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Lviv Railways (abbreviated as LR) () is a territorial branch company of Ukrzaliznytsia headquartered in Lviv.

General description
Lviv Railways administers all railroads of Lviv Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ternopil Oblast, Volyn Oblast and most of Rivne Oblast. It has five directories of territorial administration: Lviv, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Volyn. The jurisdiction of the directories does not necessarily correspond to the regional division of Ukraine. Its territorial administration coverage borders with the Belarusian Railway to the north, with its Ukrzaliznytsia partner Southwestern Railways to the east, with the Calea Ferată din Moldova to the southeast, with the Căile Ferate Române to the south, with the Hungarian State Railways and the Railways of Slovak Republic – ŽSR to the southwest, with the Polish State Railways to the west.

As of 2008, LR operates on 4521 km of track. 3207 km of track is electrified majorly between Chop and Lviv. Partial electrification is available as well. There are 354 stations operated by Lviv Railways classified as passenger, freight, precinct, sorting, and intermediate. Eight out of the 354 stations are railroad terminals which are located in each regional center as well as the city of Chop. Lviv Railways has also 19 border-customs stations with Poland, Belarus, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.

The double tracks lay between: Lviv – Zdolbuniv – Rivne; Lviv – Mostyska – (border checkpoint); Lviv – Stryi – Chop; Lviv – Ternopil – Pidvolochysk; Zdolbuniv – Kivertsi. Other branches consist of a single track.

Administrative divisions
 Lviv Administration
 Ternopil Administration
 Uzhhorod Administration
 Ivano-Frankivsk Administration
 Rivne Administration

Trains and rolling stock

International
 35/36 "Lvivskyi Ekspres" (Lviv Express) Lviv – Wroclaw

Express
 171/172 Lviv – Rivne
 173/174 Lviv – Rivne
 820/821 Lviv – Ternopil

Branded
 25/26 "Karpaty" (Carpathians) Lviv – Odessa
 43/44 "Prykarpattia" Ivano-Frankivsk – Kyiv
 83/84 "Holubi ozera" (Blue lakes) Kovel – Odessa
 87/88 "Lisova pisnya" (Forest song) Kovel – Simferopol (It was rerouted to Novooleksiyivka after Russian occupiaton of Crimea in 2014)
 91/92 "Lviv" Lviv – Kyiv
 97/98 "Halychyna" Lviv – Kyiv
 99/100 "Zakarpattia" Uzhhorod – Kyiv
 363/364 "Svityaz" Kovel – Kyiv
 627/628 "Bukovyna" Chernivtsi – Kyiv

Suburban
Commuter lines are coded in regards to the railway administrative division. Lviv Railways commuter lines have four digits and start with 6. Second digit refers to one of the Lviv Railways administrations: 4 – Ivano-Frankivsk; 2 – Ternopil; 5 – Uzhhorod; 0 and 1 – Lviv; 3 – Lutsk.

Fast

Passenger

Electric/Diesel trains with elevated luxury

History

The first railway line built in the current territory of Ukraine was the Przemyśl – Lviv line, which was part of the connection from Kraków. The line was constructed by k.k. priv. Galizische Carl Ludwig-Bahn which later became nationalised by the Imperial Austrian State Railways. It was built in 1861 under the initiative of Leon Sapieha, and was 98 kilometres long. That was the first railway line on the Ukrainian territory. The first steam locomotive which departed from Przemyśl to Lwow on 4 November 1861 at 10.00 in the morning was called "Jaroslaw". In 1866, another railway was built connecting Czernowitz with Lwow (by Lemberg-Czernowitz-Jassy Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). At that time the Kovel railway station belonged to Vistula River Railroad. In 1869, Carl Ludwig Railways built a railroad from Lviv to Brody that was opened on 12 July. In 1870, another branch reached Tarnopil. On 4 November 1871 the railroad network was connected with railroads of Russian Empire near Volochysk over the Zbruch river, ultimately connecting Odessa with Hamburg. In 1884, was created the General Directory which included six state railways.  Those railways later formed the local directory of state railway transport which effectively competed with the Carl Ludwig Railways. On 1 January 1892, the government of Austria-Hungary adopted a law nationalising all railways from private companies. In the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria three railway directories were formed: Kraków, Lwow, and Stanislawow.

Before World War I, the total length of railways in the region was 2,676 kilometres.

Gallery

References

External links

 LR official site
 Ukrzaliznytsia official site

Railway companies of Ukraine
Companies based in Lviv

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Internet Voting Security: Wishful Thinking Doesn't Make It True
April 3, 2013 by Jeremy Epstein
[The following is a post written at my invitation by Professor Duncan Buell from the University of South Carolina. Curiously, the poll Professor Buell mentions below is no longer listed in the list of past & present polls on the Courier-Journal site, but is available if you kept the link.]
On Thursday, March 21, in the midst of Kentucky's deliberation over allowing votes to be cast over the Internet, the daily poll of the Louisville Courier-Journal asked the readers, "Should overseas military personnel be allowed to vote via the Internet?" This happened the day before their editorial rightly argued against Internet voting at this time.
One of the multiple choice answers was "Yes, it can be made just as secure as any balloting system." This brings up the old adage, "we are all entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to our own facts." The simple fact is that Internet voting is possible – but it is definitely NOT as secure as some other balloting systems. This is not a matter of opinion, but a matter of fact. Votes cast over the Internet are easily subject to corruption in a number of different ways.
To illustrate this point, two colleagues, both former students, wrote simple software scripts that allowed us to vote multiple times in the paper's opinion poll. We could have done this with repeated mouse clicks on the website, but the scripts allowed us to do it automatically, and by night's end we had voted 60,000 times. The poll vendor's website claims that it blocks repeated voting, but that claim is clearly not entirely true. We did not break in to change the totals. We did not breach the security of the Courier-Journal's computers. We simply used programs instead of mouse clicks to vote on the poll website itself.
In one case, the script was a bash script that looped a specified number of times and issued a curl command. My colleague's comment was:
I started by looking at the source code of the website, which is possible with any browser. The poll in question used a HTTP form to submit the result, and only using cookies to prevent duplicate voting. One quick Google search later, I was reading a website about how to submit form data with curl (a linux utility that allows you to send all kinds of HTTP requests from a shell). From there, it was a simple matter of tinkering with the curl command until it submitted the result I wanted, and then looping it to run a large number of times. Curl doesn't store or use cookies unless you explicitly tell it to, so it avoided the poll's duplicate voting system entirely.
In the other case, what we had was a simple HTML script to enter data into the web form, and the script was run repeatedly with iMacros in Firefox.
Each of the scripts was done in about 30 minutes start to finish, and then run on four computers at home (2 + 1 + 1 for the three of us). When we started, just after dinner, the vote was 255 for, 90 against, and 146 "I'd have to be convinced", with a handful of "no opinion" votes. By 10:30pm, we had collectively voted "no" about 9000 times. By Friday morning, we had voted more than 60,000 times and the poll was running 13 to 1 against.
This was a simple online poll that was easily compromised. Internet voting vendor software will be harder to compromise, but this shows that computer security is hard and claims must be proved. Before we entrust critical public functions such as voting to such software, the public deserves a solid demonstration that such claims are truly substantiated, and policy makers need to be schooled in a proper skepticism about computer security. That has not yet happened.
There is an irony in hacking an online poll about whether voting can be hacked. But it points to a much-needed dialogue between policy makers and computer security experts. Elections are too important to be entrusted, without proof, to the marketing hype of an Internet voting company. The nation's real elections should be decided by the voters in the nation's jurisdictions, not by whichever entity – foreign or domestic – happens to have the best software bots running on any given biennial Tuesday in November.
Filed Under: Other Topics, Privacy & Security Tagged With: election, Internet voting, Security, Voting
Chantel says:
I agree with people being able to vote, but voting online I don't think it is secure as you going to a destination and casting your vote. Casting your vote via internet is not really a safe way because anyone I feel can hack into the system and do what they want to the votes that has being cast. If it was to happen the person or people that created the site I believe they might have to get a trusted site to or persons to get the information to whom it need to get to. In thinking about the internet and computers a person is left to think about the security of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
Amber Barnes says:
Internet voting security is indeed a must. But how can this happen? Many people have doubts regarding this system since no one will ever know if anyone would make any alterations with regards to the voting process. But for me, I'm still hopeful that with the efforts of the people who made this, everything will be perfect and that it will be assured that nothing comes in between that could alter the electoral process. And not just any wishful thinking. Thanks!
–SurveyAndBallotSystems.com
Nathan T. says:
And my first thought to the poll? Invalid and biased polling questions. No way would I say "Yes, it can be made just as secure as any balloting system." But no way could I possibly say "No, the possibility of fraud is just too great." Nor the other answers given. None of the answers are viable from my perspective and they all show a bias by the ones conducting the poll.
I like your article as to point out how you rigged the poll, that is cool. But an online poll is NOT a balloting system, and I highly doubt they created it to be, even if they claimed it didn't allow duplicate voting.
Here is my question, to minds far superior to mine. Is the qualifier "at this time" at the end of the first paragraph a valid qualifier? Meaning, will there ever be a time?
I would have answered the question (and maybe been motivated to outscore your voting with my voting) if one of the answers was ""Yes, BUT ONLY if it is made to be as secure as any other balloting system." (emphasis added on the change).
It seems to me, the writings of many on here talk much about security, and often about voting security. I ask, couldn't such system be made to be as secure as others? Not to say it is now, as obiously the poll wasn't.
With my little study, seems that anything done over HTTP is not going to be secure for the purposes of such voting mechanisms because HTTP was not made to be such a system, it was created to disseminate information. BUT, HTTP is not the only protocol that runs over the connections we call "the Internet." In fact there are many protocols. Could a system (a new set of protocols) be created to run over the TCP/IP stack (i.e. the Internet) that is secure?
Maybe, and maybe not. I don't have the technical expertise to claim one way or another. And, so I ask you, those who do have more expertise. Is the "at this time" a qualifier, could the answer be "yes, when we have perfected a secure balloting system over the Internet, but not until then"?
BanFrenchRoast says:
What a worthless demonstration. Of course anyone can use iMacros or write a few line of Javascript to do what the good Professor did. But did he ever hear of a Captcha? All he showed was a trivial attack that has a trivial defense. I hate those things, but most sites use them who want to confirm they likely have a real human on the other end. Of course, there are black market Captcha human powered operations, but as I said, it is a trivial defense that would have defeated the attack that the good Professor mounted.
The three elements of computer security are Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA). In this case confidentiality is obviously addressed with some form of encryption. I think either standard encryption will do or the US military can have a trick or two up its sleeve in that area. Also military personnel have access to relatively secure military networks: "voting from the Internet might not be quite accurate because they could be using a secure subnet."
Most important is authentication. The military has numerous forms of authentication, including of course blood type and DNA in case of being wounded or blown into itty, bitty little pieces. I do think the military might be in a good position to enforce whatever biometric they desired or requisite piece of knowledge. The greatest threat would be either on the end nodes being compromised by mal-ware which would be at worst a one-at-a-time threat, not multiple voting. The servers would also be at risk for the usual and not so usual sorts of attack. And yet we live with these levels of risk for commercial transactions and other sensitive systems. I think those who would deny the right to vote electronically have the burden of proof to show the devastatingly unique nature of online voting systems. Compared to the potential threat to mail in ballots, electronic voting has a measure of tough defenses. But the good Professor did not make it out of Kindergarten in that regard with such a lame example.
Jeremy Epstein says:
BTW, for those who might be interested, "hacking" the poll site required zero programming. And I mean "zero". All you had to do was set your browser to "private browsing" mode, and you could cast as many votes as you want, since it doesn't keep cookies. Or use multiple browsers. Or any number of other methods – I cast a half dozen votes to convince myself that I could without writing any code…
One would assume that a real voting system would be far more resilient. But of course without any open testing, and without any standards to test against and no certification process, one has to rely on the vendors' statements, such as the claim in Kentucky that they used "military grade security" (by which they apparently meant SSL). And there lies madness.
I replied with a question below before reading other posts. I see you address part of my concern here though not an answer to my question. Rather it appears you qualified your rant with the statement "one has to rely on the vendors' statements."
And, in that case, I would also have to answer NO to such voting. I trust no one. But, then I don't even trust regular voting in my state. Up until the last two elections I am 100% certain my votes were never counted, and even though there is some chance that my votes have been counted the last two elections, it is still very likely that they were not.
It reminds me of my early days on the Internet, where I had worried of certain dangers. I got on the internet through an ISP that "proxied" all requests so as to block inappropriate and/or malicious web traffic. As the proxy was maintained at the ISP and I dialed in, there was simply no way around it, or at least I had no knowledge of any way around it at that time. But about a year and a half later, my ISP decided that they would instead contract with a "filter software" company and instead of proxying all traffic, they licensed the filter software for all their users to whom wished to install it.
The claims by the filter software developers were that there was no possible way around their system because… well they gave enough away of their process in their "because" statement, that it took me a whopping 10 minutes to bypass and test the bypass to their software. And website that were known to be blocked I was able to get to with very little trouble. Another 2 hours and I was able to fully cover all my tracks that the software had ever been hacked so that at any time, the software could be "re-hacked" and "un-hacked" with simply a double click and a reboot each way.
No, I will not trust any vender that "claims" they are secure. But, I still question, isn't there a way to do it securely in such a way as to ensure via peer review processes that the security is valid?
Duncan Buell says:
Many of the comments here are indeed correct. The simple poll software was not secure against some corruption, and it was easy to show it was not.
That gives us one data point: low grade software, with low grade security. For internet voting, we would want very high grade security. So can we quantify that? Have the vendors released their system for testing (and hacking?) by one and all?
Perhaps we should imagine a NIST process similar to that which led to the adoption of AES. All and sundry get to submit their software for testing in an open contest. Everyone gets to bang on all the proposals as hard as they would like. The best solutions make it to the second round, where another round of testing takes place. And again. And, as with AES, all the details are public knowledge. No security by obscurity, because one has to assume The Bad Guys have co-opted someone on the inside.
I am reminded of when the safes were installed in the offices in my previous job. On the side of the safe it said something like "Certified against 60 minutes of sustained attack." One of the more central safes in the document room had a larger number of minutes. Up until then I had never thought of that sort of thing, but it made sense.
This might lead to a real quantification of the risk and the security. We know that the poll software would perhaps just barely be able to say "Certified safe against the lunchtime attack of the Boiling Springs Elementary School Computer Club."
Of course, what we would really want for voting would be something that would read "Certified safe against a six-month attack by the People's Liberation Army/Tsinghua University Cybersecurity Attack Team." But I doubt we would get that information delivered to us willingly by the Chinese government. And therein lies part of the problem. We just don't know, and we just wouldn't know.
Mitch Trachtenberg says:
For what it's worth, I find myself in agreement with those who point out that the "achievement" here has been to demonstrate that piece-of-crap software can be insecure, which demonstrates zip about theoretically non-crap software.
But that's not the critical issue, and this entire event has been a diversion.
The critical issue is that there is no way for the general public to confirm that internet voting is working properly, and that their votes, therefore, have been properly recorded and tabulated. Also, of course, there is no way for election authorities to confirm that an individual voting over the internet has done so in an environment of enforced privacy, so that there is no way for anyone to purchase their vote or threaten their vote.
If no reasonable alternative to internet voting were available, the lack of easily understood security might be an acceptable situation, given that the public could ask for a consensus of computer science professors, and some might be reassured by the consensus. Military voting from front lines might be exactly such a situation. I'm not sure how the potential privacy issues are addressed.
However, for the general public, an alternative has been and always will be available. It involves people going to polling places distributed across the country, marking a piece of paper, depositing that piece of paper in a box monitored by witnesses in the room, and having the votes on that piece of paper tabulated in a way that human beings can verify. It's old tech, which is often the best tech.
The fact that this old tech involves large numbers of people each tackling their share of a naturally distributed and parallel IT problem does not make it bad. In my opinion, it is yet another reason this old tech is so superior. Citizens in a democracy *should* in my opinion, be hands-on in the eleciton process. More eyes is better. Efficiency is the holy grail of capitalism, not democracy.
Karellen says:
"The critical issue is that there is no way for the general public to confirm that internet voting is working properly, and that their votes, therefore, have been properly recorded and tabulated."
[citation needed]. I am skeptical that there is any proof that secure, anonymous, verifiable internet voting is necessarily impossible. Check the ThreeBallot[0][1] protocol. It's anonymous but verifiable voting system, designed to be usable with paper-based ballots, but it certainly could be implemented electronically.
"Also, of course, there is no way for election authorities to confirm that an individual voting over the internet has done so in an environment of enforced privacy, so that there is no way for anyone to purchase their vote or threaten their vote."
That's the case with any absentee/postal/other remote voting system. Are you suggesting that we stop allowing those votes?
[0] http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rivest-TheThreeBallotVotingSystem.pdf
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot
Karellen,
[1] I didn't suggest such a proof existed. There is a difference between a group of computer scientists asserting that something is mathematically proven to be secure and verifiable and the general public therefore accepting that it is secure and verifiable. I am completely unqualified to offer an opinion about the former, but as a member of the general public I am not ready to trust the opinion of computer scientists or politicians that an invincible Maginot Line has been installed.
[2] Yes, I am suggesting that remote or absentee voting is inherently unacceptable when alternatives exist. If enforced privacy is a serious concern in a voting system, then absentee voting should be restricted to those who cannot reach a polling place during an election window. Its use should be rare, but not necessarily never.
Regarding Three Ballot, here is an extract from the Wikipedia entry:
"In the ThreeBallot Voting System voters are given three blank ballots, identical except for a unique identifier. To vote for a candidate the voter must select that candidate on two of the three ballots. To vote against a candidate (the equivalent of leaving a ballot blank in other systems) the voter must select that candidate on exactly one ballot."
Do you understand, karellen, that many voters do not properly fill out their current paper ballots?
Do you have any idea of how inconceivably f'd up an election would be if the instructions included anything like the sentences above? It's great that brilliant minds are always probing for what can be accomplished, but what can be accomplished in theory is a very different thing than what can be accomplished in a real-world election.
As someone worried about the ease of which the technologically "super savvy" can drastically effect those who are not as technologically literate, I see where you are coming from. It's easy to fall into the trap of the "Liberty thesis" when it comes to the internet and the services it provides. It would do users some good if they realize that the internet is not always the freeing/liberating entity it may have been touted as during my childhood in the 90's. However, I seem to also agree with the general consensus of commentators here that being unable to do so at the moment does not mean that it can't be done. Though technology may not always be liberating, that doesn't mean it can never be. It will take a lot of work and if we intend for those military personnel overseas to continue feeling like they can support the political process at home, we'll need work on it. Paper-based methods can only go so far in a world that is quickly becoming interconnected. We'd have to learn and work on the systems that would be implemented, but I think that it is a goal we could reach.
Chris Anderson says:
Say hi to Weev when you get there…
Congratulations, you've shown that the online poll software for a local newspaper's website is not secure enough to run a real vote.
That does not disprove "Yes, it *can* be made just as secure as any balloting system"; it just proves that one particular piece of home-grown balloting software happens to be crap.
Secure votes can be, and are, run over the internet. The Debian[0] project does secure internet voting. There are published protocols for cryptographically secure internet voting[1]. Yes, you need to get someone who really understands cryptographic protocols to design and/or audit the system. Someone like Bruce Schneier, Dan Kaminsky, or someone equivalent who not only is known to know their stuff, but has the connections and clout in the security industry to be able to get others to double-check their work, and (more importantly) knows *who* is worth getting to double-check their work. And you need to be able to tell Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold), and the other current purveyors of (crap) electronic voting systems to go jump off a cliff.
It is possible to make internet voting just as secure as any other balloting system. No-one (AFAICT) has implemented it for governmental elections yet, and if no-one does then it's not worth doing insecurely instead, but that doesn't mean it *can't be* as secure.
[0] http://www.debian.org/
[1] e.g., found with 2 minutes of Googling (even if the formatting is wonky), http://www.drdobbs.com/secure-internet-voting-with-perl/199102023
Dan Nolan says:
The debate over online voting has been fairly one sided because the industry does not have a 501(c) to carry its water. The industry has been slow to respond for fear as being seen as "shills" for their product. For a business to be successful they must produce a product that meets the need, is safe at any speed, and provides value for the dollar. Businesses that make products that do not meet these criteria do not last long. Academics and industry are like the chicken and the pig at breakfast: The chicken is interested, but the pig is committed. Let me speak on behalf of the committed industry.
As an academic I would have expected Professor Buell to have observed the tenets of information literacy, but instead he makes baseless assertions and then draws an analogy between a newspaper survey and rigorously tested, high security online voting software. Normally I would treat this with the contempt it deserves, but due to his claim to academic credibility his misdirection must be addressed.
The ease with which the newspaper's poll was hacked is in no way indicative of the security provided by the professionals of my industry. We who work routinely with advanced cryptographic protocols and digital verification tools look upon those survey instruments much as an F35 pilot looks upon a Piper Cherokee. To cite the compromise of a survey in an effort to cast aspersions on online voting is a bald attempt to mislead the public. I believe the public is smarter than that. What is truly ironic is that an academic allowed his students to undertake a project that had the potential to cause a business harm, i.e., compromising the integrity of the Louisville Courier-Journal by purposefully deceiving its readership. Not only is that academically indefensible, but I would be surprised if were not actionable.
Dan: Which assertions were baseless?
I read the conclusion as "This little survey thing is not in the same league as professionally secured systems, but it made a claim and we disproved it. Professionally secured systems will also need to prove their claims."
If you read it as "your product will be easy to hack" then I have to wonder who really isn't observing the tenets of information literacy.
C'mon now: you could make internet voting from overseas just as secure as any other ballot method. Sure, you'd need to build special-purpose computers from trusted sources on both ends and hand-carry them to the overseas voting places and develop a key infrastructure also based on physical transportation under guard to verify each voter. Or maybe something even harder. But you could do it…
Oh, that wasn't really the question?

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Mitt Romney wins a reprieve
During the debate, Mitt Romney kept his focus on jobs. | REUTERS
By Jonathan Martin and John F. Harris
DENVER — Mitt Romney took the debate stage here with top Republicans verging on panic over his listless and accident-prone campaign, publicly second-guessing their party's nominee and privately hedging their bets as they contemplated the long odds he was facing.
He left the stage as a man who had won a debate, a reprieve from early obituaries, and at least the possibility of a fresh look from the relatively narrow slice of voters still open to persuasion in a highly polarized electorate.
( See also: Complete coverage of the Colorado presidential debate)
As with any performance, a debate score is in the eye of the beholder. At least on stylistic grounds, however, a clear consensus of early reviews — most notably from liberal commentators dismayed by Barack Obama's lackluster outing — judged Romney as having the superior evening, with a spirited personal demeanor, crisply delivered lines, and a bullet-pointed policy message that kept its focus on jobs while parrying many of the president's attacks.
At a minimum, Romney's performance has chased away the aroma of terminal illness that was starting to emanate from his campaign and the increasingly restive factions in and around his operation. He has given conservatives a performance to rally behind, likely stalled any effort by GOP moneymen to start directing money away from the presidential race in favor of congressional races, and, not least, bolstered his own self-confidence after weeks of painful stubbed toes and jeering commentary.
Whether he gets more than this minimum payoff is far from certain, given the deficit he was facing in both national polls and, more troublingly, several must-win swing states. Some supporters hoped he would immediately turn the debate into television commercials. Nearly all said he must channel the elements that made his Denver performance impressive — in particular, sharpening the contrast with Obama through a forward-looking policy message — in the next two presidential debates and in his daily events.
( Also on POLITICO: Romney's 5 best debate lines)
"It gives Mitt Romney the opportunity now to have more key people, undecided voters, listen to what he's saying," said Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who has been playing Obama in debate preparations.
"We saw such a strong and effective leader tonight that I'd like to see some of this in the advertising plan," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.).
"This was a make-or-break moment for the Romney campaign and he delivered," said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), adding, with a chuckle: "A lot of my colleagues who are in tough races were really encouraged by what they saw tonight. They saw somebody ready to run this thing to the finish line."
( PHOTOS: Scenes from Denver debate)
David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist, said he expected Romney to enjoy a bump in the polls of 1 to 3 points.
The recurring phrase from Republicans about their often-ill-at-ease nominee: Where has this guy been? One joke making the rounds was that the Mormon Romney had his first cup of coffee.
"I don't think anybody out there who watched this objectively couldn't come away from it saying this is a very different candidate than what we've been reading and hearing about," Thune said.
Wednesday's showing, these Republicans and others said, was the first time many voters saw a version of Romney as something other than the gaffe-prone plutocrat that Obama has so effectively caricatured in TV ads.
( Also on POLITICO: Fact-checking the Denver debate)
Many of his lines put the emphasis on his own solutions as much as criticism of Obama — a clear contrast from his nomination acceptance speech in Tampa that notably failed to help his trajectory.
Romney was helped by a surprisingly drowsy and dull-edged performance by Obama. The president made no major blunders, and he was consistent in his argument that Romney's fiscal proposals are unrealistic and irresponsible, forcing a choice between huge deficits or big tax increases on the middle class. But he seemed sedate in demeanor, his words full of pauses and even at times nervous stammers, and he sometimes gave off an air of weariness or impatience toward the proceeding.
Obama can take some comfort in history. George W. Bush was widely judged to have clearly lost the first debate against John Kerry in 2004, a fact that didn't change the arc of the race. And, as Obama allies noted Wednesday, most voters — unlike many reporters and commentators — do not judge debates principally as theater criticism but more on which policy arguments make sense to them.
Even as they insisted that they only wanted Obama to have a genuine conversation with voters watching at home, the president's high command will undoubtedly nudge him to show more passion in the next debate.
The Chicago brain trust also signaled that it would continue to pound Romney over his comments about Americans who don't pay income taxes — a campaign controversy that Obama never brought up at the Denver face-off.
"We are making the case in a lot of different ways," said Obama senior adviser David Plouffe about the 47 percent. "You know the president's out there giving speeches tomorrow."
But the debate suggested that the Obama team's days of clubbing Romney without any effective pushback — or simply waiting for him to club himself with clumsy campaign-trail remarks — are coming to an end with just under five weeks before Nov. 6.
"He uses this [debate] to show the American public that he's got a plan, that he can articulate the specifics of the plan and that he has the confidence in himself and can build confidence with the American people to lead the country," explained Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), an up-and-coming freshman.
The debate gave Republicans their biggest lift since the selection of Paul Ryan as the vice-presidential pick in August. And it gave Republicans, especially elected officials nervously eyeing their own campaigns, a measure of reassurance that their nominee can at least stay in the race — no matter the ongoing reality that Romney, absent a dramatic swing in polls, has a very narrow path to 270 electoral college votes.
Asked if Senate Republicans would feel better in the morning, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio shot back: "We're feeling better tonight."
Another senior Capitol Hill Republican, watching a hard-charging Romney unseen since the GOP primary, put it more bluntly: "He brought game I didn't think he had."
Republicans were especially delighted to hear Romney repeatedly telling the stories of average Americans he had met, something he has not done effectively yet on the stump and which made the often-remote candidate seem more connected to the lives of voters.
Obama's campaign, meanwhile, sought to set expectations about what Romney's strong showing may do for the Republican.
"I think there is a presumption that goes to the challenger, I think someone wrote … 1 to 3 percent bump maybe he'll get that," said Axelrod , conceding that Romney is "very good on the attack, that's his forte."
Axelrod, however, argued that Romney's stances on taxes, spending, Medicare and Wall Street regulation would ultimately doom his candidacy.
"The long-term result of this is going be that the concerns people had about his positions are going to continue to be the concerns they have about his positions," he said.
What puzzled some Democrats and altogether shocked Republicans was that Obama never raised Romney's secretly recorded criticism of the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay taxes. The line has become a core part of Obama's assault on Romney both on the stump and in TV ads.
"I don't know," said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), when asked why the president never brought up a line of attack the campaign finds damning. "I guess because he's a gentleman."
A prominent Democrat involved in a major outside effort this election was confounded.
"I thought he'd hammer 47 percent the entire time," said the Democrat. "But he's up by a decent margin so he took a 'do no harm' approach to his campaign."
If Obama played it safe, Romney debated like his candidacy depended on it. Which actually isn't much of an overstatement. Without a strong performance in Denver, Romney's campaign would've been engulfed with complaints from his fellow Republicans. Even before the debate started, some of the would-be surrogates in the press filing center were musing about their nominee's poor campaign. The word "anchor" was used — and not in the good way.
Following the forum, though, Republicans were openly predicting a turnaround.
"You'll see the needle move a few points," predicted American Conservative Union head Al Cardenas. "I'm not saying it's decisive in the campaign, but it's a tremendous progress for Mitt. And my sense is the race is practically tied now. Probably by next week when you wake up you'll see Mitt probably forging ahead in a few of these swing states that are pretty close now."
The party line from Obama's campaign was that Romney may have helped himself on style points but found no "game-changer." But it seems unlikely that the president will show up for the second debate with a similar lack of energy. And the president's advantages in some battleground states won't likely give way so easily as some Republicans may hope. But the first debate marked the long-sought restart the GOP has been searching for since Clint Eastwood bantered with the chair in Tampa. A restart, however, doesn't represent a comeback just yet.
"We won today, but we have to win tomorrow," cautioned Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. "And we have to win Friday. And then we have to win next week."
James Hohmann and Juana Summers contributed to this report.
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Sherman Ave Presents: Ikea Bingo
Ikea is an awful place. The Swede-founded furniture mega-mart is like some terrible cross between Disneyworld, the Minotaur's Labyrinth, and your local mattress store. It is humanly impossible to spend less than thirty minutes inside its walls, trying desperately to navigate yourself through the aisles of Bjurstas and Husviks, all while dodging the inevitable hoards of small children manically gallivanting across your path. For college students, however, it's an unavoidable destination: if you need a piece of furniture, Ikea's gonna have it (simply because of the store's sheer size); as such, hundreds of thousands of university kids make the pilgrimage through Ikea's maze-like corridors every summer's end.
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Written and Directed by Manua Hiki-Hiki, Starring Alabaster Chevrolet.
Thanks to all involved, and remember kids: You don't have to drink to enjoy Dillo Day, but it sure helps.
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Top 10 Least Advisable Halloween Costumes
Awww, costumes used to be so cute...
It's almost that time of the year again! No, not off-year election day. Sadly, not the end of finals yet. And no, we're not even talking about my birthday. But something even more exciting is happening this weekend: Halloween!
Halloween at Northwestern is a magical experience, when the female undergrad population is magically transformed from Harvard rejects into sexy cheerleaders, sexy members of the Greek pantheon, sexy animals — even sexy Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth — while the guys are left to dress up as "writers" and try to get sexy Hilary Clinton's phone number. But considering Northwestern's proud tradition of outlandishly offensive Halloween costumes, it seemed necessary to take a brief moment to warn the student body of ten potential costumes that might not fit with the spirit of the holiday.*
10. Tim Pawlenty's Presidential Campaign
The reanimated dead have always held a special place in American culture. That's why zombies and Barbara Walters are still so popular today. But as cool as a zombie costume can be for Halloween, Tim Pawlenty's presidential aspirations just aren't such a good idea to bring back to life in costume form. Besides, nobody would even know your name.
Sir Twattingworth and Ross Packingham on a typical Wednesday night
9. Sir Edward Twattingworth III
Unless you're going to a party with a "heinous" theme, you should probably avoid dressing up as Sir Edward Twattingworth III. As much as we'd love to see our fans don Twattingworth's characteristic Ed Hardy t-shirt, camouflage parachute pants, gold chains, and bowler hat, we don't want anybody to get mistaken for an ETHS sophomore and thrown out of a frat basement. If you want to show your support for Sir Twattingworth, we suggest dressing up as his betrothed to be, Pippa Middleton.
8. Dan Persa's Achilles Tendon
Too soon, asshole. That broken tendon was more heartbreaking to the NU student population than the closing of Pomegranate, and more disappointing than watching a Northwestern secondary in pass protection. Somebody's going to sack you for a loss like Kain Colter facing the blitz.
The good thing about the Qaddafi regime: nobody was bold enough to make the mistake of offering Almond Joys for Halloween
7. Colonel Qaddafi
This should be a pretty easy costume to cobble together. All you really need is to grow out some poor facial hair (easy enough for most Northwestern students), borrow your grandpa's old sunglasses, and commit numerous crimes against humanity (start by playing Nickelback at every party you attend). The only drawback: that hipster in the Mubarak costume insisting that he was into Arab regimes before it was cool.
6. Fucksaw
Hilarious as this might still be, nobody wants to party with a dude wearing a dildo on his head. Alternative costume idea: dress as Professor J. Michael Bailey. All this requires is making incendiary comments about the basis of homosexuality, violating numerous ethical standards about psychology research, and showing everybody you meet foot fetish videos.
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5. Amy Winehouse
For somebody who already looked like a cross between a zombified Helena Bonham Carter and a New Orleans streetwalker while she was living, Ms. Winehouse might not be the best choice for this Halloween. Something about "insensitivity" might come up throughout the course of the night. Unless, of course, you use her death from alcohol poisoning as a public service announcement about the danger of imbibing, in which case your costume might be ill-advised for other reasons.
4. Chet Haze
This might seem brilliant at first, but upon further examination, dressing up as a talentless self-obsessed douche might not be a great idea. Especially as the odds of both you and Chet wearing the same black dago-t to a party are much higher on Halloween.
3. The 1%
This one just hits a little close to home. Seeing as many Northwestern students actually occupy the 1%, it can be kind of hard to protest inequality at an elite institution. Besides, it's much easier and enjoyable to occupy The Keg than it is to stand outside of Kellogg in the Chicago fall to protest the future I-bankers of America.
2. Herman Cain
Side-stepping the whole potential "blackface" thing, this costume would probably involve a "9-9-9" Plan (i.e. doing 9 shots, getting 9 orders of chicken fries from BK, and urinating on nine university buildings), wearing a Godfather's Pizza box instead of pants, and running for positions you are under-qualified for.
Partner costume: Casey Anthony before and after
1. Casey Anthony
Tempting, but don't. Just don't.
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Charles DeSantis has a passion for serving others that manifests itself both in his work as Associate Vice President and Chief Benefits Officer at Georgetown University and in his service on the Boards of Nyumbani, an organizations that serves children with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Stepping Stones Growth Center, a non-profit organization serving the developmentally disabled in San rancisco, and ompass Partners, which promotes socially responsible entrepreneurship as a framework for engaging usiness students. Since 2007, DeSantis has been traveling to Nairobi, Kenya, developing and executing an Art Immersion program for the children at St. Aloysius of Gonzaga secondary school in the slum of Kibera.
SMART, BEAUTIFUL AND IMPORTANT: Teaching art to AIDS-affected orphans in Africa's largest slum
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132 Pages, 30 color photos
In 2006, author Charles DeSantis was selected with 11 other Georgetown University faculty members to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, as part of a program called the Kenya Immersion Group. Once there, DeSantis and the others visited many aspects of the Kenyan culture, confronting the perils of HIV/AIDS, poverty, and the challenges of mixed tribal cultures living within one region. While in Nairobi, DeSantis visited a Jesuit school for AIDS orphans, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, located in Kibera, the largest slum on the African continent. In just one square mile, Kibera is home to more than one million people.
At St. Al's, DeSantis and Associate Dean Margaret Halpin both realized that the children living in such abject poverty had no form of art curriculum whatsoever at their school. After inquiring with the administration about the desire for such a program, DeSantis and Halpin received encouragement, and so spent the next year developing an Art Immersion program to be delivered over a two-week period and piloted in 2008. The program was a huge success, and DeSantis was asked to return again in 2009 and 2010, implementing updated phases of the program. He also plans to create the means by which the program can be offered annually for Kibera students. This book chronicles the path of the Art Immersion program and its incredible impact on some of the most impoverished children of Kenya. Its contents is drawn on the blogs DeSantis kept in 2008 and 2009: http://artinkibera2008.blogspot.com/


Devil Pig : P500 N°1 validated!
It's getting hot on the forum!
As Yann announced between 2 messages and as you saw via the validation of your payment, we decided to validate the P500.
Certainly the objective of 15,000€ has not been reached in 6 days but the current amount already covers production costs. In view of our last setbacks, if you hadn't been there to support us, the pigs would have ended up as sausages!
So the validation of the P500 sounds a bit like a big thank you!
As indicated in the first communications the P500 will remain open until February 11, 2019 at 6:00 pm so that those who have already participated can adjust their order (if necessary contact me in MP for practical details) and so that latecomers can hang on to it.
Regarding delivery times, we are planning a dispatching in June 2019: we prefer to see large immediately to manage production calmly and face possible setbacks.
Thank you to you! See you soon for the next News and events (production, delivery, next P500 etc…).
@Nigel: I have send you un message.
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Like a earlier comment I too would like to add an item to my order to save shipping costs how do i do this?
I love being able to get my hands on these out of print items, but I wish you could add other future P500 items to your shipping costs. Paying a new shipping cost for each new P500 becomes taxing.
Qu'une seule chose à dire : un énorme merci aux cochons !
That's great news thanks for going ahead even when we didn't quite make it, I believe it bodes well for D.P moving forward with the second and subsequent P500's because now we are ready and waiting and word will have time to spread I see things only getting better. I would be interested to know what the final pledge total is after the extra days have elapsed, would that be possible?
@jyonkers: I sent you a private message.
Congrats!! I'll place my order for the roads asap!
How do I add to my original order? I would like to order an additional item but want to avoid a second shipping charge.
Voila une excellente nouvelle !!!!!
Encore une fois, décider de livrer le P500 sans avoir atteint le montant minimum démontre tout ce qu'on peut attendre de vous.
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Since 2017 Misha has led the Global Health Alliance Australia, which is a peak body for global health organisations in Australia and which currently has 40 organisational members across nine organisational types. In 2018 Misha authored Victoria's first international Health Sector Capacity Report, and the Alliance has recently funded to scope our Australia's first Centre for WHO Collaboration – designed to provide support to Australia and New Zealand's 52 WHO Collaborating Centres.
Misha has extensive experience living and working in countries including Bougainville, Palestine, Ethiopia, Kenya, Vietnam and Cambodia. She was formerly the CEO of Anglican Overseas Aid, and has also worked in several roles at AusAID, as the Country Manager of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research as the Australian Embassy in Hanoi, and she has led the Asian Development Bank and US Government aid programs in the Asia-Pacific region.


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Xixi () is a river in Tong'an District of Xiamen City, in Fujian Province of China. Said to be "Xiamen's largest river", it is  long and has a drainage basin of .

The Xixi starts in the Zhaijianwei Mountains (寨尖尾山 Zhàijiānwěishān) in the northwestern part of Tong'an District, and flows in the general south-eastern direction. After receiving a number of tributaries - Lianhuaxi (莲花溪, Lotus Stream), Aoxi (), Dingxi (), it merges with the Dongxi (东溪, Eastern Stream) at the place called Shuangxikou (双溪口, "The confluence of two streams), near Tong'an District's central urban area. It then continues to the south, forming an estuary as it discharges into Dongzui Harbour (), which is a bay of Taiwan Strait mostly enclosed by Tong'an District and  Xiang'an District on the mainland and the Xiamen Island.

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The Telstra Corporation Ltd (ASX: TLS) share price performance may take the headlines today, but there have been some equally strong gains being made at the small end of the market.
The Compumedics Limited (ASX: CMP) share price has rocketed 20.5% to 44 cents after the medical device company announced three-year distribution contracts with three existing, long-term, China-based sleep and neuro-diagnostic and monitoring distributors. The new agreements come with a minimum sales commitment of $15 million over the three years. Compumedics has had a lot of success in the China market of late, growing its business by an average of 20% per annum over the last five years. Management believes this agreement is a sign that it can continue double-digit growth in the country for the foreseeable future. Given its strong growth prospects in the country, Compumedics could be worth a closer look.
The Hills Ltd (ASX: HIL) share price has climbed 4.5% to 22.5 cents after the electronics and communications products manufacturer announced that it has been awarded the contract to supply the nurse call solution for the new Westmead Central Acute Service Building at the $1 billion Westmead Redevelopment project in New South Wales. No financial terms were disclosed, but CEO and managing director, David Lenz, believes this is a strategically important win that will strengthen its presence in the Western Sydney Local Health District.
The Neometals Ltd (ASX: NMT) share price has pushed almost 5% higher to 32.5 cents after the lithium miner surprised the market by declaring a 1 cent per share unfranked dividend. Management has been able to do this thanks to the consistent cash flow being generated by its Mt Marion lithium project. This is in line with the company's capital management strategy which aims to provide prudent shareholder returns in parallel with the maintenance of a strong balance sheet. Based on its current share price, this dividend equates to a 3% yield.
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"Over the next decade, 8.5 million jobs in science, technology, engineering and math will be available," writes Maria Wynne, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana in Crain's.
"Jobs will be plentiful, but the challenge facing America today is ensuring that we have qualified people to fill those openings. We are not ready.
What's at stake? America's competitive standing in the global economy. The economic crisis facing the U.S. will be fueled by a lack of qualified workers in the fields taking center stage and driving economic growth through innovation."
According to the Girl Scout Research Institute study Generation STEM: What Girls Say about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, though a majority of today's girls have a clear interest in STEM, they don't prioritize STEM fields when thinking about their future careers.
This latest offering from the Girl Scout Research Institute shows that 74 percent of teen girls are interested in STEM subjects and the general field of study. Further, a high 82 percent of girls see themselves as "smart enough to have a career in STEM." And yet, few girls consider it their number-one career option: 81 percent of girls interested in STEM are interested in pursuing STEM careers, but only 13 percent say it's their first choice. Additionally, girls express that they don't know a lot about STEM careers and the opportunities afforded by these fields, with 60 percent of STEM-interested girls acknowledging that they know more about other careers than they do about STEM careers.
Girls are also aware that gender barriers persist in today's society: 57 percent of those studied concur that if they were to pursue a STEM career, they would "have to work harder than a man to be taken seriously."
"This is not a new problem, but it's getting more alarming. As the boomer generation retires, too many high-school students are dropping out before they can even get a degree in a STEM field," writes Wynn. "And women, who make up the majority of graduate degrees, are not pursuing STEM careers. Often overlooked, girls are the key to resolving much of this problem. Research indicates that girls are interested in these subjects and yet few pursue them in higher education or as a career due to a lack of mentorship and exposure, an early introduction of gender bias and a lack of investment in girls."
Read her entire OpEd here.


SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Team Canada Young Pro Squad member Augusta James is the top Canadian at the Four Winds Invitational at Blackthorn Golf Club after two rounds. The Bath, Ont., talent sits T3 heading into the final round, three shots behind the lead at 7-under-par 137.
Also making the cut into the final round are Samantha Richdale of Calgary (-3) and Megan Osland of Kelowna (-2).
Just as there was two players tied for the lead after the first round of the Four Winds Invitational, such is the story following play on day two at Blackthorn Golf Club, only this time Samantha Wagner (Windermere, Florida) is joined by Louise Stahle (Lund, Sweden).
They both sit at 10-under par overall and will be joined by Jordan Britt (Chattanooga, Tennessee) in the final pairing tomorrow, who is three shots back at 7-under.
As for Stahle, she remained consistent, firing a second-straight 5-under par 65 to get her to the double-digit under par mark for the tournament.
Meanwhile, Britt finds herself in the final pairing for the first time since the 2015 Garden City Charity Classic. She finished fourth in that event, so is looking to capitalize tomorrow with a better result.
Also at the 7-under par mark for the 7th annual Four Winds Invitational is Augusta James (Bath, Ontario). She'll be joined tomorrow in the penultimate group by Panitta Yusabai (Pattaya, Thailand), one of 12 players at 5-under par, and Cheyenne Knight (Aledo, Texas), who is solo fifth at 6-under par in her first career Symetra Tour event following an illustrious career at the University of Alabama.
A total of 71 players made the cut of even par to compete on Sunday at Blackthorn Golf Club. Play begins at 9 a.m. tomorrow of No. 1 and No. 10 tees.
Another member of the University of Alabama women's golf family is turning in a strong showing this week at the Four Winds Invitational, as Lakareber Abe (The Woodlands, Texas) is not letting the nerves take over in her first career Symetra Tour event.
"I'm just trying to handle them. They're not going away, but they're getting better," Abe said.
The Crimson Tide record-holder for low round (63) is tied for 24th at 3-under par overall; pretty impressive for her first tournament as a professional.
She had an impressive list of collegiate accomplishments, including former two-time Second Team All-SEC performer to her name. In addition, Abe was named a Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Third Team All-American her sophomore year.
One aspect of her amateur career that Abe said truly helped get her to this point is playing for Alabama. Not only did the team prepare her, but the tree of athletes who have gone through the program and now compete professionally that she has at her disposal to learn from.
If you're lucky enough to don the Crimson and White like Abe, the plethora of guidance as she begins her professional career is never-ending.
Abe tees off No. 1 at 9:11 a.m. tomorrow in the final round and is paired with Muni He (Chengdu, China) and Annabel Dimmock (London, England).


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Wed. May 23
Abrams romps to victory in Georgia
— Former state Rep. Stacey Abrams crushed state Rep. Stacey Evans in Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial primary. If she prevails in November, Abrams will make history as the first female African-American elected to a governorship. Republicans, however, have won four straight elections for governor in Georgia.
— In a statement after the race was called, she thanked voters "who believed that a little black girl who sometimes had to go without lights or running water … could become the first woman gubernatorial nominee from either party in Georgia's history."
"Deportation bus" candidate defeated
— A Republican candidate in Georgia's gubernatorial race who ran a "Deportation Bus Tour" to the state's "sanctuary cities" was defeated in the GOP primary Tuesday night.
— State Sen. Michael Williams, who skipped out on running for reelection for his state seat for his gubernatorial bid, earned about 5 percent of the vote in the primary.
30-year old in court, refusing to move from parents house
NBC New York
— In a real-life case of "Failure to Launch," an upstate New York judge Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents' house after they went to court to have him ejected.
— Michael Rotondo told the judge he knows his parents want him out of the split-level ranch they share. But he argued that as a family member, he's entitled to six months' more time.
… and from Syracuse.com…
— As Rotondo's parents sat quietly in the court gallery, Rotondo appeared to crave the spotlight. At one point, the judge called Rotondo up to the bench. Rotondo noted that microphones placed by the media were on the lawyer's podium. He tried to take the podium up with him.
— Afteward, Rotondo called out to the television camera crews to meet him outside the courtroom for an interview.
They're already weaseling…
Foxconn, getting massive taxpayer money, cuts back investment in Wisconsin
Nikkei Asian Review
— Foxconn is considering producing small to medium-size displays for Apple, carmakers and others to lower initial costs at its supposed $10 billion factory in Wisconsin.
— Foxconn's shift to making diversifying displays for cars, personal computers, tablets, mobile devices, televisions and niche products is a change from its previous plan to churn out large panels, mainly for TVs, at the new plant.
— Foxconn and other panel makers face a glut of TV displays that will likely last for years, as many Chinese companies are aggressively adding capacity.
2 in 5 Americans can't scape together $400 to meet emergency
— Another 25 percent of respondents had zero retirement savings or pension.
Kim, eyeing Singapore meet with the Orange One, fears coup, assassination
"For the Kim family, everyone is a potential enemy," Choi Min Jun, a North Korean defector told the BBC. "The North Korean military, the General Staff Department, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, as well as the entire North Korean people, they are all potential enemies."
Oh! Trade wars are "easy to win"
except this one,
which is "too hard to get done."
√ Seriously, there's no need to read beyond the headline. It'll just be some other bullshit tomorrow.
Sarah Sanders: Being called a liar bothers me
"One of the few things you HAVE are your integrity and reputation," Sanders said.
√ No, Sanders, you mean HAD.
RUSSIA THREW THE US ELECTION AND …
"(Ryan and McConnell) didn't care who their nominee was, how he got elected or what effects having a foreign power influence our election would have on the nation, as long as they won."
— James Clapper, former director of national intelligence
Quoted on The Hill
Putin's "unlimited range" missile crashes after 22-mile flight
— "Since its range is unlimited, it can manoeuvre as long as you want," Mr Putin said. "For now, no one in the world has anything like this."
— But sources with direct knowledge of a US intelligence report told CNBC that four tests of the missile between November and February all resulted in crashes.
American suffers mysterious sonic injury in China
— The US embassy in China issued a health alert after a US government employee experienced an "abnormal" sound and suffered a mild brain injury – in an incident reminiscent of a mysterious illness that hit diplomats in Cuba.
Banks make record profits as Congress set to weaken regulations
— The rollbacks increase the measure at which banks are considered "too big too fail" and subject to tougher restrictions and stress tests from having $50 billion in assets to $250 billion. Additionally, smaller banks with less than $10 billion in assets would not have to comply with the Volcker rule, which stops them from taking large risks with money insured by taxpayers.
Fake Wal-Mart kidnapping was staged to make social media splash
The News & Observer
Four men and the one woman — all either 19 or 20 — plotted the hoax over dinner and behind the Walmart Sunday night before showing up in front to carry out the plan, according to police. Their plan was to film onlookers' horrified reactions as they witnessed the "abduction," according to police. Then the group planned to post the video and make a splash on social media.
Facebook will prevent revenge porn,
just give them photos of yourself nude
√ What could possibly go wrong?
The Well-Regulated Militia
Man will plead guilty to gunning down 5 in Fort Lauderdale Airport.
Esteban Santiago would serve five consecutive life sentences, followed by 120 years in prison for the shooting rampage on Jan. 6, 2017.
√ The weird thing is, there's so much of this happening in America, that I don't even remember the original event.
In 2018, have more died in school shootings or in military service?
As so often happens, it depends on who's counting.
Support for gun control fades, but still favored by 7 in 10 Americans
NFL owners mull penalty for anthem kneeling
NFL club owners are considering potential 15-yard penalties for kneeling during the national anthem among ways of coping with a backlash over player protests, Sports Illustrated reported Tuesday.
√ Read this AFP version and avoid obnoxious videos on Sports Illustrated site.
Whoops, that "rattlesnake fell into my kayak" story was kinda bullshit
It turns out the kayaker in question "reached out" to grab the snake.
Congress passes patients' "right to try" measure
— Patients with life-threatening conditions could soon have a new way to ask drug makers for medicines the Food and Drug Administration hasn't yet approved, after the House on Tuesday voted to approve a version of "right-to-try" legislation.
— The House passed the legislation 250-169. Now, the measure awaits a signature from President Trump, who is expected to sign the legislation into law.
Scientists discover how breast cancer hibernates
— Scientists have identified the mechanism that allows breast cancer cells to lie dormant in other parts of the body only to reemerge years later with lethal force, according to a study published Tuesday.
— In experiments with human cells and live mice, researchers showed that disabling the mechanism — with drugs or gene manipulation — crippled the cancer cells and inhibited their capacity to spread.
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Brad Williams Interview
Posted by DJ in Jazz Gtr Interviews, Youtube Jazz Videos on July 14, 2015
I was contacted via Twitter by Brad and had a listen to his Youtube channel and loved what I heard; tasteful, in the tradition but not in anyway painting by numbers if that makes sense- check it out. I was glad he agreed to an interview. Thanks Brad!
What/who were your initial influences?
My very earliest influences were stacks of 45 RPM records my parents owned. Scotty Moore with Elvis Presley was a big one, Steve Cropper with Otis Redding was another. At 12 I was exposed to Hendrix, and at 15 to Wes Montgomery and Grant Green. Then I started going out as a teenager in my hometown of Memphis to hear Calvin Newborn at least one night per week— this was in the late 1990s. But my single biggest guitarist-influence, to this day, is Charlie Christian— such an incredible sound and conception, and true, deep feeling in every note. His influence exploded out in every direction— through Wes and Benson obviously, but also through T-Bone Walker into the blues, then Junior Barnard on the country side of things, and Chuck Berry and beyond into rock. Charlie Christian is truly the electric guitar's 'big bang.' More than guitarists, though, I'm most influenced by any musician who delivers real depth of feeling and real, honest individuality. There are too many to list, and fortunately there's no reason to narrow it down.
Are you gigging much at the moment and any projects in the pipeline?
I'm doing a lot of writing and producing these days, in all sorts of idioms, and a fair amount of performing. Not all of it is improvisation-centered. Last year I worked and toured quite extensively with vocalist José James, and currently I'm playing and writing a bit with artists like Kris Bowers, Cory Henry, Samora Pinderhughes, and Sly5thAve, as well as some more song-oriented projects with lots of great artists like Adesuwa, Kimberly Nichole, and more. Really just staying busy and keeping my vision very broad. My organ trio record, which features Pat Bianchi on B3 and Tyshawn Sorey on drums, comes out 4 September. I'm very excited to see the public's reaction to Tyshawn's organ trio drumming, which is fantastic. So many music lovers know his work in contexts very different from this, so I think a lot of people are going to really get a thrill from hearing him like this.
It was an interesting project in that we decided to do an entirely analogue capture the whole way through— we tracked and mixed to tape, and Scott Hull cut a great-sounding lacquer master from razor-blade sequenced quarter-inch reels. The LP edition will have never touched a computer at all, and I chose this way of working with a very clear musical result in mind. Rather than having the temptation to fix and edit, I wanted to enforce being true to the feeling of the moment. What was most interesting to me were all of the little things that bothered me initially. Most of those came to be some of my favorite parts of the record once it aged a bit— there's real humanity there, and with modern recording workflows, a lot of this humanity gets eroded through little fixes, edits, and punches. I think this is because humanity and vulnerability, while engaging to audiences, can be uncomfortable when it's your humanity and vulnerability!
What's your 'desert island' guitar or have you got it!?
I have always liked guitars— I have 20 currently. I've always, from the very beginning, liked to have a lot of guitars around. Amps, too! So it would be hard to pick one. At any rate, things like makes, models, and vintages are purely academic to me— I have to play a particular guitar before I know if it speaks to me or not. Another of the exact same make, model, year might not strike me the same way. There are some I own that were particularly obvious to me the first time I picked them up. I have this 1953 Epiphone Triumph Regent that someone added a pickup to in 1954. It's a carved-top guitar—it was an acoustic originally—and the pickup was bought out of a catalog, made by Carvin in the mid-1950s. I also have a blue 1962 Fender Jazzmaster that I'd never sell, and a 1944 Gibson Southern Jumbo flat top.
Most of my guitars are old; I tend to like the ones that have been played a lot. Sometimes I feel that as with any other tool that's worked with in the hand a lot, like they can somehow accumulate personality. That probably sounds weird. But in the end, there's music in any guitar— it's up to the player to find out what the guitar does and how it can be worked-with, creatively. I'm a big fan of old inexpensive guitars, for instance— there's almost always something they do that is unique and characterful. I'd be happy with almost any guitar on a desert island, I think!
Best guitar gig you've ever seen?
There's one that comes to mind for me that I've talked about a few times since. I was about 18 years old and went to see B.B. King in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; the hall held about 8,000 people. I was young, deep into jazz guitar studies, trying to get my hands around all the technique and my ears around all the harmony. Mr. King had a second guitarist with him— a young kid playing a big archtop— and he gave this kid the first solo of the show. The kid played great; lots of notes, some bebop-inspired language, and I remember thinking "wow, I've heard the B.B. King records; I know he's not going to play more stuff than this guy!" After the younger player's solo, which finished to polite applause, B.B. King played a single note— one of those stinging upper register notes he's so famous for. The energy in the hall immediately elevated to this transcendent place— you could feel the electricity of the whole crowd's emotions being stirred simultaneously. It was a transformative moment for me, because it caused me in one instant to completely re-evaluate what was important to me in music. From that point on, the question was always "is this idea in service of some kind of feeling?" Because it's not enough, to me, to just be a clever idea or an impressive thing to demonstrate. If it's not working toward making me feel what B.B. King made that whole hall feel that day, then it's not what I'm after.
Which guitarist(s) would you recommend for other people to check out?
Well, there are all the usual ones— the legends. Charlie Christian gets a shout-out, again. Freddie Green was always another big hero of mine, due to his deep concept as a rhythm section player. For me, there's a whole school of Memphis session guitarists that are just my favorite lately. The late Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, Skip Pitts, Michael Toles, Bobby Manuel, Steve Cropper, and— above them all, to me— the great Reggie Young. Most of your readers have heard these players somewhere or other; as session players they were all incredibly prolific, and on some important records. There are some others that are so worth checking out that don't get as much talk these days— Oscar Moore, George Van Eps, Gene Bertoncini… As for current players, my friend Charlie Hunter has a fabulous new record out with Curtis Fowlkes and Bobby Previte. Isaiah Sharkey is another player I'm really impressed by, as is Tony Scherr… his slide work is so full of real feeling. There are really too many great ones to name.
B.B. King, charlie christian, Charlie Hunter, gene bertoncini, George Benson, George Van Eps, Grant Green, oscar moore, Wes Montgomery
Jens Larsen Interview
Posted by DJ in Jazz Gtr Interviews on June 27, 2012
I was contacted by Jens Larsen who is a guitarist with the band Traeben who are from Denmark and really play and sound great. I found it particularly interesting as I am in a band with the same instrumental format. I urge you to check out their website (follow the highlighted links on the band name) as there's some great tunes. One of the reasons I started doing the interviews was to get an insight into players from different countries and how they ended up on the path that lead them towards jazz guitar.
01. What/who were your initial influences?
When I was 12 my best friend could not play with me when on Thursdays because he was having guitar lessons so I thought I'd get lessons too.I started having lessons every Monday. I had classical lessons until I was 19. Where I lived in Denmark you could only learn classical guitar. When I was in High school I started playing in the school band on the electric guitar of the school, and later I got one myself. When I moved to a bigger city to study mathematics at the University I started to take lessons in electric guitar. From there I drifted from classical via blues and rock into jazz because I discovered that I really liked playing with other people and also improvising. I was amazed that so many rock bands were not improvising, I thought all solos were improvised at that time. When I discovered Charlie Parker, I was searching the library for some fusion that I liked and that was that! I did not find any good fusion untill many years later.
02. Are you gigging much at the moment and any projects in the pipeline?
I am at the moment in the middle of the release tour for the 2nd Træben album: "Push". We released it in the Netherlands in March and it will be released in the rest of the world on October 1st. Træben is my main project right now. We have been playing quite a lot and the band functions really well, and in more ways than just playing, so that is very nice and I am really enjoying that. Push is the first album where I really got to write a lot of music and that's also a reason for me to be proud of it. Push has been very well-received in the press and also with bookers so we have not had too hard a time getting to play concerts, and we have had featured videos on All About Jazz, and there are two reviews coming up there too. This first part of the release tour has taken us through Benelux and we are now planning to go to Germany and Scandinavia in 2013. We are also in the process of writing the next album and testing the tunes live. I guess I feel very blessed at the moment.
03. What's your 'desert island' guitar or have you got it!?
I am not sure if I have my desert island guitar. I have been playing an Epiphone Sheraton for the last few years and I really like it and it sounds great, but I just bought an old Ibanez 2630 which feels better, but I still did not get it setup with the strings I use, etc so I can't tell if that is it. It might be though, at least for now, until I want something else it never ends…
04. Best (jazz guitar) gig you've ever seen?
The best concert I ever saw did not have guitar in it. I saw the Dave Holland Quintet on North Sea Jazz nine years ago (I think..), and that was really great! It completely blew away everything else I saw that day. For guitar I don't know of one thing. I've seen Kurt Rosenwinkel quite often and that was always great. Charlie Hunter, Nguyen Le, Scofield they are also all fantastic. I've seen quite a few Scofield concerts too, I am never going to get tired of that. I saw Allan Holdsworth Trio live last year which was great too. I have realized that I need to go see more concerts. When I see live music I take so much more with me, and it keeps me going for weeks after. The last concert I saw was the new Chris Potter quartet that was fantastic too. I hope I get time to see something again soon. I never saw Gilad Hekselman live and it's been a long time since I saw Ari Hoenig.
05. Which guitarist(s) would you recommend for other people to check out?
There are many. Nguyen Le is great and he is in jazz circles not that well known. I've had the fortune to hear him in more mainstream jazzlike settings and he is good at that too though not always very true to tradition maybe. All his world music influences are also interestingand a lot of his arrangements are great.I saw a concert from an Icelandic band called ADHD which was great! Maybe it is more the songs and the way the band works than the guitarist, but the concert was fantastic! Underplayed very dynamic and very intense! In the same way I really like the Danish guitarist Jakob Bro's stuff, even though it is completely different. He has made some records with Bill Frisell and Lee Konitz that are very nice. Somebody showed me a video with Prasanna and Vijay Iyer which was very interesting too, completely different approach in some ways, the whole sitar phrasing on a guitar is very interesting. Another guy whose name I don't hear so often is Lorne Lofsky. I have one of his CD's, "It Could Happen To You" and that is great!
Alan Holdsworth, Ari Hoenig, Bill Frisell, Charlie Hunter, Gilad Hekselman, John Scofield, Lorne Lofsky, Nguyen Le


Update Dec 09: With the release of WoW Patch 3.3 and the iLevel gear starting at 219 and 232 for H dungeons, I think the typical level of expected gear has increased. The old Naxx guides are gone. Basically now you're aiming for 219 in all slots as a start, and any casual with time should be able to get to 232 in almost every location.
That is a huge change from the iLevel 200 items that you got 1 per end boss at the start of Wrath at level 80. Tis a good thing too.
Raiding requirements are popular searches, I know as the raid requirement posts are still some of the most popular in this blog. And to my somewhat shame most of the information I post is a hash of other sources (Alt Doctor, EJ, wiki, etc).
And the Alt Doctor has done it again, posting his Raiding Requirements for Wrath.
If you're wondering if you are read to run with the big monsters, this set of stats will tell you. Later I'll review, but for now just read and make sure you know what you need.
If you're short on some of the stats then check out Wow-loot, WoW Heroes, and BeImba for advice. All are good sources of item/gear advice.


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 Ipanema est une municipalité de l'État du Minas Gerais au Brésil
 Ipanema est un quartier de la ville  de Belo Horizonte, dans l'État du Minas Gerais
 Ipanema est un quartier de la ville de Rio de Janeiro, dans l'État de Rio de Janeiro
 La plage d'Ipanema, est une plage de la ville de Rio de Janeiro
 Ipanema est un quartier de la ville de Porto Alegre, capitale de l'État du Rio Grande do Sul
 Le rio Ipanema est un cours d'eau des États d'Alagoas et de Pernambouc

Cultures
 A Garota de Ipanema (« La fille d'Ipanema » souvent citée avec son titre anglais «  ») est une chanson composée par Vinícius de Moraes et Antônio Carlos Jobim.
 Repris dans le titre d'une bande dessinée The girl from Ipanema de Hermann.
 Repris dans le titre d'une bande dessinée Au loin, la fille d'Ipanema... de Jean Dufaux et Renaud.

Recherche
 Ipanema est la plateforme européenne de recherche matériaux anciens du CNRS, du Ministère de la Culture et de l'Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)

Économie
 Chevrolet Ipanema est une automobile brésilienne produite par Chevrolet ;
 Fundição Ipanema est une installation métallurgique du  proche de la municipalité de Sorocaba, dans l'État de São Paulo.
 Embraer Ipanema est un avion d'épandage agricole brésilien.
 IPANEMA Initiative PArtenariale Nationale pour l'émergence des Énergies Marines
 Ipanema est une marque de tongs en PVC recyclé, concurrente de la marque Havaianas.

Autre que le Brésil
 L'Ipanema (paquebot) : Un paquebot français de la Société générale des transports maritimes à vapeur (SGTM), en service de 1921 à 1956.
 La Fille magique chinois Ipanema : Un programme tokusatsu japonais diffusé en 1989. L'original est Shōtarō Ishinomori, et le chef de file est Wakako Shimazaki.

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04/16/2019 / By JD Heyes / Comments
In a recent segment on the CBS series "The Good Fight," a chaotic riot scene in which people are attacked, cars are overturned and burned, and police vehicles are smashed, a lone black man approaches the camera and begins to speak.
"Is it all right to hit a Nazi unprovoked?" he begins. "I was always taught to never throw the first punch, never instigate, defend but don't attack (because he's so virtuous, you understand).
"But then I saw a video of white nationalist Richard Spencer being punched in the face during an interview and I realized Spencer was in a pressed suit, wearing a tie, being interviewed like his opinion mattered, like he should be grouped into part of the conversation, like neo-Nazism is just one little point of view," the black man continued (as the viewer was treated to views of Spencer being interviewed and being punched).
"And then I realized there's no better way to show some speech is not equal," he said. "Some speech requires a more visceral response. It's like Overton's Window — that determines which ideas are tolerated in civil discourse. Well, Overton's Window doesn't mean s**t unless it comes with some enforcement, so yeah, this is enforcement. It's time to punch a few Nazis."
Frankly, it is outrageous that CBS would broadcast something so grossly irresponsible, but there you have it: A blatant call for violence against whites, in general, is the not-so-subtle undertone:
Richard Spencer is an avowed neo-Nazi and white supremacist. He's not disavowed this and in fact, has proudly declared it.
But for the record — and we need to be crystal clear about this — 'white supremacy' is not the same thing as being a "nationalist." The disgustingly dishonest Left has begun using the terms 'white supremacist' and 'white nationalist' interchangeably, as a way of portraying much of POTUS Trump's white base as racists and bigots (like him, you see — which is also a lie).
You may consider arming yourself, especially if you're white
As the above video notes, correctly, 'nationalism' in the Trumpian view is nothing more or less than patriotism, and patriotism applies to any one of us who loves our country first and foremost, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, religion, orientation, or any other factor.
The fact that the insane Left has taken it upon themselves to decide what speech is and is not 'allowable' in the public sphere is nothing short of the Nazi-like authoritarianism they claim to be opposing.
Mind you, Spencer isn't the authoritarian here. He's not calling on others who disagree with him to be punched into silence. He's merely advocating a point of view that he has every right to under our Constitution to advocate, even if virtually no one else in our country agrees with him.
Now, if that's not true, then imagine some tables being turned here: What if conservatives begin showing up at Leftist rallies and start "punching Marxists and socialists"? After all, the only ideology that killed more people than Nazism in the 1900s was Marxist-Leninist-socialist governments (the USSR, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, etc.).
Why is some speech 'acceptable' under the principle of Overton's Window and other speech isn't? Well, obviously, it depends who's doing the deciding. (Related: 'Mainstream' media's perpetuation of hate hoaxers like Jussie Smollett will lead to violence, war.)
In the meantime, conservatives — and especially whites — had better get it through their heads that the Left is coming for us. They have deemed our speech and our points of view as no different from those of a Richard Spencer, though clearly conservatism is not neo-Nazism and nationalism isn't "white supremacy."
If you don't yet carry a concealed firearm, maybe you ought to get some training, get licensed, and get started. It seems like the time isn't far off when angry, brainwashed Leftists are going to attack us simply because we exist.
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This chapter appeared in the first volume of The "New Church" Times after Roberts & Pearson had been sent to Neuve Eglise.
Snowflakes were falling heavily aroud Hordon Goose Farm, where we left Herlock with the fair Honoria. Breezy Bill, the Bouncing Butcher of Bellewarde had just been hit in the neck by a whizz-bang when the chug-chug of a motor cycle was heard.
"Can it be Intha?" cried Honoria, while Sholmes proceeded to tune his violin.
Hurriedly tearing open and reading the despatch, the true Sholmes stood revealed in all his strength and method. Seizing his vermoral sprayer, he rapidly squirted an enormous dose into his forearm.
"Here" replied the great detective, rapidly emptying his revolver at the approaching figure.
"Thank goodness I've found you at last, but you nearly got me that time," said Hotsam admiringly.
"At last!" shouted the great sleuth.
"At last!" shouted the others, as they busily collected the usual paraphernalia of the great man.
With these words he disappeared into the gloom and a crump-hole. All these arrangement having been made, Hotsam and Honoria continued their journey down the Denin Road, arriving in Typers just in time to meet Intha Pink before he left for his nightly word. Having rapidly given him a summary of al that had happened, they went into a neighbouring estaminet to await the fateful hour of zero.