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Business transformation: The value of human capital
By: Yule Edwards, Issued by: Mortimer Harvey
The telecommunications industry, particularly mobile telecoms, has been under severe pressure in the last few years, leading to consolidation in the independent service provider niche. The catalyst came in 2013 when telecoms regulator ICASA decided to cut termination rates - the fees that operators charge to carry each other's calls. This sparked a price war and analysts predicted, unsurprisingly, that the situation was unsustainable. As operators squeezed margins and cut incentives to their service providers, the two independent players in the market, Altech Autopage and Nashua Mobile, felt the pinch from every angle. When the pressure forced Nashua out, Autopage bought a portion of its subscriber base. Continued industry and consumer deflationary pressures then led Altron to make the decision to dispose of Autopage's subscriber base a year later.
Added to this, the general slump in global market conditions led to telecommunications companies, among others, experiencing high levels of uncertainty and declining staff morale across the board. Around this time, Eleanor Potter joined Autopage as Consumer Executive and recommended the implementation of a programme designed by Colleen Jack, that Potter had run successfully with her team at MTN. Jack is an executive and management coach and has extensive corporate experience. She facilitates leadership development programmes aimed at identifying and creating business leaders. Potter is passionate about developing and unleashing human potential. This combination created a powerful team with the main goal of transforming the Autopage business through investment in its people, which resulted in the launch of the "Vital Leadership" programme.
Its goal was: "To establish Altech Autopage as the service provider of choice by unlocking the value of our consumer retail channel." The programme, started in August 2014, has a number of modules, each with the purpose of improving the lives of delegates on a tangible and practical level. Subject matter covers a range of topics, from healthcare to financial planning, personal development and increasing their EQ. Over an 18-month period, the delegates spend one day a month in the programme.
"At a deeper level, the intention was to create a common, healthy language, to build awareness at a personal, team and systemic level," says Jack. "We are facilitating awareness of the delegates' own personal challenges and opportunities to grow themselves and develop their interpersonal awareness."
"Part of the challenge," says Potter, "is that you have to get people to the point where their EQ allows them to collaborate. The process is so important because it takes a real, measurable EQ programme and presents it in a structured way by an independent person who isn't your manager."
For the first four months, there were three teams with 12 delegates each. Ranks and titles are discarded for the purpose of the engagement, creating an environment of peer support rather than a hierarchy. There was some attrition initially, and members are never forced to remain on the programme, it's a completely personal choice. "The delegates who choose to stay are deeply committed and generally there is noticeable accountability, personal awareness and ownership of one's feelings, processes and projections," says Jack.
Although a formal ROI has not been done, there has been a marked decrease in absenteeism, an increase in profitability, and growth in the business partners' bases, 30% of this can be attributed to the leadership programme.
The International Coach Federation (ICF) Global has created the Prism Award to recognise outstanding organisational coaching initiatives. In 2013, Potter submitted this leadership programme using MTN as her case study. It was a first for South Africa, so there was no precedent and, while it did not come in the top five, it made a positive impression. In June this year, Jack was contacted by the ICF, requesting that the programme be submitted again. Unfortunately Autopage could not be featured, as the required case study has yet to run to completion.
"Autopage has some incredible talent. It is always such a privilege to bear witness to delegates taking the material and working with the concepts, owning them and ultimately paying them forward into their teams and, most importantly, back into their families and specifically their kids," says Jack.
One of the unintended benefits to emerge from the Vital Leadership programme, is that it has provided staff at Autopage with the tools to deal with the personal challenges that come with a company closing down.
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Piero Mingoia won't feature again this season. Picture: Simon Lankester.
Cambridge United winger Piero Mingoia is likely to miss the remainder of the season, interim head coach Joe Dunne confirmed.
Mingoia hasn't featured for the club since the last time they played this weekend's opponents Newport - on December 16 last year, a match they lost 2-1 - although was an unused substitute against Stevenage a fortnight ago.
The midfielder's recovery from his groin problem has been hampered by the bad weather, which has led the U's to train indoors or on artificial surfaces, and Dunne admitted that the end of the season has just come too soon for him.
"We're a bit late in the season now, not just for him but maybe one or two others," he said.
"Is it a case of one game for him, who hasn't played for a long time, and a case of one game for some one else who hasn't played for a long time?
"The season has probably ran out and the most important thing for everyone else is making sure that the player is not in the situation where he is not able to train or keep fit over the off-season.
"Playing him now probably runs the risk of further injury as he's not match sharp and when you look at teams we've played lately and seen how we've played and look at Nepwort's team there's not a lot of changes being made and they're strong players, physical players too.
"When you haven't played for a long time and you go and play against a team like Newport on Saturday you run the risk of injury and I have to balance that up as head coach not not only protect the team but protect the players."
In more positive news, Barry Corr will travel to south Wales after missing out on Tuesday night's trip to Lancashire.
"Barry will go as long as he comes through training today [Thursday] and that's the same with a couple of others, we've got a couple back out today," he said.
"My idea is to take Barry on Saturday and that was behind the idea to leave him out on Tuesday."


Tiffany Trump absolutely got everyone's attention Monday when she dropped a series of snaps rocking a strapless black dress on Instagram.
The first daughter looked stunning as ever as she posed for the pictures in the low-cut mini-dress that she paired with loose hair, a thin black belt and sparkling black high heels.
Trump's social media account is truly can't miss with some fantastic pictures she's shared from her various trips around the world to great snaps she's taken with family and friends.


Having a good bag can either make or break your experience regardless if it is a survival situation or just simply camping. It's not about how good does it look or how big it is but rather does it fit you? Does it fit the situation? Is it something that you can wear comfortably? The Condor 3 Day Assault Pack is a pack that is well known in the prepper world. This Condor 3 Day Assault Pack Review will be talking about my experience with pack.
As a prepper you should be testing and optimizing your gear. You shouldn't just be collecting gear and never use it until an emergency. By then it can be too late to get out any kinks or find out if a particular piece of gear needs to be replaced.
Now you don't necessarily have to be a prepper to purchase the Condor 3 Day Assault Pack. You can be a camper or someone that collects and uses tactical gear. So this review is for everyone who may be considering buying the pack.
The pack provides molle webbing so that you can attach other equipment or smaller packs unto it.
There is a drag handle on the side of pack. This can be helpful if you need to move quickly.
Separate pocket to fit up to two 3L hydration bladders to keep you hydrated on the go.
Contour shoulder straps keep you comfortable while carrying the load. This way nothing is rubbing on your shoulders while on the move. The strong stitching reinforces the durability of the material.
There is a sternum strap and waist belt which helps keep the pack close to your body as you are moving. This is also transfers the weight from your shoulders.
Individual foam pad back panel for extra comfort on your back.
7 compartments (2 side compartments) to help keep your gear organized that you way you can access it quickly without digging around.
2 radio pockets if you need to keep in communication with your group.
Water resistant material to keep your gear dry along with grommets in the bottom for draining.
There is a top pocket on the outside of the pack where you can place gear that you need to get to quickly and will be using frequently.
As an added bonus there is Velcro on the outside that you can use for identification or morale patches.
The Condor 3 Day Assault Pack can be found on many online outdoor and tactical gear stores. However, I would recommend buying through Amazon where they are reliable with shipping and the pack is insured. Unfortunately Condor Outdoor does not sell directly to the public on their website but rather wholesale.
The Condor 3 Day Assault Pack ranges anywhere from $64 to $200 which is really dependent on the size and the color of the pack. My pack was received within a week after my purchase through Amazon. The packing was perfect as it comes directly from an Amazon warehouse.
This bag is really meant for someone that is either tactically minded or needs a lot of pockets for organization. This isn't necessarily for an ultra-lite packer as it weighs 2.5 pounds. It does feel heavier than that.
This also isn't for someone that is looking to pack everything and their kitchen sink in this pack. You really have to be selective and identify what you really need. By no means is this pack small. It my opinion it is the perfect median between a light packer and someone who packs everything.
Feels heavier than the advertised 2.5 pounds but haven't weighed it.
Initially when I was searching for a good bag that I could use as a bug out bag I came across many options as there are thousands of bags on the market. However, I wanted something that was reliable and durable. So I looked for bags that had great reviews on Amazon and other websites which helped me narrow down my options to the Condor 3 Day Assault Pack.
I wanted something that was big but not too heavy with many pockets. I am a minimalists and love pockets to organize things with. This is especially important as a prepper or someone that maybe using the pack for tactical training. You want to be able to know where you have packed a particular item and be able to grab it quickly.
When I first unpacked the box I was kind of skeptical because it felt heavier than the advertised 2.5 pounds. After packing the bag out with my bug out gear the pack ended up being 35 pounds. This began to worry me because I figured that this would be an uncomfortable load.
A few weeks later I went on a mock bug out and was thoroughly surprised. After throwing the pack on and strapping up I wasn't able to feel most of the weight on my bag. The weight was being transferred to my legs. This is what you want to happen when you are lifting or carrying anything.
During my trip I was able to walk 3 miles comfortably through the woods. When I had to climb over things like fallen trees I didn't have to adjust my pack. It didn't weigh me down or cause me to lose my footing.
I also thoroughly enjoyed the fact that I was able to access items quickly when I needed it. For example I placed my head lamp and watch cap on the outside pocket. This was helpful when it started getting darker and colder as I was able to quickly grab those items instead of digging into pack.
Overall I would highly recommend the Condor 3 Day Assault Pack as I have thoroughly enjoyed it. There are a few cons but I think all the mentioned benefits outweigh them. You will never find the perfect bag.
Yes you might find cheaper bags on the market than the Condor 3 Day Assault Pack but you will lose some quality and comfort with it. There may be bigger packs on the market but this pack isn't really meant to fit everything into. It is for 3 days. If you have any questions about this pack feel free to either leave me a comment below or reach out to me via email. I would love to help you with any questions that you may have. Feel free to comment below if you have any suggestions that you would add to the Condor 3 Day Assault Pack Review.


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Delhi Metro is out of reach of common man: Kejriwal
Published on : Wed 05th September 2018, 05:05 PM
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he felt 'sad' that the metro rail has become unaffordable for the common man following the fare hikes.
"As CM of Delhi, I feel very sad that such an important means of transport has become out of reach of common man. All those who have given up metro are now contributing to Delhi's pollution by using road-based transport," he said in a tweet.
The Delhi Metro, according to a report by the Centre for Science and Environment, is the second-most unaffordable in the world among the metro systems after Hanoi in Vietnam.
The Metro lost over 40 per cent of its ridership following two fare hikes in 2017.
The metro currently has a daily ridership of about 26 lakh, while a 2016 study had projected that the train services would be used by about 40 lakh people in 2018.
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US Treasury has 'serious concerns' Libra could be used for terrorism
Lawmakers want to block tech giants from offering digital currency
Facebook won't make Libra available until regulators are happy
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Twitter again says it doesn't 'shadow ban'
Get it yet?
Richard Lawler, @Rjcc
07.26.18 in Politics
Mehrad Ansari of Iran holds a sign outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after U.S. President Trump's travel ban was upheld in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2018. Leah Millis / Reuters
Over the last day or so, an article alleged that Twitter was showing bias against conservative political figures by failing to auto-populate their names in the search box. Once the president's account tweeted about it this morning, it officially became a thing, and the company repeatedly tried to explain how multiple factors affected a number of accounts showing up in search, not just those on one particular political side.
We've gone in-depth on the issue already, but if you need more information from the source, there's a new blog post from Twitter explaining more about what goes into its search feature and why a certain account might not appear right away. Once again, product lead Kayvon Beykpour and Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Lead Vijaya Gadde put their names out there proclaiming that Twitter does not "shadow ban," and said that hundreds of thousands of accounts from around the world were affected by the search auto-suggest issue. We'll see if that's enough to put things to rest.
How many people were impacted by the search auto-suggest issue?
Hundreds of thousands of accounts were impacted by this issue. This impact was not limited to a certain political affiliation or geography. And, to be clear, these accounts were only impacted within search auto-suggestions-- they still appeared in search results. This issue has now been resolved.
It looks like this only affected Republican politicians. Were Democratic politicians also impacted?
Yes, some Democratic politicians were not properly showing up within search auto-suggestions as result of this issue. As mentioned above, the issue was broad-ranging and not limited to political accounts or specific geographies. And most accounts affected had nothing to do with politics at all.
OK, so there was a search auto-suggest issue. But what caused these Republican representatives to be impacted?
For the most part, we believe the issue had more to do with how other people were interacting with these representatives' accounts than the accounts themselves (see bullet #3 above). There are communities that try to boost each other's presence on the platform through coordinated engagement. We believe these types of actors engaged with the representatives' accounts-- the impact of this coordinated behavior, in combination with our implementation of search auto-suggestions, caused the representatives' accounts to not show up in auto-suggestions. In addition to fixing search yesterday, we're continuing to improve our system so it can better detect these situations and correct for them.
Twitter exists to serve the public conversation, enabling important discussions around the world to occur. Favoring one specific ideology or belief goes against everything we stand for. https://t.co/lioupj3aUF
— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) July 27, 2018
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At first standing work means standing not sitting, and to work. It is said that it is effective in productivity improvement and improvement with the healthy aspect and aims at the comfortable work environment by a moderate change of sitting work and the standing work, recently the company introducing standing work into with elevating work desks in. So in this research the EMG measures are conducted concerning elevating work desk based on an ergonomic design in this research, the swelling measurement of the leg, the body part of discomfort investigation, and the performance measurement more. We performed the above at the span of three months. As all summaries, it was indicated as follows: 1. The discomfort of body decreased in the case of sitting work and standing work comparing the only sitting work. 2. The improvement of productivity of participants using the table height with free setting.
An Ergonomic Evaluation of Elevating the Work Desk : The Relationship of Sitting Work with Standing Work. / Mitsuya, Reiko; Nakamura, Keisuke; Sugita, Takuro; Ozawa, Naoya; Yaita, T.; Kawai, Takashi.
Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors - Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2018. Springer-Verlag, 2019. p. 225-233 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 789).
Mitsuya, Reiko ; Nakamura, Keisuke ; Sugita, Takuro ; Ozawa, Naoya ; Yaita, T. ; Kawai, Takashi. / An Ergonomic Evaluation of Elevating the Work Desk : The Relationship of Sitting Work with Standing Work. Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors - Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2018. Springer-Verlag, 2019. pp. 225-233 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).
N2 - At first standing work means standing not sitting, and to work. It is said that it is effective in productivity improvement and improvement with the healthy aspect and aims at the comfortable work environment by a moderate change of sitting work and the standing work, recently the company introducing standing work into with elevating work desks in. So in this research the EMG measures are conducted concerning elevating work desk based on an ergonomic design in this research, the swelling measurement of the leg, the body part of discomfort investigation, and the performance measurement more. We performed the above at the span of three months. As all summaries, it was indicated as follows: 1. The discomfort of body decreased in the case of sitting work and standing work comparing the only sitting work. 2. The improvement of productivity of participants using the table height with free setting.
AB - At first standing work means standing not sitting, and to work. It is said that it is effective in productivity improvement and improvement with the healthy aspect and aims at the comfortable work environment by a moderate change of sitting work and the standing work, recently the company introducing standing work into with elevating work desks in. So in this research the EMG measures are conducted concerning elevating work desk based on an ergonomic design in this research, the swelling measurement of the leg, the body part of discomfort investigation, and the performance measurement more. We performed the above at the span of three months. As all summaries, it was indicated as follows: 1. The discomfort of body decreased in the case of sitting work and standing work comparing the only sitting work. 2. The improvement of productivity of participants using the table height with free setting.


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Quarterly Market Review – Q4 2021
Dimensional Fund Advisors, Markets, Quarterly Market Review
By Park-Elm| 2022-01-10T15:36:00+00:00	January 10th, 2022|Dimensional Fund Advisors, Markets, Quarterly Market Review|
This report features world capital market performance and a timeline of events for the past quarter. It begins with a global overview, then features the returns of stock and bond asset classes in the US and international markets.
The report also illustrates the impact of globally diversified portfolios and features a quarterly topic. "All-Time High Anxiety".
Click HERE to download a full copy of the report.
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U.S. Performance Dashboard – December 2021
General, Markets
By Park-Elm| 2022-01-10T15:36:22+00:00	January 10th, 2022|General, Markets|
Despite the ongoing pandemic, record inflation, and looming rate hikes, U.S. equities had a banner year, with the S&P 500® reaching 70 closing highs on its way to a 29% return. Mega-caps outperformed, with the S&P 500 Top 50 up 31%.
International performance was positive, with the S&P Developed Ex-U.S. BMI up 11%. Emerging markets managed to eke out a gain, with the S&P Emerging BMI up 1% despite large losses in the S&P China BMI, which makes up almost 40% of the benchmark's weight.
All sectors posted gains in 2021, led by Energy, up a dramatic 55%, a stunning turnaround after its 34% loss in 2020.
December 2021 Market Review
U.S. Performance Dashboard – November 2021
Markets, Quarterly Market Review
By Park-Elm| 2021-12-01T14:35:10+00:00	December 1st, 2021|Markets, Quarterly Market Review|
It was not entirely smooth sailing for U.S. equities in November, as concerns about the Omicron strain coupled with less-than-transitory inflation and accelerated tapering by the Fed roiled markets during the last three days of the month. The S&P 500® posted a loss of 1%, outperforming mid and small caps, as the S&P MidCap 400® and S&P SmallCap 600® declined 3% and 2%, respectively. Volatility spiked, as the VIX® closed at 27.19.
Growth led among factors, followed by a number of defensive strategies, including Quality, Low Volatility, and Dividend Aristocrats.
Among sectors, IT led, followed by Consumer Discretionary, while Financials lagged.
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On the Mind of Investors : November 7th, Weekly Recap
By Park-Elm| 2021-11-16T15:02:04+00:00	November 16th, 2021|Markets|
U.S job openings fall to 10.4M
PPI for final demand +0.6% in Oct.
What to watch in the week ahead: Retail Sales.
Inflation has heated up significantly this year as surging consumer demand collided with supply shortages across major sectors of the economy. CPI inflation has been tracking above 5% year-over-year since the start of the summer, with the latest year-over-year gain in CPI at 5.2% overall and 4.0% excluding food and energy. The year-over-year gains in inflation have been amplified by declines in prices a year ago, but supply chain issues have been a problem. In particular, the global semiconductor shortage has increased the prices of a wide range of goods throughout the economy, and most notably for autos. These higher input costs have sent inflation higher, as well as a general recovery in prices of air fares, restaurants, and rents from their pandemic lows.
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U.S. Performance Dashboard – October 2021
By Park-Elm| 2021-11-02T15:46:27+00:00	November 2nd, 2021|Markets|
Despite lingering inflation concerns, U.S. equities recovered strongly in October, thanks to robust corporate earnings. The S&P 500® posted a gain of 7%, outperforming mid- and small-caps, as the S&P MidCap 400® and the S&P SmallCap 600® rose 6% and 3%, respectively. Volatility declined, as the VIX® closed at 16.26.
All factors posted gains, with Growth and High Beta in the lead. Unsurprisingly, defensive factors trailed in October.
All sectors posted gains. Consumer Discretionary led, followed by Energy, which continued its dramatic turnaround, up 58% year-to-date.
October : National Cyber Security Awareness Month – Tips for Protecting Yourself
By Park-Elm| 2021-10-21T15:52:44+00:00	October 21st, 2021|General|
National Cyber Security Awareness Month is observed each October and is designed to increase the public's awareness of cybersecurity and cyber-crime issues.
To help you protect your personal information, we are sharing content from the American Bankers Association's brochure "7 Tips for Protecting Yourself Online." According to Symantec, 12 adults become a victim of cybercrime every second. Though the internet has many advantages, it can also make users vulnerable to fraud.
To help protect yourself we recommend you follow a few easy steps:
Keep your computers and mobile devices up to date. Having the latest security software, web browser, and operating system are the best defenses against viruses, malware, and other online threats. Turn on automatic updates so you receive the newest fixes as they become available.
Set strong passwords. A strong password is at least eight characters in length and includes a mix of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
Watch out for phishing scams. Phishing scams use fraudulent emails and websites to trick users into disclosing private account or login information. Do not click on links or open any attachments or pop-up screens from sources you are not familiar with.
Forward phishing emails to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at spam@uce.gov – and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the email.
Keep personal information personal. Hackers can use social media profiles to figure out your passwords and answer those security questions in the password reset tools. Lock down your privacy settings and avoid posting things like birthdays, addresses, mother's maiden name, etc. Be wary of requests to connect from people you do not know.
Secure your internet connection. Always protect your home wireless network with a password. When connecting to public Wi-Fi networks, be cautious about what information you are sending over it.
Shop safely. Before shopping online, make sure the website uses secure technology. When you are at the checkout screen, verify that the web address begins with https. Also, check to see if a tiny locked padlock symbol appears on the page.
Read the site's privacy policies. Though long and complex, privacy policies tell you how the site protects the personal information it collects. If you don't see or understand a site's privacy policy, consider doing business elsewhere.
A few more best practices we would like to share may seem very basic, but each could help keep your personal information safe.
Do not leave devices unattended. We suggest always locking or closing personal devices before walking away from your screen.
Avoid emailing sensitive information such as credit card numbers or account numbers. Always ask the person you are emailing if they have a secure portal to provide those details.
Back up your data regularly. Set a monthly reminder to back up your personal devices.
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U.S. Performance Dashboard – September 2021
By Park-Elm| 2021-10-04T18:07:42+00:00	October 4th, 2021|Markets|
Mounting fears of inflation, an ongoing Congressional budget impasse, and anticipation of a reduction in Fed liquidity provision all weighed on U.S. equities in September. For the third quarter as a whole, the S&P 500® posted a gain of 1%, while mid and small-caps declined, as the S&P MidCap 400® and the S&P SmallCap 600® fell 2% and 3%, respectively. Volatility rose, as the VIX® closed at 23.14.
Momentum and Growth led in Q3, while High Beta (unsurprisingly) and some yield-focused factors were among the weakest performers.
Most sectors posted gains, with Financials in the lead, up 3%. Energy made a dramatic turnaround in September, rising 9% for the month and substantially diminishing its quarterly loss.
September 2021 Analysis
August Market Commentary: A Turning Point?
Markets, Volatility
By Park-Elm| 2021-09-09T14:21:58+00:00	September 9th, 2021|Markets, Volatility|
August Recap and September Outlook
The equity markets advanced during a month when the Delta variant ravaged some states, which reinvigorated flagging vaccination rates. Positive developments, such as a bi-partisan infrastructure package, were overtaken in the news cycle by the tumultuous exit from Afghanistan. The month finished with Hurricane Ida's one-two punch to the South and the Northeast. The big miss on August employment numbers (released September 3rd) underscored the potential for damage that the Delta variant may hold for our still-recovering economy.
Let's Look at Some Highlights:
The Month Opened with Good News
The services sector, which at 67% of GDP is a huge part of our economy, has lagged throughout the recovery as the impact of shutdowns, supply chain issues, and labor shortages hampered the ramping back up. The ISM Services PMI index, which tracks non-manufacturing industries, jumped to 64.1 in July, a big increase over 60.1 in June. All 17 services industries reported growth, and the ISM Services Employment index rose to 53.8, from 49.3 in June, suggesting hiring conditions were improving.
But Consumer Confidence Told a Different Story
The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index was a big downside surprise. U.S. consumer confidence fell in August to the lowest level since 2011, as fears about the Delta variant and the reopening of the economy continued to spread. The consumer sentiment index fell 13% from the July reading to 70.2. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a reading of 81.3 for August.
Employment Missed Big – and Services Took the Hit
The consensus expectation for employment was that the economy would add 733,000 jobs in August, building on a very strong July number. The actual number of jobs added back was 239,000. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that after averaging growth of 350,000 jobs per month for the last six months, employment in leisure and hospitality was flat. This sector remains down 10% from the pre-pandemic level of February 2020.
The S&P 500 was up 2.90% in August bringing its YTD return to 20.41%
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.22% for the month and was up 15.53% YTD
The S&P Mid-Cap 400 increased 1.83% for the month resulting in a 19.36% YTD return
The S&P Small Cap 600 gained 1.90% in August, raising the YTD return to 22.15%.
Source: All performance quoted from S&P Dow Jones Indices.
The idea of a "new high" is beginning to get a little jaded. The S&P 500 has posted 53 new closing highs this year. The record year to beat is 1995, with 77 new closing highs. The month of August had 22 trading days, and the market posted new closing highs on 12 of them.
Ten of the eleven S&P 500 sectors gained, with Financials recovering from a loss last month to post the best performance, and Communication Services following right behind. Real Estate is the best performing sector in the index YTD. Energy declined, but less than last month, and is still up 26.60% YTD.
Bond Markets
Fed Chairman Powell got into his thinking about inflation at the Kansas City Fed's annual Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole. Powell is wary of getting out in front of the economy with policy decisions that take time to take hold. The caution comes from a fear that tightening in response to temporary factors could result in a situation where an "ill-timed policy move unnecessarily slows hiring and other economic activity."
Powell also clarified the timing around tapering off the $120 billion of monthly bond purchases; he indicated a timeline more aligned to the end of the year. This is largely expected to result in rate increases, and Treasuries rebounded somewhat, but yields remain at low levels, compared to forecasts for close to 2% that we saw at the beginning of the year.
Apart from high yield, most fixed income sectors were negative for the month.
The Smart Investor
The August employment report is the first to include the damage from the Delta variant. With the surge still uncontrolled and the disruption of Hurricane Ida, it doesn't bode well for the recovery to able to continue at the pace we've seen so far this year. Companies are revisiting back-to-work timelines considering the virulence of the Delta strain, and it's clearly have an impact on travel, vacation and resuming normal life.
In his remarks in Jackson Hole, Chairman Powell highlighted the strong July employment report as the basis for the recovering economy. With the downside surprise in August employment and the likelihood that September may also be lackluster, both the timeline for tapering and the timeline for rate increases may be lengthened. For investors, while equity markets are still booming right along, volatility is likely to increase, and bond markets may well continue to struggle. With four months left in the year, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is still in negative territory.
Reviewing portfolio assets to ensure that your income needs are met and that you can withstand potential volatility always makes sense. With the strong gains this year, it may also make sense to tune-up asset allocations, as outperformance may have pushed risk parameters out of alignment.
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U.S. Performance Dashboard – August 2021
By Park-Elm| 2021-09-01T13:53:13+00:00	September 1st, 2021|Markets|
U.S. equities continued to march upward in August, climbing above 20% YTD. The S&P 500® posted a gain of 3% for the month, as the Fed's dovish tone, combined with strong earnings reports, buoyed the market. While mega caps led, mid and small caps also posted gains, with the S&P MidCap 400® and the S&P SmallCap 600® both up 2%. Volatility declined, as the VIX® closed at 16.48.
All factors posted gains. "Risk-on" factors (e.g., Momentum and Growth) led in August, with "risk-off" factors (e.g., Low Volatility and High Yield) lagging.
All sectors except Energy posted gains, with Financials in the lead, up 5%.
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Q: How to use resource dictionaries in custom control library? I've created a resource dictionary with some frequently used brushes.
<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="GrayColor1" Color="#f2f2f2"/>
    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="GrayColor2" Color="#e5e5e5"/>
    <SolidColorBrush x:Key="GrayColor3" Color="#d9d9d9"/>
    ...
</ResourceDictionary>

I want to use them in many controls in the custom control library, but I didn't find any way to make them available to the controls.
In a normal app I will put them in App.xaml, but in a library there is no App.xaml file.
So what is the way to use resource dictionary in a library?
I already tried without success to merge the dictionary into /Themes/Generic.xaml as this:
<ResourceDictionary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation">
    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="/MyControls;component/DefaultBrushes.xaml"/>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="/MyControls;component/Styles/CustButton.xaml"/>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="/MyControls;component/Styles/CustTextBox.xaml"/>
        ...
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>

But referencing the resources results in a null reference (seems that in Generic.xaml can be merged only control templates).

A: You have to merge them in each control, or in the most top control if you have nested controls.
<UserControl.Resources>
   <ResourceDictionary>
       <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
           <ResourceDictionary Source="pack://Application:,,,/MyControls;component/Styles/CusTextBox.xaml"/>
       </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
   </ResourceDictionary>
</UserControl.Resources>

A: You can still create your merged dictionaries in your applications App.xaml, but in your controls library where you want to access those brushes, try using DynamicResource instead of StaticResource.
Background="{DynamicResource GrayColor1}"

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Tenth Circuit Questions Quill's Endurance
March 10, 2016 By Andrew Yates
Last month, we discussed states' efforts underway to attack Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, which provides a bright-line safe-harbor from sales and use tax collection for taxpayers without physical presence in a state. We discussed Alabama's regulation requiring out-of-state sellers with sufficient sales to collect sales tax regardless of physical presence, as well as draft legislation circulated to the states by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
Since then, a federal appellate court decision has given the states new ammunition. On February 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an opinion in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl (DMA II). The case addresses the constitutionality of a Colorado law requiring sellers without physical presence in the state to issue notices to Colorado customers regarding their tax obligations and to report to the state regarding their sales to Colorado customers, so that Colorado can then collect use tax from the customers. The challengers to the law argued, among other things, that the notice and reporting requirements violate Quill. The case had already been up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to hear the case in light of the federal Tax Injunction Act (DMA I). It was the Supreme Court's decision on that issue that prompted Justice Kennedy's call for the judicial system to produce a proper case to revisit Quill.
On remand, the Tenth Circuit addressed the merits of the taxpayer's challenge. The court found the state's notice and reporting requirements to be constitutional: mandating use tax reporting for out-of-state sellers does not burden interstate commerce. Importantly though, in coming to its decision, the Tenth Circuit refused to recognize that the holding of Quill extends beyond sales and use tax collection and liability. According to the Tenth Circuit, Quill prevents a state from requiring a seller without physical presence to collect sales and use tax, but it says nothing about a remote seller's obligation to report the sales and use tax obligations of its purchasers.
(For a deeper discussion of the case, see Alston & Bird's recent advisory on DMA II)
A concurring opinion by Judge Gorsuch took the critique of Quill even further. He wrote that the Supreme Court decided Quill as it did only to preserve earlier precedent (i.e., National Bellas Hess v. Illinois) and to protect taxpayers who had come to rely on it. In other words, the Supreme Court didn't really uphold the physical-presence rule in Quill on its merits. Judge Gorsuch suggested that the ongoing efforts to diminish Quill are, ironically, part of the decision's design:
"Quill might be said to have attached a sort of expiration date on mail order and internet vendors' reliance interests on Bellas Hess's rule by perpetuating its rule for the time being while also encouraging states over time to find ways of achieving comparable results through different means."
Since the decision in DMA II, more states have made efforts to implement these "different means." For example, the Utah Legislature has introduced legislation that would impose affiliate nexus and use tax collection on certain remote sellers. Oklahoma is considering legislation to require out-of-state sellers to collect tax under particular conditions. South Dakota has passed a measure with similarities to the NCSL's model legislation, which, among other things, provides that a challenge to Quill will take a fast track to the state supreme court.
But is Judge Gorsuch right? Does Quill's physical-presence rule have any practical justification? Or does the rule exist only because Supreme Court says it does? We'd like to suggest that there are very good reasons why—even today—Quill makes good sense. Quill's opponents argue that it's outdated. Collecting sales tax in jurisdictions across the country, the argument goes, may have been a burden for mail-order retailers fifty years ago, but with modern technology and business practices, collecting in every state is not much more difficult than collecting in one or two states.
Perhaps this is the case for some large retailers of consumer goods, but it's not the case for many taxpayers. We continue to see clients for whom multistate sales tax collection impedes operations or acquisition transactions. Sellers of cloud computing and digital products are a good example. The sales tax rules for these products are poorly defined and vary dramatically among the states. Moreover, sellers of digital products and goods transact business across state lines routinely without expanding their physical presence to more than a few states. This leads to a situation where small and emerging technology companies can potentially rack up huge unknown and unexpected sales tax liabilities. For them, the rule of Quill dramatically reduces this risk and relieves what is a significant, and very real, burden on interstate commerce.
The courts and the states have asked Congress to act to set clear rules on multistate sales tax collection. So far, Congress has been unwilling to do so. So states have acted alone. Nonetheless, Quill is still good law—for now. But stay tuned for updates in this quickly shifting arena.
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Andrew Yates is an associate in the firm's State & Local Tax Group. He focuses his practice on advising clients on state and local tax and regulation matters, as well as unclaimed property issues.


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Replacing.onion with.onion.ws in your browsers url bar, press go and you will be redirected to that darknet site without the need to download or configure any new software such as Tor and I2P. Method 2 - Using.Onion chrome plugin/extension. Pseudo Harmer Hacker is a Darkweb site on the Tor network which offers Hacking services. They offer everything from the simplest Cell phone and E-mail hacking, to more complex jobs like hacking into Private company databases and school databases. In this book we'll delve into the worlds of both Hacking and using Tor to stay anonymous. It might come as a surprise to you is that hacking does not need to mean having mad computer skills. You need to know some basics, naturally, but hacking a computer system is a lot simpler than you might think.
I do not condone the use of this information for creating illegal web crawlers. This was more an informational exercise and I wanted to share it with others. Another thing to note is that some sites are able to automatically block IP's that are Tor exit nodes, so this may not work for some sites that go to these measures.
The other day I was starting the search for a new aparment in New York City, which I have done a couple of times now, and was frustrated that StreetEasy doesn't allow you to filter apartments that are available after a certain date. After a quick search I realized that people have been requesting this feature for years (since Oct 2015 to be exact), and it was nowhere in sight and there didn't seem to be any services out there that did it either. So I had a thought, I used to web scrape sites using Python, why not try it on StreetEasy and filter the apartments myself. Spoiler alert I wasn't able to do this for a reason I will explain in more detail, but this led me to use a lot of old tools I hadn't used in a while and come up with a script for scraping through Tor and switching IP's between requests.
The Roadblock
So first let me quickly describe the reason I wasn't able to scrape StreetEasy. At first glance, there appeared to be a few different StreetEasy scraping scripts on Github. However, I thought it was simple enough I'd prefer to do it myself. It had been a while since I had scraped sites and I wanted to do it all (mostly) on my own. However, the first task in my iterative approach was to just get a listing page for a StreetEasy search. This quickly led me to receive the following html
My initial thought was since I was using the requests library that I wasn't rendering JavaScript so after doing some googling I came across two ways to render JavaScript in Python. I could use the new requests-html library or I could use selenium. However, I quickly realized neither was able to give me the result I wanted, I was still getting the same html page that said "Pardon Our Interruption". So now I decided to take a closer look at the scraping scripts I saw on [Github])(https://github.com/purcelba/streeteasy_scrape) earlier. A few of them had warnings about how their scripts no longer worked because StreetEasy started using Distil Networks to protect them from unwanted bots and web scrapers. After a couple of google searches, I quickly realized I wasn't going to break through Distil Networks checks very easily and decided to table the web scraping of StreetEasy. Nevertheless, I had come back to web scraping after years and was interested in what I could do with it.
When I initially thought I was going to web scrape StreetEasy, I wanted a way to do it without getting throttled because I knew I was going to have to go to a lot of individual listing pages to get information. I originally thought this was going to be the biggest problem for me to overcome so I put some thought into it. While in college, I had done some research on Tor and the dark web under Soumya Basu. A brief synopsis of Tor without getting into two much detail is that it's an onion router. Tor itself stands for The Onion Router (big surprise I know). What Tor does is it routes your traffic through multiple nodes(computers/servers) in a circuit, and then when your HTTP request reaches your end server it looks like it came from the last node in the Tor circuit. Generally there are three hops in the circuit, and it will send your request to a node then that node only knows where to send the message to next until you reach your final destination like google.com. How it does that is by encrypting your request in multiple layers, and at each node a layer is decrypted so it knows where to send the request next until we reach the last(exit) node and the entire message is decrypted and it knows what request you are looking to make. Then the traffic is rerouted back through all the nodes in a similar way until it reaches you. The reason it's called an onion router is because of the decryption and peeling away of the message at each node (like an onion).
Through my research I had become acquainted with the Stem Python package that would allow you to interact with Tor in Python. I knew you could use Tor as a proxy and route your HTTP requests through it in Python, so I thought this could be a good solution to the throttling problem. I imagined the throttling would be IP based, so I could use Tor and change my exit node between requests so that my web scraper wasn't throttled. However, this ended not being the biggest problem I had sadly.
Still, I wanted to give it a go because I thought it could be an interesting application in theory. So the general idea behind it was as follows
Run Tor on your computer
Use Tor as a proxy for selenium in Python
Make a request to a website
Request a new end node/circuit from Tor
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all your requests are made
The code for this is as follows (I saved this as a file called scrape.py and ran it as python scrape.py). This was developed using python 3.7.2 (I use Anaconda and conda for Python version management)
Before starting there are some requirements
Install Tor on your computer, for macs this can be accomplished using homebrew brew install tor. You can then run it constantly in the background using the command brew services start tor or run it manually using the command tor.
Make sure you have firefox installed on your computer, this will be required if you want to use the same selenium code above. You can use other browsers but the my_proxy method will need to change slightly
Install selenium, stem, and beautiful soup Python libraries using the command pip install selenium stem bs4
You will also need to update your torrc and restart Tor so that you can make requests to the Tor controller. On a mac you can find your torrc file at /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc.sample. Rename it to torrc by doing mv /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc.sample /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc and then uncomment the following lines (I will copy the full torrc at the bottom of this post)
Now let's talk about the code a little
This method is what allows us to switch our IP. It issues a signal (Signal.NEWNYM) to the Tor Controller Port, which tells Tor that we want a new circuit for traffic to be routed through. This will give us a new exit node which means our traffic looks like it's coming from a different IP.
This method sets up our selenium webdriver to use the Firefox browser in headless mode and to use Tor as a proxy to route our traffic through. This ensures that all of our requests to our selenium webdriver go through Tor and look like they are coming from our exit node.
This last bit of code just sends a request to https://whatsmyip.com/ so that we can check the IP of our request through our selenium webdriver. We print out the ipv4 and ipv6 addresses of the exit node of our Tor circuit because sometimes it's ipv4 and sometimes it's ipv6. Then after that we request a new IP by requesting a new Tor circuit to be built. If everything goes well you should get a result in your terminal that looks something like
As you can see my IP address changes between calls, which is exactly what we are looking for. The server we are making the request to thinks that we are the Tor exit node, and each request we made looks like it's coming from a different computer. The None values are because if you have an ipv4 value than it doesn't show anything for ipv6.
And just like that you can hide your real IP when making HTTP requests using Python. I hope this is hepful, and if you have any questions or corrections feel free to leave a comment below!
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News that two Carnegie-Mellon CERT researchers have developed an inexpensive way to breach the Tor network has the project, privacy advocates, and probably criminals who use the network equally concerned.
The Tor Project posted has advised relays to upgrade to Tor 0.2.r.23e or 0.2.5.6-alpha to close the protocol vulnerability used by the researchers, but It warned that preventing traffic confirmation in general 'remains an open research problem.'
Hidden service operators should consider changing the location of their service, the Tor Project said.
'So much for being secure,' remarked Jim McGregor, principal analyst at TIrias Research.
'If you were using Tor for classified communications and data, this could be very serious,' he told TechNewsWorld.
What the Tor Project Found
On July 4, the Tor Project found a group of relays that were trying to deanonymize people who operate or access Tor hidden services by modifying Tor protocol headers to conduct traffic confirmation attacks.
The attack also probably tried to learn who9 published hidden service descriptors, Tor said.
This would let the attackers learn the location of hidden services and, in theory, link users to their destinations on normal Tor circuits, although this was unlikely because the operators did not operate any exit relays.
The attack might aid other attackers in deanonymizing Tor users, the project cautioned.
Technical Details of the Attack
The attackers are believed to have used a combination of a traffic confirmation attack and a Sybil attack.
In a traffic confirmation attack, the attacker controls or observes the relays on both ends of a Tor circuit and compares traffic timing, volume or other characteristics to discover whether the two relays are on the same circuit.
If the first relay in the circuit, also known as the 'entry guard,' knows a user's IP address and the last relay knows the resource or destination being accessed, the user can be deanonymized.
There are several varieties of confirmation attacks; the one used consisted of the attackers injecting a signal into the Tor protocol headers at the relay on one end and having the relay on the other end read the signal.
That let the attackers obtain the HSDir ('suitable for hidden service directory') and Guard ('suitable for being an entry guard'). The attackers then injected the signal whenever it was used as a hidden service directory and looked for an injected signal whenever it was used as an entry guard.
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The Sybil attack was standard. The attackers signed up 115 fast non-exit relays running on either of two IP addresses: 50.7.0.0/16 or 204.45.0.0/16. These added up to about 6.4 percent of the Tor network's Guard capacity, and they became entry guards for 'a significant chunk' of Tor users over the five months they were in operation, Tor said.
Was the NSA Involved?
The attackers were Carnegie-Mellon CERT researchers Alexander Volynkin and Michael McCord.
They were scheduled to present their findings at the Black Hat security conference, to be held in Las Vegas in August, but they canceled the presentation.
Richard Lynch of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, which runs CERT, demurred when approached for comment.
'Sorry, but we're not able to comment on Tor,' he told TechNewsWorld.
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Carnegie-Mellon CERT boasts of partnering regularly with government and law enforcement, which has given rise to speculation that the NSA or U.S. law enforcement agencies may have been behind the attack on Tor.
'That was the first thing that came to mind,' McGregor said. 'Who better than the government to attack Tor?'
On the other hand, disclosure of the attack would have worked against the interests of law enforcement and the NSA, Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
Announcing the breach 'leads to people putting resources into monitoring this kind of attack,' he said, 'improving the response time, and moving to something that could be more difficult to penetrate or that's less well known.'
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Eklutna (; Dena'ina: Idlughet; Ahtna: Zdlaaygha) is a native village within the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. The Tribal Council estimates the population at 70; many tribal members live in the surrounding communities.

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Eklutna lies  northeast of Anchorage near the intersection of Mi. 142 of the Alaska Railroad and the Mile 26 of the Glenn Highway  from the mouth of the Eklutna River at the head of the Knik Arm of Cook Inlet, at  in the Anchorage Recording District.

The Dena'ina Athabascan village of Eklutna is the last of eight villages that existed before construction of the Alaska Railroad brought an influx of American colonists around 1915. First settled more than 800 years ago, it is the oldest inhabited location in the Anchorage area.
Its Dena'ina name is Idlughet  ("by the objects", referring to two nearby hills); the name "Eklutna" derives from Idluytnu, the name for Eklutna River, meaning "(plural) objects river".

Russian Orthodox missionaries arrived in the 1840s. The melding of Orthodox Christianity and native practices resulted in the brightly colored spirit houses which can be seen at the Eklutna Cemetery, in use since 1650 and now a historical park. The cemetery is probably the most photographed graveyard in Alaska, overshadowing other features of the village.

An Alaska Railroad siding and station house were built near the village Eklutna in 1918. The federal government operated a boarding school for native children near the village before World War II. The U.S. Army established a facility nearby in the mid-20th century; it is now gone.

In 2014, a 160-acre homestead acquired in 1924 was donated to the Native Village of Dena'ina Athabascan country, where Alaska Native people have lived for thousands of years. For the most part, the land has remained untouched — and under a conservation easement, it will be maintained as a refuge for wildlife and protected from real estate development.

Virtually all residents of the Eklutna Village are either Alaska Native or part Native; most are members of the federally recognized Native Village of Eklutna. For employment, most Tribal Members commute to work in Anchorage, nearby Eagle River, or the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

Demographics

Eklutna first appeared on the 1930 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village. Of its 158 residents, 61 were Native, 49 were Creole (Mixed Russian & Native), 47 were White, and 1 was Asian. It continued to report on the census until 1970 and was annexed into Anchorage in 1975.

Education
Anchorage School District operates area public schools.

See also
Eklutna Annie, a known but unidentified victim of serial killer Robert Hansen, found in 1980

References

Further reading

External links
 Alaska Division of Community Advocacy - Community Information Summary
 Eklutna, Inc. (ANCSA village corporation)
 Native Village of Eklutna

Anchorage metropolitan area
Dena'ina
Neighborhoods in Anchorage, Alaska

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Recall movement targets Senator Menendez (D-NJ)
Written By: Ed Mecka
Categorized in: National Politics, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez
Local news agencies reported today that there is a movement in New Jersey to recall Senator Menendez.
The "Committee to Recall U.S. Senator Robert Menendez" is sponsored by the Sussex County Tea Party.
On November 25, 2009, the Committee filed a civil complaint in the Essex County Superior Court of New Jersey against Nina Michell Wells, New Jersey Secretary of State, and Robert F. Giles, Director of the Division of elections. To date, the Secretary of State has ignored the Notice and the Complaint in violation of state law and the Committee is awaiting a decision from the court.
>>> Press Report <<<
Publication: The Jersey Journal
Is a tea bag group targeting U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez for recall?
Star-Ledger file photoU.S. Sen. Robert Menendez It seems a New Jersey tea bag group is complaining that "the New Jersey Secretary of State has failed to legally comply with our Notice of Intention."
Their intention is to get U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez out of office as soon as possible.
They add: "A civil action has been filed in the Essex County Superior Court of New Jersey on behalf of the 'Committee to Recall U.S. Senator Robert Menendez,' sponsored by the Sussex County Tea Party, a fellow member of, and supported by, NJ Tea Parties United."
Their message can be found on the Ridgewood Blog where the recall proponents promised a PDF file on the issue would be posted on their site, but it has yet to appear. They plan to begin collecting signatures needed for a recall of Hoboken's Menendez -- once they jump legal hurdles -- and are asking for help.
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STATEMENT FORM THE NJ TEA PARTY COALITION
A "Committee to Recall U.S. Senator Robert Menendez," sponsored by the Sussex County Tea Party has announced plans to launch an effort to recall Senator Robert Menendez from his position in office. Helping to lead the charge is New Jersey Tea Parties United, the state's grass-roots coalition of county and regional Tea Party groups representing several thousand members in support of fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and limited government. The Committee filed a formal Notice of Intention to Recall with the Secretary of State's office on September 25, 2009. While the office of the Secretary of State acknowledged receipt of the Committee's Notice of Intention to Recall in a letter dated October 5, 2009, it has since provided no further communication. NJ state law requires that administrators respond either with an approval or with a notice of non-compliance stating the reasons within three business days of receiving the Notice, which was October 4, 2009. Since no response had been received, on November 25, 2009, the Committee filed a civil complaint in the Essex County Superior Court of New Jersey against Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State and Robert F. Giles, Director of the Division of Elections, demanding that the defendants be ordered to immediately and forthwith comply with state law by issuing a response to the Committee's Notice of Intention. To date, the Secretary of State has ignored the Notice and the Complaint in violation of state law and the Committee is awaiting a decision from the court. For up to date information, go to: njrecallnow.blogspot.com, www.defendingamericanfreedom.com, or www.njteapartiesunited.com.
Once the notice is approved by the state or by court Order, the Committee to Recall along with NJ Tea Parties United will spearhead a large coordinated petition drive to collect signatures in support of a special recall election. NJ state law requires a minimum number of signatures equivalent to at least 25% of the prior general election's registered voters in order to grant a special recall election.
Appointed to a special one-year term by Governor Jon Corzine in November 2005, Robert Menendez was subsequently elected in 2006 during the mid-term election and has served in the US Senate for just over four years as a Democrat representing New Jersey. His term isn't scheduled to end until January 2013. The Recall Committee and New Jersey Tea Parties United believe that Senator Menendez has sided with rigidly partisan politicians in his repeated votes for cloture on a variety of key bills, stifling public debate in the Senate and denying New Jersey citizens transparency. For example, the Senator voted down an amendment that would have prevented Medicare from being raided for new entitlements[1], and another that would have limited the government's control over the health care of American families[2]. During this difficult financial period when Americans are cutting their own budgets and trying to save every penny, Senator Menendez voted down proposals to remove from spending bills a number of extravagant, excessive multi-million dollar projects that offered little or no short-term economic benefits[3]. When an amendment was proposed to transfer some of the country's funding for the United Nations contributions to help offset the costs of providing assistance to family caregivers of our disabled veterans, he voted against it[4]. And in one case, Senator Menendez voted against allowing each member of Congress and the Secretary of Defense to simply review the allocation of certain taxpayer funds[5].
One NJ Tea Party member put it this way, "When NJ voters came out to the polls in November of 2008, they voted for the transparency and accountability that was promised. Rather than believe his own constituents who have desperately been trying to convey their wishes to him on health care reform without a government run option, he chooses to dismiss us, making public statements on the senate floor that our concerns are all nothing more than the greedy insurance companies lobbying to protect themselves." It is statements like this that have convinced the Committee, NJ Tea Parties United, and other tea party members that Senator Menendez is one of many elitists in government that are more concerned with promoting their own careers than doing what is right for the American people. Those spearheading this effort hope that this will be the first recall of many throughout the nation and that the Constitutional government of the United States can be restored to the American people, to whom it belongs.
[1] Vote 368: H R 3590: Gregg Amdt. No. 2942
[2] Vote 360: H R 3590: Thune Amdt. No. 2901
[3] http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=495114&keyword=&phrase=&contain=
[4] Vote 310: H R 3326; Vote 285: H R 3288; Vote 284: H R 3288; Vote 283: H R 3288
[5] Vote 310: H R 3326: Coburn Amdt. No. 2565
Sussex County Tea Party contact:
RoseAnn Salanitri, Founder (Branchville, NJ)
Phone: (973)948-8553, Email: roseann216@gmail.com
Alternate Contact:
Tim Adriance, NJ Tea Parties United
Phone: 201-674-8031, Email: tim@njteapartycoalition.org
Legal Contact:
Dan Silberstein, Esq.
Phone: (732) 388-8600, Email: dsilberstein@dpspc.com
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