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Banquo's Ghost: the Growth Commission, the EU and Scottish Independence
Kirsty Hughes | 27 May 2018
Like Banquo's ghost, the European Union makes rather few appearances in the report of the SNP's Growth Commission. But its rather invisible presence can be felt throughout. Given the Scottish government – and SNP's – policy that an independent Scotland should be in the EU, this side-lining of the EU in a comprehensive report considering productivity, competitiveness, migration, inequality, trade, and macro-economic policy, including currency, is rather curious.
The Commission does eventually suggest, though it doesn't include it in its long list of key recommendations, that Scotland should be in the EU single market, but that too receives strangely little focus. The net result is a missed opportunity to consider a whole range of key questions, given Scotland's interests.
These would include questions such as: what sort of industrial strategy the EU should develop (from Scotland's point of view) or how its current strategy would help or hinder Scotland; key EU approaches in completing the digital single market and how that might impact on new digital policies in Scotland, or boosting EU sustainable technology competitiveness and how that could play to Scotland's strengths, to pan-EU infrastructure and how that could help Scottish infrastructure, to future EU trade policy to what an independent Scotland's future migration policy would look like if it was in the EU and so part of free movement (and how that would impact on relations with/the border with the rest of the UK). And too the Commission sidesteps difficult challenges such as arguments over joining the euro, or indeed the pros and cons of an independent Scotland joining the EU or the European Economic Area once independent.
Yet these choices would be crucial to an independent Scotland's future economic policies – and are also critically impacted on by the nature of the rest of the UK's future relationship with the EU post-Brexit. Brexit, as the report does periodically note, will have a major and negative impact on the Scottish economy but how an independent Scotland should respond and choose its European future is simply not addressed. The overall effect, leaving the EU as a ghostly presence in the report, is that it reads as if an independent Scotland, like the 12 key small economies it is compared with, would just be facing global markets and challenges. Yet this is clearly not the case. And indeed the key currency proposal in the report would place a clear block in the way of an independent Scotland's accession to the EU.
EU or European Economic Area
All the European countries, amongst the 12 that the Growth Commission focuses on, are either in the EU, the EEA, or in the Swiss case in EFTA (with its own particular version of single market compliance and access.) And two of the top three countries highlighted as important comparators are EU member states – Denmark and Finland. Surely, an independent Scotland would not be choosing a UK hard Brexit, Canada-style free trade deal like the UK (and the Growth Commission is, at least, clear that Brexit is damaging so presumably it wouldn't support this). And so an independent Scotland's future industrial strategy, research policies, regional strategies, infrastructure and more would all be part of either the EEA or EU and the whole panoply of related policies – and funding support – available. Yet the European level of policy-making and how it would interact with the various Scottish policies considered in depth by the Growth Commission is, in the main, simply not addressed.
The report does make a recommendation (in Section A) on Brexit and market access: "Securing frictionless borders with the rest of the UK and EU should be a top strategic priority of the Scottish Government. Brexit places a material risk on Scotland's access to export and import markets and the free movement of people, capital, goods and services and must therefore be resisted vigorously."
So Brexit should be resisted, which might be taken to imply an independent Scotland should be in the EU. But later (in Section C) in the context of the briefest mention of the euro, we read "If Scotland became an EU member in the future…". So it's if not when and, overall, the EU is mostly just not mentioned.
Borders: Securing frictionless borders with the UK and EU is set down as a top strategic priority (and later in the report for the whole world too: "Scotland's economic interests will be best served maximising frictionless trade and ensuring access to UK, EU and wider global markets"). But quite how this might happen is not investigated – some might call it 'cake and eat it' and it is reminiscent of Theresa May talking of 'as frictionless a border as possible' as she tries to square the contradictory circle of her Brexit red lines. Indeed, the current core Brexit challenge, threatening to torpedo UK-EU talks, is precisely how to avoid a border both on the island of Ireland and in the Irish Sea. With the UK leaving the customs union and single market, that option does not exist – there will have to be a border somewhere.
So if the UK does go ahead with a Brexit outside the EU's customs union and single market, there will not be frictionless borders for an independent Scotland – a choice will have to be made. This conundrum is left unsolved – other than a claim that it isn't a challenge and even that Scotland can be positioned as a bridge between the EU and UK: "It is wrong to suggest that Scotland would have to choose between the two markets. But to enjoy the best access to both markets Scotland must be positioned in the EU single market."
Customs Union Impact: There's another related conundrum a future independent Scotland might face. If the UK abandoned its insistence on leaving the customs union (perhaps because Westminster voted for that), and instead chose to stay in a customs union with the EU, then that impacts directly onto future Scottish choices.
If Scotland chose, like Norway, to be in the EEA but outside the EU, then it wouldn't be in the customs union while the rest of the UK would be. That's a route to a hard border between Scotland and the rest of the UK. Equally, if Scotland then decided it was going to be in both the single market and the customs union then the obvious way to do that is to stay in the EU. But none of this is addressed (beyond a brief mention of the Scottish government's preferred outcome – not currently on the cards – of the UK staying in both the single market and the customs union).
Yet these are core choices to Scotland's future economic policies and competitiveness. The Growth Commission does finally, just about, come down on the side of staying in the EU's single market: "Independence and membership of the EU Single Market would create new opportunities for businesses in Scotland to do just that [i.e. build stronger trade links with other countries]..". But there's no recommendation to that effect. And this preference does not lead to any exploration of how to maximise the best Scottish economic policy choices in the single market/EEA context. And some policy choices will, of course, be constrained by being in the EEA or EU – whether, for instance, the tax breaks proposed by the Commission to attract skilled migrants would pass state aid rules would be one important question to consider.
Using the Pound – A Barrier to Joining the EU
An independent Scotland, if it did decide to apply to join the European Union, would, of course have to meet the EU's accession criteria. But without its own monetary policy – in the Growth Commission's ten year transition of using the pound – Scotland would face a serious accession challenge. The EU expects accession countries to be functioning market economies and democracies. But for the EU, a functioning market economy has to ensure price stability. And, beyond that, even member states outside the euro have to treat their exchange rate as a matter of common concern and have an independent central bank.
Scotland couldn't do this while using the pound. So even before considering the question of joining the euro, EU membership is potentially pushed a decade back or more by the Growth Commission's sterling policy.
There might be a rather unlikely way round this. In a comment for this blog, Andrew Duff (President of the Spinelli Group and visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre) suggested that, in the Growth Commission's scenario, the EU would have to negotiate with the Bank of England over whether the UK's and so Scotland's monetary policy met with EU criteria (if Scotland was in accession talks): "A member state must have an independent central bank and a currency. A Scottish application to join the EU within the ten year period would have to be negotiated via the Bank of England and HM Treasury. It could be done – but not without UK government consent." This looks politically a little difficult it might be said.
The Euro: the Growth Commission, having not considered whether an independent Scotland should be in the EU, does not consider in any detail whether Scotland could or should be in the euro. The report simply states – in response to a question they themselves pose "Will an independent Scotland adopt the euro?" – "Scotland would retain sterling". That seems to be a 'no' until the next paragraph where the report emphasises Denmark having a derogation on joining the euro before stating: "Scotland would join the euro only if and when such a decision is in the best interests of both Scotland and the EU, and the relevant criteria of the Maastricht Treaty were met." So Scotland might be in the EU or it might not, and it might join the euro or it might not.
This is surely a missed opportunity to discuss some key challenges for an independent Scotland. What would be the pros and cons of joining the euro – given the detailed analysis the Growth Commission does provide of the desirable objectives of monetary policy and strategy? It is also a missed opportunity to face up to the tough fact that there is little likelihood of an independent Scotland being able to get a derogation as Denmark did back in the 1990s. It might, as the Growth Commission hints at, be able to do what Sweden has done – not get a derogation but nonetheless simply not join indefinitely. But an independent Scotland joining the EU would have to commit in principle to eventually joining the euro, which needs to be acknowledged in the debate. And again not having its own currency would make such a commitment a little tricky (even if the aim was, like Sweden, to postpone joining indefinitely).
The Growth Commission does set 6 criteria, for future use, when deciding whether an independent Scotland should ditch the pound and create its own currency – including in these criteria: "Fit to trade and investment patterns: Would the new arrangement better reflect Scotland's new and developing trading or investment patterns?". That would be a good question to put to consider whether a Scottish currency or joining the euro were the best answer to that. If an independent Scotland did aim to join the EU, would it and should it aim to be like Sweden and Denmark (outside the euro) or like Finland, Ireland, Austria, the Netherland and Belgium (inside the euro – and all in the Commission's group of 12 countries)? But while the European and EU level is so ghostly in its presence in the report, these crucial questions are not put let alone answered.
Scotland, the EU and Brexit
The UK is currently, chaotically, heading towards a hard Brexit – but uncertainty reigns. Will Theresa May manage to get to an agreed Withdrawal Agreement – which implies an effective backstop solution for the Irish border? Will any agreement pass this autumn at Westminster – and if not what then? Might the UK stay in the customs union (still a hard Brexit but less damaging than a Canada-style free trade agreement)? These questions and more are fundamental – for Scotland and for the whole UK.
The Growth Commission rightly, and repeatedly, emphasises the damage Brexit will do to trade and growth. But in setting out future options for Scotland, it sidesteps Scotland's European choices. In doing so, it mostly leaves the EU or EEA level of policy-making out of its wide-ranging policy discussion – a huge and strange gap. And it sidesteps, in many ways, the damage Brexit will do even to an independent Scotland. Irish government estimates suggest the Irish economy will be hit almost as hard as the UK economy by a hard Brexit. How and in what ways independence might protect Scotland from some of Brexit's impacts – but not all – and how it will create barriers and a border between Scotland and the rest of the UK are very tough and key questions that are just not faced up to. If Brexit does go ahead, then the policy debate around independence really will be different to 2014 – and in many ways much harder. What the independence debate can't do is leave the European question out of the discussion.


Her message of self-empowerment to women—young and old—spoke a truth across generations, centering it as the theme for the evening.
For example, Michelle shared with the audience that in her late teens and 20s she had mapped out a straight and perceived unerring path for her life—college, law school, job…..—to achieve happiness and success. She disclosed, however, to the audience she abhorred being a lawyer albeit it was one of the many checkboxes on her achievement list, all the while quite miserable.
"Being that Mrs. Obama's path was not straight, it's just been inspiring to know that my path may not be straight either but I will be successful, "Alana Underwood, a senior at Berkley School of Music told the Boston Globe. Underwood was one of the twenty young sisters chosen as part of the Black Girls Rock program to visit with the First Lady.
The book as in her promotional tour takes the audience into the interior of her life—from a happy working-class childhood growing up in a multicultural community on the South Side of Chicago, through her Ivy League education, a plum job at a corporate law firm and to the White House. The book like the tour dispenses advice and inspirational self-help.
Michelle's stop at the Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester was to inspire a future generation of young leaders often not thought as such.
"We were reading your book as if you wrote these stories about us," a woman told her.
Also, the book, as well as the tour, reintroduces Michelle.
Several biographies have been written about Michelle Obama, all by white men and women authors, except for "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America" and "Becoming." Their depictions of Michelle, while not intended to be damaging, are, nonetheless, stereotypes.
While Michelle's tour will not reach everyone she hopes the message in her book will, resonating with some unlikely people. For example, Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney who stated his boss repeatedly used racist and divisive language, said he hopes Michelle's book will help unify the country.
I think it has the potential to do so.


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by Peter Augustine Lawler
Everyone knows there are three basic factions in the Republican Party: the nationalists (or patriots inspired by the idea of national greatness), the religious moralists (not traditionalists—if our evangelicals were really traditional their churches wouldn't be so ugly and their music so bad), and the limited government supply-siders. It goes without saying that it's possible to belong to more than one faction at once, and that not all members of each of these factions vote Republican.
Reviewing the Republican primaries and caucuses so far (and the process is, for all practical purposes, over), we can say that the most nationalist candidate (John "the Warrior" McCain) and the most religious candidate (Mike "the Preacher" Huckabee) over-performed or exceeded expert expectations. The primarily limited government candidates (Thompson, Giuliani, and Romney) underperformed.
We southerners have no trouble understanding these facts: Our admirable exemplars of leadership have often been soldiers and preachers—from George Washington through Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson to, say, Billy Graham and the local youth minister. There's nothing more important than God and country. Who can deny that? And there's something in us all that leads us to believe that character should count when it comes to picking leaders, and even that it should trump self-interest and technical competence.
McCain is going to get nominated because he waged the best campaign. He was able to keep the focus on his authentic personal virtue—his courage in the face of our enemies and public opinion. He stood almost alone for the surge in Iraq, he's said time and again, as the risky but only alternative to dishonorable withdrawal. He honestly displays his indignation when anyone has the temerity to question his motives. And he has no problem being confident in asserting that those who disagree with him—such as the spokespersons for the pharmaceutical industry—are evildoers. His nobility sometimes morphs into moralistic arrogance, and his critics often call him "McVain."
The weakness of warriors—and this is the theme of many a Clint Eastwood movie—is that they prefer war to peace. So they're all for sacrifice, even when it would be counterproductive to require it. McCain was against the Bush tax cuts because they'd be unpatriotic in time of war. Now he's finally for the cuts—in a way—because they stimulate the economy. It doesn't seem to occur to him that Bush's pro-family tax cuts actually improved the seemingly ordinary lives of struggling parents. McCain is also a budget-cut hawk; cuts usually impose sacrifice on someone, and that can't be bad. Bill Clinton is famous for convincing us he feels our pain; sometimes "McPain" seems too ready to give us yet another chance to display our nobility.
The warrior's excessively manly choice for martial over marital virtue is altogether too clear in McCain's unreasonable dislike—even contempt—for Romney. Mitt and his five strapping, species-perpetuating sons didn't "serve." But each of them, in fact, is a very faithful and responsible father. They practice the virtue toward which Americans should ordinarily aspire. It's true enough that regular family guys have trouble identifying with Mitt; he seems too rich and too perfect to be real. But someone might say that in his day-to-day life Romney displays his nobility more splendidly than even McCain.
Our search for the candidate of the regular family guy leads us to Huckabee. His slogan of "faith, family and freedom" is that of our most unpretentious but still real religion—that of the evangelicals. Surely Huck alone among the candidates seemed attuned to the anxieties that plague ordinary men and women. (I'm talking here mainly about the early, loose, funny, rock 'n' roll Huck—the Huck who said "what the Huck" I'll speak my heart.)
Even or especially prosperous Americans are seemingly more anxious than ever. They know that they are, in some ways, more on their own than ever. All their safety nets are collapsing: private pensions, public pensions, unions, corporate loyalty, marital fidelity, the care-giving provided by families, and so forth. Even Social Security and Medicare are threatened over the long term by tough demographic realities—we're not having enough kids and living way too long. (I tell students that if you want to save Social Security you'd better starting making babies and smoking now.)
The "progressivist" narrative of Americans moving toward equality and security through bigger and better government is out-of-touch. We conservatives have to admit that Tocqueville and Hayek were wrong, or at least not completely right. We're not slouching toward socialism or soft despotism anymore. Individuals haven't surrendered concern for their personal futures to some schoolmarmish nanny state; they're in many ways stuck with being more future-oriented than ever. They're stuck with having to be good—to practice virtue—in order to feel good. Certainly the virtues connected with personal and family responsibility are especially needed now.
Our society, more than ever, is a meritocracy, where merit is defined by personal productivity. These are the best times ever for those who are smart, young, pretty, pleasing, and industrious. But the pressure is really on to be smart, young, pretty, and pleasing, and that struggle, for the average guy, is lonelier than ever. That's why we live in the time of Botox and pharmaceutical mood brighteners, and why it's psychologically tougher than ever to be poor or even sick. If you aren't doing well, we increasingly think, it's your own fault.
Americans are also morally anxious, as Huck also saw. They're especially concerned about how their children are going to turn out in a world where virtue is identified with nothing more than health and safety and productivity, where the only sexual morality, for example, is safe sex—or what it takes to detach the bare act from any connection with birth and death. They can see, when looking at Western Europeans or even sophisticated people in their own country, that when marriage is detached altogether from any sense of an enduring, sacred reality people just stop having babies. That's one reason many Americans are seeking a refuge in the moral absolutes—the purpose-driven life—that comes from belief in the real truth of the Bible. Faith and family, from this view, are the real purposes of our freedom, and freedom without purpose meaning nothing more than we have nothing left to lose.
One reason, among many, that Huck's campaign both overachieved and failed was that he made his political concerns seem nothing more than an expression of his evangelical faith. He, for no good reason, had no confidence that his description and even much of his prescription for the anxieties that accompany excessive individualism could be appreciated by Americans who didn't share his biblical belief. He never should have taken Darwin on in the name of creation, for example. Not that he was wrong to criticize many of our popularizing Darwinians for thinking they know more than they really do. The truth is that it's as ridiculous to believe that evolutionary theory explains everything about us as it is to believe that it explains nothing at all.
Huck should have reached out by saying Darwin is actually on his side. Members of our species are usually happiest when they live as nature intends, when they do their duty to their species by having kids, raising them well, and not trying too hard to stay around forever, contrary to nature's clear intention for them. Then he might have added that anyone with eyes to see knows that Darwin-denying evangelicals—who believe that this, natural world is not their true home—live much more as nature intends than sophisticated Darwin affirmers who do everything they can, as individuals, not to take one for the species. A real Darwinian who's a genuine advocate for the future of our species might insist that Darwin's theory not be taught as the whole, natural truth in our schools.
The Bible and Darwin agree in opposing the self-destructive excesses of our creeping and sometimes creepy individualism or libertarianism. What's really wrong with the Darwinians, Huck certainly knows well enough, is that they don't do justice to the natural, social freedom of persons born to know and love and die.
What does the unexpected success of the Preacher and the Warrior teach us? Liberty without virtue—either in the lives of a particular human being or in the political life of our country—isn't enough. Campaigning only for limited government and tax cuts and securing us from terror—the disastrous Giuliani strategy reminded us—can't win the people's hearts and minds.
We've also learned, I think, that being either a warrior or a preacher isn't enough. No Republican can win who doesn't both inspire us—at least some—with the warrior's greatness and defends and encourages the virtue required for most people to live well in our economically and especially psychologically tough times. So my advice to nominee McCain is to really learn from the preacher, or to really understand why you need to stop disrespecting the strange and wonderful lives of peace- and people-loving Americans stuck with virtue and both homeless and at home in their country. The warrior, as they say, needs to become credible on domestic issues.
Peter Augustine Lawler is an adjunct fellow of the Ashbrook Center and the Dana Professor of Government at Berry College.
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Norfork teams cruise to sweep of Jasper
Two double-doubles lead Lady Panthers past Lady Pirates
Norfork teams cruise to sweep of Jasper Two double-doubles lead Lady Panthers past Lady Pirates Check out this story on baxterbulletin.com: https://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/sports/high-school-sports/2020/01/06/norfork-teams-cruise-sweep-jasper/2830231001/
Neal Denton, Baxter Bulletin Published 10:30 p.m. CT Jan. 6, 2020
Norfork's Kynzie Rangel drives to the basket against Jasper on Monday night. (Photo: Neal Denton/The Baxter Bulletin)
NORFORK — Two double-doubles by its senior girls' team and perfectly balanced scoring by its senior boys led Norfork to a nonconference sweep of Jasper on Monday night at Bobby D. Hulse Gymnasium.
Norfork's Kynzie Rangel posted a career night Monday to lead the Lady Panthers to a 62-38 whipping of the Lady Pirates.
The 6-foot senior tossed in a career-high 23 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, and 6-foot-4 junior Hannah Bryant added a 10-point, 10-rebound double in the victory.
"We tried some trick plays, in a way," Rangel said. "Everyone tries to collapse on Hannah, so we made it look like we were going to her and that just opened up the back part of the offense."
The Lady Panthers started slowly, but four second-quarter 3-pointers — three by junior Eva Maple — opened up the inside for the rest of the game.
"I think we all started off slow," Rangel said. "Our guards picked it up for us and got the momentum going. Then it all fell into place after we kind of calmed down."
Norfork turned an 18-10 lead after one into a 38-18 halftime advantage, and the Lady Panthers led by as much as 55-26 late in the third quarter.
Rangel erupted for 14 of her points in the third after a slow start in the first half. Norfork's only senior starter also went a perfect 7-of-7 from the foul line.
Maple tossed in 15 to aid the Lady Panthers, who now own a 13-game win streak against Jasper dating back to 2016.
"We're kind of experimenting right now to see what works and what doesn't work," Rangel said. "We still haven't played really well. When we do get it rolling, it'll be awesome."
Brooklyn Flud sank five 3-pointers and led Jasper with 17 points.
LADY PIRATES (11-8)
Flud 17, Emerson 15, Reynolds 6.
LADY PANTHERS (13-8)
Rangel 23, Maple 15, Bryant 10, McFall 6, K.Manes 5, A.Manes 3.
JASPER 10 8 11 9 — 38
NORFORK 18 20 19 5 — 62
Panthers 73,
Pirates 48
Five Panthers scored in double figures — all between 10 and 15 points — as the hosts capped the sweep.
Norfork built a double-digit lead early at 14-4 on an old-fashioned 3-point play by Dawson Gray. But after Norfork led 21-8, Jasper went on a 10-0 run to pull within 21-18 early in the second period.
Norfork's Ethan Chapman met the run by scoring nine of his 11 points consecutively, sending the hosts to a 30-18 advantage.
Chapman hit a pair of treys, and Tyler Sorters added two 3-pointers in the quarter as the Panthers surged to a 47-25 halftime cushion.
Norfork led by as many as 32 in the third period before the Pirates climbed as close as 22 down the stretch.
Sophomore Blythe Stapleton scored 12 of his team-high 15 points in the third quarter. Sorters added 13, sophomore Will Martin notched 12, Chapman scored 11 and Gray netted 10 for the hosts.
Logan Reynolds paced Jasper with a game-high 18 points.
Coach Will Stewart's Norfork teams return to action Tuesday night as they host Omaha for 1A-2 Conference action.
PIRATES (8-9)
Reynolds 18, Parker 14, Harrison 5, Larimer 4, Smith 4, Kellogg 2, Villines 1.
PANTHERS (12-8)
Stapleton 15, Sorters 13, Martin 12, Chapman 11, Gray 10, McGowan 6, Rosson 6.
Jr. Lady Panthers 55,
Jr. Lady Pirates 11
Norfork stormed out to a 24-0 lead and cruised to a mercy-rule victory in the junior girls' game.
The Junior Lady Panthers led 19-0 after one quarter and by as much as 24-0 on a 3-pointer by Kiley Alman. Jasper scored its first points of the game with 3:48 left in the second quarter on a 3-point play by Skylea Lager.
Jasper had no answer for Norfork 6-foot post Jordan Rasmussen, who tossed in a game-high 25 points. Liza Shaddy added 11 points, and Alman notched eight for Norfork, which led 35-5 at halftime and 53-7 after three quarters.
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Amal Clooney fronts parliamentary hearing on sanctions for human rights abusers
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By Anthony Galloway
May 15, 2020 — 11.55am
High-profile human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has urged Australia to go after companies complicit in human rights abuses including against Uighur Muslims in China.
The Lebanese-British barrister on Friday morning appeared before a parliamentary inquiry into whether Australia should adopt Magnitsky-style laws against human rights offenders.
Amal Clooney is calling for Australia to adopt the sanctions regime. Credit:AP
The Morrison government has initiated an inquiry into enacting legislation modelled on the US laws, which would give it the power to seize the assets of human rights offenders and ban them from entering the country.
The sanctions regime - which has also been adopted in Canada and Britain - allow for the imposition of visa and property-related sanctions on foreign individuals including government officials who are responsible for human rights abuses and serious corruption.
Ms Clooney said the Australian regime should also target companies which are linked to human rights violations, including in the Chinese government's use of internment camps in the western province of Xinjiang where an estimated 1.5 million Uighur Muslims are being forcibly detained.
She said companies reacted to incentives and currently there were not a lot of measures in place discouraging them from being complicit in human rights abuses. She said the laws should allow the Australian government to go after companies and individuals who had been complicit in human rights abuses in Xinjiang, which "would be a positive".
Barrister Amal Clooney appears via teleconference during a hearing with the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
"We need to address the balance where it may be profitable to do these kinds of things and at the moment there are no penalties," she said.
A number of large Chinese firms, including surveillance technology companies Hikvision and Dahua, have been banned in the US over concerns they were creating surveillance network in the Xinjiang region.
Ms Clooney's comments come after businessman and political activist Bill Browder, who was instrumental in the original US laws, urged Australia to make sure no whole country, including China, was off limits if it decided to adopt the sanctions regime.
Adopting Magnitsky-style laws would allow Australia to become a global human rights leader and set an example for other countries in the region, Ms Clooney said.
The human rights lawyer urged Australia to make the laws broad enough to counter many types of human rights violations and corruption and they shouldn't just target extrajudicial killings and torture but also sexual violence, corruption, persecution on grounds of race, religion or sexuality, detention on false charges and silencing of the media.
Ms Clooney said there should also be an independent expert committee to recommend individuals and companies that should be sanctioned or a parliamentary committee.
She said the laws would be effective because they did not target entire countries and didn't disadvantage innocent citizens for the behaviour of their government officials.
"We have other tools that signal condemnation, but this is one of the few tools that raise the cost," Ms Clooney said.
The deputy chair of the High-Level of Legal Experts on Media Freedom also praised Australia and New Zealand's efforts in combating the coronavirus pandemic, saying she hoped "that trajectory continues to be a positive one".
Ms Clooney warned the COVID-19 outbreak had made the international human rights crisis worse by allowing autocratic governments to give themselves sweeping new powers including criminalising so-called fake news.
She said genocide in Iraq and Myanmar and war crimes in Syria and Yemen remained unpunished as governments around the world were "distracted, divided and simply disinterested" during the global pandemic.
"You as leaders of one the world's leading democracies can do something about the global human rights crisis," she said.
"You may not be able to solve every problem in the world or respond to every abuse, but you can make sure your country is not a safe haven for despots and war criminals."
Labor senator Kimberley Kitching said Ms Clooney made a strong and passionate case for holding to account government officials responsible for interning one million ethnic minority Muslims in forced labour camps in Xinjiang, as well as those who intimidate and murder journalists.
"It is important that we acknowledge the brave work of the investigative journalist, without whom we wouldn't know about the horrific abuses of human rights occurring there," she said.
The US passed the Magnitsky Act in 2012 which was initially designed to sanction Russian officials involved in the prison death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Moscow lawyer investigating a sweeping tax fraud.
Anthony Galloway is foreign affairs and national security correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via Twitter or email.


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An epidemic of bedbugs in the Big Apple has brought panic, revulsion and a nasty little rash to rich and poor alike. Can the city cope
Tim Teeman
At first May thought that her husband had heat rash. "We were staying at a smart hotel in Cape Cod. Then I developed these hive-like welts on my back and legs." May (not her real name; she is terrified of giving me that) is middle class, in her late fifties and lives on the Upper West Side, New York, in a well-maintained four-room apartment. When she and her husband returned to the city, one doctor prescribed antihistamines, surmising the couple had reacted to shellfish. She called a dermatologist. "He took one look and said, 'You both have bedbug bites'. My husband turned our mattress over and we saw them. That's when — no joke, no exaggeration, however ridiculous it may sound — our nightmare began."
The infestation would last five months and cost May and her husband $15,000 (£10,200) to treat.
The cockroach has scuttled in retreat. Bedbugs have become New York, indeed America's, latest bug noire. These tiny, yellowish creatures (which grow to 4-5mm long), fiendishly difficult to eradicate and understand, have become an obsession for landlords, renters, pest-control experts and scientists. Why do they feed so hungrily on human blood? Why have they proliferated? Why are they so hardy? How can you eradicate them?
"Don't let the bedbugs bite" now has a particularly hollow ring to it: we are almost powerless to stop them. There has been a 71 per cent increase in bedbug infestations since 2001, according to the US National Pest Management Association. In 2004, there were a reported 537 complaints and 82 "violations" (verified infestations) for bedbugs in New York; in 2009, there were 10,985 complaints and 4,084 verified infestations. "That's just the reported cases," says Jeremy Ecker, of Bed Bug Inspectors, a firm that uses two specially trained dogs to sniff out the bugs in apartments before advising occupants and pest exterminators on the best action. "The problem is everywhere, it's growing and it's mostly invisible because of people's embarrassment. People are too ashamed to say anything. If they admit to having bedbugs they're frightened of losing their apartment, of being asked not to go into work, of getting rid of their possessions. We see people in extreme distress."
May says: "We were terrified of our landlord finding out. He could have used it to throw us out or make life difficult." Landlords also embrace ignorance if they find out about an infestation, wary of accepting the costly responsibility of tackling bedbugs that have colonised an entire building, or of frightening off potential renters. May describes five months of hell: from seeing the blackish blotches (her and her husband's dried blood and/or bedbug faeces) on the mattress, then constant vacuuming and washing of laundry and clothing, bagging up clothes and household items, vacuuming books, picture frames, wall sockets, throwing furniture and possessions away, sleeping on an air mattress in clothes she would immediately bag up the next morning for laundry . . .
A female bedbug (official name Cimex lectularius) can reproduce 400 offspring so this was not an hysterical overreaction: to eradicate bedbugs requires ruthless planning, "even before the exterminators come in", May says.
It seems laughable that the hokey-sounding bedbug could cause such havoc — and indeed, a spokeswoman for New York City's Health Department says: "Anyone who has had an infestation knows that it can stressful and unpleasant but while bedbugs are a nuisance, they do not present a health risk or spread disease."
But they are far from dismissable creatures, according to those who have suffered them and the scientists researching them. "It's a plague, an epidemic," says a National Pest Management Association spokeswoman — and although her organisation represents pest exterminators this is not a fear-generating marketing campaign.
"It would not be extreme or hysterical to call this a pandemic," says Tim McCoy, a bedbug research scientist at Virginia Tech University. "We haven't reached the halfway point in bedbug numbers, they're still on the rise."
They show no respect, says Ecker, of class or creed: "We've inspected the fanciest apartments on the Upper East Side and one-room studios downtown. Doesn't matter how big or clean or small or dirty your place is, bedbugs will make themselves at home."
Bedbug blogs simmer with debate, advice and commiseration. And they have become a political issue. Michael Bloomberg, New York's Mayor, has approved the creation of a bedbug "advisory board" to "evaluate, study, identify and develop appropriate strategies" against the blood-sucking menace.
Earlier this month Linda B. Rosenthal, a New York State Assembly member for the Upper East Side and Hell's Kitchen districts, renewed her demand for legislation that would force building owners to disclose a five-year history of bedbug infestations to renters. She also proposed the city offer a tax credit of up to $750 per person to those whose homes have been affected by bedbugs. "The whole city is afflicted," says Rosenthal says. "The cost of dealing with bed bugs is exorbitant and while $750 won't cover it, it will help. It would be much better if the health department put out clear advice on how to rid an entire building of bedbugs, rather than leaving to it individual landlords."
The problem is about to become international (it is already, but under-publicised). Experts agree that the prime method of bedbug transmission is travel: you go somewhere —like May to a hotel — sleep on an infested bed and pass the bugs on. Bedbugs also nestle in clothing and suitcases. Experts are split on whether they "jump" from person to person on public transport. But they can live on train and cinema seats, on furniture, and take over buildings by burrowing in crevices, nooks and crannies.
New York and other metropolitan centres are bedbug paradises: high populations, high numbers of apartments, people always on the move. Bedbug infestations in London and the Midlands have increased threefold in the past decade. The National Pest Management Association will soon publish a report revealing bedbug infestation figures across the US — and also some choice international findings: 90 per cent of pest-control companies it surveyed in Europe had dealt with bedbug infestations, a spokeswoman reveals.
When it comes to their vampiric feeding, Tim McCoy —who like Jeremy Ecker, lets them sup his blood for research —notes that sometimes you can feel them, sometimes not. But, he says, they scent people emitting CO2 and heat and scuttle from up to 15ft feet away for their grub. The most horrible and noticeable thing about a fully grown, fully fed bedbug is that it is bright red, after drinking the blood of its human host.
Some, such as McCoy, do not react to the bites; many others, such as May and her husband, do. "The bedbugs seemed to congregate near the bed, the couch, the netted seating on the office chairs," she says. "You imagined them crawling on you. I saw one on my husband's back. We tried to exterminate them ourselves and realised we couldn't."
Forget the many products on the market or exterminators making claims of being able to turf them out of your house easily and cheaply. The only effective treatment, McCoy says, is a series of expensive, extreme-heat treatments — at around 49C (120F) — administered by expert exterminators. Despite calls for extreme pesticides such as DDT and Propoxur to be relegalised, McCoy thinks both may prove ineffectual. "Use the wrong chemicals in the wrong way and you could damage yourself and your home."
"It took me so long to get back into my own bed," says May says. "We are clean, normal people — and this, emotionally, took us to the brink. Living the way we did, having to rid ourselves of things, clean, keep it secret: this was as bad as going through divorce, losing a job. We are ordinary, middle-class New Yorkers. When it was over it was like, 'Can we come out of the air-raid shelter now?'"
For the moment, the scientific mystery of bedbugs' fortitude endures. McCoy says that the pest's level of resistance "is off the charts. Spray the most extreme chemical on them and they topple over as if they're giggling, then they get up again. We also don't know why they can go so long — two months — without a blood meal, or how they find their way back to their host."
The biggest mystery is the origin of this pandemic. The bedbug was all but eradicated in the US by the 1950s with the use of strong pesticides. "We think travel to and from the Third World bought them back to the US; then the use of softer treatments (such as against the flea) may have helped them to flourish," McCoy says. "Other theories are unproveable but, for example, we've seen them on the walls of organic-reared chicken sheds. Some foreign workers are married to other foreign workers in hotels and, well, is that how they got into hotels? We don't know."
The bedbug isn't dangerous to human health, so US bodies such as the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health won't fund research, McCoy says. He and May — scientist and sufferer — both warn: remain vigilant. They check the headboards of the hotel beds they sleep in, lift mattresses, shine torchlights into crevices, and vacuum those crevices. For two years after her infestation, May took a magnifying glass to check each dot and speck in her apartment: "It was always something else, but I was wounded. I know it sounds crazy. I'm not, and I'm not alone."
McCoy says we should remember that "it is just a bug, there is no quick-fix and it will be expensive, but you can deal with it". He is sure of one thing: "One day we will find a way of understanding and dealing with bedbugs. Then the cockroach will rise again."
September 14, 2010 | Categories: Articles | Tags: Bedbugs, DDT, New York | 1 Comment
3 Billion And Counting premieres in theaters this September
We are excited to announce that 3 Billion And Counting will receive it's world premiere this September in New York!
This investigative documentary will have limited engagements beginning September 17th at The Quad Cinema in New York and concluding at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, California.
For more information, check the theater's websites below. Since the film will be in limited release, we highly recommend saving the date in your calendar now and bring a few friends. You'll be discussing this film for days after.
Laemmle's Sunset 5
www.laemmle.com
West Hollywood, 90046
August 20, 2010 | Categories: Events, Screenings | Tags: 3 Billion And Counting, DDT, Documentary, Malaria, Movie | 30 Comments
Howard Stern wants to bring back DDT
Ronnie the Limo Driver told the crew he was bitten by bug over the vacation–he went to sleep just fine on Sunday and woke up to a nightmare on Monday: "I wasn't able to move." Howard hoped it wasn't bed bugs and repeated his desire to 'bring back' DDT, citing the chemical's use against insect-carried diseases like malaria: "We don't have malaria here yet but it's just a matter of time if we don't bring [DDT] back."
August 10, 2010 | Categories: 3 Billion And Counting Press | Tags: DDT, Howard Stern, Malaria | 22 Comments
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#pragma once

#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <vector>

#include "modules/prediction/evaluator/evaluator.h"
#include "modules/prediction/network/rnn_model/rnn_model.h"

namespace apollo {
namespace prediction {

class RNNEvaluator : public Evaluator {
 public:
  /**
   * @brief Constructor
   */
  RNNEvaluator();

  /**
   * @brief Destructor
   */
  virtual ~RNNEvaluator() = default;

  /**
   * @brief Override Evaluate
   * @param Obstacle pointer
   */
  bool Evaluate(Obstacle* obstacle_ptr) override;

  /**
   * @brief Extract feature vector
   * @param obstacle a pointer to the target obstacle
   * @param obstacle_feature_mat feature matrix
   * @param lane_feature_mats lane feature matrices
   */
  int ExtractFeatureValues(
      Obstacle* obstacle, Eigen::MatrixXf* const obstacle_feature_mat,
      std::unordered_map<int, Eigen::MatrixXf>* const lane_feature_mats);

  /**
   * @brief Get the name of evaluator.
   */
  std::string GetName() override { return "RNN_EVALUATOR"; }

  /**
   * @brief Clear
   */
  void Clear();

 private:
  /**
   * @brief Load model file
   * @param Model file name
   */
  void LoadModel(const std::string& model_file);

  int SetupObstacleFeature(Obstacle* obstacle,
                           std::vector<float>* const feature_values);

  int SetupLaneFeature(const Feature& feature,
                       const LaneSequence& lane_sequence,
                       std::vector<float>* const feature_values);

  bool IsCutinInHistory(const std::string& curr_lane_id,
                        const std::string& prev_lane_id);

 private:
  static const int DIM_OBSTACLE_FEATURE = 6;
  static const int DIM_LANE_POINT_FEATURE = 4;
  static const int LENGTH_LANE_POINT_SEQUENCE = 20;
  network::RnnModel* model_ptr_ = nullptr;
};

}  // namespace prediction
}  // namespace apollo

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Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol cemetery is located at 8607 South 42nd Street, right behind the fence on the Fisher family cemetery land. B'nai Abraham Cemetery shares the space as well, as does Hrabik Cemetery. These four small cemeteries pack a lot of burials into this space.
Visit the Sarpy County Genweb site on Beth Hamedrosh.
Visit the Sarpy County website's page on Beth Hamedrosh Hagadol. Also, there is an extremely small family internment plot named Hrabik Cemetery within Beth Hamedrosh, and you can read about it at the Sarpy County site. The yellow circle below is Fisher Farm cemetery, but everything else is Beth Hamedrosh, B'Nai Abraham, and Hrabik cemeteries.
This is a very closely packed burial ground, like most other Jewish cemeteries.


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Q: Running perl code using `atom` throws me Undefined subroutine &main::send_request I'm writing my first perl script for the requirement

*

*generate HTTP request against a particular web uri in succession using different URL scheme patterns

use HTTP::Request::Generator 'generate_requests';
use URI;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use strict; # safety net
use warnings; # safety ne
use Test::LWP::UserAgent 'send_request';
use LWP::UserAgent 'send_request';
use Test::More;
use URI;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $g = generate_requests(
    method => 'POST',
    host   => ['example.com','www.example.com'],
    pattern => 'https://example.com/{bar,foo,gallery}/[00..99].html',

    wrap => sub {
        my( $req ) = @_;
        # Fix up some values
        $req->{headers}->{'Content-Length'} = 666;
    },
);
while( my $r = $g->()) {
    send_request( $r );
};

I'm using atom editor and activeperl on windows 10, I get following error from running above code.
 Undefined subroutine &main::send_request called at C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\atom_script_tempfiles\0ac821e0-0886-11eb-9588-291dbc37d883 line 57.
I have already installed all necessary modules and lib but i think its unable to refer the method send_request. Pls assist.
NOTE
I have replaced real values in variable for privacy reasons.
UPDATE
I plan to use following module
pattern => 'https://example.{com,org,net}/page_[00..99].html', from
https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Request::Generator.

A: LWP::UserAgent is an object-oriented module. It doesn't export functions. You want to call send_request like this:
my $ua = 'LWP::UserAgent'->new;

while ( my $r = $g->() ) {
    $ua->send_request( $r );
}

That said, send_request is an undocumented internal method. I think it is probably more intended for people who are subclassing LWP::UserAgent. You probably want the request method instead.
my $ua = 'LWP::UserAgent'->new;

while ( my $r = $g->() ) {
    my $response = $ua->request( $r );
}

Full code:
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Request::Generator 'generate_requests';
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = 'LWP::UserAgent'->new;

my $gen = generate_requests(
    method  => 'POST',
    host    => [ 'example.com', 'www.example.com' ],
    pattern => 'https://example.com/{bar,foo,gallery}/[00..99].html',
    wrap    => sub {
        my ( $req ) = @_;
        # Fix up some values
        $req->{'headers'}{'Content-Length'} = 666;
    },
);

while ( my $req = $gen->() ) {
    my $response = $ua->request( $req );

    # Do something with $response here?
}

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Ethiopia Gets Rapture Ready
Posted on October 16, 2005 by Richard Bartholomew
Premillennialist founds 1,000 Churches
Keeping with the subject of missionaries, news from Crosswalk:
Dr. Charles Blair and the Blair Foundation, Denver, Colorado, announced August 31, 2005 the successful completion of a two-year project to secure sponsors to fund the planting of 1,000 evangelical churches in the previously unreached region of Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia, bordering the Sudan. The project began in response to a plea from the region's born-again president, Yaregal Aysheshim, and officially launched September 1, 2003, at which time there were only seven churches in the entire region.
…Land for construction is granted by President Aysheshim as soon as a village congregation reaches 25 adult members. Typically, each Ethiopian missionary establishes sister churches in at least two neighboring villages, making possible the complete evangelization of all 3,000 villages and the estimated one-million+ populace of the Benishangul-Gumuz region in the next two years.
Must be nice to be the president of a region where you can just hand out government land to any religious group you happen to sympathize with…
The website of the Charles E Blair Foundation gives some details about the mission and the man:
Founded in 1967, the Blair Foundation remains committed to expanding, worldwide, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Blair by providing on-site leadership and discipleship training, and Bible resource materials.
And what would that teaching ministry be?
He is the best-selling author of When the Journey Seems Too Great; Lose the Weight of the World; and The Man Who Could Do No Wrong – required reading at several leading Christian colleges and seminaries. In 1990, he served on an editorial committee for Thomas Nelson Publishers, providing the commentary for the book of Job in The Spirit-Filled Life Bible…
He serves on several international missions boards; and is an active member of the Pre-Trib Rapture Study Group, a group of esteemed Bible scholars devoted to instructing, encouraging and equipping the Endtime Body of Christ [actually, this should be Tim LaHaye's Pre-Trib Research Center – RB].
Apocalypticism and Christian Zionism are central to Blair's teaching, and he is the author of a DVD set entitled March of Prophecy:
The March of Prophecy is an unforgettable, fast-paced expedition through time. Armed with personal full-color charts of their own, your congregation – and the many visitors they bring – will travel through 6,000 years of human history – "His-Story" – God systematically making and keeping His promises to man. It's God's plan through the ages – graphically displayed – larger than life!
…We'll watch the great scroll of Revelation unfurl, unleashing Tribulation wrath, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Final Judgment of all mankind, and Eternity Future – mysterious Apocalyptic events revealed as God – ordained closures to previous chapters of human history!
Back in 1967 Blair also authored a Prophecy Chart, which features a "great period of world-wide evangelism" following the creation of the State of Israel (next comes the "First Resurrection" of the dead into heaven, followed by the inevitable "Antichrist makes peace treaty with Israel."). His "21 Signs of Christ's Return" can be seen here.
Meanwhile, web-based information about Benishangul-Gumuz is somewhat thin on the ground, but there are these statistics from 1996:
The religious composition of the population is:
Muslim 44.1%
Orthodox Christians 34.8%
Traditional religions13.1%
Protestants 5.9%
No information was available in the census data on the remaining 2.1 percent.
Yaregal Aysheshim (var. "Yaregal Aysheshum") was the governor of Benishangul from 1995 until last month. Details are scarce, but he seems to have had a commitment to development, education, and democracy (although he was involved in the brief jailing of a journalist who refused to reveal his sources back in 2001).
In 2003, Charisma provided some more background information to Blair's involvement:
The foundation for the Ethiopian partnership was laid in 1989 when Calvary Temple in Denver opened its door to a congregation of Ethiopian believers who had come to the United States to escape persecution by the communist regime in their homeland.
When the socialist government of the country fell in 1991, Calvary Temple pastor Charles Blair was invited to Ethiopia to help local church leaders make the transition from underground cell groups to thriving, visible congregations.
…[Dr Howard] Foltz [of Accelerating International Mission Strategies (AIMS)] accompanied Blair in 1996, helping to train Ethiopian church leaders, pastors and missionaries. Today the ongoing partnership continues to yield a harvest of new believers and church plants.
According to Pamella Foster, AIMS director of operations, the evangelical church in Ethiopia faces many challenges. In addition to persecution from Muslims, Ethiopia's Orthodox Church leaders have joined forces with the Islamic movement to persecute evangelical Christians. "Leaders from the evangelical church in Ethiopia believe they alone stand between their government and a total Islamic takeover," Foster reported.
In spite of these obstacles, more than 8,000 Muslims in one region alone have come to Christ in an 11-month period. "A Muslim man who converts to Christianity will have his wife taken from him and given to another Muslim man," Foster said. "In addition, he may be disinherited and even stoned."
The report also noted that Blair was working in conjunction with the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Ethiopia. Christianity Today takes the story further:
Talargie Yeshidenberb was the national representative of the Blair Foundation in Ethiopia. Two years ago, Yeshidenberb, a veterinarian, looked up from his desk in the capital city, Addis Ababa. In the doorway was Yaregal Aysheshim, president of the Benishangul-Gumuz province and one of the few Christians in government.
Blair said Aysheshim was impressed by the transforming power of Christianity, and so "challenged us to help the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Ethiopia begin 1,000 churches in that many villages in his province, before his current term of office ends this September."
And Benishangul-Gumuz is just the beginning – Blair hopes to see 14,000 churches across the country.
However, there is one aspect to Blair that is only lightly touched on. Charisma also reported in February that:
In the 1970s, he found himself the subject of newspaper headlines after he unwittingly sold unsecured securities in an effort to raise funds for a retirement center. He was fined and put on probation, and the church went on to repay the investors.
Christianity Today adds:
In August of 1976, a jury found the Reverend Charles Blair, pastor of the 6,000-member Calvary Temple in Denver, Colorado, guilty of seventeen counts of fraud and illegal sale of securities. Blair had raised $14 million from about 3,400 investors to finance the church's ill-fated geriatric center.
…From all reports, Charles Blair is a man of integrity, a conclusion reinforced by his commitment to repay every investor. No evidence suggests he, or his family, benefited in any way from the illegal sale of securities. Though Blair knowingly allowed financially troubled investors to invest in the Life Center, nothing suggests he intended to defraud them.
All of which makes this scenario more troubling: this is not the story of an evil man reaping the wages of sin but the tragic account of a good man whose vision exceeded his judgment.
However, Alan Prendergast was rather less indulgent in the Denver Westword in 1997:
…True, Blair has made attempts to help out some investors, liquidating personal assets in the process. But he's also helped himself to funds that were supposed to repay folks impoverished by his huckstering, thereby compounding his original sin. And he has never publicly acknowledged the degree of his guilt in the affair, preferring to speak vaguely of past "mistakes" and failure to properly supervise his underlings. As a group of Christian mediators put it more than a decade ago, "His public response to the problem has been to trivialize his own fault in it, which is really a form of denial."
…1983: Claiming that Blair has a moral obligation to help the most destitute victims of his failed dream, several Life Center investors seek the help of the Christian Conciliation Service of Denver, an evangelical dispute-resolution group. Blair tells the CCS panel that he has donated "about $100,000" to investors and can't afford to give more; he also insists he was guilty only of a "technical" violation of failing to offer a proper prospectus. After a thorough examination of the evidence, the panel disagrees, finding that Blair had engaged in "a pattern of dealing unfairly with other people's money." The group urges Blair to make restitution to his victims and to publicly confess his responsibility for the disaster. Blair does neither.
Two years later, Prendergast followed the story up with an account of Joel Levitt, a Calvary Temple ex-member who believed that Blair had broken his promises to pay back a remaining $1 million or more:
"I showed him a letter he signed in 1991," Levitt says, "promising that he was going to work as hard as he could to repay them. He told me, 'I didn't mean to pay back the people who sued. Why would I do that?' He said that these people were hidden enemies of the church and that they should be my enemies, too. He said that all distressed investors who didn't sue were repaid, with a few exceptions, and that's an absolute lie.
"I confronted him, probably like no one confronted him. He got up and prayed. I told him he had to make restitution, and he said something like, 'Oh, I'd give a couple of bucks.'"
In 2000, the unhappy affair was reported in the Denver Business Journal, and the outstanding figure was given as $1.8 million. Levitt had been expelled from the church, and so he could no longer legally demand access to church records. In 2001 he lost an appeal against this, but the appeal decision also noted that (emphasis added):
The Church, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, has a complex financial history closely linked to the activities of its former pastor, Charles E Blair. A series of fundraising campaigns and financial failures in the 1970's and 1980's resulted in multiple lawsuits and extensive debt. The 1986 Second Mile Campaign, intended to pay off the remainder of the Church's unpaid creditors, resulted in further class action litigation. In 1991, that lawsuit was settled by agreement of the majority of the class members, obligating the Church to pay a $700,000 settlement. Notwithstanding this settlement, the original debt to unpaid creditors was never paid in full. In March 1999, the congregation voted not to attempt to repay any remaining unpaid creditors.
Well, why would they, when the church has far more important work to do in Ethiopia? And who needs savings anyway, when the Rapture is just around the corner?
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The Church of Georgia always paid a great attention to the development of Georgian culture and was a big contributor to its development. During many invasions on Georgia and difficult times for its people, the Church supported the revival of the traditional sector of Georgian art and culture such as: goldsmith art, enamel, woodcarving, Icon painting, carpet weaving etc. Another one was dog breeding. When monks from the Tabakini St. George Monastery realized that the number of Georgian Shepherd Dogs significantly decreased, they decided to establish the Dog Breeding House, to save and popularize the rare breed. In 1992, thanks to help of local people, monks opened a proper breeding place.
The village Shrosha is located in Zestafoni District on the bank of the Dzirula River. It is famous for its marble and granite but mostly for its pottery craft. The village is located on the main road connecting Eastern and Western parts of Georgia. Along the main road there is a huge market with an amazing selection of beautiful handcrafted items.


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New to our fleet in February, 2018 is the O'Day 25 . It's stable and comfortable and features a roller furling headsail and an 8hp four stroke motor with controls in the cockpit.
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Boletus rex-veris, commonly known as the spring king bolete, is a basidiomycete fungus of the genus Boletus found in western North America. The large, edible fruiting bodies known as mushrooms appear under pine trees, generally in May to June. It has a pinkish to brownish cap and its stem is often large and swollen, and the overall colour may have an orange-red tinge. As with other boletes, the size of the fruiting body is variable. Boletus rex-veris is edible, and may be preserved and cooked.

For many years, Boletus rex-veris was considered a subspecies or form of the porcini mushroom B. edulis.  In 2008, a taxonomic revision of western North American populations of this species was published, formally establishing it as a distinct species, Boletus rex-veris.  Phylogenetic analysis has shown B. rex-veris as a member of a clade, or closely related group, with B. fibrillosus, B. pinophilus, B. subcaerulescens, Gastroboletus subalpinus, and B. regineus.

Distribution and habitat
Boletus rex-veris is found under pines (Pinus ponderosa, P. contorta subsp. murrayana) and firs (Abies concolor and Abies species) at elevations of . It is often buried under needle duff and fruits from May to June in California. In Oregon it fruits at lower elevations, and its range continues into Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.

Edibility
The Boletus rex-veris is edible and delicious. It has significant commercial value in areas where it fruits prolifically.

See also
 List of Boletus species

References

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Fungi of North America
Edible fungi

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How many times have you walked by someone on the street and tried to ignore their ranting and raving as you passed? Have you ever stopped to wonder why that person was yelling or ranting, or why they looked so disheveled, or what it was like to be inside their head?
Probably not. It's easier to simply grow a thick skin and walk by with a hardened heart. Having worked in downtown Edmonton for over a dozen years, I'm as guilty of this as anyone.
This is why plays like Nicole Moeller's newest work are important – they force us to face things we'd otherwise turn away from. The Preacher, the Princess and a Crow is Moeller's fourth full-length play, following The Mothers (2015), An Almost Perfect Thing (2011) and Without You (2008). She's built her reputation on penning scripts that delve deeply into very dark subject matter and this new one is no exception. Preacher is a production by Azimuth Theatre, under the direction of Murray Utas, who's also co-artistic producer of Azimuth along with Kristi Hansen and Vanessa Sabourin.
In short, Preacher tells the story of Jasper, a former street preacher who is trying to save the princess from a crow. Those aren't fairytale characters, however, but rather characters in Jasper's own life. As there's a fairly substantial spoiler to ruin by delving too deeply into their identities, I'll leave it at that.
I've been mulling over the show for almost a week now. It was troubling, not least because it forces you to spend 90 minutes inside the mind of a very troubled individual.
Jasper starts out pitiable as he bursts into the room at the play's outset, manic and distressed, pacing in frantic circles around a room that's as disordered as his mind. Crumpled old maps line the walls, assorted trash has collected around the edges, a hole in the ceiling drips an erratic stream of water into a metal bucket, and from the dirty windows – too high to see out of except when standing on a side table – emanate ceaseless city noise pollution overlaid by a thudding, flapping, circling soundscape (by Aaron Macri).
That this person is named Jasper is certainly significant – a nod to the Avenue along which you'll find his real life equivalents.
Steve Pirot in The Preacher, the Princess and a Crow. Photo by Marc J Chalifoux.
The play seems to want to show, if not sympathy, then some level of understanding and empathy for its sole character. As the play progresses, we are given a series of fragmentary revelations that show Jasper is actually a predator as much as he's a victim – or at least has the potential to become one. Moeller's script prevents us from the kneejerk condemnation that would normally follow such a repugnant revelation, however, because we've just spent so much time in Jasper's mind.
This is the strength of Moeller's work: forcing us to face things we'd rather not face, consider things from another's perspective, walk (or pace, as it were) a mile in their shoes. It's also a show that will leave you quickly lost if you let your mind wander off at all, as it's an unrelenting stream of consciousness flow of half sentences and unfinished thoughts, heavy on imagery and metaphor, punctuated by disorienting blood red blasts of light (design by Rae Dunn). You'll need to listen closely to pick up on all the plot points as they are subtly dropped, as if crumbs from a bird's beak.
Pirot's uncomfortably intimate performance is aided by an open set design (by Tessa Stamp): a small audience of less than 50 people sits right in front of Jasper's living room, their backs open to the lobby behind; there's almost no sense of separation from the world of the stage and that beyond it. We're supposed to feel as open and vulnerable as Jasper is.
I left the show feeling perplexed and a bit angry. I felt like the abrupt finality of the ending was almost too easy a way out, and came about as a hasty climax after a meandering ascent. That's the point, I'm sure – it's not like we were supposed to leave the show feeling all warm and fuzzy. I'm just still not sure what to make of it. Pirot's powerful performance is certainly a sight to behold, but this script didn't resonate with me as strongly as Moeller's other works have.
Perhaps this is due to that horrid, creeping sense of helplessness that comes on whenever you face such big bogeyman as those presented here. I guess I really want to know if shows like this actually are important, as I somewhat desperately feel they must be – do they actually help us come to an understanding of horrible things? Do they help us progress as a culture? Are we just dwelling and making it worse? Was this a fair portrayal of mental illness? Was it so voyeuristic as to the point of doing more damage than good? Where should we be having these conversations, if not on stage?
That I'm asking these questions is a sign that obviously there's something important going on here. What I needed after this show was to be debriefed, I think. And to that end, there's a panel discussion addressing mental illness after tonight's performance. I think it will provide some excellent conversations and I look forward to hearing about what was said.


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NFL suspends Brady 4 games for deflated footballs
By The Associated Press | Posted - May 11, 2015 at 8:31 p.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady, the Super Bowl MVP quarterback who led the New England Patriots to the championship, plans to appeal the NFL's punishment in connection with underinflated footballs played in the conference final.
Brady's agent, Don Yee, said the discipline the NFL handed down Monday is "ridiculous and has no legitimate basis."
The league came down hard on its biggest star and his team as punishment for deflating footballs used in the AFC conference title. Brady has been suspended or the first four games of the season, his team has to pay a $1 million fine and lost two draft picks. Two equipment staffers believed to have carried out the plan, including one who called himself "The Deflator," have been suspended indefinitely.
In a statement, the Patriots said the punishment exceeded any reasonable expectation, adding it was based "completely on circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence."
They pledged their "unconditional support" to Brady and said their "belief has not wavered."
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COVID-19 vaccine set to be distributed throughout the US Brexit: EU-UK trade talks to continue past deadline — von der Leyen German lockdown: Merkel orders tough new COVID curbs Yerevan.Today: Nikol Pashinyan convenes emergency meeting of Security Council Armenian MFA changes its statement on Azerbaijani violation of ceasefire
'Long live Europe, our home' – European leaders celebrate Europe Day in renovated cooperation spirit
FT News May 9, 2020
The leaders of the EU member states and of the European Union institutions sent a message of unity and solidarity on Europe Day amid the Covid-19 crisis that is gripping the continent.
In a video recorded by each one of them, they shared their vision of Europe and explained what being Europeans means to them.
On #EuropeDay, let's never forget…
Europe is YOU, it's US, it's all of us TOGETHER. UNITY is what makes us stronger.
Here's what Europe means to #EU27 leaders: https://t.co/l8cFcUALpV pic.twitter.com/YrHD0QIqMe
— Charles Michel (@eucopresident) May 9, 2020
Europe Day is held every 9th May and it celebrates unity and peace in Europe.
It was introduced in 1985 by the European Communities and it marks the landmark Schuman declaration, a speech made in 1950 by the then French foreign minister Robert Schuman which laid the foundations of Europe's political and economic cooperation.
Schuman set out the vision for a European institution that would pool coal and steel production in the continent, a move that was also believed to prevent another war between Europe's nations.
Only a year later, the Treaty of Paris saw the birth of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which is considered "to be the beginning of what is now the European Union".
The treaty was signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany
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#include "modules/skottie/include/SkottieProperty.h"

#include "modules/skottie/src/Transform.h"
#include "modules/skottie/src/text/TextAdapter.h"
#include "modules/sksg/include/SkSGOpacityEffect.h"
#include "modules/sksg/include/SkSGPaint.h"

namespace skottie {

bool TextPropertyValue::operator==(const TextPropertyValue& other) const {
    return fTypeface == other.fTypeface
        && fText == other.fText
        && fTextSize == other.fTextSize
        && fStrokeWidth == other.fStrokeWidth
        && fLineHeight == other.fLineHeight
        && fHAlign == other.fHAlign
        && fVAlign == other.fVAlign
        && fBox == other.fBox
        && fFillColor == other.fFillColor
        && fStrokeColor == other.fStrokeColor
        && fHasFill == other.fHasFill
        && fHasStroke == other.fHasStroke;
}

bool TextPropertyValue::operator!=(const TextPropertyValue& other) const {
    return !(*this== other);
}

bool TransformPropertyValue::operator==(const TransformPropertyValue& other) const {
    return this->fAnchorPoint == other.fAnchorPoint
        && this->fPosition    == other.fPosition
        && this->fScale       == other.fScale
        && this->fSkew        == other.fSkew
        && this->fSkewAxis    == other.fSkewAxis;
}

bool TransformPropertyValue::operator!=(const TransformPropertyValue& other) const {
    return !(*this == other);
}

template <>
PropertyHandle<ColorPropertyValue, sksg::Color>::~PropertyHandle() {}

template <>
ColorPropertyValue PropertyHandle<ColorPropertyValue, sksg::Color>::get() const {
    return fNode->getColor();
}

template <>
void PropertyHandle<ColorPropertyValue, sksg::Color>::set(const ColorPropertyValue& c) {
    fNode->setColor(c);
}

template <>
PropertyHandle<OpacityPropertyValue, sksg::OpacityEffect>::~PropertyHandle() {}

template <>
OpacityPropertyValue PropertyHandle<OpacityPropertyValue, sksg::OpacityEffect>::get() const {
    return fNode->getOpacity() * 100;
}

template <>
void PropertyHandle<OpacityPropertyValue, sksg::OpacityEffect>::set(const OpacityPropertyValue& o) {
    fNode->setOpacity(o / 100);
}

template <>
PropertyHandle<TextPropertyValue, internal::TextAdapter>::~PropertyHandle() {}

template <>
TextPropertyValue PropertyHandle<TextPropertyValue, internal::TextAdapter>::get() const {
      return fNode->getText();
}

template<>
void PropertyHandle<TextPropertyValue, internal::TextAdapter>::set(const TextPropertyValue& t) {
      fNode->setText(t);
}

template <>
PropertyHandle<TransformPropertyValue, internal::TransformAdapter2D>::~PropertyHandle() {}

template <>
TransformPropertyValue PropertyHandle<TransformPropertyValue,
                                      internal::TransformAdapter2D>::get() const {
    return {
        fNode->getAnchorPoint(),
        fNode->getPosition(),
        fNode->getScale(),
        fNode->getRotation(),
        fNode->getSkew(),
        fNode->getSkewAxis()
    };
}

template <>
void PropertyHandle<TransformPropertyValue, internal::TransformAdapter2D>::set(
        const TransformPropertyValue& t) {
    fNode->setAnchorPoint(t.fAnchorPoint);
    fNode->setPosition(t.fPosition);
    fNode->setScale(t.fScale);
    fNode->setRotation(t.fRotation);
    fNode->setSkew(t.fSkew);
    fNode->setSkewAxis(t.fSkewAxis);
}

void PropertyObserver::onColorProperty(const char[],
                                       const LazyHandle<ColorPropertyHandle>&) {}

void PropertyObserver::onOpacityProperty(const char[],
                                         const LazyHandle<OpacityPropertyHandle>&) {}

void PropertyObserver::onTextProperty(const char[],
                                      const LazyHandle<TextPropertyHandle>&) {}

void PropertyObserver::onTransformProperty(const char[],
                                           const LazyHandle<TransformPropertyHandle>&) {}

} // namespace skottie


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