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The Power of Trump
The Power of Trump.
Why fascism is attractive to some voters.
Why is religion attractive to some voters?
Why are conspiracy theories attractive to some voters?
Why is faith praised?
Because it serves some human con man somewhere and unless you're the con man, the person it's serving ain't you.
So maybe you might try hiring the best con man around to represent you. You know he's a con man, but he promised to con everyone in your favor! We call that the long con. You join the con and you still get stiffed. Such is life. At least I'm conning everyone else more than I'm getting conned!
I have never seen the attractiveness of living in a fascist state where the prosecutorial power of the state was run by a transactional plutocrat who's sole goal was to suck money out of you in return for 'favors.' The most common favor is not getting beaten up or arrested. The money is in the form of donations to the candidates or the parties (limited, attributed) or to Super PACs supporting the candidate (unlimited, unattributed).
This is what the local mafia don, crooked cop or corrupt politician does. That's called called the protection racket and it's illegal. That's what the 1970 RICO laws were written to prevent. It's ironic that the lawyer and President Nixon signed the RICO law, then a few years later the threat of using it on him (for ordering the burglary of the Democratic Headquarters in the watergate) made him resign from office, it seemed very fitting.
Supposedly, the politician only goes after more lucrative deals. Politicians sell tax breaks to billionaires and corporations.
This is not just the Republican's that have done this in the past... Bush the younger did it and the Democrats agreed and the country crashed a few years later in the Great Recession.
The Great Recession was as bad as the response to COVID-19 where we shut down everything that is non-essential. That was really bad. The cash flow of the world dropped as much as during a worldwide lockdown during the pandemic. The Great Recession was a very bad flu caused by a group of corporations that got paid money to evaluate and pronounce risk.
Other companies and other people around the world relied on this group to reliably predict the future value of loans. The corporations had been doing this for over one hundred years. The companies used to be partnerships. Partners are liable for what their Partnerships do. If the partnership bilks old ladies out of billions of dollars, they are personally responsible for paying them back. The Partners converted these Partnerships to Corporations. Specifically, Limited Liability Corporations, where they just owned a percentage of the company. Now magically, if the new company bilked old ladies out of billions of dollars, then the partner could lose their investment, but was now not personally liable for anything else. The partners were rich and the old ladies were now out of luck.
Not only where the old ladies out of luck, but this new corporation could sell itself to the public, who also could only lose their investment and were not personally liable for the consequences of what their money was paying for, like bilking all those old ladies out of their life savings. Or stealing money from everyone who lived in California by faking bids on electricity to control the outcomes of auctions? Nope, you could do that, earn a bunch of money illegally, then not give it back by declaring bankruptcy. Perfectly legal if it was just an honest mistake? Enron was an extreme case that shows the basic bankruptcy of the capitalist system.
Typically the fine for breaking the law is just factored in as a cost of doing business. For a corporation, it's acceptable to break the law and pay a fine; not admit to guilt, but continue in business without correcting the failure. Again, this is why corporations are amoral and why capitalism as practiced today is a bankrupt theology that is used to steal the wealth of the average person.
The US Government treats corporations as 'people' if they can. This means they can take the rights of a person as declared in the constitution - they can enter into contracts, they can own things, they can agree to have you give up your constitutional rights to a government trial by your peers in their contracts. In other words, whatever is agreed to in the contract cannot be countermanded by any existing law, if the corporation's extra-legal (outside of government) system doesn't agree. And the US Supreme Court has agreed that this is constitutional. You can give up your constitutional rights if you want to. Illogical and unbelievable, but the state of the world we are currently living in.
I guess the "inalienable" part of the Declaration of Independence didn't mean what everyone thought it meant. At least not according to the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who has ruled in this way multiple times. The founding document of United States of America states that:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Everybody agreed, in the founding document of the American Republic, that all men have unalienable rights that the government could not take away; and that these were not their only rights. In addition to equal treatment and the rule of law, Science and Religion agreed that some of the most important rights were:
Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Happiness.
But wait, didn't I just say the Supreme Court has been ruling that it's perfectly legal for you to give up your unalienable rights? What does unalienable or inalienable mean? According to every dictionary I could find it: "refers to that which cannot be given away or taken away". That doesn't seem like the current Supreme Court agrees with this, does it?
Ah, but remember, the Declaration of Independence does not have the force of the rule of law. It's just an aspirational argument for how a government should be constructed. It was a declaration of rebellion against the rule of a foreign King.
The amazing thing about it was that it was not a plea to another King to come and run the country, it was a plea to let the people run their own government using Democratic principles. The first time in modern history that a group of people banded together to provide their own government.
Remember that the first version of the government of the United States of America was documented in the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union of the states and lasted for more than a decade before it was overturned and the current constitution was instantiated as the law of the country.
So the constitution was supposed to be written in the spirit of the justification for it, right?
The founding fathers gave it their best try and it's still probably the best way to run a government, or at least it's been able to provide the most increase in economic output compared to any other system of government. But it's not perfect.
The Constitution doesn't guarantee safety from the hazards declared in the Declaration of Independence. Apparently, the current Constitution doesn't even guarantee that you can't give up your unalienable rights. The Declaration of independence says we all have them, but the Constitution cannot be used to let the power of the state enforce them if you give away that which you cannot give.
We all agree that you can't give them away, but if you do, the state will not enforce these rights. The state will not enforce the rule of law and protect you. In other words... if you agree to the latest 'shrinkwrap' contract for the use of software, you give up your rights of trial by jury or your peers, one of your inalienable rights, the right of the rule of law. You must now negotiate individually for your rights and you cannot use the courts of the government to enforce your inalienable right. It's almost as if you 'agreed' to be a slave or belong to a cult... after opening their software they are now allowed to blackmail and threaten you to keep you in their thrall and it's perfectly legal because you gave them permission to break the law in return for something (a program to run and it's a license, you don't even own this software.)
So the Constitution is flawed. It apparently can't be used to enforce the basic unalienable rights of Americans.
There are two ways to fix this problem. The goal is that we should make the Constitution enforce more of the Declaration of Independence than it does currently. Either change the members of the Supreme Court or rewrite or amend the Constitution.
Or the Supreme Court could just change its mind and decide that one of the responsibilities of the US government is to enforce the inalienable rights of Americans. That would take the passing of several judges, realistically this will take many years and the Democrats (since Republicans and their judges think it's a great idea to allow you to be thrown into slavery) must manage to get both the Senate majority and the Presidency at the same time.
This seems unlikely in the near term. Given an average age of death of around 80 for an American these days, looking at the data, it seems that the next President may have a reasonable chance of appointing two judges to the bench, if the Democrats manage to get a Senate majority, which seems unlikely at the moment.
Figure 1. Average expected lifespan of the current Supreme Court.
But what are the chances that the Democrats come up with another two Senate seats in the near future? Given that the Republicans still own the majority of the state legislatures and will continue to shamelessly gerrymander and disenfranchise Democratic voters, and the Supreme Court will let them get away with this [1] when they wouldn't let these obviously racist systems get away with discrimination for the last 50 years. This is essentially saying that all the work done to pass the 14th, 19th and several other amendments to extend those inalienable rights to all people at all times, the life work of such people as Abraham Lincoln, isn't really a good idea. The radical right, represented by the Republicans, would rather extend these rights to groups of their fellow travellers (amoral corporations) who could then take away the rights of everyone else, legally, without cost and without retribution or punishment. The radical right is now arguing that disenfranchisement and slavery are A-okay with them. Because this is the only way they can stay in power. Make no mistake about it. It's going back to the time when 'Separate but equal' is acceptable, when discrimination is acceptable and when their friends grab power in a state, whatever they do to hold onto that power is acceptable.
This is unacceptable to me and to the vast majority of Americans.
This has caused many Americans to become concerned about enforcing their inalienable rights. And the right and the left react differently to this threat.
The right is afraid of being forced to do something against their wishes, thus they want the ability to forcefully resist this ipso-facto 'violent' (I can do whatever I want and if you tell me differently, even if it harms you, then just tough shit) compulsion, which is supposedly the worst thing that can happen to them. Which is why they naturally resist wearing masks, seatbelts, helmets, permits, inspections and insist on private property and public property that they can pollute and use however they wish.
The left is afraid of being killed off by actions of others, by being shot at, by being discriminated against, by redlining, by systemic racism, by unequal enforcement of laws, of not being able to vote or to have your rights protected in a court of law.
The right is against any tax, as that is theft of personal property. You can't force me to cooperate with you for the common good! They think the value returned by collective action can't be of enough benefit to myself and everyone else to justify the forced cooperation, that's just not how insurance works in the real world! And if it is really of benefit to everyone, some person should make money off it! It shouldn't be left up to a government bureaucracy, it should be up to some monopolist that has no incentive to be moral at all. We should let some corporation (that can harm you and escape punishment from the government) run every collective action.
The left would much rather have these kind of life and death decisions made by a government that is bound to follow the rules of law or they will get ejected from control and new handlers will be brought in through voting. This is the ultimate control over the threat of government: vote them out. (Another thing the radical right can't stand - letting people vote.)
However, if some of the branches of government are gerrymandered into preventing their change due to self-serving state legislators (as happened in 2010 and is probably going to happen again in 2020, this time with the Supreme Court's go ahead to discriminate against anyone, even other political parties) it won't be very easy to have the belief in inalienable rights be reinstated in our government.
The Supreme Court decided it's okay to change their minds, ignore all precedent and declare the Voting Rights act unconstitutional because it's not the same as it was 50 years ago, when the civil rights law was passed; which isn't the same as it was 100 years ago during the Jim Crow era, which isn't the same as it was 150 years ago when we had a civil war against slavery.
This is the sorriest excuse for taking away people's inalienable rights ever constructed. It's the argument that shows that the radical right's 'originalist' method of deciding the law isn't a legitimate way of reasoning, it's just an excuse to decide whatever you want. And it's slowly eroding the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself.
No, the argument hasn't changed since the Constitution was written, it's exactly the same. If there is any way for white supremacists to disenfranchise the rights of others, they will figure out a way to game the system to make it happen. The tyranny of the majority. Soon to be the tyranny of the major minority.
And this is what really has the radical right scared, They will be just one faction among many, which means they would have to finally respect the rights of everyone. They would have to negotiate equal treatment for everyone. They are no longer the largest faction that held out for special rights in the original constitution and threatened to go home if they didn't get these extra rights. They are a controlling minority that made sure that these rights could be taken away from citizens in their states and that the federal government couldn't stop it.
Yes, those states that caused the last American civil war are where this faction has majority representation. And according to the current Supreme Court, this is the way it's supposed to be. We've had the Civil Rights act and the Voting rights act as law on the books for too long. Those original white supremacists are now dead... well most of them are dead, so they can no longer discriminate against anyone, so all of those civil rights laws are just superfluous! Separate but equal is just fine. Different legislatures elected by different groups of people that have different powers but still somehow want to support the same policies of discrimination and disenfranchisement is just fine with the current Supreme Court.
All Men are Created Equal will not be enforced by the current Supreme Court. THey've made it very clear that they will not use the Constitution to enforce these rights. States are now officially allowed to discriminate, disenfranchise and just plain play favorites. Equality under the law is not something this Supreme Court is interested in enforcing because there's just too many 'others' out there: they'd just vote themselves bread and circuses, like the radical right is trying to do for itself and its billionaire oligarchs.
They believe that they can't defend the right to vote on those people: they might vote to take something from us, like forcing me to work together on common goals or restrain me from burning the earth down so I can have my latest gas-guzzling monster truck get me to work for a few cents less a mile, never mind that it will kill all of us soon enough, it's my RIGHT to screw you!
It's all about today and efficiencies. Which is really short sighted. Innovation only occurs with restraints. Monopolies find it much easier to collect rents rather than actually innovate and improve efficiencies. The more of the externalities of a monopoly you make them pay for, the better they respond to and the more efficient they are forced to become. Forcing amoral corporations to protect humans forces them to pay attention to the survival of the planet, in other words forces them to become moral or go out of business. This is the only way to force corporations to be moral.
But as we discussed before, it's not really that efficient. It does force a trade off between human suffering and money. How much is your life worth these days? The court system thinks it's about $9 million. So if a corporation kills you it's deemed a fair trade if they give your heirs $9 million. No other punishment needed. This values the entire human capital on the planet as $720 trillion (considering a person lives many years.) That's pretty close the current estimates of total capital in the world.
The US has the lion's share of this capital. But we let the billionaire oligarchs control it and keep it to themselves and use it to warp our economy and our government. A small 1% property tax on this wealth would be more than enough to pay for basic access to medical care, food and shelter for every American. The country is way, way, way, way rich enough to afford to do all of this. Not doing it is just being selfish. [2]
But let's get back to the whole reason I started to write this blog...
What's the Attractiveness of the Power of Trump?
How can we understand the Power that Trump and fascism has over a large group of America's voters? What's the moral bargain these voters are making? Why do they think this con man can give them what they want? What do they want? They want to be special. They want to be in control. They want to be the arbiters of rights that they can reserve for themselves. They want to exploit other American's because of who they are. This is fundamentally immoral, you cannot control who you are, who your parents where, and if your rights depend upon this... that certainly doesn't meet the lofty goals put forth in the Declaration of Independence.
But most of them aren't bold enough to admit that they are subscribers to the ultimate identity group: white assholes. They try to hide their agenda by the right to be separate but equal. Just let us do whatever we want and we'll be nice. Let us discriminate in the name of our religion and our race, and it will be okay! Really! Even though this has been declared unconstitutional many times. So they have to hide it deeper. They have to pretend that laws cannot be enforced equally on everyone because... it might infringe on their right to practice their religion. This is what religious liberty ia all about: the right to break the laws you don't agree with and to not be held accountable. The right to be immoral.
This is the bargain these Americans have made with Trump and with the GOP. Not the bargain the left has made to try and save the world and humanity, but the ability to maim and rape and steal without consequences. The right to shirk your duty, shirk your patriotism and shirk your responsibilities. Trump is a veritable advertising agency for this flouting of the basic freedoms and rights of Americans. And what's the best way to force the state to let you break the law? Stop them from enforcing it.
Republicans lately and conservatives and the radical right have worked very hard over many generations to make their voters think that the worst thing that can happen is letting the government do anything. Social Security - collective savings plan with government guarantees and efficient redistribution of your own money? THAT'S AN EVIL ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM! We should privatize it so that corporations and Republicans can bilk American's out of their money and keep it for themselves.
These so called conservatives (as they call themselves) even howl at the thought that they might have to recommend the financial assets that are best for their customers (and not what makes the most money for the salesman.) For some reason the horror of actually enforcing regulations that cause corporations to do what is best for Americans is one regulation too far! They would much rather fight to the death to keep Americans a vast sea of uneducated marks to be conned. Even better if it can be legal to con them, with no restitution allowed. NOW THAT'S REALLY EVIL. And that's also why I supported Elizabeth Warren for President. There is no one who better understands the destruction and mayhem these rules cause to our country.
The argument continues to its logical conclusion: The EPA is an oppressive, evil arm of government. Even though it was instantiated by a Republican (Nixon) and even though it's saved millions of deaths. It's still a bad, bad thing in the radical right's eyes. If they want to build a house and let their sewage run into the street, it should be their right to do so. "I'm dumping my sewage on my property and just because it runs off onto your property and gets you sick, that's not my responsibility, it's your problem!" It's your responsibility to keep yourself safe, not mine to stop harming you. And if I can manage to create a monopoly and squeeze a few dollars out of everyone in the country by killing people with pollution, that's okay, I can become a billionaire in a few years. And then I can use that money to make sure that I can continue to screw everyone for a small, insubstantial fee relative to the amount of money I am stealing. It's might makes right and nothing else. It's immoral.
But wait... Why would I risk putting a Con Man in charge?
This gets us back to what legislators do; do for a living, that is: They pass laws and they spend money on getting people to elect them. But they don't spend their own money (rarely or I would claim never): They spend your money. They spend your hard earned donations. Which we have learned at the beginning of this blog, they can collect an unlimited amount and with no attributions as long as they were 'separate' from the campaign.
ur legislators can take a small amount of bribes as long as they are publicly recorded. They can now take as much as they want, secretly, as long as they profess there is no corruption. It's not even if there is the appearance of corruption, that's not enough to prevent any particular practice or incident. It's only if there is absolute evidence of corruption, a quid pro quo as it were. There's no need to recuse yourself from a compromising situation, just say that it won't affect your vote, then vote however you wanted to in the first place. Even though the vote has a personal effect, you can convince yourself that your vote is not self-serving, and if you can, it's perfectly fine to vote however you want.
And that's what it comes down to. If you want to be elected you need to do whatever makes the donors happy. Because to get elected you need to do what the donors want, if you do they will continue to give you donations. And what do the donors want. The only ones that matter are those that want to pay less taxes. The more you pay in taxes, the more you can spend on getting the laws changed to save you some tax money. And we've seen this phenonment increase and accelerate over the decades since taxation and corporations have collided. Remember, limited liability corporations are an ideal way to increase the rate of accumulation of wealth. Since the 1600's when they were first started, the sources of power in the world were religions, royalty and ownership of land (and the people who live on it.) With the addition of the corporation, or groups of people protected by the royalty from retribution beyond the amount of ownership of the company, these immoral corporations become a fourth and growing source of power in the world.
And they've worked hard to become stronger, to be more selfish, to be more efficient, to export more of their costs to society as a whole, to do whatever they want to whoever they want wherever they want whenever they want without retribution. And they've been pretty successful at preventing any restraints on their actions. What's the latest restraint they've been trying to get rid of? Regulations! They're all bad, especially if they cause me to spend money. I don't want to spend money hooking up my sewer, it's cheaper to dump the feces on the ground and wash them into the river. I can just spill whatever I want on my property because it's mine, it's my air to pollute. Too bad if you have to breathe it, too. The other regulation they've figured out they can manipulate in their favor is the tax rate. There are about 200 countries and thousands of municipalities in every country that can pass tax laws. Corporations can get these municipalities to compete with each other as it is assumed that the corporation is bringing a local gain to the municipality be it's increased efficiencies, jobs and investment in the community. Not only that, but the politicians can get paid for changing these laws. In the United States you can take money from a donor to get you elected and let his lobbyist write whatever tax law they want. What do you care? Do you care that the tax law is fair and good? Nope. You live by the myth that the 'invisible hand' will take care of that, nobody could be so self-serving as to take advantage of a system of complicated tax laws to give themselves an advantage? Of course not, and if they do, it's really good for all of us 'cause. No need to determine if tax laws are discriminatory, because even if they are, there must be some 'invisible hand' that turns my greed into the markets best guess as to what is good for everyone.
But that's not how it works. And everyone knows this. On the right and on the left. And it's scary. And who do you want out there as the head of this scary government that can give anything to anyone and can sell laws to any donor and can prevent the enforcement of any laws that have been passed in the past? If you're naturally prey to conspiracy theories, if you believe that you have to believe whatever your current cult leader believes... you want to have the scariest, most manipulative cult leader alive so that he can control this wild west through his wiles and his corruption. And you'd better do whatever insane thing he wants you to do or your going to be in trouble. Just make sure he claims to be looking out for you. And you can believe whatever he says, because it's easier and it take so much less effort. You can root for and support whatever idiot happens to be in power! It's great entertainment and you can ignore the corruption of the systems and the corruption of the leader because he tells you in the long run it's going to get better. Don't look at what's going on now, any any ways it's not your problem, there's people that are worse off than you and you don't need to help them, in fact you can celebrate your superioress and punish them for their unspecified sins. Not only are all people not created equal, but we're equal and you're not. Separate but unequal. The best of both worlds for the last society on earth to support slavery. We're better now so you don't have to 'regulate' us. Even if we all agreed that we hadn't followed the rules and started breaking the rules the second you let us, we've changed. We try not to admit we aren't following the rules anymore.
And we need someone that's will ignore the whole law thing and corruption thing and be the most efficient in grabbing that power and using it to aggrandize themselves. Maybe I can catch some crumbs that fall off of the Royal plate. If the President does it, it must be legal, as the last impeached Republican Presidents have said and still say. But no, more than half of American doesn't believe that is true. Appointing a President that knows how to get around the laws, that's just a mafia Don in populist clothing, is not a good idea. There is no 'invisible hand' that is going to save the country. There's just theater and corruption. You've talked yourself into believing the con man, of being pre-disposed to believe any conspiracy theory. Once you've gone that route, you have put yourself up for tyranny. You can't stop it. You can't believe in one conspiracy theory and when they tell you to believe in another you can't say, but wait, the earth being flat is not possible. What do you mean? You already believe in an invisible god that listens to your every desire and grants miracles. There's no evidence of any of that. But I can pretend there is and get you to pretend, too. So pretend with me. Pretend we're all equal and we deserve the help of the government and everyone else can just pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and get what I've got and kept, I ain't sharing any of it with anyone, and certainly not any one not from around here.
That's why you want the flashiest, fastest bullshitter to run the country. You want someone who says he's for you, whether he is or not, you want him to say he is. The more he lies about it the better it is! He can fight for you against himself! The ultimate battle: can the common man survive corruption without corrupting himself? Nope, so you should get the biggest corrupter to be in charge. At least he'll corrupt things faster and more efficiently and he'll protect my right to the American dream more efficiently than those trying to protect everyone. I want the right to fuck up the earth, kill people and get rich as easily as possible! And I want the most exploitive, cultist capitalist a$$hole in there because the 'invisible hand' will make sure it's best for everyone.
The left can either be very patient and let demographics have their way with the country. Eventually this small minority of white supremacists can all live on their reservation in Wyoming and leave everyone else alone to run the world. Which is the United State's long term (centuries long) goal. It's not globalization, it's Americanization of the world. Amoral corporations want the 'rule of law' everywhere. They want predictability in their bribes and their ability to change the laws in their favor. Or buy the laws of their choice without remorse or consequences. The only way to fight this American disease spread to us by the Europeans, who've fought mightily to first rid the planet of Royalty, then contain the beast that the fight unleashed, is to let the descendants of those who've agreed with us into the country to reinforce that system to represent the world. The world is now rich enough that nobody has to starve. Nobody has to be homeless. Nobody needs to decide on health care or bankruptcy. Nobody needs to pollute the planet to make cheap energy. Nobody has to decide between pensions and infrastructure. Everyone has clean water because everyone wants it and works together to make it happen. And the rest of the world, which has followed America's lead for two centuries can continue to grow and wrestle with the evil beast of capitalism that allows groups to amass power in every increasing and growing amounts.
Or it could take the risk of calling a constitutional convention and rewrite the constitution to be unequivocal and clear in enforcing the ideals of the Declaration of independence. But that's risky. It could easily come out the other way where fascism is more likely and freedom is less likely. How much of a majority would the Left feel safe with holding when going into a constitutional convention? How many years before it makes sense? The right and it's billionaire donors is slowly realising it's really dying out and they're willing to take any risk at all to preserve their power over the conspiracy theories. Their right to believe in conspiracy theories and be rewarded for it! If they could put the ability to force legal slavery they would, they are. Separate and unequal is the goal. It is not the right goal for the United States, it's the selfish goal. The goal that does not push the human race to it's full potential. The goal that will condemn the world to a constant struggle that could easily be avoided, that is being avoided in most other countries. We need to lead the world in this are or we will be ignored. And that is a fate worse than death: To vote in the baddest mother fucker in the land of RealityTV, to vote in your hero bad ass and to have him be laughed at by the entire world and pitied. That's the worst fate of a spoined, bratty, self-serving group of cry-babies: to be ignored and left on the dust bin of history, fighting the last war and continuing to lose the battles.
- DrMike
[1] Allowing corporations to take your rights is the result of the current radical right Supreme Court, one of the most activist Supreme Courts in the court's history. They declared the Voting Rights Act was fundamentally unconstitutional, even though the legislative branch was unanimously approving it each year. And it has been declared constitutional for over 70 years. They claimed that things have changed. How a 'literalist' reading of the constitution can make a law suddenly unconstitutional is one of the mysteries of legal reasoning, what most people would call bullshit or twisting your fundamental views to support your ideas of supremacism. Mark my words, this will go down in history as the worst decisions since the Dred-Scott decision, which was an embarrassment to the Court that took a century to live down. And the conservatives couldn't wait to reinstate this terrible line of reasoning.
[2] One of the arguments I've seen against universal health care is that it's just too expensive. People think it costs $10,000 to set a broken bone and $1,000,000 to cure cancer. No, that's what we get charged, not what it actually costs. Look at these costs around the world. The true costs are orders of magnitude less, we've just let amoral corporations grab the value chain, monopolize the services and extract a huge cost out of the country and into their pockets. This is why things like health care should never be left to capitalism. It just is incapable of maximizing the most good for the most people. It maximizes the most profit per person, not the most life and health per person. This is why there's no cold vaccine (and how we could have used that for this pandemic) but there's billions to be made on palliatives that don't even work. The incentives in the system are optimizing the wrong things.


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Михаил Николаевич Герасимов (1915—2003) — майор Советской Армии, участник Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (1944).

Биография

Михаил Герасимов родился 4 (по новому стилю — 17) июля 1915 года в деревне Шолохово Московского уезда Московской губернии (ныне — городской округ Мытищи Московской области) в крестьянской семье. Рано остался без родителей, рос под опекой старшего брата. Окончил семь классов школы, затем школу фабрично-заводского ученичества, после чего работал слесарем в московском «Метрострое». В 1941 году Герасимов был призван на службу в Рабоче-крестьянскую Красную Армию. С июня того же года — на фронтах Великой Отечественной войны. Принимал участие в Ельнинской операции, битве за Москву, форсировании Северского Донца, Ингульца, Днепра, Днестра, Прута, Дуная, освобождении Украинской ССР и Восточной Европы. В боях был ранен. К марту 1944 года старшина Михаил Герасимов командовал взводом связи 525-й отдельной роты связи 19-й стрелковой дивизии 57-й армии 3-го Украинского фронта. Отличился во время форсирования Южного Буга.

24 марта 1944 года Герасимов одним из первых в своём подразделении переправился через реку и обеспечил командованию дивизии бесперебойную связь с советскими частями на западном берегу.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 3 июня 1944 года за «образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования на фронте борьбы с немецкими захватчиками и проявленные при этом мужество и героизм» старшина Михаил Герасимов был удостоен высокого звания Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» за номером 3482.

Участвовал в Параде Победы. Продолжал службу в Советской Армии. В 1948 году Герасимов окончил курсы усовершенствования офицерского состава. В 1960 году в звании майора он был уволен в запас. Проживал в городе Долгопрудном Московской области. С 1961 года работал инспектором отдела кадров местного машиностроительного завода. До 1992 года Герасимов руководил объединённым учебным пунктом по подготовке молодёжи к службе в армии, неоднократно избирался депутатом Долгопрудненского горсовета и горкома КПСС. Участвовал в Параде в честь 50-летия Победы. Умер 22 марта 2003 года, похоронен на Центральном кладбище Долгопрудного.

Был также награждён двумя орденами Отечественной войны 1-й степени, орденами Отечественной войны 2-й степени и  двумя орденами Красной Звезды, а также рядом медалей. Почётный гражданин Долгопрудного.

Примечания

Литература

 Герой Советского Союза, майор в отставке М. Герасимов. Под огнем врага // Полем боя испытаны. Фронтовые эпизоды / сб., сост. И. М. Дынин, И. А. Скородумов. М., Воениздат, 1981. стр.169-172

Связисты Великой Отечественной войны
Командиры взводов в Великой Отечественной войне
Участники Парада Победы
Почётные граждане Долгопрудного
Депутаты Верховного Совета РСФСР 9-го созыва
Члены КПСС
Похороненные на Долгопрудненском кладбище

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The Amazon Fire TV doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but the new set-top box is currently rolling off the assembly line and shipping to US customers.
The world's largest online retailer spent a significant amount of time demoing its 1080p capabilities all while knocking its rivals like the Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku 3 and Roku Streaming Stick.
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Redesigning rehearsal spaces for musicians using empty buildings
LITERATURE REVIEW: Redesigning rehearsal spaces for musicians using empty buildings
A music rehearsal space refers to a room or several rooms reserved for music-making and practice (Fitzpatrick 2013, 63). In a typical case, it is a soundproof room with an acoustic environment. The spaces can combine recording and rehearsal functions to serve the unique needs of musicians. There are numerous types of rehearsal spaces that artists use, including shared rooms, community centers, and makeshift halls. Fitzpatrick (2013, 63) posits that a dedicated and fully equipped rehearsal space gives artists a setting to perfect their art, per-formance skills, and compositions. Furthermore, it provides opportunities for new musicians to hone their abilities and learn how to perform before different audiences. Martin and Flori-da (2016, par 4) support this claim by noting that a good space nurtures and supports the mu-sic composition process, encourages the expression of ideas, and makes musicians feel com-fortable. Thus, all artists require a proper space and environment to rehearse and achieve their musical goals and dreams in today's competitive and highly globalized world.
Although scholars and stakeholders agree that rehearsal spaces are important for musi-cians, their availability remains a major problem in some regions and countries. Martin and Florida (2016, par 3) aver that the need for rehearsal rooms has become a necessity today. In the past, most people viewed live performance as a tool for promoting album sales. Therefore, the more a group performed, the more it sold their records (Martin & Florida 2016, par 3). In the last two decades, however, live performance has become an important source of revenue. The trend has increased the need for artists to access equipped rehearsal spaces (Martin & Florida, 2016, par 4).
Today, there is a lack of rehearsal spaces in many countries across the globe. Many stakeholders, researchers, and musicians have come out in various countries to complain about the scarcity of this important facility. One such area is Sydney. According to Bagshaw (2016, par 6), "a drought of adequate rehearsal spaces for musicians in Sydney has prompted the council to open up 17 public buildings as practice spaces for young musicians." The author adds that rehearsal space is everything that some artists need to succeed in their undertakings. More specifically, it influences the kind of music that artists create and how they perform to live audiences. Bagshaw (2016, par 12) links the scarcity of such spaces to the growing popu-lation in most Australian towns, Sydney included. As the city's population increases, more people move into available apartments and, in the process, make it hard for performers and musicians to get suitable spaces to rehearse and play. The author adds that without proper spaces, artists and bands cannot learn and practice how to write good songs, perform in front of audiences, and perfect their skills.
Concerns about the lack of sufficient spaces to rehearse have also emerged in the city of Toronto in the recent years. A study by Martin & Florida (2016, par 10) reported that ac-cess, affordability, and suitability of rehearsal spaces are among the biggest challenges that independent musicians face in Toronto. During the study, the researchers noted that the Greater Toronto area has a total of 13 rehearsal rooms and studios with monthly leases. Not surprisingly, the study "showed that the price of monthly rehearsal spaces for musicians in the central city were the most costly" (Martin & Florida 2016, par 2). The researchers went on to note that event singers who live within Toronto's core may not have access to spaces to re-hearse, train, and get ready for shows. The trend stems sonic requirement for space and the fact that most landlords, building's physical nature, and tenets do not support the establish-ment of rehearsal spaces. The findings and arguments in the study by Martin and Florida (2016) seem to support the views raised by Monts (2013) on the rehearsal space shortage in Prague. Monts (2013, par 2) posits that lack of training and rehearsal spaces is "an age-old problem that has plagued up & coming musicians since the beginning of time." As the city's population increases, most Prague musicians and bands try to look for rehearsal rooms in grimy attic spaces. Although there are well-equipped studios for established musicians, accessing those areas is a tall order for budding musicians and bands.
Converting old buildings
In the recent years, countries like Canada and the Czech Republic have focused on dealing with the shortage of rehearsal spaces. The move is informed by the realization that music is an important part of modern culture and that musicians cannot hone their skills properly without practicing and rehearsing. Martin and Florida (2016, par 7) noted that part of the ongoing debates and discussion in Toronto is how to use available spaces efficiently to support music. Besides, the city has witnessed a push by the Economic Development and Culture Division to understand the needs and challenges of musicians living in Toronto's core with regards to accessing affordable rehearsal opportunities and spaces. One of the interventions that the local government uses to address the problem is converting and reusing historic structures across the city. The response is meant to help the city build up more spaces for rehearsal and attract more musicians in the area.
Converting old buildings into new usable spaces is one of the cost-effective approaches that many cities use to deal with room and space shortage today. It can be assumed that redesigning historical buildings can be environmentally sustainable and cost-effective, and many people and stakeholders believe that the best designs and building solution often come when the old merge with the new. To support his arguments, the author gives the example of historic buildings like the Market Santa Caterina, Mass MOCA, and Neues Museum in Berlin that came into life following their structural transformation. The trend has taken root in cities such as Sydney. According to Bagshaw (2016, par 8), the government has transformed and opened up old and underutilized centres and halls in Sydney to create more rehearsal places for musicians. The successful conversion of existing buildings into proper rehearsal spaces in Prague further attests to the efficacy of the solution. According to Monts (2013, par 5), Converse successfully created a new and well equipment rehearsal studio to support artists in Prague in achieving their dreams.
Different countries and cities have successfully converted old and dysfunctional buildings into useful new spaces for arts and music on a large scale. Wang, Oakes, and Yang, (2016) give the example of Singapore and European cities like London that have created new sites from old spaces. In Singapore, the Ministry of Community Development identified and successfully converted old buildings into "suitable housing, to be leased to select artists at highly subsidized rates for use as offices, studios, administrative, rehearsal, and performance spaces (Wang, Oakes & Yang, 2016, 101). These sites help artists to revitalize and improve their talents. Furthermore, they support the integration of art and music into the everyday life of local communities. The success of the Singaporean projects motivated other nations like Indian to identify and remodel old buildings to create more spaces for artists and musicians. In the long run, such initiatives not only support the development of art and music but also spur growth by providing new sources of revenue (Wang, Oakes & Yang, 2016, 101).
While the conversion of existing historic buildings into new rehearsal spaces remains a viable option to the current problem, the process has its fair share of challenges. It should be mentioned that remodelling and transforming existing buildings is a complicated process. While some nations have successfully reused historic buildings, the transformation process requires expertise, skills, and resources. To realize the desired outcomes, architects must work hard to address the various environmental, aesthetic, programmatic, and contextual challenges that exist in such buildings. Coles and House (2007, 9) add to the debate by noting that transforming existing buildings into the aesthetically appealing products requires the close collaboration between architects and profession interior designers. Furthermore, the team must strive to come up with spatial solutions that fit and support the needs of the users of the building in questions. Lee, Main, and Main (2000, 45) posit that converting old and historic buildings and landmarks into new structures and rooms preserves the integrity of original architectural elements and features like mezzanines and staircases. However, it requires perfect guides for renovation of buildings. Moreover, it requires the expertise of salvage companies, restoration specialists, interior designers, and architects. These are concerns that stakeholders must take into account when working with historic buildings to create proper rehearsal spaces for musicians.
Landlords, tenants, and other members of a given community often associate rehearsal spaces with constant and loud noise. In some instances, this notion drives them to oppose the creation of such rooms within their apartments or in the vicinity of their areas of residence. In Toronto, for example, the opposition from local communities and landlords has left a small niche market and minimal opportunities for rehearsal spaces.
Even in cases where the spaces are available, proprietors must invest in the right equipment and material to ensure that their activities do not impact negatively on the surrounding communities. While old and unused buildings provide a reliable solution to the current rehearsal space shortage around the globe, opposition from the surrounding communities remains a major obstacle. When redesigning old buildings, project managers have to involve many architects and designers to transform the objects effectively and minimize all risks and overcome obstacles. Wang, Oakes, and Yang (2016, 143) support this argument by noting that communities often have some form of attachment to historic landmarks and structures. The authors add that while recycling former industrial, commercial, agricultural, and municipal structures to create new spaces, the involved parties should strive to preserve the essential architectural features and involve local communities. The process entails looking for fresh ideas from local communities and taking their views into considering when revitalizing the old landmarks.
The tension that may exist between planners and local communities when it comes to architectural projects is an area of interest for many scholars, architects, and policy makers for a long time. According to Freestone (2012, 133), local communities often have individual interests in various buildings, and structures in their neighbourhoods. When planners and designers alter such buildings without involving the locals, they often face opposition that may hinder the overall outcome of such undertaking. RIB (2013, 3) proposes a solution to the problem by suggesting that planners and developers ought to establish communication and consultation mechanism with local communities and rally them to support the project in question. This way, members of the community will change from being passive participants to become active stakeholders in the project. Furthermore, the intervention will resolve cases of conflicts and unnecessary litigations that may hinder and compromise the projects. Taking this into perspective, it is apparent that transforming old buildings into rehearsal spaces will require the active participation of local communities. By involving tenants, landlords, and other residents, planners and architects will not only get an opportunity to respond to their concerns but also enlighten them on the importance and impact of the said initiatives. Furthermore, it will ensure that every stakeholder supports the idea and reduces unnecessary confrontations that can lead to time and cost overruns.
From the literature review, there seem to be a consensus among stakeholders that rehearsal spaces play a critical part in the career of musicians. Through such rooms, singers can train, rehearse, learn new skills, and prepare for their performance. Unfortunately, a number of countries, cities, and urban centres lack sufficient rehearsal rooms for musicians. While the causes of the shortage differ from one area to the other, a review of existing literature points towards the growing urban population, scarcity of buildings and spaces, and lack of physical spaces to put up such facilities. The analysis further reveals that the shortage of rehearsal spaces has left musicians practicing in poorly designed and equipped settings while others resort to paying for the costly services provided by the few studios in the neighbourhood.. Scholars agree that converting old buildings into new spaces and rooms is more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective as compared to putting up a new structure. However, the process requires the participation and active involvement of local communities to prevent unnecessary confrontation and reduce cases of cost and time overruns.
Bagshaw, E. (2016). Free rehearsal spaces for musicians in Sydney. [online] The Sydney Morning Herald. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/free-rehearsal-spaces-for-musicians-in-sydney-20141225-12ayai.html [Accessed 8 Dec. 2016].
Coles, J., & House, N. (2007). The fundamentals of interior architecture. Lausanne: AVA Academia.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2013). Playwright, space, and place in early modern performance: Shakespeare and company, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing.
Freestone, R. (2011). Urban planning in a changing world: The twentieth century experience. Routledge, New York.
Lee, V, Main, R & Main, R. (2000). Recycled spaces: converting buildings into homes. London: Soma Books.
Martin. R, & Florida, R. (2016). This is the place: cost, location and music venues in Toronto. [online] Available at: http://martinprosperity.org/tag/rehearsal-space/[Accessed 15 Dec. 2016].
Monts, C. (2013). Converse Rehearsal Space. Expats.cz, [online] p.1. Available at: https://www.expats.cz/prague/article/czech-culture/converse-rehearsal-space/ [Accessed 9 Dec. 2016].
RIBA. (2013).Guide to localism opportunities for architects- part two: getting community engagement right. London: Royal Institute of British Architects.
Wang, J, Oakes, T, & Yang, Y. (2016). Making cultural cities in Asia mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism. New York: Routledge.
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Q: Geotools unable to find WrongPathException I am using geotools in Java to get the Shortest Path from node to node1.
Below is my Java code to retrieve the Path:
 AStarShortestPathFinder finder = new AStarShortestPathFinder(g, node, node1, null);
 Path path = finder.getPath();

I tried to surround the "WrongPathException" try catch in the above line of code, but error message
"The type org.geotools.graph.path.WrongPathException is not visible".
Any one encountered this error before? Is there any workaround?
I have used maven and here is my pom.xml. It is my first time using maven, please let me know if there are any mistakes.
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
<artifactId>tutorial</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>tutorial</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <geotools.version>24-SNAPSHOT</geotools.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.11</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
        <artifactId>gt-shapefile</artifactId>
        <version>${geotools.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
        <artifactId>gt-swing</artifactId>
        <version>${geotools.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
        <artifactId>gt-graph</artifactId>
        <version>${geotools.version}</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>osgeo</id>
    <name>OSGeo Release Repository</name>
    <url>https://repo.osgeo.org/repository/release/</url>
    <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots>
    <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
  </repository>
  <repository>
    <id>osgeo-snapshot</id>
    <name>OSGeo Snapshot Repository</name>
    <url>https://repo.osgeo.org/repository/snapshot/</url>
    <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
    <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
  </repository>
</repositories>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <inherited>true</inherited>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Below is my code, it is my first time using geotools as well, so I am still testing the code.
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.geotools.data.FeatureSource;
import org.geotools.data.FileDataStore;
import org.geotools.data.FileDataStoreFinder;
import org.geotools.data.simple.SimpleFeatureIterator;
import org.geotools.feature.FeatureCollection;
import org.geotools.geometry.jts.JTSFactoryFinder;
import org.geotools.graph.build.feature.FeatureGraphGenerator;
import org.geotools.graph.build.line.LineStringGraphGenerator;
import org.geotools.graph.path.AStarShortestPathFinder;
import org.geotools.graph.path.Path;
import org.geotools.graph.path.WrongPathException; //ERROR IN THIS LINE
import org.geotools.graph.structure.Graph;
import org.locationtech.jts.geom.Coordinate;
import org.opengis.feature.Feature;

import org.locationtech.jts.geom.Point;
import org.locationtech.jts.geom.GeometryFactory;

import org.geotools.graph.structure.Node;
import org.geotools.graph.structure.line.BasicDirectedXYNode;
import org.geotools.graph.traverse.standard.AStarIterator;

public class App2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Import shapefile
        File shapeFile = new File("shape.shp");

        //import all features in the shape.shp into FeatureCollection
        FeatureCollection fCollection = null;

        //.....other code to import the shapefile to FeatureCollection.......

        Graph g = featureGen.getGraph();

        //Using AStarShortestPathFinder to find the Shortest Path between node and node1 with the graph from the Shapefile
        AStarShortestPathFinder finder = new AStarShortestPathFinder(g, node, node1, null);
        Path path = finder.getPath();

    }
}

A: This is a bug, for the time being you can work around it by catching Exception - but in versions after tonight's 24.x snapshot (2020/06/19) I've applied a fix.

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" cools on contact, delivering relief from itching in a snap. The combo is formulated with peppermint oil and tea tree essence and keeps hair visibly flake free*. They're gentle enough for everyday use, even on colour or chemically treated hair. *With regular use"
I don't usually use Head and Shoulders for the simple fact that it usually makes my colour fade, and fast. My husband uses it, regularly and it works wonders for him. I was excited to receive this product and test it out. I use it twice a week now. Both the shampoo and conditioner. I LOVE the scent of them. The Peppermint and Tea tree are really noticeable, but not overpowering. I started to notice results probably after 2 uses, which impressed me. Every time I use it, I leave it on my hair for a couple of minutes. Works wonders to keep the pesky flakes at bay.
My only complaint, would be that for MY hair, I feel like the conditioner doesn't moisturize and kind of leaves it feeling dry afterwards, so I do mix in some of my regular conditioner with the Head and Shoulders, just so my hair doesn't feel dry afterwards. Otherwise I like this product a lot. It leaves my scalp feeling cool and smelling like peppermint, and so far I don't have dandruff anymore.! I will definitely be keeping this product in my hair care routine to keep dandruff away for good. It also helps that it's available at all Shoppers Drug Marts around me.
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Matchsticks Sweet Potato and Gotukola Bedum.
Deep fried sweet potato combined with crunchy peanuts and gotukola leaves. A wonderful mix of ingredients that is bound to be the new family favourite. Perfect 'rice puller' for lunch or dinner.
Cut sweet potatoes into thin strips like matchsticks.
Deep fry sweet potatoes, gotukola, peanuts and set aside.
In a separate pan, melt the Astra quickly and sauté the chili flakes and sugar. Turn off fire.
Mix in the Maldive fish powder and stir to combine.
Now add the fried ingredients, toss well and serve.


Mauritania was somewhat different from his last destination, Angola. It was far more run down than the previous bay city he had arrived from. Azure took a deep look along the streets that he stood upon. Things were obviously going downhill for the country, which was the exact reason Azure had come. The poverty was much worse here than in Luanda, the very fact of it getting under Azure's skin. Scoffing at the thought that passed his mind, the Iramasha turned his attention to the capital building here in Nouakchott.
Tapping his foot against the Earth, the vibrations within Azure's chest spread along the surface of Nouakchott before it pinpointed the exact room that Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's great great great great granddaughter now occupied. Stepping forward, the man's body phased out of existence, the chaos energy that was previously surrounding him brought him to a sitting position on the room's large oak desk. Coughing as he poofed back into existence, the man rubbed his chest before letting his trademark smile emerge once more.
If only everything could go simply, that very thought screamed within the Iramasha's head as the woman began to scream. Without another second passing, Azure's spiritual pressure squashed the sound of the woman's voice, his fingers picking at his pocket. "Woah there miss, cool it with the screams. I don't need a headache, jeez." The smile was replaced with a blank slate, the man hopping from the desk in order to walk up to the frightened girl. Flicking her forward, Azure scoffed at her eccentric reactions. A sigh followed said flick after he turned back to the room's window.
"Don't worry about me. I knew your grandpa, he used to hold this same office before he died and passed it along to your father. I only knew him because of my own father, but still. At least I'm not the killer you expected eh?" Stifling a laugh, he turned back to the descendant of Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, tapping at his thigh as he continued to talk. "You've heard of the Vanguard, right?" "Y-Yeah, the organization in Ka-" Cutting her off once more, Azure pulled his phone from his pocket and waved it around.
"Here's the deal. I made a promise to your Grandpa to help out your dad. Your dad isn't around anymore, nor is your grandpa. So, with that being said I need to make good on my promise with you." Tossing the phone to the woman, he tapped his ear before leaning against a spiritual step he formed via Chaos Energy. "I'd like to have the Vanguard bring goods to the country alongside helping you with any crime activity in the area. That being said however, I know that I have one thing you do need." Pointing down to the ground, Azure coughed and wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was so hot here in Africa, nothing like Japan.
"You need water, and I want to help. In exchange I want to station the Vanguard here in case of attempts from other organizations to take over the country." "W-Wait.. You're serious?" The once frightened woman attached herself to Azure Iramasha, tears beginning to form along the ducts of her eyes. Without hesitation, Azure smiled and patted the woman's head. "I have a plan for the world, that means you get to be apart of it. Everyone deserves to be happy. They deserve to live in peace, not fear. That's why I'm here." The tension from before completely dispersed, minutes passing before the two actually shook hands in order to cement the deal.
With that being handled, Azure gestured the woman away from the office before he took his phone back once more. Following the same example as last time, The Vanguard members were once again notified that they were allowed to come to Africa, this time it was Mauritania they were informed of. Taking a deep breath, a large sigh escaped Azure's lips before he held his head within his hand.
"Now I can get a break, right?"


Hello Rachel, Tell us a bit about yourself. What do you do, how old are your children and what happens with your kids when you are at work?
I'm a Research Scientist, specialising in breast cancer. I work in a lab environment, and my work attempts to understand how breast cancer cells spread to other organs and form secondary tumours. I can't think of a better job and I feel very privileged to be able to do it.
My children are Sam, aged 3, and twins Jack and Meg who are 6 months old. Sam does 3 days a week at nursery and 2 days with grandparents (they do alternate weeks, we live near my in-laws but not my parents, so my mum gives up a lot of her time driving up and down the M6 for us). The twins are currently being looked after by my partner James, who is halfway through his 4 months of Shared Parental Leave. Things are going to get interesting when he goes back to work and we have to afford nursery for the twins. Still not quite sure how we're going to manage that one!
I feel really boring because I can't think of anything funny, maybe that means I keep work and the kids too separate! In seriousness, I'm very lucky to have a supportive boss, lovely colleagues, and a relaxed work environment, so I'd be highly unlikely to be embarrassed about anything child related at work. I'm sure I've been to plenty of meetings with baby sick on my clothes but no one has noticed (or they've been too polite to say anything!).
Take everything out of your hands that you possibly can, so all you have to focus on is work and enjoying time with the kids. If you can afford a cleaner, get a cleaner. If family members offer to help out, take them up on it. My mum and mother-in-law both make us lots of meals for our freezer and it makes it so much easier a couple of times a week not having to think about cooking. And get great childcare. We've both been 100% happy with Sam's nursery from day 1 and it makes all the difference.
Luckily (touch wood, and please don't hate me!) we seem to have produced 3 sleepers so generally I go to work pretty well rested. Which is a good job because when we have a bad night I'm useless the next day. I usually start by crying in the shower, then pull myself together enough to get to work where I spend the day moaning to everyone about how tired I am, and eating as much chocolate as I can lay my hands on. Like I say, it's a good job it doesn't happen often!
I'm happier at work than I am at home full time. I felt guilty about this when I went back to work after Sam was born and I seemed like an anomaly amongst the friends I had made during maternity leave. But I've come to be OK with the fact that having children didn't fundamentally change who I am and what I want to achieve. I love my children and they're the best part of my life, but they're not my whole life. I still need to work too.
"What would Sheryl (Sandberg) do?" If any mums haven't read Lean In, I suggest getting your hands on a copy immediately! Sheryl is my hero, she speaks so much sense about women in the workplace (and why men generally outperform us), and combining a successful career with being a mother.
I don't feel guilty about working. I find it a bit of an odd concept, no one ever asks men if they feel guilty for going to work! But I still love a treat, so after a tough day my guilty pleasure is eating Nutella out of the jar with a spoon. Bread is just unnecessary.
The meeting. Surely no one chooses the tantrum option?!
Sam: "My mummy and daddy are scientists". We've trained him well!
How much it's possible to achieve between the hours of 9am and 5pm if you put your mind to it.
Sharing Parental Leave with James. It's a relatively new idea in this country and the take up has been quite low so far, but it's been a complete game changer for us. We've both taken 4 months off work so we've had equal time with the twins and an equal time away from work, and I think we've got a much better family dynamic and understanding of each other because of it.
First I'd love it if they never hear the term "working mother" – I've never once heard James referred to as a "working father", so I don't see why there's a special title for women! I'd like my kids to grow up knowing that some mums work and some mums stay at home, and some dads work and some dads stay at home. Every family is different but we're all just parents doing our best.


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Francis Joseph Cardinale, MD
Dr. Cardinale is originally from Patterson, La. He received his undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He earned his M.D.degree from LSU school of Medicine in New Orleans and completed his specialty training at LSU in 1982.
He started his private practice in Kaplan, La. In 1988 he relocated to Lafayette as a member of the Hamilton Medical Group for 4 years, He then entered solo practice for another 2 years. In 1994 he was one of the founding members of Acadiana Womens Health Group, formed by the merger of 4 different medical practices, representing 10 OBGYN physicians. At that time this was the largest group of OB-GYN's in the state of Louisiana. He has served as its President for the past 20 years.
Dr. Cardinale enjoys all aspects of a general OB-GYN practice, especially minimally invasive surgery and menopause management. He currently has privileges at Our Lady of Lourdes Women's & Children's Hospital, Lafayette Surgicare, Lafayette General Hospital, Our Lady of Lourdes, and Park Place Surgical Hospital.
Throughout his career, he has been an active member of the medical staff and has served in numerous capacities. He is a member of the Lafayette Parish and Lousiana State Medical Society, American Congress of OB-GYN, North American Menopause Society, AAGL (a society for advancement of minimally invasive surgery for women.
Dr. Cardinale has been married to his wife, Diane, for 41 years. They are most proud of their 3 children and 6 grandchildren. Notably, his youngest child, Mario, is an OB-GYN and joined him at AWHG in 2017.
In his spare time away from work, he enjoys spending time with his family and the outdoors- including, fishing, golf, and the beach.
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Dec. 28, 2017 Updated: Dec. 28, 2017 7:16 p.m.
Regarding "Metro frets over rail safety" (Page A1, Tuesday), any road and rail safety engineer worth a grain of salt knows that building an urban rapid transit system at street level is seriously wrong. Boston learned this in the 19th century. Houston transit engineers took the cheap alternative at the expense of safety, and the problem cannot be fixed until we move the rails to a different elevation since we have flooding problems.
Taking the cheap grade- level alternative means collisions with pedestrians, cars and trucks will continue indefinitely.
It is clear to me what the source of the problem is here in Houston. We seem to have some of the most careless drivers anywhere in the world. Houston drivers pay no heed to traffic signs.
I constantly witness Houston drivers ignoring (not understanding?) the left arrow with a red line through it, which means "No Left Turn" for those who don't get international road signs. Maybe Metro or the city Department of Public Works and Engineering should replace those international signs along the Metro light rail lines with signs in plain English that say "No Left Turn."
Increased enforcement will also help.The city could go a long way toward paying off its debt if it would just enforce its traffic laws by having our police write traffic tickets for all the folks just running red lights and violating no left turn signs. I see at least one of those every time I leave home.
Cars and trucks sharing the streets with light rail is not difficult. People all over the world do it daily with great safety. We can do it too. All we need to do is pay attention.
One only has to ride the monorail in Las Vegas and compare it to the ridiculous Metro system we have in Houston to realize somewhere, someone let things at Metro get out of control and become an unsafe and unrepairable transportation system.
Regarding "Trump making gains on promise" (Page A1, Sunday), what a way to whitewash an article about Trump's bigotry by attaching a benign headline to it. The article was about Trump slamming Haitians as all having AIDS and Africans as living in huts, but you chose to whitewash it. Seems like Trump isn't the only one having trouble with the truth. You are doing the public a big disservice, and it keeps your readers from being informed.
This is why Trump gets elected, which I guess is what you are trying to do.
Regarding "Blanket of fear" (Page A1, Saturday), it figures that the Chronicle would favor 600,000 illegal immigrants in Houston over the rule of law. How many of these sob stories are we going to be subjected to before you so-called "journalists" realize that most Americans are fed up with being overrun with illegals who have no right to be here?
Texas is second in the country in terms of the number of illegal immigrants, and you people at the Chronicle see nothing wrong with that. Instead, you believe that we citizens should continue to pick up the tab because we supposedly have some kind of "moral obligation." Cut us a break! Hopefully, the Trump administration will permanently end DACA, and all illegals will be deported!


LEWES, Del. - Unofficial results show neighbors have voted in favor of the Cape Henlopen School District referendum.
The referendum will allow tax rates to slightly increase for households in order to fund new district projects and an increase to the current operating expense tax. This comes from an increase in student population within the district. The increase will generate $21 million for a brand new middle school and an expansion of Cape Henlopen High School.
"The community has supported our district very strongly. More than 70 percent yes' so we're very excited about it," Superintendent Bob Fulton said.
District officials say the current operating expense tax would cost each household around $46 a year for the next five years. The expansion to the high school would be constructed over the next couple of years, followed by the new middle school in a few years.
Leah Greer-Pinzaru has children in elementary, middle and high school. She says she's happy the community is supporting local education.
"I'm really hopeful that people here in Sussex County will support that, support the students, give them the resources they need so that we can have a nice educational environment for all of our students," Greer-Pinzaru said.
But some like Frank Laudeman didn't like the idea of increasing taxes within the school district. He says this is the fifth time he's seen taxes increase within Sussex County.
"They just built this school, and now they want to put more onto it? This is getting ridiculous," Laudeman said.
The superintendent said the results from Tuesday night were unofficial, but were not expected to change much before being certified on Wednesday morning.


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No Winner for African Leadership Prize
What does it say that the $5 million prize for former honest, democratic African leaders went un-awarded this year? The prize committee, chaired by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and including four Nobel Laureates, denied that the decision was intended to snub former South African President Thabo Mbeki or former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. Citing the confidentiality of its discussion, the committee refused to say why they made that choice, or whether the decision signified that no leader met the required standard. Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese-born telecommunications entrepreneur who founded the award said the decision not to award the prize had nothing to do with the global financial crisis or the state of his pocketbook. When he set up the prize two years ago, Ibrahim said he had made it clear that there might be some years when no one won.


Energy development: methodology of foresight.
Conception of nuclear thermal-electric power plant with low power based on transportable nuclear reactor block.
Current status of power plants for manned and unmanned underwater vehicles.
Developing a power plant with diesel fuel conversion.
Multi-linear power systems of electric ships.
Wearing assessment of gas turbines in real-time operation.
Degradation of membrane-electrolyte units in low-temperature hydrogen-air fuel cell under lifetime tests and cyclic voltage testing.
Broadband passive filters for ship electric propulsion system.
Use of sea energy for power supply of self-contained marine equipment.
Specifics and acute problems of environmental safety of nuclear shipbuilding enterprises.
Monitoring of long-term radiation effects in the area of nuclear shipbuilding enterprise.
Ensuring sea transportation safety for nuclear waste of research reactors.
Assessing the strength of salt deposits polluted by natural radionuclides on internal surfaces of pipelines and equipment of marine platforms and terminals.
Efficiency calculation for an adaptive design of chevron separator for operating air treatment in marine gas turbines.
Predicting and monitoring radiation conditions during recovery and transportation of Kursk nuclear submarine.
Automated system of technological radiation monitoring for marine platforms and terminals.
Study of icing-up in the fresh water tanks of the semi-submersible drilling rigs operated in arctic seas.


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Q: SKAction scale physicsBody I don't really know where to start. I have an image of a circle stored in an SKSpriteNode and a physicsBody that mirrors the size when it is created.
I am using an SKAction to scale down the size of the image though, and the physicsBody remains the same size. How can I scale down the physicsBody?
My code:
SKSpriteNode *sprite = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithImageNamed:@"whiteball"];

    sprite.size = CGSizeMake(20, 20);
    sprite.position = CGPointMake(dx, CGRectGetHeight(self.frame)-dy);
    sprite.name = @"ball";
    sprite.physicsBody = [SKPhysicsBody bodyWithCircleOfRadius:sprite.size.width/2];

    [self addChild:sprite];

    SKNode *ballNode = [self childNodeWithName:@"ball"];

    if (ballNode != Nil){
        ballNode.name = nil;

        SKAction *delay = [SKAction waitForDuration:3];
        SKAction *scale = [SKAction scaleTo:0 duration:1]; // I want this to scale the physicsBody as well as the spriteNode...
        SKAction *remove = [SKAction removeFromParent];

        //put actions in sequence
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        //run action from node (child of SKLabelNode)
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A: If you set the size of the physicsbody to the size of the circle, you may achieve what you seek.
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Honorary Degrees for Bishop and hotelier
The Bishop of Derby Dr Alistair Redfern and Chesterfield hotelier Steve Perez are to receive Honorary Degrees from the University of Derby this summer.
Each year, notable people with a strong connection to the University, the city and county, who have made a valuable contribution in their field, are chosen to receive an Honorary Degree at the annual Award Ceremonies – a highlight of the University's calendar.
Thousands of students, guests and VIPs are expected to attend the event, which will take place from 18 to 20 July at Derby Arena.
The recipients this year are:
· The Rt Revd Dr Alastair Redfern – Bishop of Derby (Honorary Doctor of Laws)
· Steve Perez – Chairman of Global Brands and owner of Casa Hotel and Peak Edge Hotel in Chesterfield (Honorary Master of Business Administration)
· Alan Gifford – Welding and quality management at International Combustion, Derby (Honorary Master Of the University)
· Jonathan Joseph – Rugby player at Bath Rugby (Honorary Master of the University)
· Daniel Hanson – Clothes and textile designer (Honorary Master of the University)
· Kathryn Stone OBE – Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (Honorary Doctor of Laws)
Dr Redfern (right) has held the position of Bishop of Derby since 2005. He has led the Diocese of Derby through significant changes and has established a range of key partnerships between the Church and the community. He is a member of the House of Lords and is the Church of England's spokesman for international development. He is committed to the fight against modern slavery, having sat on the joint Parliamentary Select Committee for the draft Modern Slavery Bill and supported the legislation through Parliament until the Royal Assent of theModern Slavery Act 2015.
Steve Perez (left) is chairman of Global Brands, a leading independent drinks business, and owner of Casa Hotel and Peak Edge Hotel, both in Chesterfield. In 2002, Global Brands was the UK's fourth-fastest growing company and Steve was voted CBI Entrepreneur of the Year. Since then, Steve has expanded into property, farming and hotels.
Alan Gifford has worked in welding and quality management for over 40 years at International Combustion Ltd (ICL) in Derby. Responsible for engineering thousands of welds for numerous power station boilers and nuclear installations throughout the world, Alan introduced innovative welding techniques and formal quality standards to ICL. Alan was also a founder trustee of the Heage Windmill Society, a charitable trust, set up in 1996, which restored the mill to full working order in 2002.
Jonathan Joseph, who was born in Derby and began playing rugby at Derby RFC when he was 10 years old, currently plays for Bath Rugby and represents England on the international stage. He toured with the British & Irish Lions in New Zealand last year and took his place in the England squad for this year's Six Nations.
Daniel Hanson is a clothing and textiles designer and professional design consultant. In 1989, he established his company 'Daniel Hanson' in Nottingham, which is now an international brand with a reputation for producing the best nightwear in the world. Daniel's garments can be found in high end retailers such as Harrods in London and Bergdorf Goodman in New York, and his client list includes high profile individuals across the globe.
Kathryn Stone OBE, who was born in Derby and raised in Belper, has enjoyed a 40-year career in public service. She recently became Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, an independent officer of the House of Commons overseeing the code of conduct and rules for MPs. During her career she spent 11 years as Chief Executive of the charity Voice UK, representing the rights of people with learning disabilities who were victims of abuse and crime. She was awarded an OBE in 2007 for her services to people with learning disabilities. She has also held the roles of Commissioner for the Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland, Commissioner for the Independent Police Complaints Commission and Chief Legal Ombudsman of England and Wales.
Professor Kathryn Mitchell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby, said: "I am looking forward to welcoming all of these special guests to our Award ceremonies in July, where they will have the pleasure of sharing the stage with our fantastic, hard-working students.
"The standard of Honorary Award recipients this year is excellent. Each one of these notable people has made an exceptional contribution in their field and to our region, and I am delighted to confer them with these honorary awards alongside our graduating students."


The specific set of configurations or occurrences that should be considered security issues.
The subset of issues that should be flagged as critical.
The subset of issues that should trigger events.
The set of other events that should be defined.
The subset of events that should trigger email alerts to appropriate personnel.
Even if you use the default security polices provided with Halo, you still need to make these decisions; some default policies may not flag any issues as critical and may not mark any events to trigger alerts.
When Halo generates an event, if the event is flagged to generate an alert, a notification email is sent to a pre-specified set of Halo users. Every server group can have different lists of users that receive alerts, and within each list different users can be selected to receive all events or critical events only.
These lists are called alert profiles; you can create any number of them in the Halo portal, and you assign one or more to the server group appropriate for the persons on the list(s).
Note: If no alert profile is assigned to a server group, alerts will by default go to all Halo site administrators on your account. You'll need to set up your own alert profiles if you want to control who receives alerts.
You might create different alert profiles for different server groups if, for example, you have different security specialists monitoring each group. Or, create a profile just for managers and auditors, if you want them to receive alerts much less frequently (say, once a week) than security specialists who must be prepared to respond immediately.
Enter a name and optional description for the profile, and specify a batching frequency for sending alerts—from "Instant" (to send each notification separately, as soon as the event is created) to "Every week" (to batch all events for the week into a single email alert).
Select one or more of your company's Halo users, or one or more external recipients, to receive the alerts. Also specify whether each user should receive all alerts or just a subset based on event criticality. Then click Save.
Assign the profile to a server group: On the Halo Dashboard page, click the name of the server group you want to assign the profile to, then click Edit Details below the name. On the Edit Group Details page, select the name of your new alert profile from the Alert Profiles drop-down list. Then click Save.
That's it. Your designated users will receive an email when a security event that fits your settings occurs. And you can repeat this procedure to create other alert profiles for other server groups.
The Halo special-events alerting system notifies you of unusual occurrences in your cloud installation that may have security implications. For example, if a server unexpectedly restarts, if its IP address changes, or if a firewall configuration is changed outside of Halo, it could be a signal that something malicious has happened and you may want Halo to log the event, and possibly alert you or others in real time. Also, all vulnerabilities detected by software vulnerability scans are recorded as special events.
You set up special events by implementing a special events policy and assigning it to a server group. You can then use the policy and an alert profile to customize alerting for any of the events.
Note: Halo automatically assigns the default Global Events Policy to every server group. However, that policy by default generates no events or alerts, so you'll need to either customize the global policy or create a new one for special events to be effective.
In the portal, go to Policies > Special Events Policies and click Add New Special Events Policy.
Enter a name and optional description for the policy. Then select, from the available set of security events, the specific events that you want this policy to monitor. If you want the policy to monitor a given event, check Log event. If you consider the event critical, check Flag critical. If you want an email notification to be sent when an event occurs, check Generate an alert.
A few of the events are marked as Linux-only and are not available for Windows servers.
Note: To help you decide which special events you want to monitor, it may be helpful to review the discussion Act on special event and audit events, later in this document.
Click Save to save the policy. Then assign it to your server group—navigate to the portal Dashboard page, click Edit Details for your server group, and select your policy from the Special Events Policy drop-down list. Then click Save.
Special-event logging is now set up for your server group. Repeat the process for other groups as needed.
When you create or edit a Halo security policy, you may be able to enable logging, issue/event criticality, and alert triggering for individual rules in the policy. Different Halo modules handle event logging somewhat differently. Click the headings below to see the differences.
You can also select the Critical checkbox if you want both the issue and the event to be considered especially high priority. Critical issues or events are marked with when displayed in a list. By default, critical issues/events are sorted to the top of the list.
If you have elected to log an issue, then also select Alert if you want an alert to be sent as a result of the event's occurrence. The alert is sent to all persons on the alert profile(s) assigned to the same server group that this rule's policy is assigned to; see Set Up Alert Profiles for details.
If you are creating or editing a file integrity policy, note that there is no Log checkbox for a target; changes to every target are reported as issues and also logged as events.
You can select the Flag Critical checkbox if you want the issue and event to be considered high priority and marked with in lists. You can also select Send Alert if you want an alert to be sent when the event occurs. See Set Up Alert Profiles for information on specifying alert recipients.
Halo workload firewalls can generate logged events. Linux and Windows firewalls handle logging differently: On Linux, you can turn logging on or off for each individual firewall rule; for Windows, only a few events are logged and you turn logging on or off for a firewall policy as a whole.
The firewall events that you log do not by default become Halo events; they are not stored in the Halo database and are not visible in the Halo portal. On Linux servers, they are stored in the iptables logs, and on Windows servers they are stored in the Windows Firewall logs. You can view the events with the appropriate system tools for each platform.
Note: You can import selected firewall log events into the Halo event logging and alerting system by explicitly scanning for them with the Halo Log-Based Intrusion Detection system. See next bullet.
Firewall events are not discussed further in this document. For detailed information on setting up Halo firewalls, see Managing Workload Firewalls With CloudPassage Halo.
You can use the Halo Log-Based Intrusion Detection system to leverage the existing system- and application-logging capabilities of your servers to capture events anywhere in your server fleet that may be indicative of an intrusion or attack. When you create a policy rule to detect a specific event in a specific log file, you can specify whether the occurrence of that event should logged by Halo, whether the event should be critical, and whether it should generate an alert.
See Using Log-Based Intrusion Detection with CloudPassage Halo for more information.


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