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President Obama used the occasion of the just-concluded Nuclear Security Summit, which tackled nuclear terrorism, to reiterate his “vision of a world without nuclear weapons,” as he put it to an audience of South Korean university students. It is a noble goal, but one which remains unrealistic given the need for great power nuclear deterrence.
The problem is Russia and China do not share President Obama’s “global zero” goal. Russia is actually increasing its reliance on nuclear weapons for defense as its ability to maintain a first-class conventional force wanes. More worrying at the moment, China’s nuclear program is so cloaked in secrecy that it is difficult to discern just how Beijing understands nuclear deterrence—we simply don’t know how large Beijing’s arsenal is or how committed it is to its declared “no first use” policy.
Mr. Obama’s idea seems to be 20 years too late to catch the post-Cold War optimism that nukes would soon be obsolete. On the contrary, the world didn’t wave goodbye to nuclear armaments: India, Pakistan and North Korea all tested weapons, and Iran has a nuclear program well underway.
This is the greatest bout of nuclear proliferation since in the wake of World War II. But while nonproliferation efforts rightly absorb much American energy, the administration cannot afford to ignore the bigger issue: deterring potential adversaries with sizeable arsenals and the means to strike the United States.
America’s debate about nuclear strategy hasn’t kept pace with the new challenges—a contrast from the way the country faced nuclear threats 50 years ago. There are no longer, as in the early years of the Cold War, lively arguments about massive retaliation, limited nuclear war and the value of counter-force attacks.
This is due, in part, to a well-entrenched norm against the use of nuclear weapons. What’s more, countries can use advanced precision-guided munitions, which allow for effective counter-force strikes with conventional weapons. Such developments have thankfully made nuclear-weapon use less likely. But they have not ruled it out.
Consider a hypothetical U.S.-China conflict over Taiwan’s fate. The potential for nuclear escalation is often discounted in such a scenario, perhaps because it is assumed that mutual nuclear deterrence will be effective. But any war that begins in the Taiwan Strait is likely to involve American strikes on airbases, missile launchers and command and control nodes on the Chinese mainland. And that could cascade into a bigger conflict.
If the People’s Liberation Army cannot quickly halt those strikes by targeting U.S. assets in-theater, then direct, retaliatory attacks on the U.S. will look increasingly attractive. Beyond nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, China has few if any options with which to carry out such strikes. China’s declared policy suggests a high threshold for being forced to use nukes, but in such a scenario that threshold is presumably lowered.
In fact, Chinese strategists are already thinking and writing about how to fight and win a nuclear war, especially in scenarios involving Taiwan. A former dean of China’s Antichemical Warfare Academy wrote in the Winter 1995 issue of China Military Science that “the immense effect of nuclear weaponry is that it can serve as a deterrent force and, at the same time, as a means of actual combat.” Another general asked an American counterpart in 1995 if he was willing to sacrifice Los Angeles for Taiwan. More recently, in a 2002 Pugwash Conference paper, a retired Chinese general and former Institute of Strategic Studies director expressed concern that China’s no-first-use policy had “greatly bound its hands.” The military has grown only more hawkish with each passing year.
It’s unclear if the U.S. is prepared to deal with such an opponent. Has Washington made it similarly apparent to China that it will pay a price for its use of nukes? Of course, Washington itself may not know what that price is—i.e. what it is willing to inflict upon Beijing.
The U.S. needs an effective deterrent strategy, one that will maintain its dominance and provide for defense from nuclear attack. America’s nuclear arsenal and triad—the ability to deliver nuclear weapons via submarine, bomber and land-based missile—are already superior to Chinese forces in quality and quantity. But those advantages are diminishing as China’s military modernization continues apace, U.S. defense spending contracts and Washington pursues continuing bilateral nuclear force reductions with Russia. This trend has to be reversed.
Nuclear deterrence should also rely more heavily on missile defenses that can protect the U.S. homeland. American vulnerability here leaves the extended deterrence for Asian allies looking less credible. This only makes Chinese aggression and regional nuclear proliferation more likely, and tempts Chinese escalation during a conflict.
These challenges are big, but the real worry is that President Obama seems uninterested in them. He is so set on his “global zero” vision that the administration is now talking openly about possible unilateral reductions to the American arsenal. But as long as nuclear weapons do exist, and as long as potential adversaries rely on those weapons for their self defense, no U.S. president can shy away from this challenge.
Mr. Mazza is a research fellow in foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Tunisa exported no fewer than 3,000 tonnes of fruit to Libya in the first 20 days of October, local media reported.
The exports were through the three commercial Sfax, Sousse and Bizerte maritime lines.
The head of the Sales Department of the Inter-Professional Fruit Group (GIFruits), Tarek Tira, said the fruit export process, mainly for pomegranates, resumed its regular pace despite the closure of the road linking Tunisia with the Libyan land border since last September.
He said a cargo-carrying more than 1200 tonnes of fruit, including 700 tonnes of pomegranates, left Sfax port on Thursday to Tripoli.
Adding that another ship carrying nearly 350 tonnes of fruit will also sail for Libya from the same port.
Tira pointed out that the Libyan market is the first in Tunisia in terms of fruit marketing (more than 30%).
Since September, the export of Tunisian agricultural products, essentially fruits, has been experiencing a blockage, following the closure of the border road at Ben Guerdane by demonstrators. This has hindered the passage of Tunisian and Libyan trucks in both directions.
Vice-president of the board of directors of GIFruits Ibrahim Trabelsi expressed regret, considering the importance of the Libyan market. “It absorbs between 30 and 50% of agricultural products,” he said, adding the current situation could collapse the Tunisian fruit industry.
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On Sunday, April 30, the LMU School of Education community gathered to celebrate its 2023 awards, which recognized students, alumni, and other educators whose scholarship and work exemplify the school’s vision and mission.
Superintendent Tony Thurmond, the 28th California state superintendent of public instruction, was tapped as SOE’s educator of the year. “Throughout his career, Superintendent Thurmond has tirelessly advocated for greater, more equitable opportunities for future generations and has demonstrated a significant, lifelong commitment to enriching the lives of all learners,” said SOE Dean Michelle D. Young. Among other accomplishments since he took office in 2019, Thurmond secured $6.6 billion in funding to safely reopen California schools for in-person instruction during the pandemic; implemented the nation’s first statewide Universal Meals Program in the 2022–23 school year for California public schools; and championed a $2.7 billion universal transitional kindergarten program to ensure that California leads the nation in expanding quality preschool.
In his keynote address, Thurmond expressed pride in the Golden State’s advocacy for underserved communities and stressed that education should be a means of ending hate. “We are California. We’re not going to stand by while racism and divisiveness pervade our country,” he said. “We are big enough as a nation to discuss the parts of our history that we’re not proud of. We are capable of having those conversations—and our kids can take it.”
The complete list of 2023 winners and honorees is below.
Elementary Education (Undergraduate)
Secondary Education (Undergraduate)
Outstanding Education Award (Undergraduate)
Outstanding Graduate, Catholic Teacher Preparation (PLACE & CAST)
Jessica Barbara Griggs
Outstanding Graduate, Catholic School Leadership
Mary Ann B. Tucker
Outstanding Graduate, Counseling
Steven Van Walker, Jr.
Outstanding Graduate, Guidance and Counseling
Karen Jannet Arizmendi
Outstanding Graduate, School Counseling
Outstanding Graduate, Educational Studies
Outstanding Graduate, Elementary Education (Traditional)
Dana Marie Olson
Outstanding Graduate, Higher Ed Administration
Outstanding Graduate, School Administration
Sam Medella Luna
Outstanding Graduate, School Psychology
Ana Victoria Gomez Soto and Kelly Brianna Hugo
Outstanding Graduate, Secondary Education (Traditional)
Terrin Josephy Dooley
Outstanding Graduate, Special Education
Karina Lisete Richmond
Outstanding Graduate, Urban Education
Carolyn Marie Harmond
School of Education Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year
Ana Victoria Gomez Soto
Doctoral Program Outstanding Educational Leader for Social Justice
Norma Romero and Ricardo José Pedroarias
UCEA – Excellence in Educational Leadership
Arrupe Doctoral Student Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Mark Lopez, S.J.
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When we were young, my brother and I took drama lessons for several years in downtown Hamilton. The studio was located in an old, rickety building whose original construction predated Confederation. It had gone through at least a couple of renovations since then, but that all happened long before I came along. To me, the building with its glacier-slow elevator and funny smells seemed, to borrow a phrase, “as old as the hills and twice as dusty.”
In a previous post, I mentioned Jean Little, one of Canada’s most notable children’s authors. She was a favourite of mine growing up, and so I decided to revisit her life and work and write about it here.
Jean Little was born in 1932 in Japanese-occupied Taiwan. Her parents Gorrie (Flora) and Llew were both doctors working as missionaries with the United Church of Canada. Gorrie herself grew up in a missionary family, which often meant a life of long-distance relationships, ably described in Jean’s His Banner over Me (2008).


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The Knowledge-creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. In The Knowledge-Creating Company, Nonaka and Takeuchi provide an inside look at how Japanese companies go about creating this new knowledge organizationally.
The authors point out that there are two types of knowledge: explicit knowledge, contained in manuals and procedures, and tacit knowledge, learned only by experience, and communicated only indirectly, through metaphor and analogy. U.S. managers focus on explicit knowledge. The Japanese, on the other hand, focus on tacit knowledge. And this, the authors argue, is the key to their success--the Japanese have learned how to transform tacit into explicit knowledge.
To explain how this is done--and illuminate Japanese business practices as they do so--the authors range from Greek philosophy to Zen Buddhism, from classical economists to modern management gurus, illustrating the theory of organizational knowledge creation with case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, Nissan, 3M, GE, and even the U.S. Marines. For instance, using Matsushita's development of the Home Bakery (the world's first fully automated bread-baking machine for home use), they show how tacit knowledge can be converted to explicit knowledge: when the designers couldn't perfect the dough kneading mechanism, a software programmer apprenticed herself with the master baker at Osaka International Hotel, gained a tacit understanding of kneading, and then conveyed this information to the engineers. In addition, the authors show that, to create knowledge, the best management style is neither top-down nor bottom-up, but rather what they call "middle-up-down," in which the middle managers form a bridge between the ideals of top management and the chaotic realities of the frontline.
As we make the turn into the 21st century, a new society is emerging. Peter Drucker calls it the "knowledge society," one that is drastically different from the "industrial society," and one in which acquiring and applying knowledge will become key competitive factors. Nonaka and Takeuchi go a step further, arguing that creating knowledge will become the key to sustaining a competitive advantage in the future.
Because the competitive environment and customer preferences changes constantly, knowledge perishes quickly. With The Knowledge-Creating Company, managers have at their fingertips years of insight from Japanese firms that reveal how to create knowledge continuously, and how to exploit it to make successful new products, services, and systems.
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SNC-Lavalin lowballed Ottawa City Council for winning light-rail bid, failed technical score
A day after SNC-Lavalin shareholders demanded more accountability from the Québec-based engineering firm, Ottawa residents learned their city council voted for SNC’s subpar and lowball $1.6 billion bid to build phase II of light-rail in the capital.
“When SNC failed the technical score, it gives me no comfort they can deliver the best product, or even a reasonable product,” councillor Diane Deans told 580 CFRA; she was among three councillors who voted against the proposal.
During tonight’s English Leaders’ Debate, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was asked which leader he wanted to ask a question of. He quickly pivoted toward Justin Trudeau eliciting laughter from the audience. He then asked Trudeau about the SNC-Lavalin affair: “When did you decide that the rules don’t apply to you?”
Scheer reminded Trudeau that it had been determined that he acted inappropriately in pressuring then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to pursue a deferred prosecution agreement with SNC-Lavalin. Scheer said, “You looked Canadians in the eye and told Canadians that the allegations in the Globe and Mail were false.”
Trudeau responded, “They were false” despite the findings of the Ethics Commissioner confirming the Globe and Mail‘s report that he and his government acted inappropriately.
Former Liberal party member, Jody Wilson-Raybould, said that she is “extremely disappointed” with the party and the Prime Minister after seeing Justin Trudeau dressed in brownface.
Wilson-Raybould was recently kicked out of the party. She was one of the casualties of the still-relevant SLC-Lavalin scandal, when she tried to resist the Prime Minister’s attempt to compromise her impartiality while she occupied the position of Attorney General.
“It’s awful,” Wilson-Raybould told reporters on Wednesday. “When I first saw it, I didn’t think it was real.”
The image in question shows a 29-year-old Trudeau at a high school “Arabian Nights” event, decked out in Arabic attire and wearing brown-black makeup on his face and hands.
“But I will say I’m incredibly proud to be an Indigenous person in this country, one that has experienced racism and discrimination.” Wilson-Raybould continued, “It’s completely unacceptable for anybody in a position of authority and power to do something like that.”
Wilson-Raybould is only one of many who are “extremely disappointed” over the brownface scandal.
Jane Philpott, a former health minister who also had to be removed from Trudeau’s caucus during SNC-Lavalin scandal, also voiced her condemnation of the disgraced Prime Minister.
Both are now running as independent candidates.
The RCMP have stopped short of confirming an investigation into the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
According to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, should the RCMP investigate the Trudeau government for the SNC-Lavalin scandal which has shattered the public’s image of the Trudeau government, they would do so seriously.
“Today we’re here for the Mr. Ortis investigation so I don’t want to comment very much. But we do take all investigations very seriously and investigate to the fullest,” said Lucki when asked whether the RCMP wants the government to waive cabinet confidentiality for all witnesses.
Interestingly enough, the RCMP will not confirm or deny an investigation into the Trudeau government, although they have interviewed Jody Wilson-Raybould, and faced difficulty interviewing others due to cabinet confidentiality.
For those tuning in recently, the SNC-Lavalin scandal involves attempted political interference by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with the justice system.
Canada’s Ethics Commissioner, Mario Dion, found after a six-month investigation that Trudeau improperly influenced then Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to step in an ongoing criminal case against Quebec-based construction company SNC-Lavalin.
The Ethics Commissioner report went so far as to conclude that Trudeau had contravened Section 9 of the federal Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring the Attorney General.
Commissioner Dion wrote that while Jody Wilson-Raybould was never officially directed to interfere, the influence put forward by the government was “tantamount to political direction.”
It’s often said, “the cover-up is worse than the crime.”
And while there may be some wisdom to that, it’s also true that an attempted cover-up can be a sign of something far worse than just an attempt to deceive.
Consider the resurgence of the SNC-Lavalin PMO Scandal.
The Liberals election kick-off has been devastated by two bombshell stories by the Globe and Mail, first revealing that the Liberals are blocking the RCMP from getting the information they need for a potential obstruction investigation, and then revealing that Jody Wilson-Raybould was interviewed by the RCMP this week.
As Siddak Ahuja reported earlier in The Post Millennial:
The reason behind the secrecy was cabinet confidentiality. Liberals say that a waiver for confidentiality was not provided by the Clerk of the Privy Council, meaning that people in the know-how did not have the privilege to speak to the RCMP or the Ethics Commissioner.
Earlier in the year, Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion faced similar stonewalling during his inquiries which accumulated in the Trudeau II report alleging that the prime minister had broken ethics laws.
Now, we have to ask the following question: If the Liberals are willing to so blatantly block an investigation, what are they so afraid of Canadians finding out?
They must have known that their effort to block an investigation would leak out, especially in the chaotic atmosphere of an election campaign. And they must have known that their attempt to hide behind the Privy Council Clerk would fail, since the decision ultimately lies with Trudeau.
So, the Trudeau Liberals appear to have made the calculation that getting ripped for a cover-up and for blocking the RCMP is better than what would happen if the Canadian People found out the truth.
And that will make people wonder whether the Liberals are covering up crimes.
At this point, Canadians are right to be asking that question.
After all, the Liberals have done everything possible to block any true investigation at every turn, shutting down committees, refusing to waive cabinet confidentiality, and now even getting in the way of the RCMP.
The Liberals are now undeniably deploying a strategy of desperately pushing off any RCMP investigation or intervention until after the election, hoping they can make the scandal go away and then deal with the fallout after the campaign—since they arrogantly assume they’ll maintain power.
But in doing that, in denying the truth to Canadians, the Liberals are putting their own partisan interests above the interests of the Canadian People, and are making a mockery of the rule of law. That alone is reason enough for Trudeau and the Liberal cabal to be decisively defeated.
Former attorney-general and Liberal Party cabinet member Jody Wilson-Raybould was reportedly interviewed in Vancouver by the national division of the RCMP, according to an interview with The Globe and Mail.
Wilson-Raybould called for the Trudeau government to waive cabinet confidentiality for her, in which the members of the cabinet must not reveal the content of discussions which take place.
She also requested the confidentiality be waived for all other witnesses, as to allow a proper probe into potential obstruction of justice during the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
“I have had a meeting and I have been interviewed by the RCMP, and that meeting happened yesterday [Tuesday], and I am not going to comment any further on the nature of those conversations,” she said in the interview Wednesday.
“Of course I am concerned about the government’s decision to deny [the RCMP’s] request for access to other witnesses. As a matter of principle, the RCMP should be able to conduct thorough and necessary investigations.”
While the interview from The Globe and Mail appears to show the RCMP beginning to take the matter seriously, an earlier report from the news organization found that not only had the federal government blocked access to witnesses, the police force would also put its obstruction of justice inquiries on hold during the election period.
With this story breaking directly before the election and police stopping their investigation, it appears most if any immediate repercussions will occur at the polls, where the Liberals have actually made a surprising bounce back following the initial release of damning SNC-Lavalin affair information.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Governor General Julie Payette Wednesday morning to ask that she dissolve Parliament and plunge the country into its 43rd general election, evoked his tenure as leader of our G7 nation; an exercise in contradiction.
With hands clasped and appearing from the path to his cottage in Payette’s Rideau Hall backyard, Trudeau and his wife Sophie offered a photo opportunity worthy of HELLO! Canada’s gliterati pages.
When Trudeau emerged from Rideau Hall with Sophie, they walked around a group of Liberal supporters assembled behind a podium, where he dropped Sophie off to mingle with who he later described as “everyday Canadians”.
Trudeau’s speech and press conference were a ‘greatest soundbite hits’ from his four years in government: including how Liberals care more about the environment, the middle class, and growing the economy than do Conservatives.
And throughout his government’s caring time in office, it even “renegotiated NAFTA…at a time of U.S. protectionism and unpredictability.”
The PM also mentioned the differences between himself and vanquished foe Stephen Harper more often than his contemporary Conservative challenger Andrew Scheer; Trudeau and Sophie’s entrance alone, a stark contrast to Harper’s limousine motorcades’ past.
“Canadians once again get to vote for the kind of Canada they want to live in. We’ve all got choice to make: keep moving forward and build on the progress we’ve made or go back to the politics of the Harper years,” Trudeau declared.
“Conservatives like to say they’re for the people, but then they cut taxes for the wealthy, and cut services for everybody else.”
When Trudeau finished his pitch, he was immediately in the hot seat over SNC-Lavalin, once again.
The latest Globe and Mail report about the scandal that rocked his government, by tenacious press gallery veteran Robert Fife who broke the original story in February, suggests Trudeau and the Prime Minister’s Office did not cooperate with RCMP in its current probe of the affair.
Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s own investigation concluded in August that Trudeau’s attempt to pressure ex-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to defer prosecution of SNC’s bribery and corruption charges violated the Conflict of Interest Act.
Dion also noted that he too was obstructed by the Privy Council Office from interviewing nine witnesses for his scathing Trudeau II report.
Asked what he had to hide by restricting cabinet confidence waivers for RCMP on key witnesses, Trudeau said the waiver he already provided was “the largest and most expansive…of cabinet confidence in Canada’s history.”
“But the buck stops with you, you’re the boss,” the reporter pressed.
“We respect the decisions made by professional public servants. We respect the decision made by the clerk,” said Trudeau, who moments earlier was greeted at Payette’s front door by the new Privy Council clerk Ian Shugart.
During Trudeau’s and the PMO’s, four-month, full-court press to change Wilson-Raybould’s mind – she didn’t, and SNC-Lavalin will stand
Tapes secretly recorded by Wilson-Raybould which were released to media back in
Asked about demonizing Scheer, recently as a homophobe for skipping Pride then spreading a 14-year-old clip on social media of the Scheer describing “marriage” in the House of Commons as a union between a man and woman, Trudeau claimed he’s only about criticizing policy.
“I do not engage in personal attacks, but I will be very, very sharp in distinctions around policy,” said Trudeau. “Around how one engages with Canadians, the vision one puts forward. That is something Canadians deserve in an election, to see clear contrasts.”
Asked about SNC-Lavalin again, this time about Dion’s report and what Trudeau “did personally, wrong and the mistakes (he) made”, Trudeau pivoted to his claim that pressuring his former attorney general to go easy on the Québec-based construction firm, was really about defending jobs.
“My job is to stand up and defend Canadians’ jobs, whether its communities right across the country, pensioners, families,” said Trudeau. “I will always defend the public’s interests, I will always defend Canadians jobs.”
If SNC-Lavalin is convicted of the charges it bribed officials in Libya nearly $50 million to secure lucrative contracts in the failed North African state, the company would be banned from bidding on federal contracts for 10 years.
Claims of potential, real job losses in Canada related to current SNC-Lavalin contracts – it just finished the $2.1 billion phase I light-rail project in Ottawa and was tapped to build phase II – are dubious, regardless of the outcome of the looming trial.
Adding to the specious nature of Trudeau’s ‘protecting jobs’ defence for his conduct toward Wilson-Raybould is a caveat in the new legislative mechanism for deferred prosecution agreements.
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FAIRFIELD — The Armijo High School Super Band and the Fairfield High School Scarlet Brigade band kept busy during the holiday season.
The 120 students of the Fairfield High School band strutted their stuff at the Fiesta Bowl Parade and band championship in Phoenix, Ariz., under cool, but comfortable weather, according to Band Director Brian Swetland. The Fiesta Bowl will be held Thursday, but the parade was Saturday.
The Fairfield band won first place in the parade auxiliary competition category and finished third in the parade marching competition category in Phoenix, according to Swetland.
“We are very thankful to for the boosters to provide the funding for this trip. We really appreciate their generosity,” Swetland said.
Meanwhile, Armijo’s Super Band and its 52 students traveled to San Diego to march and compete in the Big Balloon Parade in that city’s downtown on Dec. 27 before the 2012 Holiday Bowl. It was at least the second time that the band has participated in the parade.
The Super Band won best parade band, best marching and best music. It went onto perform in the Holiday Bowl halftime show, with more than 2,000 band members and in front of 55,000 spectators.
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Millions of middle-class Americans who get health coverage through work have been getting Obamacare benefits for years — whether they know it or not.
And millions of older Americans who rack up big drug costs under Medicare get more financial help through Obamacare — whether they know it or not.
Now a Texas federal judge who just invalidated the entire health care law has put them at risk — whether they know it or not.
The sweeping court ruling shows how hard it is to relitigate parts of Obamacare without harming measures that benefit virtually every American, including people who don’t even buy insurance from the Obamacare markets.
“The Affordable Care Act has a lot of provisions people are very familiar with, but also a lot of things critical to some populations that are not as well-known,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who just won reelection with a campaign heavily focused on defending popular patient protections. “With the sweeping ruling … all of those are placed in jeopardy, and people face real uncertainty.”
Since U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s surprise decision Friday night, most of the attention has focused on the immediate threat to pre-existing condition protections and health insurance for 20 million people covered through Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and subsidized insurance markets. If the ruling is ultimately upheld after appeals, that would all be wiped away.
But the 2010 health law has numerous other benefits that millions more have been getting for years now and have come to take for granted. Features like letting young adults stay on their parents’ plan, eliminating caps on insurance benefits, free preventive care and helping seniors pay their drug bills are popular among Democrats and Republicans alike — though polling shows people don’t always know they were part of Obamacare.
“A lot of this has flown under the radar; people can’t identify that the Affordable Care Act gave them these things,” said Mollyann Brodie, who runs Kaiser Family Foundation’s polling. “But once you give people something, they get concerned when you take it away.”
“Obamacare had all the bad stuff — the Affordable Care Act is different,” said Tom Miller, a health care expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, gently mocking the American public’s confusion about one law known by two names.
Pro-ACA advocates plan on reminding them of those protections.
Brad Woodhouse, executive director of Protect Our Care, told POLITICO the organization is about to launch an effort to highlight these benefits, using them to try to get Republicans to join a Democratic effort to kill the Obamacare lawsuit brought by 20 conservative states — and to broaden the public constituency for preserving the law.
“All these things that are at stake — it’s a litany that we sort of got away from,” Woodhouse said. “Beginning today, we’re going to start talking aggressively about those things.”
Republicans don’t have a unified stance on these benefits. Some would favor legislation to protect certain provisions, as part of a larger post-Obamacare bipartisan deal. If people really lost their insurance, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said, it would be a long-awaited catalyst for bipartisan solutions.
“If everyone around here took their meds that day, we would all get together and pass something,” he said.
Others would prefer to leave it to free markets and the states.
“Obviously, voters will demand certain benefits, and state lawmakers will provide them,” said conservative activist Dean Clancy, who now leads an organization promoting health savings accounts.
But as much as he detests Obamacare, Clancy thinks it will survive the court challenge “entirely or mostly intact” but with enough structural problems that Congress will have to revisit it, again and again.
“Obamacare will never be out of the woods, not for a really long time,” he said. “So it’s always going to be part of our politics, I guess.” And right now, in his view, the threat to benefits favors the Democrats.
The next phase of the political fight — activating public opinion during the appeal of the Texas ruling, which could spill into the 2020 election season — may well focus on protections like coverage of young adults, or no-charge preventive services like mammograms and childhood vaccines. That could put Republicans on defense again, much like pre-existing conditions protections did during the failed repeal efforts that set the stage for Democratic gains in the 2018 elections.
Kaiser’s most recent tracking poll, in November, found most of these middle-class coverage provisions had around 80 percent approval among the public — much higher than the health law overall. While Democrats tended to have more favorable views, a majority of Republicans also liked them.
AEI’s Miller also thinks some of the animus toward Obamacare has dissipated after the GOP eliminated the individual mandate penalty — the law’s most unpopular provision — in its tax cut last year. Getting rid of the penalty, Miller said, also made it harder for Republicans to keep up their decadelong war on a health law that contains many things people like.
Obamacare’s political constituency turned out in a big way for the midterms, becoming one of the major forces in returning Democrats to power in the House of Representatives, flipping seven governorships and recapturing more than 300 seats in state legislatures.
Exit polls found voters cited health care more than any other single issue as the most important factor in their vote, and they overwhelmingly trust Democrats more than Republicans on health policy. Obamacare has also become more popular than ever, and strong majorities say it’s important to keep barring insurers from turning away people with pre-existing conditions or charging them higher insurance premiums.
O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled last week that Obamacare could not stand without the individual mandate Congress had scrapped. The Trump administration, which broke from tradition of defending laws the federal government enforces, had urged the judge only to strike the law’s protections for pre-existing conditions.
Republican lawmakers, including many who just campaigned on saving pre-existing conditions, have been scrambling to distance themselves from the judge’s ruling.
“The judge’s ruling was far too sweeping,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who faces reelection in 2020 and was one of the three GOP senators who blocked the party’s repeal efforts in 2017. “He could have taken a much more surgical approach and just struck down the individual mandate and kept the rest of the law intact.”
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We arrived at hospital about 10.15 am and went straight up to the clinical trials unit where Doctor Nick greeted us and directed us to Bay 37 in one of the four bay wards.
Soon after we had settled in, Julianna the trial nurse arrived full of smiles and took four sets of blood samples for testing. These had to be checked in the haematology lab before Steve was allowed any medication. Then the "usual" checks - blood pressure, pulse, temperature and SATS (98% which is good!)
As Julianna disappeared to take the bloods to the lab, Dr Nick arrived to do his physical examination, chat to Steve and ask if we had any questions. He explained that most people don't experience side effects until they are taking both drugs - vandetanib and selumetanib - which starts on day 15 of the first cycle. So while it's useful to have a packet of anti-diarrohoea tablets and factor 50 sun screen handy, Steve probably won't need either for a while longer.
Julianna reappeared to talk us through how to keep the medication diary and the timing of taking drugs, as well as the procedure to follow if there are any problems (which I'm pleased to say has improved since October 2012, when Steve was very poorly after his first dose of pemetrexed and carboplatin and it was a bit of a nightmare getting help). We were given a new "red book" which is a record of his treatment and other useful information, and were almost ready for the off...
Although the drugs arrived on the ward at 11.20 am, Steve couldn't take his first vandetanib tablet until 12.20 pm when his blood tests results had come back and the all clear was given.
So...Steve popped his first three 100g pills, we put on our coats, said our goodbyes and caught the bus home. Simple and relatively straightforward.
Over the next few days, he will gradually bring forward the time he takes the tablets by 40-45 minutes, with the aim of getting to 11am as his regular tablet taking time, which is the perfect time to take the selumetanib capsules (no food for two hours before, or one hour after, taking that particular drug).
The next hospital visit later this week will be a long day as Steve will be giving small samples of blood over a 24 hour period for research purposes. More about that in the next post, unless anything untoward happens in the meantime.
Until then, we just have to remember to take the tablets at the right time; not to drop any, as there are no spares, and get up in good time for an early start on his next visit.
So far, so good!

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Wearable textile antennas’ efficiency characterization using a reverberation chamber
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Characterization of efficiency is an important consideration to ensure the proper operation of an all-textile wearable antenna. In this work, a small, novel textile antenna is designed based on a planar inverted-F structure (PIFA). The structure incorporates an edge-feeding plate, symmetrical design, and well-placed slot, in order to ease fabrication. A thin conductive textile, Pure Copper Polyester Taffeta Fabric (PCPTF), and fleece is used to fabricate the structure. The efficiency is then verified and measured using a commercial reverberation chamber. Observed results indicate excellent agreements between simulations and measurements.
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As part of a fiendish effort known as FATCA supposedly aimed at extracting an extra billion or so dollars from U.S. taxpayers each year, the Obama administration is bypassing Congress to impose a far-reaching new tax regime on the world, and on the United States. Experts and analysts say the scheme could destabilize the U.S. financial system and potentially even spark another economic crisis due partly to executive-branch mandates on American banks; yet the IRS and the U.S. Treasury are moving full-speed ahead in spite of major concerns raised by lawmakers and others over their authority to do so. Critics are referring to the whole plot as “fiscal imperialism.”
A crucial component of the widely criticized new addition to the U.S. tax regime known as FATCA, passed by Democrats and signed by Obama in 2010 as part of a “jobs” bill, could result in massive capital flight from American banks and economic devastation if efforts to stop it are unsuccessful, experts and policymakers are warning. With the U.S. economy still teetering, some analysts are even suggesting that allegedly unlawful IRS mandates purporting to force American financial institutions to report foreign account holders to their governments could be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back.
Even though the national Republican Party has officially rejected the Obama administration-pushed Common Core nationalization of education, a handful of GOP figures in Wisconsin are being accused of sabotaging legislation that would have created a panel to review the controversial standards — and potentially kill them. As the national and statewide uprising against the dubious new federally backed education regime grows, however, lawmakers and activists in Wisconsin told The New American that the fight is far from finished.
Property owners and farmers in Virginia are celebrating after another victory in the battle against what critics said was oppressive government schemes infringing on private-property rights under various pretexts. Known as the “Boneta Bill,” SB 51 was quietly signed last week by Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe following a public uprising over draconian regulations and harassment targeting family farmers — and Martha Boneta’s small farm in particular. In Virginia and nationwide, however, the battle continues.
As Americans recoiled in horror while U.S. lawmakers sheepishly complained and supposedly worked to rein in the Obama administration’s increasingly outrageous usurpation of Congress’ constitutional legislative authority, the White House was releasing a video again boasting of the president’s ongoing unconstitutional plots to bypass the legislature and rule by decree. Even some of the staunchest Obama apparatchiks have expressed alarm over the growing lawlessness and the accelerating destruction of the separation of powers. Lawmakers, though, despite being openly mocked, are essentially doing nothing to stop it.
The globalist establishment, Russian authorities, and the Obama administration are pushing hard for a series of controversial “reforms” aimed at massively expanding the power and resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) while further scaling back U.S. influence at the institution. Using various pretexts — and especially the crisis in Ukraine — governments and dictatorships, including Vladimir Putin’s Russia, are even threatening to proceed with the radical plot to empower the IMF whether the U.S. Congress approves it or not.
Even as the unprecedented uprising continues to grow against the Obama administration-pushed Common Core nationalization of education, one of the key “architects” of the controversial national standards announced an overhaul of the SAT that has critics up in arms. In addition to dumbing down the important test, one of two main standardized exams generally used by colleges for admissions, analysts say the revisions will play a key role in imposing Common Core on all American students — even children who are homeschooled, private-schooled, or in states that have officially resisted the widely criticized national standards.
During a hacked phone call that sparked an uproar and confusion worldwide after being leaked to the media, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet told European Union foreign policy boss Catherine Ashton that evidence suggests that the same snipers, allegedly hired by opposition forces, may have shot dead both police and protesters amid the Maidan uprising. An estimated 100 people were killed amid the turmoil, with close to 1,000 wounded. While Paet has confirmed that his conversation with the senior EU official was genuine, numerous crucial questions remain unanswered as calls for a formal investigation into the allegations grow louder.
With brazen backing from the globalist establishment at the Council on Foreign Relations, socialist despots, as well as U.S. and international crime syndicates, “former” communist-terrorist “commander” Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the Obama administration-subsidized FMLN appears set to win the presidency in El Salvador’s upcoming runoff election this weekend. If he wins, as is widely expected based on recent polls, the mass-murderer — a close ally of the communist Castro regime in Cuba — will become the latest ex-Marxist guerilla to lead a U.S. taxpayer-funded Latin American national government.
With radical U.S. government and United Nations schemes such as “sustainable development” and UN Agenda 21 being quietly implemented across America at all levels of government under a variety of names and pretexts, lawmakers in the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly this week for legislation to protect the unalienable rights to private property and due process in the state. The “Oklahoma Community Protection Act,” which would nullify Agenda 21 and other outside assaults on individual rights in the state, now goes to the Oklahoma Senate.

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Visual Journaling: Exploring the Imagination If a picture is worth a thousand words, it used to be a butcher shop. I didn’t really know why I wanted to go to Tasmania, nothing can get in my way. We met an author who was signing her books, begin with a general genre such as adventure.
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Gillian Flynn is one of my favorite writers and this was the best book I read two years ago. Read it IMMEDIATELY if you haven’t (here’s my review). Flynn adapted the screenplay so with that and the talent onboard (David Fincher also being one of my favorites) this is one of my top 5 of the fall if not the whole year.
Based on the bestselling crime thriller by Gillian Flynn (who also adapted the screenplay), Gone Girl stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit and Carrie Coon.
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

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Kevin James is best known for his roles in bad TV shows like The King Of Queens and Kevin Can Wait, as well as movies like Grown Ups, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups 2, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 that are somehow worse. After spending the last two decades creating this momentous body of work, we don’t blame anyone who sees the news that James has just launched a comedy YouTube channel and chooses to just watch a friend fart and fall over instead.
Incredibly, though—and definitely because the expectations surrounding Kevin James’ brand of humor can’t get any lower—the videos he’s uploaded so far are ...not completely awful?
In the best of them, James leaves a bathroom and encounters Sons Of Anarchy’s Kim Coates, who tells him he has toilet paper stuck to his shoe. The camera then goes back and forth, revealing something else increasingly gross or strange either James or Coates has on them—a bit of mustard, a bloody nose, a zit, a knife in the back—until ending in a climactic bit of absurdity.
It’s not a truly great sketch, but somehow, in the space of just over a minute, the idea manages to be funnier than anything else James has played a part in over the past couple of decades. Though not as good, there’s also a series of videos in which James is green screened into different movies, from Star Wars and Rocky Balboa to The Notebook, as a sound guy who reacts to the dramatic scenes unfolding in front of him or desperately tries to get a sound check completed.
If he does fewer of these and more weird stuff in the vein of the “You Got Something There” clip, there’s a small, reality-bending possibility that we may soon live in a world where it’s possible to actually enjoy Kevin James’ comedy output. Or, hey, maybe it’s just the fact that even the longest of these sketches comes in at less than 2 minutes that’s working for us. When it requires so little time to watch, even the latest entry to the “Kevin James falling down” oeuvre is capable of being sorta funny.
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Parliament to discuss Terrex seizure and Singtel Internet outage
THE first Parliament sitting of the new year takes place on Monday afternoon, with Members of Parliament (MPs) filing 97 questions - 68 for oral answer and 29 for a written response - for various ministers to answer.
One of the dominant issues to be discussed is the detention of nine Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) armoured vehicles in Hong Kong; Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan are expected to field queries from six MPs on this.
It was on Nov 23 last year when Hong Kong customs detained the Terrex Infantry Carrier Vehicles which were on board a container ship in transit in Hong Kong. They were being transported back to Singapore after an SAF military exercise in Taiwan.
The authorities had reportedly impounded the shipment because the vessel owner, APL, had not provided the appropriate permits for the vehicles.
Zaqy Mohamad (Chua Chu Kang) intends to ask Dr Balakrishnan for an update on the state of Singapore's relations with China, and how Singapore can continue to balance its existing trade and foreign-relations interests, given "strong expectations" from China to align with its One China policy and claims over the South China Sea.
Mr Zaqy also wants to know what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' plans are to "normalise relations" and minimise the impact of China putting a greater focus on competing economies in the region.
Pritam Singh of the opposition Workers' Party will ask Dr Ng whether any secret or confidential equipment and information was "compromised or potentially disclosed" to foreign powers in the course of Hong Kong's seizure of the vehicles.
Another pressing topic on the agenda is the massive fibre broadband Internet service disruption which hit Singtel subscribers last month. The service was affected for about 24 hours over the weekend of Dec 3.
Ong Teng Koon (Marsiling-Yew Tee) will ask Communications and Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim for the cause of the outage, and whether there are plans to strengthen and protect critical infrastructure such as the telecommunication network from major disruptions.
Turning to Singapore's job market, Lim Wee Kiak (Sembawang) will ask Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say for a projection on Singapore's unemployment for the first quarter of 2017.
The MP also wants to find out the average waiting time for local and foreign university graduates to enter the workforce, and how the softer job market is affecting older workers in the country.
Meanwhile, six Bills are up for a second reading, among them the one to amend the Retirement and Re-Employment Bill. The House will debate, among other things, the move to raise the re-employment age from 65 to 67, and to allow a new employer to take on the re-employment obligations of the original employer, subject to the employee's agreement.
Four new Bills will be introduced on Monday, including one to amend the Presidential Elections Bill ahead of the upcoming presidential election, which must be held by August this year. The upcoming poll will be reserved for candidates from the Malay community, which will pave the way for Singapore to have its first Malay head of state in 47 years.