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Auburn knows LSU game is 'do or die' for SEC West, College Football Playoff chances
Josh Vitale
AUBURN — There is a sense that the college football world is already looking three weeks ahead to Nov. 9, when Alabama hosts LSU in Tuscaloosa.
CBS announced Monday that it had (obviously) selected that matchup between the current No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the AP Top 25 Poll as its nationally televised game of the week. The fact that it would be an afternoon game, rather than a night game, was the talk of the SEC. No conversation can be had about the Crimson Tide right now without first discussing whether injured quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will be back in time to play the Tigers.
On Tuesday, 150 miles west of Tuscaloosa in Auburn, Gus Malzahn made it clear that he doesn't have time to listen to any of that chatter. His team is preparing for the most pivotal game of its season — Saturday at LSU in Baton Rouge (2:30 p.m., CBS), a place his program has lost nine straight games since its last win in 1999.
"I've said this before: It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks," No. 10 Auburn's head coach said. "We're taking it one game at a time, we're staying focused with our head down, we're not going to get distracted by anybody else's opinion, good or bad."
But as much as you try to ignore them, it's not always easy to avoid them. Reporters asked Malzahn how he feels about people already dubbing Alabama vs. LSU as No. 1 vs. No. 2, so he knows that's being discussed. Players were asked how it felt to be a double-digit underdog going into Baton Rouge, and whether they thought they were being overlooked going into the game against LSU even though they are also a top-10 team with a 6-1 record.
"If they're looking toward Alabama, I mean, that's their loss," senior defensive lineman Marlon Davidson said. "We Auburn. They've got to come through us first."
Auburn has to go through LSU, too, though. That's where a lot of this comes from. Ed Orgeron's Tigers are firmly on a tier above Auburn through seven games. They have the Heisman Trophy frontrunner in quarterback Joe Burrow, who has completed a ridiculous 79.4 percent of his passes for 2,484 yards and 29 touchdowns. They still have a Dave Aranda-coordinated defense that, despite giving up more points to Power 5 opponents this year compared to last year (29.3 to 24.4), still ranks 23rd nationally giving up fewer than 5 yards per play.
MORE:Constantly competing Derrick Brown, Marlon Davidson might be Auburn's best chance to disrupt LSU
LSU is viewed not only as the biggest threat to Alabama in the SEC West, but as a legitimate College Football Playoff contender.
Auburn still has a chance to be those things this season. But it has to win Saturday. There is no other way.
"It's just, really, do or die. Like, let's just be honest," senior safety Jeremiah Dinson said. "Where we want to go, the goals that we've got for the team, we need this one. So, man, it's really do or die this week, man. You just lay it all on the line and just play till that clock hit triple zeroes."
The reason it is "do or die" is that Auburn already has one SEC loss, 24-13 at then-No. 8 Florida in Gainesville three weeks ago on Oct. 5. One SEC loss is survivable — Malzahn's team learned that two years ago in 2017, when it lost at the same LSU team it will face this week, then rattled off five consecutive wins (including two over top-ranked Georgia and Alabama) to capture the SEC West crown.
Had the Tigers beaten Georgia in the SEC Championship game that year, they would have without a doubt been one of the top four teams that makes a national semifinal.
Two SEC losses, though, would effectively eliminate Auburn from the SEC West race and, in turn, the Playoff conversation. Its only other chance at that point would be both LSU and Alabama losing two games each during the season's final month, and as well as both have been playing, that seems unlikely.
"I think with the way things stand, this is a really important game to win," true freshman quarterback Bo Nix said. "We're definitely not going in there thinking about losing the game. We're going to do whatever we can to win the game and bring it home so it gives us the best chance to make it farther in the season and, eventually, make it to the championship."
The path would be difficult even if Auburn is able to pull off the upset Saturday over a top-three team at a stadium where it hasn't won in 20 years. It would still have to take down Georgia and Alabama at home over the final three weeks of the season. But the Tigers have done that before under Malzahn (both in 2013 and 2017), the Bulldogs didn't look particularly impressive during a loss to South Carolina and ugly win over Kentucky in recent weeks, and injuries have made the Crimson Tide look mortal — Tagovailoa is currently without a timetable to return.
That's looking too far ahead, though. So too is looking ahead to LSU at Alabama on Nov. 9. "Trust me, we're not overlooking this team," Burrow told reporters in Baton Rouge on Monday. "They're too good. It's the third top-10 team we're playing this year ... you can't, you just can't. We'll get our butts beat if we overlook this team."
Because it's not as if Auburn isn't be plenty motivated. Players haven't forgotten about the "tough to swallow" losses they suffered against LSU the past two seasons, when the blew a 20-0 first-half lead in Baton Rouge in 2017 and saw a 21-10 advantage evaporate on a 71-yard touchdown and buzzer-beating field goal at home last year.
And if Auburn players didn't know when they woke up Tuesday morning that they're 10 1/2-point underdog at LSU (a line that has dropped two points since Sunday), they do now.
"What do you expect?" Nix said. "You're at Auburn and nobody really ever gives you any kind of advantage. We accept that and we know that's what people are going to put on us. Being an underdog, you still have to play the game and they still have to play it, too. We just feel confident that we're a good team and we're going to go out there and give them our best shot."
Maybe make a little history, too.
"Hey, it's got to come to an end one day," Davidson said of Auburn's nine-game losing streak in Baton Rouge. "Why not be Saturday?"
Josh Vitale is the Auburn beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. You can follow him on Twitter at @JoshVitale. To reach him by email, click here.


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Q: How to make dataguard switchover seamlessly In my Dataguard configuration on a 12c environment, when I perform a switchover from primary (foo) to standby (bar) and then try to sqlplus in with user@foo, I receive the "ORA-011033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress" error instead of being able to connect to the new primary(bar).
Now, I know that this is because the connection is still pointing to the foo address instead of the bar address, and according to many articles, you need to create a new "virtual" service to handle the different connections, as well as a trigger to stop/start this service after a rolechange.
I did this and with the service_names parameter set to this new "virtual" service, a switchover will work and can also switch back but when trying to sqlplus with user@foo it throws ORA-011033. The trigger is useless and the service continues to run on both foo and bar because it seems that having that parameter set overrides whatever the trigger tries to do.
Now if I don't define that parameter, my switchover works fine, and the triggers do their job, and when I sqlplus user@foo, it will correctly redirect me to the bar address. However, when I try to switchover back to foo, I receive the following in the DG alert log:
Redo transport problem detected: redo transport to database foo has the following error:
ORA-16047: DGID mismatch between destination setting and target database
08/05/2016 16:01:02
Initialization of connection failed.
Expected destination db_unique_name is foo.
Database actually reached is bar
Failed to send message to site foo. Error code is ORA-16642.
Data Guard Broker Status Summary:
Type                        Name                             Severity  Status
  Configuration               foo_dg                         Warning  ORA-16607
  Primary Database            bar                            Error  ORA-16778
  Physical Standby Database   foo                              Error  ORA-16642
ON FOO:

log_archive_dest_2='service="bar"','ASYNC NOAFFIRM delay=0 optional
  compression=disable max_failure=0 max_connections=1 reopen=300
  db_unique_name="bar"
  net_timeout=30','valid_for=(online_logfile,all_roles)'
  fal_client='foo' fal_server='bar'

ON BAR:

log_archive_dest_2='service="foo", ASYNC NOAFFIRM delay=0 optional
  compression=disable max_failure=0 max_connections=1 reopen=300
  db_unique_name="foo" valid_for=(online_logfile,all_roles)'
  fal_client='bar' fal_server='foo'

Entries in LDAP:
foo:

(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=foo_home)(PORT=15940))(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=bar_home)(PORT=15940)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=virtual_foo)(FAILOVER_MODE=(TYPE=SESSION)(METHOD=basic))))

bar:

(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=bar_home)(PORT=15940)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=bar)))

I'm not sure what I'm missing or misunderstanding. Can anyone shed any light as to what I might be doing wrong? Can provide more info if needed.

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Josefina Molina Reig MML (born in Córdoba, 14 November 1936) is a Spanish feature film director, screenwriter, TV producer and scene director. She was one of the first female directors in Spain and is also known for directing such notable feature films as Función de noche (1981) and Esquilache (1988), as well as the television series Teresa of Jesus (1984). Esquilache was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. Teresa de Jesús won several awards, including the Antena de Oro (1984), and the TP de Oro (1985, Best National Series).

Biography
Josefina Molina was born in 1936 in Cordoba, Spain, in to a middle-class family. Her father was a Cordovan shopkeeper who traded in shoes and drugstore products. Her mother was a Catalan woman in charge of the housework and child care. The family business was very successful and despite the economic postwar difficulties she did not suffer any kind of deprivation.

Thanks to her parents stable financial situation, little Josefina was able to attend prestigious schools in Cordoba such as Hermanos de la Salle, where she  was taught how to write and basic mathematics or Escolapias de Santa Victoria, where she finished high school.

She finished high school in 1969 and had the possibility to access Baccalaureate because her family belonged to the merchant class. In this way, Josefina decided to make the most of the academic education (mainly because her mother's determination) which her parents were able to offer her.

Her first contact with the world of cinema took place in the exhibition hall of her hometown, where her parents used to take her on Sunday afternoon. In addition, she also had a great love of reading and due to that, at the early age of thirteen, she discovered such important literary work as Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes) by Galdós (1843–1920). This collection of novels decisively influenced Josefina's vocation as a narrator, as well as her pronounced tendency towards realism. However, it was not until she was fifteen years old when Josefina saw the movie El río (The River) by Jean Renoir (1951), that her keen interest in telling stories through films awoke.

In her youth, she enthusiastically joined several groups of Cordovan intellectuals, all encouraged by artistic curiosity. She regularly attended projections and discussions organized by the Cineclub Senda (Senda Film Club) and Cineclub del Círculo de la Amistad (Circle of Friendship Film Club). She also attended the Círculo Juan XXIII (Juan XXIII Circle), the gathering place for the most progressive Cordovan youth in Francoist Spain. There she established the basis of the theatre group Teatro Ensayo Medea. Driven by a feminist spirit, it was leading this group that she worked for the first time as a theatre director, bringing on stage Casa de Muñecas (Dollhouse), from the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906). The first night of this play, which took place at the Salón Liceo del Círculo de la Amistad (Friendship Circle Lyceum Hall), was a resounding failure. The message expressed by Ibsen was way too forward-looking and direct to be easily understood.

Far from being discouraged by this first setback, Josefina Molina decided to go ahead with her career as a theatre director. She managed to release four stagings (or performances if you prefer) and, at the same time, she reached out to different important local showbiz and media figures. That was how, from 1962, she began to collaborate regularly with the Vida de espectáculos (Life of shows) radio program. It was broadcast with great success on Radio Vida in a section entitled La mujer y el cine (Women and Cinema).

Professional career
Molina studied political science and in 1962 she founded the theatre group Teatro de Ensayo Medea in her hometown and led several productions. In 1969 she became the first woman to obtain the degree in directing / producing in the Official Cinema School. In those days, she shot many dramas for the Spanish Television (Estudio 1 [Study 1], Hora once [Eleventh hour], Teatro de siempre [The same theater as always] etc.).

She was put in charge of an adaptation of The Metamorphosis by Kafka, of which she said: "it was a drudgery that no one wanted to do, but I put my heart into it and the people ended up saying: 'the poor girl has worked so hard that we have to something with it.' You cannot imagine how unbearable this kind of paternalism is."

She adapted and directed several productions such as Motín de Brujas (Riot of Witches) by Josep Maria Benet, No puede ser el guardar una mujer (There is no Guarding a Woman) by Agustín Moreto, Cartas de Amor (Love letters) by A. R. Gurney and La Lozana Andaluza (The healthy Andalusian girl), an adaptation by Rafael Alberti of the play by Francisco Delicado.

Her most renowned television series are: El Camino (The Road) (1978) which tells the story of Daniel, an 11-year-old boy called el Mochuelo (small owl), who has been enrolled at school in the city and therefore has to leave the village where he has grown up. However, the night before his departure, Daniel remembers his childhood and the tales of the inhabitants of the valley where he was brought up; Teresa de Jesús (Teresa of Jesus) (1984) relates the life of St. Teresa of Jesus, played by Concha Velasco, and Entre Naranjos (Among orange trees) an adaptation of the homonymous novel written by Blasco Ibañez (1998).

She also directs theatre, achieving great success with Cinco Horas con Mario (Five hours with Mario), a monologue which has been represented for decades. It has been performed at different times by Lola Herrera and Natalia Millan based on the homonymous novel from Miguel Delibes. In 1990 she directed Los últimos Días de Emmanuel Kant (The Last Days of Immanuel Kant), by Alfonso Sastre.

Her first feature film, Vera, un cuento cruel (Vera, a cruel tale), which belongs to the fantasy genre, dates from 1973. In 1981 she reached a good standard as a filmmaker with Función de noche (Evening performance). This film tells the life of a separate marriage in which Lola Herrera and Daniel Dicenta interpret their own lives.

In 1989 the historical drama Esquilache was released. It is based on Un soñador para un pueblo (A dreamer for the people) by Antonio Buero Vallejo. It had a great cast which included Fernando Fernán Gómez, Adolfo Marsillach, Concha Velasco and other renowned actors. Lo más natural (The most natural) (1990), starring Charo López and Miguel Bosé, and La Lola se va a los puertos (Lola goes to the ports) (1993), with the singer Rocío Jurado, were her last film works.

In 2006 she founded CIMA, a female association of filmmakers and media, along with other filmmakers like Inés París, Chus Gutiérrez, Icíar Bollaín and Isabel Coixet. Josefina is Honorary President of the association. In 2011 the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences granted her the Honorary Goya Award, whose gala she was unable to attend. In 2012 was named Honorary Citizen in Andalucia.

Besides being a director she is also a gifted writer. When she decided not to do any more movies, Josefina Molina began to write because, as she said, 'if I did not, I would be very bored.' Her first novel was Cuestión de azar (A Matter of Chance). She described it as: "the story of my generation in Andalucia, how girls are educated and how I was brought up". That novel was followed by En el umbral de la hoguera (On the threshold of the stake) about Teresa of Jesus. "They asked me for a book based on the television series, but as I left one episode out of the final version, I preferred to write about it: her trip to Andalucia – while the Inquisition was investigating her and the Order told her to be quiet. At the same time, the Barefoot Carmelitas and the rest of the Order were at war.– "... I am only an apprentice in writing, but it is exciting because you can do whatever you want, without having a producer who tells you what to do nor a team that depends on your instructions. You only have to make agreements with yourself when you write, you can cheat on yourself but in the end you are the only one responsible. This is what fascinated me." After writing a requested book, Los papeles de Bécquer (Becquer's papers) and an autobiography, Sentada en un rincón (Sitting in a Corner), she has now been writing for six years, "which I am never going to finish."

She also wrote the foreword of Ana Mariscal, una Cineasta Pionera (Ana Mariscal, a pioneer filmmaker), written by Victoria Fonseca.

In addition to her work in cinema and theater, she has developed a wide career as television director and filmmaker, mainly for Spanish Television.

Josefina and feminism
Her feminism is well known and, in fact, she wrote the book Cine de mujeres en la Transición (Female Cinema during theTransition), La trilogía feminista (The feminist trilogy) with Cecilia Bartolomé and Pilar Miró.

Cinema and television

Filmography as director
 Entre naranjos (Among orange trees) (TV mini-series) (3 episodes) (1998)
 Función de noche (Evening Performance) (TV series) (1 episode) (1995)
 Las trampas del azar. Dos tiempos de una crónica (Random traps. Two times of one chronic) (1995)
 La lola se va a los puertos (Lola goes to the ports) (1993) - Lo más natural (The most natural) (1991)
 Esquilache (1989) - La voz humana (The Human Voice) (TV series) (1 episode) (1986) - La mujer sola (Lonely woman) (1986
 Paisaje con figuras (Landscape with Figures) (TV series) (1 episode) (1984)
 Lope de Vega(1984)
 Teresa de Jesús (Teresa of Jesus) (TV series) (8 episodes) (1984)
 Hija de la iglesia (Daughter of the Church) (1984) - Vida (Life) (1984)
 Visita de descalzas (Visit of Barefoots) (1984)
 Fundaciones (Foundations)
 El castillo interior (The Interior Castle) (1984) (TV series) (8 chapters)
 Función de noche (Evening Performance) (1981)
 Cuentos eróticos (Erotic Tales) (part of "The Tilita") (1980)
 Escrito en América (Written in America) (TV series) (1979)
 Novela (Novel) (TV series) (6 episodes) (1974-1978)
 Los libros (The Books) (TV series) (1 episode) (1976)
 Doña Luz (Mrs Luz) (1976)
 Estudio 1 (Study 1) (TV series) (2 episodes) (1975-1976) * Anna Christie (1976) * Hedda Gabler (1975)
 Escritores de hoy (Contemporary writers) (TV series) (1 episode) (1975) La asegurada (The insured woman)
 Cuentos y leyendas (Tales and Legends) (TV series) (1 episode) (1974) La promesa (The Promise)
 Un globo, dos globos, tres globos (A balloon, two balloons, three balloons) (TV series) (1 episode) (21 October 1974)
 Vera, un cuento cruel (Vera, a cruel tale) (1974) - Los pintores del Prado (The Prado painters) (TV series) (1 episode) Durero: la búsqueda de la identidad (Dürer: The Pursuit of Identity) (1974)
 La rama seca (The dry branch) (short film) (1972)
 Hora once (Eleventh hour) (TV series) (4 episodes) (1971-1972) El cochero (The coachman), La prudente venganza (The Careful Revenge), Eleonora and La Marquesa de O (The Marquise of O)
 Teatro de siempre(The same theater as always) (TV series) (1 episode) (1971)
 Casa de muñecas II (Dollhouse II) (1971)
 Melodrama infernal (Dreadfull melodrama) (short film) (1969)
 Pequeño estudio (Small study) (TV series) (1968)
 Aquel humo gris (That gray smoke) (short film) (1967)
 La otra soledad (The other loneliness) (short film) (1966)

Filmography as screenwriter
 Entre naranjos (Among orange trees) (TV mini-series) (3 episodes) (1998)
 La Lola se va a los puertos (Lola goes to the ports) (1993)
 Esquilache (1989)
 La voz humana (The human voice) (TV series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
 La mujer sola (Lonely Woman) (1986) (adaptation)
 Teresa de Jesús (Teresa of Jesus) (TV series) (8 episodes) (1984)
 Hija de la iglesia (Daughter of the Church) (1984) - "Vida" (Life) (1984)
 Visita de descalzas (Visit of Barefoots) (1984)
 Fundaciones (Foundations)
 El castillo interior (The Interior Castle) (1984)
 Función de noche (Evening Performance) (1981)
 Novela (Novel) (TV series) (adaptation - 5 episodes) (1978)
 Los libros (The Books) (TV series) (adaptation - 1 episode) (1976)
 Doña Luz (Mrs Luz) (1976) (adaptation)
 Estudio 1 (Study 1) (TV series) (adaptation - 2 episodes) (1975-1976) ''"Anna Christie"''  (1976) and ''"Hedda Gabler"''  (1975)
 Vera, un cuento cruel (Vera, a cruel tale) (1974)
 Los pintores del Prado (The Prado Painters) (TV series) (1 episode) (1974) "Durero: la búsqueda de la identidad" (Dürer: The Pursuit of Identity)
 Melodrama infernal (Dreadfull Melodrama) (short film) (1969)
 Aquel humo gris (That gray smoke) (short film) (1967)
 La otra soledad (The other loneliness) (short film) (1966)

Filmography as second director
 Teatro de siempre (The same theater as always) (TV series) (assistant director - 1 episode) "Ricardo III" (1967)
 Luciano (short film) (assistant director) (1965)

Filmography as actress
 Cuentos eróticos (Erotic Tales) (1980) as 'a woman who winks'

Awards and nominations

Honours
 Gold Medal of Merit in Labour (Kingdom of Spain, 14 November 2011).

References

External links

http://www.josefinamolina.es Web page

1936 births
Living people
Film directors from Andalusia
Spanish women film directors
People from Córdoba, Spain
Honorary Goya Award winners
Spanish women screenwriters

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But in this case, it did. The print for the cover of this travel sewing kit was put on the fabric using Transfer Artist Paper (TAP).
Here's another example: While Linda was working on the Inklingo collection for Judy Martin's Waltzing Matilda, she was posting preview blocks on the Inklingo Facebook page. Some of the photos featured quotes she had added to the photo—not the fabric as one commenter thought. There was also this post on Linda's blog with EQ7 designs for the Waltzing Matilda Collection involving a Christmas design that I really liked at the end of the post. All these things intersected in my brain with a memory of Christmas quilt I made 10 years ago and a new idea was formed.
I have really had to restrain myself not to run with this idea like right now! A trip to the storage unit to retrieve the Christmas quilt and a $100 in Christmas fat quarters added to an online shopping cart later, I finally got a hold of myself. LOL First things first. Let's see if this idea is actually going to work!
I didn't do any fussy cutting with my fabric. I could have, but I think the blocks work without fussy cutting. I can imagine using some Stonehenge metallics in white, gold, red & green in the blocks. The wonderful thing about the 12" Waltzing Matilda block though, is that fussy cutting options are available even if you aren't fussy cutting the center octagon. The squares for the corners are large enough to use fussy cut fabric as are the HST that surround the octagon.
I stuck to a red & green palette so that I could use the test blocks in a four-block table topper if everything went well. For sample blocks they came out fine. The TAP does make the fabric a slight bit crisper where the transfer is applied and changes the color of the white fabric just a bit. Using TAP is NOT like using the old-school T-Shirt transfers which is how I did my original quilt. Using the TAP makes the transfer come out much nicer. It holds up well when washed and you can iron over it. I may use a 4″ square of text if it fits in the octagon instead of a 3.5″ square.
So here is my plan. I am calling it, Christmas Waltz. I might enlarge it to five by five 12" squares if I decide to find some more quotes. (My original quilt was 4 x 5 blocks so I only have 20 quotes.) It will be more scrappy and colorful than this EQ7 rendition. I will be using song lines from Christmas carols and quotes about Christmas, family, snowmen and angels. You could do this with any type of quote—family, mom and grandmother quotes for a mom- or grandma-to-be, quilting quotes for a quilter friend, inspirational quotes for yourself and even family photos. (I hope some of you are inspired!) I can do a little tutorial about using MSWord to print quotes and photos and how to transfer images to fabric using Transfer Artist Paper if anyone is interested. Leave me a note in the comments.
I need some more Christmas fabric to continue and I want to use a nicer Kona cotton or some Northcott Toscana for the octagon centers, but I am holding off until July 2015. JULY. I will not work on this until J-U-L-Y.
Thanks so much for the great ideas! I would very much appreciate a tutorial on using MSWord for printing. Hope your holidays are peace filled.
Thank you, Pat. I will post the tutorial after the first of the year.


Soft shell crabs earn a .5 out of 5 stars due to the fact that when one eats a soft shell crab, he (or she) is no longer of the realm of man…he becomes an animal. Let's see: take one whole crab, steam it, eat it. Notice, there's no preparation or "removing of the entrails." It makes me think that people would eat whole cows if their mouths were big enough. The .5 comes from any character one might build while eating all of a sea creature that is widely considered the ocean's garbage man.


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Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani who has been implicated in an alleged attempt to pressure the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, says, "President Trump knew exactly what was going on."
"He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president. I have no intent, I have no reason to speak to any of these officials," Parnas, who faces campaign finance charges, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in an interview set to air Wednesday night.
"I mean, they have no reason to speak to me. Why would President Zelenskiy's inner circle or Minister Avakov or all these people or President Poroshenko meet with me? Who am I? They were told to meet with me. And that's the secret that they're trying to keep. I was on the ground doing their work," Parnas said.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy was elected president in April, defeating incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Arsen Avakov is Ukraine's interior minister.
Parnas and another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, have been charged with making $325,000 in illegal straw donations to a super PAC supporting President Donald Trump, as well as with giving $15,000 to a second committee, among a flurry of political donations to help them advance the interests of a Ukrainian government official and a Russian national seeking to break into the cannabis industry.
On Tuesday, House Democrats released records as part of the evidence that attorneys for Parnas turned over to House impeachment investigators, which show that Giuliani requested a private meeting with Zelenskiy, then the president-elect, with Trump's "knowledge and consent."
The evidence appears to bolster Democrats' argument that Giuliani was doing Trump's bidding by trying to dig up dirt on Biden and the Democratic National Committee.
In a statement to The Rachel Maddow Show while the program was airing, Giuliani denied he told Ukrainian officials that Parnas spoke on behalf of Trump.
Never,Giuliani responded when asked if Parnas was speaking on behalf of Trump.
Asked if he believed Parnas was lying, Giuliani said all I can say is the truth." Giuliani said of Parnas, He's a very sad situation."
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An alleged campaign by Trump to pressure Zelenskiy to announce investigations into Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014 until he left last year, is at the center of the impeachment articles against Trump.
Asked whether Trump specifically was aware that he and Giuliani were working on the effort in Ukraine specifically to hurt Joe Biden, Parnas said yes. Biden is among several candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
"Yeah, it was all about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and also Rudy had a personal thing with the Manafort stuff. The black ledger," Parnas said.
Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, is serving a 7-year prison sentence for tax evasion and violating federal lobbying laws after having been charged by special counsel Robert Mueller's office.
"And that was another thing that they were looking into, but it was never about corruption. It was never  it was strictly about Burisma, which included Hunter Biden and Joe Biden," Parnas said.
Parnas also said Vice President Mike Pence's planned trip to attend Zelenskiys inauguration in May was canceled because the Ukrainians did not agree to the demand for an investigation into the Bidens. "Oh, I know 100 percent. It was 100 percent," he said.
Parnas was asked if Pence was aware there was a "quid pro quo" about the visit, and Parnas replied with a quote used by Gordon Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union, during the House impeachment inquiry: "Everybody was in the loop."
Maddow said her show reached out to Pence for comment and had not received a response.
Parnas said Attorney General William Barr was also likely aware of what was going on. Parnas said he never personally spoke with Barr, but I was involved with lots of conversationsthat Giuliani and another person had with Barr in front of him.
"Mr. Barr had to have known everything. I mean, its impossible,Parnas said. "Attorney General Barr was basically on the team," he added.
Trump has denied knowing Parnas or Fruman. Photos that Parnas posted to Facebook in 2018 show him and Fruman with Trump and with the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. President Trump said "it's possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody."
Asked about Trump's denial that he knows them, Parnas said, "He lied."
The House voted Wednesday to send impeachment articles against Trump to the Senate, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced the seven House Democrats who will serve as the "managers" in the trial, which is set to start next week.
The impeachment articles accuse Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Parnas said he wants to testify. "I want to get the truth out," he said, "because I feel it's important for our country."
"There's a lot of things that are being said that are not accurate, and I just want to make sure that they're accurate, because things happened that need to get out, and I think the world needs to know," Parnas said.
It's not clear whether the Senate will call any witnesses. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the "trial will commence in earnest on Tuesday."
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Mocha (daddy) says it's bedtime, but Petri (son) wants nothing to do with it! Reading books, singing lullabies and juggling plates are only a few of the things Mocha does in an attempt to tire his son out. Although Petri is entertained, he still refuses to sleep. He just wants to dilly dally! Worn out by his son's shenanigans and silly antics, will Mocha ever get Petri to bed before losing his marbles?
**I was provided a PDF copy of this children's book for my honest review. My review is not from a writer's critique, but from a kid-friendly review.
This children's picture book is truly a creative rhyming piece! The colorfully illustrated front cover drew me in, and the illustrated pages combined with photos of two real live gerbils makes this children's picture book very entertaining and quite hilarious. It reminded me of when I was a child and dressed my cats up.
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If your kids are gerbil lovers, they'll definitely be inspired and entertained by this children's book.
Praise for Mini-Myths: Be Patient, Pandora!
"These adorable volumes feature the title characters learning important life lessons with slight allusions to their Greek mythology counterparts."
Praise for Mini-Myths: Play Nice, Hercules!
Absolutely loved both of these books! The illustrations are fun and simple, as is the text. Perfect for a toddler or earlier preschooler.
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We are now huge fans of the Mini-Myths children's picture books. Perfect for stocking stuffers for the holidays or just a little treat!
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January 2016 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly Update
MONTHLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALY MAP
The following is a Global map of Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies for January 2016. It was downloaded from the KNMI Climate Explorer. The contour range was set to -2.5 to +2.5 deg C and the anomalies are referenced to the WMO-preferred period of 1981-2010.
January 2016 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies Map
(Global SST Anomaly = +0.45 deg C)
MONTHLY GLOBAL OVERVIEW
Global Sea Surface Temperature anomalies remained constant from December to January, no increase or decrease. Surface temperature anomalies rose noticeably in the Southern Hemisphere (about +0.04 deg C), but were countered by a greater decline in the Northern Hemisphere (about -0.05 deg C). Last month, the North Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans had sizeable increases. The only other ocean basin to show warming was the South Atlantic (+0.02 deg C). The rest of the ocean basins cooled slightly between December and January. The El Niño has peaked, but we should expect increases around the globe in delayed responses. The monthly Global Sea Surface Temperature anomalies are presently at +0.46 deg C, referenced to the WMO-preferred base years of 1981 to 2010.
(1)Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
Monthly Change = +0.00 deg C
THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC
The monthly NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for January 2016 are continuing to decline but they are still well above the +1.5 deg C threshold of a strong El Niño and will be for a few more months. They are presently at +2.6 deg C, a decrease since the prior month…having declined about -0.23 deg C since December.
(2) NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
(5S-5N, 170W-120W)
The sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region in the east-central equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170E-120E) are a commonly used index for the strength, frequency and duration of El Niño and La Nina events. We keep an eye on the sea surface temperatures there because El Niño and La Niña events are the primary cause of the yearly variations in global sea surface temperatures AND they are the primary cause of the long-term warming of global sea surface temperatures over the past 30 years. See the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest-of-the-World that follows. We present NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies in monthly and weekly formats in these updates.
Also see the weekly values toward the end of the post.
Note 1: Because the NOMADS servers are still off line, I've downloaded the Reynolds OI.v2 values from the KNMI Climate Explorer, using the base years of 1981-2010. The updated base years help to reduce the seasonal components in the ocean-basin subsets—they don't eliminate those seasonal components, but they reduce them.
Note 2: We discussed the reasons for the elevated sea surface temperatures in 2014 in the post On The Recent Record-High Global Sea Surface Temperatures – The Wheres and Whys. For 2015, The Blob and the El Niño are responsible for the noticeable increases.
Note 3: I've moved the model-data comparison to the end of the post.
Note 4: I recently added a graph of the sea surface temperature anomalies for The Blob in the eastern extratropical North Pacific. It also is toward the end of the post.
Note 5: The sea surface temperature data in this post is the original (weekly/monthly, 1-deg spatial resolution) version of NOAA's Optimum Interpolation (OI) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) v2 (aka Reynolds OI.v2)…not the (over-inflated, out-of-the-ballpark, extremely high warming rate) high-resolution, daily version of NOAA's Reynolds OI.v2 data, which we illustrated and discussed in the recent post On the Monumental Differences in Warming Rates between Global Sea Surface Temperature Datasets during the NOAA-Picked Global-Warming Hiatus Period of 2000 to 2014.
THE EAST PACIFIC VERSUS THE REST OF THE WORLD
NOTE: This section of the updates has been revised. We discussed the reasons for the changes in the post Changes to the Monthly Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Updates.
For years, we have shown and discussed that the surfaces of the global oceans have not warmed uniformly during the satellite era of sea surface temperature composite. In fact, some portions of the global oceans have cooled during that 3+ decade period. One simply has to look at a trend map for the period of 1982 to 2013 to see where the ocean surfaces had warmed and where they had not. Yet the climate science community has not addressed this. See the post Maybe the IPCC's Modelers Should Try to Simulate Earth's Oceans.
The North Atlantic (anomalies illustrated later in the post) has had the greatest warming over the past 3+ decades, but the reason for this is widely known. The North Atlantic has an additional mode of natural variability called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. If you're not familiar with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation see the NOAA Frequently Asked Questions About the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) webpage and the posts An Introduction To ENSO, AMO, and PDO — Part 2 and Multidecadal Variations and Sea Surface Temperature Reconstructions. As a result of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the surface of the North Atlantic warmed at a rate that was more than twice the rate of the surface of the rest of the global oceans. See the trend comparison graph here.
The East Pacific Ocean also stands out in the trend map linked above. Some portions of its surfaces warmed and others cooled. It comes as no surprise then that the linear trend of the East Pacific (90S-90N, 180-80W) Sea Surface Temperature anomalies since the start of the Reynolds OI.v2 composite is so low. With the strong El Nino conditions in the eastern tropical Pacific and The Blob, it has acquired a slight positive trend, but it's still far below the approximate +0.15 deg C/decade warming rate predicted by the CMIP5 climate models. Please see Figure 19 in the post Maybe the IPCC's Modelers Should Try to Simulate Earth's Oceans. (Note that the region also includes portions of the Arctic and Southern Oceans.) That is, there has been little warming of the sea surfaces of the East Pacific (from pole to pole) in 32 years. The East Pacific is not a small region. It represents about 33% of the surface area of the global oceans.
Notice how there appears to have been a strong El Niño event in 2014 in the East Pacific values, while there had only been a small off season event that year, and how the strong El Niño in 2015 is causing a further rise. Note also how there appears to have been a shift in 2013. Refer again to the post On The Recent Record-High Global Sea Surface Temperatures – The Wheres and Whys.
(3) East Pacific Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(90S-90N, 180-80W)
That leaves the largest region of the trend map, which includes the South Atlantic, the Indian and West Pacific Oceans, with the corresponding portions of the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Sea surface temperatures there warmed in very clear steps, in response to the significant 1986/87/88 and 1997/98 El Niño/La Niña events. It also appears as though the sea surface temperature anomalies of this subset have made another upward shift in response to the 2009/10 El Niño and 2010/11 La Niña events. I further described the ENSO-related processes that cause these upward steps in the recent post Answer to the Question Posed at Climate Etc.: By What Mechanism Does an El Niño Contribute to Global Warming?
As you'll note, the values for the South Atlantic, Indian and West Pacific Oceans appear now to be responding to the El Nino. (And as you'll see later, the North Atlantic is presently showing the "normal" range of seasonal variations, but the Indian Ocean has shown a large upswing recently.)
(4) Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies For The South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific Oceans
(Weighted Average of 0-90N, 40E-180 @ 27.9% And 90S-0, 80W-180 @72.1%)
The periods used for the average temperature anomalies for the South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific subset between the significant El Niño events of 1982/83, 1986/87/88, 1997/98, and 2009/10 are determined as follows. Using the original NOAA Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) for the official months of those El Niño events, I shifted (lagged) those El Niño periods by six months to accommodate the lag between NINO3.4 SST anomalies and the response of the South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific Oceans, then deleted the South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific values that corresponds to those significant El Niño events. I then averaged the South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific Oceans sea surface temperature anomalies between those El Niño-related gaps.
You'll note I've ended the updates for the period after the 2009-10 El Niño. That was done to accommodate the expected response to the 2015/16 El Niño.
The Sea Surface Temperature anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean, or approximately 33% of the surface area of the global oceans, have shown comparatively little long-term warming since 1982 based on the linear trend. And between upward shifts, the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for the South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific subset (about 52.5% of the global ocean surface area) remain relatively flat, though they actually cool slightly. Anthropogenic forcings are said to be responsible for most of the rise in global surface temperatures over this period, but the Sea Surface Temperature anomaly graphs of those regions discussed above prompt a two-part question: Since 1982, what anthropogenic global warming processes would overlook the sea surface temperatures of 33% of the global oceans and have an impact on the other 52% but only during the months of the significant El Niño events of 1986/87/88, 1997/98 and 2009/10?
They were also discussed in great detail in my recently published book Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Niño-Southern Oscillation. The Free Preview includes the Table of Contents; the Introduction; the beginning of Section 1, with the cartoon-like illustrations; the discussion About the Cover; and the Closing. Also see the blog post Everything You Every Wanted to Know about El Niño and La Niña… for an overview. It's now sale priced at US$5.00. Please click here to buy a copy. (Paypal or Credit/Debit Card. You do not need to open a PayPal account.)
STANDARD NOTE ABOUT THE REYNOLDS OI.V2 COMPOSITE
The MONTHLY graphs illustrate raw monthly OI.v2 sea surface temperature anomalies from November 1981 to January 2016, as it is presented by the KNMI Climate Explorer linked at the end of the post. While NOAA uses the base years of 1971-2000 for this product, those base years cannot be used at the KNMI Climate Explorer because they extend before the start year of the product. (NOAA had created a special climatology for the Reynolds OI.v2 product.) I've referenced the anomalies to the period of 1981 to 2010, which is actually 1982 to 2010 for most months. And I've added a 13-month running-average filter to smooth out the seasonal variations.
MONTHLY INDIVIDUAL OCEAN AND HEMISPHERIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE UPDATES
(5) Northern Hemisphere Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(6) Southern Hemisphere Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(7) North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(0 to 70N, 80W to 0)
(8) South Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(0 to 60S, 70W to 20E)
(9) Pacific Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(60S to 65N, 120E to 80W)
(10) North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(0 to 65N, 100E to 90W)
(11) South Pacific Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(0 to 60S, 120E to 70W)
(12) Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(60S to 30N, 20E to 120E)
(13) Arctic Ocean Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(65N to 90N)
(14) Southern Ocean Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
(90S-60S)
WEEKLY SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES
Weekly NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies are at +2.6 deg C. Based on the weekly Reynolds OI.v2 data, they peaked at a higher anomaly than the 1997/98 El Niño. But as discussed in the post Is the Current El Niño Stronger Than the One in 1997/98?, the 1997/98 El Niño was a stronger East Pacific El Niño than the one taking place now. If you'd like to argue that this is the strongest El Niño EVER, also see the post The Differences between Sea Surface Temperature Datasets Prevent Us from Knowing Which El Niño Was Strongest According NINO3.4 Region Temperature Data.
(15) Weekly NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomalies
Note: With the NOMADS servers off line, I've used the weekly NINO3.4 values available from the NOAA/CPC Monthly Atmospheric & SST Indices webpage, specifically the listing here. They do not provide the global values on a weekly basis, so I can't present it. Sorry.
MODEL-DATA COMPARISON: To counter the nonsensical "Just what AGW predicts" rantings of alarmists about the "record-high" global sea surface temperatures in 2014 (and in 2015), I've added a model-data comparison of satellite-era global sea surface temperatures to these monthly updates. See the example below. The models are represented the multi-model ensemble-member mean of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive, which was used by the IPCC for their 5th Assessment Report. For further information on the use of the model mean, see the post here. For most models, historic forcings run through 2005 (2012 for others) and the middle-of-the-road RCP6.0 forcings are used after in this comparison. The data are represented by NOAA's Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature data, version 2—a.k.a. Reynolds OI.v2—which is NOAA's best. The model outputs and data have been shifted so that their trend lines begin at "zero" anomaly for the (November, 1981) start month of this composite. That "zeroing" helps to highlight how poorly the models simulate the warming of the ocean surfaces…noticeably higher than the observed warming rate. Both the Reynolds OI.v2 values and the model outputs of their simulations of sea surface temperature (TOS) are available to the public at the KNMI Climate Explorer.
000 – Model-Data Comparison
Linked here is an illustration that compares maps of the simulated and observed warming rates of the global oceans from 1982 to 2014. It is from the post Alarmists Bizarrely Claim "Just what AGW predicts" about the Record High Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014.
This addition to the monthly update was further discussed in the post The Nonsensical "Just What AGW predicts" and Other Claims By Alarmists about "Record-High" Global Sea Surface Temperatures in 2014.
After decades of no surface warming in the North Pacific as a whole, a prolonged weather event in the eastern extratropical North Pacific caused an unusual and unexpected warming there, raising sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific to new levels. That region of unusually warm sea surfaces in the eastern extratropical North Pacific has become known as The Blob. We've discussed The Blob in detail in the recent post North Pacific Update: The Blob's Strengthening Suggests It's Not Ready to Depart. There are links to numerous earlier discussions of the North Pacific in that post, some reaching back as far as the boreal summer of 2013. And the most recent Blob update is here.
I've added a graph of the sea surface temperature anomalies for The Blob region so that we can keep track of how it has been responding to the El Niño. Keep in mind, the The Blob covers a relatively small part of the North Pacific, so the anomalies will be volatile.
(16) The Blob
(40N-50N, 150W-130W)
Note: I've changed the coordinates for The Blob to 40N-50N, 150W-130W to agree with those used in the NOAA/NCEP Monthly Ocean Briefing. I had been using the coordinates of 35N-55N, 150W-125W for The Blob.
As shown, the sea surface temperature anomalies for The Blob have been dropping in recent months, but they have a long-way to go before they return to "normal". The big question is how The Blob will respond to the upcoming La Niña, assuming one forms this year. Will sea surface temperatures there return to "normal" or has there been an upward shift in the sea surface temperatures of the eastern extratropical North Pacific?
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT HOW AND WHY THE GLOBAL OCEANS INDICATE THEY'VE WARMED NATURALLY?
Why should you be interested? The hypothesis of manmade global warming depends on manmade greenhouse gases being the cause of the recent warming. But the sea surface temperature record indicates El Niño and La Niña events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 32 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Scroll back up to the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest of the World. I've searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
I've recently published my e-book (pdf) about the phenomena called El Niño and La Niña. It's titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Niño Southern Oscillation. It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Niño and La Niña events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 30 years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data that's available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warming—and there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.
Who Turned on the Heat? was introduced in the blog post Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about El Niño and La Niña… …Well Just about Everything. The Free Preview includes the Table of Contents; the Introduction; the beginning of Section 1, with the cartoon-like illustrations; the discussion About the Cover; and the Closing.
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I also published On Global Warming and the Illusion of Control (25MB .pdf) back in November. The introductory post is here.
The monthly Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies and model outputs used in this post are available from the KNMI Climate Explorer.
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Jonathan Cohler says:
Reblogged this on ClimateTheTruth.com and commented:
But the sea surface temperature record indicates El Niño and La Niña events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 32 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Scroll back up to the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest of the World. I've searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Bob, thank you for your continued good work.
I noted a ARGO-data related article: Nature Climate Change, REVIEW ARTICLE, Published Online: 27 January 2016, DOJ: 10.1038/NCLIMATE 2872 "Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array" Riser et al.
Its Figure 5 seems to play fast and loose with data and graphing tricks. Comments?
Hi Dave. I enjoy that paper. It's like an ARGO infomercial. Their Figure 5 splices the ARGO data onto make-believe data. But it's their insert that tells the story. There's basically no ocean heat uptake in the tropics and Northern Hemisphere, according to the ARGO floats.
If it's okay with you, I'm going to delete your two other comments.
Andres Valencia says:
Thanks, Bob. Again you present a clear and wide view of the ocean surface temperatures.
This ocean planet is called Earth because we are land creatures, how anthropocentric.
Mark H. Shapiro says:
To understand climate one has to look at long-term trends, and the long-term trend say that the earth is warming significantly. http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/gwp/temp/jan_wld.html
Thanks for the link, Mark H. Shapiro. It shows the long-term warming rate of only +0.075 deg C/decade…excuse me…It shows the not-very-alarming long-term warming rate of only +0.075 deg C/decade.
Note also the high rate of warming from about 1910 to the mid-1940s, before manmade greenhouse gases played a major role. That suggests that natural variability was also the primary contributing factor in the warming since the mid-1970s.
Have a good day, Mark H. Shapiro.
PS: You're wasting your time here, and you're also wasting mine. While I don't care if you waste your time, I do care when you waste mine. Good-bye, Mark.
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I was not elected as speaker to fight Buhari – Gbajabiamila
Victor Akande December 23, 2019 Local News No Comments
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Sunday, December 22, has said he was not elected into office to be at odds with President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.
He said the 9th National Assembly is irrevocably committed to protecting the interests of the people through diligent discharge of its legislative duties.
The speaker said this on Sunday in Lagos while speaking at the "Gbaja 2019 End of the Year Grassroots Empowerment Programme".
Gbajabiamila said criticism that the 9th Assembly was a rubber stamp to the executive was not fair, saying the fact that the legislature was on the same page with the executive on issues of national interests did not make it a rubber stamp.
The Speaker added that he, like his colleagues in the National Assembly, was not elected to fight the executive and that lawmakers would disagree with the executive if there was the need to do so.
"People, naysayers, critics and people from other parties have said the 9th National Assembly is a rubber stamp to the executive.
"You know my reply when they say that to you? Tell them that you would rather have a rubber stamp National Assembly that will bring progress than the one that is fighting the executive without progress.
"This is because when two elephants fight, the grass suffers. This is not a rubber stamp National Assembly; this is a National Assembly that represents the people and is committed to their interests.
"The people of Surulere Federal Constituency 1 did not elect me to go and be fighting the executive; Is that what you asked me to go and do?
"Rather, you asked me to engage and collaborate with other stakeholders to deliver democratic dividends, part of which we are having today.
"This is a new dispensation where there will be checks and balances, there will be separation of powers, we will disagree with the executive when there is need to do so and agree with them if there is need.
"But our watchword will be the interest of the people. That is the oath which I and my colleagues swore to," he said.
Gbajabiamila said the return of the country's budget cycle to January to December was one of the greatest democratic achievements in the last 20 years.
He said the new cycle was a good development for progress as it would enhance planning and implementation of budget.
Gbajabiamila argued that late passage and signing of the budget was a major impediment to its proper implementation, saying that Nigerians should expect a paradigm shift from the new cycle.
"Let me explain the January to December budget cycle better. The constitution says the budget cycle shall be from January to December or another time as prescribed by the National Assembly.
"But what the constitution intended is that January to December is the life span of the budget, and the reason for that is government can plan, investors can plan and there is enough time to execute what has been budgeted.
"We have had difficulty in implementation in the last 20 years like 40 per cent, 30 per cent, because of delay in passing and signing the budget.
"Investors lacked confidence, they could not plan because there is uncertainty because the constitution has been violated.
"So in the past 20 years, this is the first time we are having the January to December budget cycle and it took the emergence of the 9th Assembly to fulfil that constitutional provision," he said.
On the border closure, Mr Gbajabiamila said the measure was already yielding positive results by greatly boosting the capacity of rice farmers and had increased of local agricultural produce, especially rice.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 23 saloon cars, 90 laptops, 30 power generators and 301 sewing machines were given to beneficiaries at the programme in his Surulere 1 Federal Constituency.
The Speaker also gave between N100,000 and N200,00 grant each to 500 business owners as well as 30 photocopiers and 309 home solar systems to other beneficiaries at the programme.
The Speaker said he organised the empowerment programme to impact positively on the lives of his constituents by supporting businesses and easing transportation problems.
He said other projects being undertaken in the constituency included reconstruction of Mercy Eneli Street, Chief Bereola Street and Esther Dada-Adeniji Link road to Ishaga to make living easier for the people.
Mr Gbajabiamila urged the beneficiaries of the latest empowerment programme to use the items for the purpose of empowering themselves.
In his remarks, Tunde Balogun, Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, commended the Speaker for the empowerment, saying the party and the people were proud of him.
He also commended his constituents for their support for the Speaker, saying that the empowerment items were the dividends of their support.
Balogun said Gbajabiamila had done well as the Speaker so far with his actions and ideas.
Also speaking, a member of the state House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, also commended Mr Gbajabiamila for the programme, saying Surulere residents were better for it.
He said the speaker had inspired him and other political leaders in the state to always connect with the people.
A beneficiary, Fatal Giwa, thanked Mr Gbajabiamila for the car given to him, saying he was still in a state of disbelief that he could be called on phone to pick up the car.
"I thank our Speaker for this car. I never knew I would drive a car out of this place today. I was just called on phone to come and I must confess, it is as if I am still dreaming.
"I thank the Speaker for also facilitating a job for my graduate son. I am grateful and I want all constituents to continue to support him to succeed," he said. (NAN)
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I believe that pizza is the perfect food. I say this all the time to patients. Most are shocked by the statement, but it's true.
Here's the deal. A couple of slices of pizza have about 60 grams of carbohydrates in the crust. That's in the range of a dinner portion for most people. (For those working on their weight, one slice will do.) There's a lot of fiber in that crust too -- 4 grams if the dough is made with white flour, and by using whole wheat flour there's twice as much.
The key to great pizza is what you put on top of it. In the pizza joint you're going to be OK with the tomato sauce, and the mozzarella cheese that most use is actually lower in fat than regular cheese. It's when you begin to load on other stuff that most people get into trouble. Sausage, pepperoni and ground beef are all chock full of saturated fat, calories and salt. The key to eating pizza out is to top it with healthier choices.
Fresh or grilled veggies is always a great place to start. Choose onions, mushrooms, peppers or olives in the typical pizza place. There are so many exotic pizza places now that you can get everything from eggplant and broccoli to roasted chicken and shrimp. Most every place will let you build your own and it would be hard these days to not be able to create a healthy pie.
Thick crust will have more calories. Choose traditional crust pizza.
Pan pizza are often much higher in fat because butter or another oil is used to grease the pan. Again, choose regular thin crust pizza.
Exotic sauces like barbecue or Thai peanut can have a lot of hidden calories, usually as fat, but sometimes as sugar (important for diabetics).
Don't order the kind that has cheese inside the crust.
Leftover pizza is great. Ask for a to go box first and take the slices that you are going to eat for dinner and put the rest away before you start eating.
Pizza at home is really simple. Making the dough is a snap especially if you have a bread maker. I know so many people who have bread makers and never use them, but they are perfect for making pizza dough. Put all the ingredients inside and 90 minutes later, there's your fresh dough!
Here's the link for Whole Wheat Pizza Dough. The great thing about this recipe is that you can divide the ingredients and easily make a single serving or pizza for two. I do occasionally freeze leftover dough and it makes fairly good pizza.
Lastly, a pizza stone can make your pizza truly professional. Here's why.
So you can see -- the perfect food. Carbs, fiber, protein, good fats, lean meats, lots and lots of veggies. Make pizza a part of your healthy meal plan.


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Virgin Media pledges gigabit broadband to millions of homes
By Leo Kelion
Technology desk editor
Image source, Getty Images
Virgin Media's cabinets are connected to local exchanges by optical fibre but link to most homes by copper-based cabling
Virgin Media has pledged to offer internet download speeds of at least 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021.
That represents about half of all UK households - and double the fastest speed the company currently advertises.
But the company described the new prime minister's ambition to roll out full fibre-optic broadband to all homes by 2025 as "very stretching".
Virgin's plan still involves the use of a type of copper-based cable.
In most cases, these coaxial cables would still be used to make the so-called "last mile" connections between homes and street cabinets.
The promised speed boost is instead delivered by an upgrade to the Docsis (data over cable service interface specification) standard.
The new 3.1 specification theoretically allows downloads of up to 10Gbps.
However, going "full fibre" potentially allows even faster "terabit" speeds at some point in the future. And Boris Johnson has challenged the industry to deliver this solution.
"If we want to unite our country and our society, we should commit now to delivering full fibre to every home in the land not in the mid-2030s - but in five years at the outside," he wrote in the Daily Telegraph last month.
Tough target
At present, BT's Openreach division as well as smaller players including Hyperoptic, Gigaclear and Cityfibre are installing fibre to the premises (FTTP) networks.
Virgin Media itself is also trialling the technology in Cambridge, where it offers download speeds of over 8Gbps, and has also used it in parts of its normal residential network.
But on the whole, the UK has relatively few homes with FTTP compared with much of Europe. And many of the premises that do have it still cannot attain gigabit speeds.
Image source, Virgin Media
Virgin Media is the UK's second largest broadband provider after BT
Virgin Media suggests its coaxial-based connections should count towards the prime minister's target.
But the company says further action is needed to make the 2025 deadline.
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"The government needs to prioritise putting in place the right conditions to encourage and incentivise a faster buildout," the company's chief operating officer, Jeff Dodds, told BBC News.
"That means making it much easier to build and looking at how it can make the investment case much more favourable to build faster."
Last week, the Financial Times said Virgin Media's owner, Liberty Global, was developing a plan to create a new company to build full-fibre networks outside the urban areas it currently serves.
However, Mr Dodds declined to confirm the report.
"We do believe under the right conditions, there's an opportunity to accelerate the rate of build in the UK," he said.
"But there's no specific comment on the speculation that was in the press at the weekend."
Holographic sports
Virgin Media says a 1Gbps download would be 20 times faster than the average speed currently provided to UK homes.
On that basis, a 20GB 4K-resolution film would take less than three minutes to download, compared with nearly 52 minutes at present.
The company has also suggested the innovation could pave the way to next-generation technologies such as 8K-resolution video streams, "holographic-vision" sports broadcasts and virtual-reality shopping.
One company-watcher, however, suggested in the near-term users might be more appreciative of the fact the network should come under less strain at busy times.
"One of the challenges Virgin Media has had is the fact that at peak times the network hasn't really fulfilled and satisfied users' requirements," said Paolo Pescatore, from the consultancy PP Foresight.
"It's great to focus on speed. But I think that capacity is arguably the biggest benefit of this move to gigabit connectivity."
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Before you take any step, there are some things you need to consider first. You need to know exactly what your child likes, make your child help you when you design his/ her room. Make sure to leave an empty space in your child's room, so he/ she can play with their toys. Take your child's opinion and make sure that he/ she will be happy with the design. one last thing, remember that children's interests change as they grow up, so make sure to use decoration items that can be easily removed.
Wall decals are the best decoration items you can use for your child's room. They are easy to be removed and they give such lovely look to the room. Your child will love these wall decals, because they come with many themes to match with children different interests whether girls or boys. For example you will find star wars, Spiderman, cartoon characters, snow white, Dora, famous anime movie posters, sports, etc.
Use creative decoration ideas and use every inch of your child's room. For example, you can decorate the ceiling with sun, clouds, fishes, or butterflies drawing, galaxy ceiling stickers are an amazing idea as well. Buy a floor mat with cute cartoon characters drawings like pooh, Dora or Mickey mouse and put it on the floor.
When it comes to the bed choice, you will find many types to choose from like, regular beds, loft beds, beds with storage places and beds shaped like, cars or ships, which I don't recommend because kids change their interests like all the time. You can change the bed shape by choosing the right bed sheet that suits your child interests, for example if your kid likes football; buy a bed sheet with football drawings. If you have a little princess you can hang a canopy above her bed to give her the dreamy princess feeling.
For lighting options, put a table lamp beside the bed and choose the shade with cartoon drawings, put small led lights in the ceiling to look like shining stars, and use kids pendant or chandelier as the main lighting source.
Most kids consider their room as their little own world, they want to put all the things they like everywhere in their room. It's your mission as a dad or a mum to help your children to design their room the way they want.


We were so lucky to have you dad for 93 years, you were a great husband and father. When you lost mum and your youngest daughter, you just picked yourself up and adjusted to their loss. You moved in with Brian and I and we had 7 and a half happy years living together, until you had one fall too many and had to go into hospital to have a pacemaker fitted and then move into Care.
You served the community as a Police Officer and your country during WWII.
You were a good athlete, footballer and cricketer, and followed Luton Football Team for over 70 years.
You were a gentle man and a gentleman. The voice of reason. We never heard anyone speak ill of you, how many people can you say that about?
Rest in peace dad, we love you and miss you every day.
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It might sound like one, but this is not an April Fools.
A new study has found that dubstep could be the answer to not getting attacked by mosquitoes, should you have no insect repellent at hand.
The BBC reports that according to a recent scientific study, the way to avoid mosquito bites is to listen to electronic music - specifically dubstep, specifically by US artist Skrillex.
Now, there's a whole other argument about whether Skrillex IS even dubstep (or music, according to your dad), but that's for another day. Today the most important thing is keeping the mozzies away.
The track chosen was Skrillex's (real name Sonny Moore) 2010 hit Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
Before detailing the experiment, researchers noted that it is known that electronic music disrupts mating habits in insects. They found that the noise makes it harder for them to receive signals from hosts. The specific mosquito in question is the species Aedes aegypti, known as the yellow fever mosquito.
This song in particular was chosen because of its mix of very high and very low frequencies.
The full study can be found on the National Center for Biotechnology Information's website.
It states that "Adults exposed to music copulated far less often than their counterparts kept in an environment where there was no music."
So, next time you're in a hot country and have no repellent just make sure you have a bluetooth speaker and a Spotify account.


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Updated On: 20 May 2021 08:58 pm
World Bee Day celebrated by MME
Nabeela
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) participated in the celebration of the World Bee Day, which falls on May 20 of each year, and is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The participation of the MME, represented by the Department of Agricultural Affairs, in the celebration came within the framework of the concern to protect and preserve bees, as the Ministry launched the national honey bee project that aims to protect the bee community and its components, and the idea is to distribute beehives and apiaries requirements to the producing farms, and to supervise them to spread and localize bee honey production in Qatari farms, it also aims to protect bees and work to increase their reproduction and the production of honey of various kinds.
Image credit: MME (AlBaladiya) Twitter
On this occasion, the MME called on the owners of farms to work to preserve bees, stressing their readiness to face any risks threatening the Qatari apiaries.
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I have just purchased your File Fixer and already I am experiencing problems.
Apparently my computer already has an installed dll file and your replacement file cannot overwrite this because it is currently in use by another program.
I fired-up my computer just prior to downloading your program and as far as I am aware there are NO other programs operating.
Please advise. My cleverbridge reference is [Edited for privacy].
Could my firewall or virus protection system be the other programs referred to. If affirmative, how do i temporarily switch-off these programs.
Many processes and programs start with windows, and a lot of dll files are loaded, even if you have not manually started a program.
Since you have the file, at least we know it is not missing, which is the most common dll error.
To find out which program is using a specific dll file, you can use the "Tasklist" command in a command prompt.
Press "start button"+"R" to get the "Run" prompt. Type cmd and press enter.
I tried the latter input using a question mark and received a screenful of symbols that are meaningless to me. I tried copying them to a file I intended to send you but they would not copy.
Is it possible that you personally could access my computer over the internet to sort-out this problem. If your answer is affirmative please tell me what I must do. Please understand that I am an old man and not a computer whizkid. Regards. Peter.
From my previous correspondence you will be aware that I have been having troubles with my computer which has a 64 bit Windows 10 Operating System.
"the program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer. Try re-installing the program to fix the problem."
I have no idea why this file is missing, because I have made no recent changes, and until now my computer has performed flawlessly. I have noted that when the above notice appears I am still able to access my emails, and the computer continues to operate normally. I am able to erase the notice after two or three minutes have elapsed. I have noted that since this problem first occurred, my AVG virus protection program has been disabled and this causes me some concern.
Upon the receipt and downloading of your product, I clicked Install DLL Files. I then identified the name of the required file as MSVCR110 and clicked the Install Box as recommended.
A notice appeared stating that MSVCR110.dll already exists on your system. Do you want to overwrite it? I answered Yes!
A final notice the advised " MSVCR110.dll has been successfully installed on your system." I then clicked OK.
So as you can see Erik, I have followed what I think was the correct procedure, but unfortunately the problem still persists. The notice advising of the missing file still appears, and my AVG protection system is disabled.
Please let me know what you recommend as soon as possible as I am now very concerned. Regards, Peter Andrews.
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The command I suggested is "tasklist /m 'filename'", with a space between "tasklist" and "/m", and a space between "/m" and "filename". Also, we do not have any files named "m110.d11" (or m110.dll).
If using "Install recommended" for msvcr110.dll on a 64bit Windows system, you have installed two copies of the dll .
and a 64bit version to C:\Windows\System32\ .
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This dll file is a part of the "Microsoft Visual C++ 11.0 redistributable package".