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Truth is out – US group that met Narendra Modi sought $ 16,000 a seat
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights Tags: Aaron Schock, Gujarat, India, Joe Walsh, Lake Palace, Narendra Modi, Rambagh Palace, United States
Mar 29, 2013 at 10:08pm IST
Chicago: Organisers of the US delegation to India that met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had canvassed for participants in the trip at prices ranging from $3,000 to $16,000, said a media report. The business delegation included four US members of the House of Representatives, all Republicans. The organisers had canvassed in the Indian American community for participants in the trip, according to a report published in Hi India, a South Asian newspaper from Chicago.
The trip was sponsored by a political action committee (PAC), the National Indian American Public Policy Institute (NIAPPI) founded by Shalabh Kumar, a Chicago businessman. The politicians leading the delegation are Marlin Stutzman, Cyntia Wiederspahn, Cathy Rodgers and Aaron Schock. An invitation circulated by NIAPPI in preparation for the trip said it was "limited to (an) elite group of American businesspersons".
The group has already met Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad and invited him to visit the US. On the schedule of an extensive trip is a stay at the Lake Palace in Udaipur, a visit to Karnataka as guest of the state government, a visit to the Taj Mahal, the tiger reserve at Ranthambore, a night at the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur, a visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a dinner hosted by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. A 'Bollywood Extravaganza' has also been included for the guests.
The business delegation included four US members of the House of Representatives, all Republicans.
The cost options given in the invitation were: '7 star trip' (business class travel, private air charter in India) $16,000 per person, '4 star trip' (commercial travel in India with visits to the palace excluded) $10,000 per person, and economy option-with all travel and hotel expenses borne by the individual- $3,000 per person. There also appears to be a controversy about the political action committees under which Kumar operates, according to the newspaper that is widely read in the South Asian community in the US Midwest.
In 2012, it reported, he ran advertisements attacking Democrat Tammy Duckworth, a respected military veteran who lost both her legs in the Iraq war. Kumar's PAC had supported Republican Joe Walsh, whose campaign attracted a lot of criticism for its negativity, and who eventually lost to Duckworth. Walsh had announced his admiration of Modi and said he would campaign to get him a US visa, if he was elected.
Another PAC founded by Kumar, Indian Americans for Freedom (IAF), has been reprimanded by the Federal Election Commission for failing to properly fill out its statement of organization. On Oct 5, 2012, as part of its election campaign, the IAF released advertisements in several ethnic publications, supporting Republican Joe Walsh, with the slogan "If you love (Narendra) Modi, send Walsh back to Congress", according to Hi India.
On Aug 17, 2012, the National Indian American Coalition (NIAC), another PAC founded by Kumar, released advertisements in Indian publications on the occasion of India's Independence Day paying tribute to Joe Walsh, calling him the 'maha-mitra Gujarat' and 'maha-mitra India'. Barely a month after the election in which Walsh lost, Kumar sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission seeking the termination of NIAC.
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TOP THINGS TO DO IN HISTORIC DOWNTOWN OWATONNA THIS SUMMER
There are a lot of reasons to visit Owatonna during the summer. Located just one hour south of the Twin Cities, Owatonna's parks and trails become busy with hikers and bikers, and families flock to Lake Kohlmier and local water parks for some fun in the sun. But one of the best places to visit during the summer is historic downtown Owatonna, which hosts events, walking tours, concerts and movies during the summer. The downtown district recently made it to the list of the National Register of Historic Places, an honor called " unique" for a district Owatonna's size. " Some towns in the 1970s during the urban renewal [period] just leveled things and made a new downtown, whereas in Owatonna, there are new buildings in pockets, but there are a lot of original buildings that gives you an idea of what the late 1800s and early 1900s in Owatonna really looked like, says local historian Nancy Vaillancourt. "It's gratifying to see we've made progress in making the downtown more attractiveand cohesive. It's not one style added on top of another one," she adds.
If you want to visit a downtown with some important architectural landmarks, local parks and great spots to stop for lunch (and to find some delicious candy to take home), head to Owatonna this summer. Here are five of the top things to do in historic downtown Owatonna.
1. Visit the National Farmers' Bank
In the early 20th century, Owatonna and Steele County were quite rich. It was the "Butter Capital of the World," and lots of butter was shipped out of the region every day. It was around that time that the county spent $150,000 to build a bank, which would be the equivalent of about $3 million today. That building is the National Farmer's Bank, designed at the time by a man that local tour guide Steve Jessop calls a " prickly, angry architect" out of Chicago named Louis Sullivan, long considered the " father of the skyscraper," and famous for being Frank Lloyd Wright's mentor.
The building is one of Sullivan's most pure examples of American-style architecture, recognized for its unique design of stained glass windows, terra cotta material and gold-leaf arches. It includes trademark design elements Sullivan championed during the period including cubes, squares and lots of ornamentation. Jessop leads 30-minute tours of the building, which operates as a Wells Fargo today. He enters the bank from a back door when he leads guests inside, taking them up to a balcony above the teller cages. " I get up there and I stand and watch them and their expressions. They are left speechless," he says. " You can't anticipate the sensation of walking into this room. The big stained-glass windows are the main source of light in there, and the stenciling and details combine so that there's a greenish cast to the light. It's ever so slight and ever so subtle, and it has a psychological effect. It's calming," he says. There's no admission fee for guests who wish to go on a self-guided tour around the vicinity.
2. Take a Historic Walking Tour
Vaillancourt leads a historic walking tour throughout Owatonna, which often highlights the National Farmer's Bank first. " That is the top of the list," she says, but it's certainly not the only stop on her list of recommended buildings worth seeing downtown. The Zamboni Building that was built in 1880 is easily identified by the same jewel box touches of terra cotta and stonework at the bank. " It's a unique building with a ballroom next door; it used to be a showroom for cars where the ballroom is now," she says.
The Federated Insurance Companies building is also a popular stop on the tour, though you can only view it from the exterior. It's one of the last examples of Prairie School architecture in the area. Vaillancourt also always stops at Central Park, and " I would be remiss if I don't suggest the public library. It's a very cool building inside, too, and it's fairly original," she says.
3. Do some shopping (and eating)
The downtown shopping district has many boutique stores and dining options. Several shops like Kristi's Clothing Boutique, Kottke Jewelers and Straight River Rug Hooking & Fiber Arts are spots where you can find one-of-a-kind items. Stop by the Little Professor Book Center for great reads.
When it's time to eat, the downtown area has plenty to offer, from delicious homemade pizza to old-fashioned candies. Central Park Coffee is the perfect place to grab a warm cup and take breaks in between shopping while enjoying its relaxing atmosphere.
Other ideal places to grab a quick snack are at Costas' Candies and Restaurant where you can order fudge made from a 90-year old recipe. Jessop also recommends the Greek salad at Costas'. Stop by Old Town Bagels for a chewy egg sandwich that will instantly fuel you to do a full day's shopping. Mizuki Fusion (sushi), Pupuseria La Paz (El Salvadorian pupusas), and Nick's Pizza Palace (where you can enjoy a "Colosseum Pizza" ) all are located in downtown Owatonna as well. Check out our complete shopping and dining guides for more information.
4. Attend a local event
Mingle with the locals and spend your day outdoors at one of Owatonna's annual events during the summer. Crazy Days in downtown Owatonna is a great fun-filled family event (July 25-27). This three day event includes sidewalk sales, a kiddie parade, a petting zoo, and many more activities. Visit Owatonna will be offering free tours of the National Farmers' Bank during Crazy Days as well. You can also take a free shuttle between the downtown activities and Art on the Hills, an art festival at the Owatonna Arts Center on July 27 & 28.
Enjoy a wide variety of musical groups that perform throughout the summer evenings in Central Park during the 11@7 Concert Series on Thursday nights during the summer. The night market, Downtown Thursdays, is returning to historic downtown Owatonna for 2 nights; June 5th and August 1! Gather a friend or the whole family for a evening of food, music, shopping and art just outside the Louis Sullivan "jewel box" Bank. Downtown Owatonna is the place to enjoy our beautiful Southern Minnesota evenings.
5. Visit a Farmer's Market
If you are looking for something fresh and Minnesota grown, check out one of Owatonna's Farmer's Market! Enjoy an early summer's morning in downtown Owatonna at the Farmer's Market in Central Park every Saturday from 7am-12pm during May to October. Shop locally grown and sourced fresh vegetables, flowers and hand-crafted goods from more than 80 vendors.
Looking for an evening activity after your summer day visiting historic downtown Owatonna? Check out Owatonna's newest market, The North Market. Find locally grown produces, food, and farm products from vendors at this market on Tuesday evenings from 4-7pm at the Grace Baptist parking lot.
Check out the Downtown Murals
Downtown Owatonna showcases a collection of cool local murals. Stop at iconic landmarks like the Little Red School House Mural to see a life-like painting of school children in uniform on the side of the building. Other notable murals to see are the Main Street Mural for a mind-trick of artificial storefronts, apartments and the former Roxy Theater, and Fire Hall Mural to see more optical illusions of a firehouse on its side wall.
Finally, don't miss a walk over the Morehouse Bridge, which hovers above the Straight River. The bridge is a perfect photo op spot during the summer with a backdrop of lush green trees, brilliant flowers and soft currents.
Need help getting around? Check out our Historic Downtown Map or stop into the Owatonna Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism at 320 Hoffman Drive.
For more information about downtown events visit our calendar of events page. Request a visitor guide or sign up for our e-newsletter for more information.

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Lenovo Vibe K5 Note is now available on open sale on Flipkart. Here are the top deals and offers with this phone.
Lenovo Vibe K5 Note is on open sale on Flipkart and here's a look at the top deals, offers you can get with this phone.
Lenovo Vibe K5 Note is available on open sale on Flipkart. The smartphone is the successor the Lenovo Vibe K4 Note, and comes with support for the company's TheaterMax 2.0 technology when used with the ANT VR headset. The Vibe K5 Note will come in two RAM variants in India: The 4GB variant is priced at Rs 13,499 and the 3GB version costs Rs 11,999 and currently both are in stock on the website. Both smartphones have a total of 32GB storage space.
Lenovo and Flipkart are also offering some deals on the smartphone, and you can get further discounts on the price by exchanging this with another working smartphone. If you exchange the older Moto G3, you get new Vibe K5 Note at a price of Rs 9,500 approximately. A Samsung Galaxy J series smartphone will also get you close to Rs 4000 off on the price of the new Vibe K5 Note smartphone.
Other offers and deals with the Vibe K5 Note include: ANT VR headset at Rs 500 only with Lenovo Vibe K5 Note. Users can also buy the Lenovo Umido ESoul DH2 Remote Controller at Rs 500 with this phone to control the headset. However the controller is currently out of stock on the website.
Lenovo Vibe K5 Note buyers will also get a Mytra coupon, which gets them flat 25 per cent off on purchase of above Rs 1399. The coupon offer is only valid from August 4 to August 11. Users will also get Rs 100 off on an Ola Prime Ride, and there's extra 10 per cent off if you buy this phone with a State Bank debit/credit card.
Lenovo Vibe K5 Note smartphone has a metal unibody design, similar to the Vibe K5 Plus.
So what are the features of the Vibe K5 Note? It has a metal unibody design, with a 5.5-inch full HD display (401 ppi) and a fingerprint scanner on the back. Vibe K5 Note is 8.5 mm thick and weighs 165 grams. It runs a MediaTek 6755 octa-core 64-bit processor clocked at 1.8 Ghz and has a Mali T860 GPU. Lenovo Vibe K5 Note will come with OTG support, and a micro-SD card slot (128 GB as limit).
It sports a 13MP primary camera with f/2.2 and 8MP front camera. The rear camera has PDAF as well. The battery is 3,500mAh and its runs Android 6.0 with the company's Pure UI on top. The overall UI experience is closer to stock Android on the Vibe K5 Note.
Lenovo Vibe K5 Note has a VR mode, which users need to switch on before using the phone with ANT VR headset. In this mode, the phone gives users a cinema-style experience for all apps including games, movies, videos, etc which might not be geared for VR. Users can also experience 360 VR content once they plug the phone in the headset.
The smartphone also has Dolby Atmos Sound support, 3-mic system and Wolfson audio codec for enhanced sound quality during recording. Lenovo has also added a Secure Zone to keep some data private on this device, and users can run two WhatsApp, Facebook, Gmail accounts on the same phone.


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An Amazing Fact: Booker T. Washington, author of Up From Slavery, once travelled 1,000 miles one way by train to Atlanta to speak to a predominately white audience for only five minutes. He even paid his own fare. Why? Because he felt so passionately about breaking down racial barriers following the Civil War.
The early church of Acts 2:42 certainly was. Their holy zeal resulted in adding to their numbers daily. From their fervent preaching and heartfelt service, the early church exploded with new believers.
Have you ever longed for that same experience? Have you ever desired to have the love for outreach and the zeal they had at Pentecost? Well, the Lord desires it for you too!
Zeal is defined as the "enthusiastic devotion to a cause, an ideal or a goal; and tireless diligence in its furtherance." In Galatians 4:18, Paul says it is always good to be zealous for a good thing, and Jesus said nothing is more good than God (Mark 10:18).
But Paul also says it's possible to have misguided enthusiasm. "For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge" (Romans 10:2 NKJV).
He speaks from experience. Paul was the one zealously murdering Christians in the name of God! And there's no denying the zeal of the Islamic fundamentalist who is willing to strap his body with explosives and blow up innocent people. He is certainly zealous … but for a terrible thing. God wants us to be zealous about a good thing.
What Happened to the Enthusiasm?
The word "enthusiasm" comes from a composite of two Greek words, en and theos. That means "in God." Enthusiasm really means "God in you." Originally, they said a person who was enthusiastic was "full of God." Christians should be the most enthusiastic people in the world, but it doesn't seem we are 2,000 years after Christ gave us the Great Commission.
… yet somehow, 100 percent planned on going to heaven.
It's not much different now. If anything, it might be worse. Generally speaking, Christian churches today are dangerously apathetic about their faith, and they are certainly a far cry from the zealous early church of Pentecost.
All people have an innate desire to be passionate. I'm not talking about romantic passion, but rather a passion for life and a desire for purpose. Even if we can't have it in our own life, we find it elsewhere. This is why reality TV is so popular. If someone doesn't have an exciting life, he or she can live vicariously through someone who does. Hollywood takes their cameras into exciting situations so that by watching, we can forget the drabness of our own lives. The passion we should have for the kingdom of God becomes replaced by passion for earthly things.
People also get excited about sports. They'll shout until they're hoarse. They'll go watch a game in a blizzard. Other people will stand in line for hours, sometimes all day, for tickets to a movie or a concert. These fans are excited and passionate, or they would never spend their time and money this way.
My message is that Christians should be much more passionate about the kingdom of God!
The great prophets of God were zealous for Him. Elijah said, "I have been very zealous for the Lord God of hosts" (1 Kings 19:10 NKJV). King Jehu said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord" (2 Kings 10:16 NKJV).
Are you zealous for God … or something else?
God wants enthusiastic workers. "Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward" (Colossians 3:23, 24 NKJV).
So much of what we do for God is half-hearted, but He wants all of our hearts. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, [and] with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 6:5 NKJV; see also 1 Samuel 12:24). Indeed, when we consider all the great things God has done for us, how can we not be zealous for Him?
"You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV).
What does God want from you? Not much, just all your heart. He wants only what's best for you, and He knows you'll never be completely happy until you give Him all of your heart. If you only give Him part of your heart, you'll never be completely satisfied.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" (Proverbs 3:5 NKJV). Christianity is a whole-hearted religion. God wants us to be zealous about what we believe and to have a worthy purpose for living.
Being zealous also has a direct bearing on our witnessing success. You can't kindle a fire in somebody else's heart until you have one in your own. The church in North America is, for the most part, stagnant. We truly are the lukewarm Laodicean church, but if we were more excited, I believe we'd start growing. And the North American churches that are growing are the ones full of carbonated Christians. Having the truth is not enough; we need to be effervescent about it!
It reminds me of Elihu, in the book of Job, who felt he would explode if he did not share what was on his heart. "For I am full of words; The spirit within me compels me. Indeed my belly is like wine that has no vent; It is ready to burst like new wineskins. I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer" (Job 32:18–20 NKJV).
I once heard about an insurance salesman who was making his rounds at a high-rise office building. He looked out one of the windows on the 20th floor and saw some window washers. He wrote a note on some paper and held it up to the glass. It said, "Do you guys have life insurance?" They both looked at each other and shook their heads, "No." Then he wrote another note, saying, "You guys really ought to have life insurance working out there." They smiled and jokingly waved at him to join them out on their washing platform so they could talk about it. To their surprise, the salesman made his way to the roof and lowered himself with some cables down to the scaffold. They were so impressed by his zeal, one of them bought $50,000 worth of life insurance.
That's how a Christian ought to be about sharing their faith. The salesman had zeal for earthly life insurance; how much more fervent should we be about taking risks to deliver eternal life insurance?
Ultimately, the people in our lives will value what we value. Zeal is contagious. If we are apathetic about our relationship with Jesus, then people will be apathetic about our Jesus. If we are enthusiastic, people will want what we have. There is nothing more important than Jesus.
We might need to start with our prayers. "The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" (James 5:16 NKJV). The Bible often talks about these fervent prayers. Fervor means ardent, warmhearted enthusiasm with intensity of emotion. So often when we talk to God, it sounds like we're reciting a recipe for cabbage soup or something that we've narrated to Him many times before. It's all from memory, and there's no fresh passion.
You can quickly tell how two people feel about each other by the way they talk. You often know when two people are in love by the tender way they talk to one another. In an office setting, you can tell if somebody is on a business call or a personal call by the sound of his or her voice. There's a different tone when speaking to a spouse than when speaking to a client; still friendly, yes, but very different.
When we talk to God, there ought to be fondness there. When Hannah prayed, she spoke with so much heart that Eli the priest thought she was drunk. I'm not advocating that we look intoxicated, but who can deny she was praying with passion? She rocked back and forth, her lips moving constantly, praying with all her heart. Many Jews emulate this fervency at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem because they believe it's irreverent to look like you're indifferent when you're praying at the holiest place in the world. They rock back and forth, even if only mechanically, to at least look awake. And when Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, He prayed with such earnestness that He perspired blood.
Now, nobody can order you to be enthusiastic or command you to be zealous. If someone tells you to be sad, that won't make you sad. You can fake it, but you won't really be sad just because you were told to be so. But what if your doctor says you have cancer? That could make you sad.
Nobody can order you to be happy either. There was a song from the 80s called "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Do you think anyone ever got happy from that song? Maybe they did. But if your doctor says you have cancer, could he then say, "Don't worry, be happy," and you'd be happy? Probably not! But what if he said, "Don't worry, we have a simple cure." That could definitely make you happy.
You can't be commanded to feel something. "Be happy" doesn't work as a commandment. But if someone hands you a $10,000 check and says, "Be happy," you have a good reason. The words were even unnecessary! You'd probably be happy without being told to be so.
This is an important principle. The biggest corporations in the world realize that if their workers are not enthusiastic about their product, they'll do poorly. So these companies bring in expensive motivational speakers to get their staff enthusiastic about their goals and products. Taco Bell wants their employees to feel good about burritos or tacos or whatever because it's bad for morale and profits if you're not excited about what you're doing or don't know why you're doing it.
Football coaches are usually really good at this. They'll often give a half-time pep talk to their teams when they're losing. The best coaches might not know all of the strategies and tactics required to win, but they do know how to motivate their players to come out of that locker room with a zeal to be victorious, to play the second half with great passion and win the game.
Some of the most successful Christians are the ones who know how to get a pep talk from the Word of God. They let the Holy Spirit inspire them. Indeed, there is inherent power in the Word where He says, "Be zealous." Consider this your half-time pep talk!
Jesus says in Revelation 3:15, after speaking about the condition of the church being lukewarm, "I know your works, that you are neither hot nor cold" (NKJV). There's no zeal in this Laodicean church. "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth" (v. 16).
How important is it for us to get excited about God? What does the Lord say is going to happen to those who are indifferent about God? They'll be spewed out of His mouth. He goes on to say, "Therefore be zealous and repent" (v. 19).
Jesus is not being condemning here. Whenever you see the word "be" in the Bible, it has intrinsic power. When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. When Jesus said to the leper, "Be clean," he was clean. And when God says, "Be zealous," there is inherent strength within those words for you to be what He's telling you to be.
Isn't it worth it? Does He deserve our enthusiasm? Can you think of anything that is more meritorious of our zeal than God? Being filled with the Spirit, living forever, seeing people's lives changed, filled with peace and joy, transformed from the addictions of sin and liberated—what's worth more than these things? Nothing else measures up.
Some people lack passion because they need a cause deserving of their devotion. What cause in the world is more worthy of our enthusiasm than the life-saving gospel? And to serve a God that loves us so much, He sacrificed His Son to save us from sin and give us eternal life?
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Until a man finds a cause for which he's willing to die, he is not fit to live." Jesus found a cause He thought was important enough to die for: you. He is zealous for you to be saved and to live for eternity with Him.
So be zealous for Him.


Only America was "morally" required to violate its Second Amendment, disarm and surrender to Soviet Altruria before and during the 1980s. The Union of Confused Scientists, Physicians for Socialist Responsibility, Freeze advocates, those same pro-socialist, fifth-column infiltrators soon claimed penguins would roast unless freon were banned. Now that real freon is banned and air conditioners are failing as a consequence, they swear the world is heating up. Yet thermometers say the opposite. Why?
Remember the War on Freon? This was based on the superstition that humans–8/9 of whom live in the climactically different northern hemisphere–are to blame for a thinner ozone layer hovering over a constantly-erupting volcano in the southern hemisphere–where only 11% of humanity lives. The volcano, Mt Erebus, spews chlorine into the atmosphere near the south pole, and has done so for over a million years. Bozos and political scientists report no such hole at the pole nearest where 89% of industrial humanity lives and works. (Oddly enough, there is no such volcano at the North Pole either).
Freon–the coolant that replaced poisonous refrigerator gases fatal to housewives in the 1930s–was sacrificed on the Congressional Altar of the lobbyists and Volcano Gods in Crash year 1987. Freon was made a quasi-illegal controlled substance, regulated by force and priced out of reach. Real freon was replaced with an inferior coolant requiring much higher pressures. Home and auto air conditioners running the new coolant nobody would buy willingly, promptly began failing.
The manly and honest response is to look at ozone readings taken before and after the War on Freon. Those two Octobers–during the 1987 Crash and in just before Americans voted against banning energy in 2016–show no appreciable change to the ozone layer. But go ahead and view time-lapse videos and compare other years. But facts don't matter, hence every man, woman and child in America–and in the world that once regarded Americans as scientific–has been forced at gunpoint to buy the clumsy substitute. Worse: all are now threatened with a tax on air and an additional ban on electric power stations by the same looter ideologues.
Neither the Democratic (or CPUSA) nor Republican (or Prohibition) parties have ever admitted error, and their looters in the House and Senate won't either. Enter the tangled web of global warming deceit to cover up the discomfort you feel as electric bills rise and your air conditioner fails expensively. If you want an alternative that is non-totalitarian you can make your preference felt by voting Libertarian.
By deliberately altering or cherrypicking NOAA thermometer records to make the past appear cooler and the present warmer, the temperature trend reverses the sign of its slope. This handily provides Congress with an alibi for the failure-prone AC units it sold us at gunpoint because of the War on Freon hysteria. As icing on the let-'em-eat-cake, a whole new hobgoblin has been created from which the ignorant and superstitious now clamor to be led to safety. The hobgoblin, designed by the same Anti-Industrial-Revolution Luddites, is Global Warming–the official Staat religion of Econazi Germany. The icing? Global Warming hysteria makes real cooling climate change feel like warming because your air conditioning is failing and costing you a fortune!
Do you ever need a translator able to graph charts and perform temperature conversions?
The Libertarian Party is the only political party in These United States that is growing.
It is also the only party in the world NOT dedicated to the initiation of force. Naturally, procurers for looter parties hang around libertarian venues seeking to lure away voters and undermine the LP platform.
Republican trolls and infiltrators, invariably mystical fascists ashamed of their confederates' past misdeeds, are fond of prophesying in the future tense as a way of palling up to and retasking libertarian voters. These right-wing zealots avoid discussion of how spoiler votes changed the Comstock laws they seek to preserve, and how prohibitionist asset forfeiture and confiscations cause liquidity crises and depressions. Here are some of the fabrications, red herrings, false prophesy and snow jobs they peddle in their zeal for prohibition laws.
Spoiler votes are Bludgeoning Angels!
Democratic party procurers, basically the socialist laity, are also strangers-with-candy for clueless-but-impressionable youngsters. Dems lost by almost 3 million votes. Libertarians got over 4 million votes! Why? Youngsters are what the Dem platform says to jail because of plant leaves. Shadenfreude's too good for them. Their cant also evades mention of how spoiler votes in the past changed the laws to suit their econazi altruism-with-government-guns agenda.
Look at the graph: the LP does not want an Amendment to force women to reproduce at gunpoint!
The Drumpf presidency is such an emergency that "we" can't currently afford the luxury of protest votes.
The looter parasites the Democratic party chooses as politicians are still programmed by Soviet brainwashing to oppose anything that might help These States defeat International Socialism in a shooting war with nuclear weapons unholstered. Their snouts went into the trough because Bush Dynasty faith-based asset-forfeiture prohibitionism again wrecked the economy in 2007 as in 1929-33, 1987-92 and people schooled in how financial markets work understood that nothing could be worse than another coathanger-worshipping mystical Republican looter.
But Green spoiler votes (in reality Ralph Nader personality votes) frightened the Dems into promising to do everything to ban electric power plants just as they promised simpletons who don't know any better that they would pass Kristallnacht laws banning guns in the presence of the Bill of Rights. Every democrat who lost lost because of this obsolete Soviet brainwashing meme having acquired momentum of its own in both the US and NATO nations.
Look at the graph: the LP does not want to ban electric power.


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The Women of MEK Have Struggled for 50 Years for Freedom in Iran
Written by Mohsen Aboutalebi on July 13, 2020 . Posted in NEWS
The rise of women leaders in the MEK.
Iranian women have been central to the struggle for freedom in Iran. Many both well-known and less known heroines who sacrificed everything they own have been fighting for freedom.
Well, known heroines include:
Fatemeh Amini and Mehrnoush Ebrahimi, who both sacrificed their lives in their struggle against the Shah and became role models for female intellectuals and university students.
Ashraf Rajavi, a Bachelor of Physics from Tehran's Sharif Industrial University gave up a good life for the underprivileged and traveled to many villages and cities to learn about their problems. Today, her dedication has been a role model for today's women in Iran. She had a long association with the (PMOI / MEK Iran) and the MEK's overseas bases are named after her which are Ashraf 1 and Ashraf 3.
Sorayya Abolfat'hi, another heroine who was arrested while pregnant and she was executed by the regime for her resistance.
Masoumeh Azdanloo was shot in the neck and was in a coma at the time of her arrest;
Maryam Ghodsi Maab, a student sympathizer of the (PMOI / MEK Iran) in the southern city of Ahwaz, underwent severe torture in prison and was finally executed on October 6, 1981.
Khomeini's era was a fight for equality
After Khomeini took over after the uprooting of the Shah, it has been a long struggle for Iranian women. Khomeini's rule was a dictatorship and its Islamic fundamentalism humiliated and subjugated Iranian women. As well as making it compulsory for women working in the government sector to wear hijab, it even prevented women from taking up key roles in society.
Back in 1979, when thousands of women joined anti-hijab protests Khomeini's bullies humiliated and threatened the women until they submitted. The (PMOI / MEK Iran) at that time was totally against any repression of women.
Many Iranians still remember the Ettela'at newspaper front page on June 20th, 1981. Demonstrations had taken place and young girls who had been arrested in the protests were executed. The newspaper took the responsibility of informing parents of these young girls to identify and collect their bodies.
Front cover of Ettela'at newspaper announcing the executions of demonstrators arrested on 20 June 1981.
The rise of women leaders in the MEK
Maryam Rajavi pays tribute to the endurance of the vanguard heroines of Ashraf in the International Women Day ceremony – February 25, 2017.
Despite mullahs' regime ruthless repression of women, many Iranian women joined the MEK in the last four decades to continue the struggle for freedom. In fact, women have played a leading role in the struggle of the Iranian Resistance for freedom and equality.
Maryam Rajavi at the 40th anniversary of the start of Iranian people's nationwide resistance, Day of Martyrs and Political Prisoners- June 20, 2020 – Ashraf 3
Even though the mullah's regime continually repressed women this has not stopped them from joining the (PMOI / MEK Iran). Women have played a leading role in the struggle of the Iranian Resistance for both freedom and equality.
Maryam Rajavi became the co-leader of the (PMOI / MEK Iran) in February 1985. In 1989, she was given the position as the Secretary-General of the (PMOI / MEK Iran), and in 1993, she was elected as president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). These weren't considered permanent positions but would be reviewed after the mullahs' regime had been overthrown.
Because of her leadership, women in the Iranian Resistance have taken part in key decision-making positions in Iran's largest opposition organization. More than half of the NCRI members are women many of whom hold key responsibilities in political, international, social, and cultural areas.
The Iranian women's struggle for freedom and democracy has never faltered and continues until this day. They and Iran's youth have installed banners and posters that read:
Activities of the MEK Resistance Units – Democracy, freedom, with Maryam Rajavi – Tehran – July 1 and 2, 2020.
"Dear Maryam, please return and make the Iranian people happy."
"Dear Maryam, with you Iran will become a paradise."
"Maryam Rajavi is a symbol of bravery and inspiration for Iranian women."
"Democracy and freedom with Maryam Rajavi."
Tags: Free Iran Gathering, Maryam Rajavi, MEK, Mujahedin-e Khalq, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), NCRI, People's Mojahedin organization of Iran, PMOI, Regime Change


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The author or concept searched is found in the following 7 entries.
Belief/Loar: is understood as a function that depicts propositions on internal physical states. - These internal physical states have functional roles that are specified by these propositions.
QuineVsBrentano: ~ the canonical scheme includes no propositional attitudes, only physical constitution and behavior of organisms.
BurgeVsFolk Psychology BurgeVsIntention based semantics/BurgeVsGrice/Schiffer: famous example: Alfred believes in w that he has arthritis in his thigh. - But he also covers all proper cases. - In w he has a correct use of "Arthritis"- then, he has in w not the believe that he has arthritis in his thigh - (because this belief is false). - N.B.: in w he is in exactly the same T* -correlated states (T* = folk psychology) as in w. - Therefore, he would have to express the same belief. - But he does not - hence the common sense functionalism must be false.
Belief/SchifferVsLoar: problem: his realization of a theory of belief/desires - (as a function of propositions on physical states) - whose functional roles are determined by the theory: problem: to find a theory that correlates each proposition with a single functional role instead of a lot - Schiffer: thesis: that will not work, therefore the Quine-field argument is settled.
M-restriction / solution / Loar: Proposal: (from Carnap's meaning postulates, 1947) - .E.g. if x believes that y is north of z and that u is north of y, then x believes that u north of z. - Then the M-r. should join any propsition which does not exist in an input condition, with a prop. that occurs in a unique input condition - SchifferVsLoar: there is not enough M.-r. - SchifferVsFolk Psychology: it can not guarantee functionalist reduction.
Proposition/Davidson: (meanings as entities) are not independent of descriptions: "The meaning of "Theaetetus flies". - Problem: Relations between such descriptions cannot be specified in such a way that the compositionality can be shown. LoarVsDavidson: instead: semantics of possible worlds.
Proposition/Loar: Problem: if the form of the words is irrelevant, the reference becomes doubtful - this happens when propositional attitudes are made a relation between speaker, sentence and an intentional entity - Solution/Frege: "that S" describes the meaning of "S" as an entity, but not S as "having a certain meaning". Even better solution: paratactic analysis/Davidson.
Loar/Schiffer: establishes a theory in which there are a pair of functions from propositions to internal states in which one is determined by the content of the theory. Propositions are then external indexes of the functional roles that you want to assign to physical states. So the propositions remained external to the system. Analogy: Physical Properties/Stalnaker: For example, having a certain height or weight. This can be seen as a relation between a thing and a number, because they belong to a family of properties that have a common structure with the real numbers. In this way one can also pick out propositions: as a relation between person and proposition. The theory then has a form where the quantified variables (the "φ-s") pass over functions that map propositions to physical Z-types. If the theory is true then these Z-types have the functional roles that determine the theory.
(All this applies only with assumed relation theory, i.e. a relation to assumed objects of belief).
Belief/Loar/Schiffer: Loar began with propositions. These later became superfluous. SchifferVsLoar: the theory is not completely general - only for normal adults. It is not immune to twin earth cases and arthritis examples ((s) >externalism, >arthritis/shmartritis).
The author or concept searched is found in the following 7 controversies.
1. equality (Sameness) de dicto or indirect ascriptions implies equality of psychological content.
2. differences de dicto and indirect ascriptions imply differences in psychological content.
LoarVsBurge: he accepts these two principles when he says that in normal declarations of conduct we actually attribute broad content.
LoarVsBurge: if we negate the two principles, we can avoid assuming that it is further content that we attribute.
StalnakerVsLoar: I do not understand his two principles because I do not see how to distinguish the content of normal belief ascriptions from the references of that-sentences.
b) the referencces (the that-sentences) are the same or different.
Ad a): then the principles have no sense at all. The 1st principle (that the equality of belief ascriptions requires equality of content) would be wrong if the that-sentences are context-dependent. Loar forbids index words here, but also general terms can be context dependent, then the principle is wrong even for broad content!
Privileged Access/Loar/Stalnaker: Loar's phenomenological argument for his internalism is the privileged access we have to ourselves. We know what our thoughts are about. LoarVsBurge/LoarVsExternalism: privileged access is incompatible with anti-individualism. (Camp: Loar pro internalism, Loar pro individualism).
Loar: Thesis: it is hard to see how I could be wrong about my purely semantic judgment that my thought about Freud is about Freud - provided Freud exists timelessly.
Belief/Loar:/Schiffer (1981): ingenious theory about the thesis: belief is a relation in the public language of the ascribing, but in which the semantic properties that determine the content, are not defined in the public language, but in the Tarski-style.
Tarski-style/T-Def/Schiffer: is not of any role of (translation: prescinds from any role) that can have the expression in the communication: if "T" is defined for a language, then contains [s is T] nothing about the use of s in any population of speakers. (Tarski 1956).
Individuation/Belief/Loar/Schiffer: Loar's view makes it necessary that convictions based on interpersonal attributable functional states are individuated. ((s) So actually incompatible with Tarski). SchifferVsLoar:: (see below): which is not likely to go.
That leaves as the only way: (see above).
a) (compatible with IBS (intention based semantics): the local (topical) thesis that belief is a relation to a mental representation (in Mentalese).
That 1. the content of signs and sounds must be reduced to contents of mental states (i.e. their intentional properties that are attributed to that-propositions).
2. then the contents of mental states are reduced to semantic properties of non-public language of mental representations that realize these mental states. ((s) representations implement mental states).
Non-public language/Problem: the semantic properties of the non-public language of formulas in the inner system are contingent (!) properties! That means they require a theory that tells us what the truth conditions intends for sentences in Mentalese.
This is a difficult legacy.
Belief/Schiffer: but must be able to be explained without psychological vocabulary. (see above).
((s) representations/Schiffer/(s): must be explained in a non-public language, or the declaration itself in a public language, but as a phenomenon must be recognized that their contents are determined in a non-public language. (Non-public: E.g. attribution of truth values, but also Mentalese, content of mental states, etc.).
SchifferVsLoar/SchifferVsFolk psychology: there are not nearly enough M-restrictions in a possible folk psychology, that by definition must be accessible to everybody, E.g. the belief that New Zealand is not a dictatorship: with which "observation moderate belief" (or amounts of such) is this belief to be connected via M-restrictions?. SchifferVsFolk psychology: they can not afford the functionalist reduction.
Belief/Proposition/Loar/Schiffer: (Loar, 1981) began with propositions of belief objects, but then showed how it manages without the benefit of linguistic entities. SchifferVsLoar: 1. gives no completely general proposal. Its only meta condition is supplied from a common sense theory which is applicable only to normal adults.
Problem: it is a consequence of Loar's theory that E.g. the predicate "believes that the New Yorker publishes Ved Metha" in my idiolect is partially defined by a common sense theory, which is incorrect for the blind and therefore, as I use the predicate, the proposition "Ved Metha believes that the New Yorker publishes Ved Metha" cannot be correct, because Ved Metha is blind. 2. Loar's theory is not immune to twin-earth examples and Burges examples. (He is aware of that).
Narrow Content/Loar/Stalnaker: (Loar 1987, 1988): Loar has an ingenious thesis and good examples that allow us to better understand the internalism. StalnakerVsLoar: his defense of internalism is, however, not entirely convincing.
Stalnaker: I believe that something like Loar's narrow content will play a role in intentional explanation but that it will not be narrow content!
Content/that-clause/Loar/Stalnaker: "loose connection": here there shall be a certain way how the world appears to the thinker and this be a purely internal characteristic of the thinker. Language/content/problem/Loar: our language is permeated by social and causal presuppositions so it can only inaccurately detect our internal content.
Stalnaker: pro, but I do not think that the belief states are themselves infected one whit less causally and socially!
"loose connection"/Loar: (e.g. Paul, arthrite) Problem: what things about the world of which Paul believes that he is in make Paul's convictions true? The ascription of "I have arthrite in the ankle" expresses something else than the ascription of "J'ai l'arthrite dans ma cheville".
StalnakerVsLoar: I also think that this is a mystery, but about ascription. I do not think that supports an internalism.
Truthmaker/conviction/possible World/poss.w./Stalnaker: are the facts about the world as it appears to Paul internal or facts on the language use in Paul's environment?
Ascription/to make true/Stalnaker: to answer the question, we need a theory on what makes belief ascriptions (ascriptions of content) true or false.
Solution/Stalnaker: we need a causal information-theoretical approach that uses counterfactual conditionals. And I do not see how this could go internalistic.
Counterfactual conditional/co.co./Stalnaker: (externalistic) one might assume that Paul would be in another state when the world would be different. Or Paul is in his internal state iff the world is actual in this certain way. ((s) But that excludes illusions).
externalistic: that would be non-internalistic because it is based on general causal regularities.
Problem/Stalnaker: the same problems arise that already appeared in Loar's belief ascription.
a) a purely internal content – the way how the world appears to the thinker – with it behavior is actually explained.
b) a social content (to what the ascriptions refer). Stalnaker: it is not clear to me what role b) shall play.
Content/StalnakerVsLoar: thesis: if we describe it properly psychological and social content fall together.
Loar's examples do not show that psychological content is narrow.
Loar: thesis: there are phenomenological reasons why the way the world appears to the thinker must be an internal property of the thinker.
privileged access/Loar/Stalnaker: Loar's phenomenological argument for his internalism is the privileged access we have to ourselves. We know what our thoughts are about. LoarVsBurge/LoarVsExternalism: privileged access is incompatible with the anti-individualism. (Team: Loar per internalism, Loar per individualism).
Loar: thesis: it is hard to see how I could be wrong about my purely semantic judgment that my thought about Freud is about Freud - assuming Freud exists timelessly. StalnakerVsLoar: this is true but why is this in conflict with the externalism?
LoarVsExternalism/Stalnaker: Loar's arguments are based on observations of the externalist analysis of the reference relation.
logical form: (of the argument);: I do not judge that I stand in relation R to x ("R") be an externalist conception of this relation of aboutness or reference).
aboutness/"about"/Loar/Stalnaker: therefore "R" cannot be a correct analysis of the aboutness relation to which I have privileged access.
aboutness/"about"/Loar: it is implausible that I, to know that my thoughts are about Freud, need an opinion on a causal-historical relation to him. Such a relation has no one properly characterized yet.
1. a philosophical analysis of a concept may be correct, even if a competent user of the concept does not know the analysis.
2. the externalism does not specify that the aboutness-relation is analyzable.
Kripke: (in his defense of the causal theory) does not assert that this is reductionist.
Loar/StalnakerVsLoar: he is right that my "pre-critical" perspective, "that my thought that my thought about Freud is a thought about Freud" does apparently not need an externalist concept. ((s) "drastic content". see below).
Def content/Stalnaker: (whether psychological or social) is a way to put us in touch with others and to our environment.
the normal evidence (behavior) that affect them.
Attribution/Propositional Attitude/Theory/Loar: Thesis: the epistemology of attribution of belief and desire must be separated from its explanation. LoarVsPositivism: without the separation one succumbs to the errors of positivism, phenomenalism, behaviorism and semantic instrumentalism in relation to science. (Loar 1981 p.128).
LoarVsPositivism/Avramides: his mistake: to try to formulate truth conditions in terms of document conditions.
AvramidesVsLoar: Thesis: now "a priori constitutive connections between attribution of attitudes (propositional attitudes) and language behavior" are exactly what I propose. (Loar 1981 p.128).
In addition, I have proposed not to separate precisely between the epistemology of the attribution of desires and beliefs from their explanation. ((s) Well, so not after all!).
Do I now fall into the "positivist trap" of Loar? I do not think so.
AvramidesVsLoar: his mistake is to think that only positivism can combine an approach to psychology with semantics.
Propositional Attitude/Physicalism/LoarVsQuine: Variant: allows the propositions of A to be replaced by those of B, but nothing has changed in the way people see things. In particular, we allow the propositions of some physical theory to be replaced by propositions about belief, etc., but that does not change the way we think about each other. That is the "conservative explanation".
N.B.: not that the theorist did not change beliefs, but his cognitive situation is as if he did not. How can that be? I cannot explain it, but it happens. And it can serve as a cognitive solution for something that is considered a serious theoretical problem.
But: for the substitution to be correct, the truths of B (set of propositions) must give way to those of A (physical theory). ((s) So to become physicalistic propositions about belief).
AvramidesVsLoar/AvramidesVsReductionism: I cannot allow the truths of B to give way to those of A. (see below chapters 3 and 4) I will show that the reasons for forcing us to hold on to propositions about belief are reasons for abandoning the imperialist (physicalist) view. This even corresponds to Loar's line.
The author or concept searched is found in the following 2 theses of the more related field of specialization.
Loar makes the mind an objective phenomenon - AvramidesVsLoar / AvramidesVsPhysicalism: if one conceives of the mind as objectively, one can no longer separate conceptual issues from superficial epistemic questions. Or a separation between our access to what the mind is, and the normal wvidence (behavior) for mental states can not be maintained.
Glauben/SchifferVsLoar: Problem: seine Realisation einer Theorie von Glauben/Wünschen - (als Funktion von Propositionen auf physikalische Zustände) - deren funktionale Rollen von der Theorie festgelegt werden: Problem: Theorie zu finden, die jede Proposition mit einer einzigen funktionalen Rolle korreliert statt mit vielen - Schiffer: das wird nicht gehen, daher ist das Quine-Field-Argument erledigt.
"glaubt"/prop Einst/Schiffer: ist semantisch einfach, in dem Sinn, dass es nicht zusammengesetzt ist. Es ist aber kein Grundbegriff.


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Home Article HOW REALISTIC IS THE CAR-FREE LIFESTYLE?
HOW REALISTIC IS THE CAR-FREE LIFESTYLE?
by Dana Goldstein
Three years ago, when I first moved to D.C. and started writing for liberal magazines, it was considered hopelessly niche to care about decreasing Americans' reliance on cars. Supporting ideas like gas taxes and smart growth suburban development got you labeled an urban-triumphalist with little understanding of how most Americans "chose" to live their lives. As someone who grew up in a small town before living in several large cities, I'm well aware that in most American places, the simplest tasks -- from buying food to taking one's child to the doctor -- are impossible without an automobile. But a potent combination of environmental and economic concerns have completely changed the tone of the public debate around these issues. In a New York Times "Room for Debate" forum today on the topic of a "car-free America," every single contributor agrees that moving quickly toward less car dependence is a good idea. The debate is not between car-defenders and car-haters, but rather between those, like J.H. Crawford, who believe cities should follow the Venetian model and be totally car-free, and those, such as Witold Rybczynski, who urge "car-appropriate" lifestyles. Rybczynski claims that only six American cities have downtowns dense enough for a mass transit-dependent lifestyle: New York (midtown and downtown), Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco. This will come as news to those of us who live in Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn without cars, just to name two communities in which I've spent a lot of time. But while the childless lifestyle without a car is rather easy in a number of mid-sized cities, things get substantially more complicated when you're responsible for ferreting a small, fussy person around to all their activities, while still being on time yourself. Any parents out there have experience with the car-less lifestyle outside of Manhattan? Any childless people who are making car-lessness work in cities other than the ones I've discussed here? --Dana Goldstein
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Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute.
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SAFETY NET SPOTLIGHT
Serving more than 2.85 million patients annually, primarily Medi-Cal and uninsured, California's 21 public health care systems are on the front lines of implementing health reform. In this newsletter, we hope to offer a window into that experience.
CARE THAT SPEAKS TO THE COMMUNITY
With millions of Californians eligible for new coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act, public health care systems are working to compete as providers of choice for this newly eligible population by improving the experience of care within their delivery systems. For the 40 percent of Californians who speak a language other than English at home, being able to speak with health care providers in the language that they prefer can greatly enhance their care experience. Effective communication between providers and patients also helps ensure that patients receive the high quality care and support they need to get well and stay healthy.
Providers in public health care systems are pursuing a range of strategies to deliver truly patient-centered services that are respectful of and responsive to the linguistic needs of their patients. For example, Alameda Health System's (AHS) Interpreter Services program provides translation in 26 languages. As a multi-site public health care system in the Bay Area, videoconferencing allows AHS staff from different locations to provide language support regardless of which site patients frequent for care. Video medical interpretation (VMI) has resulted in a reduction in wait times for AHS patients, connecting patients to interpreters within five minutes of the request.
Puspa Rai, a native Nepali speaker, first learned of AHS's Interpreter Services in 2008 during a Refugee Health Screening Clinic at Eastmont Wellness, one of AHS's four neighborhood-based community Wellness Centers where she now receives her primary care. When Rai arrived at her appointment, she was met in-person by Ram Magar, a member of AHS's Interpreter Services Team and a Nepali speaker. Rai was easily able to communicate with the Eastmont Wellness staff, and has since used the VMI system during appointments at other AHS facilities.
"I like the way she [Magar] interprets for me," says Rai. "Interpreter Services has helped me a lot, especially when I have to go to Highland Hospital. Having Ram there via video medical interpretation is very helpful."
In their efforts to best serve the culturally diverse communities that rely on their systems of care, California's public health care systems have become industry leaders in language services. In 2005, three such systems founded the Health Care Interpreter Network (HCIN), a cooperative of hospitals and clinics sharing trained health care interpreters through an automated video/voice call center to ensure patients receive care in the language they understand. The network has since grown to include 12 of California's public health care systems and other provider organizations across the nation, giving patients real-time access to trained interpreters in 170 languages. (For more information about HCIN, please visit their website.)
In tandem with technological tools like HCIN and VMI, California's public health care systems also pioneer unique solutions tailored to the particular communities that they serve. For example, caring for immigrant families in Salinas, Natividad Medical Center is seeing a growing number of patients who speak not just Spanish, but also exclusively indigenous languages from Mexico and Central America like Mixtec, Triqui, Mum, and Zapotec. Since trained interpreters who speak indigenous languages are not available through traditional interpreting services, Natividad partnered with their community to develop a new workforce. Victor Sosa, Language Access Coordinator, sought out indigenous language speakers whom he could train to become health care interpreters, and collaborated with Bridging the Gap, the oldest national healthcare interpreter training program in the United States, to adapt their basic 40-hour training for healthcare interpreters. To date, Natividad's interpreting program has trained 88 indigenous speakers.
This March, Natividad launched Indigenous Interpreting + , a service of the Natividad Medical Foundation to offer Natividad's network of interpreters and interpreter training to other hospitals and agencies across the nation. The program was co-founded by Angelica Isidro, a Mixteco Bajo/Medio-Spanish speaker who came to the U.S. from Oaxaca in 1991 to work as a farm laborer. Often accompanying people on their medical visits to help interpret, Angelica began helping indigenous members of the community better communicate with Natividad staff. Angelica has since completed medical interpreter training and an internship program at Natividad, and is now an important cultural liaison, helping to improve on-the-job practices to provide effective communication between the indigenous community and service providers around the country.
Angelica shares about her work as an interpreter, "I think it is very important for the community, that they understand when they come to the hospital what is wrong with them...that when they leave, they leave happy, that they were looked after. For me, being an interpreter is everything."
By combining in-person medical interpreters, bilingual staff, remote interpreting technologies, and community-driven initiatives like Indigenous Interpreting +, California's public health care systems stretch limited resources to provide a better overall experience of care for their patients. Reducing language barriers between patients and providers helps ensure that everyone receives the high quality health care they deserve and an equal opportunity to enjoy good health.
CAPH is a non-profit trade association that represents California's 21 public health care systems - comprised of county-owned and operated facilities, and University of California medical centers. In partnership with our quality improvement affiliate, the California Health Care Safety Net Institute (SNI), we work to strengthen the capacity of our members to advance community health, ensure access to high-quality, culturally sensitive health care services for all Californians, and educate the next generation of health care professionals. For more information, visit us at www.caph.org or www.safetynetinstitute.org.


Ted Koppel gave CNN's Brian Stelter a savage reality check about where the network would be without its continual diet of feeding on President Donald Trump.
The veteran journalist with over four decades of experience told Stelter directly that ratings at his network would be "in the toilet" without the president.
Koppel broke the news to Stelter during a panel discussion on journalism at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday as he explained the co-dependency of the press and the president. He was making the point that some top media executives have admitted that Trump has been good for business,d driving up ratings as they tune in to follow the latest coverage of the president and his administration.
Stelter shook his head in disagreement.
"Ted, you know that's not true," he said.
"CNN's ratings would be in the toilet without Donald Trump," Koppel reiterated, drawing laughter from the audience.
He estimated a 20-40 percent increase in viewership since Trump came to office, in response to Koppel's question about the difference in ratings before and after Trump.
Koppel, who anchored ABC News' "Nightline" for 25 years, noted that MSNBC also spends a sizable amount of its airtime covering Trump, commenting that it was apparently a "sensitive subject" for Stelter.
"Is there a moment of the day when they are not focusing on Donald Trump or some intimately related subject?" he asked.
Stelter admitted he admired the journalism legend in a tweet on Wednesday but noted that the cable news business is "a lot more complex" than made to seem by Koppel, whose daughter was a CNN correspondent from 1993 to 2006.
According to Nielsen Media Research, CNN came in third behind MSNBC and Fox News during the third quarter of 2018. While Fox News averaged 1.4 million total viewers, MSNBC averaged 1 million and only 722,000 for CNN. Viewership was also down nine percent for CNN compared to the third quarter of 2017 while Fox News and MSNBC gained viewers.


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Massacre at Duffy's Cut: Tragedy & Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad
By William E. Watson and J. Francis Watson
Fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers arrived in the port of Philadelphia in June 1832 to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Contractor Philip Duffy soon hired them to work a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. They all perished within six weeks. For more than 180 years, the railroad maintained that cholera was to blame and kept the historical record under lock and key. In a harrowing modern-day excavation of their mass grave, a group of academics and volunteers found evidence some of the laborers were murdered. Authors and research leaders Dr. William E. Watson and Dr. J. Francis Watson reveal the tragedy, mystery and discovery of what really happened at Duffy's Cut.
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The Watsons are the founders of the Duffy's Cut Project. William E. Watson received his PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania and is a professor of history at Immaculata University in Pennsylvania. J. Francis Watson received his PhD in historical theology from Drew University and is a Lutheran clergyman, ecclesiastical archivist and historian in New Jersey.


COMMENTARY | It's official. The Oakland Raiders 2012 NFL schedule has been released to the public and so far it's apparent that the Raiders will have their work cut out for them this season.
The Raiders finished last season with an 8-8 record. Though disappointing, the past two seasons have been considered a turn around because at least they have not dropped below 500 like they have for nearly a decade.
The 2012 season is filled with teams that have not been shy about winning playoff games in the past. The Raiders will face the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Click to Read More.


Atmospheric cycles coming together have been indicted for frequent heat waves, says S.Ananthanarayanan.
While man-made global warming explains gradual increase in spells of severe heat, the intensity and duration of events that we are seeing cannot be understood as a result of just warming of the globe. "The large number of recent high-impact extreme weather events has struck and puzzled us," says Dim Coumou, lead author of a study at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, or PIK), published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science (PNAS). The team, Dim Coumou, Vladimir Petoukhov, Stefan Rahmstorf, Stefan Petri, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, of PIK and the Santa Fe Institute, analysed massive sets of weather data from around the world and find that episodes of extreme heat are related to wave forms in the circulation patterns in the atmosphere acting together.
The stream of the air mass also veers and strays in its flow, and returns, due to restoring forces, to veer the other way, and so on, which leads to meandering, periodic, wavy motion. These kinds of wavy motion are known as Rossby waves, after Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby, who explained how they came about. The wave formation in the cold circulation around the poles can become so strong, that a portion of it could break free to form a cyclone or an anticyclone to cause extremes of cold at lower latitudes. And there are Rossby waves that move northwards from the equator, bringing heat from the tropics to Russia, Europe or the US. The PIK study has shown that at times of extreme weather, the wave which brings great heat from the low to high latitudes could begin to move very slowly, so that the heat stays without dissipating for a long time, says a press release from PIK.
"Behind this, there is a subtle resonance mechanism that traps waves in the mid-latitudes and amplifies them strongly," says Stefan Rahmstorf, co-author of the study. The study cites a proposal by an earlier group, Petoukhov et al, that combination of the right conditions could lead to the wave energy being trapped. The group had worked out the years, in July-Aug of the period from 1980 to 2011, in which these conditions, called resonance conditions, were fulfilled. The group used wind speed and other data and computed the timing of different components of the wave movement and found that there were 19 instances in 1980 to 2011, of the different components acting together, or a resonance, and these corresponded to events of extreme weather. A resonance happens when the frequency of a wave motion matches the native frequency of another system, which absorbs the energy of the wave and saves it from being dissipated. At such an event, the extent of up or down motion of both systems add up and the swing can be very wide. It is like a particular violin string that may be set vibrating by the voice of a singer. The listener then hears the singer as well as the violin string and the sound is louder.
The PIK group notes that in recent years there has been a cluster of resonance events and this rise coincides with the rapid warming of the Arctic. The PIK press release observes that since the year 2000, the Arctic has been warming nearly twice as fast as the rest of the globe. The reason is that for this warming is again global warming and the loss of Arctic sea ice. Loss of ice reduces the proportion of heat reflected back to space and a darker sea warms faster. And the rise in the frequency of resonance effects in planetary waves since 2000, with a rise in Arctic temperature by about 1°C, indicates how closely factors like temperature differences, which drive the weather, are linked with events like extreme climate.
The study, in fact, puts a finger on a mechanism by which marginal changes in global temperature act as a switch to turn on forces that have drastic consequences. "The planetary waves topic illustrates how delicately interlinked components in the Earth system are, and it shows how disproportionately the system might react to our perturbations," says Joachim Schellnhuber, co-author of the study. If climate change continues unabated, severe heat extremes may affect 85% of the land area of the earth by the year 2100 and 60% would face extremes that are unknown today, the press note says.


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package net.siufung.bzgzpt.persistence.uap.service;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import net.siufung.bzgzpt.persistence.collect.domain.Aba31;
import net.siufung.bzgzpt.persistence.uap.domain.Role;
import net.siufung.bzgzpt.persistence.uap.domain.User;
import net.siufung.bzgzpt.config.persistence.ICrudService;
import cn.jbinfo.platform.core.basic.exception.ServiceException;
import cn.jbinfo.platform.core.framework.page.MyPage;

/**
 * 用户服务
* @ClassName: UserService
* @Description: TODO
* @author siufung.chen
* @date 2016年9月3日 下午7:39:54
*
 */
public interface IUserService extends ICrudService< User> {

/*	*//**
	* 获取当前用户
	* @return 取不到返回 new User()
    *//*
	public User getUser(){
		Principal principal = UserShiro.getPrincipal();
		if (principal!=null){
			User user = get(principal.getId());
			if (user != null){
				return user;
			}
			return new User();
		}
		// 如果没有登录,则返回实例化空的User对象。
		return new User();
	}*/

	/**
	 * 获得对象通过id
	* @Title: get
	* @Description: TODO
	* @param @param id
	* @param @return
	* @param @throws ServiceException    设定文件
	* @return User    返回类型
	* @date 2016年9月7日 下午3:46:49
	* @throws
	 */
	public User get(String id) throws ServiceException;

	/**
	 *
	* @Title: getUserByLoginName
	* @Description: TODO
	* @param @param loginName
	* @param @return
	* @param @throws ServiceException    设定文件
	* @return User    返回类型
	* @date 2016年9月3日 下午7:41:52
	* @throws
	 */
	public User getUserByLoginName(String loginName) throws ServiceException;
	public User getUserByEmpid(String empid) throws ServiceException;

	/**
	 * 获得部门下用户list
	* @Title: findUserByDepartId
	* @Description: TODO
	* @param @param departId
	* @param @return    设定文件
	* @return List<User>    返回类型
	* @throws
	 */
	public List<User> findUserByDepartId(String departId);

	/**
	 * 修改密码
	* @Title: updatePasswordById
	* @Description: TODO
	* @param @param id
	* @param @param loginName
	* @param @param newPassword    设定文件
	* @return void    返回类型
	* @throws
	 */
	public void updatePasswordById(User user);

	/**
	 * 修改用户信息
	* @Title: updateUserLoginInfo
	* @Description: TODO
	* @param @param user    设定文件
	* @return void    返回类型
	* @throws
	 */
	public void updateUserLoginInfo(User user) ;

	public void updateUserInfo(User user);
	public User assignUserToRole(Role role, User user) ;
	public HashMap getUserAndDeptByLoginName(String username,
			String deptCode);
	public MyPage<Map<String, Object>> getPage(User user);
	public List<User> findList(User user);
}

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The US and Thailand Treaty of Amity provides qualified The US companies registered in The US doing business in Thailand or The US majority owned companies registered in Thailand the special treatment to gained the same rights and legal flexibilities as Thai companies do and will be also exempted from most of the restrictions on foreign investment imposed by the Alien Business Decree of 1972.
The US and Thailand Treaty of Amity can be an advantage for international investors wishing to do business in Thailand. Under The Treaty The US Company can maintain the majority of shareholder or own the company 100% and also representative office, branch office located in Thailand.
However, there are six exceptions to the treaty which means if The US investors are to engage in any of the following activities. The US and Thailand Treatment will not be apply.
At least 51% of shares must be held by American citizens.
At least 50% of directors whose signature may bind the company must be American citizens.
If the above conditions are met, our next step is our job to process your application.
Tila legal will assist you to register your business at the Ministry of Commerce. And to obtain documents verifying that your company has been registered in compliance with Thai law, in Thailand or in The US. This step takes 1 week.
Tila legal will assist you to submit documents and letter confirming that the majority of business's shareholders are US citizens and receives the letter from the commercial section at The US Embassy in Bangkok. This step takes 1-2 days.
Tila legal will submit the certification documents and all required documents required to obtain alien business license to the Thai Department of Business Development of the Ministry of Commerce in order to register under the treaty and to complete the process. This step takes up to 4 weeks.


Good case acceptance is when a patient says "yes" with a smile on their face. Case acceptance is a step-by-step process and critical to practice health. From diagnosis, treatment recommendation and documentation to presentation and the financial conversation, the dentist and team need to provide the patient every opportunity to engage and become excited about care. The goal is to achieve "buy-in" by giving patients a clear understanding of how recommended dentistry will benefit them and how it relates to the goals they have for their oral health and smile.
Being able to have evenly engineered, balanced days with a variety of procedures reduces stress, and increases productivity and efficiency. Maintaining a balanced schedule is absolutely critical to the longevity of the health of the practice the dental team and the procedures they provide. Set a daily production goal based on your financial goals and then look at how it is engineered to be evenly balanced between major dentistry, basic dentistry and what's called your tertiary dentistry of no fee.
No-shows and cancellations are a challenge for practices on a daily basis. The number one reason people say they don't show up is they believe "it's just a cleaning." So the dental practice must invest in team communication and be able to confidently and clearly communicate to the patient that their oral health is the gateway to overall body wellness.
When you exceed expectations, have good case acceptance and schedule appropriately, the final step is to collect for the dentistry being delivered. Dentists should not be bankers and carrying accounts over a long period of time impacts the value of the practice in the future. The goal for accounts receivable, in an assignment dental practice, is to not have the total dollars owed to the practice exceed more than four to six weeks of production, with less than 10% outstanding in over 90% of the cases. A non-assignment practice theoretically would have no accounts receivable, especially if they collect over the counter at time of service.


Don't miss out on this rare opportunity! Great Ranch Property in the heart of University Hills! This beautiful 3 bed 1 bath ranch features hardwood floors throughout and nicely updated kitchen! Separate laundry room with washer and dryer included! Enjoy the patio space off the dining room area. Winters will be made easy with the attached garage! The large back yard is a great space for entertaining or building an addition to the home. The home is zoned for multi units so the possibilities are endless!


The three enclosed regional malls in New Haven Metro are Connecticut Post Mall in Milford, Brass Mill Center in Waterbury and Westfield Meriden in Meriden. The area surrounding the Brass Mill Center and Westfield Meriden is not heavily supported by additional retail due to its proximity to the urban core of the City of Waterbury and the City of Meriden respectively.
There is a tremendous amount of big box and other supportive retail located along the Route 1 corridor where the Connecticut Post Mall is located. The route 1 retail corridor extends from the Connecticut Post Mall at the intersection of Route 1 and I-95 approximately 5 miles to the north through the towns of Milford, Orange and West Haven.
The second largest concentration of regional big box retail in New Haven Metro is located along Universal Drive in North Haven, north of the City of New Haven, with excellent regional access via exit 9 of I-91. A secondary regional corridor exists along Route 5 in Wallingford at the exit to the Wilbur Cross Parkway in the northern portion of the metro area. Strong community retail corridors exist east of New Haven along Route 1 on the shoreline in Branford and Guilford, north of New Haven along Route 10 at the exit to the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Hamden, in Waterbury along both Walcott Street as well as Chase Avenue, along Route 8 in Ansonia & Derby, and in Southbury at exits 14 & 15 of I-84. Strong urban street retail exists in New Haven adjacent to Yale University's main campus in the buildings surrounding the historic New Haven Green in downtown New Haven and along Broadway in what is known as The Shops at Yale.
Major grocers operating in New Haven County include Stop & Shop, Shop Rite, Big Y, Price Chopper, The Fresh Market, Walmart Supercenter, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Aldi, Save-A-Lot and Price Rite.
The New Haven Metro area is best known for being the home of Yale University, but that is only part of the story. With a long history of manufacturing, metro area employers have kept pace with modern advanced manufacturing technologies by utilizing the New Haven area's highly trained and specialized workforce to meet the needs of the areas diverse manufacturing base. From chemical manufactures like Chemtura, Cytec & MacDermid, to adhesives and mortar products from Laticrete, to locking systems and hardware from Sargent, to candy products from Pez, to razor blades from Schick, the diversity of products manufactured is a testimony to a skilled workforce both at the plant level as well as in engineering and technology.
As the area continues to grow this proud history of manufacturing, it also looks to build on the strong knowledge based economy that has been fostered by Yale University and other nearby colleges and universities by focusing on attracting companies that are associated with the bioscience sector. While this focus on the biosciences is now prevalent in many areas of Connecticut, it was New Haven in the late 1990's that lead the way and still does today. In 1992, Congress enacted legislation empowering colleges and universities to leverage their research, patents and other intellectual property in the business ventures. Yale University, which had medical and technology professors who for years had pursued solo commercialization of their research, quickly seized on the opportunity to coordinate and facilitate those startup efforts with Yale. By the early 2000's the result was seven fledgling bioscience firms, who through good science, good timing and generous financial backing from the state of Connecticut, established New Haven as a budding hub of bioscience innovation and entrepreneurism. These seven companies were referred to as the "seven sisters" in peer circles. Of the seven – Achillon, Alexion, CuraGen, Genaissance, Neurogen, Rib-X and Vion – all but two (Neurogen and Vion) still exist today in one form or another.
The real legacy left behind by these original "seven sisters" is the critical mass of scientific and entrepreneurial talent, plus a notable track record of public and private funding to further grow and sustain the areas bioscience ambitions. Most bioscience startups have trouble securing traditional loans because technology requires years of investments and resulting operating losses before product can be brought to market. Recognizing this problem, the Connecticut State Legislature passed legislation that, beginning in 2000, allowed startups in bioscience to convert their operating losses into tax credits that could be converted to cash to fund their operations. This was a crucial step in support of the bioscience cluster and is still in effect today.
The tax credit program prompted Yale to ramp up its commercialization efforts. In the last 20 years, Yale has launched some 60 biotechnology companies that have raised more than 1 billion in private venture capital. All of these seeds have given rise to a critical mass of bioscience companies that are able to attract scientific talent from around the country. This has resulted in a strong infrastructure for the growth of the bioscience cluster from "start ups" to mature companies and everything in between. This infrastructure includes a venture capital market that investors find attractive due to its history of success, world class research facilities, a strong existing talent pool to draw from as well as the ability to attract new talent, and a state government that has shown a consistent willingness to invest in this cluster. Add to this the strong lifestyle factor that New Haven Metro provides compared to its more expensive and congested competitors in more well-known bioscience markets like Boston – Cambridge, Northern New Jersey or California, and bioscience in New Haven Metro looks as if it will be able to continue its positive job growth in the future.
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university, originally founded in 1701. The school officially became Yale College in 1718, when it was renamed in honor of Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I. To this day Yale students are still called by the nickname "Elis" after the school's namesake. It is the third oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale alumni include five U.S. Presidents (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, William Howard Taft) and 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Yale is divided into fourteen constituent schools. The undergraduate school which is officially known as Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences along with 12 professional schools. These 12 are the Schools of Law, Medicine, Management, Architecture, Engineering & Applied Science, Art, Divinity, Drama, Forestry & Environmental Studies, Music, Nursing, and Public Health. Yale has an annual research budget in excess of $500 million.
Yale New Haven Hospital is the 4th largest hospital in the country with over 1,500 beds, 12,000 employees, over 80,000 annual inpatient discharges, outpatient visits exceeding 1,300,000 patients annually and includes the 168 bed Smilow Cancer Hospital, the 201 bed Yale New Haven Children's Hospital and the 76 bed Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. It is the primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Nursing.
The school is currently in the middle of a $2 billion capital improvement program for its' campus. Yale's is an urban campus and so the school meshes completely into the downtown core and the iconic New Haven Green. As New Haven's largest property owner Yale has been careful and deliberate to utilize their real estate to bring in retailers and restaurants that make both Yale and New Haven a unique place to live and work. Many of the retail and restaurant offerings that are found around the campus and downtown core would never choose to be in New Haven except for the presence of Yale. Whether from a physical, economic or social perspective, it is impossible to understate the positive impact that Yale University has on the city of New Haven and the region as a whole.


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Home News Bing Remove 143 Million URLs From its Search Results in 2021
Bing Remove 143 Million URLs From its Search Results in 2021
This is a slight increase in takedown when compared to last year.
Complying with DMCA takedown requests, Bing has removed nearly 143 million URLs from its search results in 2021, mostly the pirate ones.
This is a slight increase in a takedown when compared to the same period last year. Bing noted that over 99% of the takedown requests were legit, and thus removed. And interestingly, all the removals in Bing have affected the results of other search engines relying on Bing.
Bing 2021 Transparency Report
Though Microsoft's Bing is a small player in the search engine market, it still holds a strong position in a few areas like the US and Europe. Unlike Google, Bing processes millions of requests every day and complies with takedown requests sent by copyright owners.
In this pursuit, Bing removed nearly 143 million "pirate" URLs from its search results in 2021, as noted in its transparency report released this week. The search engine said they had received over 144 million DMCA requests last year, where about 99% of them (142,855,667 URLs) were considered legit, and thus removed.
Most of the requests were filed by Remove Your Media, an entity that works with various Manga copyright houses around the world. Remove Your Media sent over 50 million takedown requests to Bing in the first half of 2021, but dropped this to a mere 46,000 requests in the second half.
Yet, it stands as the No.1 removal requestor, followed by UK's music group BPI (31 million URL requests) and Marketly (11 million URL requests). The total number of 143 million takedown requests is a slightly increased count from last year's 125 million URLs.
In the category of most reported domains, we see Mangapark.net, a manga-related site at the top with 2.5 million times targets. This was followed by Mangafox and Ninemanga, similar domains hosting copyrighted manga content.
What's interesting is that Bing removing these results has affected the other search engine results too! Search engines like the DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Qwant, and Ecosia, which rely on Bing's results had these changes reflected in their results automatically.
Xiaomi 11T and Poco F4 Receive Stable MIUI 14 Based on Android 13
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Following the closest vote total in the history of the Iowa Caucuses, Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn today provided an update on the vote certification process.
Jon Huntsman will withdraw Monday from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, campaign officials told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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Completion of a Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline with a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.0 out of 4.0, or equivalent (e.g. an upper second-class honors in a UK-style degree, from a reputable accredited institution).
A minimum quantitative score of 150 in the general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required for admission to all programs, with the exception of Master of Engineering in Health, Safety and Environment Engineering and the Master of Arts in International and Civil Security, where a minimum threshold is not set. Applicants for all programs should attempt all three sections of the GRE.
A minimum of two referee recommendations (provided via online form).
Statement of purpose (500-1,000 words).
Completion of a Master's degree in a relevant discipline with a minimum CGPA of 3.25 out of 4.0, or equivalent (e.g. an upper second-class honors in UK-style Master by taught courses with a minimum average of 63% or a Pass in a Master by Research/MPhil) from a reputable accredited institution.
A minimum quantitative score of 150 in the general Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is required for admission to all Doctorate programs. Applicants for all programs should attempt all three sections of the GRE.