itself is pretty telling. You can see it elsewhere, such as this this post/thread from another Trump supporter who freely admits that he takes great joy from the misery of his fellow Americans.
This is what Trumpism is all about. Its not about making America better, it's about bonding over your shared contempt for "others." Every single thing they say or do comes down to this. And they are helpful enough to provide examples of it every day.
NYT story on Russian Intelligence Grafting Itself Onto Cyber criminal Bogachev Hacking
Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal's Hacking
To the F.B.I., Evgeniy M. Bogachev is the most wanted cybercriminal in the world. The bureau has announced a $3 million bounty for his capture, the most ever for computer crimes, and has been trying to track his movements in hopes of grabbing him if he strays outside his home turf in Russia.
He has been indicted in the United States, accused of creating a sprawling network of virus-infected computers to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars from bank accounts around the world, targeting anyone with enough money worth stealing — from a pest control company in North Carolina to a police department in Massachusetts to a Native American tribe in Washington.
In December, the Obama administration announced sanctions against Mr. Bogachev and five others in response to intelligence agencies' conclusions that Russia had meddled in the presidential election. Publicly, law enforcement officials said it was his criminal exploits that landed Mr. Bogachev on the sanctions list, not any specific role in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
But it is clear that for Russia, he is more than just a criminal. At one point, Mr. Bogachev had control over as many as a million computers in multiple countries, with possible access to everything from family vacation photographs and term papers to business proposals and highly confidential personal information. It is almost certain that computers belonging to government officials and contractors in a number of countries were among the infected devices. For Russia's surveillance-obsessed intelligence community, Mr. Bogachev's exploits may have created an irresistible opportunity for espionage.
While Mr. Bogachev was draining bank accounts, it appears that the Russian authorities were looking over his shoulder, searching the same computers for files and emails. In effect, they were grafting an intelligence operation onto a far-reaching cybercriminal scheme, sparing themselves the hard work of hacking into the computers themselves, officials said.
The Russians were particularly interested, it seems, in information from military and intelligence services regarding fighting in eastern Ukraine and the war in Syria, according to law enforcement officials and the cybersecurity firm Fox-IT. But there also appear to have been attempts to gain access to sensitive military and intelligence information on infected computers in the United States, often consisting of searches for documents containing the words "top secret" or "Department of Defense."
The Russian government has plenty of its own cyberspace tools for gathering intelligence. But the piggybacking on Mr. Bogachev's activities offers some clues to the breadth and creativity of Russia's espionage efforts at a time when the United States and Europe are scrambling to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks capable of destroying critical infrastructure, disrupting bank operations, stealing government secrets and undermining democratic elections.
This relationship is illustrated by the improbable mix of characters targeted with the sanctions announced by the Obama administration. Four were senior officers with Russia's powerful military intelligence agency, the G.R.U. Two were suspected cyberthieves on the F.B.I.'s most wanted list: an ethnic Russian from Latvia named Alexsey Belan with a red-tinted Justin Bieber haircut, and Mr. Bogachev, whose F.B.I. file includes a photograph of him holding his spotted Bengal cat while wearing a matching set of leopard-print pajamas.
From Thief to Russian Asset?
His involvement with Russian intelligence may help explain why Mr. Bogachev, 33, is hardly a man on the run. F.B.I. officials say he lives openly in Anapa, a run-down resort town on the Black Sea in southern Russia. He has a large apartment near the shore and possibly another in Moscow, officials say, as well as a collection of luxury cars, though he seems to favor driving his Jeep Grand Cherokee. American investigators say he enjoys sailing and owns a yacht.
Running the criminal scheme was hard work. Mr. Bogachev often complained of being exhausted and "of having too little time for his family," said Aleksandr Panin, a Russian hacker, now in a federal prison in Kentucky for bank fraud, who used to communicate with Mr. Bogachev online. "He mentioned a wife and two kids as far as I remember," Mr. Panin wrote in an email.
Beyond that, little is known about Mr. Bogachev, who preferred to operate anonymously behind various screen names: slavik, lucky12345, pollingsoon. Even close business associates never met him in person or knew his real name.
"He was very, very paranoid," said J. Keith Mularski, an F.B.I. supervisor in Pittsburgh whose investigation of Mr. Bogachev led to an indictment in 2014. "He didn't trust anybody."
Russia does not have an extradition treaty with the United States, and Russian officials say that so long as Mr. Bogachev has not committed a crime on Russian territory, there are no grounds to arrest him.
Attempts to reach Mr. Bogachev for this article were unsuccessful. In response to questions, his lawyer in Anapa, Aleksei Stotskii, said, "The fact that he is wanted by the F.B.I. prevents me morally from saying anything."
A line in Mr. Bogachev's file with the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, which has helped the F.B.I. track his movements, describes him as "working under the supervision of a special unit of the F.S.B.," referring to the Federal Security Service, Russia's main intelligence agency. The F.S.B. did not respond to a request for comment.
That Mr. Bogachev remains at large "is the most powerful argument" that he is an asset of the Russian government, said Austin Berglas, who was an assistant special agent in charge of cyberinvestigations out of the F.B.I.'s New York field office until 2015. Hackers like Mr. Bogachev are "moonlighters," Mr. Berglas said, "doing the bidding of Russian intelligence services, whether economic espionage or straight-up espionage."
Such an arrangement offers the Kremlin a convenient cover story and an easy opportunity to take a peek into the extensive networks of computers infected by Russian hackers, security experts say. Russian intelligence agencies also appear to occasionally employ malware tools developed for criminal purposes, including the popular BlackEnergy, to attack the computers of enemy governments. The recent revelations by WikiLeaks about C.I.A. spying tools suggest that the agency also kept a large reference library of hacking kits, some of which appear to have been produced by Russia.
It also hints at a struggle to recruit top talent. A job with the Russian intelligence agencies does not command the prestige it did in the Soviet era. The Russian state has to compete against the dream of six-figure salaries and stock options in Silicon Valley. A recruiting pitch from a few years ago for the Defense Ministry's cyberwarfare brigade offered college graduates the rank of lieutenant and a bed in a room with four other people.
And so the Kremlin at times turns to the "dark web" or Russian-language forums devoted to cyberfraud and spam. Mr. Bogachev, according to court papers from his criminal case, used to sell malicious software on a site called Carding World, where thieves buy and sell stolen credit card numbers and hacking kits, according to the F.B.I. One recent posting offered to sell American credit card information with CVV security numbers for $5. A user named MrRaiX was selling a malware supposedly designed to pilfer passwords from programs like Google Chrome and Outlook Express.
Rather than shut down such sites, as the F.B.I. typically tries to do, Russian intelligence agents appear to have infiltrated them, security experts say.
Some of the forums state specifically that almost any type of criminality is allowed — bank fraud, counterfeiting documents, weapons sales. One of the few rules: no work in Russia or the former Soviet Union. In Carding World, and in many other forums, a violation results in a lifetime ban.
The F.B.I. has long been stymied in its efforts to get Russian cybercriminals. For a time, the bureau had high hopes that its agents and Russian investigators with the F.S.B. would work together to target Russian thieves who had made a specialty of stealing Americans' credit card information and breaking into their bank accounts. "Here's to great investigations," F.B.I. and F.S.B. agents would toast each other at Manhattan steakhouses during periodic trust-building visits, Mr. Berglas said.
But help rarely seemed to materialize. After a while, agents began to worry that the Russian authorities were recruiting the very suspects that the F.B.I. was pursuing. The joke among Justice Department officials was the Russians were more likely to pin a medal on a suspected criminal hacker than help the F.B.I. nab him.
"Almost all the hackers who have been announced by the U.S. government through indictments are immediately tracked by the Russian government," said Arkady Bukh, a New York-based lawyer who often represents Russian hackers arrested in the United States. "All the time they're asked to provide logistical and technical support."
While it was a widely held suspicion, it is tough to prove the connection between cyberthieves and Russian intelligence. But in one case, Mr. Berglas said, F.B.I. agents monitoring an infected computer were surprised to see a hacker who was the target of their investigation share a copy of his passport with a person the F.B.I. believed to be a Russian intelligence agent — a likely signal that the suspect was being recruited or protected. "That was the closest we ever came," he said.
Fishing for Top Secrets
Mr. Bogachev's hacking career began well over a decade ago, leading to the creation of a malicious software program called GameOver ZeuS, which he managed with the help of about a half-dozen close associates who called themselves the Business Club, according to the F.B.I. and security researchers. Working around the clock, his criminal gang infected an ever-growing network of computers. It was able to bypass the most advanced banking security measures to quickly empty accounts and transfer the money abroad through a web of intermediaries called money mules. F.B.I. officials said it was the most sophisticated online larceny scheme they had encountered — and for years, it was impenetrable.
Mr. Bogachev became extremely wealthy. At one point, he owned two villas in France and kept a fleet of cars parked around Europe so he would never have to rent a vehicle while on vacation, according to a Ukrainian law enforcement official with knowledge of the Bogachev case, who requested anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation. Officials say he had three Russian passports with different aliases allowing him to travel undercover.
At the height of his operations, Mr. Bogachev had between 500,000 and a million computers under his control, American officials said. And there is evidence that the Russian government took an interest in knowing what was on them.
Beginning around 2011, according to an analysis by Fox-IT, computers under Mr. Bogachev's control started receiving requests for information — not about banking transactions, but for files relating to various geopolitical developments pulled from the headlines.
Around the time that former President Barack Obama publicly agreed to start sending small arms and ammunition to Syrian rebels, in 2013, Turkish computers infected by Mr. Bogachev's network were hit with keyword searches that included the terms "weapon delivery" and "arms delivery." There were also searches for "Russian mercenary" and "Caucasian mercenary," suggesting concerns about Russian citizens fighting in the war.
Ahead of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine in 2014, infected computers were searched for information about top-secret files from the country's main intelligence directorate, the S.B.U. Some of the queries involved searches for personal information about government security officials, including emails from Georgia's foreign intelligence service, the Turkish Foreign Ministry and others, said Michael Sandee, one of the researchers from Fox-IT.
And at some point between March 2013 and February 2014, there were searches for English-language documents, which seemed to be fishing for American military and intelligence documents. The queries were for terms including "top secret" and "Department of Defense," said Brett Stone-Gross, a cybersecurity analyst involved in analyzing GameOver ZeuS. "These were in English," he said. "That was different."
Cybersecurity experts who studied the case say there is no way to know who ordered the queries. But they were so disconnected from the larceny and fraud that drove Mr. Bogachev's operation that analysts say there can be no other motive but espionage.
Whether the searches turned up any classified document or sensitive government material is unknown, although the odds are good that there were a number of federal government employees or military contractors with infected personal computers.
"They had such a large number of infections, I would say it's highly likely they had computers belonging to U.S. government and foreign government employees," Mr. Stone-Gross said.
In the summer of 2014, the F.B.I., together with law enforcement agencies in over half a dozen countries, carried out Operation Tovar, a coordinated attack on Mr. Bogachev's criminal infrastructure that shut down his network and liberated computers infected with GameOver ZeuS.
Prosecutors said they were in talks with the Russian government, trying to secure cooperation for the capture of Mr. Bogachev. But the only apparent legal trouble Mr. Bogachev has faced in Russia was a lawsuit filed against him by a real estate company in 2011 over payment of about $75,000 on his apartment in Anapa, according to court papers there. And even that he managed to beat.
These days, officials believe Mr. Bogachev is living under his own name in Anapa and occasionally takes boat trips to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia occupied in 2014. Mr. Mularski, the F.B.I. supervisor, said his agents were "still pursuing leads."
PBS published a transcript for those video summaries here, under the heading "All of the Mueller report's major findings in less than 30 minutes."
Edited June 17 by TobiasFunke
Don't Noonan 3,165
@whoknew
. Conspire again? Come on man. Quit spreading the fake news! If you want to be taken seriously quit lying in the topic titles.
sho nuff 10,764
Location:Hermitage, TN
He did admit that. Also. This isn't a need board, people are and should be allowed to opine in the title within reason.
That isn't lying either.
because...?
OrtonToOlsen 13,788
This is important
3 hours ago, Long Ball Larry said:
Just look at it.
-unverified nobody
-sources material to shaky twitter threads
-links to tons of far right nutjobs (Alex Jones, Ann Coulter, Candace Owens, Mark Dice, PragerU, Breitbart) to amplify message
-" HUGE! 🚨"
-"still waiting for validation"
-heavy bias in this guy's tweets- "co-architect of Snowden's treason," "aiming to destabilize the Brazilian democracy," "Moro is a national hero in Brazil and one of the strong men of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who recently cemented the alliance with US President Donald Trump"
This comes just days after Greenwald/Intercept published leaked communications that reveal the Brazilian judiciary to have acted politically, and in bad faith when it imprisoned Lula. Glenn is receiving death threats, threats of deportation and arrest by Bolsonaro govt, feverswamp homophobia by the most unhinged/fascist sects of Brazil, threats against his husband and children's safety, etc.
On 6/16/2019 at 3:12 PM, Don't Noonan said:
Oh, so you have now read the mueller report?
On 6/16/2019 at 2:56 PM, ren hoek said:
I think one possible explanation for why they spied on the Trump campaign and relied on a fake conspiracy theory to do so is very simple: because they could. They didn't think in a million years that Trump would actually win. They didn't think in a million years that they might actually be held accountable for surveillance abuse. As Comey said, they were "operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump". If they suspected Trump would win, who's to say they wouldn't have publicized the investigation against his campaign, like they started doing months after he won? This is the same organization that entrapped mentally ill people in terrorism plots to rack up stats, so it's not like they operate along a high moral/ethical code.
I think the public would have rejected it as the politicized, asinine conspiracy theory it was if they'd just come straight out with it during the 2016 campaign, without all the suggestive reporting and conspiracy buildup in 2017. That's probably at least part of the reason it wasn't made public during the campaign. Another reason is that the roots of the investigation were so flimsy that they wouldn't dare make it public. They knew damn well that Trump wasn't a Russian agent. It would have been seen as blatantly political in the midst of a heated presidential campaign. I think counterintel investigations are treated differently in a general sense than the Clinton email investigation too.
What else were they going to say? That they hated Trump and wanted to spy on someone they viewed as a political opponent? That if someone like Steele came along with some cooked up intel, or someone like Halper, who'd weirdly associated with both Page and Papadopolous before CH was opened, and gave them a viable excuse to do so, even better? I don't think any of this was an accident.
But regardless of their motivations for doing so, it was clearly an abuse of power to rely on fake intelligence to spy on people. Even moreso to push this fake narrative to their media partners for years.
I'm so glad you don't vote.
Widbil83 1,068
Seriously spit out my coffee reading this title laughing. Don't you have to conspire a first time in order to conspire again?
Bad posts are a dime a dozen. What's truly special is a post so bad that the reader feels silly for having taken the poster seriously prior to reading it. This right here is a monumental achievement, a worthy sequel to Dodds' embrace of Pizzagate. I salute you for crafting this masterpiece.
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Don't worry. Horowitz is going to uncover the massive FISA conspiracy soon. We can only hope the Obama raid is as much of a spectacle as the Stone one was.
9 hours ago, Zow said:
You should try it
Slapdash 13,609
2 hours ago, TobiasFunke said:
You're right, but it would be better to stop quoting it.
Love how questioning the inherent goodness and pure intentions of our heroic g-men is beyond the pale conspiracy now. Offering the simple possibility that they would ever abuse their power in a malicious way is now Pizzagate material. If the past few decades have taught us anything, it's that no one in the intelligence community ever does anything bad. It's really no wonder this board is an absolute cesspool for people with dissenting opinions anymore.
People asked for an explanation why, if they wanted to sink Trump's campaign, they didn't reveal the Russia investigation during the campaign, and I gave them one. They spied, potentially, because it's a part of human nature and they had a legal excuse for it. They didn't reveal the existence of the investigation, potentially, because it was already in the bag for Clinton. It's clear they had utter contempt for Trump- that's not a controversial claim at all. Naturally I get gaslighted as a huge conspiracy theorist.
But that seems more plausible to me than chasing this absolute bs conspiracy theory into the woods, let alone being dumb enough to actually believe it.
Either they're complete dog#### at their jobs, extraordinarily incompetent, and completely incapable of separating facts from a hole in the ground. Or they knew better for a long time, yet still pushed the narrative to their willing collaborators in the press and led us down this hellhole. "Honest mistake" isn't a valid excuse for getting it this wrong with this much impunity. Not anymore.
24 minutes ago, ren hoek said:
Love how questioning the inherent goodness and pure intentions of our heroic g-men is beyond the pale conspiracy now.
This wasn't the bad part.
There were many, many bad parts, but the most glaring was the suggestion that the collective intelligence/law enforcement community (which I took to be the "they" of your rant) spied on Trump (which they didn't) "because they could," and then didn't bother to leak a story that could have ended his chances at the presidency because each and every person who knew of the investigation and could have leaked it- a number probably in the hundreds- all decided that he had zero chance of winning even as the polls tightened in late October and into the first week of November. It's beyond absurd.
Some other silly parts:
- Conflating a nonsense straw man that people thought Trump is a willing "Russian agent," something that almost nobody has even suggested, with the entirely valid possibility/likelihood that his shady business deals with oligarchs and contacts with operatives during the campaign and subsequent lying about said deals and contacts left him vulnerable to blackmail or otherwise beholden to Russian interests, which would obviously and legitimately be of substantial interest. This is something you do constantly, but this is a glaring example of it. I have to admit it's truly bizarre. It's like your brain can't even process the latter explanation, like how the androids couldn't process certain things in Westworld. People have said this to you countless times and yet you keep on ignoring it in order to keep constructing the same straw man.
- Theorizing that the entire intelligence community "hated Trump" when we have actual reporting showing that isn't true.
- Ignoring literally hundreds of people here and elsewhere who have demonstrated over and over and over that the basis for the investigation was not "fake intelligence" but was in fact the aforementioned suspicious ties and vulnerabilities so that you can peddle the same "Steele Dossier!" FISA!" nonsense echoed by the most bad faith Trump sycophants on the planet.
That seems like enough for now. I've already given your rant far more time and attention than it warrants.
Skoo 5,764
So the FBI was against Trump. Wanted to do whatever they could to take him down.
And to that end, they announced Hillary was under investigation weeks before the election, but not a peep about how Trump was also under investigation.
How on earth could this possibly be an attempt to help Hillary and hurt Trump again?
I mean, that seems to defy all logic and reason, but I'm willing to listen.
[scooter] 10,117
8 minutes ago, Skoo said:
"Ask them."
39 minutes ago, Skoo said:
I mean, that seems to defy all logic and reason, but I'm willing to listen.
many people are saying this. Many people, okay?
Thunderlips 3,726
So the Shark move of these career intelligence guys is to wait with the information....until the guy they're spying on wins the election...so that way he can definitely punish them....instead of using the spying info to prevent him from getting to be in charge?
I guess it's a plan.
Edited June 18 by Thunderlips
Just now, Thunderlips said:
So the Shark move of these career intelligence guys is to wait until the guy they're spying on wins the election...so that way he can definitely punish them....instead of using the spying info to prevent him from getting to be in charge?
Seeing how they had no spying info against Trump why would they come forward and say they were investigating Trump if the they knew it could backfire since they starting investigating Trump on false premises?
2 hours ago, Skoo said:
Because it was an attempt to ACTUALLY hurt Trump. If they come out against Hillary....then people will think that Trump/Russia is behind it...and people won't vote for him.
2 minutes ago, Don't Noonan said:
So they wait until he gets in charge to bring out false information?
They stared investigating him on false premises? Care to link to that?
6 minutes ago, Thunderlips said:
Because it was an attempt to ACTUALLY hurt Trump. If they come out against Hillary....then people will think that Trump/Russia is behind it...and people won't vote for him.
but they did very publicly re-open the Clinton e-mail case. No one said that Trump/Russia was behind it.
What an odd way to interpret your own posts.
1 hour ago, sho nuff said:
in before the dossier is cited, ignoring the investigation was begun well before the investigators were aware of it's existence.
h/t to @Bluto Blutarsky
Edited June 18 by moleculo
clarified statement per Bluto's correction.
2 minutes ago, moleculo said:
in before the dossier is cited, ignoring the investigation was begun well before.
And that the investigation wasn't based in the dossier....nor was the entire dossier ever used.
Lots of crow will be eaten in here. Can't wait!
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The FBI knew about the dossier before the investigation started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier
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McConnell and the Republicans are at it again.
At any time, Senate Republicans can remove him as Senate Leader. All it takes is 4 of Senate Republicans to remove him from that position.
Each and every Republican that is okay with his actions are culpable with handing our country over, each and every day, to corrupt individuals. Each and every.
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Annelize Naudé (born 1 January 1977) is a professional squash player from the Netherlands. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 13 in January 2006, and has won five WISPA tour titles as well as having been the runner-up nine times since 1996.

Professional career
Naudé's international squash career began in 1996; her world ranking after her first year was No. 53. She climbed up the rankings to No. 36 two years later, but her rankings then fell to a career low of No. 86 in May 2000. Her ranking rose again to No. 25 in late 2001, and she reached No. 20 a year later. She achieved her career best ranking of No. 13 four years later, in January 2006.

Naudé reached her first final in an international tournament in 1999 in the Danish Open, but she was subsequently defeated by Pamela Nimmo. Naudé won her first professional title in 2002, also in the Danish Open, when she beats Senga Macfie in the final which lasts in five sets 3–9, 4–9, 9–5, 9–3, 9–4. She then had to wait for two years for her second title, this time in the Swiss Open, beating Laura-Jane Lengthorn in the final. Naudé then lost to former world No. 1 Vanessa Atkinson in the final of Mexican Open.

Naudé appeared in her 12th WISPA World Tour final at the Internationaux de Creteil in France; she then won the match by beating England's Lauren Siddall to her fourth title of her career.

Personal life
Naudé grew up in South Africa before moving to the Netherlands. She was based at Kempton Park Country Club, and was coached in her early days by Phillip Schelbusch and Jean Grainger, which took her to national titles at various junior levels before she moved to Amsterdam and eventually took on Dutch nationality and become a fixture in their national team.

Annelize is currently busy following her other passion in life, music. Since retiring from squash at the end of 2010, she is a qualified audio engineer and well established dj.

Career statistics
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Professional Tour Titles (5)
All Results for Annelize Naudé in WISPA World's Tour tournament

WISPA Tour Finals (runner-up) (9)

References

External links

Official Website

Dutch female squash players
Living people
1977 births
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Q: Simulate a table with multiple rows just with SELECT statement If I can do the following select statement to create a table with one value
 SELECT 'myname' AS 'Name'

this will return a table with column = Name and one value = myname
how can I work around this to return one column with multiple values from just the select statement
I don't want to do this :
 DECLARE @tmp TABLE (Name varchar(50))

 INSERT INTO @tmp (Name) VALUES ('myname1'),('myname2')
    SELECT * FROM @tmp

Just from a single SELECT statement if  possible

A: Or, you can use the multiple VALUES in the SELECT, like:
SELECT [Name]
FROM (VALUES ('myname1'),('myname2')) AS X([name])

A: If you're wanting to simulate a table with multiple rows just with SELECT statement, this can typically be done with UNION of rows:
SELECT 'myname1' AS 'Name' UNION
SELECT 'myname2' UNION
SELECT 'myname3'
-- etc

Demo: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!3/d41d8/12433

A: In case you want to simulate sequential data like in your example.You can define a recursive CTE and use it like a table.
Below code will generate 10 records
;With Users as
(
    Select 1 as ID, CAST('Username1' AS varchar(25)) as Name
        union all
    Select ID + 1 , CAST('Username'+CAST(ID+1 AS varchar(5) ) AS varchar(25))
        from Users
        where ID < 10
)
SELECT * FROM Users

Here is SQL Fiddle http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!3/d41d8/12452
But CTE cannot be used in  multiple statements.If you need to use it in multi statements. Then insert data from CTE to Temp Table or Table Variable.

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The facts about cannabis and the effects it has on our teenagers in its many forms
Do you think that the use of cannabis is harmless? Well read on and find out the facts and then decide. There is a lot of talk about drugs in society today. Some of it is true, some not. Much of what is being "promoted" actually comes from those selling them. Reformed drug dealers have confessed that they would have said anything to get others to buy drugs. People have unlimited access to all kinds of illegal drugs in every part of Ireland today. So what are the consequences for those who use?
Everyone knows about cannabis, it has been around for centuries, so what's all the fuss about now? Cannabis describes any of the different drugs that come from Indian hemp, including marijuana, and a whole range of other street names as well as hashish. One of the reasons cannabis is big news today is that the nature of the drug has changed a lot over the years. Cannabis has become one of the most trafficked illegal drugs in the world. It no longer just grows naturally, but is grown under conditions that makes it much more potent.
The potency relates to the THC content – the chemical in cannabis that gets you "high". Some types of cannabis are grown for its potency and are extremely high in THC. This means that there is a higher risk of negative and damaging effects from using it. The more potent forms are grown to be more addictive. The potency varies between the different types of cannabis ie. resin, marijuana, or hashish, which is made from the resin of Indian hemp and is six times stronger than marijuana. Unlike alcohol, cannabis does not come with a label telling you how strong it is. You cannot tell from just looking at it. Regardless of the name, this drug causes hallucinations and has a substance which distorts how the mind perceives the world you live in. So one never knows what strength this drug is or the resulting harm caused by its use.
Cannabis or marijuana is one of the drugs young people use the most. The effect is usually felt within minutes. The immediate sensations include increased heart rate, lessened co-ordination and balance, and a dreamy unreal state of mind. It also creates a severe impact on the lungs. The mental consequences for users are equally severe with users having amongst other dangers, poorer memories and decreased mental aptitude. Cannabis can trigger underlying mental health problems. It has hallucinogenic properties which can make you feel paranoid, anxious and in some people, lead to a psychotic episode.
Recent studies, including from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, showed the connection between cannabis use in adolescence and schizophrenia. These studies state that it doubles your risk of developing schizophrenia as an adult. Previous research has shown that young adolescents who started using cannabis/marijuana before the age of sixteen are at greater risk of permanent brain damage and have a significantly higher incidence of psychiatric disorders. This is the critical period in life during which drug use can be damaging and cause permanent health risks.
TEENAGE YEARS are the worst time in a person's life to smoke cannabis, a prominent Irish child and adolescent psychiatrist has said.
Dr Bobby Smyth was reacting to a study concerning the drug's effect on the adolescent brain. He works for the HSE at the Youth Drug and Alcohol Service in Tallaght and referred to the growing evidence that cannabis has a long-term negative impact on the developing brain.
A study published yesterday in American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found cannabis can lower the IQ of young teenagers and may cause permanent mental impairment. The most persistent users suffered an average eight-point decline in IQ between adolescence and adulthood.
Users experienced significantly more attention and memory problems than non-users, the study found. This was the case even after taking account of different educational backgrounds and use of alcohol and other drugs.
The tests showed wide-ranging mental decline among men and women who began taking cannabis at a young age and continued using the drug regularly for more than 20 years.
A disturbing new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA, highlights and confirms the dangers of adolescents smoking cannabis.
Results of this research have also shown that young people who regularly smoke cannabis or weed have a greater risk of schizophrenia and can suffer long lasting brain damage. Researchers say the drug is particularly dangerous for a group of people who may have underlying tendencies to a genetic mental disorder or have mental health issues. It also highlights the dangers of teenagers smoking cannabis during their formative years. The study found that even short- term exposure to cannabis impair brain activity with the damage continuing into adulthood.
A separate study carried out only last month by the Imperial College, London, revealed that long-term use of cannabis destroys dopamine, the feel good chemical in the brain that inspires a spirit of get up and go. It suggests that it can lead to individuals becoming withdrawn, lethargic, listless, apathetic or indifferent. Cannabis users who partook in the study said they had all experienced psychotic- like symptoms, such as having strange sensations and having feelings of paranoia and fear. Dr Michael Bloomfield, of the above college, said there is mounting evidence that the idea that cannabis is a harmless drug is untrue. He has noted short term side effects include a decrease in short-term memory, dry mouth, impaired motor skills, red eyes, and feelings of paranoia or anxiety. Long term side effects include addiction and decreased mental ability in those who started as teenagers. Also noted was the behavioural problems in children whose mothers used cannabis during pregnancy.
Aside from a skewed or twisted change in perception and mood, the most common short-term physical, and impact on the structure of the nervous system, include increased heart rate, increased appetite and consumption of food, lowered blood pressure, impairment of short-term and working memory, lack of co-ordination, depression, panic attacks , anxiety and concentration. Users also suffer from bronchitis and brain abnormalities.
Some users experienced episodes of acute psychosis, or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mania that is marked by delusions, hallucinations, incoherence and distorted perceptions of reality, which usually abates after six hours, but in rare instances, heavy users may find the symptoms continuing for many days. So why are we ignoring these horrendous side effects of cannabis?
A reduced quality of life is associated with heavy cannabis use. Society appears to have accepted the use of cannabis as a recreational drug, but when the effects of its use show such alarming after effects, is it not time that all parents educated their children and themselves about its immediate and long-term dangers . The younger you are when you start using, the higher your risk of becoming addicted to cannabis. Heavy and long-term users experience withdrawal symptoms that include: Anxiety and restlessness, insomnia, loss of appetite, depression and problems with concentration and attention. Cannabis in all its forms is now readily available, and young people have no problem accessing it. It is long overdue that users be made fully aware of the dangers they are putting themselves in.
It is interesting to note that animals given marijuana by researchers have suffered structural damage to the brain.
Is smoking a joint the same as drinking alcohol?
The facts are that alcohol contain one chemical substance only; ethanol. Cannabis/marijuana and all its associates, contain more than 400 known chemicals, including cancer-causing substances found in tobacco smoke. Unlike cigarette smokers, "pot" smokers tend to inhale deeply and hold the smoke as long as possible to increase the effect of the drug, worsening the damage to the lungs. Alcohol is eliminated from the body in a few hours but THC stays in the body for weeks, possibly months, depending on the length and intensity of usage. THC damage the immune system, alcohol does not. I am not proposing using alcohol, far from it, but these are the facts about cannabis.
Some users in the research project experienced an episode of acute psychosis, or a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia, mania that is marked by delusions, hallucinations, incoherence and distorted perceptions of reality, which usually abates after six hours, but in rare instances, heavy users may find the symptoms continuing for many days.
A reduced quality of life is associated with heavy cannabis use. Society may have accepted the use of cannabis as a recreational drug, but when the effects of its use show such alarming after effects, it is time that all parents educated themselves and their children about its dangers. Cannabis in all its forms is now readily available, so it behoves society that the time is long past for users to be made fully aware of the dangers they are putting themselves in.
Cannabis/Marijuana changes the structure of sperm cells, deforming them and even small amounts can cause temporary sterility in men. It can also upset a woman's menstrual cycle. It is one of the few drugs which causes abnormal cell division which leads to severe hereditary defects. Studies also found that mothers who "use" before birth may result in their baby having mental abnormalities, reduced initiative, and lessened abilities to concentrate and pursue life goals as well as an increased risk of leukaemia in their children.
These are the facts from renowned institutions and researchers for you to study, and allow you to make an informed judgement for you and your children.
Peg Hanafin, MSc. Rehab/Psych/Couns. 18/4/2017
Author of Getting more out of life, Thoughts for your journey and Never Give up.
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3/12/2018 · Your class ranking compares you with other students in your graduating class; a ranking takes into account the grade you earn in a class and—in many cases—the difficulty of courses you take (including AP classes).
15/12/2015 · I know sorry :P Next year at the opening academic assembly. They invite us back for the presentation of the top ATAR students. Instead of relying on our Cardinal Freeman Award for Excellence scheme, we do actually use the ATAR to determine the dux.
Your class rank helps colleges put your GPA into context and gives them more insight into your academic abilities. Some states offer high school students guaranteed admission to state universities if they have a certain class rank.
At the same time, Class Rank is kind to its adult characters, who are so often made ridiculous in teen movies. Dern, who can easily be either cranky or flat-out evil, becomes a slightly edgy, shuffleboard-obsessed, caring grandpa to Bernard, and it's easy to see why the latter loves him so.
4/09/2018 · For example, if you earned a 95 out of 100 on one test and an 85 out of 100 on another assignment, your grade in the class would be a 90%. To learn how to calculate your grade in a class with a weighted grading system, read on!


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Home / Sports / Women place 3rd, men 8th at regional cross-country meet
Women place 3rd, men 8th at regional cross-country meet
Lilliana Black November 30, 2018	Sports Leave a comment 0 Views
The women's cross-country team placed third while the men placed eighth at the 2018 NCAA Division II Central Regional meet Saturday, Nov. 17 in Joplin.
The Gorilla Men accumulated a score of 223 points. Head Coach Russ Jewett said it is visible the progress the men's team has made over this season.
"… This is the main one we aimed for in training and competing, so I am very proud of the guys," Jewett said. "We finished higher than we did last year, so that shows progress from the program and we were not that far off fifth place, and sometimes in our regional the fifth-place team can make it to nationals. It did not happen this year, but I think we are getting close to where we have a chance to qualify to nationals in the future, so I am very encouraged. Everyone on the team had an outstanding race, I could not single a single person out because they all ran the best race of the year. …"
The women accumulated a total score of 122 points, and Jewett was proud of the team.
"On the ladies (team), I am very happy for them, proud of them," Jewett said. "We had some physical challenges with our top two runners following the conference championship. We had to really scramble to get them ready to race again. So, I was proud of them, Jordan and Cassidy, for keeping it together … We did not get a good start in the race, so we were playing catch up the whole way and that was a big challenge. … (The) top three automatically qualify to nationals and we were tied for third on score, but with the tie breaker that is in place we won … by half a second on one match up. One of our girls was half a second ahead of the Oklahoma Baptist girls. It was as close as it could possibly be for the outer qualifying spot, but we got it and I was really pleased."
Several runners from the women's team stood out to Jewett during the meet.
"I think Cassidy Westhoff probably had as good a race as anybody in the women's race," he said. "She was our number two runner. And Piper has been strong all year, she was our number one runner, but Cassidy of course had some minor injury challenges, and to be able to withstand that and still be the high place number two runner, I was really proud of her. I think Ashton Henson deserves a lot of credit. She has been battling and trying to get past the injuries she had last spring and over the summer and she gets better every week. At one point in time in the race she was our lead runner. She had moved into a position where she was leading the other six girls on our team through the race and that is a first this year. So she really helped us that way (and) I think the other girl's confidence to push hard when it really was tough in the middle of the race."
The women's team qualified for the NCAA II Championships meet, which will take place Saturday, Dec. 1 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"The national championship is the pinnacle, that is the big mission," Jewett said. "The goal to qualify to it and represent (your team's) university at the national level, so we are really excited about it. Now, having said that, we are third best team type and the third best team in our region and there are eight regions. There are a couple of regions that are tougher than us … so to be realistic, we would love to come home with hardware, but that is not realistic with our team and with the championship this year. So if we could place in the top 15 I would be ecstatic. It is just hard to judge what a good performance would be when you do not race against most of these teams anytime during the regular year, it is just hard to tell. I think we were 18th last year, but I would like for us to show progress as a team and I would like for us to be in the 15 if at all possible."
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An Old-Fashioned with Gin is one of life's simple pleasures. It's still surprisingly chilly in LA and I like to drink more spirit-forward concoctions in this weather. Sometimes I just want a crisp & boozy drink. The Gin O.F. is just that. It's great with Genever too, but I can't say I've ever tried it with this particular Old Tom, so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
I'm happy to report it is the perfect refreshing boozy quaff I needed this sunny afternoon. I went a tad light on the sugar because of the perceived sweetness of the Old Tom. Just a whisper of Angostura adds a hint of spice without turning the color or overpowering the gin. Thanks to my local lemon tree I have peels for days.
Place Sugar in bottom of Old-Fashioned glass and sprinkle with Bitters. Add Lemon and ice cubes and fill with Gin as desired. Stir and serve.
Build in mixing glass. Add simple, Angostura, and Old Tom Gin. Stir & strain over fresh ice into a fancy pants glass. Express lemon peel over drink and serve with peel. Enjoy.


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The study is published in the August issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Researchers Professor Richard Porter and PhD student Katie Douglas asked 68 people who had been diagnosed with severe depression to take part in a facial expression recognition task. They were shown a total of 96 faces displaying 5 basic emotions: angry, happy, sad, fearful and disgusted expressions. The participants were also shown faces displaying neutral expressions. Their performance was compared with a control group of 50 healthy individuals.
The researchers found that the control group were significantly better than the depression group at recognising facial expressions of disgust, indicating impairment in the ability of people with severe depression to recognise disgusted facial expressions.
Professor Porter, of the Department of Psychological Medicine, said: "The specific impairment we found in the ability of people with severe depression to recognise disgusted facial expressions has not been previously reported. However, disgust recognition has been shown to be impaired in patients with Parkinson's disease who are not taking medication. We know that people with Parkinson's disease don't have enough of a brain chemical called dopamine. It's possible that the ability to recognise disgust is associated with dopamine dysfunction in people with severe depression as well.
The researchers have called for further research into whether people who are successfully treated for severe depression become better at disgust recognition. If so, this could possibly be used as a marker of treatment outcome for people with major depression.
The study also found differences in the way the two groups interpreted neutral faces. Those people with depression were more likely to interpret neutral faces as sad, and less likely to interpret neutral faces as happy compared to the control group – findings which are consistent with previous research studies.
The study was funded by the Tertiary Education Commission's Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship.


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Mr. President, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
The past couple of weeks have been quite intense for us ERA activists. Personally, it has taken me some time to try to absorb the various developments and read between the lines to try to ascertain what is actually going on.
On the surface, all the activity surrounding the ERA seems promising, but underneath, intransigent forces dominating our politics are maintaining the stranglehold on women's equality by ensuring that publication and adoption of the ERA is blocked.
I am going to attempt to lay it out for you, with the caveat that these interpretations are my own. I urge you to take a look at all the facts for yourself and please feel free to let me know your thoughts.
ON THE SURFACE, THIS WHAT HAPPENED:
President Biden calls for ERA to be put into the Constitution.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress to immediately enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution and formally protect women's rights nearly a century after lawmakers first raised them.
President Biden announces the likely appointment of a woman of color to the Supreme Court.
Representative Jackie Speier introduces H Res 891 in the U.S. House of Representatives "expressing the sense that the article of amendment (commonly known as the "Equal Rights Amendment") to the Constitution is valid."
Assistant AG Christopher Schroeder at DOJ issues the following statement regarding ERA and the official position of the Executive Branch; punting the ball and abdicating the clear responsibility of the Archivist (Executive Branch employee) to publish ERA:
"Whether the E.R.A. is part of the Constitution will be resolved not by an O.L.C. opinion but by the courts and Congress… The 2020 OLC Opinion is not an obstacle either to Congress's ability to act with respect to ratification of the ERA or to judicial consideration of the pertinent questions.
The ERA Coalition released the following statement: The ERA has met the requirements of Article 5 of the Constitution and the ERA's future is brighter than it has ever been. The focus should be on the Congress. We must continue to: push for the passage of S.J. Res. 1, which removes the time limit; support H Res 891, which acknowledges that the ERA is now in effect; continue to call for the removal of the OLC memo and publication of the ERA as the 28th Amendment.
The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Post, CNN
and many others jumped into the fray, speculating, analyzing, determining and deciding what had or had not happened to the U.S. Constitution and American women on January 27th of this year.
From the New York Times article I found these items to be the most interesting; in response to Assistant AG Schroeder's punt in the new Slip Opinion from OLC:
"The E.R.A. has thus become the Schrödinger's Cat of amendments — simultaneously part of and not part of the Constitution. Its ultimate fate is bound up in profound legal and political questions that force us to consider how we decide what our national charter includes and what it doesn't."
"The bottom line is that for all the high-minded talk about obedience to the Constitution, the key factor in an amendment's ratification is not to be found in the text of that document itself. Rather, Mr. Pozen said, it is whether the amendment is accepted by society at large, which "throughout U.S. history has not turned on punctilious adherence to a set of rules. When enough Americans act as though an amendment is part of the Constitution, it becomes part of the Constitution.""
Wendy Murphy, EME's indomitable Legal Counsel, put out this subtle nudge to the President and the Administration:
"Biden Has Insulted Women and Their Intelligence"
"Women were encouraged to vote for Biden because he said he supported the ERA. We assumed that if he won, he would immediately remove the Bill Barr memo, tell the Archivist to publish the ERA, and stop fighting against us in court.
But when Biden took office he continued fighting against the ERA in both lawsuits (though he boasted about withdrawing from a Trump-era opposition to a trans-rights lawsuit), left the Barr memo in place and said nothing to the Archivist about publishing the ERA. Biden continued Trump's anti-ERA policies and said absolutely nothing about the ERA until last week.
Women expected Biden to celebrate the ERA on Jan. 27 by announcing that he would do everything in his power to get the ERA into the Constitution, including removing the Barr memo, directing the Archivist to publish the ERA, and withdrawing his opposition to the ERA in court. These are all Executive Branch functions.
Instead, Biden announced that he would do nothing and said Congress should pass a resolution declaring the ERA valid. Unbelievable, because while Congress might be able to help, it is not currently blocking the ERA the way Biden's Executive Branch is."
So here is how I see it: The President wants to virtue signal on women's equality while behind our backs he is refusing to drop the lawsuits or tell his employee, the Archivist, to do his damn job and publish ERA. Biden's hoping that the promise of a black Supreme Court judge will make us feel all warm and fuzzy instead of just reminding us how helpful [NOT} the first black female Vice President has been for us.
The new assistant AG, Schroeder, no doubt at the behest of his boss, is punting the ball back to Congress and the Courts which is really rich, given that the ball is completely in his hands to take over the finish line.
The House of Reps is falling all over itself to signal how much they care and support ERA while the Senate pretends we don't exist and the Judiciary refuses to hold hearings on ERA, let alone bring it to the floor for a vote. Oh no — that would force Senators to go on the record and voice their arguments AGAINST women's equality — no one's going to let that happen, believe me.
This Senate is all the protection any politico needs to hide behind because everyone knows they can act like they are in support of ERA when they would rather the whole thing died quickly. And this is BOTH PARTIES, folks.
The Virginia AG Herring is dropping out of heading up the last standing lawsuit trying to get ERA recognized, apparently he was simply trying to mobilize women to vote for him and when that didn't happen, oh well…. off he goes. So now who exactly is carrying the ball in that lawsuit? What is the plan?
The Archivist is retiring in about a month. Once Ferrierro retires, the saga of identifying his replacement will begin; one that will no doubt put us squarely in range of the mid-term elections. Then they can try to use that as a reason why women should vote for Democrats when they are clearly doing LESS THAN NOTHING right now, when they have all the power to make ERA a reality.
Once Biden/Harris lose one or both Houses of Congress then both parties will give a huge sigh of relief knowing that the ERA is dead and buried and they can go back to the business of ripping off and exploiting women for another hundred years.
Obviously, we ain't going down like that. Women won't fall for the hype again and must let the DNC and all elected Democrats know that unless Biden publishes ERA before David Ferriero retires, women will not support the Dems in the next election.
Make no mistake: this is not something we can blame on Republicans right now. Do what you can to pressure Biden to order the Archivist to publish ERA.
We are all in this together, Equality Warriors!
Let's get it done in 2022.
We need all activists to push for ERA publication now – contact your representatives and ask them why they are standing by while the ERA, fought for so long and hard, is being killed by the Democrats that we put there to get it done. Senators in the 38 States that ratified ERA and the 22 states that already have State ERAs are betraying their constituencies by remaining silent and passive. Make your displeasure heard.
With love and thanks,
Kamala, Natalie, Wendy, Joel, Thila and the EME team
FUEL THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS


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Home Issues Environment Utah Cities Join Forces to Light up Navajo Nation
Wed April 17, 2019
Several Utah cities plan to send workers this spring to power up the Navajo Nation in a bid to change the lives of about 60,000 residents of the area.
The Light up Navajo project rolled into action after Murray – situated just the south of Salt Lack City – voted in favor of connecting the residents to the grid. Lehi, Heber, Washington, Santa Clara, and St. George, along with other Utah municipalities across the country are set to dispatch crews to the Four Corners region in Southern Utah for about a week, starting from April 6 – May 18, 2019.
Lineworkers from different parts of the country will be building electric lines for projects that focus on connecting hundreds of families. The "electricity with no deposit" pilot project is meant to serve as a successful base for the upcoming electrification projects.
"We are grateful that utilities across the country are joining forces to send electric line teams to the Navajo Nation," said Walter "Wally" Haase, the American Public Power Association NTUA General Manager at a conference. "We equally appreciate the communities and families that have supported this effort to help improve the living standards for families that have waited for electricity for many years. The Light up Navajo project is a good effort to bring reliable refrigeration, lighting, and heating, as well as make way for other solutions like running water and internet/cellular communications. Navajo residents will witness that the country cares for them. This is the America I know – people looking out for each other."
The pilot project that's expected to connect over 200 families to the grid will only be a tip of the iceberg considering the number of families that have no electricity. But Haase said he hopes it will act as a successful model for future projects in the region. According to the Navajo Utility Tribal Authority (NTUA) manager, the Nation of Navajo was "Ignored" under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, which funded the electrification of isolated areas of the US.
The tribes formed the NTUA in 1959, an energy enterprise that has done everything within its power to meet the utility needs of the natives but has encountered different barriers. Examples of the obstacles include limited availability of government funding and the high cost of connecting the isolated rural homes to the grid. This is according to the American Public Power Association (APPA).
This is where cities like Murray come in. The municipality confirmed its plan of sending four workers and two utility trucks to serve the Light up Navajo project for a week starting May, with an estimated budget of $26,000.
"This is one of those things you hope to never ask for help in the long run, but, to be honest, if we happen to face an earthquake of a bigger magnitude here is Wasatch Front, then we might have to as for some help," Said Blaine Haacke, a Power Manager in Murray. "This is the least that we could do to help our brothers and sisters."
Mike Hyland, the Senior VP of Engineering at NTUA stated that the pilot project exemplifies the public power's spirit. He asserted, "Public power utilities are always set to assist other public power utilities when the need arises – whether it's an initiative like the Light up Navajo project or a one-time event like a hurricane or severe storm.
Utilities traveling to the Navajo Nation
Week 1 (April 6 to 13): Littleton Light Department (MA), Rochelle Municipal Utilities (IL), Heber Light & Power (UT), Grand River Dam Authority (OK)
Week 2 (April 13 to 20): Littleton Light Department (MA); Farmington Electric Utility System (NM); Rochelle Municipal Utilities (IL); Piqua Power System (OH); West Boylston Municipal Light Plant (MA); DEMEC: Town of Smyrna + City of Milford (DE)
Week 3 (April 20 to 27): Sterling Municipal Light Department (MA); City of Wadsworth (OH); Painesville Electric Department (OH); Lawrenceburg Municipal Utilities (IN); Farmington Electric Utility System (NM); West Boylston Municipal Light Plant (MA); City of Scottsburg (IN); Littleton Light Department (MA)
Week 4 (April 27 to May 4): Sterling Municipal Light Department (MA); Sacramento Municipal Utility District (CA); West Boylston Municipal Light Plant (MA); Salt River Project (AZ); Greenville Electric Utility System (TX); Paxton Municipal Light Department (MA).
Week 5 (May 4 to 11): Salt River Project (AZ); Sacramento Municipal Utility District (CA); Conway Corporation (AR); Piqua Power System (OH); Sterling Municipal Light Department (MA).
Week 6 (May 11 to18): Lehi City Power (UT); Salt River Project (AZ); City of St George (UT); Sterling Municipal Light Department (MA); City of Santa Clara (UT); Washington City Power (UT); Murray City Power (UT);


It's my pleasure to greet you and share some information about Holy Spirit School. Opened since 1988, Holy Spirit has developed into a comprehensive Pre-K through 8th Grade school serving 250 children in the East Arlington area of Jacksonville. The school is fully accredited by the Florida Catholic Conference and our tree-shaded campus boasts some of the best facilities in the area.
Having served as an administrator at four other schools, I can assure you that the staff of teachers and support personnel at Holy Spirit are more than qualified to meet the needs of our students. Even more importantly, they are committed to providing a living example of Christ's love in action.
I feel certain that Jesus Christ is the reason that this school exists. He is unseen but ever present in our building. He teaches in our classes. He is the model for our faculty, and the inspiration of our students.
On behalf of our Pastor and the entire Holy Spirit parish community, I am happy to welcome you to Holy Spirit Catholic School, and invite you to learn more about our Catholic faith and our school in the information contained on this website.


I've been thinking about grace recently, as we get more and more sleep deprived but somehow we're ok (thank you God). Context seems all the more important in trying to figure out frugality/simplicity/sustainability. And giving and receiving grace in whatever context we find ourselves.
So yes, Noah still isn't sleeping. And I've taken a break from trying too hard. I'm encouraged by grace: that the worst parents sometimes have the best kids (and vice versa, but that's not my point here), and while I'll try to do the best I can there'll be a lot of room for God to pour grace over what I can't control or handle.
So back to context and frugality/simplicity/sustainability. While I'm totally into making food from scratch, I have been thinking how we get through the next few weeks well, and it seems to be all about grace. Receiving the grace of really simple meals (oh the triumph of avoiding the 2000 restaurants just down the street here in Allston-- or even going to those restaurants if that ends up being what's needed), taking each day slowly and expecting that we can't be great parents, cook from scratch, keep up with personal hygiene (oh, personal hygiene, why are you so difficult to maintain?), clean the house, not throw anything away, work and sleep all at once.
Grace means that it's a blessing, at the deepest level, when we don't quite manage.
Added: In the spirit of conversation, it would be great to hear what you let slide (and what not) when you're in the midst of a busy or emotionally/physically difficult time. And perhaps how you avoid feeling guilty, if that's something you're prone to.
There's a great anecdote in Lenore Skenazy's book Free Range Kids about the unibomber. Basically, she says that the parents of the unibomber, a crazy manifesto-writing murderer, also raised his brother, a normal morally upward citizen who saw the unibomber's anonymous rantings published in the New York Times, said "that sounds like someone I know" and with a heavy heart called the FBI. The moral of the story is that our kids are people; who they turn out to be is not completely under our control. For good or ill I find that to be a very freeing thought.
Oh, and on the days when it hurts to stand up I give up on making dinner entirely. When Dan comes home I ask him to make grilled cheese.


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Q: Redirect to another page after eventlistener I have an eventlistener that needs to run, once its run I need to redirect to another page. However when I add a window.location.href anywhere in my code it just jumps straight to the redirect and doesn't do the other code.
When I comment out the redirect it runs it...
            document.getElementById('save').addEventListener('click', function () {
                /*
                * since the stage toDataURL() method is asynchronous, we need
                * to provide a callback
                */
                stage.toDataURL({
                    callback: function (dataUrl) {
                        //window.open(dataUrl);
                        // Send the screenshot to PHP to save it on the server
                        var url = 'export.php';
                        //alert(url);
                        $.ajax({
                            type: "POST",
                            url: url,
                            dataType: 'text',
                            data: {
                                base64data: dataUrl,
                                yname: thename,
                                yemail: theemail,
                                company: thecomp,
                                twitter: thetwitter
                            }
                        });

                    }
                });
            }); //close listener

A: I believe in this case you need to add a success method to your last ajax call before running the redirect.
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: url,
    dataType: 'text',
    data: {
        base64data: dataUrl,
        yname: thename,
        yemail: theemail,
        company: thecomp,
        twitter: thetwitter
    },
    success: function() {
        location.href = 'your_url';
    }
});


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A Space Within a Space: Jazz United Commemorates Asian Pacific American Heritage
By Greg Bryant,
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Tomoko Omura, whose 'Branches Vol. 2' features guitarist Jeff Miles, pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Pablo Menares and drummer Jay Sawyer.
"Asians are the loneliest Americans," the culture writer Jay Caspian Kang declared, rather famously, in a New York Times Magazine article in 2017.
What he was diagnosing amounts to a pernicious form of marginalization, apart from the prevailing binary in most discussions of race in the United States. "The current vision of solidarity among Asian-Americans is cartoonish and blurry," Kang argued — a fog of nostalgia and sentiment. "Everything else is the confusion of never knowing what side to choose because choosing our own side has so rarely been an option."
Within the African-American art form we call jazz, the Asian-American experience has often similarly functioned as an afterthought, despite myriad expressions of identity by musicians across the spectrum of style. They range from the late baritone saxophonist and firebrand Fred Ho — who once wrote a searching essay about his advocacy for, and subsequent alienation from, the term "Asian American Jazz" — to contemporary figures like saxophonist Kevin Sun and bassist Linda May Han Oh.
So in this episode of Jazz United, we'll talk about how Asian-American musicians have carved out their own spaces within the jazz community, in full dialogue and solidarity with the traditions of Black American music. We'll touch on an array of examples (including some firsthand testimony from Nate's own family), and welcome a special guest: violinist Tomoko Omura, whose new album, Branches Vol. 2, continues a fruitful exploration of Japanese folk music in a modern jazz context.
Music Featured in This Episode:
Tomoko Omura, "To Ryan Se"
Tomoko Omura, "Tomie's Blues"
Teddy Tanaka, "Fly Me to the Moon"
Tomoko Omura, "Urashima Suite"
This I Dig:
Nate: The Marfa Tapes, an album by Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall
Greg: The Midnight Miracle, a podcast with Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey and Dave Chappelle
Sarah Kerson has been the producer of Jazz United. This is her final episode — thanks, Sarah! Here's to many more successes, with the least amount of drama.
Season One Asian Pacific American Heritage MonthTomoko Omura
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Greg Bryant has been a longtime curator of improvisational music. At the age of 3 in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, he was borrowing his father's records and spinning them on his Fisher Price turntable. Taking in diverse sounds of artistry from Miles Davis, Les McCann, James Brown, Weather Report and Jimi Hendrix gave shape to Greg's musical foundation and started him on a path of nonstop exploration.
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The Paul Ukena Trio
About The Paul Ukena Trio:
If you experienced much New York City Theater in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, you probably caught Paul Ukena in performance.
If you saw the original Broadway cast of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas or The Will Rogers Follies, or were lucky to see Raul Julia's Three Penny Opera at Lincoln Center, or Philip Bosco's The Devil's Disciple at Circle in the Square, you've seen the actor Paul Ukena.
After a couple of decades treading the boards on and Off-Broadway, the BMI composer Paul Ukena returned to his creative first love, the acoustic guitar, and something he always wanted to do, fronting a band that played his original songs and those of his favorite composers, from James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, to Duke Ellington and George Gershwin, to Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Paul's melodious baritone voice, nimble-fingered playing, and ear for arranging music all blend seamlessly in clever collaboration with his guitarist sidemen, music industry veteran Left Frank Krupit, and the indie acoustic scene's T Spoon Phillips, who is totally digging his first foray through Tin Pan Alley and the standards of mid-century Jazz, in the company of such talented artists.
Together, the Paul Ukena Trio spark a lively musical conversation of spontaneity and mutual inspiration that we hope you will enjoy half as much as we do.


Ginger Dean faced credit card debt in college and financial uncertainty again more than a decade later when she got divorced.
The reason she was able to overcome both of those financial setbacks, she says, is because of the supportive women around her.
Dean, now in her mid-30s, founded Girls Just Wanna Have Funds, a group of women who meet to talk about money: Saving it, budgeting it, investing it and spending it smarter.
"[Personal finance] is something that all women are doing, they just don't talk about it openly," Dean said.
The group of more than 20 women, mostly in their 20s, 30s and 40s, meet monthly over lunch, dinner or cocktails. They share what they're doing right, what's gone wrong and often invite financial experts to their meetings.
"We need women-specific advice," Dean said. "Men are taught from a young age that they're going to be the providers so they're focused on their career and power and wealth."
"A woman may go on maternity leave or stay home and then her retirement account takes a hit, or she may have a sick parent or get divorced and her finances will take an even harder it," she said. "We have unique financial needs that men don't have."
Candace Bahr, a former stockbroker, was the first to coin the term "money club" to describe groups of women meeting to discuss their finances.
"It's like a book club," she said. "The power of the group is people who want to learn. It's people getting together and saying, 'I'll help you, you help me.'"
Bahr co-founded the Women's Institute for Financial Education (WIFE), described as the first non-profit dedicated to women's financial independence.
"I started out as a stockbroker and had an experience where I had five women come to me over the course of about five or six months who said, 'I lost my husband and I need to learn about finances,'" she recalled. "That was a huge wake-up call for me."
Bahr said she saw through her work as a stockbroker and in conversations with friends that women were not educating themselves on their own finances.
"The scariest thing is people who would tell me, 'You're the expert. You just do what you think,'" she said. "You need to be a participant. You're the expert in your life."
"If you spend just 15 minutes a day working on your financial life, over the course of a year you'll have spent 90 hours, or more than two full work weeks," Bahr added.
When women work together on their finances, it helps them to overcome a barrier in the finance industry that is not of their own making, according to Bahr.
"Women are wired for cooperation but the way the investment arena has been created is very hierarchical and competitive, and that's not how we're wired," she said. "It doesn't have to be that way."
Sandra Grahame was one in a group of five friends who were able to decrease their debt cumulatively by nearly $50,000 and increase their salaries by nearly $100,000 over the course of a year after they made a commitment to meet weekly to talk money.
"We brought our bank statements, our credit card statements and we all just laid it on the table," Grahame, now 36, recalled of the group's first meeting around 10 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia, where the five friends lived at the time. "It was kind of scary."
Each week a group member, none of whom worked in the financial industry, presented on a different topic they'd researched, from investing to how to work with a mortgage broker. The friends set goals and held each other accountable each week.
"It was a level of trust," Grahame said. "I think women in a close circle of friends is really special so if you can bring the topic of money into that, which doesn't normally happen over cocktails, it can go to some pretty great places."
Grahame and her four friends were featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and founded Smart Cookies, now led by Grahame, which offers online money clubs and financial education courses for women.
"A lot of things are elevated when you're surrounded by women who want to see the best in you and hold you up," Grahame said. "That's where the magic happens."
Ready to start your own money club?
Here are five tips from women leading the money club revolution.
1. Find women that are like-minded but in different situations.
This article was written by By Katie Kindelan and originally appeared in Good Morning America.


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Bayer Properties plans a redevelopment of another historic downtown Birmingham building
Michael Tomberlin
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The company behind The Summit and The Pizitz is looking at redeveloping a historic steel plant along Birmingham's Rotary Trail into new offices and entertainment space.
Bayer Properties has a contract to purchase the Hardwick Co. building, a 110-year-old steel plant on the eastern end of the Rotary Trail at 23rd Street and First Avenue South.
The building, which has a 30,000-square-foot footprint, is expandable to 50,000 square feet by adding floors. The hope is to be underway with development in 2021.
In an economy paralyzed by COVID-19, Bayer Co-President and Chief Financial Officer Jami Wadkins said the development looks to the future.
"As a real estate developer, even though things are uncertain right now in the country with this unprecedented time we're dealing with, as a real estate company we've always got to be looking for opportunities, so we tried to continue our business pipeline through the COVID-19 event," she said.
Bayer Properties announces new project in downtown Birmingham from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.
Wadkins said the company will apply the same expertise it brought to the successful redevelopment of The Pizitz, which turned a 1920s-era department store into a popular mix of apartments, food hall, co-working, entertainment and retail space.
The Hardwick will have its own character. Wadkins said the company is looking at the potential to incorporate elements that speak to the building's history, like the massive overhead cranes and machinery that still exist and give the space "some energy and ambiance."
"We are really excited about the Hardwick project. It is a sort of unique building," Wadkins said. "The location is terrific, right on the Rotary Trail and with some developments going on on that end of town."
Wadkins said the plan is set on developing the building into office space, but the rest of the mixed-use elements are still being worked out.
"We do believe that that area is ripe for adding some entertainment or food and beverage," she said.
Playing off the connectivity that now exists between Railroad Park, Rotary Trail, Sloss Furnaces, Pepper Place and part of the larger Red Rock Trail System, Wadkins said that part of downtown should continue to enjoy growth.
Bayer Co-president Libby Lassiter agreed.
"The redevelopment of the Hardwick building will bring a pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use project to the area, complementing the fabric of the surrounding neighborhood," she said.
It also gives Bayer a focus in the city where it is headquartered.
"We did want to do more business in our own city – in Birmingham and the surrounding area," she said.
The building is under contract and in pre-development now. It qualifies for historic tax credits and opportunity zone incentives, which Wadkins said they plan to pursue. Bayer has selected Birmingham-based Williams Blackstock Architects and Schoel Engineering as part of the initial design team.
Wadkins said talks were already taking place with potential tenants when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and brought business to a halt.
Wadkins said they are seeing businesses suffer in every state where they have properties. She said it's not just retailers or landlords of shopping centers feeling the pain, but the entire supply chain and even in industries you may not suspect. For instance, movie theaters are struggling now because of social distancing and crowd size restrictions, but that is also affecting the production of new movies, which could affect having movies to premiere when theaters do open back up.
Moreover, retailers that had just purchased spring and summer merchandise when COVID-19 hit are now not only worried about that but how they're going to be able to order for the following seasons.
Still, as businesses have been allowed to reopen even with COVID-19 restrictions, there is a sense that things are showing a small but incremental improvement.
"At The Summit this past weekend, I would say it was positive — not a normal weekend at The Summit, but it felt better than it has in the last two months or even the last two weeks," Wadkins said.
Which is why projects like The Hardwick take on more significance – it gives people something to look forward to.
"We can't just completely stop," Wadkins said. "We've always got to be looking for opportunities to continue to do business, and that's what we've done. We have the Hardwick project, and we actually have one other that we're working on in the metro area — not quite as far along — but we've just got to continue working."
(Courtesy of Alabama NewsCenter)


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