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Timi Gustafson RD
It Takes a Town to Be Healthy
By Timi Gustafson, RD on August 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM
How healthy you are, or can hope to be, depends on multiple factors, including where you live.
For example, if you call Minneapolis-St. Paul home, you breath cleaner air and will find it easier to exercise outdoors than in most other American metropolitan areas because there are more walk- and bike paths than almost anywhere else. Washington D.C. has the highest number of swimming pools, tennis courts, and recreational centers in the nation, and health care providers are abundant here. Denver has the lowest obesity rate among big cities and the highest percentage of residents who are in excellent or very good health.
Of course, metropolises offer plenty of opportunities to stay healthy and fit smaller communities just can't afford. But that doesn't mean that small town residents are doomed.
Any place, the smaller, the better, can become a model in health-promoting living, according to Esther Dyson, a healthcare technology investor and founder of the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup), a nonprofit organization that sponsors health and lifestyle initiatives in communities all over the country.
So far, her organization has chosen five towns for a five-year trial run named "Way to Wellville," a program to raise greater awareness of health risks such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer – all mostly lifestyle-related ills that could be avoided.
While HICCup will cover initial administrative costs, the selected towns will be responsible for running the program independently.
"First, we want places that can succeed. The Wellville Challenge is not a random selection but a search for places that can make the most of the help HICCup can provide and the connections we can help them to establish," says Dyson. "But in the end, the communities themselves will be doing the heavy lifting."
As investors, HICCup and its partners will support Wellville communities in much the same way startup investors support promising business ideas. "In this case, the community is the startup – and the community's product is health," says HICCup CEO Rick Brush.
Obviously, the actions of a handful of hamlets won't have much of an impact on big issues like the ever-worsening obesity crisis. But Dyson hopes that they will establish a model for other small and mid-size communities elsewhere.
"The programs by and large won't be remarkable," she concedes. "What's remarkable is doing them together, reinforcing one another in small, self-contained communities where they will have maximum impact."
The ultimate challenge these localized initiatives will have to grapple with is how to address the concrete health problems that are most pervasive in the country. Poor diet and lifestyle choices are certainly at the forefront and must be addressed through education and other preventive measures. But so must poverty and limited access to healthcare. Even when more people have access to insurance coverage, doctors and hospitals must make greater efforts to keep people from getting sick, not just treat their ailments. Civic and business leaders can provide incentives and infrastructure, but they cannot make everyone take advantage of them.
Still, the idea of enlisting entire communities in the fight against debilitating diseases that occur unnecessarily and are perfectly preventable is laudable, even if it takes one small patch at a time.
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Narcotics Report
Twenty countries are listed in the U.S. State Department's just-released annual report on major drug transit or major illicit drug producers.
As a result of the report's findings, President George W. Bush has cited Burma and Venezuela as countries that have "failed demonstrably" during the past twelve months to enact counter narcotics-trafficking strategies. Others on the list are Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru.
Christy McCampbell is the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Affairs. Burma, she says, is a major producer of opium and a major trafficker of methamphetamine stimulates. "Burma's performance is also lackluster," says Ms. McCampbell, "in the areas of demand reduction, interdiction, anti-money laundering and combating corruption."
In the case of Venezuela, Ms. McCampbell says Venezuelan authorities have ended a number of programs. She says Venezuelans ended a narcotics prosecution task force and a cargo inspection facility. Under U.S. law, the designation of "demonstrable failure" in the cases of Burma and Venezuela, means that these countries can be found ineligible for U.S. aid, though humanitarian and counter trafficking assistance is usually continued.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Christy McCampbell says almost every country in the world "including the United States is having a terrible problem with drugs." The point, she says, "is that some countries don't seem to be too worried about it." She says we're trying "to work together and figure out how we can solve these problems.
The preceding was an editorial reflecting the views of the United States Government.

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Continuing her reign as one of the biggest emerging R&B stars into 2019, Kehlani just dropped "Nights Like This" with the help of Ty Dolla $ign.
After taking a brief step away from music to prepare for the birth of her first child, the glowing MamaLani is ready to take over the world again. The incredibly talented "Playinwitme" singer is stepping into a new era with confidence and poise.
A cinematic video accompanying the track feels like an episode of Black Mirror with creepy robots and futuristic effects that make you think twice about the world. She starts to fall in love with an android woman that ends up on her doorstep... before the video takes a super dark twist.
Kehlani is currently working on her follow-up to 2017's SweetSexySavage and describes it as a collection of her untold stories.


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Q: Can I use my Jawbone ICON to listen to Netflix on my iPhone4? Question says it all. Is there some config to do this? Phone is not jailbroken.

A: I've just got an ICON last weekend and it plays all audio output I've thrown at it (phone calls, podcasts, games). Netflix itself, I couldn't test since we don't have that here in Europe, but I don't see why it should be any different than the other apps.
What is important, though, is that A2DP support is installed on the ICON. In my case, it was out of the box, but apparently that's different with older ones. In that case, you apparently need to go to http://mytalk.jawbone.com and install a software update for your headset.

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Q: How to revoke alter privilege from postgres? My Postgres DB has a user - "myuser" who has access to everycommand in schema my_schema.
I want to restrict the user to use only basic sequelize commands like Create, Update, Delete, Select. But the user should not be able to Alter the table (in sequelize, he shouldn't be able to do .sync{} operation).
I have already tried doing:
REVOKE ALTER ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA my_schema from myuser

But the above command is giving error!
Commands I have used to create role is:
CREATE ROLE app_readwrite1;
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE dvdrental TO app_readwrite1;
GRANT USAGE, CREATE ON SCHEMA app_schema TO app_readwrite1;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA app_schema TO app_readwrite1;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA app_schema GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON TABLES TO app_readwrite1;
GRANT USAGE ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA app_schema TO app_readwrite1;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA app_schema GRANT USAGE ON SEQUENCES TO app_readwrite1;

After creating role above, I am creating user and assigning him the role.
Still, I can use Model.sync()- basically "ALTER" command along with CRUD operations.
How can I restrict the user from using alter command?


This article is the first of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece also appeared in the C&E blog.
If C&E's CampaignTech conference is any indication, online politicos are going to fight on two different kinds of ground in 2012, and they'd better be ready for both. We might think of them as the air war and the ground war, but those words also apply to television advertising and grassroots organizing. A better metaphor might be retail vs. wholesale—one-on-one vs. mass communications.
Online advertising shows the distinction clearly. The majority of today's political digital ads are intended to recruit supporters, donors and volunteers for particular campaigns or interest groups. Using interest, demographic and geographic matches, advertisers can target Google, Facebook and display (banner) ads with ruthless precision.
It's even now relatively common practice to zero-in on individual people (if anonymously) by matching a campaign's voter file with the "cookies" placed on consumers' computers by commercial advertisers. Retail politics, indeed! At the same time, digital campaigners can run ads with the entirely different goal of influencing the broad public conversation. These ads may not be geo-targeted in the same sense as the recruiting ads mentioned above; instead they try to reach influential voices like reporters, bloggers and political activists.
For instance, a state senate campaign might run recruiting ads within its district aimed at potential voters, while simultaneously placing messaging ads on the statewide newspaper's website aimed at reporters and bloggers. Sometimes campaigns try to boost their profile by running ads in their state or district, along with the District of Columbia, which is aimed at catching the attention of national influencers.
Consider Twitter, too. Yes, most campaigns use Twitter as a way to reach those influentials, since it's a communicator-heavy medium that doesn't geo-target naturally. But field organizers are also turning to the microblogging service for volunteer organizing—using, for instance, "protected" Twitter feeds (only open to people approved by the feed owner) to relay messages to grassroots teams via their mobile phones.
On the positive side, this split of online tactics into retail and wholesale reflects a maturing of digital politics in general, as more people find creative ways to put the available tools to use. On the other hand, "new" media managers now have more masters to serve, with so many elements of a campaign clamoring for time on the same channels.


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Q: Linq 2 Sql and Dynamic table schemas First a background.  Our application is built on ASP.NET MVC3, .NET 4.0, and uses Linq-to-Sql (PLINQO) as its primary means of data access.  Our web application is a multi-tenant/multi-client system where each client gets their own Sql Server database.  Each Sql Server database up to now has had exactly the same schema.
Often times, clients will ask us to track custom fields in their Db that other clients don't track.  The way we've handled this is by reserving a number of customfields in the db in our main tables.  For example, our Widget table may have a CustomText1, CustomText2.. CustomText10, and a CustomDate1, CustomDate2..CustomDate10 fields.  Again, all our schemas across clients are the same, so Linq-to-Sql handles these fields just as easily as any other field.
Now we are running into an issue where a client wants several hundred CustomBool fields, but doesn't need the others.  So, basically, we are researching for ways to still use the Linq-to-Sql, but have it work against potentially different schemas depending on the database it is connected to (although they are different in a very specific way.)
Too much code has already been built on Linq-to-Sql and accessing the Widget classes generated by it that I'd like to not just fall back to straight SQL.
I've seen answers here and on the web on ways for Linq to Sql to access different tables that have the same schema, but I have not found a good answer to the same table name across different dbs with different columns.
Is this possible?

A: If the main objective is to store a few extra fields for existing domain objects then why not create a generic table that can store key value pairs. This is extremely flexible since there is no need to change your schema if a customer requires a new property.
We do this frequently and normally have some helpers to correctly cast the properties e.g.
Service.GetProperty<bool>("SomeCustomProperty")
If you are looking for a more "pluggable" domain model that can be completely different for each tenant, I think you will struggle if you are following a database driven approach and using the L2S designer to generate your code.
To achieve this you really need to be generating your database based on your code (domain driven design) which will give you much more flexibility i.e. you can load a tenant specific configuration (set of classes, business rules etc.) at runtime and use this to generate/validate your schema.
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It would be good if you could elaborate on exactly what design approach you have taken i.e. are you using the Linq designer and generating your model from the database?
It's clear that a generic key value pair store is not going to meet your querying requirements.
It's hard to provide a solution without suggesting a different technology. Relational SQL databases aren't really suited for dynamic domain models. You may be better off with a document database such as MongoDb or RavenDb where you are not tied to a specific schema. You could even make use of these just for your custom properties.
If that's not ideal then another solution would be to use something like Dapper to construct your queries. Assuming you are developing against interfaces you can have a implementation of your data service per tenant that makes use of their custom fields.
Ayende did a whole series of posts on Multitenancy and covers tenant specific domain models. It starts here and may be of some use to you.


Union Minister Piyush Goyal during press conference for Karnataka Vidhan Sabha Election. Express Photo By Prem Nath Pandey 11 May 2018 New Delhi *** Local Caption *** Union Minister Piyush Goyal during press conference for Karnataka Vidhan Sabha Election.
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced a number of sops for farmers, middle-class and other taxpayers. The proposed giveaways included Rs 6,000 per year to farmers who have up to 2 hectares of land and full tax rebate to people earning up to up to Rs 5 lakh.
This will impart a direct benefit to approximately 3 crore taxpayers comprising self-employed, small business/ traders, and salaried class.
Goyal also increased the standard deduction by Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000, thus leaving even more net-in-hand income for the middle class.
The Interim Budget also proposes to do away with taxing the notional rent on the second residential house property owned by a taxpayer.
Interim Budget is a good balance of political and economic priorities as the capex growth is likely to be muted and oil subsidy adequately provided. The government capex growth will likely suffer in FY20.
The firm in its note stated that the headline fiscal numbers are satisfactory and overall steps augur well for low-ticket items of expenditure.
According to Macquarie, the fiscal maths is a tad too aggressive presented by the Finance Minister. However, the 2-wheeler, consumption and real estate sectors are winners with the latter getting a meaningful push in the Budget.
It is of the view that defence and capex growth will likely to be muted in FY20 with the key beneficiaries being Hindustan Unilever, Hero MotoCorp and Jubilant Foodworks.
Credit Suisse highlighted that the downward slide in fiscal deficit ratio was not disrupted. On the other hand, consumption stimulus should support growth, it said. It also said that the structure reduces risks of high and sticky inflation.
FY20 revenue targets look ambitious, according to UBS. It is of the view that populism will still be in focus and consumption will be a boost to the economy. UBS expects a change in policy stance from "calibrated tightening".
According to global research firm HSBC, there have been slips on fiscal front for both FY19 and FY20. The Budget squarely focused on rural and the middle class, it believes.
It is of the view that the central government has slipped on fiscal deficit target for FY19 and has put fiscal consolidation on hold for FY20.
Citi is of the view that it was a modest fiscal slippage despite election populism. Fiscal deficit for FY19 slipped marginally to 3.4 percent of GDP against the target of 3.3 percent.
According to the research firm, deficit meets the FRBM norm of 0.1 percent of GDP reduction while the scale of populist programs is at lower end of expectations.


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CUCAS News > School News > University of Regensburg Vice President Susanne Leist Visits OUC
University of Regensburg Vice President Susanne Leist Visits OUC
On February 20, 2019,Prof. Susanne Leist, Vice President of the University of Regensburg (UR), and Prof. Werner Kunz of the Institute of Physics and Theoretical Chemistry visited Ocean University of China (OUC). OUC's Assistant President Yu Li received the guests in Xingyuan Building, Laoshan Campus.
After expressing his welcome to the delegation, Assistant President Yu gave an overview of OUC and its international cooperation and exchanges. He said that OUC's being included in China's plan of building world-class universities in 2017 brought about new opportunities, and that the construction of the new campus in Qingdao's West Coast New Area created greater prospects for its development. He noted that OUC was looking forward to more exchanges and cooperation with UR, a prestigious institution in Germany.
Vice President Susanne Leist elaborated on UR's faculties and academic achievements. She said that the institution, with natural sciences as its strengths, had attached great importance to the students' all-round development by offering rich learning resources and opportunities of international exchanges. She expressed her hope that UR and OUC could sign an MOU on joint education programs, offering students of both sides more opportunities of studying abroad.
Prof. Tang Qingjuan, Deputy Director of OUC's International Office, moderated the meeting. She gave an overview of the institution's internationalization strategy and achievements of international exchanges. Prof. Qin Shanghai, Dean of the School of International Education, gave an introduction to international student programs and the English course system. Prof. Dong Junyu, Deputy Dean of the College of Information Science and Engineering, and Mr. Wang Kai of German Department in the College of Foreign Languages gave an overview of their disciplines, courses and international programs. They also expressed the hope for student exchanges and research cooperation between OUC and UR.
Prof. Werner Kunz gave an introduction to his institute's research achievements in sustainable and applied chemistry, especially its success in commercializing research findings. Assistant President Yu elaborated on OUC's technology transfer, particularly the progress in marine drug research. He also spoke of OUC's plan to establish an innovation industrial park in expectation of closer cooperation with UR.
The two sides discussed cooperation details in depth. Also in attendance were Prof. Xu Derong, Director of Translation Office affiliated to OUC's International Office, and representatives from the College of Information Science and Engineering and the School of International Education.


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Het jaar 1548 is het 48e jaar in de 16e eeuw volgens de christelijke jaartelling.

Gebeurtenissen
mei
 15 - Het Interim van Augsburg wordt door Karel V uitgevaardigd om een voorlopige verzoening te bewerkstelligen tussen de protestanten en de Roomse Kerk.

juni
 26 - Door de Transactie van Augsburg worden de gebieden van keizer Karel V die in de Westfaalse Kreits liggen, overgebracht naar de Bourgondische Kreits. Vervolgens wordt de Bourgondische Kreits onafhankelijker van het Heilige Roomse Rijk.

oktober
 20 - La Paz wordt gesticht door de Spaanse kapitein Alonso de Mendoza op de plaats van de inheemse nederzetting Chuquiago. De stad ligt op de route van Lima naar de goudmijn van Potosí en heet aanvankelijk Nuestra Señora de la Paz (Onze Lieve Vrouwe van de Vrede).

december
 december - De Saksische Landdag geeft steun aan het Interim van Leipzig, een door de protestanten aangepaste versie van het Interim van Augsburg.
Zonder datum
 In Engeland wordt het Book of Common Prayer uitgegeven, het eerste gebedenboek in het Engels. Daarmee begint de protestantisering van het land.
 Mikael Agricola, sleutelfiguur in de reformatie van Finland, publiceert een vertaling van de Bijbel. Het is tevens het eerste boek in de Finse taal.

Bouwkunst

Geboren

mei
 Karel van Mander, kunstschilder en schrijver van Zuid-Nederlandse afkomst, vooral bekend als auteur van het Schilderboeck (overleden 1606)

september
 2 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italiaans architect (overleden 1616)
 29 - Willem V van Beieren, zoon van hertog Albrecht V van Beieren en Anna van Oostenrijk (overleden 1626)

datum onbekend
 Balthasar de Ayala, Spaans rechtsgeleerde (overleden 1584)
 Giordano Bruno, Italiaans filosoof (overleden 1600)
 Simon Stevin, Vlaams toegepast wiskundige en ingenieur (overleden 1620)

Overleden

april
 1 - Sigismund I (81), koning van Polen

september
 5 - Catharina Parr, koningin van Engeland (1543-1547)

december
 26 - Henrica van Erp, abdis van het vrouwenklooster Oostbroek (ca. 1480–26 december 1548)

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Willis C. Tori was like any typical child. Energetic, curious, approximately two to five inches tall depending on the drawing, and made entirely of blood vessels that were shaped kind of like a little guy. He was especially most typical of all for a child inhabiting a manifestation zone in which nothing like Nintendo exists, or maybe only exists as, like, a weird guy somewhere with a Nintendo for a head, who probably just plays you like a video game while he digests your brain, or something like that, and was also probably busy somewhere anyway, which is all to say that Willis was horribly, horribly bored.
"Ugh, I'm BORED!!!" said Willis as he floundered around on the Hospital floor, leaving perfectly Willis-shaped patches of cleanliness as dirt clung to his slimy veins. This was an activity he might have been extensively invested in if there had been something else he was supposed to be doing instead, but since there were currently only a long list of things he would outright prefer to be doing, he knew without question that his present situation was Seriously the Worst Ever.
He had waited far too many layers for Fern to reawaken. Fern was someone else's mom who had found him alone when she intruded into his own mom's private office and then become his best friend, which was not important to unpack right now. She had also gotten her meat dead again, and her conceptual core was taking exceptionally long to put its meat back on, but this didn't worry Willis because sometimes adults just did that and they always told him everything was fine (it usually wasn't, but he was a mostly good kid who didn't press the issue).
"Grehlg" said his other best friend, Isaac, who used to be the meat of someone who didn't need it anymore and would never be all that terribly important again, but if for some reason he was your favorite thing in this series, God help you, you might still want to see all this nonsense through to the end, honest.
"You're right!" said Willis, who for the record has actually never known what Isaac is saying, but interprets the sounds as he pleases and just assumes with an unflinching child confidence that he literally understands the creature's speech. This time, what he imagined he heard was the suggestion to tackle some of Fern's ongoing business all by themselves. If she had been back in her meat, she might have told him to just stay out of trouble, but watching her get killed repeatedly by cute, tasty animals and sometimes littler kids than himself was making him feel increasingly like she needed his protection at least slightly more than the reverse, which was under several circumstances correct.
"It can't be that hard to find some dumb ol' babies!"
At this, a metallic box on the ceiling hurriedly fizzed to life. It was their friend Chip, who was made of numbers instead of meat, at least on this layer. On some layers they were the opposite things. On some they were the exact same thing. Willis was just beginning to wonder if number meat had number blood, and how it tasted, when Chip spoke in his stammering way that someone didn't have the energy to write this time, and it's not like Willis ever really noticed it.
"Willis, as Hospital staff and the only conscious adult present, I must insist that due to unpredictable danger levels, you must remain here until Fern reconstitutes, regardless of how bored you are. I know you think you should be helpful, but it's not the best idea to do whatever you please. Us adults shouldn't have too much trouble sorting out our problems...promise."
It would have been a good idea for Willis to pay attention to these words, but he was still thinking about number blood, and then he got to thinking about how the number 5 looked like a worm, and worm blood was gross, so maybe number blood was gross, or maybe just number 5 blood was gross, and maybe number 6 blood by being one more than a worm was a little less gross, and then he wondered how many numbers you had to count up for the REALLY good blood. In any case, what Willis HEARD Chip say to him was this:
"Willis, as hospital staff and the only conscious adult present, I must insist that due to ------------- ------ --- ---- ------ ---- ----- ---- -------------, ---------- -- how bored you are - ---- --- ----- you should be helpful, --- it's --- the best idea to do whatever you please. Us adults -------- have too much trouble tackling our problems on our own."
"ZACTLY!" Said Willis. "Where do we start?!"
"Willis...no." Implored Chip. "Your mother would be furious."
"She's also your boss so you can't tell me what to do :)" said Willis, pronouncing the emoticon as smugly as a child can muster.
"Sighhh" sighed Chip. Willis was correct, he technically outranked most Hospital staff and parastaff. It didn't usually matter because there wasn't usually anything so hazardous going on. "If you truly insist, Willis, then I have in fact just now received some rather interesting data on the likely whereabouts of the missing patients, and I have calculated the safest - er, that is, the most exciting - course of action you could take to aid the Hospital as well as Fern."
"But," he continued, "This is still an important responsibility, Willis. You're going to have to take this seriously. If you encounter any unexpected threats, Fern will need you to make a tactical retreat and report your findings to me immediately. Can you do that for us, Willis?"
Willis nodded with great enthusiasm and beamed with visible confidence in a very mature fashion, which was enough to reassure the worried adult, even though Willis hadn't actually listened to anything he just said, but had only just concluded that blood would begin to taste its most delicious at the number 19. This was correct.
"Alright" said Chip, "I know we can trust you to hurry back if ANYTHING happens."
And so began a humble misadventure that wouldn't quite be anything like what Fern gets up to, but would still advance the "A" plot and feature some degree of audience participation, maybe even battle scenes, without taking nearly as much real world time as her attempt to fix one computer, or her attempt to retrieve one identification card, or her attempt to figure out one password. Good lord, Fern, you could seriously use a running narrator to help move things along. It's really too bad that would suck all the sodium out of your body and replace it with pure chlorine. Grey zoners miss out on all the best stuff that way. Where were we? Oh, that's right!
And so began...
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American tax code promotes outsourcing. Mitt Romney's jobs plan would exploit that weakness.
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You can skip the article to the conclusion, but then, if you did, you'd miss out on the rationale… which is the significant point.
Yes, there are changes to American tax policy which need to be re-examined, particularly and especially those which do not offer competitive, fair or just incentives for a win-win-win for American enterprise, the American worker, and the American economy as a whole. However, the rules that have skewed the advantage to Big Business to the exclusion of the benefit of all of America and her citizens should be re-examined and modified or eliminated as necessary.
Time and time again, history has shown that when our nation has had high personal income tax rates, our nation has prospered significantly. That's but one proof positive that should no longer be a "sacred cow" for any political party.
Further, the "starve the monster" philosophy which has, in large part, guided the modern Republican party, even spawning the modern radical TEA Party element, is a significant departure from reality. The reason why is simple: 100 years ago, we didn't have space travel, the Internet, computers, cell phones, the Interstate highway system and so many, many, many more things that we have now. It's ludicrous – bordering on the insane – to imagine that as these new inventions and innovations have proliferated (themselves signs of American ingenuity & enterprise), that there would be fewer rules and regulations associated with them. The concept is really quite simple. For example, when families have more children, there are more rules to govern their actions & behaviors. It's analogous also to saying that, as an adult, one would wear smaller clothing as an adult, then as they did when in their infancy. It's so preposterously ludicrous as to be insane – a genuine divorce from reality.
Romney's New Tax Incentive for Outsourcing U.S. Jobs
How Romney's Plan Would Reward Foreign Outsourcing
Gov. Romney presents his plan for creating jobs and improving the economy during a speech Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, in Las Vegas. His argument that we must exempt the overseas profits of American companies from U.S. taxes to make them more competitive in a global economy doesn't hold up. SOURCE: AP/ Julie Jacobson
By Seth Hanlon | July 16, 2012
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The Washington Post recently reported that some of the companies Mitt Romney's firm Bain Capital invested in were "pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories." Even more troubling than his business record is his platform as Republican presidential candidate, which includes a policy that would encourage and further accelerate the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries.
The former Massachusetts governor would make U.S. corporations' overseas profits exempt from U.S. taxes. These profits are already treated favorably under the tax code compared to corporate profits that are earned and reported domestically, creating an inefficient bias toward investment offshore. The favorable treatment of profits that are reported offshore also creates rewards for corporations that shift profits (on paper) out of the United States to foreign countries, including tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Romney's proposed exemption for foreign profits would exacerbate the worst features of our current tax system. It would:
Enhance the tax code's rewards for moving jobs and investments overseas
Provide a gratuitous windfall to some of the very companies that have already shifted jobs and profits overseas
Further invite the offshore tax haven abuse that deprives the U.S. Treasury of tens of billions of dollars in revenue every year
Romney argues that we must exempt the overseas profits of American companies from U.S. taxes to make them more competitive in a global economy. But the evidence for this claim is lacking, as this issue brief will demonstrate. More fundamentally, Romney confuses the interests of multinational corporations based in the United States with the competitiveness of the U.S. economy overall. His plan would not make the U.S. economy—or U.S. workers—more competitive. Instead, it would reward foreign outsourcing, putting American workers at a disadvantage.
One of the many ways that our tax system is broken is that it actually encourages and rewards U.S. corporations to make job-creating investments overseas even if similar investments in the United States—absent tax considerations—would be more profitable.
This perverse incentive stems from a feature of our tax system known as "deferral." Under deferral, U.S. corporations pay taxes on their domestic profits in the year they are earned, but can delay paying taxes on their foreign profits for many years, or even indefinitely. Deferral is a valuable benefit because foreign profits can compound free of U.S. tax until they are "repatriated," or brought back to the United States (at which point the corporation is allowed a credit for foreign taxes paid).
The disparate treatment between domestic and foreign profits means that the U.S. tax code makes moving investment abroad more attractive. Economist Martin Sullivan of Tax Analysts explains:
Under current law, if an American corporation opens a factory in Indiana, the profits of that factory are subject to the 35 percent U.S. corporate tax rate. If the same corporation instead opens a similar factory in Ireland, the profits from that factory are subject to a 12.5 percent tax rate [Ireland's corporate tax rate]. If that factory generates a profit of $100, the choice is between an after-tax profit of $65 in the United States and $87.50 in Ireland. Obviously, U.S. tax law provides a large tax advantage for building and moving factories to low-tax countries
American tax code favors "outsourcing."
In reality, most U.S. corporations don't pay the full 35 percent on income earned in the United States because they take advantage of many available tax deductions and credits. But they're also unlikely to pay the full foreign rate on overseas profits. In fact, major U.S. corporations investing in Ireland pay a small fraction of the 12.5 percent Irish rate. Indeed, many major U.S. corporations pay extremely low foreign taxes, while indefinitely deferring the U.S. taxes on their foreign profits. The bottom line is that overall, the effective tax rate that U.S. corporations pay on their foreign profits is about a third lower than the tax rate on their domestic profits, according to a 2008 study by the Government Accountability Office. (see figure below)
The unfortunate consequence is that our tax system's skewed incentives "encourage firms to locate physical assets, production, and jobs in [low-tax foreign] countries," according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Worse, our existing system even encourages companies to invest in high-tax foreign countries, rather than the United States, because once assets are offshore, the resulting profits can be moved fairly easily on paper to tax havens.
Loopholes in the existing tax code also encourage and reward large corporations to game the rules to treat their profits as having been earned abroad even if they were actually earned in the United States. Profit shifting by multinational corporations costs the United States tens of billions of dollars in revenue. This system is badly in need of reform to reverse the bias toward offshore investment and prevent profit shifting.
Romney's new and expanded subsidy for offshore investment
Romney's economic platform would exacerbate these harmful features of the international tax system. He pledges to move the United States toward a "territorial" tax system. What this means is that instead of paying a deferred tax on their foreign profits, U.S. corporations would pay no U.S. tax. Exempting overseas profits from tax would be a tax cut for multinational corporations of $130 billion over 10 years. When combined with Romney's proposal to slash the top corporate rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, which would cost more than $900 billion, it pushes the total corporate tax cuts in the Romney plan to over $1 trillion.
A bigger reward for shipping U.S. jobs abroad
Exempting U.S. corporations' foreign profits would sweeten the tax code's already-rich inducements to move investments and jobs overseas. A U.S. company deciding whether to build a factory in the United States or elsewhere would know that the returns from its investment, if made abroad, would be permanently free of U.S. tax—not merely tax deferred, as under our current system. That would result in a large tax cut for some U.S. multinationals, but it would run counter to the interests of U.S. workers. In recent testimony, Congressional Research Service economist Jane Gravelle explained that a territorial system:
… would make foreign investment more attractive. That would cause investment to flow abroad, and that would reduce the capital with which workers in the United States have, so it should reduce wages. [A territorial system] will increase the after-tax rate of return that firms see abroad, so they will want to move their investments–they would want to make investments abroad, instead of the United States.
Gravelle concludes that because a territorial tax system distorts investment decisions, pushing investment offshore, it is "not neutral or efficient."
An analysis by Reed College economist Kimberly Clausing similarly finds that "the tax incentive to locate jobs in low-tax countries would increase significantly." Clausing estimates that investment and profits would migrate to low-tax countries, resulting in 800,000 jobs in low-tax countries and potentially displacing U.S. jobs.
A windfall to companies that have already shifted jobs, investments, and profits overseas
Romney wants to exempt from U.S. taxes not just future foreign profits, but also profits that corporations are already storing overseas. That would provide a pure windfall to the very companies that have been most successful in avoiding U.S. tax by shifting jobs, investments, and profits overseas. U.S. corporations claim that they have more than $1.4 trillion in earnings "permanently reinvested" overseas (though a congressional survey found that a large portion of these earnings are actually deposited in U.S. banks). Much of these earnings have not been subject to any appreciable tax in the foreign countries where they were reported, which means that the U.S. taxes that these companies would eventually pay under current rules would not be offset by foreign tax credits.
Consequently, the companies that have been most aggressive and most successful in avoiding foreign taxes by shifting profits to tax-haven countries such as Bermuda and the Caymans stand to receive the biggest windfall under Romney's plan.
An invitation to greater abuse of tax havens
Romney's proposal would also invite increased corporate tax haven abuse in the future. In 2008, U.S. multinationals artificially shifted as much as $250 billion in profits overseas, largely to tax-haven countries, reducing their taxes by as much as $90 billion, according to one study. The reward for such legal and accounting gamesmanship under our current system is that U.S. taxes are deferred. In a territorial system, the taxes on profits shifted overseas "would not simply be deferred; they would be completely erased," explains economist Kimberly Clausing. "This would eliminate existing constrains on shifting income abroad."
Clausing estimates that under a territorial tax system, even more profits of U.S.- based companies would shift to tax haven countries such as Bermuda, Luxembourg,Switzerland, and the U.K. Islands (including the Caymans).
Romney's economic plan briefly alludes to the need for anti-abuse rules but provides no hint of details. And on the campaign trail the all but certain Republican presidential candidate has rejected a sound proposal for addressing tax haven abuse: a minimum tax on corporate profits. A minimum tax would ensure that corporate profits that are subject to unusually low levels of tax—for example when booked in no-tax countries such as Bermuda—are subject to at least some U.S. tax in the year they are earned.
President Obama called for such a minimum tax in his framework for business tax reform. And the president is not alone in proposing such a mechanism. The Republican Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp (R-MI), put forward a somewhat similar proposal as one of three potential options to prevent the "erosion" of the tax base from a shift to a territorial system. Many foreign countries already have similar mechanisms to prevent abuse.
A shift to "territorial" without strong anti-abuse mechanisms is a dangerous invitation to greater corporate tax haven abuse.
Whose competitiveness?
Romney claims that a territorial system would make the U.S. economy more competitive. But this line of thinking mistakes the interests of U.S.-based multinational corporations with the interests of U.S. workers and the broader U.S. economy, which are not always aligned. The evidence is that U.S.-based multinationals are not disadvantaged, in general, under our existing tax code. In fact, a recent study of the 100 largest companies based in the United States with their European Union counterparts found that the European companies pay higher taxes, on average.
There might be an argument for subsidizing overseas investment if such investment leads to greater domestic investment and job creation. But there is little evidence that this "complementary" effect outweighs the "substitution" effect that occurs when foreign investment takes the place of domestic investment and American jobs go overseas. Under the tax code's existing incentives for foreign investment, U.S. multinationals have created jobs abroad while shedding them at home. Between 1998 and 2008, U.S. multinationals decreased U.S. employment by 1.9 million jobs while increasing foreign employment by 2.4 million.
Romney's tax and budget plan would harm the U.S. economy in other ways, too. A massive $1 trillion corporate tax cut would require deeper cuts in public investments such as education, infrastructure, research and development, and other areas. Large and unnecessary cuts in public investments would kill jobs and hamper future economic growth and competitiveness.
The flawed "lock-out" theory
Romney's proposal to adopt a territorial system ignores the incentives that U.S. corporations would have to invest abroad, and focuses solely on the so-called lockout effect. In his view, our current system "penalizes" U.S. companies that bring back profits from abroad because they must pay the U.S. corporate tax (less a credit for foreign taxes) when the funds are returned to the United States. Romney's theory is that exempting foreign profits would unlock the earnings that U.S. corporations are keeping abroad to avoid U.S. tax, thereby increasing investment and jobs in the United States.
This theory is based on the flawed belief that some of the world's largest corporations would invest more in the United States if only they had more cash at their disposal. Yet large corporations already are holding onto near-record levels of cash—$1.7 trillion at the end of 2011—and are also able to borrow at historically low rates. Given a windfall tax cut on their foreign earnings, they are likely simply to buy back shares or pay dividends to investors.
That's exactly what happened when Congress enacted a one-time "tax holiday" for foreign profits in 2004: Corporations used the tax-amnestied profits for share buybacks and dividend payouts rather than investment or job creation in the United States. Many corporations claiming the tax break actually shed jobs. Romney is undisturbed by this history. He acknowledges and even welcomes the prospect that U.S. corporations would once again use the funds from a tax holiday to pay out dividends to shareholders rather than investing in their businesses.
Romney's lock-out theory also ignores the fact that if a corporation is allowed to bring its profits back to the United States tax-free, its decision on how to reinvest those profits is still distorted by the tax code's pro-offshore bias—a distortion that would be made worse under Romney's territorial system. "[T]here would remain an incentive to reinvest foreign subsidiary earnings in lower-taxed offshore jurisdictions," according to international tax expert Stephen Shay.
A stark contrast
Romney's proposal to move the United States to a territorial tax system, without identifying any potential safeguards to deter the outflow of American jobs or profit shifting abroad, contrasts sharply with President Obama's agenda on corporate taxes. In advancing a framework for comprehensive business tax reform, President Obama rejected a "pure territorial" system. The president's framework explained:
If foreign earnings of U.S. multinational corporations are not taxed at all, these firms would have even greater incentives to locate operations abroad or use accounting mechanisms to shift profits out of the United States.
Instead, President Obama proposes to reduce these existing perverse incentives and crack down on profit shifting. He proposes:
A minimum tax on corporate profits to ensure that multinational corporations cannot avoid taxes by exploiting tax havens. The minimum tax is aimed at ensuring that corporations cannot exploit weaknesses in the U.S. tax system and overseas tax havens to avoid taxes. By ensuring that corporations pay some tax abroad it will reduce the rewards for shipping jobs overseas and shifting income to foreign tax havens, making investments in the U.S. more competitive. The president also proposes more specific anti-abuse measures to address areas of rampant profit shifting.
Curtailing tax deductions that subsidize foreign investment. One of the most illogical aspects of our current tax system is that companies can take immediate deductions against U.S. taxes for expenses that support tax-deferred overseas profits. In other words, if they borrow funds in the U.S. which support offshore investment, they can take the interest deduction now but pay taxes on the resulting income later, if at all. This is a clear subsidy for foreign investment, and President Obama proposes to eliminate it.
Denying deductions for expenses associated with outsourcing jobs abroad while providing a credit for "insourcing." The "Bring Jobs Home Act," which would do just that, has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) (S. 2884) and in the House by Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) (H.R. 5542). Companies that return jobs and business activity to the United State would qualify for a 20 percent tax credit for their "insourcing" costs.
President Obama's international tax plan and that of his presidential rival Romney offer a clear contrast. By exempting the foreign profits of U.S. corporations from U.S. tax, Romney's plan would reward and potentially accelerate the shift of jobs and profits overseas. President Obama's plan, by contrast, helps level the playing field for job creation here at home.
Seth Hanlon is Director of Fiscal Reform at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2012/07/hanlon_outsourcing.html
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2 Responses to "American tax code promotes outsourcing. Mitt Romney's jobs plan would exploit that weakness."
Friday, October 5, 2012 at 8:29 AM
You are off your rockers. Way to spin your information to make Romney look like te guy that wants more jobs overseas. It obama wanted to stop outsourcing the past 4 years, why hasn't he lowered the tax rate in the US and stop the deduction a and loopholes like he speaks of doing but never did. He even had two years of democrat control and he didn't push to change the tax code or stop loopholes. He extended the Bush tax cut which all the liberals say are hurting the country and put us in this shitty economy. Get real!! The housing bubble and the redo couloirs spending by the democrats in power from 2007 to present has caused our problems and that's a fact. Start stating the truth to the people and stop your ridiculous spin. Thank you
From a fellow American.
Friday, October 5, 2012 at 1:04 PM
Hi Dave! Thanks for reading and for sharing your thoughts. Many times, folks act as if the President (who ever that may be at any given time) is the be-all, end-all, in-charge-of-everything leader, when in fact, it's not so. While folks like to say the President is – to use a business analogy – the "nation's CEO," nothing could be further from the truth precisely because a CEO has broad powers, whereas the President is Constitutionally limited, and must cooperate with the Congress.
And last I read the Constitution, it specifically states that Congress has the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
So moving on along to Congress, this Congress – WITHOUT EXCEPTION – is THE WORST Congress in the history of this nation.
"Records of the House Clerk's Office show 3,914 bills have been introduced by lawmakers this year, but just 61 of them have become law – less than 2% of all proposed laws, according to a USA TODAY analysis of those records since 1947. In 2011, Congress passed 90 laws. In contrast, the Congress of 1947 and '48, which President Harry Truman famously ran against as the "Do-Nothing Congress," passed 908 laws; among them, the Marshall Plan that financed the rebuilding of Europe after World War II."
Regarding taxation, I encourage you to read this research report.
"Necessary but Not Sufficient: Why Taxing the Wealthy Can't Fix the Deficit"


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IronPigs split with Buffalo; Chad Billingsley, Jake Diekman lead L.V. to win in opener
By Tom Housenick
Chad Billingsley pitched three innings for the IronPigs Tuesday night in his first appearance since May 15. (Harry Fisher, The Morning Call)
Chad Billingsley and Jake Diekman don't figure to be in the Lehigh Valley by the time next month's All-Star break rolls around.
For now, though, they are helping the IronPigs win.
Billingsley made a successful return after another stint on the disabled list with three solid innings and Diekman continued to dominate since his demotion from the Phillies, leading Lehigh Valley to a 3-1 victory over Buffalo in the first game of a doubleheader Tuesday night at Coca-Cola Park.
The Bisons won the second game 3-1 to end Lehigh Valley's modest two-game winning streak.
Billingsley (2-1), who last pitched May 15 for the Phillies, allowed one unearned run and three hits to get the win.
"It was good to be back out there again," the 30-year-old said with a laugh. "Going through the whole rehab process again.
"I was a little rusty at times, got a little quick with my delivery, but as the game went on I found my rhythm and tempo and made some pitches when I needed to."
Billingsley, returning from a right lat strain, worked the fifth, sixth and seventh innings of a game suspended Monday with the IronPigs leading 2-0. He allowed an unearned run in the top of the sixth. He walked ninth-place hitter Jonathan Diaz, who took second on a passed ball. Steve Tolleson singled him home.
"Couple walks, a little uncharacteristic of him," IronPigs manager Dave Brundage said of Billingsley. "Showing a little rust. But I thought he got it back and pitched decent."
Diekman was strong in his first two-inning stint this year with the IronPigs. He struck out two and allowed only a single in his 25-pitch outing (19 strikes).
The lefty has allowed just five hits and one walk in his six appearances spanning the last 10 days.
"He looks good right now, I tell you that," Brundage said of Diekman. "He's down in the zone, throwing quality strikes. He's sticking his chest out a little bit and getting a little bit of that swagger back that we all like."
Lehigh Valley took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when play resumed following a 21-minute rain delay. Monday's game was delayed 51 minutes before being suspended.
Cord Phelps doubled on the first pitch of the resumed game Tuesday night and scored on Tyler Henson's two-strike, two-out single to right.
Billingsley was 0-2 in three starts this season with the Phillies with a 6.75 ERA and a 1.625 WHIP.
The right-hander was 1-1 with a 4.74 ERA in four games during his previous Triple-A rehab stint earlier this season after two elbow surgeries wiped out most of 2013-14.
On April 25, he allowed seven runs and eight hits in five innings against Buffalo — his worst start at either level in 2015.
But Billingsley was able to throw all of his pitches effectively Tuesday against the Bisons.
"With that type of injury, it takes time," he said. "You have to let it heal and just be patient with it. Today, there were no issues with it, didn't feel it at all. So it was great. I was able to throw all my pitches.
"Huge step forward."
Darin Ruf drove in both runs before Monday's game was suspended, on a first-inning fielder's choice and a third-inning single to right field.
Both at-bats came against lefty Felix Doubront (0-3).
Anthony Vasquez allowed one hit and two walks in four scoreless innings to start Monday's game for Lehigh Valley. It was the second time in his six Triple-A starts that a game has been suspended.
Another moving day in Phillies organization: Joely Rodriguez was sent from Lehigh Valley to Double-A Reading after posting a 6-2 record and a 6.32 ERA in 13 starts for the IronPigs. The lefty came over during the offseason from the Pirates in the Antonio Bastardo trade.
Lehigh Valley lefty reliever Nick Hill (0-0, 1 save, 4.68 ERA in 12 appearances), a West Point graduate, was released.
Adam Loewen, a left-handed reliever, rejoined the IronPigs after a stint in Reading. He was 1-0 with a 1.46 ERA in seven games with the Fightins and a 1-2 mark with a 3.63 ERA in 13 games during his previous stint this season in Triple-A. The 31-year-old worked two scoreless innings in Tuesday's second game.
Right-handed starter Paul Clemens (foot) is beginning a rehab assignment with Class-A Clearwater. He was 0-3 with a 5.48 ERA in five starts with Lehigh Valley. He hasn't pitched since May 3.
And, Reading reliever Lee Ridenhour (13 games, 0-0, 5.82 ERA) was released.
Other minor league moves: Outfielder Carlos Tocci and pitcher Ricardo Pinto were promoted from Lakewood to Clearwater.
Tocci, 19, was hitting .321 with 14 doubles and 14 stolen bases with the Blue Claws. He was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2011.
Pinto, a 21-year-old right-hander, was 6-2 with a 3.09 ERA in 11 starts with Lakewood.
Thursday debut: Aaron Nola, the Phillies' first-round pick in 2014, will make his IronPigs debut at 7:05 Thursday night against Buffalo. He'll throw against Daniel Norris (1-5, 3.45 ERA), the Blue Jays' top prospect.
Nola was 7-3 with a 1.88 ERA with Reading.
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On This Day, Virender Sehwag Became First Indian To Hit Triple-Century In Tests
Sports Home Cricket News On This Day, Virender Sehwag Became First Indian To Hit Triple-Century In Tests
Virender Sehwag smashed 309 runs against Pakistan in Multan to become the first Indian batsman to register a triple-century in Tests.
Updated: March 29, 2020 04:03 PM IST
Virender Sehwag reached the milestone with a six off Saqlain Mushtaq.© Twitter
Sehwag became the first Indian batsman to score a triple century in Tests
Sehwag achieved the feat against Pakistan in Multan in 2004
Sehwag reached the milestone with a six off Saqlain Mushtaq
It was on March 29, 2004, when Virender Sehwag became the first Indian batsman to score a triple century in the longest format of the game. He achieved the feat against Pakistan in Multan. In the match, India opted to bat first and finished the first day of the Test at a score of 356/2 with Sehwag unbeaten on 228. On the second day of the match, Sehwag went on to register his triple century and what made the feat more remarkable is that he hit a six off the bowling of Saqlain Mushtaq when he was batting on 295.
Along the way, Sehwag also went on to register the highest score by an Indian batsman against Pakistan in Pakistan. Sanjay Manjrekar had held the record previously as he scored 218 in Lahore in 1989.
Sehwag was finally sent back to the pavilion by Mohammad Sami after playing a knock of 309 runs, and this helped India register a comfortable victory. However, March 29 is all the more special for Sehwag, as four years later, in 2008, he went on score his second triple century.
He recorded his second triple century against South Africa in Chennai on March 29, 2008.
On the third day of the match, Sehwag reached his career-best of 309 runs, and on the fourth day, he went on to add ten more runs taking his individual score to 319.
Apart from Sehwag, Karun Nair is the only Indian batsman to record a triple century. He had achieved the feat against England in Chennai in 2016.
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Come to America Legally.
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On July 31st, I wrote an article praising Joe Biden for finally doing something about the open borders in Arizona.
Specifically, on July 29th, Biden quietly authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, where four wide gaps make it among the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.
In the past, Biden was repeatedly be critical of Trump, his border wall, and his immigration policies — which he referred to as "xenophobic" and "racist."
He specifically wrote that the slogan "build the wall" was "divorced from reality" and a wall "won't stop the flow of illegal narcotics or human trafficking, both of which come primarily through legal ports of entry."
"Nor will it stem the numbers of undocumented, most of whom over-stay legal visas," he added.
In August, 2020, Biden said, "I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it. And at the ports of entry — that's where all the bad stuff is happening." Brilliantly put, and, in addition, he gave Kamala Harris the position of Border Czar. His plans obviously didn't work.
Biden also ceased all new border wall construction after he took office and has told Congress to cancel funding for border wall construction.
He has since ramped up border security measures. and also continues to use billions of dollars Congress appropriated for the wall's construction. He cannot legally refuse to do so — he is only permitted to pause border construction projects.
"The Biden administration's flat refusal to use funds that have already been set aside by Congress to build the border wall is not only illegal and unconstitutional. It's also wrong,"
We now have well over a million illegals roaming around the U.S living on the American taxpayers.
Because we are nearing the November elections, Joe decided to bump up his popularity (what popularity?) and build the wall near Yuma. He didn't give a start day nor a completion day, but has been putting all his time into touting his $430 billion spending bill and going on vacation accompanied by his crackhead son, Hunter and family.
While the Bidens are enjoying the beach life, Arizona's Gov. Doug Ducey began moving 60 ft. shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border wall near Yuma on Friday, August 12, 2022. Two 9 ft, high will be will stacked and topped with 4 ft. high razor wire welded to other shipping containers. This plan is expected to be completed within days.
Ducey said, 'We can't wait any longer. The Biden administration's lack of urgency on border security is a dereliction of duty.'
The Yuma sector of the border, 126 miles long, has seen an almost 300 percent increase in 'border encounters' – migrants arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents – this year, compared to the same time frame in 2021.
Yes, Ducey is trying to solve the problem, but why did it take so long? Any why are the other border states following suit?
This is my opinion and I welcome your opinion, as always.
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Gil on August 22, 2022 at 6:11 pm
What ever the Biden Admin states or extends as actionable theatre in "controlling the border" is only to provide optics to the nation that he's doing something!
As 'Border Czar', Harris has issued NO strategy, objective or status on U.S. Border "health". Biden has been up-ended by his V.P. – in my opinion!
Think upon this: why do you have locks on your doors & windows?
Your "home" is akin your "country". It's to protect you from unwanted & uninvited intruders… aka – aliens to your domicile.
It makes NO sense to allow aliens into OUR country… OUR home!
There's a process for legally entering the U.S…. it works, in-spite many who take umbrance with it.
The authoritative leadership – & its rank & file – have unequivocally outlined what is required to secure the southern border with Mexico from illegal crossings, human trafficking, & drug enforcement. Former U.S. Customs & Border (USCB) commanders have openly, publicly stated the shortfall and lack of support in performing the directive of the USCB.
Don't take my claim as credence, read these posts:
A dozen former USCB leaders write letter to Pelosi, Schumer with the bottom-line of "we're seeing no action…" –
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/politics/border-patrol-surge/index.html
Former USCB Chief Scott outlines, to Senate, shortages to perform it's job and know who is illegally crossing the U.S. border –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-border-patrol-chief-warns-agency-losing-ability-to-know-who-and-what-is-entering
USCB is vilified by DHS & Biden Whitehouse –
https://townhall.com/columnists/matthewtragesser/2022/02/01/video-of-border-patrol-altercation-with-leadership-is-only-tip-of-iceberg-n2602644
I come from a corporate background and have served as CEO of a public entity. My job was only in contract for one (1) quarter. If that quarter's performance was acceptable-to-stellar, I enjoyed employ for the next quarter. In Government, positive and actionable deliverables are unheard of and not measured. And IF measured, the numbers are skewed or misrepresented… hence, NO accountability.
The U.S. is, purportedly, a nation of rule, order& law.
As a democracy, you & I, I presume, follow that premise.
Those in political & governmental power skirt what they impose upon us and OUR country!
There's no border wall around Somalia… I wonder why?!


Johannesburg – It was in 2017 that Unathi announced she will be taking on the challenge of attempting to summit Mount Kilimanjaro.
The singer, who is quite the fitness fanatic, said in a post in December that although she was scared, she was ready to take on the challenge of climbing the highest peak in Africa, and now the time has finally arrived.
On Monday Unathi shared images and videos of herself exploring Tanzania before the big trek up the country's famous mountain.
Her adventures in Tanzania include visiting the village of the Chaga tribe as well as exploring surrounding villages.


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De Salomonsmonarch (Symposiachrus browni; synoniem: Monarcha browni) is een zangvogel uit de familie Monarchidae (monarchen).

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Deze soort is endemisch op de Salomonseilanden en telt 4 ondersoorten:
 S. b. browni: Kolombangara, New Georgia, Vangunu en de nabijgelegen eilanden.
 S. b. ganongae: Ranongga.
 S. b. nigrotectus: Vella Lavella.
 S. b. meeki: Rendova en Tetepare.

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We have a one week iteration that starts on Wednesday. Every Wednesday morning we do our retrospective and our planning meeting back to back. This is the agenda that we use for our retrospectives and will hopefully serve as an idea generator for yours.
The Scrum Master is responsible for making everyone feel safe and organizing and facilitating the meeting. Safety and preparation are key and will result in a smoother retrospective.
In your retrospective, make sure everyone feels they are in a safe environment. Without safety, members have a tendency to not speak up. One way to foster a safe environment is by having everyone sit in a chair in a circle with no tables. This represents no barriers between you and your teammates. If individuals not on your team are attending your retrospective and do not contribute to a safe environment, ask them to not attend but that you'll review the retrospective with them later. This allows communication between those individuals but also allows topics to be discussed openly.
Before the meeting begins, have post it notes handed out, extra pens available, and any other needed material ready for the taking in addition to the circles in "The Soup" drawn on a whiteboard (more explanation to come). The more prep work that is done at the beginning, the smoother the meeting will go.
Welcome the team to the retrospective and go over the agenda items. During this stage, we also review the swim lane board to make sure it is accurate. You'll undoubtedly have someone say, "Oh, that's done", so a quick look at the board is useful.
Purpose: Get a general feel on the team's morale of the iteration. We do this first so that this represents one's own personal feelings on how the iteration went and does not allow other team members to influence your decision.
Process: The Scrum Master will ask the team "Were you happy or sad with how this iteration went?" then each member will respond and the score will be tallied. A team member should not defend their answer, the reason(s) should be revealed in the second activity.
At the end of the 3 minutes, collect all of the post it notes and organize them into categories on a whiteboard. The number of categories will vary depending but keep the number of categories no greater than 5 categories. Once the post it notes are categorized, have each team member vote twice on which categories they would like to discuss. They can vote twice on the same category or split them. Once the votes are tallied, discuss the top 2 categories. Place a 10-15 minute time box for each category for team members to discuss, more in depth, cards they put on the wall, and how to improve the situation. Don't feel as if you have to draw it out to the maximum time, if a category's discussion has ended, go onto the next category. If you have time left over from discussion, ask the team if they want to discuss the third most popular category. Make sure a time box of the remaining time you have left is for the last category as to respect the time.
Take the cards from the discussed categories and use them for The Soup Experiment. This will give the team different perspective on the cards written. It will help clarify whose responsible for what. If there are a lot of "painful" cards in team control, then this clarifies items that the team needs to work on. At this point, come up with action items (assign them to an individual, if you assign it to the team, they'll never get done!) as to how the team can improve the situation, or experiments that the team can try for an iteration to try and improve the situation.
Thank the team for their time and move onto the planning meeting.
Don't be overwhelmed! The first few retrospectives will take longer but will become shorter over time.
Let this be an avenue where team members can voice their concerns and solutions but refrain from talking exclusively on the negative items. Talk about what went well and how to maintain that!
Action Items: these are important and will reflect on how effective retrospectives become. Come up with measurable action items, assign them to a person, and, most importantly, follow up with the status at the next retrospective. If items are under the team's control, do everything possible to complete those action items sooner rather than later.
Limit your action items to between 3 - 5 items, take the highest priority items. It's easier to remember 3 - 5 items versus 20 plus they are more likely to get done.
Switch up your retrospective activities! This will keep the meetings fresh and not get people into a rut. Check out the book "Agile Retrospectives Making Good Teams Great".
Remember to time box activities as much as possible to respect team member's time.


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Q: finding sequences from small length sequences I want to generate a space by using some events in a specific format. Let me explain the problem on a small example.
Assume that I have the events a,b,c,d,e,f. I will have 3-length sequences as an input consisting of these events. From these sequences I want to generate 6-length (number of events) sequences and there will be no repeated elements in the sequence, i.e. every event will be used exactly once. 6-length sequences need to satisfy some rules.(explained on example)
Example:
Input:
list1:['a','b','c']
list2:['c','d','e']
list3:['b','c','d']
list4:['a','c','g']
list5:['f','g','e']

List1 describes that, b and c will come after a, and c will come after b in the 6-length sequence, i.e, when the order changes sequence also changes. In the same manner List2 describes that d and e will come after c, and e will come after d. All of the lists will be taken and rules are recorded. After all rules extracted from these sequences, I need to generate 6-length sequence that obeys rules. As an example;
Lets say in our case(for simplicity) inputs are List1,List2 and List3
Input:
list1:['a','b','c']
list2:['c','d','e']
list3:['b','c','d']

Then some results for these lists are;
['a','b','c','d','e']: it obeys all of the rules from extracted these 3 lists, like b and c comes after a, d and e comes after c, c and d comes after b. İmportant note from here, if c needs to come after a, they do not need to be adjacent in the output sequence(6-length)
It is not guaranteed that 6-length sequence will always exist. Firstly, it needs to be checked that there is at least one such sequence. If not, algorithm should return false. As an example; lets assume our inputs are Lis1, Lis2, Lis3, Lis4 and Lis5.
Input:
list1:['a','b','c']
list2:['c','d','e']
list3:['b','c','d']
list4:['a','c','g']
list5:['e','g','b']

a => b => c => g => b it is not possible since b can not come after itself.
I need an algorithm to generate these sequences in Python. I do not have any code for now, because so far I could not think any efficient algorithm. It needs to be very efficient in finding longer length sequences, too.
If the question is not clear, please let me now.
Thanks

A: Here's a starting point:
import networkx as nx
from itertools import tee, izip

list1 = ['a','b','c']
list2 = ['c','d','e']
list3 = ['b','c','d']

g = nx.DiGraph()
for items in [list1, list2, list3]:
    a, b = tee(items)
    next(b)
    g.add_edges_from(izip(a, b))

print nx.topological_sort(g)
# ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

This'll raise an exception if the graph contains cycles...

A: You can build your model as Directed Acyclic Graph. networkx python library will handle all the graph stuff for you.
To generate random 6 element sequences, you can enumerate all the possible sequences and later pick randomly from those with 6-elements
A sketch of the (lousy but working) algorithm:

*

*start with the Jon's example - build the graph and ensure that the graph is a DAG

*P is a vector of nodes, empty at the beginning

*pick a random node from the graph, add the node to P

*select a random neighbour node

*add the new node to P

*if P has the desired length (10 or 20 or whatever) then P is a valid result.

*otherwise, go to 4


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Infant who survived Indiana twister that killed her family dies a day later
By MARIE BRADBY in Louisville, Ky., and ERIN DURKIN and HELEN KENNEDY in New York
Angel Babcock (Jayla Brough via Facebook)
The Indiana toddler who was whisked into the air and deposited alive in a field by the monster storm that killed her whole family died Sunday.
Angel Babcock, 14 months, had suffered grave head and neck injuries and was on life support.
"Angel has been reunited with her parents," her grandfather, Jack Brough, said in a statement read by hospital staff. "All of us should look to God."
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Brough told the Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal that the baby died surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins after the family decided to remove life support.
"We didn't want her to suffer anymore," he said. "It was time for her to be with her parents and her brother and sister."
The Indiana baby's initial survival made headlines around the world. It had been the sole bright spot in the devastation left by the savage swarm of tornadoes that demolished whole towns and killed at least 39 people in the Midwest Friday.
Calls poured in to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Ky., from well-wishers across the globe.
The family was last seen by a neighbor who tried to save them lying face-down in the hallway of their trailer home, holding hands and praying.
Neighbor Jason Miller, 31, was picked up by the twister along with the family and all six were tossed across the road. Miller survived with broken bones.
The day before she died, Angel's mother, 20-year-old Moriah Brough, uploaded pictures of her three kids to Facebook for the first time.
The young mom added a quote that was sadly prophetic: "Live every day at your best advantage cause at any time it can be taking away."
Angel was found in a field near her New Pekin, Ind., home after the twister killed her mom, her dad, 21-year-old Joseph Babcock, her 2-year-old brother, Jaydon, and her 2-month-old sister, Kendall.
Initial reports that Angel flew 10 miles were mistaken.
Family friend Sherry Young recounted how the storm scattered the family.
"Kendall was a month and a half old and was found in her car seat upside down. Jayden was 2 years old, and he was found under the rubble," Young told WXYZ-TV in Michigan.
"Joseph was found on the opposite side of the road from his house. Moriah was found underneath a tree," she said.
"Angel was found out in the middle of the field all alone."
As many as 90 tornadoes touched down Friday in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio - making it the largest March tornado outbreak in history, according to the Weather Service.
"Hell was what happened here. That's the only way to describe it," a shellshocked resident of Henryville, Ind., told the Weather Channel after two enormous twisters rampaged through the town, one after the other, wiping it off the map.
The twisters ripped a scar across the heartland, flipping buses, exploding houses and tossing two police cruisers into City Hall in West Liberty, Ky.
One of the storms that hit Henryville registered EF-4 on the Fujita scale that measures tornadic force and packed 175 mph winds. It stayed on the ground for more than 50 miles, disintegrating everything in its path.
Survivors Michelle Friedly, 41, and her teenage daughter huddled in a bathtub saying "I love you" over and over to each other as the storm ripped their Henryville house apart around them.
"It sounds just like a freight train, just like they tell you it does," Friedly told the News and Tribune of Jeffersonville, Ind. "I knew I was going to die."
Teri Kleopfer of Chelsea, Ind., said her house was picked up by the storm and dropped more than 100 feet away.
"It's kind of like the 'Wizard of Oz,'" she told WTHR-TV.
"There's nothing left but the front porch and some concrete blocks."
Kleopfer wasn't in the house: a schoolbus driver, she was rushing kids to safety inside the Chelsea General Store when the twister was demolishing her home.
Her neighbors lost their home too - but much more as well.
Amanda Jackson was holding her 4-year-old son Davlin when the storm hit, Kleopfer said.
"The way I understand it, the storm ripped him out of her arms. He was a little fella, he wasn't very big," she said.
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Look out your window…is this your view?
What if, instead, I could give you this view? Or this?
Here are three books certain to whisk you away to warmer climes ~~ perhaps not physically, but in your imagination.
So make yourself some cool lemonade and come with me, let's escape winter for a bit.
Carol Drinkwater is the actress best known for her portrayal of Helen Herriot in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small.
When Ms. Drinkwater and her fiancé (later husband) Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them in contact with the beautiful countryside of Provence, its neighbors personalities, petty bureaucracies, bug infestations and unexpected wildlife. This warm and funny memoir takes the reader from the glamour of Cannes to the sunny charm of their small plot of land, which they back breakingly transform from overgrown weeds into a thriving olive farm producing some of the finest olive oil in Provence. While at times pedantic when it comes to the history of the olive and olive oil production — The Olive Farm will make wipe your brow in sympathy as they work their land and guaranteed you want to upgrade whatever mediocre olive oil lurks in your cupboard.
You may remember my earlier post about Peter Mayle who died a year ago. Here is his final volume of essays – containing all new pieces which offer his warm and vivid recollections from twenty-five years in the South of France–lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the Côte d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They never looked back and when Mr. Mayle's books became bestsellers, the inspired a whole lot of Brits to follow in their footsteps.
In this volume, his 25 years in Provence have made him wiser and a bit cynical, but no less in love with the area. A cup of café might may now cost three euros–but that price still buys you a front-row seat to the charming and indelible parade of village life. After the coffee, you might drive to see a lavender field that has bloomed every year for centuries, or stroll through the ancient history that coexists alongside Marseille's metropolitan bustle. Modern life may have seeped into sleepy Provence, but this volume reminds us that its magic remains.
And now a novel. But not just any novel, a Book Barmy favorite I have re-read Summer's Lease several times — usually in the midst of cold and damp weather.
Just to refresh your memory John Mortimer is the author of the famous Rumpole series which was adapted into a very fine BBC series ages ago.
With Summer's Lease, Mr. Mortimer veers away from the dusty London chambers into far different surroundings – namely a hot summer in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Molly Pargeter, the mother of three girls and the dissatisfied wife of a barrister uses her own inherited money to bring the family to a dream vacation rental house in Chianti. Her father Haverford Downs — played by John Gielgud in the 1989 television adaptation — joins the vacationing family and is loud, pompous and embarrassing and quite frankly one of the best things in this 1988 comic novel.
Molly strives to enjoy the lush Tuscan atmosphere of "La Felicita" (the Pargeters' rental house) and immerse herself in the sun, people and the famous 'Piero della Francesca' paintings nearby.
Molly is also curious about the owner of the house they are renting, having made the arrangements by mail – never meeting in person. She encounters a number of British expats whom seem to know and respect the owner of La Felicita, but give few details of the shadowy landlord. Molly soon finds herself involved in a greater mystery concerning the disappearance of water at rented villas, plus a suspicious death or two. She solves all the mysteries, but also learns the consequences of prying into the lives of others.
A mystery, a farce, a romance, and a tale of self discovery, Summers Lease is a warm (there's that word again) vacation-like escape into the verdant and sunny climes of Italy.
So there you go some reading escape to take your mind off those endless layers of clothes, wet boots, and snow shoveling.
We had a discussion at my bookclub about this very subject. About half liked to read books set in a season opposite to that they were experiencing , while the other half liked to read books set in the same season. I'm one of the latter. I like reading summer books in summer, winter books in winter, Christmas books at Christmas, etc.
Really interesting insight from your bookgroup. I'm afraid I'm in the middle — I do both, read in season and out of season depending on my mood and the newest book on my pile.


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The search for the best car in Europe is scheduled to end on the 13th day of November. The final battle for the '2007 European Car Crown' is made up of 8 contenders – Honda Civic, Volvo C30, Ford S-Max, Citroen C4 Picasso, Fiat Grande Punto, Opel Corsa, Peugeot 207 and Skoda Roomster. These cars are tested by several experts in the automotive world to gauge which of them is deserving of the most coveted car title in Europe. On said date, the impressive car will be crowned.
Usually, the final round of said competition is made up of 7 contenders. This year, it was increased to 8. The reason behind the extension is the organizer's state of indecision regarding the unlucky one to be eradicated. To settle it, the organizers persuaded with the 8 vehicles. It can be recalled that at the beginning of the competition, there were 41 cars. However, the rest were slashed to retain the cream of the crop.
The European Car Crown competition dates back to 1964. Rover 2000 was then proclaimed the first car to win in said competition. Fiat, on one hand, has been crowned 8 times. It is closely followed by Renault with 6 winning. However, contenders like Honda, Volvo and Skoda have not tasted triumph in this particular car competition. But according to some automotive critics, Honda has now a better chance through its civic.
The 2007 Civic, according to the automaker, will not be having significant alterations. Honda will also introduce new Honda Civic Si Sedan, which will be given the powertrain setup of the Coupe. Volvo C30, on one hand, has entertained the concept of delivering a taste of chic and sporty car. In this regard, C30 was made more upbeat, youthful and stylish by modifying Volvo C70 parts. "From its inception, the Volvo C30 Project was focused on one primary demographic group: Young urbanites with accelerating careers and intensive, active lifestyles. Customer clinics allowed these people to voice their opinions and give their views on the car's design and technical content," says Fredrik Arp, President and CEO of Volvo Cars. Please visit CarSite.co.uk for purchasing Car Parts
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