Today, almost all political systems are based on parties, that is, on organized groups with common ideas of exercising political power. The word "party" is common in western languages and of Latin origin. "partire" means to divide. Therefore, for centuries the reputation of the word was negative and connoted as "factionalism".
The Chinese equivalent "dang" (黨/党) shares this fate since the philosopher Confucius warned honest men to join a dang. The meaning of dang in this time was "clique". However, the morpheme underwent an improvement until the 19th century.
Today, "China" is defined as a nation consisting the territories of the People's Republic of China in mainland China and the Republic of China on Taiwan. But in Imperial China of the Qing Dynasty, Mongolia and parts of present-day Russia were components of that entity, too.
As a result of China's weakness during the late Qing era the first political party was founded in 1894 as Xingzhonghui or Revive China Society. Sun Yatsen, the leader of Xingzhonghui, did not trust in the reformability of the monarchy and decided on a revolutionary struggle against imperial rule, which was to culminate in the founding of a modern republic.
Sun competed with monarchists around Kang Youwei, who, like him, were persecuted by a reactionary group in the imperial court. Kang tried to bring the imprisoned reform emperor Guangxu back to power by founding the Baohuanghui, Protect the Emperor Society, in 1899. Each of those two antagonistic groups, the revolutionary republicans and the reformist monarchists, became nuclei of various types of political parties.
On the other hand the monarchist Baohuanghui gave birth to new constitutionalist, nationalistic, militaristic, democratic and social-democratic parties. Between 1894 and 1911 ten different parties emerged. Their number increased continuously, so in addition 21 parties were founded in the early Republic of China from 1912 to 1927. The heirs of the Xingzhonghui, the Tongmenghui or United Allegiance Society, founded the Republic of China and became the winner of China's first national elections in 1913 under the name Zhongguo Guomindang (Nationalist Party, GMD). The GMD-ideology based on the so-called Three Principles of the People, national independence, social justice and democracy.
At the instigation of the Comintern the Zhongguo Gongchandang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was created in 1921. That party had a soviet style ideology. After Sun Yatsen´s death, a conflict between his successor Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kaishek) and the CCP led to a divide between GMD and CCP, just before Jiang tried to unify China after a long civil war with powerful warlords. Other meaningful parties of the time before 1928 were dependent on the warlords, or represented nationalist, socialist or democratic positions.
When Jiang defeated the warlords in 1928 and successfully unified China under the GMD ideology, his party had only 97,000 members. The Communist Party grew steadily from 57 members in 1921 to 1.2 million in 1945, while the Chinese society originated 14 new parties. Some of them were in affiliation to the GMD or the CCP, others tried to find a third way, independent from the two mighty adversaries. Most of them were brought into being as the result of Japans invasion of China and wanted to resist the aggression. But the GMD politician Wang Jingwei split his own party in occupied China to create a Japan-friendly fascist organization for his puppet regime.
When Japan lost the war in 1945, the island of Taiwan was ceded to China after 50 years of colonial rule. But China continued to suffer from the war damage and it was difficult to rebuild state structures. However, it succeeded in enacting a modern constitution in 1946, holding national elections for parliamentary bodies in 1947 and reviving all constitutional organs, offices, as well as courts in 1948. In this time the GMD had already 4 million members.
China slipped into a new civil war between the GMD-led government and the CCP. Another event darkened the fate of the nation, when violence in the new province of Taiwan broke out between the native people and their military administration. Two parties were born as a result of these conflicts, and they joined in an alliance with the CCP. The Communist Party ultimately won the Civil War in 1949 and became the predominant force of a new state, the People's Republic of China.
After the Republic of China lost the mainland, only the GMD and two minor parties were permitted to act in state affairs in Taiwan.
The situation on Taiwan of restricting the number of parties continued until 1986, when the new oppositional Minzhu Jinbudang (Democratic Progressive Party, DPP) was founded. This Taiwan-nativist and separatist party succeeded in becoming the ruling party twice with the presidents Chen Shuibian between 2000 and 2008 and Cai Yingwen since 2016.
Starting in 1986, Taiwan's political system was able to represent the society by a spectrum of up to 337 parties in 2017. Meanwhile the DPP-Government registered party No. 338 in 2018, but forbade many other parties at the same time.
In the People's Republic of China, the CCP remained the leading power of the system, permitting only eight minor parties, which were allies of the CCP before 1949. Meanwhile the CCP became the largest political party in the world with more than 90 million members.
Political life in Hong Kong and Macau – once colonies of Great Britain and Portugal – is different. Both entities became Special Administration Zones of the People's Republic without restrictions in founding political parties, but with limited rights in the voting system.
In total, Chinese history since 1894 gives a record of more than 500 political parties. Their main priorities were or are nationalist, communist, socialist, democratic, fascist or liberal ideas. Some parties fight for independence from China, others for a unified country, for religious believes, for women's rights, young people, or minorities, as well as for environmental protection. Their diversity proves that party history in China is a fascinating issue.


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Google CEO Goes to Washington, Will Return to Meet Trump
Friday's meetings will be a prelude to his anticipated return to Washington in November for a public hearing before the House Judiciary Committee that's scheduled for after the midterm elections
By Michael Liedtke	• Published at 1:51 am on September 28, 2018
Google CEO Sundar Pichai went to Washington Friday to discuss concerns about the company's business practices with members of Congress and emerged with an invitation to meet with President Donald Trump during an upcoming roundtable.
Larry Kudlow, the head of the National Economic Council, extended the invitation while meeting with Pichai and the offer was accepted, according to the White House.
Other "internet stakeholders" will be invited to the same roundtable with Trump, the White House said, with other details, including the date, still to come.
Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Trump has recently accused Google of rigging the results of its influential search engine to suppress conservative viewpoints and highlight coverage from media that he says distribute "fake news." Google has denied any political bias.
The White House said Kudlow discussed the internet and the economy with Pichai on Friday, and described the talks as "positive and productive."
Pichai made the rounds in Washington just a few weeks after he and his boss, Google co-founder Larry Page, irked lawmakers by skipping a public hearing.
There was plenty to talk about, based on recent remarks by both lawmakers and Trump.
That includes recent reports that Google is poised to re-enter China with a search engine generating censored results to comply with the demands of that country's Communist government. Also potential new regulations that would define how much personal information that internet companies can collect about people using their services.
Both Trump and some U.S. lawmakers have been raising the possibility of asking government regulators to investigate whether Google has abused its power to thwart competition through its dominant search engine and other widely used services, which include Gmail, YouTube, the Chrome web browser and its Android software that runs most of the world's smartphones.
Pichai's meeting with about two dozen Republican lawmakers was held in the Capitol office of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who represents a district in Google's home state of California.
"We held a very productive meeting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai to discuss concerns regarding Google's business practices," said Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia. He said Pichai will be invited to attend a public hearing that the House Judiciary Committee plans to hold in November, after the midterm elections.
Before the meeting with Republican lawmakers, Pichai also indicated he planned to meet with Democrats.
"These meetings will continue Google's long history of engaging with Congress, including testifying seven times to Congress this year," he said.
Google and its corporate parent, Alphabet, also may have been trying to mend some political fences after Pichai and Page — now Alphabet's CEO — snubbed Congress a few weeks ago. Neither of them appeared at a high-profile hearing looking into what Twitter, Facebook and Google have been doing to prevent Russia and other foreign governments from using their services to sow discord among U.S. voters in an attempt to sway elections.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified at the hearing, as did Facebook's No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, but Google was only willing to send its general counsel. That didn't satisfy lawmakers, who left a vacant chair that they hoped either Pichai or Page would occupy. The no-show prompted Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to call Google "arrogant."

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This is to inform all great Ife students that the normal course registration as stated in the academic calendar will end Sunday,April 7,2019 while late course registration will commence on Monday April 8,2019.
The Management of the Obafemi Awolowo University has released the cut-off marks for all departments in the institution,OAU Peeps News Agency can report.
N.B : Facility of Law which has lost accreditation is not included.
By PUNCH Newspapers The land dispute between the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in Osun State and some indigenes of the ancient town has assumed a new dimension as some of the aggrieved persons, claiming ownership of some portions of the university land, invaded the university on Wednesday and reportedly poisoned the university dam.
Sources in the university told our correspondent on Friday that some indigenes, who claimed their land was taken for the university when it was established in 1962, had been selling some portions of the land.
The sources said the aggrieved indigenes were challenged by the university and stopped from further trespassing.
But the issue was said to have taken another dimension, when some of the aggrieved land owners allegedly invaded the university from the Parakin area and headed for the Opa Dam, which is the only source of water to the university community.
This is to inform the great Ife students that resumption dates for 2018/2019 Academic Session has been postponed.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has described the claim by the management of Obafemi Awolowo University over dam poisoning as unfounded.
The university management of the institution earlier alleged that the indigenes of Ife had poisoned the dam that supplies water to the institution over land dispute.
It was reported that some armed hoodlums who are claiming ownership of some portions of the university land poured poisonous chemicals in the dam which killed all the fishes and aquatic animals there.
However, the monarch has denied the claim saying it is illogical for his people to poison themselves because a large number of the members of OAU community are indigenes of Ile-Ife.
Speaking through his spokesperson, Moses Olafare, the Ooni of Ife said he was surprised that a university could make such a claim.


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Young people identify the growth in knife crime as their top concern.
.A survey of over 1 million young people organised by the British Youth Council suggests that the growth in knife crime is their "top concern".
Mental Health – and the need for improvements in services and with help to be made available in schools.
Votes at 16 - giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections and referendums.
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Q: Is $T(M)$ necessarily equivalent to the normal bundle of $M$ in $\textbf{R}^{2n}$, if $M$ is totally real? Consider real submanifolds, $M^n \subset \textbf{C}^n$. ($\textbf{C}^n \equiv (\textbf{R}^{2n}, J)$, where $J(x, y) = (-y, x)$). $M^n$ is totally real if $J(T_pM) \cap T_pM = 0$, for all $p \in M$.

Is $T(M)$ necessarily equivalent to the normal bundle of $M$ in $\textbf{R}^{2n}$, if $M$ is totally real?

A: Just to record here John Ma's comment (as an answer):
The normal bundle $NM$ of a submanifold $M$ in a manifold $X$ is the quotient $NM=i^*(TX)/TM$, where $i: M\to X$ is the inclusion map and $i^*$ is the pull-back map of bundles induced by $i$. Since $M\subset {\mathbb C}^n$ is totally real $J(T_mM)\cap T_mM=0$ for all $m\in M$, where $J$ is the almost complex structure. Therefore, the projection morphism
$$
F: T_mM\to i^*(T_m{\mathbb C}^n)/T_mM, F(v):= [Jv]
$$
is 1-1 for each $m\in M$. By the dimension count, $F$ is also surjective, hence, an isomorphism for each $m\in M$. Therefore, $F: TM\to NM$ is an isomorphism.   qed

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I am searching for my General Service Medal Northern Ireland which has gone missing. I served with the 1 Royal Anglian Regiment. Any assistance in helping me to recover my missing medal would be greatly appreciated. It was lost during a commemorative event and unfortunately has not be found. Also lost at this time were my grandfather's First World War Medals which consist of the Military Medal, 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. These medals are genuinely lost and have not been sold by my family who are truly distressed by the their loss. If you could please help me to recover these missing war medals, we would greatly appreciate it.
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I've been following the development of the Cypher system properties—namely Numenera and The Strange—since their inception. And, seeing this book come out makes me a bit giddy. One of the first things I said, even back during the time of the Numenera beta test, was how the system seems to run so smooth, I could see running just about any genre RPG with its sleek, simple rules. I guess I should say "rules elegant," as Jerrod 'Savage Daddy" Gunning coined some time ago. Crunchy is for cereal, not games, after all.
I decided with the Cypher System Core RPG, I'm going to dive right in at the deep end. Let me preface this by saying: I enjoyed the book and will most certainly be purchasing it down the road. I think it has some neat pieces that I really enjoy. Why haven't I already purchased it? I mean, pre-order is a thing, right? There are a few reason and limited resources (i.e., funds) is chief among them. Shrug. I'm still recovering from the last few years, dealing with moving, family illness and tragedy. Amazing how bills can stack up when living relatively frugally. Beyond that, I'm not big on pre-orders. While MCG has done a great job on delivering as promised if not always on time (the publishing industry is Hell, especially when it comes to shipping), I'm a big believer in exchanging hard earned cash for products and services, not the promise of services and goods down the road. And, finally, most of the people I game with regularly do not enjoy the Cypher System. They have some excellent points. Their points are not invalid. I can see past their objections and still thoroughly enjoy the system.
I don't like that you spend XP to do things in the game—not only level your character, but avoid GM Intrusion.
I don't like that there is no set skill list.
I don't like the piece of GM advice that says to hide target numbers from your players.
The bad—and the good—news is that all of these things remain. I actually like most of these things that others don't. I'm in good company, though, as there are LOTS of players and fans of the Monte Cook Games portfolio.
If you're a fan, if you've never had a chance to try out the Cypher System (maybe The Strange or Numenera didn't speak to you in the way of setting), or if you can see past the parts of the system others don't like, I definitely recommend picking this book up. Why?
In the introductory section, they make things clear. This is a game. Here is the framework for the rules. You should toy around and make it your own. They even go so far as to say not to worry about balance. Instead, worry about having fun. I know that made some designers and creators cringe, but there is a certain amount of truth to the statement.
The jump right in, giving you some new character types to play with including the adept and warrior, but also the techie and stealth-flavored heroes (or villains, as the case may be). Before they close out the section, the team provides guidance for modifying and even creating your own types. There we go! I love that. Here's my rule book for breaking the rules. I don't have to worry about whether I am "doing it right" anymore, because they just told me how.
They do the same with descriptors and foci. They even show how to use descriptors as race, for those who want to play their dwarven warrior who breathes fire. They mix things up a bit in layout, so guidance on customizing descriptors or making your own is actually in callouts throughout the chapter rather than being at the end like in the previous chapter—so, don't just try to skip to the end of each chapter, thinking that's where this info is.
With types, you get the idea for what type of genre game you're playing—superheroes, fantasy, modern, sci-fi. Descriptors kind of fit into any or most genres, unless you've made them specific for your game. With foci, there's a bit more focus on flavor, type, or genre of game. They have a section in the beginning of the chapter that kind of breaks these up—modern, fantasy, sci-fi, and then give some cool foci that you have a feeling they've either been using in their own home games or have been dying to put on paper and get out to the rest of us.
Many of the descriptors and foci are from previous games, but some look new. It's either that or my memory is starting to fade.
Let's be honest. The MCG team is creating a book without a set campaign. They're trying to give you the basis you need to play virtually any type of RPG—science fiction, supers, fantasy, modern horror, etc. They had two options. They could have made a HUGE equipment section of rather sparse. They stayed with rather sparse. This makes sense, equipment isn't defined by reach or weight or a million other pieces of minutia that some power gamers can get lost in. Equipment all is relatively simple. You might add different flavor to different pieces of equipment, but they all serve some purpose. However you describe it, it's basically the same thing, right? Well, yes. This, mind you, is coming from a guy who enjoys playing games where there is a definitive difference in how his characters use different types of swords and their effectiveness. In the Cypher System—you have a light sword, medium sword, and heavy sword. Beyond that, you're dealing with a cypher or something else that is somehow unique.
We talked about these before. If you want to know the rules to the Cypher System Core Rulebook, pick up any other Cypher game. It's the same. They've just stripped out some things here. One thing Monte Cook and his team will do is explain why rules work a certain way. They've done that here as well. They've also provided reasons and ways you might modify the existing rules. I'm not going to go over the rules here, because that's what the book and associated players' guides are for. Want to know how to play the game? Pick up the books or borrow from a friend. There's lots of games going on as well. Check out Google Plus, The Ninth World Hub, local conventions, etc.
Some of these have been around since the first Numenera book. Others have cropped up over time. They've been discussed at length in forums and on blogs. There is also a few that I don't remember seeing before. This is where you can get a better insight into how and why the rules work the way they do and consider how and why you might change them. There is also more discussions here on how you can customize characters to fit your setting and particular play style. So, if you really want to toy with the system and build your campaign from the ground up, you cannot afford to skip this section.
About half way through the book, we make it into the genres section. This is split up into fantasy, modern, science fiction, horror, and superheroes. Now, how much can we expect here, really? Entire tomes have been written on each of these genres and their sub-genres. For each of the genres, the creators start with a basic introduction into what the settings would typically include. But, come on, you should probably know this already. I've yet to meet someone play an RPG that isn't already familiar with tropes and trappings of the genre of game, but maybe—like my mama told me—I am special. After the brief intro to the genre, the crew puts together suggestions for standard characters and what type they would fall under. Then, there are suggestions for foci that would potentially work well within the setting. They also provide a list of suggested creatures and equipment you would probably expect to see for these types of games. These aren't D&D or Pathfinder pages long lists, like you get when you add in all the supplements, but they're enough to get anyone started.
After these lists, they provide suggested cyphers and artifacts for the genre setting. The fantasy sci-fi settings even includes some sample racial descriptors. Horror includes option rules for shock, horror, and madness as well as further guidance on using GM Intrusion without ruining the atmosphere you're trying to build.
I'm looking forward to the supers section. I enjoy supers. They refer to it during the beginning of the book as the genre that breaks all the rules. And, once I get into reading it, I see they meant it. There is advice on letting superheroes take a more diverse set of powers, more gear, and even a new rule—Power Shift. Again, I'm not going to give away the secret sauce, but let's say Power Shift is a way your heroes can turn the dial up even further in terms of their capabilities. Heck, I see it. I read it. I think about it. I think of how I could very easily apply to other games where I want even more larger than life heroes kicking around in my campaign setting.
Now, by my count, the book is just over 400 pages long. The genre section is about 50 pages long, so about 12.5% of the book for a "setting-less" game is dedicated to genres. Some people might complain about this, but I think it's fine. Again, do you know how much you could write about these genres? Why would you be interested in playing in a genre you have never watched or read? Eh, maybe that's just my malfunction.
Again, you kind of need to get the book for this, but the GM section is filled with critters and NPCs. I've seen a number of them before. A number of them are pretty creative, but they've never been the biggest draw for me. I like taking stats and making my own critters. I just borrow liberally from what's already available for the games I run. With the Cypher System, it's even easier. But, if you're stuck and looking for inspiration, this is a great place to turn. The same goes for NPCs.
Next up is Cyphers. This is where the game gets its name from. It's a great section. Imagine a bunch of single-use "magic" items at your characters' disposal. They're supposed to cycle through them quickly rather than hanging on to them. I have my own problem with Cyphers. In Numenera, it's this strange technology or magic. Plausibly, you've run across similar items in characters. Just as realistically, your characters haven't come across these things. But, here you are, supposed to know what they do and how to use them. It makes more sense to me in a traditional fantasy, sci-fi, or even modern game where things are more commonly defined with points of reference. The idea of Cypher limitations is still there and it makes sense for game balance, but you'll need to make your decision on how to limit them in your campaign world. This is one I struggle with sometimes, but is usually easy enough to hand-wave with players. It could be any myriad of things, like strange energies or frequencies interfering with one another, for example.
Finally, there's the section on running the game. Some might call it GM advice. I know there are people who have problems with advice given here—like hiding the target numbers from players, but I enjoy and even agree with a number of things mentioned.
A few notes in closing. I'm working on a pre-release PDF draft. I don't know how much compressing was done or how many file saves were made, but I am guessing (and hoping) that is why the images all seem a bit dull, muted, and even a bit blurry. I was sent some high res images and those are beautiful. If the quality of art remains in the final product, I can assure you it is gorgeous. I even shared some of the high-res images provided here (with permission, of course). The campaign worksheet is helpful and I'm looking forward to the fan derivatives of the same. The character sheet. Ah, the character sheet. It'll be easy to modify and create fillable versions of. However, it is nowhere near as creative and gorgeous as the Numenera character sheet. Hell, if that's my biggest beef, all the more reason to pick up the book, right? Let's be honest, I normally have a lot more to complain about. I really didn't with this book, so I noted the complaints I know others have had. If you're looking forward to this book, I have a feeling you will not be disappointed.


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This procedure selects all columns from user_roles, user.user_name
and role.role_name, for a given unit number, where the role_type is
'P' (proposal) and the role is active (status = 'A').
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   ( AW_UNIT_NUMBER IN osp$user_roles.unit_number%TYPE,
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begin

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         UR.UPDATE_USER,
         U.USER_NAME,
         R.ROLE_NAME
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         OSP$USER U,
         OSP$ROLE R
   WHERE UR.UNIT_NUMBER = AW_UNIT_NUMBER
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	  AND R.STATUS_FLAG = 'A' ;
end;

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newswire article 18.May.2002 13:14
New Book The War on Freedom
author: Nafeez M Ahmed e-mail: tduncan@pacifier.com
Book review of events of 9-11 and before-- New, and appears compelling-- Summary of who knew what and when did they know it
.....where truth prevails
Posted: May 18, 2002 Toll-free: 1 866 MediaNet
E-mail: Editor@MediaMonitors.net
Osamagate Breaks Open
by John-Paul Leonard
The latest controversy in Washington over "what the President knew and when, before September 11" coincides with the launch of a detailed, 400-page book documenting that the White House and the CIA must have known much more than George Bush has admitted.
In fact, they may have known all about it - and even pitched in!
With its double-edged title, "The War on Freedom" traces the 9/11 plot back years before the Bush administration. A thinly veiled recipe for the outrage appeared in a 1997 study by Carter foreign policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. "Zbig" proclaimed in his book, The Grand Chessboard, that for America to be a global superpower, we must occupy Central Asia. However, it might be impossible to generate the needed political support, "except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." Done that already!
From there, the plot thickens to the consistency of cement. By July 2001, FBI agents had learned all the key details of the WTC bombing plot - who, when, where and how - but were muzzled by their superiors. This is on the testimony of their attorney, who is none other than David Schippers, the Congressional prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment trial! No further comment needed there... For six weeks, Schippers tried to warn anyone on Capitol Hill who would listen, John Ashcroft in particular.
Even the idea of using planes as bombs was first hatched by the CIA itself, in a $150,000 study from 1993. Sure enough, the first couple incidents occurred the next year - including one crash right on the White House presidential bedroom. Then quiet again. So our top brass, apparently sound sleepers all, could insist they had never heard of such a thing before 9/11.
Then there are the maddeningly intriguing business connections between the bin Laden and Bush families, via investments in defense conglomerate Carlyle Group, which has rocketed to riches during the last decade. The wealthy bin Ladens even helped young Bush Jr. get his first start up in business, while Osama began his terrorist career with the CIA against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Alleged most wanted man Osama met cordially again with a CIA case officer during a stay at the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001. He lives a charmed life, escaping bunker-buster bombs to disappear somewhere in the ether, and is no longer even a pretended target of U.S. operations. Maybe on a witness protection program for retired spooks somewhere? Good old America, loyal and generous to a fault.
There is the clear evidence that Al-Qaeda was completely infiltrated by Western intelligence, and the CIA itself supplied the encryption for bin Laden's communications - which court records show they regularly monitored.
Amazing arrangements were made to allow the hijackers to attend flight schools, and even terrorist training at CIA facilities in the U.S., in spite of visa violations and terrorist files at the FBI. Now the INS is the scapegoat, but in fact, executive orders under the Clinton and Bush administrations overrode protests by U.S. Embassy staff in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Perhaps to save such embarrassment, our government then decided to allow Saudi travel agencies to issue visas!
There is the ultimatum by American negotiators to the Taliban in July 2001: clear the route for the UNOCAL pipeline (dear to an oilman's heart) and take a carpet of gold, or else a carpet of bombs. America already had long-standing preparations to attack Afghanistan in October 2001 - perfect clockwork.
In the last weeks and days before 9/11, highly specific warnings of an imminent attack poured into Washington from dozens of foreign spy agencies - after all, they were monitoring the same people and phones as the CIA. Then there were the stock market speculators who knew airlines and other WTC-related companies would take a hit. Strange, the trail didn't lead inside bin Laden's cave, but to a brokerage firm, until recently headed by executive CIA director Buzzy Krongard...
So then the story was squelched. Right after 9/11, the President moved swiftly to neutralize the Freedom of Information Act, too, with an executive order giving himself the privilege to seal presidential records for eternity. He also repeatedly asked Majority leader Daschle to please stop any investigation into intelligence failure, because it would detract from the war on terror!? The anthrax spores in his office must have helped Daschle concentrate, too. They came from a U.S. military lab. And like the WTC case, still no suspects charged, in spite of thousands questioned and arrested. Doesn't look too much like an inside job, does it.
On the day of the attack itself, Bush dawdled in elementary school, later he and Cheney made up the excuse that a presidential order to shoot down passenger jets would have been necessary before scrambling fighters. In fact, interception of hijacked or non-responding planes is FAA / USAF / NORAD standard operating procedure - within ten minutes. The Boeing bombshells strayed up to an hour and half unmolested before hitting their targets.
There is so much incriminating evidence in the book it can be hard to decide what to include in a short review. Much of it has been published before, in snippets from all over, but this is the first book out that brings it all together, with sources and in-depth analysis. The author, Nafeez M. Ahmed, is now donating his chapter four, on government foreknowledge, to the public. It will be posted on the Web at http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq36.html or http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq35.html.
Everyone may have a chance to see for themselves now whether there is a smoking gun in this tangled web. Whatever our affiliation, I think most of us at least will heartily agree with the book's call for a full investigation.
Mr. John-Paul Leonard is a free-lance writer and a regular contributor to Media Monitors Network (MMN)
by courtesy & © 2002 John-Paul Leonard
by the same author:
Sue the British Bandits
The Twice Promised Land
Response to Dr. Mathis
Afterlife Now
How the Grinch Stole Christmas-land
Hard Sell for the Homeless
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No Place Like Homeland
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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
- George Santayana (1863-1952)


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João Mineiro e Marciano foi uma dupla sertaneja brasileira formada pelos cantores João Mineiro e Marciano. Fizeram sucesso nos anos 80, tendo um programa na TV, mas separaram em 1993.

História da dupla
A dupla sertaneja João Mineiro & Marciano teve início em 1970, após João Mineiro desfazer uma parceria que já durava 8 anos com a dupla João Mineiro & Zé Goiás, tendo a sorte de encontrar Marciano, que planejava formar uma dupla sertaneja voltada para a música romântica.

O primeiro álbum da então dupla recém-formada foi lançado em 1973 pela gravadora Chororó Discos, e obteve sucesso com as músicas "Filha de Jesus" e "Chuvisco da Madrugada", em parceria com o poeta Goiá. A prensagem do disco foi paga por João Mineiro.

A dupla gravou vários discos pela gravadora Chororó durante os anos 70, mas foi em 1981 que João Mineiro & Marciano começaram a se tornar conhecidos, devido ao sucesso da música "Esta Noite Como Lembrança", de seu oitavo álbum. Entre 83 e 84, vieram os sucessos "Viciado Em Você" e "As Paredes Azuis", mas em 86, a consolidação do sucesso da dupla aconteceu por conta da música "Seu Amor Ainda é Tudo", composição de Moacyr Franco. No mesmo ano, devido ao sucesso, e também ao fato de a música sertaneja ser muito tocada no Brasil, começaram a apresentar aos domingos o programa de TV João Mineiro e Marciano Especial no SBT, nas manhãs de domingo, no qual cantavam e recebiam convidados.

Apesar da carreira bem sucedida até aquele momento, e fazendo turnê nos Estados Unidos em 1990, gravando um disco em espanhol em 1991 e lançando o disco Dois Apaixonados em 1992, a dupla se desfez  em 1993, por razões ainda não muito esclarecidas, fazendo desse disco o último da carreira dos dois, mas existem rumores de que existia uma briga judicial entre eles. existe também a história que Marciano queria seguir carreira solo.

Após a separação em 1993, João Mineiro formou outras duplas, como João Mineiro & Marino e João Mineiro & Marcian (sem o "O" no final). Ambas as formações gravaram um disco apenas. A dupla que se consolidou foi João Mineiro & Mariano. Essa parceria manteve-se até o dia 24 de março de 2012, quando faleceu João Mineiro. Mariano seguiu carreira solo e posteriormente com seu filho, que passou a utilizar o nome João Moreno.

Em 2008, João Mineiro & Mariano realizaram turnê pelo Brasil e estariam preparando um DVD com a participação de grandes nomes, como Milionário & José Rico, Teodoro & Sampaio, Cezar & Paulinho, e outros. O DVD, intitulado Coração Não Cansa, conteria quatro músicas inéditas.

Morte de João Mineiro
No dia 24 de março de 2012, uma noite de sábado, João Sant'Angelo, o João Mineiro, faleceu em sua casa em Jundiai aos 74 anos. depois de passar mal e vindo a ter uma parada cardíaca, depois de complicações devido a uma cirurgia de vesícula. Ele sofria de diabetes e estava internado em Jundiaí, onde foi velado até às 16:30 horas e depois levado para sua cidade natal Andradas, no sul de Minas Gerais.

Marciano, na ocasião se apresentava na cidade de Ipuã, como parte da comemoração do aniversário da cidade, quando soube da notícia do falecimento do ex parceiro, interrompendo o show para poder levar as condolências à família de João Mineiro.

Morte de Marciano
Em 18 de janeiro de 2019, Marciano faleceu devido a um infarto agudo do miocárdio (infarto fulminante) em sua casa em São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo. O músico tinha 67 anos.

Integrantes

 João Mineiro (1937-2012) ✝
 Marciano (1951-2019) ✝

Discografia

1973 - Filha de Jesus - Chororó
1974 - A Procura da Paz - Chororó
1975 - Chorarei ao Amanhecer - Chororó
1976 - Os Inimitáveis - Volume 4 - Chororó
1978 - Os Inimitáveis - Volume 5 - Chororó
1979 - Filho de Jesus - Chororó
1980 - Os Inimitáveis - Volume 7 - Chororó
1980 - Esta Noite Como Lembrança - K-tel
1983  - Viciado em Você - Copacabana
1984 - Amor e Amizade (Dia Sim, Dia Não) - Copacabana
1986 - João Mineiro & Marciano - Volume 11 - Copacabana
1988 - João Mineiro & Marciano - Volume 12 - Copacabana
1989 - João Mineiro & Marciano - Volume 13 - Copacabana
1990 - Saudade - Copacabana
1990 - Tarde Demais Para Esquecer - Polygram
1991 - Pra Não Pensar Em Você - Polygram
1992 - Dois Apaixonados - Polygram

Ligações externas

Duplas sertanejas
João Mineiro & Marciano
Artistas da Copacabana (gravadora)
Artistas da PolyGram


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Q: How to loop inside loop for mapping to CSV from XML <?xml version="1.0"?>
<tXML>
  <Header>
    <Source>1</Source>
    <Action_Type>Update</Action_Type>
    <Sequence_Number>0</Sequence_Number>
    <Batch_ID>4</Batch_ID>
    <Reference_ID>043</Reference_ID>
    <User_ID>S</User_ID>
    <Password>password</Password>
    <Message_Type></Message_Type>
    <Company_ID>J1</Company_ID>
    <Msg_Locale>English (United States)</Msg_Locale>
    <Msg_Time_Zone>Eastern Standard Time</Msg_Time_Zone>
    <Version></Version>
    <Internal_Reference_ID></Internal_Reference_ID>
    <Internal_Date_Time_Stamp></Internal_Date_Time_Stamp>
    <External_Reference_ID></External_Reference_ID>
    <External_Date_Time_Stamp></External_Date_Time_Stamp>
  </Header>
  <Message>
    <DistributionOrder>
      <LineItem>
        <DoLineNbr>1</DoLineNbr>
        <ItemName>135465</ItemName>
        <Description>A</Description>
        <UpdateActionType></UpdateActionType>
        <PackageType></PackageType>
        <DoLineStatus>Released</DoLineStatus>
        <InventoryAttributes>
          <InventoryType>F</InventoryType>
          <ProductStatus></ProductStatus>
          <BatchNbr></BatchNbr>
          <CountryOfOrigin></CountryOfOrigin>
          <ItemAttribute1>R</ItemAttribute1>
          <ItemAttribute2></ItemAttribute2>
          <ItemAttribute3></ItemAttribute3>
          <ItemAttribute4></ItemAttribute4>
          <ItemAttribute5></ItemAttribute5>
        </InventoryAttributes>
        <Comment>
          <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
          <NoteCode>20</NoteCode>
          <CommentText>[JPY_ _Mens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
          <Visibility>0</Visibility>
        </Comment>
        <Comment>
          <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
          <NoteCode>13</NoteCode>
          <CommentText>[ _00016000.00000_.00000_.00000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
          <Visibility>0</Visibility>
        </Comment>
        <Comment>
          <NoteType>SC</NoteType>
          <NoteCode>02</NoteCode>
          <CommentText>[ _ _ _ _R]</CommentText>
          <Visibility>0</Visibility>
        </Comment>
      </LineItem>
      <LineItem>
        <DoLineNbr>2</DoLineNbr>
        <ItemName>4550155140404</ItemName>
        <Description>AS LAMBSWOOL VNECK</Description>
        <UpdateActionType></UpdateActionType>
        <PackageType></PackageType>
        <DoLineStatus>Released</DoLineStatus>
        <InventoryAttributes>
          <InventoryType>F</InventoryType>
          <ProductStatus></ProductStatus>
          <BatchNbr></BatchNbr>
          <CountryOfOrigin></CountryOfOrigin>
          <ItemAttribute1>R</ItemAttribute1>
          <ItemAttribute2></ItemAttribute2>
          <ItemAttribute3></ItemAttribute3>
          <ItemAttribute4></ItemAttribute4>
          <ItemAttribute5></ItemAttribute5>
        </InventoryAttributes>
        <Comment>
          <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
          <NoteCode>20</NoteCode>
          <CommentText>[JPY_ _Mens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
          <Visibility>0</Visibility>
        </Comment>
        <Comment>
          <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
          <NoteCode>13</NoteCode>
          <CommentText>[ _00016000.00000_.00000_.00000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
          <Visibility>0</Visibility>
        </Comment>
        <Comment>
          <NoteType>SC</NoteType>
          <NoteCode>02</NoteCode>
          <CommentText>[ _ _ _ _R]</CommentText>
          <Visibility>0</Visibility>
        </Comment>
        </LineItem>
    </DistributionOrder>
  </Message>
</tXML>

My code looks like this
%dw 2.0
output application/csv header = false , separator = "|" , quoteValues = false
---
payload.tXML.Message.*DistributionOrder map ((DistributionOrder , indexofDistributionOrder) ->  {
    column_1: "000000001",
    column_2: "0",
    column_3: "0",
    column_4: (LineItem.LineProcessInfo.LineRefTextField2 splitBy "_")[0] replace "[" with "" default "",
    column_5: (LineItem.LineProcessInfo.LineRefTextField2 splitBy "_")[1] replace "[" with "" default "",
    column_6: ????
    column_7: "",
    column_8: "",
    column_9: "",
    column_10: "",
})

So In the above code I'm looping for each line item to to get the fields, But inside each line item I have to loop for each comment and for every comment I need put it in a different line. For example, output should looks like this, as you see in the example if the line item 2 has 3 comment sections I have 3 lines for 3 comments.
00000002|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF4|CommentText1|||6500055464123|252||J1||||MW09449|
00000002|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF4|CommentText2|||6500055464123|252||J1||||MW09449|
00000002|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF4|CommentText3|||6500055464123|252||J1||||MW09449|
000000003|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF6|CommentText1|||6500055654123|4542||J1||||MW09449|
000000003|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF6|CommentText2|||6500055654123|4542||J1||||MW09449|
000000003|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF6|CommentText3|||6500055654123|4542||J1||||MW09449|
000000004|0001333006|20191220|34621|SAPTOMIF6||||65000545664123|35463||J1||||MW09449|

A: You can try to execute map within a map. However, you need to flatten the resulting object if you want it to be written as csv as it will result to an array within an array.
See sample code below:
%dw 2.0
output application/csv header = false , separator = "|" , quoteValues = false

var payload = read("<tXML>
      <Header>
        <Source>1</Source>
        <Action_Type>Update</Action_Type>
        <Sequence_Number>0</Sequence_Number>
        <Batch_ID>4</Batch_ID>
        <Reference_ID>043</Reference_ID>
        <User_ID>S</User_ID>
        <Password>password</Password>
        <Message_Type></Message_Type>
        <Company_ID>J1</Company_ID>
        <Msg_Locale>English (United States)</Msg_Locale>
        <Msg_Time_Zone>Eastern Standard Time</Msg_Time_Zone>
        <Version></Version>
        <Internal_Reference_ID></Internal_Reference_ID>
        <Internal_Date_Time_Stamp></Internal_Date_Time_Stamp>
        <External_Reference_ID></External_Reference_ID>
        <External_Date_Time_Stamp></External_Date_Time_Stamp>
      </Header>
      <Message>
        <DistributionOrder>
          <LineItem>
            <DoLineNbr>1</DoLineNbr>
            <ItemName>135465</ItemName>
            <Description>A</Description>
            <UpdateActionType></UpdateActionType>
            <PackageType></PackageType>
            <DoLineStatus>Released</DoLineStatus>
            <InventoryAttributes>
              <InventoryType>F</InventoryType>
              <ProductStatus></ProductStatus>
              <BatchNbr></BatchNbr>
              <CountryOfOrigin></CountryOfOrigin>
              <ItemAttribute1>R</ItemAttribute1>
              <ItemAttribute2></ItemAttribute2>
              <ItemAttribute3></ItemAttribute3>
              <ItemAttribute4></ItemAttribute4>
              <ItemAttribute5></ItemAttribute5>
            </InventoryAttributes>
            <Comment>
              <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
              <NoteCode>20</NoteCode>
              <CommentText>[JPY_ _Mens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
              <Visibility>0</Visibility>
            </Comment>
            <Comment>
              <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
              <NoteCode>13</NoteCode>
              <CommentText>[ _00016000.00000_.00000_.00000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
              <Visibility>0</Visibility>
            </Comment>
            <Comment>
              <NoteType>SC</NoteType>
              <NoteCode>02</NoteCode>
              <CommentText>[ _ _ _ _R]</CommentText>
              <Visibility>0</Visibility>
            </Comment>
          </LineItem>
          <LineItem>
            <DoLineNbr>2</DoLineNbr>
            <ItemName>4550155140404</ItemName>
            <Description>AS LAMBSWOOL VNECK</Description>
            <UpdateActionType></UpdateActionType>
            <PackageType></PackageType>
            <DoLineStatus>Released</DoLineStatus>
            <InventoryAttributes>
              <InventoryType>F</InventoryType>
              <ProductStatus></ProductStatus>
              <BatchNbr></BatchNbr>
              <CountryOfOrigin></CountryOfOrigin>
              <ItemAttribute1>R</ItemAttribute1>
              <ItemAttribute2></ItemAttribute2>
              <ItemAttribute3></ItemAttribute3>
              <ItemAttribute4></ItemAttribute4>
              <ItemAttribute5></ItemAttribute5>
            </InventoryAttributes>
            <Comment>
              <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
              <NoteCode>20</NoteCode>
              <CommentText>[JPY_ _Mens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
              <Visibility>0</Visibility>
            </Comment>
            <Comment>
              <NoteType>MB</NoteType>
              <NoteCode>13</NoteCode>
              <CommentText>[ _00016000.00000_.00000_.00000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]</CommentText>
              <Visibility>0</Visibility>
            </Comment>
            <Comment>
              <NoteType>SC</NoteType>
              <NoteCode>02</NoteCode>
              <CommentText>[ _ _ _ _R]</CommentText>
              <Visibility>0</Visibility>
            </Comment>
            </LineItem>
        </DistributionOrder>
      </Message>
    </tXML>", "application/xml")
---

flatten(payload.tXML.Message.DistributionOrder.*LineItem map (LineItem) ->
    LineItem.*Comment map (Comment) ->
    {
        column_1: "000000001",
        column_2: "0",
        column_3: "0",
        column_4: (LineItem.LineProcessInfo.LineRefTextField2 splitBy "_")[0] replace "[" with "" default "",
        column_5: (LineItem.LineProcessInfo.LineRefTextField2 splitBy "_")[1] replace "[" with "" default "",
        column_6: Comment.CommentText,
        column_7: "",
        column_8: "",
        column_9: "",
        column_10: ""
    })

This will result to
000000001|0|0|||[JPY_ _Mens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]||||
000000001|0|0|||[ _00016000.00000_.00000_.00000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]||||
000000001|0|0|||[ _ _ _ _R]||||
000000001|0|0|||[JPY_ _Mens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]||||
000000001|0|0|||[ _00016000.00000_.00000_.00000_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ]||||
000000001|0|0|||[ _ _ _ _R]||||


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Open World Translation: Localizing Japanese Video Games for a Globalizing World
Emily Suvannasankha, University of Central FloridaFollow
This paper investigates the most effective ways of handling cultural differences in the Japanese-to-English game localization process. The thesis advocates for applying the Skopos theory of translation to game localization; analyzes how topics such as social issues, humor, fan translation, transcreation, and censorship have been handled in the past; and explores how international players react to developers' localization choices. It also includes interviews with three Japanese-to-English translators who have worked with major Japanese game companies to gain insight into how the industry operates today. Through the deconstruction of different aspects of Japanese-to-English localization, this analysis aims to help the game industry better fine-tune Japanese media to Western audiences while still sharing valuable aspects of Japanese culture. The thesis concludes that if Japanese game companies work to improve the localization process by considering more diverse international perspectives, hiring native speakers as translators, and approaching the English script as a creative endeavor in itself, they will be able to both broaden the minds of their global audiences and more effectively capitalize on the worldwide fervor for Japanese video games.
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Suvannasankha, Emily, "Open World Translation: Localizing Japanese Video Games for a Globalizing World" (2019). Honors Undergraduate Theses. 464.
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Chris Rock at the 'Top' of his game with new movie
By Sun-Times Dec 9, 2014, 5:30pm CST
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BY JAKE COYLE
NEW YORK — With his latest and best film in tow, Chris Rock is back in the spotlight right when we most need him.
There's no more salient voice on race in America, not to mention most other things in America, too: marriage, sports, Kanye West. As Rock has prepared to release his film "Top Five" on Dec. 12, his commentary on the grand jury verdicts in Ferguson and New York has been trenchant, and criticism of the movie business — "a white industry," he called it in an essay for the Hollywood Reporter — has been like water in the desert of a [publicly] tight-lipped Hollywood. Rock is on a truth-telling spree.
And for the first time, Rock has found a way to funnel his strong voice into a fiction film of his own. "Top Five," a comedy that sparked a bidding war at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a big-screen breakthrough for the stand-up. Excepting his excellent documentary "Good Hair," Rock's previous films ("Head of State," "I Think I Love My Wife") were disappointments.
But he's clearly thrilled about "Top Five," a romp through celebrity and New York. Rock plays a version of himself, Andre Allen, a comic attempting to turn serious filmmaker. This week he's crossing the country promoting the film in five cities each day, in a stunt that brings him to Original Gino's East, 162 E. Superior in Chicago, to serve pizza to fans sometime between 3 and 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday's docket: Dallas, St. Louis, Detroit and Toronto.
In person, Rock appears far younger than the 50 he'll turn in February: "It's a rich 50," he says. "Rich 50 is about 35. Money's the best lotion in the world." Over tea recently, he was as animated and forthcoming as usual:
Q. Do you feel as though you've finally cracked this nut, fitting yourself into your own movie?
A. I've got to do it again, but it feels like when I did my big "Bring the Pain" special for HBO. You've got to learn from your failures. You've got to really, really take them in. You can't shrug them off. You can't blame them on anyone else. You can't go, "Oh, that day it snowed!"
Q. Did doing the Broadway play "M——- With the Hat," which you've said was the most fun you ever had in show business, help lead to "Top Five"?
A. It just made me write characters. I look at the other movies I made, it wasn't even like I was making movies. I was making posters. Like: Black guy runs for president — poster! Some of them worked, some of them didn't, but Andre Allen is a real guy, not like a guy just to service this movie. Even something like "I Think I Love My Wife," he was the husband representative.
Q. It must have changed you as a performer, too, being accustomed to looking out at the audience.
A. Before we went out every night, Bobby [Cannavale] would lead and go, "Four walls. It's just us. Four walls. They're not there. Four walls." I realized in my acting, in all the movies, I was always playing the crowd. Even in a freaking movie, I'm kind of playing the crowd. Just the phrase "four walls." I say it all the time. I said it while I was making "Top Five." I'm really acting with somebody as opposed to Bob Hope-ing it.
Q. You seem to be a student of stand-ups who have succeeded in other mediums, "Seinfeld," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Woody Allen films and Adam Sandler movies.
A. I definitely watched all of those things before making this movie. I thought it was interesting that no one had made a movie like "Curb." I love "Stardust Memories." Love it, love it, love it. In a weird way, this movie is a combination of "Stardust Memories" and one of those [Richard] Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke walking around movies.
Q. You've said "Top Five" is partially about "black fame."
A. The black performer has a responsibility to the community that frankly white performers don't have. They just get to be actors and writers and whatever. They get to pretty much do whatever they want. Hey, I love "Dumb Dumber." I love both of them. You can't be black and do the same thing. "I can't believe you're talking out of your ass! You're setting us back!" Even the concept of role model. You never hear white people are good role models. Never. The term role model is racist because it implies that my good behavior is not natural, that I am behaving just to help out my people. I don't hit my wife because that's not something I do, not because I'm trying to help the race.
Q. Do you think those different standards have also applied to President Obama?
A. Michael Jordan was drafted third. The Houston Rockets drafted Hakeen Olajuwon. He's a hall of famer! They're fine. They're happy. Yes, so Obama's not Jordan. Obama's Olajuwon. Won the championship! We wanted Muhammad Ali, we got Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard's f—— good!


This plant is found in cornfields, cultivated fields, and waste places. The habit is erect. The stem is short, branched, with short hairs, dense, and turned back. The leaves are narrowed below, stalked, egg-shaped, oblong, lance-shaped, toothed, the upper similar and large. The flowers are lilac, in axillary, distant whorls, none at the top, the calyx bell-shaped, with triangular, short teeth, as broad as long. The throat of the calyx is naked. The corolla is lined with hairs and hairy outside. The bracteoles are acute, and not as long as the flowers. The nutlets are dry and smooth. The plant is 1-2 ft. in height, and flowers late, like the rest of the group, from August to October, and is a herbaceous perennial.
The habitat of this plant is cornfields, fields, and waste places. The habit is prostrate, or may be ascending. The stem is weak, hairy at intervals, branched from the base, rooting below. The radical leaves are shortly stalked, the upper leaves stalkless, egg-shaped, heart-shaped, blunt, scalloped. The flowers are purple, in whorls of 4-6. The bracts are stalkless, acute. The flower -stalks are short. The small corolla is slightly longer than or equal to the calyx. The nutlets are covered with dots and warted. The plant is 6-18 in. in height, and flowers from April to November, being a herbaceous annual.
This plant is found in cornfields, cultivated ground, and waste places. The habit is erect. The stem is softly downy, with hairs bent down, not thickened at the joints. Briquet says that the thickened nodes are differentiated to cause movements, such as geotropism and heliotropism, these swollen nodes being marked in Galeopsis Tetrahit (Vol. III). The leaves are egg-shaped, lance-shaped, toothed. The flowers are purple, the lower lip mottled, with the tube of the corolla equal to the calyx, in separate whorls. The nutlets are flattened, rounded. The plant is 10-12 in. in height, and flowers from July to October, being a herbaceous annual.
This plant grows in sandy and gravelly districts. It is distinguished from G. Ladanum by the narrower leaves united below, toothed at intervals, or nearly entire, the upper whorls close, the tube exceeding the corolla and the slightly notched upper lip of the corolla. It flowers in August and September, and is an annual.
The habitat of this plant is sandy cornfields and cultivated ground. The habit is similar to that of G. Ladantun. The stem is not thickened at the nodes, downy, glandular, with hairs turned back. The leaves are broad, egg-shaped, lance-shaped, toothed, downy both sides, soft. The flowers are pale-yellow, white or purple, the upper corolla lip deeply notched, the calyx glandular, downy, the teeth not longer than the tube. The whorls are dense. The bracteoles are small. The plant is from 10-12 in. in height. July and August are the months in which it is in flower. It is a herbaceous annual.
The habitat of this plant is cultivated ground. The habit is as in the Common Hemp Nettle. The stem is thickened at the nodes, with stiff hairs. The leaves are oblong, egg-shaped, with a long point, toothed. The flowers are large, yellow, and with a purple spot on the lower lip, the corolla large and broad, the tube longer than the bell-shaped calyx, the upper lip arched, as broad as long. The teeth of the calyx are not so long as the tube. The nutlets are convex above and dark-brown, the inner angle rounded downwards. The plant is 1-2 ft. in height, and is in flower in July and August, being a herbaceous annual.


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The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram
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Linnéa Gelot
Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening divide between the theory and practice of peacekeeping. With the AU's African Standby Force becoming fully operational in 2016, this timely and much-needed work argues that responding to these challenges will require a new and distinctively African model of peacekeeping, as well as a radical revision of the current African security framework. The first book to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of African peace operations, The Future of African Peace Operations gives a long overdue assessment of the ways which peacekeeping on the continent has evolved over the past decade. It will be a vital resource for policy makers, researchers and all those seeking solutions and insights into the immense security challenges which Africa is facing today.
Published year: 2016
Full version: http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/future-of-african-peace-operations
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: Engelsk


1 - LeBron's not that great of an on-the-ball defender to contain Rondo from the get go. There's a huge differemce between locking down a defender one-on-one in latter moments of a game versus going at him the entire 48. Does LeBron have the ability to go at Rondo every single possession? Is he willing to pick him out right at the change of possession and shadow him the full court for the entire game? I've seen LeBron pick his spots and chose to shut down his man in spurts, but it's a different mentality and pacing to continue that the whole game. LeBron's a freak on nature on offense, but does he have the necessary defensive mindset?
2 - Cleveland uses LeBron as a roving shot blocker, this changes their entire defensive scheme. A funny thing happened along the way of all those highlight-chasing blocks. NOBODY wants to be on ESPN being on the receiving end. The Cavs put LeBron on the weakest defender and utilize him as a roving shot-blocker and it works. Did you see how every Celtics' drive has their players' head on a swivel expecting a block? I literally can't stand the play because it's so fundamentally wrong, but it works. It gets the crow pumped and the opposition freaked out. That's not happening if LeBron is on Rondo.
3 - Hey there's that guy Paul Pierce. LeBron and Pierce have been matched up most of the first four games and Pierce is obviously paying for it. Equal parts LeBron's defense, defending LeBron and wear and tear Paul Pierce is nowhere near the player that was the 2008 Finals MVP. He looks tired, old and lost. BUT...he's still got a great game left and the Celtics still call his number down the stretch. Anthony Parker isn't strong enough for Pierce, and Mo Williams is too small. I can see Pierce getting back into the flow of the game with LeBron on Rondo. The last thing the Cavs need is a hot/confident Pierce with a Game 5 on the line.
4 - Game 3. The Cavs rolled the Celtics because LeBron came out aggressive on the offensive end and the entire roster fed off his energy. Actually is was more than a roll, it was the worst home playoff defeat in that storied franchise's history. This ain't about Rondo's dominance. The Cavs have won before with Rondo putting up some fierce numbers. No, this is about how much the Cavs feed off LeBron's offense. Quite simply, use the exact gameplan from Game 3 and the Cavs should win easily.
Cleveland is too good to panic right now. This is what separates championship teams from the rest of the pack, the ability to weather these moments. Yes, Rondo had a monster Game 4 to even up the series but the key was that the Big Three did not. Let Rondo get his but more importantly, LeBron NEEDS to get his. If two of the Big Three (or maybe a Sheed) get untracked tonight, the Cavs are in serious trouble. Stick to what got you here and you'll be fine.
LeBron ONLY got 116 out of 123 first place votes? Such an outrage! This is preposterous, outlandish, unbelievable, atrocious, a crime against all humanity, an insult to us all... how dare they! Don't the know LeBron is the only true MVP this year! Don't they know LeBron was such a dominant force that he should get all the first, second, and third place votes! Don't they know basketball?
OBVIOUSLY personal agendas got in the way of the first unanimous MVP award in NBA history.
Let me get this straight. LeBron was such an obvious choice that any such dissension is influenced by personal agenda and homer-ism. No really, this year was such a clear cut decision that it's blatantly personal. As my wife says in 90% of our arguments, "Don't tell me what I'm thinking!"
Let's look at this from the perspective of say a media member in Oklahoma City. Kevin Durant worked on his game all last summer, improving his handles and range and entered the 2009-10 season as a player who "made the leap." The Thunder improve from a 26 to 50 wins and make the playoffs. Along the way Durant leads the league in scoring at 30.2 ppg, becoming the youngest player to ever do so. Oklahoma City becomes the hottest team in the NBA from January through late March, following the lead of Durant's exceptional play. Many people (including a Boston-leaning ESPN writer) start buying into the Thunder as a legitimate playoff contender. This all starts and ends with Durant's play, his scoring ability, his poise, his focus, his overall game. It's safe to say Durant took this team to the brink of something special in 2010.
Now you're a media member from Oklahoma City, you see this team change over the course of two seasons, you understand and appreciate all the hard work Durant puts in the offseason, you see his leadership and the impact on the entire roster. These are things the national media might not appreciate. After all he does play in one of the smallest markets so it's not like the Thunder were regulars on ESPN. And unlike Durant, LeBron is on literally every day in highlights, commercials and games. It's easy to see and be influenced by his game... he's everywhere!
I know we all enjoy watching Durant play and being hoops junkies we try to catch as many of his games as possible, but there's still a lot to be said for attending all those Thunder games in person and following him around on a daily basis. You see his impact at practice, in the locker room and on the floor. All the League Pass action and pages of stats still don't quantify the impact of LIVE NBA action. Their media guys have the privilege of seeing a different Durant than the rest of us.
My point... being in Oklahoma City on a daily basis you actually might pick Durant as the MVP this year.
It's a subjective vote, let people be subjective. A lot of well-respected writers come off arrogant and petty when they start going after the six percent of the dissenting vote (yes it's such a low number that it can be written out in verbal form). A lot of them are simply stating this year is "SO OBVIOUS" that anything else is blatantly wrong. No, that's just your point of view. Just because you have the ability to be heard by more people doesn't make it fact. And calling out the few dissenters like some torch wielding angry mob is borderline embarrassing. You guys are better than that!
Shaq's thumb injury, surgery and 8 weeks of recovery might actually benefit the Cavs in the long run. Bear with me Cleveland, I know it's tough being a fan of any professional sports team out there especially with the repetitive stomach punch moments over the years and all the LeBron rumors, but this thumb injury might be a good thing.
Shaq's at the very tail end of his professional career. The number of quality games left is a finite number, he literally has only so many bullets left in the chamber. And like most veterans, he's knows enough about his body to realize that this might be his last shot at title number 5.
So why waste quality games on the last few weeks of the regular season? The Celtics are struggling with age, the Magic still seem to be missing something chemistry-wise and Atlanta is definitely a year away from being a championship contender. As long as LeBron's on the floor the Cavs are a sure lock at the number 1 seed in the east. All they need is just enough quality minutes from the Varajao/Powe platoon until March 22nd when Ilgauskus returns from his trade sabbatical. That's 11 games over that span with only two of them against quality opponents (Boston and San Antonio BOTH at home).
The thumb injury gives Shaq time to rest, recover and be ready for a grueling run to the title. So he misses the first round, you're telling me that a LeBron, Jamison and Z frontline wouldn't breeze by say Miami or Milwaukee (Charlotte will move up to a 6 seed, scaring all of New England with a crazy Celtics-Bobcats series... I can't wait)?
Shaq is with the Cavs for three reasons: to get past Dwight Howard, to match the Lakers and their length and to win a title. These won't come along until mid-May when Shaq returns. We're talking at most 14 games of playoff level effort from Shaq, basically the same number of quality games he has left in the chamber.
Late in his career, Shaq has always found stretches in the long regular season to take time off with nagging injuries and recharge the battery. Phil Jackson always pointed out that The Diesel never really cared about the regular season until after his birthday on March 6. Maybe the injury is unexpected, but the rest and the need to recharge the batteries for an long playoff run is just what the doctor ordered.
This is a good thing for Shaq and the Cavs.
"Look what they did to my hand man!"
"All right, I'm gonna give you a choice. You can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk out of here. You can't have both. What do you want?"
This whole 30-days buyout and return to the original team thing is one of the worst loopholes in the NBA. Teams, players, GM's and media honks all flat out lie about the whole process like it's completely random that a player happens to return to his original team after a buy-out. We all know what's going on, and it stinks something fierce.
Just be honest and spare us all the lies. Tell us that Z is coming back to Cleveland in 30 days. Tell us that Washington dumped salary for practically nothing in return. Tell us hard paying customers the truth! Stop leaking false reports that other teams are pursuing Ilgauskas and stop having your superstar lie to the media by saying, "I'm not OK with losing Z" when you know damn well he's returning in 30-days.
I think that's the most insulting thing of it all, that teams play the BS game and lead us to believe that there were no backdoor deals and that Ilgauskas happen to organically return to Cleveland. We're not that stupid to see right through it all.
Rules are rules and the 30-day buyout and return is a loophole that while it ruins the integrity of the game, is not cheating. And props to Cleveland for finding a sucker GM (who's willing to screw over his own fanbase) to go along with the whole process. Just spare us the lies.
But in the end, I wish David Stern gave Danny Ferry the same "hammer" option or at least decided to close the loophole. He's changed rules before in mid-season (remember the 2002-03 season where Stern lengthened the first round to 7 games?), so why not eliminate this one?
Don't worry, you'll be back in 30-days. 1, 2, 3... FLOP!!! I mean CAVS!
Anyway, the top two teams in the NBA meet tonight for the final time in the regular season. I would have said for a possible Finals preview but with the Celtics, Hawks, Magic and Nuggets there's still a lot of great teams that both the Lakers and Cavaliers have to pass through before ESPN/Nike's dream NBA Finals.
So let's get down to the nitty gritty and preview the matchup between these two.
Size DOES Matter: "Nobody can match the Lakers size", "Damn the Lakers are long!", "Bynum, Gasol, Odom... now THAT's a frontcourt!"... all very true and I thought the Lakers size and quality depth would be a HUGE difference on Christmas Day. Except the exact opposite happened and the Lakers were blown out.
The Cavs are the one team in the NBA that can outsize the Lakers. I'm not sure if it was a key adjustment or just dumb luck, but 4 minutes into the Christmas game, Mike Brown put in a lineup of LeBron, Mo Williams, Anthony Parker, Shaq and Ilgauskas and the Cavs took over. The Cavs were bigger and stronger in all five positions and discouraged the Lakers bigs from attacking the lane. Cleveland rendered the Lakers a jump shooting team and became the aggressors and anyone who's watched the NBA knows, the refs ALWAYS favor calls with the more aggressive teams. The game became a blowout and a very festive Staples Center crowd grew impatient and frustrated while they watched the NBA Champs wilt to the Cavs. It was embarassing... and as a Lakers fan VERY scary. The Lakers aren't supposed to be out-sized.
Cleveland is NOT Boston: On Christmas Day there was no message to be delivered, this wasn't a rivalry, these aren't the defending champs with angry, pasty, drunk, obnoxious, ugly, retarded, racist (we all know how racist Boston really is, in fact that all white professional basketball league proposed putting an entire division in the Boston area... but I digress), ugly, annoying Celtics fans... this was Cleveland, LeBron and those puppet shoe commercials. There wasn't the same bitter taste in the air like the Celtics game last season and it showed. The Lakers didn't bring the energy but neither did the Staples Center faithful... well at least until the foam finger rained terror and blood was shed from the damage and destruction from the foam fingers (well that's how the media portrayed it so it must be).
Point being, the Lakers played with the same energy of a Clippers game in November and not with a playoff effort.
LeBron is GOD!!!! Enough already! Let it be said that LeBron is a darn good hoopster. But do all Clippers/Celtics fans with gigs at ESPN need to remind us about it with a 3,500 sonnet? I get his angle, no better way to get underneath the skin of Kobe fans than to write about LeBron being the best basketball player on the planet. Fine! By his definition he is. Well my definition is a tad different and I'm okay with being an 11-year Lakers season ticket holder and watching SIX NBA Finals appearances and FOUR NBA titles. You can have the best basketball player on the planet... I'm okay with watching Kobe in person and actually winning rings!
HOWEVER, the Cavs size really threw the Lakers off their game on Christmas Day and I think that's the difference tonight as Cleveland beats Los Angeles 104-97.
BTW - I have this weird feeling about the Cavs... I think this is the year LeBron finally gets his ring. There's something about this team, first the media wrote them off too soon, plus the Celtics are looking VERY old and the Magic are wilting under expectations... this is FINALLY LeBron's year.
I'm not really up on all the players drafted yesterday since the only NCAA hoops I watched all year was from the Las Vegas Hilton on the first weekend of March Maddness... Basically my knowledge on the college scene falls somewhere between Stu Scott and Rick Kamla (or Vanilla Scott as I like to call him).
1 - Shaq to Cleveland: Props to the NBA media for not overreacting and proclaiming the Cavs the 2010 NBA Champs. Props to Danny Ferry for going "all in" and taking a chance on Shaq, hoping to convince LeBron to re-sign in 2010. And props for Donald T. Sterling 2.0 for completely ruining one of the NBA's greatest franchises and killing Steve Nash's final years as a player. This trade has way more questions than answers.
Will Shaq play second fiddle to the league's biggest alpha dog? He thinks Kobe was bad but LeBron runs EVERYTHING in Cleveland. His teammates, his gags, his front office... this is LeBron's team. From Penny to Kobe to Wade... all three All-Stars were young and didn't have the locker room pull that LeBron has. Kobe was stubborn and always battling Shaq to be THE number one, but Shaq always had the Lakers roster and coaching staff on his side. Shaq is clearly the outsider in Cleveland, will his ego accept being a number #2?
And don't tell me that he settled in with Phoenix as the #2! Just one season in, the Suns were slowing things down and dumping to Shaq just like all the previous teams he played for. Now we're hearing that Nash requested the Suns trade away Shaq. He's 37 years old and he's never changed his demeanor as a player. Why would he change now?
Will Shaq have patience for Mike Brown, the guy who was thoroughly out-coached by Mr. Master of Panic Stan Van Gundy? As the Eastern Conference Finals showed us (and as I've been literally screaming for years!), the Cavs have one play in their offensive playbook. Just one! High screen and roll for LeBron where his options are: 1) step back for a three, 2) drive down the lane, 3) pass to the corner for a three, 4) hit the rolling big man to the hoop. That's it! But LeBron is so damn talented that he normally overcomes defenses (well expect when playing the Lakers, Orlando or Boston, but NOBODY seemed to remember this during the regular season DESPITE THE LAKERS SWEEPING THEM!!!) Anyway, Mike Brown is CLEARLY the worst head coach that Shaquille O'Neal has played for (and yes that includes Terry Porter and Del Harris).
The Cavs now have their first low-post option since a pre-lockout Shawn Kemp in 1998. Will Mike Brown add a second page to his offensive playbook and post up Shaq? What happens when they face Orlando during a regular season game and start trailing? Will Shaq DEMAND the ball during timeouts or will Mike Brown freeze up (like in the ECF's) and just ask LeBron to save them? How soon before Shaq realizes the huge gap in ability between Mike Brown and Stan Van Gundy?
Does this trade make LeBron Tom Hagen? Or is he Connie? One of Shaq's best quotes was his comparison of his superstar teammates to the Corleone Family. Penny Hardaway was Fredo (hilarious), Kobe was Sonny (temperamentally very true) and Dwyane Wade was Michael (maybe). There's really only two left, Connie and the adopted Tom Hagen. The way I see it, Steve Nash and LeBron is Tom Hagen who was one of the smarter and more appearance-savvy members of the Corleone Family... much like LeBron. Nash as Connie totally makes sense considering Connie was the least valuable sibling in the Corleone family (BTW - Nash and Shaq combined for ONE playoff victory)... HOWEVER her actions did lead to Sonny's death. And Nash did eliminate Kobe twice in the playoffs.
2 - Vince Carter to Orlando: The Magic gave up virtually nothing and got a former All-Star to add depth to the defending Eastern Conference Champ AND/OR a quality back-up plan in case Hedo leaves. A brilliant deal! If Orlando gets 80% of Vince Carter from his All-Star days AND they re-sign Hedo you're looking at the favorites in the Eastern Conference. They added scoring and athletic depth and another player that will force defenses to spread out and give Howard even more space to score from down low. If Howard expands his low-post game (which he will), the look out, this might be the next NBA Champs.
If Hedo leaves, they are still one of the top contenders. With Carter they'll get a player like Hedo who can clear out defenses and iso during crunch time. But I think Hedo will stay in Orlando. Now all of this depends on Carter's motivation... which should be high now that he's closer to a NBA title than ever before.
Here's my question... With Cleveland and Orlando making major moves, will Boston try to counter?
3 - Richard Jefferson to San Antonio: Spurs get Richard Jefferson for left-over garbage (Bowen, Oberto and Thomas). I guess Popovich is no longer complaining that the league needs a trade czar because this is almost as one-sided as the Gasol trade last year. In fact, one could argue that the Grizzlies got more because of Marc Gasol... a promising big. The Spurs trade old size and defense and get a proven athletic scorer in Jefferson. This trade gets the Spurs back in the second round of the playoffs but it doesn't counter the Lakers size.
Now if the Spurs can somehow find a way to sign Rasheed Wallace, then they become the odds on favorite in the West.
4 - Jamal Crawford to Atlanta: Wow another high-scoring player with ZERO basketball IQ! Just when you though the Hawks were the dumbest team in the NBA, they just found a new level of supid-itude (a way of saying suckitude except with stupid). I really can't find a proper word for how dumb this team is... but what do you expect from a team whose head coach's game face is the "who farted??" look! Such a MEH trade!
5 - Amare to Golden State: This isn't official until July 8th (or until EVERY Phoenix Suns season ticket holder skips town) but it looks like a done deal. So in two seasons the Suns go from the SSOL, high-scoring, high-impact, fun to watch and with several All-Stars and a major contender to NOTHING. What a shame! Robert Sarver IS Donald T. Sterling 2.0 make no mistake about it.
Initial trade rumors have the Warrior sending Curry over with Biedrins, but now I hear they're keeping Curry. So why give up a relatively young annual All-Star with a very exciting game for absolutely nothing?
Knock on the Clippers all you want but since they moved into Staples Center they've at least tried to assemble a team with talent. Mis-guided efforts aside, every season Clippers fans at least have a small glint of hope when they look at their roster (Barron Davis, Marcus Camby, Eric Gordon, Blake Griffin... these are players with talent!). But teams like Phoenix, Memphis, Sacramento and Charlotte don't even try... they're a lottery team BEFORE October! Why plunk down hard earned $$ to even watch this crap.
Watching Phoenix dissolve into this garbage is sad.... Screw you Sarver!
This is the second time this week that LeBron is wearing his insecurities on a tee shirt. Is LeBron having a ego melt-down? Did LeBron realize that Cleveland has no chance as long as Mike Brown is their coach? Is he feeling inferior to the likes of Kobe, Duh-white Howard, Paul Pierce... all on more talented teams?
But more importantly, just imagine the outrage if Kobe Bryant was caught with the same shirt. Boston Sports Guy Bill Simmon's head would explode at the sight of it... leading to another 10,000 word crapfest about how KG is a great guy and Kobe is the devil. Kobe would be nailed to the cross in "I knew he was selfish!!!" articles all over the place.
Does Anyone Really Think Cleveland Will Lose Game 5?
Game 5, LeBron's last chance to save his MVP season... will he do it? Will Cleveland save their season? Will Mike Brown over annunciate every word during timeouts and show us that he's worth of coach of the year? Will LeBron prove what everyone at ESPN is praying for... that he's better than Kobe? Man, the drama is really intense!
Cleveland wins this game easily. So here's a quick message to all media members and fans begging to anoint LeBron "the greatest ever... ever... ever... (echo.... echo... echo)"... please spare us the 10,000 word love poems. The Cavs are the top seeded team in the NBA, playing at home, with the 2008-09 NBA coach of the year and the 2008-09 MVP... they're supposed to win!
Save all the "gritty effort, heart of a champion, Jordan-esque" and any other cliches you can think of... they're supposed to win!
The Cavs start two All-Stars and allegedly the greatest player in the next 25 years.... they're supposed to win!
Nike and especially ABC/ESPN have a lot writing on Cleveland advancing to the NBA Finals... they're supposed to win!
So spare us all!!!! Because Cleveland easily wins Game 5!


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Farmingville, NY - Supervisor Ed Romaine has announced that the Town of Brookhaven's annual Youth Bureau INTERFACE Thanksgiving Food Drive provided holiday meals for 965 families, feeding a total of 4,342 people. The Youth Bureau INTERFACE Program is a partnership between good neighbors, local businesses and the Town of Brookhaven, united in a common effort to provide help to Brookhaven's less fortunate residents all year round. As in the past, P.J. Gelinas Junior High School in East Setauket, Sachem North and Sachem East High Schools helped to collect the food, as well as grocery store gift card donations. On November 21 and 22, the INTEREFACE Program and JVC Broadcasting also hosted a food drive event at Compare Foods in Patchogue. Pictured at left are Youth Bureau social workers organizing donated food and at right are bags of food ready for distribution.
"Every year, many of our neighbors struggle to put food on the table and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made it worse," said Supervisor Romaine. "Our Thanksgiving Food Drive helps families have a happy holiday and reminds us all about the true meaning of the season. I want to thank all the volunteers and our Youth Bureau for helping to provide Thanksgiving meals to our Brookhaven families in need."
The INTERFACE program provides a variety of goods and services to those in need through volunteerism and generous donations from our partners. The Town greatly appreciates the efforts of the volunteers and the generosity of Town residents who donate to all these worthy causes. For more information about the Youth Bureau and the INTERFACE Program, go to the Town website or call (631) 451-8011.
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