Not every police agency provides a log of its responses, and few do it with the finesse of the Forest Grove Police Department. Every week, we post the goings on as provided by this community 25 miles west of Portland, not because it's earth-shatteringly important, but because it provides a glimpse into the world of modern small-town policing.
During the week, Forest Grove police officers were engaged in more than 386 activities, both reported and self-initiated. Here are some of the highlights:
* Police received a report of a man passed out on the side of the road. Officers found the man alert but took him into jail when they learned he had an outstanding warrant.
* A lounge employee reported a man had attempted to put a large counterfeit bill into a lottery machine. The lotto player offered police several conflicting versions of how he acquired the bill, none of which dissuaded officers from taking him to jail.
* Night shift officers responded to several locations with activated alarm systems. All locations were secure, and the alarms are believed to have been triggered after a fallen tree caused a massive power outage in town.
* Two juveniles borrowed a friend's grandfather's car, unbeknownst to him, for a joy ride. Officers stopped the vehicle driving the wrong way on Pacific Avenue in the middle of the night. The driver was cited, and both kids were released into the custody of their parents.
* A woman reported that her vehicle had been broken into on several occasions but nothing was taken and there was no damage to the vehicle.
* Forest Grove Police assisted Washington County deputies in the investigation of two robbery suspects who allegedly assaulted a couple and stole a firearm.
* A caller asked police to remove a transient individual whom the caller had taken into their home, further advising that the individual was attempting to sell the caller's child. Police found no evidence the child was in any danger and advised the caller of the eviction process.
* A thief attempted to steal a shopping cart full of laundry detergent. The store manager confronted the alleged thief, who abandoned the cart and left the location.
* A patrol officer spotted a man known to have an outstanding felony warrant sleeping under a tree in a residential area. The man was taken to the jail in Hillsboro. While preparing to head back to Forest Grove, a man approached the officer requesting a ride to Cornelius. The officer agreed to give the man a ride - to the jail, after it was discovered he also had an outstanding warrant.
* Police received a report that a man had used social media to send a video of himself pointing a gun to his head. Officers tracked the man's location to a city in central Oregon and contacted local police to perform a welfare check.
* A caller reported a man sleeping in a laundromat, refusing to leave upon being awakened. The man agreed to move along when police arrived.
* An assisted living community reported a man in the lobby stating he wanted to run into traffic. Officers took the man to the hospital on a peace officer hold.
* Officers located a group of teens in the parking lot of Fern Hill Wetlands after dark, all of whom took off running upon seeing the police car. The group returned to the location, however, and were found in possession of marijuana. Minor in possession citations were issued, as well as curfew violations for the parties under 18.
* A caller reported that her vehicle had been struck by a baseball, breaking the window. Officers learned the car had been parked near Pacific University baseball field and advised that no crime had occurred.
* Police were called after a fight between two dogs resulted in three individuals with dog bites.
* Night shift officers charged a woman with assault and harassment after she allegedly assaulted her ex-boyfriend and another woman as they were leaving a lounge.
* A caller reported a fight near the Pacific University campus. While officers found no evidence of a physical altercation, they did cite one individual for furnishing alcohol to a minor.
* Officers were called to ban an individual from a park after the person dumped a large number of needles at the location. The subject had left, however, before police arrived.
* Two raccoons were fighting in a woman's backyard and she inquired as to whether she could shoot them. She was advised she could not discharge a firearm within city limits.
* A caller reported that his mother was posting suicidal statements on social media. Officers contacted the woman, who said she was just upset about not getting a promotion at work.
* Police were advised that several individuals appeared to be setting up camp in some bushes. The group agreed to move along.
-- Samantha Swindler
@editorswindler / 503-294-4031


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Ragnarok Begins, which was originally announced in 2019, is now officially in Closed Beta testing in South Korea.
This is an MMORPG for the PC platform that is also available on mobile with action gameplay, with 3D graphics and a scrolling horizontal screen instead of a camera camera like many other games. The game’s plot is set 100 years before the events of Ragnarok Online begin.
Ragnarok Begins has officially entered the Closed Beta phase in Korea today. Begins will run Closed Beta testing for just 1 week. The story of Ragnarok Begins takes place 100 years before the original Ragnarok Online game.
As far as we know, the content of this version revolves around the conflict between the two nations of Rune-Midgard and Arunafeltz and will reveal to gamers the origin of the Pope, the current Arunafeltz ruler. Despite major gameplay changes and graphics upgrades to full 3D, the developer says they’ve tried to keep as many of Ragnarok Online’s features as possible, including character design in the style of Ragnarok Online. Ragnarok Online with familiar chibi characters.
The Pope’s hidden background will also be discovered. Initially, there are only 4 main jobs that will be very familiar to fans, followed by 2 advanced job options.
In the first phase, Ragnarok Begins will have only 4 character classes and each character class has two routes defined as Swordsman (Warrior, Defender), Archer (Hunter, Ranger), Acolyte (Saint, Inquisitor), Magician (Elementalist, Summoner) respectively. to warriors, archers, support and magicians. The gameplay of Ragnarok Start is completely different from the Ragnarok that we have assigned until now, when the game has an action-packed combat system that does not require you to choose a target, but just need to launch a move to have someone within range. eye.
Ragnarok Begins’ post-production phase on PC and mobile is quite short. However, do not worry that the publisher Gravity will announce the next test phase as well as the time to release the game worldwide in the near future.
The pity here is that most recent Ragnarok games have the same gameplay and gameplay on both PC and mobile platforms. I hope that with this new gameplay, specifically the new horizontal screen of Ragnarok Begins will somewhat pull fans back to the classic Ragnarok series.

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Australia jails people-smuggler for 14 years
October 23, 2012, 12:01 am TWN
An Iranian-born man was jailed for 14 years on Monday for organizing at least four people-smuggling boats from Indonesia to Australia, including an ill-fated vessel which crashed, killing 50 people.
Ali Khorram Heydarkhani, 41, was ordered to serve nine-and-a-half years without parole after pleading guilty to four counts of people-smuggling in the Perth District Court last month.
The journeys, made between June 2010 and January 2011, included a doomed vessel that disintegrated in a violent storm off Australia's Christmas Island, a remote Indian Ocean territory, in December 2010 killing 50 asylum seekers.
Three Indonesians who were crewing the smuggling ship were jailed for at least three years last month.
Judge Stephen Scott sentenced Heydarkhani to a maximum of 14 years for his role, which involved liaising with potential passengers and arranging purchase of the unseaworthy vessels, some of which were rotting and had no lifejackets.
"That is a very high sentence in the great scheme of things, far higher than anybody has seen before," Heydarkhani's lawyer Ian Macfarlane told reporters outside the court.
"Let that be a clear message to anybody who wants to participate in people-smuggling bringing people into Australia illegally."
The District Court heard that Heydarkhani, who was captured in Indonesia and extradited to Australia in January 2011, lied to asylum seekers about safety and conditions, promising them modern and fast ships with their own rooms and food.
Scott said he had even gone on to organize another voyage just days after the horrific Christmas Island accident, showing a lack of remorse for the scores of deaths on the rickety vessel.

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I am originally from the Sunshine Coast, but completed my undergraduate degree here at JCU. Since late 2015, I have been an intern in Dr. Jodie Rummer’s lab, where I have been working closely with Sybille Hess (PhD candidate) investigating how suspended sediments can impair oxygen uptake in coral reef fishes. I am now starting my Master’s research with Drs. Jodie Rummer and Naomi Gardiner. Specifically, I am examining the gills of coral reef fishes in hopes of understanding the changes they make when they experience increased temperatures during a coral bleaching event.
James Cook University

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Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and guitarist Mike McCready reportedly joined Conan O'Brien on stage in Washington on Monday.
Vedder played a three-song set during O'Brien's 'Prohibited From Being Funny On Television' tour, reports The Washington Post. It was the former late night host's 47th birthday.
The singer performed 'Rise' from the soundtrack to Into the Wild and later led the audience on a sing-along to a version of John Lennon's 'Oh Yoko', changing the lyrics to 'Oh Conan'.
McCready joined Vedder for a cover of The Who's 'Baba O'Riley'.
O'Brien joined the musicians on stage and later posted about the event on Twitter, writing: "Eddie Vedder's set at my show in Seattle last night melted my eyeballs. Seriously, I'm going to sue Eddie for boiling my ocular-jelly."


I have an Intel i5, Windows 7 Ultimate, and an SSD as my main drive and 2 SATA HDDs.
One day, I got a BSOD appeared and my PC restarted restarted. After that, the following error appeared:
Window failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1.Insert .... 2. .... ... status: 0xc000000e info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible
Also I noticed that BIOS only detected one of HDDs, not SSD neither other HDD.
Sometimes, Windows can be started, but it doesn't work very well. When trying to copy data from F: to an external USB, it copies for a short time and then Win7 becomes unresponsive. This also happens in safe mode.
After several reboots, now Windows will not boot and I get the error "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible." And the BIOS only detects the SSD.
UPDATE: my disks:
FM-25S2S-120GBP2 - G.SKILL


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Some interesting contests courtesy of the UK-based (free) writers’ site FirstWriter.com:
Personify your pet
Write a poem about your favorite pet with four 4-line verses. The title of the poem is the pet's name. 24 lines total, including: Title, Verses, skipped spaces, and By-line.
One entry per submission. Send your poem in the body of an email (no attachments), or (preferred) hard-copy on paper (US Mail).
Winners will be published in Lone Stars magazine.
For more information go to https://sites.google.com/site/conceitmagazine/lone-stars-magazine
The TARA Contest is open to unpublished and published authors of novel length fiction. The author does not have to be a member of Romance Writers of America (RWA) to enter the TARA Contest, however the entry must be the author’s original work, unpublished and not contracted as of the time of the contest deadline. No entry may have been previously published in any format. (on author’s website visible to the public, self-published, ebook, mass market, etc.)
Entry fee is $25 and the closing date is May 1, 2015.
For more information go to http://www.tararwa.com
Heart of Denver Romance Writers announces the 2015 Molly Contest for unpublished writers
Participation is open to all unpublished authors of novel length romance fiction and those who have not published within three years prior to contest deadline. Entries are to be up to the first 25 pages (including prologue) PLUS up to 5 pages of a synopsis. (The synopsis is not judged, but is helpful in helping the judges score your entry, and judges will often give comments on the synopsis.)
Entry fee is $40 and the deadline is May 1, 2015.
For more details go to http://www.hodrw.com/contests/the-molly-unpublished-writer-contest/
Erbacce Prize for Poetry 2015
The erbacce-prize for 2015 is now accepting submissions up until midnight on the first of May, 2015.
The competition is free to enter, and welcomes submissions from around the world.
The winner will have their collected works published in perfect-bound format with the winner's choice of full-colour gloss or matt cover; a royalty-paying publishing contract; and five free copies.
For more details, go to http://www.erbacce-press.com/#/erbacce-prize/4533449873
For the details of over 100 other writing contests, click here
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The Toyota Supra Is an NHRA Funny Car Now
Well, it is in the same way it’s also a NASCAR stock car.
For a decade now, Toyota's NHRA Funny Car has been based on the Camry. Even with a TRD edition, though, it just isn't the sportiest car out there. Apparently, Toyota Motorsports North America has decided it's time for a change, too.
For the 2022 season, the automaker has decided to go with a different model in its lineup: the GR Supra. Now, this doesn't mean much, if anything, in terms of mechanical changes—when we said the previous car was based on the Camry, we mean its fiberglass body shell loosely resembled the production car. However, it is a significant change for Toyota, and at the very least the new body did apparently come with some safety upgrades. Also, check out the side-by-side photo. That's why they call them Funny Cars.
For those who don't know, Funny Cars are a lot like Top Fuel dragsters, except the engine's in the front and they have composite bodies that resemble production cars. There are, of course, a slew of other NHRA regulations to go along with this basic configuration change, but that's the gist. Over the years, Toyota has run a number of different bodies meant to resemble its vehicles from the Celica to the Solara. Now's the Supra's time to shine.
Along with its new looks, the Supra body is also safer than its predecessor. More impact-absorbing foam has been added to the cockpit, and visibility has been improved as well. It needs to be safe, as Funny Cars are some of the fastest dragsters on earth. With around 11,000-horsepower on tap and run times in the 3.7-second range, these beasts are absolutely no joke. By the time the 1,000-foot race distance is dispatched, they're traveling in excess of 330 miles per hour.
If you wanna witness that sort of speed and power, the Supra can be seen in action for the first time at the Funny Car 2022 season kickoff event in Pomona, California in February.
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Latin American Report
Linking Workers' Rights to Trade Accords
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jun 4 (IPS) - The United States, blocked in its efforts to promote labour rights through multilateral agencies, should link the protection of workers' rights to all existing and future trade and investment agreements, according to a new report.
The report, released Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) - a think tank with strong ties to labour unions - argued that Washington should grant trade preferences only to those countries that enforced core labour rights. Under the plan, all countries wishing to export to the US market - the world's largest - would have to demonstrate that their labour legislation and practices enabled workers to effectively exercise their core labour rights. These included included the right of workers to organise unions and bargain collectively and the prohibition of child and forced labour.
''The route of multilateral negotiations has reached a dead end,'' according to the report tiled 'Codifying International Worker Rights: A Practical Alternative.'
''Paradoxically...the only way of eventually forcing open the closed door of multinational negotiations is to pursue a policy that...relies on unilateral action by the U.S. government, with respect both to bilateral agreements and to its participation in international trade and finance agencies,'' it said.
The report, written by Jerome Levinson, a prominent international lawyer and former general counsel of the Inter-American Development Bank, came amid a three-year stalemate over US trade policy. Congress was split between pro-business forces, which favoured new trade accords that did not include strong protection for workers' rights, and a coalition of pro-labour lawmakers and a smaller group of old-fashioned Republican protectionists. President Bill Clinton, insisting that he too favoured tough worker protection, generally has lined up with the pro-business forces against a majority of his own Democratic party. Indeed, Clinton relied on the support of a majority of Republicans to gain Congressional approval during his first term of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Since then, all efforts by Clinton to gain authority to negotiate new trade accords - or even to win approval for some relatively minor trade agreements with African and Caribbean Basin countries - have been rebuffed by a strong majority of Democrats who oppose new agreements that lack tough protection laws for workers.
Without such protection, they feared that governments would sacrifice workers' rights in the global competition for investment dollars. That would create a ''race to the bottom'' in which US workers would lose out to their counterparts in poor countries who did not enjoy the same protections.
While Clinton had pressed for workers rights in various multilateral forums - including NAFTA and the WTO - those efforts largely had been fruitless, according to Levinson. In NAFTA's case, the national administrative offices (NAOs) created to monitor worker rights have no enforcement powers. At the Geneva-based WTO, a solid phalanx of developing countries has opposed initiatives to even set up a ''study group'' on workers' rights, let alone adopt rules that would permit sanctions to be imposed against countries which violate them.
The Clinton administration more recently moved to bolster the role of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) by earmarking more funds for the agency's monitoring programme and by promoting collaboration between it and the WTO. But the ILO, like the NAOs under NAFTA, lacks enforcement powers and so far has shied away from urging that trade agreements be made conditional on compliance with workers' rights.
Finally, according to Levinson, US representatives at international financial institutions, like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, generally had ignored Congressional directives to ensure that respect for workers' rights should be a priority in those agencies' programmes and policies. ''The lending policies of those agencies have undermined the core labour standards,'' according to Tony Freeman, the ILO's representative in Washington, who noted that the ILO was engaged in a dialogue with two Bretton Woods institutions to better coordinate their work with the ILO's mandate. Part of the problem was that Clinton's commitment to improving labour rights had been more rhetorical than real, Levinson said.
While Washington threatened to walk away from trade and investment agreements which did not include adequate protection of corporate property rights, for example, it never had suggested that the absence of protection for workers' rights would be a ''deal-breaker.''
''Thus, other negotiators, particularly those representing the developing countries, have concluded that, so long as they accommodate American corporate interests, they need engage in no substantial negotiations with respect to linking core worker rights to international trade and investment agreements,'' the report concluded.
Bureaucracy involved a related problem. Negotiators from the US Trade Representative (USTR) saw themselves mainly as advocates for US businesses interested in trade and investment abroad, while US Treasury officials who represent Washington at the international financial agencies, did not consider labour a major constituency. For that reason, Levinson proposed that the Labour Department be placed in charge of determining whether US trading partners enforce workers' rights sufficiently to merit preferential trade treatment. In doing so, the Labour Department could rely on assessments by the ILO, thus strengthening that agency's leverage in dealing with its member countries and in its dialogue with the IMF and the Bank.
''I'm proposing that we set up a race to the top rather than a race to the bottom,'' said Levinson.
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Wilmington, NC, August 19, 2017 --(PR.com
)-- Flores and Foley Roofing, a well-known Cape Fear region roofing contractor has come up with a novel idea to take advantage of an event that will not occur again in North America until 2024, the August 21st, 2017 total solar eclipse.
Owner and Co-Founder, Peter Foley says, “My partner and I have over 45 years in the roofing business, but have never had the opportunity to take advantage of a celestial happening before. We saw that several major corporations were doing things to leverage the event,” he added. “Krispy Crème is doing an ‘eclipse frosting’, and Chiquita Banana is playing around with the crescent or banana-shape at the beginning and end of the solar event on their website and elsewhere. So we had our advertising agency come up with something that shows that for us in the roofing business, an eclipse offers a brief opportunity to cool off in the middle of the day, and we think they nailed it, pun intended,” he said smiling.
The ads can be seen from exactly 1:19 PM until 4:09 PM on August 21st on a Tedder Media billboard located on Eastwood Avenue across from Audi of Cape Fear and another on Carolina Beach Road. They will also air as commercials on ABC and CBS during that same time.
The Ad Buyer agency handled creative for this project and Director of Agency Services, Paul Evans says, “We look at Flores and Foley Roofing as very progressive in their marketing. Peter and his team are always looking for ways to stand out and set themselves apart. They do this in the sheer volume of quality work they put out and the amazing array of custom equipment in their shop, but from a marketing standpoint, they are really quite unique also.”
About Flores and Foley Roofing: Locally owned and operated, Flores and Foley has installed over 12,000 roofs in the last 18 years in Southeast North Carolina. From roof repair to custom fabrication utilizing the latest in laser-cutting technology and advanced materials, residential or commercial repair, re-roofing and new roof construction. Flores and Foley Roofing are one of only three contractors in Eastern NC bestowed Platinum Preferred status from Owens Corning and also carry Master Elite status from GAF, which is only earned by 3% of the roofers in North America. For more information, visit www.floresandfoley.com


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"Officers immediately began CPR and used a defibrillator to revive him, and he was transported to Morristown Medical Center for treatment," Valentine said.
The Bernardsville Rescue Squad assisted on the scene.
An accident on Route 202 was first reported by the state Department of Transportation at 6:51 a.m., when all lanes were closed and detoured at Finley Avenue and Childs Road.
When police arrived on the scene, Eugene Henry, of Wallkill, N.Y., was found unconscious in the driver's side seat of his 2011 Chevrolet pickup truck, Valentine said. Henry had apparently smashed into a telephone pole near the Somerset Hills Bank.
It was a single car-crash, Valentine said.
The cause of the accident is part of an ongoing investigation, he said.
"There were no witnesses that were present when the cops arrived, and we haven't received an update on his status," Valentine said.


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WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The West Sacramento City Council has approved spending $2.6 million on a project meant to help revitalize the riverfront.
The bridge district was more dirt than buildings on Wednesday, but the empty plots won't last for long as West Sacramento is set to move forward on a project unlike any other here in the region.
It's called the barn project, but it doesn't look like anything you'd find on a farm.
"It's an iconic structure that is multi-use," said West Sacramento Mayor Pro Tem Mark Johannessen.
The space will host small concerts, and even a beer garden as soon as October.
"Wherever you are in the bridge district you'll be able to see it. You'll be able to see it off the bridge, it's really going to be a visual hook to get into the region," Johannessen said.
The barn is steps away from hundreds of new homes being built along the Riverfront and Garden streets, and would be just two blocks south of the proposed Marriott and city conference center.
"It's really considered to be a place where you've got a hot start which is really development ready, so you are going to see things come out of the ground quickly now," Johannessen said.
The revitalization effort began when Art Savage moved the River Cats to the old industrial zone 15 years ago. After all of that time, the rest of the district is finally sprouting new life.
"It is amazing," said River Cats spokesman Mark Ling. "We love the development around the area. When we came here back in 2000, we were envisioning something like this—A place where people can come not only see baseball, but surrounding sights."
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This 2400-acre resort has every kind of water activity and for good reason: it sits on the banks of the Neuse River, which ultimately winds its way to the Atlantic. Plus, a Venice-like canal system runs through the property, and a lovely lake is also on the premises. Sailing is fabulous on the Neuse River, which is larger than it looks in photos. Another good bet: the River Cruise. There are scenic bike trails, a relaxing way to take in the scenic beauty. If you don't want to be active, that's fine, too, here.
In order to keep up with the high demand, Timeshare Nation operates on a first come, first serve basis. In order to guarantee the availability of your timeshare, it is recommended to quickly return any paperwork or requested items.
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Lot 1235: Mezi, Nude, Watercolor
29 October 2016
Beverly, MA, USALive Auction
Description: Mezi, portrait of a nude, watercolor, signed lower right, 22 1/2" h x 16" w (view), 26 1/4" h x 20 1/2" w (frame). Provenance: From a Palm Beach collection.


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I know this show has been on for some time. I had been intrigued by it in 2007 thinking it looked pretty clever and never minding a nod to a previous era. Finally, thanks to Netflix, I am catching up. I'm just about through Season 3 now so I should be good to go by the time Season 5 broadcasts later this fall/winter.
The show never ceases to amaze me at how dead on it depicts its characters and how true it stays to 60s culture and ideals. Sometimes it is quite unsettling:
Housewives | Trophy Wives
A lot can be said here. Maybe too much for one post. But let me start by saying I actually really like the character of Betty Draper. January Jones nails it as the token trophy housewife. I think of how this is essentially my grandparents' generation (give or take a few years). It was pretty normal for a woman to be marred young and have babies in her early 20s, and be a housewife. There simply weren't tons of opportunities - outside of being a secretary I suppose. I once read an article about women in the 50s marrying young, idealistic, and when things plateaued into boredom, they couldn't understand why their husbands couldn't fix it. A "Don't you know what I want? I thought you were supposed to know? And do it?" expectation that was ultimately met with disillusionment and disappointment. Because those women sure didn't know what they wanted. It simply wasn't considered/thought of - by women or men - that women could think for themselves, have a choice, make a decision, explore her identity and own it. You would think the role of housewife would be her identity but it's not really. So I can sympathize with Betty's character and her disappointment, conflicting feelings about marriage, love, life.
This Huffington Post article explores the housewife role in the 60s, particularly Betty's. The commentary that follows is also very interesting. A lot of people slap the "spoiled brat" title on her - or other women of that time. Perhaps some were. But that is so superficial and shallow and lacking a true understanding of gender issues in mid-century America. To my next point about the feminist movement a decade later, I'm happy we've made strides here.
After seeing secretary desk after secretary desk in Mad Men, all I could think was how boring a job that is and why on earth were all those secretaries needed? What a waste of money. I'm grateful to the women before me who paved roads for more equal opportunities - in education, in the work place, in life. My parents generation (Boomers) had tons more opportunities than the previous one - women especially. They may not have been climbing corporate ladders yet but college or vocational training or even just work in general was more normal. Most of all, we have choices now. We can choose to stay at home with our kids or work part time or full time. We can make those choices with our partners. I'm grateful for that progress.
I sympathize with Betty...and I sympathize with Sal...and every other homosexual (men and women) at a time when it was simply unaccepted. When men married because it was the socially acceptable thing to do and suppressed their feelings for life. We have a long way to go in this department, still. But again, I'm grateful that 40 years later it's more socially accepted. My wish is that not only are there better, more fair civil union laws, but that it's accepted and those who struggle with their sexuality find peace.
Smoking | Drinking
WOW. This has been talked about everywhere. I won't get into it much except that WOW, I cannot get over how acceptable it was to smoke. Smoke. Inside. And drink. At work. At 10am. I remember seeing photos of my parents yearbooks (late 60s) and their smoking lounge. Seriously? fast forward 20 years and I get the "SMOKING IS BAD" lecture daily and risk expulsion if caught looking at a pack of cigarettes. How did it go from one extreme to another? And really -- expulsion?
Children | Parenting
This breaks my heart. Again, if Betty and Don are slightly younger versions of my grandparents then Sally and Bobby are like my parents. And this is their upbringing to a T. Children were seen and not heard. I give Betty some credit -- in a time when parents are afraid to crack the proverbial whip, we can stand to pull a few pages from her mid-century disciplinarian handbook. But that's it. Constantly checking out...not dealing...telling her kids to go watch TV...not addressing Sally's feelings when Grandpa Gene passed and the arrival of the new baby? Her line was classic: She's a kid, she'll get over it. Again, the Huffington Post article talks about her parenting...well, both their parenting skills or lack thereof.
It's awful. We can all sympathize with needing a break. I can even sympathize with her lack of identity and not wanting to deal - to a point. I had the luxury of going through that existential crisis at 23/24 and I waited to get married and have a child until I had a clear sense of who I was as a person - because times had changed and I could. But so many children of this generation grew up never knowing how to express emotions, fight fair, or deal. They had old school parents telling them to put on big boy pants and suck it up. No one treated them like the intelligent beings they were.
I witnessed this first hand in the late 90s when my mom went through her own existential crisis. Lots of back stories but suffice it to say she took a 5 year hiatus to explore who she was and is. She was married young, worked for a while, then wanted kids. 20 years and four kids later, one (me) about the fly the coop for college, and she was a wreck. Moreover, she didn't know how to express what was going on internally. I have often asked her if she had regretted her choices and she always says no. I believe her. I believe we are where we are at a point in time. Her choices at 21 were very different from my choices at 21. She really did want to marry, work, then raise a family. And I'm glad she did :) But when my siblings didn't understand her (or want to understand her) at the point in her life, I tried. I still needed a parent - and there was a struggle there - but at 20 years old, I got that she didn't have a clear sense of who she was as woman, wife, mother...and she needed time.
I have both sadness and admiration for my mom. I get that it was "normal" and I cannot punish my grandparents for raising their kids the only way they knew how, because it wasn't criminal. But it saddens me that they - and countless others - saw children as secondary citizens...trophies to show off a marriage and at the expense of my mom (and dad). It saddens me that their very real feelings were never considered or validated in situations. That they had to put on a happy face and keep up appearances. But then I admire them because they could have turned around and raised us the same way and they did not. They chose to raise us differently. We were seen and heard. We could talk or cry or whatever (within reason!). We weren't shunned. I also admire their perseverance and resilience - the part that no one really sees because it's easier to slap labels on people and situations than to understand the cultural expectations of the times. But the truth is my mom did persevere. In her 20s and 30s as a housewife and then later, through the identity crisis and into someone who knows herself, is confident, can communicate better, and found meaningful work.
Everyone parents differently but I'm glad there is more focus now on the needs of children.
These are just a few of the Mad Men themes that get me. There are bigger ones that tie into these too. I'll save it for another post. In the meantime, here is a great video compiled by the series on the "Rules" on Mad Men.

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If you’ve wandered down Kentish Town Road this week you will have likely noticed a colourful new addition to the otherwise dreary chewing-gum-dotted pavements. A rainbow of doodles, splashes and even hopscotch have splashed some much-needed fun upon the high street.
Tactical Urbanistas are an all-female collective, made up of professionals in urban planning and design, that have been painting streets all over London since April last year. The Kentish Town rejuvenation was a collaboration with Camden Council to brighten our streets in celebration of Monday’s reopening of local businesses.
A spokesperson from the group say they want to encourage local councils “to help empower residents to address issues in their neighbourhoods,” in a recent conversation with East London Lines. The collective recognises that residents tend to know what needs improving in their local area and that councils often don’t have the resources to deal with these problems alone. The group hopes their work can help facilitate these changes by designing colourful blueprints for potential solutions.
This work has been particularly crucial during lockdowns with many urban high streets struggling to make room for people to effectively socially distance, especially outside shops and near crossings. Tactical Urbanistas say that, “the pandemic has highlighted the lack of space for people in the design of our cities” but thanks to their vibrant street art pedestrians across London have been able to reclaim some desperately needed space in a way that is both practical and fun. In some places the group have also built plant pots out of donated tyres and pieces of wood to clearly separate pedestrian-friendly areas from the road.
Not only has it been difficult to maintain a distance whilst on busy streets, the group are also keen to acknowledge that many residents don’t have access to local green spaces and that lockdown has exacerbated this disparity. “Wealthy people are more likely to have access to a garden, whilst poorer areas, particularly in BAME communities, generally have limited access to green space.” As well as aiding social distancing efforts, the group’s cheerful interventions invite the public to play in and interact with their surroundings in ways that they might not have previously considered. So next time you drag yourself to your local shop, why not hopscotch part of the way?


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Vartiosaari is probably the least explored neighbourhood of Helsinki. With its diverse topography and wide variety of habitats, the island is a piece of paradise. It is so well- preserved that it is easy to imagine how everyday life and nature have once been in the Helsinki archipelago. Vartiosaari is home to valuable deciduous groves, traditional pastures and old-growth pine forests characteristic of rocky upland terrain. The island also has one of the largest intact wooden villa communities in the capital region.
Helsinki City owns most of the island and about half of the villas. The spatial planning process of Vartiosaari has been a contentious issue for years and the future of the island is still uncertain.
This participatory photography project presents 54 snapshots from Vartiosaari. For all the participants, the island is an important and empowering place, a magical spot worth protecting. As one of the most rapidly growing European cities, Helsinki needs wild untamed places to maintain the physical and emotional wellbeing of its inhabitants.
The project was open to all. Thirteen works were selected by a jury and exhibited in various public locations around Helsinki. Due to limited gallery space, a number of high quality photos had to be left out. You can now explore this larger selection online. It includes photographs from all who contributed to the project. Enjoy, and feel welcome to visit the wild green island!


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Anantnag, June 17: Two militants were killed by security forces in an encounter which ensued during a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in this south Kashmir district early on Monday, official sources said.
Two soldiers, including an officer were injured in the encounter, they said.
They said acting on a tip-off about the presence of militants at Bidroo Akingam, Anantnag troops of Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police launched a joint search operation early this morning.
"Two militants were killed and their bodies were recovered in the operation. However, when security forces were searching the area there was fresh firing from militants still hiding there. Two soldiers, including an officer were injured in the exchange of fire, who were later shifted to Army hospital," sources added.
The operation was still going on when the reports last came in, they added. Meanwhile, internet mobile service has been suspended as a precautionary measure to prevent spread of rumours.
Additional security forces and state police personnel have been deployed outside the cordoned off areas to prevent demonstration, official sources said. (UNI)


text: SANS is excited to announce the October issue of OUCH! This month, led by Guest Editor Ryan Johnson, we focus on Four Steps to Staying Secure. Far too often people are overwhelmed with the latest technology or security tips and may get confused. By focusing on just these four basic concepts, people will go a long way to securing themselves, regardless of the technology they are using. As such, we ask you share OUCH! with your family, friends, and coworkers.


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Delhi shamed again; Eight men gang-rape minor, 3 arrested
Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: In another horrendous incident in the national capital, eight men kidnapped and gang-raped a 13-year-old girl in East Delhi`s Shahdara, police said on Saturday.
The girl attempted suicide by consuming an overdose of sleeping pills on Saturday morning at her house in Farsh Bazar area in East Delhi.
She is admitted at the Hedgewar Hospital in East Delhi. "She is in serious condition," her mother told a news agency. She said that her daughter was upset after watching on TV reports of the brutal rape of the five-year-old girl in East Delhi.
The victim`s family has complained of police apathy in the case.
Four of the eight were known to the girl. According to reports, the Delhi police on Saturday arrested three men in connection with the case that has once again exposed how vulnerable women are in the capital.
The victim and her 12-year-old brother were abducted by two men known to her on March 15 from outside her house at Farsh Bazar area in East Delhi and taken to Loni in the city outskirts, where she was gang-raped by the eight, a police officer said. There six accomplices of the two abductors joined them and raped the girl in a house, a police officer said. The boy was released the next day.
Four of the eight accused were known to the girl, the officer added.
Police arrested three accused - Deepak, 21, Ranjeet (20) and Sohan Lal (24) - Saturday, following medical examination of the victim on April 15.
According to a police officer, the father approached police after she went missing, but did not file a rape complaint after she returned home.
But the girl`s family has alleged that police had refused to lodge their rape complaint.
A search is on to nab the other accused, the officer added.
Meanwhile, the girl`s family alleged that police had refused to lodge their complaint.
On March 24, the girl returned home and the family approached the police, the mother told a news agency.
Failing to get any response from police, the family approached the local court on April 09 which then ordered police to lodge a rape case.
Notably, Delhi is already on the edge in the wake of the recent case of rape of a five-year-old girl in Gandhi Nagar.
Delhi has seen 393 rapes in the first three months of the year.
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Counting twenty creative years, the Sani Festival is now entering a new age, with renewed energy and initiatives which point towards an even more melodious future. With unabated enthusiasm and passion, this year’s Jazz on the Hill programme will be featuring prominent female vocalists with appearances by some of the top performers in the international jazz stage.
Jazz on the Hill will open with China Moses, daughter of the famous jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, who will appear on stage accompanied by the French pianist Raphael Lemonnier. Cassandra Wilson, a renowned singer, composer and producer of her own work will be the next to appear on stage the following day. Female Jazz Vocalists will conclude with Madeleine Peyroux who will present her latest album, The Blue Room. She and Larry Klein, her long-time producer, have come up with a brand new sound in this album by mixing several music genres.
For more info: www.sanifestival.gr
|Dates: 12/07/2013 – 14/07/2013 Place: Sani – Halkidiki. Venue: Sani Hill, Sani Resort. Start. T.: 21:30|


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KOSHER RECIPES FOR GLUTEN-FREE LIVING
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Chocolate-Dipped Apricots: A Gourmet Approach to Chanukah Gelt
As a child we played dreidel with chocolate-wrapped coins, called Chanukah gelt. Money given to a child by a parent on this holiday is also referred to as gelt. Here is a tastier take on Chanukah gelt, inspired by a recipe in this month's Martha Stewart Living. I used Ghirardelli bitterwsweet baking chocolate bars. These morsels make a great holiday gift, too. After you make the chocolate-dipped apricots, read up on how to play dreidel and use the candies in place of coins.
APRICOT GELT (CHOCOLATE-DIPPED APRICOTS)
Makes about 4 dozen
1 pound dried apricots
1 pound dark or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
Foil candy wrappers (optional)
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Heat chocolate over a double-boiler. Allow the water in the boiler to get hot but not fully boil. Use a plastic spatula to scrape chocolate away from the sides. Remove from heat as soon as the chocolate is melted. If you prefer to use a microwave, melt the chocolate in a glass bowl in short intervals, stirring well with spatula.
Immediately add all the apricots to the pot melted chocolate, and stir gently until they are all coated fully. Carefully lift each piece out of the pot with a fork, allowing some of the excess chocolate to drip off. For a more sophisticated look, you can also try holding each apricot by one end with your fingers and dipping only half of it into the chocolate.
Place carefully on parchment-lined baking sheet. Refrigerate until the chocolate has become firm (20-30 minutes). Store in ziploc bags or wrap in foil wrappers.
This recipe is part of the Festive Food Fair blog event.

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Milan have officially announced the signing of Tiémoué Bakayoko on loan with option to buy. The player arrives after a somewhat disappointing year in England and will be looking to redeem himself under coach Gattuso in Italy.
Yesterday Bakayoko underwent medical check-ups and signed his contract in the evening. Today the player arrived at Milanello to undergo physical tests ahead of the new season. Milan published this statement on their official website:
AC Milan are pleased to announce the signing of French midfielder Tiémoué Bakayoko from Chelsea FC. The 23 year-old joins the club on a loan deal with an option to make the move permanent.
Born 17th August 1994 in Paris, Bakayoko’s career started in his native France with Rennes before taking him to Monaco and Chelsea. The midfielder has two major honours to his name, winning the league title in 2017 with Monaco and then the FA Cup with Chelsea the year after. Bakayoko will be unveiled to the media in a press conference on Friday August 17th , 3 PM CEST at Casa Milan in Via Aldo Rossi 8.
The press conference will be broadcast live on Milan TV and will also be available on live streaming in Italian on Facebook and in English on Youtube.


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Is Africa heeding the WannaCry wake-up call?
Is Africa heeding the WannaCry wake-up call?
According to cyber security experts, South Africa and the Ivory Coast bore Africa's brunt of the global WannaCry ransomware attacks in May.
Data sourced by Simon Bryden, Consulting Systems Engineer at Fortinet, suggested that after South Africa and the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria were also key targets.
Fortinet said that ransomware has become the fastest growing malware threat and according to tracking analysis, there has been an average of over 4,000 ransomware attacks daily since 1 January 2016.
According to Panda Security, African organisations and governments are no longer immune to the efforts of today's cyber-criminals.
"The drive for profitable attacks by cyber-criminals has seen the number and severity of attacks increase rapidly over the last few years. In the light of these changes, it is imperative that industry stakeholders collaborate and share their knowledge of products and best practices," the company has stated.
At the Cyber Secure Nigeria conference, Jeremy Matthews, Regional Manager at Panda Security Africa, explained that the traditional blacklisting philosophy of AV, based on what is known, worked well in the 90's. However, given the sheer volume of variants and the challenge of trying to stay ahead of new variants, conventional AV alone is not enough.
"In the past few years organisations have moved from having relatively closed networks with clearly defined perimeters to Cloud technologies and multi-device environments, resulting in increased complexity and risk," he added.
Check Point researchers have been investigating the ransomware campaign in detail since it was first reported. The researchers were able to track 34,300 attack attempts in 97 countries. The average pace as of today is one attempt in every three seconds – indicating a slight decline since the original pace registered two days ago, of one attempt per second. The top country from where attack attempts were registered is India, followed by the USA and Russia.
Rick Rogers, Area Manager for East and West Africa at Check Point Software Technologies said, "Although we see it slightly slowing down, WannaCry still spreads fast, targeting organisations across the world. WannaCry is a wake-up call, showcasing how damaging ransomware can be and how quickly it can cause disruption to vital services."
Symantec has observed 24 million malware incidents targeting Africa in 2016. As some malware incidents probably go unobserved, the real number of incidents may be much higher.
In a 2013 report from Symantec, cybercrime was increasing at a faster rate in Africa than any other region.
The Internet Society and the African Union Commission unveiled a new set of Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for Africa during the African Internet Summit, currently on in Nairobi until 2 June.
The guidelines are said to be the first of their kind in Africa and those behind its introduction believe it will help the continent create a more secure internet infrastructure and change the way African Union states approach cyber security preparedness.
"They will help AU member states strengthen the security of their local Internet infrastructure through actions at a regional, national, ISP/operator and organisational level," read a statement from the organisations.
Africa's cyber security environment faces a unique combination of challenges, including a lack of awareness of the risks involved in using technology. Kenya was ranked the 69th most vulnerable country (out of 127) in the 2015 Deloitte Global Threat Index. Some of the main reasons are: low awareness, underinvestment, talent shortage and overload of data.
Deloitte further estimates that Kenya lost US$171 million to cybercrime in 2016.
"Africa has achieved major strides in developing its Internet Infrastructure in the past decade. However, the Internet won't provide the aspired benefits unless we can trust it. We have seen from recent experiences that Africa is not immune from cyber-attacks and other security threats. These guidelines, developed in collaboration with the African Union Commission, will help African countries put in place the necessary measures to increase the security of their Internet infrastructure," explained Dawit Bekele, Africa Regional Bureau Director for the Internet Society.
Africa's cyber security environment faces a unique combination of challenges, including a lack of awareness of the risks involved in using technology
"This is another timely milestone achievement given the new security challenges in cyberspace," said Moctar Yeday, Head, Information Society Division, African Union. "The Commission of the African Union will continue its partnership with the Internet Society on a second set of guidelines addressing personal data protection in Africa," he added.
According to ITU ICT Facts and Figures 2016, it is estimated that 25.1% of Africans are now online and despite lower Internet access rates vs. other regions in the world, there has been a sustained double-digit growth in Internet penetration over the past 10 years.
This is due in large part to an increase of mobile Internet and in more affordable smartphones in the market and Africa's young, technology-savvy population. However, to continue to improve access and connect the unconnected, people need to trust the Internet.

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AMERICAN FORK, Utah -- For two and a half weeks this past summer, tens of thousands of people helped look for a missing man named Paul Swenson.
The 30-year-old from American Fork was a husband and new father with many friends.
After 17 days of exhaustive searching by police and volunteers, Paul’s body was found in South Salt Lake on August 13.
Questions have lingered about exactly how and when Paul died, and if there were any missed opportunities to have saved him. In a search for answers, Fox 13 News obtained 50 pages of police reports from the American Fork Police Department.
Paul’s wife Ashlee spoke with police many times. On the night he went missing, an officer summarized a conversation with Ashlee noting: "Paul’s behavior had changed since December."
Paul’s brother Sam also expressed concerns that Paul, "is mentally unstable for one reason or another" according to the police report.
Friends said Paul used marijuana occasionally and had also used mushrooms.
In a recent interview, Ashlee Swenson told Fox 13 News, “He wasn't really diagnosed with anything, but I know that day that he went missing something was definitely off.”
Paul went missing on July 27. According to the police report, he told friends multiple times that at 2:22 pm on July 27th, he would die.
On that day, Paul expressed concerns about his health. But 2:22 p.m. came and went. He had an appointment to meet with a therapist later that afternoon.
“I thought, you know, it was a great thing he was going to go talk to him and hopefully, you know, whatever he was going through he would talk about it,” Ashlee Swenson told Fox 13 News.
Paul never showed up to the appointment.
The missing person’s report shows Paul’s phone was last used at 6:45 p.m. in the area of 4700 South and 900 East in Murray.
At 10:45 p.m., BMW locator services indicated Paul’s car was in the area of 4300 South and 4600 West in West Valley City.
At 11:30 p.m., the Salt Lake City Police Department, with assistance from BMW, located the car abandoned near 1500 South and 1000 West.
“It wasn't until the family arrived that they noticed that some of the personal belongings in the vehicle weren't Paul's, so that's at what point it becomes suspicious,” says Sgt. Josh Christensen of the American Fork Police Department.
In the days that followed, the search for Paul Swenson became a national news story. Hundreds volunteered to pass out flyers, and tens of thousands followed the search online. Many theories as to why Paul might be missing were posted on social media.
“You have to deal with people being mean when you've lost your husband or he's missing," Swenson said.
Tips poured in to police.
“We have to take everyone completely serious,” Sgt. Christensen said, adding “But that's what made this case so difficult, we didn't ever, at any given time, have any solid yes, this was him or yes, this is where he's at."
What police did have, however, was a backpack found in Paul’s BMW that did not belong to Paul. Evidence inside the backpack included a cell phone that eventually led police to several juveniles.
“The story we had received from two separate juveniles was that Paul had pulled up into a gas station where they were at and told them he wanted to trade his car for their bike,” Sgt. Christensen said.
Police believe Paul was likely alive for up to a week after he was reported missing. Among the sightings which seem credible are some from people who claim to have seen Paul riding a bike.
Ten days after the last tip police believe was true, Paul was found dead, face down in the waters of Mill Creek near 235 West and 2950 South in South Salt Lake City.
Ashlee Swenson said she and her family now believe Paul died the same day he went missing. She called the 17 days waiting for answers the most traumatic time of her life, describing her life during the search as an emotional roller coaster, filled with hope followed by despair.
Though the search did not end as she had hoped, Ashlee said the good she saw in people during the search was part of what kept her going. She and her family continue to express gratitude to the thousands of people who were helping in the search.
“I feel very blessed we found Paul because there's a lot of people that don't find their people,” she said, adding, “It is a blessing that we found him and that there was some sort of peace around that and we're not still looking."


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Fast drying polyurethane varnish formulated for the wood treatment in the Yachting market for boat topsides. The product is enriched with U.V. filters for a higher resistance to yellowing.
Substrate: New or already painted Wood appropriately prepared
|Solids content by volume||45 ± 2%|
|Application||Conventional Spray, Roller, Brush|
|Shelf life @ +20°C||Base 12 months – Hardener 6 months|
|Pot-life a@ +20°C||≥ 4 hours|
|Suggested thickness||50 - 60 µm DFT (open pore - in 2 coats), 150 – 175 µm DFT (closed pore - in 7 coats)|

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text: Thursday February 20th our chicken Lulu, was demonstrating the "penguin" waddle, along with distancing herself from the flock. She was still eating and drinking, but not herself. She seemed to want to stand and would close her eyes while doing so. We brought her inside on Friday (the 21st) to better monitor her behavior. She had foul smelling diarrhea, but still was alert. We thought she might be egg bound since she hadn't laid in 2 days, so we did the warm bath treatment, a vent exam, which ruled out egg bound since we felt nothing inside her vent. Then I thought she might have worms and tried one day of Wazine, but no improvement. She doesn't seem to be improving and I have exhausted BYC looking for answers that matched her symptoms. Lulu is now losing feathers, won't eat and we are giving her water with Corid (we are on day 2), I thought maybe she might have cocci. But now with the eye discharge, I'm at a loss. Her poop isn't so bad smelling now, but she also hasn't eaten in a few days, except for the yogurt we are diluting with water. I would appreciate anyone's input and suggestions. Lulu is a 2 yr old Gold Sex Link, with no health issues in the past. No one else in our 15 chicken flock is exhibiting any of these symptoms.

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The formidable-looking iron studded oak door pictured below came from the mansion house of Carnock in Airth, near Stirling. Carnock was built in 1548 by Sir Robert Drummond, modernised in 1827 and demolished in 1941. Fortunately, its entrance door survived and may be viewed in the Smith Museum, Stirling .
The museum label states: 'Constructed in three thicknesses of boarding and reinforced with iron studs. The hinged panel within the door is an unusual feature possibly designed as a loop hole for a small cannon, to repel attackers'.
It is indeed unusual and the writer can only think of one other example - in the Tower of London, inserted in a portcullis by Henry VIII to beef up the defences.
Scottish tower houses were defended by two doors, an outer of wood and an inner of iron known as a yett. The construction of a yett was ingenious for instead of a normal grill the bars were interweaved in such a fashion that it was almost impossible to break them apart.
Not only doors but windows were protected in this fashion. In the building accounts for Holyrood Palace mention is made of its 'great iron door' together with yetts for the King's rooms and windows. James V, the builder, had cause to be wary having been placed 'under protection' in his youth.
It is often stated that this form is unique to Scotland but this is not quite true. It occurs in northern Italy of which the Papal Prison in Rome provides a good example.
The most common method employed to take a tower house was 'to lay a fire at the door' but this was insufficient in itself. Even if the door was destroyed the yett remained but by keeping the fire going it was hoped to smoke the defenders out. Additional resistance could be offered by 'walling up the door' with turf to avoid this unpleasant fate.
Sir Robert Drummond, however, took defence a step further. A small cannon could be thrust through the bars of the yett and the little panel in the outer door opened to allow a discharge 'grape shot' on the attackers - a canny Scot if ever there was one!
* The yett should be behind the door, not in front. And the door opened outwards whereas the yett opened inwards!
Article by Scottish Castles Association member Brian McGarrigle.

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North East Ambulance Service rated good by inspectors
The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) has been rated good despite failing to get to some emergencies quickly enough.
A team of 50 Care Quality Commission inspectors found staff were "passionate and enthusiastic" and provided an effective and caring service.
The NEAS attends 400,000 call-outs a year and serves 2.7 million patients.
Service chief executive, Yvonne Ormston, said she was delighted with the rating, but said improvements still needed to be made.
The team assessed the service's urgent and emergency care, patient transport services and emergency planning and rated them "effective and well-led".
Inspectors found managers were struggling to recruit enough paramedics and needed to respond to life-threatening calls more quickly.
The service fell below the national standard for responding to "Red 2" calls - incidents which are serious but less immediately time critical, such as strokes or fits.
Between April 2015 and March 2016, the service failed to reach the national target of 75% and was fifth of the 10 ambulance services in England, with responses at 68.6%.
Ms Ormston said: "Our workforce is dedicated to providing the best possible patient care, often in incredibly difficult circumstances and I am pleased on their behalf that this has been recognised.
"While we have demonstrated that our service is good for patients, we know there are areas we need to improve."


EXCLUSIVE: Disney dropped the teaser trailer for next year’s Mulan during half-time of the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday, and the world took notice. In its first 24 hours, the first-look logged 175.1M online views, topping all Disney Live Action comps save The Lion King which roared to a record 224M in its debut last November.
The 24-hour numbers on Mulan make it the No. 7 trailer launch of all time, in the company of such pics as Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Lion King, IT and The Fate Of The Furious.
Of the 175M global Mulan look-sees, 52M came from China. The video uploaded by Disney there was reposted with frequency in the neighborhood of teasers for such mega Disney/Marvel titles as Endgame and Infinity War. Mulan was also trending in China a few hours before the teaser drop, and after.
Mulan is the live-action remake of the 1998 animated story about a young woman who risks everything out of love for her family and her country to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known.
The original animated version, which made $304M globally, had a small 1999 China release, well after the domestic debut, and faced criticism at the time. However, reaction to the trailer for the current film has been largely positive. Star Liu Yifei has been warmly received on local social media as “China’s first Disney princess,” according to reports.
A source tells me that while most Chinese know the lore of Mulan (more recently, a 2009 local film starred Vicki Zhao), many today are intrigued to see how Disney brings the live-action Chinese story to the world.
The full synopsis reads: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. Masquerading as a man, Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her inner-strength and embrace her true potential. It is an epic journey that will transform her into an honored warrior and earn her the respect of a grateful nation… and a proud father.
Mulan is directed by Niki Caro from a screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Elizabeth Martin & Lauren Hynek, based on the narrative poem “The Ballad of Mulan.” The movie also stars Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Gong Li and Jet Li.
Disney releases domestically on March 27, 2020 and begins international rollout that same week. As per norm, word on a China release wouldn’t be expected to come until closer to launch.
Here’s another look at the teaser from Sunday:
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text: This is a great place to stay in Cape May and my wife, dog , and myself had a great time. The cabin was clean and comfortable. The fenced in yard is large and the dog had plenty of room to run. The location is near Higbees Beach which is a great place to walk with the dog and view the sunset over the bay. The cabin is very convenient to the Cape May beaches which allow dogs until April. We arrived in a snowstorm and Kevin had the walks and deck cleaned. Kelley stopped by and ensured that we were comfortable and had everything we needed. We had a great stay at a great location and highly recommend this cabin.


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[Environment] It can be considered a luxuriously decorated store in Kuala Lumpur. The seats inside are relatively spacious and the air conditioner is not very cold.
[Taste] The dishes are a bit French, and the chef’s selection was good that day.
It’s a very fashionable shop. I asked for the chef’s recommendation when I entered the door. The main dish is salmon nan, which tastes pretty good, the main fish is better, and the grilled senbei tastes good and delicious.
The restaurant is very exquisite, including every dish is carefully prepared, the taste is very good, very layered, the desserts after the meal are also very delicious, and then the exquisite meal is brought to a successful conclusion.
Recommended duck breast and lobster clams, the taste is very good, the environment is very quiet, is a luxury, the overall is very good.
Recommend duck breast, foie gras, in a building near the Petronas Twin Towers, there are not many people, the dishes are exquisite, delicious!


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PRIORITY REPORT January 4, 2021
Robert Caron, John S. Vanderbol III, Jerome Corsi, Kellye Sorelle, Nathan Cain, Harry Haury, General Paul Vallely, Admiral Charles Kubic, Joshua Macias, David Harvey, Bianca Gracia, Stewart Rhodes and 70 additional Patriots
OUR GREAT COUNTRY INSPIRED BY GOD, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WAS BUILT UPON DIVINE PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY AND FREEDOM FOR EVERY PERSON OF EVERY RACE, CULTURE AND RELIGION, DEFINED BY A CONSTITUTION THAT HAS PROVEN TO BE A ROADMAP FOR CULTURAL UNITY, PRODUCTIVITY AND OVERALL HARMONY BECAUSE OF A FRAMEWORK ENABLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO BE IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT BY PROVIDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES, AND ESTABLISHING PROCESSES TO ENSURE OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, WHICH INCLUDE SELECTING AND CONTROLLING OUR LEADERS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!
WE THE PEOPLE REMAIN IN CONTROL OF OUR SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.
This Great Document, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, was thoughtfully produced for these purposes, and has been the anchor of our Laws and the Rights we hold so dear, including having free Constitutionally based elections.
ALL Americans have to abide by the U.S. Constitution, and that means those who we elect to SERVE US whether in Federal Executive and Legislative Branches or State Branches of Government, have to abide as well.
THE INVINCIBLE ARGUMENT
THE STATES WHICH ACCEPTED FEDERAL FUNDS, AS THIS REPORT CONFIRMS, HAVE TO STRICTLY ABIDE BY CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL LAWS, WHICH INCLUDE THE 2002 HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT (HAVA).
FROM THE OVERWHELMING ABUNDANCE OF EVIDENCE MEETING THE FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE STANDARDS, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DENYING, THE OFFENDING STATES BLATENTLY DID NOT ABIDE BY THE CONSTITUTION.
AT THE VERY LEAST THOSE OFFENDING STATE RESULTS ARE NOT VALID FOR THE 2020 ELECTION AND WHEN DOING THE MATH, PRESIDENT TRUMP EASILY WON PLUS WE HAVE A REPUBLICAN SENATE AND HOUSE.
IF the Supreme Court will ever agree to hear the unequal treatment, two tiered voting class arguments regarding those States, which disenfranchised African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Anglo Americans, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party, the Independent Party, as well as the Democrat Party, (which no longer is led by real Democrats due to the infiltration of seditionists working to undermine and dismantle our Constitution, financed by wealthy elitists who as evidence proves are the puppets of hostile foreign state actors, and selling our Country out), we then simply redo the entire 2020 Election to allow those voters who were treated unequally by the Democrat partisan attempt to manipulate a National pandemic for their benefit without regard for THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO THEY SERVE.
THEREFORE, WE DO NOT HAVE A LEGITIMATE CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED CONGRESS, AND ANY DECISION COMING OUT OF THE SENATE OR HOUSE IS NOT VALID, SO EXTENDING ANY VOTING DATE IS MEANINGLESS.
THE PRESIDENT AS THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE TO ENSURE OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AS A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, HAS TO MAINTAIN CONTROL, if necessary through the Insurrection Act and activating powers as Commander In Chief and the additional broad sweeping powers to place Patriotic American personnel at an accelerated pace in place of establishment insurgents, restrict seditionist propaganda in the media proven to be false and that recent evidence shows media conspired with the DNC the same as the FBI conspired with the Clinton campaign, and the U.K., Ukraine and various foreign interests to attempt to defraud the American people and remove the President through a coup, at the expense of and to the detriment of the American People.
THE SAME ARGUMENT opponents used against Peter Navarro yesterday, regarding Peter not having ability to change the Constitutional inauguration date is the same argument the 2020 Election is a failed premise and therefore, every derivative coming out of that illegitimate Congress also is failed and accordingly THE 117TH CONGRESS MUST NOT BE RECOGNIZED.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ATTACK AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND OUR PRESIDENT (June 10, 2019 Report Attached)
UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE INCLUDING COVID 19 AND INSIDER INFILTRATION OF USG, TECH COMPANIES AND MEDIA
THREE HIGH IMPACT AND HIGH PROBABILITY THREAT MATRIX NATIONAL EMERGENCIES RESULTING FROM SEDITIONIST ACTS
CONFIRMED BREACH OF UNITED STATES FIVE EYES TELECOMMUNICATIONS SURVEILLANCE NETWORK BY INSIDER THREATS
SOCIETY CHANGING WEAPONRY TECHNOLOGIES ARE VULNERABLE UNTIL SURVEILLANCE NETWORK BREACH IS RESOLVED
MANIPULATION OF SOCIETAL CONSTRUCTS WILL EXACERBATE IF SAME GROUP TIED TO CCP ARE ILLEGITIMATELY ELECTED
HIGH IMPACT, HIGH PROBABILITY THREAT MATRIX EVENTS REQUIRE A PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS NOT TIED TO THE CCP
ATTACK AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND INFILTRATION THEREOF BY FOREIGN FACTIONS THAT INCLUDE CCP AND IRAN
PROVEN ELECTION FRAUD AGAINST ISRAEL, BERNIE SANDERS, BOTH CONGRESSIONAL HOUSES AND PRESIDENT TRUMP
LOCATIONS OF USG FACILITIES THAT HOUSE COMPROMISED TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT
TACTICAL PLAN TO SEQUESTER EQUIPMENT AND DETAIN TECHNICIANS FACILITATING ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE
DETAILS OF MINIMUM 29 JOE BIDEN EVIDENCE BASED INCIDENTS RANGING FROM TRANSPORTING SON HUNTER BIDEN ON
TAXPAYER PAID AIR FORCE 2 FLIGHT TO CHINA TO MEET HUNTER BIDEN FRIEND AND FUTURE BUSINESS ASSOCIATE CHINA STATE OPERATOR JONATHAN LI XIANGSHENG WHO SEVERAL DAYS AFTER OFFICIAL U.S. AUTHORIZED TRIP, ENGAGED IN TRANSACTION WHEREBY $1 BILLION DOLLARS WAS TRANSFERRED TO COMPANY OF SON HUNTER, TO TELEVISING EXTORTION AGAINST UKRAINE TO PREVENT VIKTOR SHOKIN FROM INVESTIGATING A HUNTER BIDEN COMPANY
LIST OF SENATE, HOUSE AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO ARE COMPROMISED BY BLACKMAIL
LIST OF SENATE, HOUSE AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO ARE COMPLICIT IN CRIMES WITH CORRELATING USC VIOLATIONS AND IN SOME INSTANCES DECISION TREES
LIST OF ELITIST FINANCIER CONSPIRATORS COMPLICIT IN CRIMES WITH CORRELATING USC VIOLATIONS
LIST OF MEDIA CONSPIRATORS COMPLICIT IN CRIMES WITH CORRELATING USC VIOLATIONS
LIST OF OVERLAPPING TECH COMPANY CONSPIRATORS COMPLICIT IN CRIMES WITH CORRELATING USC VIOLATIONS
LIST OF BANKS GUILTY OF SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORT VIOLATIONS AND ACTUAL CRIMES BY BANK CONTROLLERS
LIST OF GLOBAL CONSPIRATORS THAT INCLUDE FOREIGN STATE ACTORS, ROGUES AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME NETWORKS
LIST OF CRIMINAL ELEMENTS SUBJECT TO ASSET CONFISCATIONS AFTER CONVICTIONS, AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICANS
LIST OF FOREIGN ALLIANCES WHO WERE VICTIMS OF TRANSNATIONAL CRIME NETWORKS, PROPOSED TO SHARE CONFISCATIONS
TACTICAL PLAN TO PLACE PERSONNEL, INDICT AND ARREST CORRUPT OFFICIALS AND HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE WITH SMES
January 4, 2021
President Donald J. Trump United States Senate United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
President Donald J. Trump and Each Member of the Two Chambers of Congress,
Since before Inauguration Day 2016, political opponents, who, evidence proves malfeasance and mens rea resulting from personal political aspirations, self enrichment efforts and crime cover up motives to obstruct justice, have engaged in rhetoric to remove President Donald J. Trump from office ‘at all costs.’ With more than four years of coordinated rhetoric, personal attacks and outright lies contained in propaganda derived from this ‘at all costs’ effort has resulted in the greatest political conspiracy in the history of the United States.
For the reasons stated within this document it is also abundantly clear that any Member of Congress who acts to propagate and certify the 2020 Federal Election is engaged in the acts to commit high crimes and misdemeanors1, in abuse of their Offices against the People of the United States and the REPUBLIC, as a whole.
Never before in US history have individual State Officers acted in such an unconstitutional manner in an attempt to defraud the American People, indicative of establishment actors with personal motives with access to technology and media alliances to exponentially multiply efforts. These State and Federal Officials acting under color of law have acted without the consent of the State Legislatures, and without a public referendum to modify Election laws, in direct violation of
1 High Crimes and misdemeanors is defined as ‘a corrupt activity by those who have special duties not shared with common persons”. Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 65, described impeachable offenses as arising from ‘the misconduct of public men (such as Congress), or in other words from the abuse or violation of public trust’. Such offenses were ‘political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself”. This is relevant in this matter as the citizens of the United States expect its Federal Officials to comply with all aspects of Federal law, including those in engaged in each partisan political Party which have used influence of their Party to cause lower ‘State level’ members to abuse powers of Office to change election procedures, and processes outside of the legislative process of the States in order to skew the outcome of National elections.
each of the State’s obligations under Federal Law and in direct violation of the United States Constitution. As shown in this brief, Congress in 2002 used its Constitutional powers to invoke sweeping changes in the Federal Ballot handling and election processes, with specific requirements placed directly on mail in Ballots, voter registration by mail, and the voter identification in the Balloting, voting, and registration processes.
This brief attached to the January 4, 2021 Report will show the reader how blatantly unlawful the 2020 Federal Election was, and how these bad actors, working in a conspiracy with partisan political leaders, the media, tech companies and high net worth individuals have caused a Constitutional crisis. The President has a duty to not only prevent the illegitimate Congress from attempting to function, but also holds the Constitutional authority as Commander In Chief to place personnel within the Department of Justice, the FBI and every appropriate Agency to conduct investigations regarding these matters, and to bring those responsible, to JUSTICE.
BECAUSE OF NOT HAVING BEEN ELECTED THROUGH A PROCESS ABIDING BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THE 117TH CONGRESS SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.
I. The 2020 Federal Election was unconstitutional, and executed in gross violation of Federal law by acts of conspiracy against the Citizens of the United States.
1.Why the 2020 Federal Election is unconstitutional.
A. Art.1 Sec 4 of US Constitution grants Congress the EXCLUSIVE power to regulate federal elections for Senators and House Representatives. This Provision states Congress may change regulations and pass laws to do so.
B. In 2002, Congress passed in to law the Help America Vote Act. The law mandated requirements on States that accepted Federal moneys to:
i. Collect voter information with identification at the point of registration to vote, AND; ii. Required the States to verify voter roll information against the Social Security Administration database, AND; iii. Mandated first time voters provide an ID before voting in a Federal Election.
In short, Congress used its powers under Art. 1 Sec. 4 to regulate the FEDERAL BALLOT, in all forms and processes thereof, and in doing so placed requirements on all Elections for all Federal Offices which appear on a Federal Ballot.
2. How offending States violated Federal law and why ALL Offices ‘awarded’ from those Ballots are unlawful.
A. In the 2020 Federal Election the offending States failed to meet the requirements of Help America Vote Act in the following manner:
i. Regarding changes in mail in Ballot procedures:
a. Meet requirement of section 303 specifically subsection (b) REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTERS WHO REGISTER BY MAIL. — which states: a State shall, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, require an individual to meet the requirements of paragraph (2) if (A) the individual registered to vote in a jurisdiction by mail;
b. failed to meet the requirements of subsection (b) of section 303 by failing to collect voter identification in person in front of an election official and failed to collect by mail, copies of identification documents as required PRIOR to issuing a Ballot, and in so doing also failed to issue the lawful provisional Ballot in all mail out States.
ii. Regarding drop off Ballot locations and mail in Ballots:
a. Failed to meet requirements of Section 303 (b) (B)(i) which requires the collection of information and the requirement to confirm prior voting in a Federal election, in front of an election official.
b. These States also failed to meet the requirements of Section 303 (b) (B)(i) to also ask parties if they had:
1) Registered in another jurisdiction or State. AND; 2) If they had previously provided identification in that prior State. AND; 3) if they had previously voted in a Federal Election as required.
iii. The Help America Vote Act regulates in Sections 302 and 303 of the act:
a. How Federal Elections are conducted.
1) Section 303 (b) REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTERS WHO REGISTER BY MAIL.— which states: (1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 6(c) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 1973gg– 4(c)) and subject to paragraph (3), a State shall, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, require an individual to meet the requirements of paragraph(2) if
i) The individual registered to vote in a jurisdiction by mail; and
ii) The individual has not previously voted in an election for Federal Office in the State;2 or iii) Individual has not previously voted in such an election in the jurisdiction and the jurisdiction is located in a State that does not have a computerized list that complies with the requirements of subsection3 (a).
b. Places specific requirements on the conduct of the Federal Election in Sections:
1) Section 301 which places ‘requirements’ on “EACH” voting system used in an election for Federal Office4 mandating said systems meet requirements in exchange for Federal funding, AND;
2) Section 302 which mandates ‘provisional’ voting and the collection of voting information requirements in exchange for Federal funding5, AND;
3) Section 303 mandates and regulates ‘State wide’ voter registration lists, imposes requirements upon the States and individuals who register by mail, and mandates the State assures an ‘individual’ has provided identification in a Federal Election, AND also affirms that individual’s identification is placed in a ‘State’s’ voter registration list.
c. Specifically regulates the Federal BALLOT process, not just the Election process:
1) Section 302(a) regulates the requirements and the criteria an individual must meet to ‘cast a Ballot by mail’;
2 The non-compliant States’ ‘eligible voters’ lists failed to identify WHICH voters had previously voted in a Federal Election in each district they were listed to vote in. (a violation of Section 303 (4) see “Minimum Standards brief)
3 The non-compliant States ‘eligible voters’ lists failed to identify which voters had not met the Federal requirements in previous States they had resided in, and if these parties had previously provided identification prior to voting in Federal elections as required by Federal Statute for voters in Federal elections. (see “Minimum Standards brief)
4 NOTE: HAVA does not specifically state ‘for Congress’, but clearly states ‘used in an election for Federal Office’ which includes the Offices of President and Vice President which shows Congress’s authority to extend over ALL Federal Offices due to the use of Federal funds, which includes the acquisition of electronic voting systems.
5 HAVA shows Congress’ intent in legislative form to regulate the issuance of BALLOTS, as well as mandate the collection of voter information, as well as the manner in which the State, through the use of an election official to collect information in order to determine the qualification of an individual voter, as well as to ensure the rights of each person attempting to vote in the form of a ‘provisional’ Ballot or a ‘full form’ Ballot.
2) Section 302(a) also regulates the conduct of the State in the issuance of a ‘Ballot”, as well as the State’s requirement to count a Ballot as a provisional ‘Ballot’.
3) Section 302(a) mandates the State’s compliance with other Federal laws, namely the National Voter Registration Act of 1992 but still enforces registration requirements to obtain a Ballot by stating “and summits as part of such registration” specifically stating the manner in which information is required to be collected in order to obtain a ‘lawful’ Federal Ballot.
4) Section 302 specifically mandates the ‘States’ requirement to inform Citizens and requires the collection of information which the offending States did not collect in the form of a ‘requirement’ for contents of a ‘mail-in’ registration form.
5) Sections 302 and 303 specifically place requirements on ‘election officials’ in exchange for Federal monies, to have presented by a voter ‘a current and valid photo ID’ in person.
6) Sections 302 and 303 specifically place requirements on ‘election officials’ in exchange for Federal monies, to have each voter who votes by mail, submit an ID with the Ballot;
a. A copy of a current and valid photo identification; or
b. A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter.
Congress clearly used its Constitutional powers to regulate Federal Elections under Art. 1 Sec.
4 and extended criteria to all Federal Ballots by the usage of Federal monies. Clearly each offending State sought and received Federal funds tied to the Help America Vote Act, and in doing so are lawfully bound to meet the criteria placed by law on ALL FEDERAL BALLOTS, as well as the CONDUCT OF AN ELECTION tied to FEDERAL BALLOTS.
Any election count derived from a Ballot that does not meet Federal Law requirements from a State that accepted Federal moneys with the clear understanding said moneys came with requirements, the State’s failed to meet, would be an act of fraud and when involved with two parties or more, constitutes conspiracy.
Additional Pages contained as full Attachment to January 4, 2021 American Sovereignty Report.
Prepared by John S. Vanderbol III, Kellye Sorelle, Robert Caron
3 OF 359 EXCERPTS FROM PROVEN ELECTION FRAUD Section regarding one of the voting machine management and outside expert witness Congressional Hearings, two confessions, and Joe Biden ties to nexus attacking U.S.
1. The following are some clips from the January 9, 2020 Hearing with Electronic Systems & Software, Dominion and Hart which prove parties lied regarding the functions of voting machines and IN CONTRAST TO THE REPORT BY DHS CISA, THERE WAS AND IS A VOTE FRAUD CRISIS OF COLOSSAL PROPORTIONS.
30:41 to 30:49 House Representative Zoe Lofgren Democrat California Administration Committee Chair asks the 3 vendors if their machines contain any China made components and mentions those that are of particular concern are any programmable logic components such as CHIPS. 30:50 to 31:45 Tom Burt President and CEO of Electronic Systems & Software replies YES to having programable logic components from China in ES&S voting machines. 31:46 to 32:47John Poulos the President and CEO admits Dominion Voting Systems’ machines have China manufactured programmable logic components and some additional components; LCD, Glass Screen, Chips, Capacitors, Transistors and says there are no options for manufacturing some of the important programmable logic components within the United States. 32:48 to 33.21 Julie Mathis President and CEO of Hart InterCivic confirms Hart has programmable logic components. 33:34 to 33:41 House Representative Ranking Member Rodney Davis asks if there is any method of voting which is 100% secure including their voting machines to which all three vendors reply NO. 1:34:35 to 1:35:33 Tom Burt confirms Electronic Systems & Software machines are connected to the Internet but says Verizon network does not travel on the normal Internet which is not accurate because Internet connectivity is just what that implies, Internet connectivity regardless of what type firewalls or security measures are being utilized. 1:35:34 to 1:36:09 John Poulos confirms Dominion Voting Systems machines are connected to the Internet. 1:36:10 to 1:36:13 Julie Mathis confirms Hart InterCivic machines are connected to the Internet. 1:36:17 to 1:37:57 House Representative G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina Administration Committee Member asks for disclosure of owners who hold 5% or more ownership per company of which all three confirm they are going to provide information. 1:51:00 to 1:55:57 Liz Howard of Brennan Center For Justice testifies there are major problems with election system and confirms voting machines were hacked during DEFCON hacking test. 1:56:01 to 2:01:28 Matt Blaze Georgetown University Law Computer Science Professor testifies voting machines are proven dangerously vulnerable to tampering or attack that cannot be easily detectable and testifies that the industry is aware the nature of complex software in voting machines can be easily compromised and subject to corrupt candidates and foreign adversaries. 2:01:29 to 2:06:26 Juan Gilbert University of Florida Computer & Information Science Professor testifies there is no known way to secure a digital ballot system. 2:06:27 to 2:11:36 Anthony Spearman North Carolina NAACP President testifies according to research of a peer, electronic ballot marking devices cannot by reasonably audited.
During the first segment of the video Rodney Davis states there were central voter registration attacks from recent election and when inquiring about safeguards by voting machine companies, John Poulos admits Dominion Voting Systems in violation of HAVA does not comply with those HAVA voter registration conditions and thus would not be certifiable!
Julie Mathis admits Hart InterCivic does not comply with that HAVA voter registration conditions.
ALL OF THE 3 VENDORS QUESTIONED SAY NO RUSSIAN COMPONENTS BUT THEY ALL HAVE CHINA COMPONENTS.
2. Bob Creamer and Scott Foval during 2016 Election period are caught on hidden camera admitting they conduct synchronized vote fraud operations and are responsible for disrupting Trump rallies by inciting violence and that they work directly for Hillary Clinton and the DNC. This very same network according to the radicalized Democrats includes many AFL CIO Union Members, ACORN , Planned Parenthood, Brad Woodhouse, George Soros, David Brock, Robby Mook, Alexandra Chalupa (reportedly involved in Ukrainian violent Soros backed revolution), Donna Brazile, Philippe Reines, Diane Feinstein, John Kerry, multiple DNC operatives from Clinton and Obama camps, Americans United For Change, Facebook, Google, The Center for Tech and Civic Life, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, Democracy Partners, Democracy Fund, Rock The Vote, and many more have nexuses with parties meeting, communicating and conspiring against The United States by conspiring against our President and Constitution and benefitting the interests of their foreign alliances proven hostile to the United States and the World, including China, which regardless of premeditation, withheld critical information from the United States and the World regarding the SARS CoV 2 COVID 19 crisis, restricted travel from Wuhan inside of China while allowing travel outside of China to infect the World, secretly bought up the Personal Protective Equipment globally before the rest of the World thus causing an increase in infections around the World due to lack of personal protection, and consequently sabotaging the Great Economy President Trump built but then adding insult to their unconventional warfare assault, bragged about being the only country that was profiting from the COVID 19 pandemic.
This is a very important tie in because of the Bidens intimate relationship with China, a vehement enemy, and the huge sums of money involved that the Biden family received, while the same parties associated with the leadership of the DNC who have been caught bragging about their crimes to incite violence at Trump rallies and commit massive vote fraud, as this video shows one of those incidents out of several video confessions, confirming the Election cheating and at all costs trying to pretend their candidates received more votes. Ranking officials of the DNC even caused the high spread of the Coronavirus around the Nation, such as when Nancy Pelosi on video went into Chinatown in San Francisco and claimed there was no virus crisis and encouraged people to go out in public, and the Democrat failures throughout New York that spread the virus, which these two epicenters; California and New York, had exponentially further spread the virus, which media conspirators that are documented tried to hide, and irresponsibly tried to conceal effective preventative measures peer reviewed doctors confirmed.
3. There are many Biden family foreign corruption issues (CPC aka CCP, Ukraine, Iran) and lying about involvement in the spying against political opponent Candidate Trump and the pursued attacks against Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, including illegally unmasking, that normally would prevent Joe Biden from even receiving a security clearance and actually require immediate investigation and detainment because of the high risk of just what is happening, that the recognized highest threat to National Security, China has successfully achieved entrenched relationships with the former Vice President and his family members, even to the extent of engaging the son of Joe Biden; Hunter Biden in a business transaction exceeding $1 Billion dollars through Jonathan Li Xiangsheng, Chief Executive of BHR controlled by Bank of China and the Communist Nation of China, (proven to commit economic warcraft against the United States every chance they can) during a business meeting in China that both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden lied about.
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, to preserve our Sovereign Form of Government, has the MANDATORY DUTY to immediately declare the 2020 Election in violation of OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION and declare the 117TH CONGRESS ILLEGITIMATE then access and direct the National Guard already sent by the Mayor, to prevent entry into their offices and the Capitol.


Xiaomi Redmi Pro Release- It Redefines Mid-range Smartphones
Today, Xiaomi has published one Xiaomi new phone- Xiaomi Redmi Pro Release, it takes good camera and metal frame. Xiaomi Redmi Pro Release, let’s see some informations about this Xiaomi new phone.
Xiaomi Redmi Pro is the first dual camera phone from Xiaomi using a main 13 mega-pixel Sony IMX258 sensor and secondary 5 mega-pixel Samsung sensor. The dual camera design of the Redmi Pro shoots photos at the same time and apply hardware-level depth of field to create dynamic photos.
Xiaomi are so excited about the new tech that they even sent us a few official camera samples taken with the Redmi Pro for you guys to take a look at and decide for yourselves if Xiaomi’ have got their dual-camera tech working correctly.
a 2.5D curved display, large 4050mAh battery, Type C USB, up to 4GB RAM and 128GB internal memory, a new front fingerprint sensor, and dual SIM slot.151.5 x 76.2 x 8.15mm at a weight of 174g. The brushed metal body there are three colours including gold, grey and silver.
About this phone price, Redmi Pro starts at $225 for 3GB RAM + 32GB version, 3GB RAM + 64GB model costs $255, 4GB RAM + 128GB variant will cost $300. Sales of the Xiaomi Redmi Pro will begin on the 6th August in China. I also recommend a good store: Fastcardtech, it will sell this phone soon.