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Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a focussed effort from all stakeholders in order to achieve the target of 5 Trillion Dollar Economy in India.
Prime Minister was interacting with various senior Economists, Private Equity/Venture Capitalists, Business Leaders from Manufacturing, Travel & Tourism, Apparel & FMCG, Analytics, subject experts in the fields of Agriculture, Science & Technology and Finance.
The meeting was held at NITI AAYOG in New Delhi today as part of the pre-budget exercise.
Prime Minister said that he was happy that the two hour open discussion has brought to forefront the experience of people on the ground and those working in their respective fields.
He said that this would enhance the synergy between policy makers and various stakeholders.
Prime Minister said that the idea of 5 Trillion Dollar Economy is not a sudden development and that it is based on a deep understanding of the strengths of the country.
He said that the strong absorbent capacity of Indian economy shows the strength of basic fundamentals of the Indian economy and its capacity to bounce back.
Prime Minister said that the sectors like Tourism, Urban Development, Infrastructure and Agri based Industry have a great potential to taking forward the economy and for employment generation.
He said that open discussions and brainstorming in such forums lead to a healthy debate and understanding of the issues.
Prime Minister said that this would also foster a positive mood and “can do” spirit in the society.
Stating that India is land with unlimited possibilities he requested all stakeholders to do their bit to bridge the gap between reality and perception.
He said, “We must all work together and start to think like a nation”


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Kerry Warren, who lived in Newstead, Stoke-on-Trent with her sister and mother Tracey, needed help with basic chores and became distressed or aggressive if someone tried to help her against her will.
A coroner was told that her parents would give in to her wishes and allow her to follow a diet of junk food, which included chocolate, cake and potato chips.
The extreme lack of nutrients led Ms. Warren to develop a stem cell disorder, bone marrow failure, and severe anemia.
Warren had started sleeping on the couch after refusing to go upstairs and her mother was sleeping in a nearby chair.
But on January 8, 2019, Mrs Warren woke to find her daughter’s body on the floor, wrapped in a quilt.
‘I shook Kerry to try to get her to respond. But I got nothing,’ she said. She rang Kerry’s father Chris, who lived across the road, and he called 999 and began CPR.
The paramedics, who were unable to save her, then saw bruising on Ms Warren which triggered a police investigation into her death. A report was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) but no further action was taken.
The bruising was old and Ms Warren’s family said it was caused by their efforts to hold her down when she became violent.
The coroner heard she had been allocated social workers and other professional help as a child and young adult. But Detective Constable David Stubbs said: ‘There seemed to be a time when all support had stopped.’
He discovered Ms Warren’s GP de-registered her when she did not respond to letters, which let to most of her medical records being lost because they weren’t transferred to electronic files.
It was only when a concerned housing officer visited the family’s council home in 2016 that a fresh referral was made to adult social services.
DC Stubbs said: ‘The housing officer felt Mrs Warren was very loving to Kerry, but couldn’t cope. It was easier for her to give in to what Kerry wanted, instead of what she needed.’
That referral led to her being assigned a support worker. But the family did not go to any appointments and ‘disengaged’, so the support ended in March 2017, the inquest heard.
North Staffordshire senior coroner Andrew Barkley asked Ms Warren’s parents: ‘Do you agree there was help and support offered, but it upset Kerry and you couldn’t force her to accept that help?’
Mrs Warren, who has learning difficulties herself, replied: ‘Yes, it was very hard.’
She told the inquest she ‘did the best I could’, but Ms Warren would tell her mother what she wanted to eat.
‘She had toast in the morning. She had a chip bap and a cake for dinner. Then she had a pie and gravy, with some chips, for her tea,’ added Mrs Warren.
Mr Warren said: ‘Day-to-day life with Kerry was challenging. In the last few years, she started to become aggressive towards herself. Numerous times she would punch and kick herself.’
A post-mortem examination showed the probable cause of death was megaloblastic anaemia, linked to a lack of folic acid and vitamin B12.
But other causes couldn’t be excluded. Mr Barkley concluded: ‘It is more likely than not that she died of natural causes contributed to by neglect.’

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Saw this coming a few weeks ago in a blog post I done HERE
Price of first-class stamps will go up to 44 scents in May. The Postal Service claims to have lost over $2 billion last year. And if the economy doesn't change it will be a bigger loss this year.
You can read more of this story HERE.

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Sir Sidney Robert Nolan, O.M., R.A. (1917-1992)
signed with initial 'N-' (lower right), signed, inscribed and dated 'Nolan / AUG 1962 / WATERHOLE / 18 / SEND TO CHRISTIAN ACTION / EXHIBITION' on the reverse
oil on board
36 x 48in. (91.5 x 122cm.)
London, Christian Action Auction, Christie’s, 27 Nov. 1962, lot 104 (donated by the artist), where purchased by the father of the present owner.

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Dr. Evans is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, a member of the UGA Faculty in Linguistics, and Director of the UGA Medieval Studies Program. He received the Ph.D. in British Literature with a Minor and Doctoral Certificate in Medieval Studies from Indiana University in 1984 and joined the UGA faculty in that year. He serves on the Board of Directors of Westminster Christian Academy and Westminster High School in Watkinsville. He has edited and published scholarly books and articles on subjects including semiotics, literary theory, Old English and Old Norse literature and folklore; he is currently at work on long-term book projects including Introductory Old English and Old Norse Dragon-lore and articles on Old English grammar, Old Norse iconography, and the Southern Agrarian writers John Donald Wade and Donald Davidson. He and his wife Susan and their children, John David, Anna, and Owen currently worship at First Baptist Church, Watkinsville.
1. Introduction: "Having Abandoned my Search For Truth, I am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy"
a. Postmodern versus postmodernism.
b. Distinguish these from "pre-modernism" and "modernism."
"[I]t is premodern to seek beyond rational knowledge for God; it is modern to desire to hold knowledge in the structures of human rationality (with or without God); it is postmodern to see the impossibility of such knowledge."
-- Colin Gunton, "Christians and Postmoderns
3. Postmodernism and the "master narrative"
a. Story-telling is fundamental to human cognition.
b. Master narrative, myth and religious truth
c. Premodern, modern and Postmodern myth
4. Postmodernism and postrationality.
a. Rise of antirationalism: neopaganism, new-age, contemporary Christian mysticism
b. popular culture: X-files, Contact, 2010, Close Encounters, Alien I, II, III, Cocoon
5. What to do, how to survive
a. Observe self-contradictions in the official story.
b. Be aware of what the underlying story is: learn How to Read a Book, How to Read Slowly, how to think critically
c. Notice our own self-contradictions. Attempts to be perfectly rational fail
d. Maintain confidence in the adequacy of human cognition, communication, and community
e. Remain hopeful
Bottum, Jody. "Christians and Postmoderns." First Things (February 1994),
Gunton, Colin. The One, The Three, and The Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Jones, Douglas. "The Hope of Medieval Protestantism." Credenda/Agenda 9:5 (1997), pp. 4-5.
Lundin, Roger. The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993.
Lyotard, Jean-François The Postmodern Condition. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Norris, Christopher. The Truth About Postmodernism,
Rapp, Carl. Fleeing the Universal: the Critique of Post-Rational Criticism. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1998.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. "The Relentless Cult of Novelty and How it Wrecked the Century." New York Times Book Review, February 3, 1993.
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|aCamera buff|h[videorecording] / |c Film Polski ; produced by Wielislawa Piotrowska ; screenplay by Krzysztof Kieslowski ; directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski.
|a[New York, NY :|bKino on Video] ;|aTaipei :|bCineplex,|c
|a1 videodisc (112 min.) :|bsd., col. ;|c4 3/4 in.
|aChinese title :電影狂
|aOriginally released as a motion picture in 1979.
|aSpecial features include: interview with filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi, interview with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland; interview with Kies?lowski scholar Annette Insdorf; 'Talking heads, ' (b&w, 1980, 16 min.) a short documentary by Kieslowski in Polish with English subtitles; Kieslowski filmography; theatrical trailer; Kieslowski trailer gallery.
|aDirector of photography, Jacek Petrycki ; editor, Halina Nawrocka ; music, Krzysztof Knittel ; costume designer, Gabriela Stra-Tyszkiewicz ; production designer, Rafal Waltenberger.
|aJerzy Stuhr, Magorzata Zabkowska, Stefan Czyzewski, Ewa Pokas.
|aHappily married and economically stable, Filip Mosz buys an 8mm film camera with the intention of filming his newborn child - and capturing the moment of attaining a lifelong dream. But when a powerful director of the town's local factory recruits him to film an important board meeting, Filip's fascination with the medium grows into a pssionate dedication. Now Filip has command of a larger film unit and networks to enrich his career. Filip eventually reaches an irreconcilable deadlock with his wife, friends and the director who previously supported his cinematic ambitions.
|aMPAA rating: Not rated.
|aDVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
|aPolish dialogue, with optional English subtitles.


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It might feel like Arsenal have a task on their hands to sign some of Europe’s biggest talent this season, but they’re going to struggle just as much keeping hold of it.
As well as the future of star duo Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil under fire, Arsene Wenger is now under immense pressure to convince others that Arsenal is still the club for them, according to the Daily Mirror.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has burst onto the scene since moving into a more central role following Aaron Ramsey’s injury and Granit Xhaka’s suspension.
And although he’s getting regular football in the starting XI, the Ox will know that his chance only came due to every other central midfielder being ruled out.
The 23-year-old was the only positive during that tough 3-1 loss to Chelsea and managed to be in with a shout for the MOTM award against Sutton despite only playing 45 minutes.
He’s certainly a new player in this position, but reports are now suggesting Premier League clubs are growing more confident of luring the Englishman away from the Emirates.
The Mirror believe to have word from Everton that they will move for the unsettled attacker in the summer, competing with both Manchester clubs in the process.
As for the player himself, Oxlade-Chamberlain has made it clear his future will be decided at the end of the season once he’s had a chance to look back on his performances.
Fellow Gooner and England team-mate Jack Wilshere has set an example of what Ox could expect if he was to move to a lower club, which has included a place back in the national squad.
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I enjoy playing guitar and banjo, singing and performing with others, and writing and co-writing songs. Music as a therapeutic intervention was instrumental in my decision to study psychology many years ago. As a young person, I volunteered in inpatient psychiatric hospitals, juvenile detention facilities, and boys & girls clubs, by singing, playing and teaching songwriting as a therapeutic means of self-expression. Seeing the positive impact these expressive and creative activities had on kids in need, strongly influenced my decision to pursue psychology as a career.
I have recorded 3 albums of original songs that can be heard on most major streaming services including Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.

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The current fiscal from April to November is turning out to be a bag of mixed fortunes for Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT). While VPT recorded a 8.17% growth on cargo handled at 40.6 million tonnes during April to November 2016 against 37.5 million tonnes during the corresponding period of the previous year, two major projects including development of the EQ1A berth and modernisation of OR 1 and 2 berths are likely to be delayed due to different reasons.
According to VPT officials, the major port has witnessed an increase in terms of traffic for cargo such as containers and iron ore, whereas it has seen a decline in cargo such as POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants), fertilisers, thermal and coking coal. While iron ore cargo has increased significantly by around 4 million tonnes during the current fiscal, container traffic has increased by about 1.1 million tonnes.
Incidentally, with the central government pushing for reducing imports, steam coal traffic has reduced from 7.4 million tonnes in the last fiscal between April and November to around 5.7 million tonnes during the current fiscal. Similarly, VPT officials attributed the drop in coking coal from 3.8 million tonnes during the last year to 3.2 million tonnes in the current fiscal to slowdown in the steel market.
“Coking coal is mainly used in the steel industry and we are witnessing a drop due to the slow down in steel sector,” a VPT official said. However, he said, “Increased coastal movement of iron ore has helped in increasing cargo traffic as compared to last year.”
“The developer has informed VPT that around 78% of the work has already been completed. But, some portion of the funds required for completing the project is yet to be given to the developer by banks. So, VPT is looking at approaching the shipping ministry for last mile funding, which was until now provided for highway projects. If the ministry approves the funding, then the port can see as to how the funding required for the project can be met. Otherwise, the port will have to look at other options,” another port official said.
Similarly, the port had approached the ministry of environment and forests for its nod to improve the capacity utilisation of OR (oil refinery) I and II berths at an estimated cost of Rs 193 crore. However, sources said oil companies, who have to change the pipelines if the refinery berth capacity is upgraded, are yet to give their consent for the project. According to sources, the oil companies have expressed that the potential for POL cargo is not expected to rise significantly in the near future due to which they are yet to give a commitment on the project.


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The second cohort of the Texas Opportunity & Justice Incubator, or TOJI, kicked off October 2, 2017, in Austin with a group of 10 new attorneys ready to learn the ins and outs of running a successful law practice.
The 18-month program is a State Bar initiative to close the access to justice gap and is the first statewide legal incubator in Texas. The TOJI participants are provided hands-on skills and knowledge they’ll need to establish their own law practices serving low- and modest-income Texans. The cohort follows the inaugural group of attorneys who began with TOJI’s launch in April.
“Solo practice lawyering—especially when you are just getting started—can be a very lonely, insulated experience,” said Austin-based family law and criminal law attorney Eugene Haller. “I wanted to be in a group where we bounced ideas off one another, worked together, and referred each other clients.”
Haller has already begun collaborating with TOJI cohorts, with plans in place to second chair trials with three participants, develop video marketing with one, and co-write an article for a local publication with another.
The cohort started their 18-month journey with a three-week boot camp focused on establishing a business and getting and retaining clients. The lessons included discussions on setting retirements goals and considering expenses that may get in their way.
Russell Sloan, a Florida State University graduate, moved to Austin in early October to work in business and employment law. Sloan pointed to first-day discussions such as alternative billing methods versus flat fees for clients, as an example of how TOJI can guide him as he opens his own firm in the upcoming weeks.
“I want to help someone out who says he or she wants to open a food truck but doesn’t know where to start,” he said, adding that he wants to assist his clients with tax information and defense work.
Participants sent applications online to TOJI Director Anne-Marie Rábago and her staff, who select a new group of attorneys every six months. Each cohort has a maximum of 10 attorneys—at one time, including all cohorts, there is a maximum of 30.
Family law attorney Kristina Chung, who applied to TOJI after receiving an email from Rábago, said the program can steer lawyers away from pitfalls like wasting money and will point them to new resources and services, such as Fastcase and Casemaker, and different CLEs. Even more important, she said, TOJI allows her to see similarities in how other attorneys run their firms, offering them a safety net to make mistakes.
“I think it’s a very diverse group of people,” Chung said. “It allows you to fail without thinking, I’m the only one.”
TOJI will begin accepting applications in November for the third cohort, which will begin in April 2018. For more information about the program and how to apply, go to txoji.com.


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Название: Perspectives in mathematical sciences II: Pure mathematics
Авторы: Sastry N.S.N. (ed.), Rao T.S.S.R.K. (ed.), Delampady M. (ed.)
This book presents a collection of invited articles by distinguished Mathematicians on the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute, during the year 2007. These articles provide a current perspective of different areas of research, emphasizing the major challenging issues. Given the very significant record of the Institute in research in the areas of Statistics, Probability and Mathematics, distinguished authors have very admirably responded to the invitation. Some of the articles are written keeping students and potential new entrants to an area of mathematics in mind. This volume is thus very unique and gives a perspective of several important aspects of mathematics.


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MPs to discuss rule changes after ‘rude’ treatment of sexual assault victims, advocates
MPs say they are ready to change the way witnesses are treated in committees after some survivors and advocates of sexual violence say they feel angry and in some cases revictimized when telling their personal stories during these meetings.
NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus says he believes a “dysfunctional circus atmosphere” has taken hold in a number of committees, where MPs are often more interested in postures policies than by trying to stay on topic and respectful while listening to witnesses.
This came to a head during a recent ethics committee meeting, which is examining how to protect the privacy of people who appear on websites like Pornhub.
Witnesses sharing stories and expertise on how vulnerable sex workers could be affected by the federal government’s decision to regulate the content of pornographic websites say they are shocked at how MPs disrupted the meeting after more than 40 minutes of partisan bickering.
“These women who came to give their point of view, they left, I think, very disrespectful,” Angus said of the April 19 meeting.
The committee is investigating Pornhub and its Montreal parent company MindGeek, accused of hosting explicit videos of people posted without consent – including videos of alleged rape and child sexual abuse.
It was one of many committees that invited victims of sexual assault, exploitation and trauma to share their experiences and recommendations for change.
Members of Parliament are bound by conventions that make the process of committee meetings highly regulated, including limited time to speak. But a growing number of victim advocates believe committees should develop a more trauma-sensitive approach to dealing with vulnerable witnesses.
Sex worker advocates say invitation was ‘a fake move’
Angus said that shortly after the study was launched on Pornhub, MPs began to be inundated with requests for testimony from representatives of the porn industry and the sex trade, as well as people with links to religious groups who are anti-pornography activists.
Some MPs have even received threats of violence from people who Angus says are part of what he calls a “war of American culture on pornography.”
Meanwhile, the women who testified at the April 19 meeting felt overwhelmed, unheard of and “revictimized.”
“Inviting us was a false move,” says Melissa Lukings, researcher and sex worker rights activist with intersectional lived experience.
“All the possible hurdles were in place. They didn’t even follow the standard notification procedure, which would have allowed briefs to be submitted and translated in advance,” Lukings said.
Instead of focusing on Lukings’ testimony and asking him questions, Liberal MP Brenda Shanahan used her remaining time with witnesses to table a motion.
The motion called on the committee to “hear from other witnesses at its next meeting scheduled for a minimum of two hours”.
Shanahan said on Monday that she felt compelled to use her allotted time to table her motion not to prevent witnesses from speaking, but to prevent opposition MPs on the committee from trying to silence the voices of people like Lukings.
“We wanted to draw attention to this issue,” she said, along with further study. She said she believed a number of opposition MPs were part of an “anti-porn squad”.
Angus disputes this.
“To interrupt (the witnesses) I think it was political,” he said.
“It was like a time when we had crossed some kind of dividing line in how we treat witnesses” and we really need to think about it. “
Members open to training
The ethics committee is not the only one calling witnesses who have lived through the dark world of sexual assault and exploitation.
The Status of Women and National Defense Committees have all dealt with widespread allegations of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, who chairs the Status of Women committee, says members “did their best” to welcome vulnerable witnesses.
“I made a big effort to make sure we were flexible. Many times I gave people more time than they were allowed because of the sensitivity of it,” Gladu said.
However, some women who were invited to speak last month have raised concerns that MPs are cutting victims’ testimony midway through due to the rules governing such meetings.
“I think it’s a long-standing problem, but I think it’s particularly serious right now,” said Julie Lalonde, a sexual violence prevention educator who testified at the committee on the condition of the disease. wife on April 8.
“There is a real feeling of (politicians) asking really intense questions of witnesses, but looking very clearly at the clock while the person is speaking – so not listening carefully to what the person is saying, which then leads to not having the appropriate empathetic response. “
Discussions will now take place on how to ensure that MPs take a more trauma-sensitive approach when victims and survivors come to share their stories, Gladu said.
Gladu and Shanahan also said they would support training MPs to talk to witnesses about sensitive issues and possible recommendations in the House of Commons to better support witnesses in the future.
“I think it’s possible to change the general committee rules, because there are many types of sticky situations that committees hear testimony from,” Gladu said.
“We heard from some of the witnesses and how they felt, not only about this study, but also about other studies, so I think it deserves a discussion.”

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The latest edition of the annual Colorado Hay Directory is now available, offering information to connect producers and buyers.
The directory offers information about hay producers and brokers as well as companies that provide related products and services. The directory offers information by region for the type and amount of hay available and bale types and sizes.
“The annual hay directory can save time for producers looking to find hay products in their part of Colorado,” said Danielle Trotta, senior marketing specialist for the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
The directory is available online at https://ag.colorado.gov/markets. To request a copy or obtain more information, call (303) 869-9175 or send an email to Loretta.Lopez@state.co.us.


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The popularity of Minecraft is unlike that of any other game. The world-building video game is an obsession with several children (and adults) I know, and last I heard it had sold over 70 million copies. Educators have jumped on the popularity of Minecraft, using it to teach kids about coding and 3D design; I even have a friend who recently spent a week as a counselor at a Minecraft camp. The Minecraft craze doesn’t seem to be dying down anytime soon – with kids or adults – and a new version of the game is likely to spark new interest, as well as rekindling excitement in seasoned players.
Over the past year, Minecraft’s developers have been working on bringing fans directly into the game through virtual reality. In April, a VR version of the game was released for Samsung Gear VR, and now, after months of hard work, Minecraft VR is available for Oculus Rift. Better yet, it’s being released as a free update to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.
“We’d like to welcome you to the game all over again, because it’s a fantastic new experience in VR, even if you’re a Minecraft veteran,” the game’s developers state. “For new and experienced players, we hope the VR experience in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta will illuminate just how powerful, evocative, and utterly immersive VR can really be.”
Minecraft players can now step inside their created worlds with even more new features than the Gear VR version of the game. Innate support is available for keyboard and mouse, and new Xbox control options compensate for any discomfort caused by the VR experience: for example, the “stutter turn” feature allows users to turn at 22 1/2 degrees, with the same amount of control, minimizing any dizziness or discomfort caused by a quick spin in virtual reality.
Then there’s the virtual reality living room, which I think is especially cool: it’s like meta-virtual reality. If you need a break from being fully immersed in your Minecraft world, you can press a button that will zoom out and place you in a “Minecraft living room,” a virtual space that will allow you to sit on a virtual couch and continue to play the game on a virtual screen in front of your virtual self.
Minecraft for Oculus Rift also supports MSAA in VR for better visuals, and new render distance settings have been added. Many of the virtual reality settings – particularly those that affect comfort or rendering performance – have been recorded separately, so users can customize their experiences.
“We know…it’ll not take a day before people start building things that are going to amaze us. And I think that’s the fun thing about Minecraft,” says Saxs Persson of Minecraft. “Our job, in many ways, is to provide an inspirational platform, a place that people can go and have fun and make it their own, and try not to limit what people can do, and then just step back and watch the community take it for a ride.”
The free Oculus Rift VR update to Windows 10 can be downloaded here. To learn more about Virtual Reality Minecraft, you can check out the game’s VR page here, or watch the video below, and then discuss further over in the Minecraft Virtual Reality forum at 3DPB.com.
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Yet there is a wall going around Joe Pee Pads Biden’s beach home.
The Department of Homeland Security will spend nearly a half-million dollars for a Delaware construction company to build a fence around President Joe Biden’s beach house.
The New York Postreported Friday that the department awarded Turnstone Holdings LLC a $456,548 contract to purchase and install security fencing at the president’s Rehoboth home. The Secret Service will be the subagency for the contract.
Construction of Biden’s security fence comes as the president faces a record-high surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border. Border Patrol agents this year detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, the highest total ever recorded, according to the Washington Post.
One of Biden’s first actions in office was halting construction of former president Donald Trump’s border wall. Homeland Security this month canceled remaining contracts for building the wall.
Biden, who has not been to the border since he was elected president, said Thursday that “I haven’t had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down.” Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden in March appointed border czar, visited the border in June after bipartisan pushback.
The 2022 midterms can not happen soon enough to stop Joe Pee Pads Biden’s anti gun jihad.
President Joe Biden released a statement Thursday in which he blamed Republicans for David Chipman’s failed nomination and pledged to continue working toward more gun control.
The statement began with Biden praising Chipman for his work with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), then moved to blamed Republicans for the Chipman nomination failure:
Republicans in Congress have made clear that they intend to use gun crime as a political talking point instead of taking serious steps to address it. That’s why they’ve moved in lockstep to block David Chipman’s confirmation, and it’s why they side with gun manufacturers over the overwhelming majority of the American people in opposing commonsense measures like universal background checks.
Biden did not mention that the pivotal opposition to Chipman’s nomination came from Sen. Angus King (I-ME).
King caucuses with Senate Democrats, giving them the 50 votes that allow them to hold the majority over Republicans, counting VP Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote authority. Once King announced he would not support Chipman, it was evident that the nomination was going nowhere unless a Republican crossed the aisle to support the gun control nominee.
In this September 25, 2019, photo, Giffords Law Center Senior Policy Advisor David Chipman speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Biden’s statement on the withdraw of Chipman concluded with a pledge to continue pursuing gun control:
We knew this wouldn’t be easy – there’s only been one Senate-confirmed ATF Director in the Bureau’s history – but I have spent my entire career working to combat the scourge of gun violence, and I remain deeply committed to that work. Since taking office, my Administration has taken numerous steps to combat gun violence, and we’ll continue to use every tool at our disposal to fight gun violence and keep Americans safe. I am grateful for Mr. Chipman’s service and for his work.
Gun control has been a staple among Biden’s presidential goals from day one.
For example, during a February 24, 2020, campaign speech in South Carolina, Biden referenced gun manufacturers then looked into the camera and said, “I’m going to take you down.”
President Joe Biden (D) has made a number of claims about guns, your Second Amendment rights and more. Here are some of his most-ridiculous.
“We should also eliminate gun manufacturers from the immunity they received … What people don’t realize: The only industry in America that can’t be sued … are gun manufacturers.” Time and again, Biden has called for a repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), as he was doing in this quote, which protects firearms manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits. The plain reality is that firearms manufacturers can be sued, like any other industry, for product liability violations. They cannot be sued, however, for the criminal misuse of their products, thanks to protections from the PLCAA.
“Most people don’t know: If you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check.”
Biden said this whopper during a press conference in the Rose Garden addressing the “epidemic of gun violence” in our nation. The fact is, federal law requires dealers to initiate a background check through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System wherever they sell a gun, including gun shows.
“We’re taking steps to confront not just the gun crisis but what is actually a public-health crisis.” Using Second Amendment rights is not a disease or a sickness. Biden is saying this because he wants to use public money to promote gun control.
“No one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, even up to 100 rounds unless you think the deer are wearing Kevlar vests or something.” Biden has trotted out this odd line about deer in Kevlar vests a few times. This is a bait and switch, as he wants to ban all magazines that hold over 10 rounds—but who is to say how much a person needs to protect themselves from a home invasion?
It is going to get worse under Joe Pee Pads Biden’s regime.
The only thing illegal is the government’s plan.
There’s a reason it’s called “Lawful Commerce”
Congress wisely anticipated such unconstitutional acts
The Biden administration, frustrated with widespread failure of Democrats’ plan to Defund the Police and its predictable skyrocketing crime rates, is now seeking to repeal the federal “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.” This landmark 2005 law was designed to protect exactly what Biden and his team now seek to outlaw—legal activity.
“They avoid the tough, politically challenging task of going after the perpetrators of brazen outdoor daylight murders, who are often non-inclusive people of color in disadvantaged neighborhoods. It’s true but not politically correct to acknowledge, which is why CNN and mass media in lockstep do not,” said Alan Korwin, an award-winning author and consultant to JPFO. Biden’s team has instead chosen to scapegoat fine, historic, capital-intensive employers and manufacturers of the firearms America depends upon to preserve peace and freedom. Mass media is playing along with this abhorrent scheme, by failing to point out the obvious: 1–The murderers are already heavily armed; 2–They don’t need brand new guns from retail outlets; 3–The “superb” existing background checks have had no effect; 4–Critics say the checks are largely a failed distraction (ask JPFO about that); 5–Most of all, ethnically non-diverse actors, operating in discreet, easily identified areas, not cities, are frequently known to law enforcement who provide little enforcement, to prosecutors who do little serious prosecution. Long rap sheets are a hallmark of the few perps caught, and the problem.
Rather than face these known gross failures, which perpetuate the problems and obscene rates of assaults on innocent children, inner-city women and men, and partisan gang members, the power elite has assembled its leadership from the most anti-gun-rights states—all seven of them. They’re attacking a primary law protecting the Constitution and fundamental rights of the American public, in place for nearly 2-1/2 centuries. If this wasn’t so unfathomably bizarre it would be fiction, but it is not. The so-called “news” media has once again failed its ethical obligations and taken up a role as a mouthpiece for an openly corrupt central government and its unconstitutional proposals. Attached, the White House plan, verbatim, lacking a single mention of criminals responsible.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
August 5, 2021
Readout of Senior White House Meeting with State Attorneys General
on Efforts to Hold Gun Manufacturers Accountable
Today, Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, White House Counsel Dana Remus, and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Julie Rodriguez hosted a virtual convening with attorneys general from seven states and the District of Columbia to discuss policies and strategies for holding gun manufacturers and dealers accountable for wrongful conduct that contributes to the supply of firearms used to commit gun crimes. This convening is the first of two meetings with state and local officials that were announced in President Biden’s comprehensive plan to reduce gun crimes, including by supporting local law enforcement, investing in proven community violence interruption efforts, and stemming the flow of guns used to commit crimes.
President Biden has repeatedly and forcefully called for Congress to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). This law gives gun dealers and manufacturers special immunity from certain liability for their products, hindering the public’s ability to address the epidemic of gun violence through the use of civil litigation in the same way they have been able to with the tobacco and opioid industries. As the President said in the Rose Garden this past April, “Imagine how different it would be had the same exemption been available to tobacco companies who knew and lied about the danger they were causing.” During today’s discussion, attorneys general shared how PLCAA has served as a significant barrier to holding gun manufacturers and dealers accountable for unlawful conduct that led to shootings, homicides, and other gun crimes, and how repeal of PLCAA would enhance their ability to advance the public safety of Americans.
As directed in the President’s gun crime reduction strategy, participants in the convening also discussed how we can hold gun manufacturers and dealers accountable for unlawful conduct while PLCAA is still the law of the land. Attorneys general discussed the opportunity and barriers to using generally applicable state consumer protection and nuisance laws to take action against gun manufacturers and gun dealers under PLCAA’s predicate exception. They also discussed how state legislators could enact firearm-specific liability laws, like New York State’s new law, to potentially create new predicates allowing litigation to proceed under PLCAA.
• District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine
• New York Attorney General Letitia James
• New Jersey Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck
• California Attorney General Rob Bonta
• Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
• Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson
• Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey
• Connecticut Attorney General William Tong White House participants:
• Susan Rice, Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor
• Dana Remus, Assistant to the President and White House Counsel
• Julie Rodriguez, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs
The hope of Joe Pee Pads Biden is to disarm the American public by any means he can.
Americans are sending a message of their own, despite President Joe Biden’s continued push to restrict their Second Amendment rights. They are choosing to protect themselves.
Two key markers demonstrate Americans in 2021 are voting with their wallets and politicians would be wise to take note. Gun sales continue at elevated levels and if elected officials don’t take heed, they could find themselves out of elected office and looking for work.
Low Public Safety Marks
President Biden has been pushing a strict gun control agenda since campaigning for the White House. He called the firearm industry, which guarantees the ability for law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights, “the enemy.” He wants to dismantle it. His executive actions are about limiting the rights of law-abiding Americans, while all but ignoring the criminals perpetrating the crimes.
That’s not lost on the American public.
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows the president is underwater on crime and safety, according to Newsweek. Only 37 percent of Americans give their approval to President Biden on his handling of crime and gun violence, representing a five-point drop in four months.
Other polling shows Americans’ growing disapproval of more gun control as Congress continues pushing it and the U.S. Senate stalls on considering the president’s nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Several outlets have reported on the polling, which even includes a drop among self-described Democrats.
Claiming Gun Rights
Gun sales shattered records in 2020. So far in the first half of 2021, the pace hasn’t slowed, with nearly 9.8 million background checks completed for the sale of a gun in the first six months of the year. Stephen Gutowski’s The Reload reported on NSSF’s Adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers for June, noting the more than 1.2 million checks were second only to June of last year. Also reported was that the first quarter in 2021 was on pace to beat the record first quarter of 2020. In 2020, 40 percent of purchases were first-time buyers, good for more than 8.4 million new gun owners.
“First-time gun owners, young and old from across the country, are helping to push record levels of gun sales for what looks like the second year in a row,” noted NPR. “These buyers are white, Black, Asian and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they’re being driven by uncertainty, fear and a need to feel safe.”
The Hartford Courantreported that “Jenny,” a stay-at-home mom, purchased her first firearm recently as well. Of the tumultuous last year, she said, “It was such an unpredictable time, and people were under a lot of stress. I realized I was responsible for my own self-defense.”
As millions more Americans realize the president, Congress, and their local governments aren’t willing to take necessary steps to keep them safe, they’re turning to the local gun store and retailer.
Geneva Solomon, owner of Redstone Firearms in Burbank, Calif., said enrollment in her firearm safety and education classes is way up. “We’ve definitely seen an uptick in the class options we offer. Before they would never sell out. Now they sell out two days after we post them.”
Americans will continue to exercise their right to buy firearms if their safety continues to be jeopardized by politicians pushing “woke” public safety agendas and cutting law enforcement budgets.
In a bit of good news ahead, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear a potential landmark Second Amendment case in the coming term that could strike down state-level restrictions on concealed carry in New York. The nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has also skidded to a halt and police chiefs are making it clearthey’ve been hamstrung by politicians to keep citizens safe.
Americans previously rebuffed efforts by billionaire gun control funder Michael Bloomberg in 2019 and 2020 to buy more seats in Congress. His attempt failed. That may be the case again in 2022 as public safety remains at the forefront of voters’ minds.
Americans will keep demanding their Second Amendment rights and exercising that right at the local retail counter. Politicians who keep plugging their ears and shutting their eyes to reality will soon be looking for new work.
Joe Pee Pads Biden’s regime will defiantly censor this bit of news.
The Delta alarmism is to scare the CNN watching sheeple.
Please help me spread the word.
Despite fears about contagious new strains of the coronavirus floating around, deaths from COVID-19 are at a 16-month low, according to the latest data.
The establishment media loves a high body count. If you’ve never worked in a TV newsroom, you’ve never seen a media big shot’s eyes glaze over as he hears about a mass casualty event. It’s disgusting.
Thus far, the super-scary, mega-ominous delta variant has denied the establishment media’s empathy-free reporter, producers and directs mass graves and B-roll footage of body bags. The TV and print media spin machine is being foiled by science and medicine.
In fact, deaths from COVID-19 are still declining, despite all the fresh alarmism.
But something else happened following that month: Deaths kept declining. In spite of the super-scary, mega-ominous delta variant and its cousin, the super-terrifying, mega-menacing lambda variant, reported fatalities from COVID are at a 16-month low.
A CDC table that tracks reported COVID deaths in the U.S. shows clearly that fatalities have fallen to their lowest level since spring of last year, even though the country is seeing an uptick in reported cases and new variants.
The CDC tracked six deaths attributed to COVID in January 2020. By April of last year, 65,471 deaths had been linked to the pandemic.
In January of this year, according to the CDC, 104,904 Americans died from the coronavirus. In February, the agency attributed 47,313 deaths to the illness. That’s quite a drop, but it was only the beginning.
The number of monthly deaths continued to fall each month, including this month, as the delta variant took over news coverage — leading to talk of more lockdowns, a return of masks and the federal government essentially undercutting its own messaging on vaccine efficacy.
How deadly has July been, with respect to other months? It trails only February 2020, when 19 deaths were attributed to the coronavirus.
Through Friday, 4,054 deaths have been blamed on COVID this month — a big drop from 7,493 in June and the lowest since 7,159 deaths were reported in March 2020, the month in which the disease began its spread across the country and world.
While one death from any cause is too many, the pandemic is right now less deadly than it has been at any point since this nightmare began, and that statement isn’t speculative. It’s based purely on science and analytics.
People who mask-shame, watch left-wing CNN and virtue signal about their vaccine status often shout down their opposition, declaring those with whom they disagree to not be “scientists.” One doesn’t need to be a scientist to read a graph.
All available data shows that new efforts by Democrats to seemingly make masks a permanent part of life are based not on science but on a desire for power. The American left has relied for more than a year on people being afraid and compliant as they transform the country into a socialist cesspit where they can use COVID as a pretense to seize control of elections.
It’s challenging to see how those in charge can accomplish that feat if people simply look at the information proved by the scientists for themselves and behave accordingly. Then again, those pushing fear about new disease variants are the same people who are the gatekeepers of information.
Surely the country’s ruling party and the politicized CDC will find a way to keep amping up the alarmism.
But the numbers don’t support any assertion that we’re all in dire straits. They actually show the opposite.
As bad as Joe Pee Pads Biden is for gun owners Kalama Knee Pads Harris would be worse.
Fox News is reporting that Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the former White House physician, has doubts Joe Biden will finish his term as president, and he is calling on Biden to undergo an exam and disclose the results publicly.
“Our cities are EXPLODING with drugs & violence,” Jackson tweeted, “because of Democrat ‘defund the police’ policies and the GREAT UNITER Joe Biden deflects to talk about ‘sucking blood out of kids.’ He’s completely LOST it! Needs a cognitive exam NOW!”
But before anyone gets too excited about getting Biden out of office, whether it be voluntary or by invoking the 25th Amendment, better think ahead about his replacement. As vice president, Kamala Harris would immediately be sworn into office, and many believe she would be a disaster. After all, she dropped out of the Democratic primary race early, not because of Republican opposition but because she did not resonate with voters in her own party.
Her message on guns has been crystal clear since she started running for the presidency almost three years ago. She would go after gun owners, give Congress 100 days to pass the kinds of actions she supports, including a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” and if nothing happened, she would take executive action.
As reported at the time by Harper’s Bazaar, “Harris publicly committed to a host of executive actions that she would have undertaken if elected to the Oval Office, including mandating universal background checks, revoking the licenses of (and possibly prosecuting) gun manufacturers who break the law, closing a legal loophole in order to prevent those convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a firearm, and banning AR-15-style assault weapons from being imported into the country.”
When she was California attorney general, Harris was sued by gun rights and retail firearms organizations including the Second Amendment Foundation, Calguns Foundation and California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees.
Harris wants to hold gun manufacturers for crimes committed with firearms. In all, Biden may be bad but Harris has the potential to be a lot worse, and if she were to assume office 25 months into Biden’s term, she would be legally eligible to run for her own two full terms.
Bottom line is Harris would be bad news, and not just for gun owners and the Second Amendment.
Her tactic of answering questions she doesn’t want to answer by first being sarcastic and then breaking out into cackling laughter is wearing thin. That doesn’t mean she won’t continue doing it.
Democrats have wanted to be the first party to put a woman in the White House. They missed the mark with Hillary Rodham Clinton, but they might score with Harris.
Biden’s recent debacle during the CNN Townhall when his slip-of-tongue revealed he does want to ban 9mm pistols, and his other gaffes since taking office, and his shifting of gears midstream in a sentence suggest to many, including rep. Jackson, that he is not in full control of his faculties.
In a revealing piece aired by the KFMB in September 2020, the report acknowledged that what the Biden-Harris team wanted to do then was to “make the U.S. like California.” To gun owners in Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, the Dakotas, Utah, Arizona, Texas and elsewhere west of the Mississippi River, that’s the kind of discussion that starts brawls.
The only thing that could change what may be on the horizon is a Republican capture of Capitol Hill—both the Senate and the House of Representatives—in November 2022. With the GOP in control, neither Biden or Harris would accomplish anything. Should Republicans win back the House, it is not inconceivable Nancy Pelosi and other older Democrats would decide to retire.
But it would have to be a decisive GOP victory in November 2022, meaning that every gun owner would have to vote, instead of sitting the election out.
In the meantime, if Harris does somehow take the reins with a Biden departure—he will have, after all, achieved his 47-year quest to win the presidency that began when he first set foot in Washington, D.C.—there could be far more trouble than gun owners care to imagine.
That’s why talk of sending Biden home to write his memoirs should be alarming to gun owners, because while he may be losing momentum, Harris is just warming up.
Joe Pee Pads Biden and Kamala Knee Pads Harris would like nothing more than to be able to kick down your door and demand you surrender your guns.
Wednesday night during a CNNLOL town hall, His Fraudulency Joe Biden added 9mm pistols to his growing list of gun bans, which once again proves America’s fact checkers are stone-cold liars.
Biden said, “The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it’s a 9mm pistol or whether it’s a rifle, is ridiculous. I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.”
And there it is… The 9mm. Just like that, the 9mm, one of the most popular handguns in America, is sitting right there on the table.
Gun shop owner Jeff Binkley displays a Glock 9mm pistol at Sarge’s Sidearms on September 29, 2016 in Benson, Arizona (John Moore/Getty Images).
Also on the table now is “20 shots.” Many 9mms carry a standard 16 round magazine, and with one more chambered, you got 17. So now, we’re only three measly shots away from a standard, everyday 9mm being labeled a “weapon of war.”
This kind of mission creep is par for the course for the extreme left.
Yep, one day, they just want to allow same-sex couples to get married. The next day, drag queens read to prepubescent kids at the local library, and naked men walk around your daughter’s locker room.
One day, it’s “two weeks to slow the spread,” and here we sit, more than a year later, right back talking about mask mandates and shutdowns.
One day, it’s DACA. The next day, the borders are wide open.
Biden targeting the 9mm is no accident, no slip of the tongue, and no senior moment. As the government seeks to impose its rule over our everyday lives, seeks to exploit things like the coronavirus to strip us of our everyday liberties, disarming us is a necessary component of that.
Another necessary component is a corporate media who lie and lie and lie to gaslight the American public into believing fanatics like Biden are perfectly reasonable people with perfectly reasonable proposals to make our country a more perfect union…. Hey, what’s wrong with restrictions on those huge banana clips that hold dozens of rounds? What’s wrong with background checks? What’s wrong with banning Weapons of War? What’s wrong with a buyback program? What’s wrong with a little tweak here and a little tweak there?
President Joe Biden stops to answer questions from reporters after speaking in the State Dining Room with Vice President Kamala Harris behind him following the passage of the American Rescue Plan in the U.S. Senate at the White House on March 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate passed the latest COVID-19 relief bill by 50 to 49 on a party-line vote, after an all-night session (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images).
It’s all a lie, and the media know it’s a lie, most especially the fact checkers, and their goal is to lie, to deceive us, to allow the same-sex marriage camel nose into the tent so that the full camel of drag queens can read to our children.
It works like this…
Someone on the right will warn that Biden is coming after your guns, and the fake fact checkers will mobilize with their tut-tut-tuts declaring those statements a lie because, you know, Biden didn’t really say that. But these godforsaken liars tut-tut-tut even when Biden does say it.
After both Biden and Her Vice Fraudulency Kamala Harris flat-out admitted they support a “mandatory” gun buyback program — which is straight-up confiscation — the fact checkers still lied, still said, Tut-tut-tut, Trumptards, Biden is not going to confiscate your guns.
Look at this fake fact check from the far-left FactCheck.org. A 2020 Trump ad claimed Biden was coming for our guns, and FactCheck.org freaked out to protect Biden:
“Joe Biden openly admitted his plan to violate our Second Amendment rights,” the ad’s narrator says about the Democratic presidential nominee. The ad then shows CNN’s Anderson Cooper saying to Biden: “To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they’re going to come for my guns.” After that, Biden is shown saying, “Bingo. You’re right.”
But his full response was: “Bingo. You’re right, if you have an assault weapon. The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period.”
Biden actually argued that banning Americans from purchasing assault weapons wouldn’t be a violation of their constitutional rights, and he said he wouldn’t confiscate firearms that had already been purchased legally.
See! See! See! shouts FactCheck, It’s a lie!Biden’s not coming for your guns. He’s just coming for those nasty assault rifles everyone hates. It’s Trump who’s a liar. Why would you vote to reelect a liar?!
Except Biden is coming for our guns. Everyone knows he’s coming for our guns. FactCheck.org damn well knows he’s coming for our guns, but they not only lie and say he’s not… They take Biden’s word for it!
And here we sit… Now that Biden’s allegedly won the 2020 election, he just did exactly what the Trump ad said he would. In this country, if you put 9mms on the banning table, if you come for our 9mms, you are most definitely coming for our guns.
So go ahead and add “Biden’s not coming for your guns” to this list….
Brett Kavanaugh — Serial Rapist
President Michael Avenatti
The Covington KKKids Hoax
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
Mostly Peaceful Black Lives Matter Riots
The Russia Collusion Hoax
Antifa Stormed the Beaches on D-Day
Cuomo (D-NY): King of Coronavirus Competence
The Clearing of Lafayette Square Hoax
The Lab Leak Theory Has Been Debunked Hoax
The Russians Are Behind Hunter’s Laptop Hoax
The Russian Bounty Hoax
The Capitol Police Officer Killed with a Fire Extinguisher Hoax
Anything Joe Pee Pads Biden will try to discredit Second Amendment Activism will not surprise me.
White House/Silicon Valley – -(AmmoLand.com)- In the course of White House press briefings, Second Amendment supporters got good news, but they also found themselves facing a much greater short-term danger. The good news is that Jen Psaki probably handed enough evidence to prove that Silicon Valley has been acting as a proxy for the federal government to pretty much ensure former President Trump will win his court case.
The bad news is that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has upped the ante over the short term by claiming that “misinformation” about COVID-19 is “an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health.” Of course, Murthy has a prescription that includes “suggestions” for social media companies.
Do you know what else has been described as a “public health” issue? The Second Amendment.
Remember how the Centers for Disease Control were pushing gun control? It was so bad Congress wisely pulled the plug on funding for that pseudo-science, much to the chagrin and anger of anti-Second Amendment extremists like Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), who want to take us back to the bad old days of politicized medicine.
(As an aside, the CDC’s blatant anti-Second Amendment propaganda may be a big reason why they aren’t entirely trusted with regards to COVID and vaccines. Let this be a lesson to Second Amendment supporters who, in this media environment must take a higher level of care about how we come across to our fellow Americans, like avoiding the use of dubious quotes.)
The big question is, of course, whether Murthy would declare activism for our Second Amendment rights as “misinformation” if CDC goes back into the business of being propagandists for gun control. We can’t put that past them, especially given how Silicon Valley censorship has affected things already.
Think about how CDC has suppressed information about the use of firearms for self-defense in the past. Or remember how Arthur Kellerman claimed that a firearm was 43 times more likely to be used to kill you than to be used for self-defense? Right now, if Murthy calls efforts to point out Kellerman’s BS “misinformation,” you can bet that Silicon Valley will be censoring in moments.
As we now know, Kellerman got that figure by only counting those homicides that were ruled self-defense. But as Massad Ayoob – or any other competent self-defense instructor – would quickly tell you, you don’t have to kill an assailant to have successfully defended yourself. Don’t take my word for it: The NRA’s Armed Citizen over the years has examples of armed bad guys fleeing or surrendering when they realize there is an armed good guy, with no shots fired by the good guy at all.
Second Amendment supporters need to urge their Representative and Senators to block any CDC effort to attack the First and Second Amendments in the name of “public health.” In addition, they need to work to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists at the federal, state, and local levels at the ballot box as soon as possible.
I look for Joe Pee Pads Biden’s regime to fight this decision.
On Friday, Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas issued a decision which will block the Department of Homeland Security from approving new DACA applications.
The decision found that President Barack Obama illegally exceeded his executive authority in 2012 when his administration created the DACA program.
Judge Hanen called the program an “illegally implemented program” and said “the public interest of the nation is always served by the cessation of a program that was created in violation of law and whose existence violates the law.”
He held off for now on deciding how current recipients will be affected. “To be clear, neither this order nor the accompanying injunction requires DHS or the Department of Justice to take any immigration, deportation, or criminal action against any DACA recipient, applicant, or any other individual that it would otherwise not take,” the decision concluded with.
We will still have to wait a bit longer until the fate of the DACA program recipients are decided for good though, with Judge Hanen citing “reliance” which “may, in fact, have increased over time.”
The order as it would apply to current recipients is “stayed until a further order of this Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, or the United States Supreme Court.”
This case is a suit brought by Texas and several other states.

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The Physics of Medieval Archery describes the role of the longbow on the field of battle at Agincourt -- that "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers" battle fought between the English, under Henry V, and the French on October 24, 1415:
Henry had approximately 5,000 archers at Agincourt, and a stock of about 400,000 arrows. Each archer could shoot about ten arrows a minute, so the army only had enough ammunition for about eight minutes of shooting at maximum fire power. However, this fire power would have been devastating. Fifty thousand arrows a minute - over 800 a second - would have hissed down on the French cavalry, killing hundreds of men a minute and wounding many more. The function of a company of medieval archers seems to have been equivalent to that of a machine-gunner, so in modern terms we can imagine Agincourt as a battle between old-fashioned cavalry, supported by a few snipers (crossbow-men) on the French side, against a much smaller army equipped with machine guns. Perhaps from this point of view the most remarkable fact about the battle is that the French ignored the very great military advantages of the longbow.
One point the article doesn't mention is the effect this would have had on the horses. Whether the rider was injured or not, if an arrow struck his mount, he would be unhorsed and at a great disadvantage in armor designed for cavalry, not infantry. Once the riders were stumbling around on the muddy ground in their pointy metal shoes, the archers, now out of arrows, surged forward with daggers and lead mallets used for driving tent spikes. They worked in pairs, with one coming up behind a struggling or injured knight and felling him with a mallet blow and the other lifting up the visor and finishing him off with a dagger. If you want to read a truly brilliant account of this battle -- including a memorable explanation of why you never want to know what knights in armor smelled like -- you can't go wrong with The Face of Battle by John Keegan.


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Apache Storm is a distributed system designed for processing streams of information. Each unit of processing is called a bolt and a group of bolts with an initial spout is called a topology. Multiple topologies can be deployed on a single Apache Storm cluster. Multi tenancy within an Apache Storm cluster requires the ability to prevent any user from killing a topology or viewing the topology logs. Much of the information comes from the Apache Storm security documentation but it isn’t entirely clear what each setting does.
Apache Storm Topology Permissions
By default when security is enabled for Apache Storm, only the user who deploys the topology has access to admin operations such as rebalance, activate, deactivate, and kill. The configurations below can be set at the cluster or topology level. If they are defined in the topology they will override the global configuration.
||This allows the users/groups specified to act as owners of the topology. This allows users to perform topology admin operations such as rebalance, activate, deactivate, and kill.|
||This allows the users/groups specified to look at the logs of the topology.|
Apache Storm Cluster Admin Permissions
There is one cluster level configuration that will enable a set of users to be admins for the entire Apache Storm cluster.
||These users will have super user permissions on all topologies deployed. They will be able to perform other admin operations (such as rebalance, activate, deactivate and kill), even if they are not the owners of the topology.|


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Two World War II-era bombs discovered during construction work were defused Sunday in Berlin and the western city of Koblenz in operations that also led to the evacuation of 16,000 people.
Experts went to work to defuse a World War II bomb found under the Jewish Museum in central Berlin.
Up to 11,000 residents were advised to leave their homes and police began knocking on doors early in the morning to ensure that the evacuation notice was adhered to, local newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported.
However, the operation was significantly delayed because the evacuations took until the afternoon to be completed.
Shops and cafes remain closed in the area. Public transport was disrupted, including restrictions to two underground lines running eastwards out of the city centre. Bus services were also affected.
Construction workers discovered the 250-kilogram bomb on Friday at the Jewish Museum in the district of Kreuzberg, a popular area among tourists.
Another bomb was found in Koblenz, affecting around 5,000 residents within a 500-metre radius, as a team of experts worked to safely remove the device on Sunday. A bomb disposal team said that the process could take hours due to obscured access.
The unexploded bomb, also weighing 250 kilograms, was uncovered Wednesday buried 4 metres underground during building works at a primary school.
The bomb was defused without incident, the fire service said, and evacuated residents were back in their homes by afternoon.
Unexploded bombs dating back to the aerial bombardments of Germany during World War II are still frequently found. Many local authorities have teams working full-time to detect and defuse them.
The biggest evacuation in Germany since the end of the war took place in 2011, when 45,000 people were forced to temporarily leave parts of Koblenz for the disposal of an unexploded Allied bomb.


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Creative Director SEOKWOON YOON (Woon Yoon Seok)
SEOKWOON YOON completed his studies as Pratt Institute in 2017, going on to work for various fashion industries, including Public School and GAP in New York, London, Paris and Berlin. He then launched “SEOKWOON YOON” in New York in 2017. Yoon studied menswear at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York for one year right before transferring to Pratt Institute. He has started getting a spotlight from the academic years, while he debuted his junior year collection via Atlantic City Fashion Week in 2016, getting sponsored by the organization. In his Sophomore year, his collection was also exhibited at the National Association of Schools Arts. The world’s leading designer platform ‘NOT JUST A LABEL’ chose Yoon as “Black Sheep designer” as an outstanding designer in his junior year. His graduation collection was selected at Pratt Annual Fashion Show and presented at New York fashion week in 2017, and WWD introduced his collection. Yoon was selected as CFDA Fashion Graduate Future 2017.
SEOKWOON YOON captures inspiration from a wide-ranging mix of historical and modern-art references. The label evinces a standing boundary between art and ready-to-wear with a conceptual theme on his collections. Designer Yoon translates inspirations particularly with Trompe l’oeil technique and combines art in his ready-to-wear collections. The label’s signature is expressed with the form of oversized and transformed pieces, reconstructed and unconventional twisting construction, offering a constant research for textile and structure through creative draping.
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Coming on like a cross between John Hendricks, Lord Buckley, Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony and a TV continuity announcer, Busdriver is one of the most original voices in hip hop today.
As a performer, Busdriver grew out of the LA Underground scene based around the Goodlife Café that also nurtured the Freestyle Fellowship, the Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, Abstract Rude and many, many more.
A frequent collaborator with many of Los Angeles' hiphop elite, Busdriver has worked with Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Mikah-9, 2Mex, Xololanxinxo, Fat Jack, Daddy Kev, Paris Zax, Omid and Nocando.
His 2002 self-released album "Temporary Forever" made it into many underground hip hopper's records of the year (with the Village Voice describing his rap styles as "a syncopated giggle") and it was closely followed by his collaboration with producer Daedalus and Radioinactive as The Weather on Mush.
Since then he has collaborated with Awol One on "Slanguage," worked with Daddy Kev on "Cosmic Cleavage," released "Fear Of A Black Tangent" via Big Dada and Mush plus put out two albums via Epitaph, "RoadKillOvercoat" and "Jhelli Bean." In between, he's guested all over the place, toured like a lunatic, formed the band Physical Forms and generally made himself heard.
And every the he comes through with a unique mixture of humour, discrete social commentary and snapping on the pretensions and foolishness of both those around him and himself:
"I don't love hip hop.
I don't even like it.
Let me break it down into its smallest form for everyone in your college dorm.
I don't love it, I don't dedicate hours every day to writing sappy poetry in its name.
Okay, maybe I do."
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"@ChldActr https://t.co/11ouibwDBw"Mon Mar 10 02:18:37 2014
"add more nuance to the dope game. stop recycling talking points. (my advice to Rick Ross)"Mon Mar 10 02:16:06 2014
"I'm throwing marbles in the void this evening. join me."Mon Mar 10 02:15:07 2014
"@iglooghost working on some more."Mon Mar 10 02:13:11 2014
"We play DC9 in DC tonight. Hellfyre Club. #dornervstookietour we need your attention and loose change. http://t.co/1PifVGCvyb"Mon Mar 10 00:18:56 2014


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Sunday, February 5, 1:00pm and 3:00pm
Steve and Julia are two friends who love to chat, especially about astrology--and you're invited to the conversation!
Join us each month to explore a different concept in astrology and learn how it plays out in your own chart.
This month, we'll discuss Uranus - planet of change, innovation, and chaos - as well as the sign of Aquarius. Get ready to embrace your inner weirdo!
Registration is pay what you can. Suggested price is $15. Sign-up ahead of time and we'll have a birth chart waiting for you. All experience levels welcome - just be willing to chat!
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This class was so much fun! It was a very casual, welcoming environment, and a great way to get started learning about your birth chart.
I loved this event! I got to meet and mingle with other like-minded people, dive into my own personal chart, and learn more about general astrology in a fun way.

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New Borivali-Mumbai Central rail line project set in motion
The long-awaited work on laying down a sixth line between Borivali and Mumbai Central stations has started after Railway Board last month sanctioned a sum of Rs 930 crore for the project, an official said
Mumbai: The long-awaited work on laying down a sixth line between Borivali and Mumbai Central stations has started after Railway Board last month sanctioned a sum of Rs 930 crore for the project, an official said today.
The actual work of executing the 30-km project has begun with the tendering process set in motion, said the official of Western Railway (WR).
"After deliberations, Railway Board sanctioned the budget (Rs 930 crore) and officials have swung into the action to execute the project," said Shailendra Kumar, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM).
"Once completed, this line from Mumbai Central to Borivali will be exclusively used by outstation trains, thereby allowing increase in frequency of suburban services and improvement in punctuality," he added.
A vital plan of Mumbai Urban Transport Project-2 (MUTP), this venture had been riddled with technical hurdles, which officials believe will now get cleared.
"A major stumbling block was clearing the land between Santacruz and Borivali stations. This has been achieved," he said.
This project is being considered as one of the most difficult and costly ventures for Railway. Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation, the implementing agency, would be incurring a cost of at least Rs 930 crore, that is Rs 31 crore per km.
The plan envisages demolishing a rail bridge between Bandra and Khar Road stations, said another official involved with the project.
WR officials said acquiring land on various stretches on this section would be a major hurdle and they are in touch with the Suburban Collector, the State Government and civic body to resolve this issue.


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Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has asked Vice Chancellor of Kaloji Narayayan Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) to conduct a thorough inquiry into the suicide of medical student Dharavathi Preethi due to alleged harassment by her senior.
The Raj Bhavan has sent a letter to the Vice-Chancellor calling for a thorough inquiry into all possible angles to find out the truth. He has been asked to submit a detailed report.
The Raj Bhavan also sought a report on Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in place to deal with such incidents of harassment and ragging in the university.
The letter also mentioned about installation and functioning of CCTV cameras in medical colleges and teaching hospitals.
The Raj Bhavan also flagged issues like functioning of Grievance Redress Cell, addressing the concerns of victims, evaluation of the feedback from the medicos and their working conditions.
The governor has taken serious note of the incident in which Preethi, a MD student of Kakatiya Medical College (KMC) in Warangal committed suicide.
Preethi, a first year student of the post graduate (MD) in the department of Anaesthesia in Warangal allegedly took a lethal injection while on duty at MGM Hospital on February 22.
The same day she was shifted to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad, where she succumbed on February 26.
The letter also mentioned that precious time was lost in shifting the student to NIMS. It was felt that she could have been kept under treatment at MGM.
Last rites of the 26-year-old tribal were performed at Girni Thanda in Jangaon district on Monday afternoon.
While she was under treatment at NIMS, the governor had visited the hospital to enquire about her condition and to console the family members.
Warangal police on February 24 arrested Preethi’s senior M. A. Saif, a second year student in the department of anaesthesia.
Police said targeted harassment of Preethi by her senior could have driven her to take the extreme step.
Police booked Saif for abetment to suicide. He was also booked under Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Anti-Ragging Act.


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Homeless Pods at Shadsworth Leisure Centre
This Winter, ten pods have returned to Shadsworth Leisure Centre to provide accommodation to some of Blackburn’s rough sleepers.
All residents of the pods will be in a self-contained unit with communal catering cabins and will be able to access a wide array of support including drug and alcohol services and support to find permanent accommodation.
Blackburn Foodbank will be providing each resident with food parcels throughout their time in the pods. Workers and volunteers at Blackburn Foodbank will work closely with staff and residents to provide personalised food parcels to help the residents feel comfortable and “at home” in their new spaces.

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SANTA CLARITA (CNS) - Former LAPD Sgt. Stacey Koon -- who served time in prison in connection with the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King -- pleaded no contest today to a misdemeanor DUI count stemming from his May 1 arrest in the Castaic area.
Koon, 67, was immediately sentenced to three years probation, a three-month DUI class and a $390 fine plus penalty assessments. He was also ordered to install an ignition interlock device on his vehicle following his plea to a count of driving with a 0.08 percent blood alcohol content, according to Ricardo Santiago of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
A second misdemeanor charge -- driving under the influence of an alcoholic beverage -- was dismissed.
TMZ.com reported that Koon crashed his 1999 GMC Yukon into a parked 2004 Ford Super Duty pickup truck on Heather Lane, west of Greenwood Place, on May 1. He was subsequently arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, then booked at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Santa Clarita Valley station and released.
Koon was charged, along with LAPD Officers Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno and Timothy Wind, with using excessive force in the 1991 beating and arrest of King in Lake View Terrace, a confrontation that received worldwide publicity due to it being videotaped by a nearby resident and broadcast on the evening news.
After Koon, who was the supervising officer at the scene, and the three officers were acquitted in 1992 following a trial that was moved to Simi Valley, the city of Los Angeles exploded in violence that spread to Pasadena and other parts of the Southland. More than 60 people were killed over six days of violence, 2,000 were injured and more than 1,000 buildings were destroyed in fires. The National Guard was called in to help restore order.
Koon and the officers were subsequently indicted that same year on federal civil rights charges, and he and Powell were convicted and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
The rage in the black community toward the LAPD was long-simmering and far from being limited to the King beating, dating back to well before the 1965 Watts riots, which were also fueled by allegations against the department of racism and brutality.


Welcome to the Cudahy School District blog. Read positive stories about the students and staff in the Cudahy School District. Stay on top of events and activities in the Cudahy schools. Learn about current school-related information.
On Monday, February 9, Cudahy High School participated in the Marquette Band Festival. This event provided an opportunity for the concert band to perform in front of clinicians and get feedback about their performance.
At this time of the year, the Cudahy band focuses on band festivals and solo and ensemble festivals. These activities give students a chance to prepare music and get wonderful feedback and coaching from music professionals outside of the regular school setting.


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Thomas Jefferson regarded the pursuit of happiness as one of Americans’ unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and likely there are few citizens who would argue with his sentiment. One would assume that as long as an individual American’s pursuit of happiness did not infringe on any other American’s rights, they should be allowed to follow their pursuit unimpeded. However, there are laws and statutes on the books that restrict the pursuit of happiness despite there is no practical reason for their existence. Over the Labor Day weekend, three elderly men were arrested in their pursuit of happiness, and for all intents and purposes they were guilty of a victimless crime of soliciting a willing partner they were willing to pay for casual sex.
If the three men, aged 83, 76, and 72 lived in Nevada where prostitution is legal and regulated, not only would their pursuit of happiness have been fulfilled (at least momentarily), they would be free of a criminal record and $500 richer and it highlights another victimless crime in 48 states; recreational marijuana use. There are valid arguments that marijuana use is not victimless, but they are predicated on the simple fact it is regarded as contraband that opened the door for criminals to control its supply and distribution much like alcohol during the Prohibition era in America. In fact, although there was organized crime before Prohibition, making alcohol contraband contributed to the rise of the mafia and the subsequent cycle of violence between gangs and law enforcement the era is notorious for.
There has been a movement to decriminalize marijuana possession and use for at least two decades, and one of the arguments in favor of recreational use is eliminating the criminal element involved in its distribution. One would think law enforcement officials would welcome eliminating a major revenue source for foreign and domestic organized criminals, but they have been staunch opponents of legalizing the weed for personal or medicinal use because as contraband, it is a major source of funding for law enforcement. Last week, organizations representing the nation’s sheriffs, narcotics officers, and police chiefs assailed Attorney General Eric Holder when he announced the Justice Department would allow Washington state and Colorado to move forward and implement new state laws legalizing recreational marijuana use by adults.
The law enforcement groups sent a harsh letter to Holder expressing their “extreme disappointment” that they were not consulted prior to his announcement, and launched into their typical lies about the weed and its effects. The group warned Holder that liberalizing marijuana laws will lead to an increase in violent crimes, addiction, and cause suicidal thoughts. Obviously the law enforcement officials have never used marijuana or cannot comprehend that legalization eliminates the criminality they complain will increase. The letter claimed “The decision will undoubtedly have grave unintended consequences, including a reversal of the declining crime rates that we as law enforcement practitioners have spent more than a decade maintaining.” However, the letter did not address the abject failure of law enforcement’s war on drugs that has not reduced the weed’s use, or that the number of Americans in jail tripled due to their war on a plant capable of growing in any Americans’ back yard. Likely, law enforcement is not concerned about rising crime rates, suicidal thoughts, or increasing drug use, but the loss of funding for police departments that keep assets seized during drug raids, or the federal grants for conducting operations in the war on drugs such as search and seizure raids.
From a practical standpoint, if the weed was legal, or regulated and taxed like alcohol, it would eliminate the criminal element and bring in substantial revenue to fund law enforcement and programs to address the real drug-related plagues facing America; alcoholism and prescription drug abuse. Alcohol is the third leading cause of preventable deaths in America affecting all demographics and costing taxpayers dearly. As it stands now, 15-million Americans suffer from alcohol dependency, and it is responsible for 85,000 American deaths every year on top of 16,000 drunken driving fatalities. Alcohol is also implicated in diseases such as anemia, cancer, cardiovascular disease, cirrhosis, dementia, depression, seizures, gout, high blood pressure, and nerve disease, but it is legal because it is profitable for corporations.
The detrimental effects of marijuana are that it can interfere with attention, judgment, and balance while under its influence, but it has numerous and well-documented medical and health benefits such as smiling, migraine relief, slows Alzheimer’s disease, stops cancer from spreading, prevents blindness from glaucoma, controls epileptic seizures and calms Tourette’s syndrome, treats depression, and many others. There are also no documented cases of death by overdose inherent with alcohol abuse. As an aside, another organic product that does not require a corporation to manufacture, process, distribute, and create profits is psilocybin (magic mushrooms) that has documented mental health benefits including to treat alcoholism that were revealed in a recent 50-year study.
The only reason marijuana is still illegal is two-fold and they both are tied to revenue. First, because any American can grow the weed in their backyard, corporations cannot profit off its recreational use. Second, keeping it as contraband is a major revenue source for law enforcement, drug cartels, and the for-profit prison industry that are interdependent on each other’s continued activities. In California in 2010, Proposition 19 was put on the ballot that legalized recreational marijuana for personal use for people 21 and older, but the measure was defeated in great part due to an influx of cash from the alcohol lobby, California Police Chiefs Association, and the California Narcotics Officers Association. There was also suspected influence by Mexican drug cartels that, like law enforcement and the alcohol lobby, had a financial stake in keeping the backyard plant illegal.
The time to decriminalize marijuana for personal recreational use is long past due in all 50 states and it is one of the reasons law enforcement sent a furious letter to Attorney General Holder condemning him for respecting Colorado and Washington’s new laws. The various law enforcement associations wrote,
“The failure of the Department of Justice to challenge state policies is both unacceptable and unprecedented. The failure of the Federal government to act in this matter is an open invitation to other states to legalize marijuana in defiance of federal law” (bold theirs). It is also an open invitation to allow Americans the freedom to pursue happiness as they see fit, and regardless it affects law enforcement, drug cartels, and alcohol industry’s source of revenue, decriminalizing marijuana for personal use will take the “crime” out of a victimless recreation.
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The Illinois Department of Transportation announces that daytime lane restrictions will be encountered on the Interstate 270 Mississippi River Bridge near Granite City.
The westbound right lane will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. This restriction is needed to repair the bridge deck’s driving surface.
There will be no overnight or weekend lane restrictions.
It is anticipated this lane restriction will cause significant traffic delays; motorists are encouraged to consider alternate routes. Traffic control devices will be utilized to assist motorists making their way through the work zone. The department asks that motorists be patient and use caution while traveling through this work zone.


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