There’s a good reason that the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE) sits at the very top of “The MAP.”
The PNAE was founded in 2010 to push the idea that comprehensive immigration reform would “help grow the economy and create new American jobs.” The PNAE, is a powerful and well-funded coalition of business leaders and mayors launched by Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch to influence public opinion and policymakers into accepting comprehensive immigration reform.
Other co-chairs of the “Partnership” include Bill Marriott (Marriott), Bob Iger (Disney), Jim McNerny (Boeing), Julian Castro (former mayor San Antonio, Secretary HUD), Michael Nutter (former mayor Philadelphia), Steve Balmer (former CEO Microsoft).
The PNAE poured big resources into lobbying for the “Gang of 8” (Go8, S.744) immigration reform bill which was introduced in Congress on April 17, 2013. Republican and conservative-of-convenience Sen. Marco Rubio was one of the prime co-sponsors of this bill. Establishment Republicans, the PNAE and its affiliates also supported Rubio’s bill.
On March 6, 2013, a month before the Go8 bill was introduced in Congress, Gov. Haslam spoke to the Tennessee Latin American Chamber of Commerce at an event held at progressive Lipscomb University. Haslam’s talk about immigration was:
“…as part of Tennessee’s Partnership for a New American Economy. That partnership is designed to bring together leaders from all political and economic sectors nationwide to raise awareness of what it sees as the economic benefits of sensible immigration reform.”
This language is lifted right from the PNAE’s immigration propaganda materials, not that Haslam needed any coaching on the topic. In prior interviews Haslam said “he would like to see a comprehensive immigration reform bill enacted.”
What Haslam says is that he, and his crony corporate and elitist establishment Republicans considered the Go8 immigration reform as an acceptable way to get cheap labor. The establishment GOP also foolishly believed that supporting this legislation would curry favor with illegals, making them want to vote Republican. The globalist open borders leftists are smarter than that and understood that the Go8 bill would be our path for illegal immigrants to become amnestied Democrat voters.
Regardless, both the corporate right and the professional left lied about whether this bill offered amnesty to the illegals. In a 2014 Wall Street Journal oped, PNAE organizer Murdoch said that illegal immigrants who are already here should be provided a path to citizenship – better known as amnesty.
Haslam’s, alliance with the PNAE exposes his elitist disdain for hard-workindg every day Tennesseans. His endorsement of Marco Rubio as the presidential primary candidate echoed this stance.
Haslam stands with the group that ships the jobs overseas, hire cheap foreign labor, advocates for importing more foreign labor and helps chip away at the quality of life for hard-working American citizens?
In Tennessee, that group’s allies are better known as Establishment Republicans.
TIRRC says the Refugee Absorptive Capacity Act (RACA) is anti-refugee. Legislators codified the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement regulations into state law because of lax enforcement and oversight by the responsible federal agency. These are the same regulations being defended by federal contractors like Catholic Charities of Tennessee. TIRRCshould start complaining to the federal government about these federal regulations.
TIRRC and other opponents were outraged that the bill allowed a community to request a moratorium on initial resettlement based on the ability to absorb and provide for new refugees. The progressive pro-refugee Migration Policy Institute says that if a state opposes a refugee resettlement agency’s proposed plan, the State Department “will not approve it.” A U.S. Senate Committee said that when local community stakeholders disagree about a proposed resettlement plan, “state refugee coordinator should be able to request a moratorium for the community.”
But you don’t hear TIRRC complaining about either of these positions. The “coordinated campaign” they complain about is coming from their own advocates and the federal government.
After the RACA bill was passed, David Robinson, U.S. State Department acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, traveled all the way to Nashville to meet with state legislators and the lobbyist for Catholic Charities. Regarding the bill, Robinson said, ‘[t]o us, the way that that has actually been written into law here in Tennessee makes perfect sense.”
In 2000 David Robinson exposed the conflict-of-interest relationship between the federal government and the private refugee resettlement contractors:
“…ten agencies [the refugee resettlement NGOs], including the IRC [an NGO called the International Rescue Committee], form a single body called the Committee on Migration and Refugee Affairs (CMRA). The CMRA wields enormous influence over the Administration’s refugee admissions policy. It lobbies the Hill effectively to increase the number of refugees admitted for permanent resettlement each year and at the same time provides overseas processing for admissions under contract to the State Department. In fact, the federal government provides about ninety percent of its collective budget. If there is a conflict of interest, it is never mentioned.”
Refugee advocate Chris Coen’scomments about Tennessee’s bill:
“[a]lso interesting is why other government refugee program-related regulations and contract requirements are also regularly ignored. World Relief [which operates in Tennessee], feels free to worship on the public’s nickel, even though its prohibited by a federal regulation, and their ORR partner has ignored our complaint about that practice. Also, the quite minimal ‘minimum requirements’ that the resettlement agencies agree to meet in the refugee program are regularly flouted, and the State Department refugee office does not enforce those requirements or penalize the resettlement contractors. In practice this does not seem to have been working well for decades — the resettlement contractors just continue to violate regulations and contract requirements year after year.”
During discussion of this bill, federal contractor and refugee state coordinator, Holly Johnson was adamant that refugees were never resettled by the contractors in Bedford County, home of Senate bill sponsor Jim Tracy. Like many other contradictions to be found in comments made by these groups, the TIRRC report directly contradicts her and says that 13 refugees were resettled in Bedford Co during the time period in question.
When asked, representatives of refugee agencies denied driving their clients to the Tysons plant to compete with the local citizens for the jobs. A 2009 Wall Street Journal article however, verified that refugee resettlement agencies were driving vanloads of refugees from Nashville to the Tysons plant.
The point is, that like the TIRRC report, accuracy for the agencies, is simply an inconvenience. As religious run organizations, isn’t lying prohibited?
TIRRC and its allied groups also object to state legislators properly executing their fiduciary duties in stewarding state revenue. The Enchanced Fiscal Data Gathering Bill was filed in 2013, after legislators learned that the federal government was still taking state revenue to pay for the federal refugee program even after the state withdrew.
The bill’s goal was to determine how much state money was being spent for this federal program. The bill also tried to have federal funds passed through to reimburse the state costs as authorized by the federal Refugee Act of 1980.
A shameless and deliberate disinformation campaign by paid refugee industry representatives and lobbyists prevented the bill from passing.
SB1039/HB670 requiring the reporting related to nonimmigrant students using F-1 and M-1 visas was initiated by the Haslam administration. M-1 visas are for foreign students wanting to attend U.S. vocational and technical schools while F-1 visas are for foreign students wanting to attend any type and/or level of U.S. school.
It has been widely documented that visa overstayers constitute a significant portion of the illegal immigrant population. Additionally, the increase in threats and actual terror attacks, supports this bill as a sound and rational reason to pay attention to students who might be violating the terms of their visas. A top recommendation by the 9/11 commission was to clean up the student visa system since many of the 9/11 attackers were able to enter the U.S. legally using a student visa. Student visas were also used for entry by several involved in the 2006 plot to blow up the New York JFK airport.
But it is no surprise that TIRRC and its allies see a boogeyman in this bill as well. These groups that support illegal immigration have little use for enforcing rules that apply to legal immigration.Stephanie Teatro, TIRRC’s co-director came to the U.S. from Canada on a student visa and then became a community agitator, leading an organization that shows time and again little to no respect for our country’s constitution.
Last year, data-packed testimony in Congress by the RAND Corporation, explained the connection between visa programs and terrorism. This is a very real issue for the U.S. but one that does not serve TIRRC’s anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant narrative.
The 2015 “Andy’s Law” also objected to by TIRRC and their allied groups, passed with an almost unanimous bipartisan vote in both the House and the Senate. The bill was named for Pvt. Andrew Long, murdered in uniform by Memphis jihadist Abdulhakim Mohammed (Carlos Bledsoe). Democrats and Republicans agreed that groups helping terrorists carry out their acts should also be held accountable. It’s hard to figure out why TIRRC opposes punishing terrorists.
TIRRC and Immigration – legal and illegal
TIRRC’s “Countering the Backlash” focuses on the rapid infusion of immigrants, legal and illegal into Tennessee, a location described as “one of America’s unlikely new destinations for immigrants and refugees.” Refugee resettlement has contributed to this growth, but illegal immigration and the depositing of illegal Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) by federal refugee contractors, is completely ignored.
Amnesty for illegal immigrants, is characterized by TIRRC as “family reunification.” Anyone who questions that they have broken the law being here is labeled racist, bigoted, xenophobic and mean-spirited. That is the same tired, Alinsky tactic that law-abiding Americans will no longer tolerate.
TIRRC’s report about refugee resettlement also ignores the legitimacy of rational questions, including constitutional issues. These questions are being raised by Tennessee state legislators about implementation of this federal program in Tennessee. And there are the state costs associated with the program.
TIRRC completely ignores the available data on the high TennCare enrollment and of course wouldn’t dare to mention the national five year data on its high refugee welfare usage. Instead, they follow the lead of the well-paid federal refugee contractors whose businesses would fold if public money was stopped. Instead, TIRRC uses an inconclusive 2013 fiscal review report as a diversion. Federal/state refugee coordinator Holly Johnson, claims the report shows refugees contribute “nearly twice as much” in state taxes as they take out in state-funded public services.
The fiscal report so heavily relied upon by TIRRC and the refugee contractors specifically stated that, “[t]he information necessary to complete a comprehensive study on the possible cost shifting from the federal government to the state for the resettlement of refugees is not available.” The report never answered the what the costs to the state would eventually be.
The federal contractor’s limited data showed that TennCare enrollment of resettled clients between 2009 -2011 actually doubled. In this same time period approximately one-third of Tennessee refugees were found to be non-employable.
The greatest weakness in the report is its assumption that refugees use social services and public assistance programs at the same rate as other Tennessee residents.And, that refugees pay taxes as the same rate as other Tennessee residents. Unfortunately, refugees use social services at higher rates than native-born and earn lower wages. Even the chairman of the House Finance Committee has admitted the report was bogus.
Refguee advocates – protective of the industry
Refugee resettlement is a multi-million dollar industry. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops, one of the nine national voluntary agencies (VOLAG), received over $80 million public dollars for their 2014 Refugee and Migration program. Catholic Charities of Tennessee (CCTN) is their local affiliate and has its own refugee resettlement program and operates the Tennessee Office for Refugees where the federally contracted state refugee coordinator works.
These are the two largest dollar programs reported by CCTN.
TIRRC and its allied groups cross-pollinate the boards of each other’s organizations. Foundations and organizations that fund TIRRC and its allied groups have the same end goal – to break the Southern conservative culture standing in the way of open borders, amnesty for illegals and votes for progressives.
These Tennessee groups have expanded their paid staffs and activities that deliberately target the younger members of their communities, since they are easiest to radicalize to the anti-America-as-it-is-now agenda.
You can be sure that with TIRRC’s direct connection to Welcoming America, more of the Partnership for the New American Economy grant money will be flowing into Nashville. The groups are hubbed in Nashville and became entrenched in the mayor’s office during Karl Dean’s administration. New Mayor Megan Barry has ensured that only progressives, socialists, leftists and “new Americans” will direct the policies of her administration and help her complete Nashville’s transformation into an “it” sanctuary city.
They say they must help the oppressed minorities, but the real quest of these groups is political power. Political power will transform the state, city by city and county by county, creating as many blue voters as possible with each election cycle.
TIRRC and its allied groups rally against the Constitution
On February 16, 2016, TIRRC called for opposition to SJR467, a resolution that will enable the state of Tennessee to sue the federal government, challenging the refugee resettlement program in the state. The lawsuit addressed by SJR467 is overdue in light of the Obama administration’s aggressive federal overreach. A Constitutional lawyer described the potential lawsuit as a “landmark case” because of the Tenth Amendment and federalism issues it addresses.
Immigrants-turned-advocates talk about “Nashville for all of us” but instead choose to live in enclaves. They complain about being treated as “the other,” but through self-segregation, guard against assimilating into and adapting to American culture.
When they self-segregate its called preserving their culture. When native-born Tennesseans self-segregate, TIRRC and its allied organizations call it racism, bigotry and xenophobia.
Lacking facts, but banking big money, TIRRC’s venomous and hate-filled propaganda relies on innuendo, and unfounded accusations of bigotry. TIRRC claims it can look into the hearts and minds of Tennessee citizens and know that they are motivated by an “underlying intention to persecute newcomers.”
TIRRC self-righteously claims that any advocacy or legislative action consistent with the Constitution or intended to uphold laws passed by Congress, is xenophobic, racist, or targeting Muslims and/or refugees.
TIRRC’s moral blinders also ignore the indelible effect of 9-11, the Carlos Bledsoe, Chattanooga, San Bernadino, Garland Texas, and Boston jihad attacks, the Obama administration’s unconstitutional unilateral amnesties, Metro Nashville’s support for illegal immigration, and the recent confirmation by U.S. intelligence agencies about security gaps in the federal refugee resettlement program.
TIRRC’s campaign has always been to cast immigrants as victims. Whether they are illegal immigrants from our Southern border trying to “reunite their families,” or legally admitted as refugees, that suffer “backlash” from contemptible white nativists.
TIRRC and their allied groups shamelessly tried to co-opt the Chattanooga murders away from the actual victims and their families claiming that “immigrant communities of all faiths and backgrounds” share the same American values.
Speaking through CAIR, TIRRC’s allied groups ACO and AMAC said they were fearful of a backlash, and claimed that the Chattanooga murders put their safety at risk. These claims were never substantiated by either national or state hate crime reports. Predictably, there was no backlash. Instead, interfaith groups stepped up and formed a firewall around Tennessee’s Muslims.
Business as usual.
Truth and accuracy are relative concepts for TIRRC
Our state legislation addressed in TIRRC’s report may be its most ironic section. By TIRRC’s own account, legislators have actively engaged with the very communities TIRRC alleges were or are being “persecuted.” Isn’t this the civic engagement TIRRC claims that makes newcomers feel welcomed?
TIRRC’s self-congratulatory claims are way overblown. Legislators responding to constituency groups is what regularly occurs during the process when bills are shaped and amended. All manner of constituency concerns are accounted for – even when that constituency distorts the truth and accuracy of information provided.
Testimony by national intelligence and security experts and Constitutional scholars repeatedly confirm that Tennessee’s legislators have led appropriately on the issues about which TIRRC and its allied organizations complain.
For example, after the devastating jihad attack of 9-11, almost every state passed anti-terrorism legislation because the federal government would not always prosecute, and because a state can often legislate more severe punishments than the federal government.
Because state governments have a broad fiduciary duty to protect its citizens, the case of Memphis jihadi Carlos Bledsoe, aka, Abdulhakim Mohammed, the first African-American born citizen to commit a successful terrorist act on U.S. soil, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2010, (upholding the constitutionality of the federal material support statute), the expansion of Tennessee’s criminal code provisions on terrorism, was both sound and rational legislative leadership.
The Material Support to Designated Entities Act of 2011
In 2009, Memphis native Carlos Bledsoe, who was radicalized both in and outside of Nashville, shot and killed a solider at the Little Rock Army recruiting center. The federal government declined to prosecute him. Arkansas started his trial in 2011, the same year the Tennessee legislature passed, by an overwhelming majority of votes, the anti-terrorism Material Support to Designated Entities Act.
The Tennessean wrote a sensationalistic and factually inaccurate article about the bill, taking snippets of bill language out of context. The Tennessean reported that the anti-terrorism Material Support bill made following sharia law, a felony. The paper never accurately reported the actual language or intent of the bill in context. This article is cited by TIRRC in a footnote to support their narrative of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant persecution.
What did the Material Support to Designated Entities Act of 2011 actually say?
Predictably, opponents of the bill deliberately avoided the bill’s original and very specific language which only applied to individuals deliberately supporting the commission of a terrorist act. The bill specifically stated that it did not apply to:
“the peaceful practice of any religion. Rather, this part only prohibits the knowing provision of material support or resources … to designated terrorist entities, with the intent of furthering prohibited behavior.”
The defined the term “sharia,” precisely the way jihadist terrorists defined it because this was a bill to prevent terrorist acts by cutting off sources of support. The bill, now a state law, prohibits using religious justification as a defense. This is the very same argument made by peaceful followers of Islam, to wit, that terrorist acts committed by ISIS jihadists or others in the name of their religion, does not represent Islam and that these terrorists are not true followers of the religion.
And yet, in keeping with standard leftist hypocrisy, TIRRC and their allied organizations continue to try and smear legislators who tried to insulate peaceful religious observers from being lumped in with violent religious extremists.
TIRRC and its allied organizations were heavily involved in establishing Metro Nashville Mayor’s Office of New Americans during Karl Dean’s administration. With Dean’s support, these same organizations helped develop “Nashville Next” the long-range plan to fully “transform” the city by 2040. The plan report was authored by Vanderbilt sociologist Dan Cornfield, whose wife is the Alinskyite ACLU Director Hedy Weinberg, also a TIRRC advisory board member.
These same organizations were in the newly elected Mayor Megan Barry’s transition team along with former Haslam appointee, Samar Ali. They remain active in her administration, working to socially engineer Nashville into the capitol of “The New South.”
TIRRC’s co-director, a former union organizer, Stephanie Teatro, says that just like in other sanctuary cities, the Nashville mayor’s endorsement of municipal IDs for illegal immigrants is a “forward thinking” (Democrat party) policy that would help illegal immigrants pass for legal residents. (illegal immigrants are often characterized as “residents”).
This is the same Stephanie Teatro, who last year testified in the state legislature in support of in-state tuition for the Obama DACA students. The DACA program was just one of Obama’s administrative immigration end-runs around Congress.
Committee members were told that Teatro had “extensive knowledge about the DACA program.” But, she didn’t tell them that these students are illegal immigrants granted a temporary two year deferred deportation. She told them that DACA recipients have a “clean criminal background check.” Did Teatro, the “expert” know that months prior to her testimony, DACA status was given to a known gang member who then committed multiple homicides and that an earlier ICE raid caught twenty-four DACA recipients who had criminal convictions? Did the “expert” just conveniently forget to inform legislators about this gap in federal vetting?
In 2014, speaking from Casa Azafran where TIRRC and its allied organizations are headquartered, Obama talked about his New American Task Force and his end-run-around-the-Congress DACA program.He specifically recognized, David Lubell, TIRRC’s first director andcreator of “Welcoming Tennessee/ Welcoming America” who also won an award from the National Council of La Raza awarded.
Welcoming America will judge how progressive your community is
Nashville is among the “Welcoming Cities” in Welcoming America’s (WA) network. Last year, Welcoming America paid the Nashville Chamber of Commerce for an economic report to support their story that legal and illegal immigrants are the hub of Nashville’s economic success. The Chamber’s report looks strangely just like the WA website, suggesting a WA templated product that will be replicated by Chambers in other “welcoming cities.”
The real agenda of groups like TIRRC and WA is to mutate our communities until they satisfy a leftist open-borders, one-world, globalist vision of an ideal society.
Notice which new Americans are not required to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag.
A WA project underway allows a locale to become a WA officially designated, “certified welcoming community.” Will the certification criteria include telling new Americans that respect for our U.S. laws comes first before their beliefs?
TIRRC’s Teatro serves as a “content expert” on the certification project and a bureaucrat from the Nashville Mayor’s Office for New Americans serves on the project’s advisory board.
Cities like Nashville that willingly abandon their Music City heritage in favor of being called “Little Kurdistan,” will be rewarded well with money by the federal government’s plan called “Strengthening Communities by Welcoming All Residents* and from public-private enterprises like “Gateways for Growth.”
In 2015, WA’s David Lubell was given the Young Global Leader award by the World Economic Forum. He also works with the “Partnership for a New American Economy” (PNAE), a coalition of business leaders and mayors launched by Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch to influence public opinion and policymakers toward amnesty for illegal immigrants.
PNAE will steer “Gateways for Growth” money to local governments, chambers of commerce and non-profit organizations for plans that favor legal and illegal immigrants over the U.S. native born work force. Technical assistance from WA’s “Welcoming Institute” will help create progressive, non-White, anti-Zionist and non-Christian, Southern communities. “The New South.”
TIRRC’s “Countering the Backlash” report alleges that outside organizations have exerted a negative influence in Tennessee pushing and/or inflaming xenophobic, racist, anti-refugee and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
But who supports TIRRC? Answer: George Soros and his front group NEO Philanthropy that gave TIRRC close to $800,000. But even before TIRRC became a Soros agent, they were already advocating the most progressively left, open borders, lawless pro-illegal immigration positions, calling it “family reunification.”
Since the Republicans became the majority party in Tennessee’s legislature, TIRRC has focused on typical lefty political retribution. They have aggressively opposed the voter ID law, trained community organizers and agitators.
TIRRC’s former lobbyists and community agitators have started their own anti-U.S. organizations growing TIRRC’s coalition to now include three that are Muslim-centric in mission and defending against the myth of Islamophobia:
American Center for Outreach (ACO) – started by former TIRRC lobbyist, Remziya Suleyman who brought CAIR to Tennessee to lobby against a 2011 anti-terrorism bill claiming it was an “anti-sharia.” Later she admitted that she, “never knew the concept of sharia.” ACO joined with CAIRdemanding that the FBI purge its training materials of all references to the Muslim Brotherhood, jihad, sharia law, and Muslims. In 2014, Paul Galloway, took over ACO.
CAIR has targeted Middle Tennessee, as “arguably one of the most Islamophobic areas in America.”
CAIR remains a named un-indicted co-conspirator in the successful Holy Land Foundation prosecution for raising millions of dollars for HAMAS, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 1994, CAIR’s national director Nihad Awad, a regular visitor to the Murfreesboro mosque, publicly declared his support for HAMAS.
American Muslim Advisory Council (AMAC) – with TIRRC’s help organized a secret meeting with TN Department of Homeland Security regional advisor, James Cotter.
AMAC developed a partnership with TNDHS Commissioner Bill Gibbons and was invited to help train homeland security personnel. In 2014 AMAC featured U.S. Attorney Bill Killian who, on behalf of Tennessee Islamists, threatened to suppress First Amendment rights using federal civil rights laws to promote politically correct speech about Muslims. That meeting was advertised to the public and an outraged 800+ people showed up to protest. TIRRC claims that Pam Geller and Robert Spencer organized the protest but that was not true nor needed. People showed up on their own to show the federal government that they would not remain voiceless.
AMAC has taken up other political causes such as Medicaid Expansion and refugee resettlement.
Faith and Culture Center (FCC) – started by Daoud Abudiab, a founding member and former chair of AMAC now serving as chair of TIRRC.
FCC’s sole agenda is the promotion of “Our Muslim Neighbor,” a campaign intended to convince communities that Muslims make good neighbors.
The FCC had planned an Islamophobia conference for the fall 2015, but renamed it after the jihadi murder of U.S. soldiers in Chattanooga. Insisting that the Chattanooga jihad had nothing to do with Muslims or Islam, FCC renamed their event “Our Muslim Neighbor: Creating a Community of Inclusion in Middle Tennessee.”
TIRRC, AMAC and ACO are housed together in Casa Azafran, the building owned by Conexion Americas, a comprehensive and influential Tennessee Latino advocacy organization headquartered in Nashville. The founder of Conexion Americas is also the chair of the radically anti-U.S. National Council of La Raza whose name means “The Race.” TIRRC and Conexion Americas are both local affiliates of La Raza.
La Raza lobbies for Hispanic racial preferences,bilingual education,mass immigrationand amnesty for illegal aliens. La Raza’s commentary and position statements characterize the U.S. as a nation with widespread white racism and discrimination. The organization has opposed most of the post 9/11 U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
In Tennessee, lobbyists and members of TIRRC, AMAC and ACO are indistinguishable in their political endeavors and the positions they advocate.
For example, TIRRC’s 2012 community organizer, Drost Kokoye, was a founding board member of AMAC, a board member of ACO, and former civic engagement coordinator for ACO. During ACO’s last voter registration drive, Kokoye, a vocal anti-Semite who organized a Nashville pro-HAMAS rally, advised voter registrants that they could misrepresent registration information to better fit a political agenda.
Drost Kokoye’s take on our Constitution:
Is this TIRRC’s stand too?
Next: TIRRC planning to be your city’s social engineer


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Coast Guard, DHS.
Notice of deviation from drawbridge regulation.
The Coast Guard has issued a temporary deviation from the operating schedule that governs the Rock Island Railroad and Highway Drawbridge across the Upper Mississippi River, mile 482.9, at Rock Island, Illinois. The deviation is necessary to facilitate a charity marathon race. This deviation allows the bridge to be maintained in the closed-to-navigation position for four and a half hours.
This deviation is effective from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., September 25, 2016.
The docket for this deviation, (USCG-2016-0707) is available at http://www.regulations.gov. Type the docket number in the “SEARCH” box and click “SEARCH”. Click on Open Docket Folder on the line associated with this deviation.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
If you have questions on this temporary deviation, call or email Eric A. Washburn, Bridge Administrator, Western Rivers, Coast Guard; telephone 314-269-2378, email Eric.Washburn@uscg.mil.
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The U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal requested a temporary deviation for the Rock Island Railroad and Highway Drawbridge, across the Upper Mississippi River, mile 482.9, at Rock Island, Illinois to remain in the closed-to-navigation position for four and a half hours from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., September 25, 2016 to facilitate the Quad City Marathon.
The Rock Island Railroad and Highway Drawbridge currently operates in accordance with 33 CFR 117.5, which states the general requirement that the drawbridge shall open on signal. There are no alternate routes for vessels transiting this section of the Upper Mississippi River. The bridge cannot open in case of emergency.
The Rock Island Railroad and Highway Drawbridge provides a vertical clearance of 23.8 feet above normal pool in the closed-to-navigation position. Navigation on the waterway consists primarily of commercial tows and recreational watercraft. This temporary deviation has been coordinated with waterway users. No objections were received. The Coast Guard will also inform the users of the waterways through our Local and Broadcast Notices to Mariners of the change in operating schedule for the bridge so that vessel operators can arrange their transits to minimize any impact caused by the temporary deviation.
In accordance with 33 CFR 117.35(e), the drawbridge must return to its regular operating schedule immediately at the end of the effective period of this temporary deviation. This deviation from the operating regulations is authorized under 33 CFR 117.35.
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Dated: August 19, 2016.
Eric A. Washburn,
Bridge Administrator, Western Rivers.
[FR Doc. 2016-20265 Filed 8-23-16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 9110-04-P

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Investigating Terminal Preclassic and Classic Period Power and Wealth at K'o, Guatemala
Tomasic, John Joseph
This dissertation investigates the relationship between power and wealth in past societies by examining the economic networks through which wealth was distributed at K’o, Guatemala from the Terminal Preclassic through the Classic period (AD 150-900). Long-term patterns in construction activity form the basis of long-term estimates of elite power, and Hirth’s (1998) distributional approach has been employed as part of an examination of wealth. This study has sought to determine the degree to which jade artifacts, shell artifacts, obsidian artifacts, and grinding stones were acquired through elite redistribution, reciprocal luxury gifting among elites, and/or informal barter and marketplace exchange, and tests the hypothesis that a decline in wealth relative to power is dependent upon the networks through which wealth was distributed within this past economy.

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Bipartisan commission proposes strict budget rules to stabilize U.S. debt
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan commission focused on stabilizing the nation’s soaring national debt wants to dramatically revise congressional budget rules to force lawmakers to set long-term borrowing goals and create triggers that would automatically enact painful spending cuts and tax increases if those goals were not met.
“Transparency, triggers and targets. That’s sort of the key to our report,” Bill Frenzel, a former ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee who co-chaired the effort, said Wednesday.
Although the panel offered no specific plan to balance the budget, Frenzel said stronger rules would help lawmakers “keep (their) feet from straying from the path of righteousness.”
The nearly two-year effort was a partnership of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Its report, released Wednesday, is the first of three sets of recommendations for deficit reduction expected over the coming month. The other two, including one from President Barack Obama’s bipartisan fiscal commission, are expected to offer more explicit budget-balancing plans.
Frenzel said the Peterson-Pew commission rejected that approach in favor of providing Congress and the White House with “additional tools to help fix the broken budget” process.
For the first time since the current budget rules were adopted in 1974, the House failed to propose a budget blueprint this year, meaning that there is no fresh outline for how to control spending during the fiscal year that began in October. Congress as a whole also now routinely fails to approve budget plans in election years.
With Republicans and Democrats at odds over the correct prescription for reducing record budget deficits, commission member Maya MacGuineas said the report’s recommendations could serve as a bridge toward progress until a broader consensus about spending cuts and tax increases can be forged.
“If we can’t get anything real . . . this could be the first step,” said MacGuineas, who serves as president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “You can’t even lead a horse to water if you don’t have a leash.”
Specifically, the commission calls for a short-term goal of stabilizing the portion of the national debt held by private investors at 60 percent of the gross domestic product by 2018. Debt held by private investors is now about 63 percent of GDP.
The commission recommends a new law called the “Sustainable Debt Act” that would establish that borrowing goal and set annual targets for spending and revenue. In a major change, the tax-writing committees would be held to tight limits, as the spending committees are now, to rein in the explosive growth of tax breaks for businesses and groups of individuals known as tax expenditures.
If Congress failed to meet those targets, a tough new enforcement regime would cut all spending – including entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare – across the board and add a broad-based surtax to all forms of federal taxation.
The commission also recommends beefing up the congressional budget committees by adding House and Senate leaders, as well as the chairmen of the appropriations and tax-writing committees, to their ranks. It urges Congress to adopt multi-year budget plans – rather than the current single-year proposals – to help keep them on track.
And it suggests creating long-term goals to restrain the growth of the major drivers of the nation’s budget problems: Social Security, tax expenditures and the soaring health-care prices that are pushing up the cost of Medicare and Medicaid. Triggers would make automatic adjustments to those programs if the goals were not met.
It’s not clear whether Congress can be persuaded to adopt such rules, which would be far tougher and more extensive than any previous deficit-reduction regime. MacGuineas said the report has been presented to Capitol Hill leaders in both parties and to administration officials, who, she said, “had no negative responses.”


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Costume study of a friend who plays a marching card in the Parade of Dreams at D*sneyland. She appears on the Alice in Wonderland float as a gymnast. For those interested, I recorded their performance and uploaded it here - [link]
Heehee I think I commented on this ages ago, but no rule against commenting again, right? Love these guys! I was at Disney, Cali last week and saw the 3.30 parade - bit surprised they didn't have more floats than were there, but thoroughly enjoyed regardless. The cards were my absolute favourite! I love acrobatics at the best of times, so Disney + Acrobatics = Much Love I thought of this pic when I saw them and made a mental note to come and comment again. The colouring and the dynamic poses always impress me so much.

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Understanding Integration: A Study of Local Dynamics, Refugees & Asylum Seekers in Southern Europe
Undergraduate Summer Research Grants
Created in 2001, Italy’s Systems of Protection for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (SPRAR) are increasingly growing in presence, hosting over 34,000 asylum seekers in the past year alone through 768 projects in nearly six hundred Italian towns. As the SPRAR network increases in response to an ever-present need, understanding the dynamics between citizens and refugees in towns with a SPRAR project becomes crucial to ensuring and understanding its goal—the integration of asylum seekers and refugees into Italy. Understanding the problems of diverse small towns, regions, and their citizens, the difficulties for refugees and the unique dynamics of SPRAR projects sheds a necessary light on a crucial intersection of space, persons and place occurring across Italy today. Researching six small towns (Torre Pellice, Dicomano, Bassano Romano, Atina, Bisaccia, and Realmonte) with a population category of 3.000 to 5.000 (where 34% of SPRAR projects exist), and their SPRARs, spread across five Italian regions (Piedmont, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania and Sicily) while taking into account the point of view of local citizens, key community figures, and refugees/asylum seekers (SPRAR beneficiaries) through electronic surveys, ethnographic experience, and interviews in French, English and Italian, allowed me to not only address the overlooked, subtle dynamics of small towns in integration, but approach qualitatively and quantitatively the meaning, reality, and perception of integration for multiple populations living in the same space.
The data I collected consists of nearly 1000 pictures, 160 twenty-question survey responses from citizens (dealing with occupational/personal statistics, and perception of local dynamics and integration), 81 forty question survey responses from SPRAR beneficiaries (dealing with personal statistics and integration benchmarks, perceived and actual), nearly 100 hours of interviews with beneficiaries, SPRAR team members, local administrations, local figures, and field notes from my ethnographic experience on integration dynamics. Given the sheer size of the data I am still just beginning the process of analysis and transcription. So much has arisen from my two and a half month experience living in each of the towns, befriending beneficiaries and locals, cooking with them, journeying with them, witnessing daily interactions and immersing myself into the lives of distinct local populations. Integration does not have a formula, nor are there perfect approaches or distinct variables to achieve it across diverse territories. The Italian towns and their SPRARs in the wealthier and developed North generally exhibited higher project professionalism and activation of work-internships for beneficiaries, but local citizens tended to be less receptive to integration and exhibited less interaction with beneficiaries. In the economically poorer and underdeveloped towns in the ‘mezzogiorno’ regions, and Sicily, project quality and opportunity for beneficiaries tended to be lacking, but informal employment was strong and locals interacted more with beneficiaries. Witnessing the citizens of Realmonte, Sicily, parade the figure of their local historical Saint Calogero, an African saint, through the town’s streets proved just how distinct and multifaceted integration dynamics across Italian regions could be. Religion also became a complex reality. In the context of a small town where the local pastor plays a key role, support of Pope Francis’ encyclicals embracing refugees tended to be left open to local priests’ personal interpretations. Inside each of the six towns there weren’t simply two populations: locals and beneficiaries. Rather, locals living in the ‘new’ part of town and those in the historical center (economic division), previous immigrants such as Albanians and Romanians, and finally beneficiaries—creating intricate dynamics for integration. What arose as one of the most interesting findings was that the most ‘successful’ individuals I encountered in both contexts of difficulty (unemployment and isolation for locals and all the difficulties of integration for refugees and asylum seekers in the towns) were the individuals who were most ‘cosmopolitan’—from Italians who had left Italy to work in other countries in the EU, or Italians who’s career revolved around cosmopolitanism, to refugees who spoke seven languages and did not exhibit a restrictive longing for either their home countries, Italy, or what the future would hold in store.
The quantity of economic benefit and local employment SPRAR projects in small towns created was also unique. From fifteen stipends to manage thirty refugees in a small town, it is easy to see why in the region of Frosinone more jobs have been created for Italians in the migration/hospitality sector than by Fiat’s largest factory located in the region. An increasing lack of quality control for SPRARs as they increase in presence was also witnessed, including funding delays reaching up to 7 months for projects. The importance of building a life while awaiting the outcome of asylums requests also arose as fundamental for beneficiaries, leading to a gradual integration, possible employment, and acquired knowledge of Italian culture and language, or years spent inside the confines of an apartment as responses from prefectures took 3-4 years in most cases. Quantitatively, locals perceived refugees as integrated into their towns as they perceived their local administrations to be good. In each town perceived and reported integration varied distinctly, but the three most present realities were Torre Pellice (Piedmont), which had the most professional/experienced SPRAR, and the lowest unemployment, Bisaccia ‘The Kind’ (Campania), where there was an equally professional SPRAR but the town’s local culture was historically built on welcoming, and Realmonte (Sicily) which had the highest unemployment rate but was culturally closest to its beneficiaries. Given time and space constraints I can only write a fraction of the witnessed dynamics, not touching upon employment dynamics and perceptions of Libya, nor the characteristics from the data points of the 81 beneficiaries and 160 citizens surveyed.
The lives I was able to encounter in select beneficiaries and locals were tremendously rewarding. I will never forget the day that a six-foot something thirty-four year old who had been living nearly two years in a local SPRAR told me with tears in his eyes that I was the first person who simply asked him ‘how he was doing’ in eight months. Having the possibility to bring acknowledgment to human beings, for however brief of a second, was a truly humbling and rewarding experience. Listening to, and sharing my experiences and viewpoints with curious local mayors, frustrated students, unemployed workers and asylum seekers left me profoundly richer. I also faced challenges. My expectations for data collection pre-research were high, not knowing how challenging it would be to survey locals or how much time one needs to gain a beneficiary’s trust. Many SPRARs also had fewer beneficiaries present than their reported capacities, limiting my population pool. Inserting myself into so many distinct populations living in the same space, given a short amount of time for adjustment, was challenging. A 10-12 day window per town did not lend much room for easing-in. Furthermore, noncompliance and simply finding locals to survey in such small towns was often the most frustrating aspect of the research. In contrast, noncompliance by beneficiaries was rare, and communication was far more attainable than expected—I was able to befriend deeply multiple beneficiaries in each town. Managing diverse stories, and becoming the metaphorical shoulder to cry on for locals and beneficiaries was also emotionally taxing. Managing relationships and my persona in truth to multiple ‘populations’ (‘historical’ and ‘new’ locals, SPRAR team, and the beneficiaries) in each town required constant effort and awareness, particularly with the associations who managed the projects, where I often had to navigate façades.
With my findings, which I will share with academics, the local administrations and associations researched, and the SPRAR Central Service, I intend to paint a much-needed picture for understanding migratory dynamics that are neither sensational nor divisive, but deeply rooted and naturally supported in bilateral interests, unlike what today’s charged political climates would lead us to believe. Living in each small, isolated town, I often heard French, German or English spoken in the streets. Not from tourists, but local Italians who emigrated outside of Italy for economic opportunities after WWII. Speaking to unemployed local architects and accountants who found employment as language teachers and coordinators for their town’s SPRAR helps one further realize the interests that support a system. Meeting a beneficiary who goes to church every day and toils illegally each morning for 5 euros an hour, or a Muslim Egyptian fruit-vendor who keeps a rosary by his cash register, what the reality of migration and integration means for small towns in Italy with a SPRAR is found in the subtle, everyday dynamics of life. My research and experience this summer has also prompted me to apply for a Fulbright grant in Italy, and establish collaboration with the University of Milano Bicocca, The University of Cassino, Cittalia, and the SPRAR Central Service under Italy’s Ministry of The Interior to potentially continue researching integration in Italy and the SPRAR program post-graduation.


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GPS tracking software: why it's a must
Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is without a doubt one of the most important and critical technologies in the world today.
In addition to simple personal activities such as driving, GPS tracking software can also be used to manage assets. GPS Tracking Software is a great solution for anyone looking to increase safety and convenience. It offers live tracking, notifications, travel histories, analytics & insights, and vehicle compatibility.
Here are a few best uses for GPS tracker software
Any business that manages and operates a fleet of vehicles can benefit from fleet tracking software. Additionally to tracking the vehicle and showing its location, the software also keeps track of when the driver started the vehicle and how it was used. In addition to improving driver, vehicle, and fleet efficiency, this software can increase the effectiveness of any organization, including waste management firms, taxi services, and handyman contractors.
Thanks to GPS tracking, it is much easier and more convenient to retrieve stolen fleets. Simple tracking software will provide you with the real-time location of the vehicle so you can track it down. More advanced tracking software will also allow you to remotely decelerate your car so it will slow down and stop.
Sales and employee tracking
Besides assisting employers in tracking outdoor sales and distribution employees, GPS tracking software can also benefit employees in improving their operations. Your sales and distribution team will be able to improve their performance through sales analytics and reporting. Meanwhile, improved Territory Planning and Time Management can enhance employee performance.
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Public transportation is made safer and more secure with GPS tracking. It is possible to track every public transport vehicle and obtain an accurate real-time location. School bus GPS tracking software is even more useful since parents will no longer have to wait at the bus stop in anticipation of the bus.
Safety on the road
There are many incidents of road accidents that occur every day. Sometimes, you may be driving alone and there is no one who can help you. Even in a situation as extreme as this, GPS tracking software can alert relevant authorities of the vehicle's location in real-time.
Having a GPS tracking system allows you to know where your assets are at all times. Asset trackers facilitate tracking your entire inventory. There are several options available for all kinds of assets that will allow you to keep track of them.
Monitoring and Locating People
If you are a parent, you are always concerned about the safety of your child. With GPS tracking software, you can easily locate your child using your Smartphone within seconds. GPS tracking software is a great solution for those who are caring for a person with a mental illness such as amnesia. GPS tracking devices can help you determine their precise location in real-time and locate them in case they get lost, or even guide them to safety if they get lost.
GPS technology is also widely used in navigation. GPS tracking software makes it possible to plot a route on a map and follow it on the road. It is widely adopted by cars and airplanes.
Conservation of Wildlife
There are a lot of endangered animals today protected inside sanctuaries. GPS tracking is important in order to protect these animals from harm. With the aid of the GPS system, it is possible to locate injured or sick animals for the medical team. Without the GPS system, it is impossible to locate such animals in large wildlife sanctuaries.
Criminals can be tracked down and captured with advanced GPS tracking software without having to search everywhere. The software can also be used to keep track of a suspect and prevent future crimes from occurring.


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What is Viniyoga?
Viniyoga is a style of yoga which is different from vinyasa yoga and should not be confused with the latter style. It helps a student adapt yoga poses and practices to his/her capabilities. Viniyoga gurus develop a personal yoga program for their students based on the latter’s health, physical condition, age and other factors. In a normal yoga class, there is no personal touch. Therefore, viniyoga is better as you can modify the yoga program to suit your needs.
Origin of Viniyoga
Renowned yoga guru Krishnamacharya devised the viniyoga style. Krishnamacharya’s famous disciples include BKS Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois. Krishnamacharya’s son Desikachar took up his father’s legacy and became an authority on viniyoga. In America, Gary Kraftsow has popularized this yoga style among the aficionados. Kraftsow has trained many therapists and teachers in this yoga style.
Aspects of Viniyoga
A typical viniyoga session includes practicing poses, meditation, chanting and pranayama. Even those suffering from illness, injury or other handicaps can adapt vini yoga to their unique needs. Thus, vini yoga can be gentle or vigorous according to the student’s preferences. The yoga poses are combined with awareness of breath and body and their harmonious interaction. Body movements and breathing complement each other. The poses are sequenced appropriately to maintain the physical balance and stability of the students.
Benefits of Viniyoga
Viniyoga can help you in the following ways:
- You can connect with your innate wisdom
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Darren O'Dea is to remain on loan at Ipswich from Celtic until the end of the season.
O'Dea's deal with the npower Championship club was due to expire after Saturday's game with Millwall, while the change in manager at Portman Road also left his future uncertain.
However, Celtic agreed the Republic of Ireland international could stay with Town until the end of the current campaign.
Ipswich manager Paul Jewell, who has succeeded Roy Keane as boss, told the club's official website, www.itfc.co.uk: "The deal was agreed before I came here for Darren to stay and I'm happy with that."
Jewell also plans to take to Plymouth manager Peter Reid about Rory Fallon's loan deal, which is due to end next week.

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Comparing: T23 vs. Indien-Panzer vs. T-34-3
Experimental medium tank. Developed from the end of 1942 through the summer of 1944. The vehicle was never mass-produced, nor saw combat.
The project was developed as a medium tank for the Indian Army. The work on the project was carried out by Porsche, Daimler-Benz, and Zahnradfabrik AG of Friedrichshafen. However, the vehicle was deemed to be too complicated for production in India, and the project was canceled.
The T-34-3 medium tank was to be a modification of the T-34-2. Unlike the Type 59, the T-34-3 featured reduced armor and the 122-mm gun. The design was developed in 1957. However, mass production of the Type 59 was started in 1958, and the T-34-3 project was discontinued.
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Noticeable safety changes will take effect this year at all Stuttgart School District campuses. According to Dr. Rick Gales, Stuttgart School District Superintendent, a double entry door was added to Stuttgart High School, a Behavioral Psychologist was hired to provide additional resources to meet the needs of our students, School Resource Officers will be present on each campus and a safety committee will be established to evaluate potential safety issues throughout the district and provide suggestions on how issues may be resolved.
Though visitors are welcome, The Stuttgart School District has the following rules and expectations to ensure a pleasant experience occurs.
To minimize the potential for disruption of the learning environment, visitors, for the purpose other than to attend an activity open to the general public, are required to first report to the school’s main office. The district will be utilizing a new security measure called Hall Pass. Any visitor coming into the building is required to scan his or her government-issued identification card (driver’s license, state identification card, green card, military identification card) in order to obtain a pass to enter the halls of the school. Once scanned, the Hall Pass program determines if
the visitor is listed on the National Sex Offender Registry or the District’s Visitor Restricted List. Visitors not identified on either list will be issued a photo ID badge, good only for that day. Visitors who are Level 3 or Level 4 sex offenders may only enter a school campus under the
provisions listed in Policy 6.10.
After completing the required visitor process, a visitor’s pass may be issued to individuals with legitimate business. Parents and guardians are always welcome. Student visitors or small children are not permitted to attend class with a student. Unauthorized visitors will be asked to leave. Noncompliance with this request will result in authorities being notified.
No on-campus visitations with students will be permitted with anyone other than parents or guardians except at the discretion of the principal.
Park Avenue Elementary encourages parents to plan their visits after Labor Day. This allows teachers and students the first two weeks of school to review and implement procedures.
RULES FOR VISITORS
Cell phones must be turned off and put away while on campus.
Confidentiality of all employees and students will be maintained while on campus.
The problem-solving order is the teacher or teachers involved then the building administrator.
No raised voices.
No threatening behavior.
If any of the above rules are violated, you will be asked to leave. Refusal to leave when requested is considered trespassing. Repeated violations will result in restrictions to your school visits and could lead to being banned from all school property and events. Anyone who attempts to bypass, avoid, or refuse to
cooperate with the Hall Pass program or has been identified as a sex offender and refuses to be escorted off the premises, is a trespasser, and will be dealt with accordingly.
Access to school events held during school hours requires that all visitors follow the above guidelines and receive a visitor’s pass.
Visitors are welcomed in the cafeteria during lunch. Immediately after lunch, guests should exit the building. (No hallways, classrooms, or playgrounds.)
Principals or designees are authorized to remove disruptive visitors from the school campus.


As a follow on to the previous post, this concerns the killing spree that Kennedy committed up in Cumbria in September 1949. Events began on Tuesday September 13th 1949, when a large saloon car stopped outside the branch of the Midland Bank in Front Street, in the Cumbrian village of Alston. A man emerged from the car, wearing a raincoat, blue suit and wearing a trilby hat, walked into the bank. He was also carrying a briefcase. There was only one bank clerk on duty, James Rush, and the man told him that he wanted to open an account. Mr Rush ushered the prospective client into the office of branch manager Andrew Steele, and went back to his post. About one minute later, a shot rang out and the man ran out of the bank and set off in his car. Mr Rush found Andrew Steele with a bullet wound to his upper chest. He quickly summoned an ambulance and Police. On the way to the hospital, Mr Steele told the ambulance men that the man demanded to know how much money was in the bank, but Mr Steele refused to say. The man then shot him. Mr Steele later died in Cumbria Infirmary.
Police discovered witnesses outside the bank. A lady working at an ice cream & mineral water shop opposite, witnessed the entire incident. Ailsa Sparks had seen the car pull up, the driver go into the bank, heard the shot and the man run out and drive away fast. Three electricity workers nearby, also witnessed the getaway. The local Police were not used to an incident like this and so Sergeant Mounsey called area headquarters in Penrith. They immediately dispatched officers to Alston, and one of them was a very experienced constable named Henry Inglis, who arrived by motorcycle. Not knowing which direction the killer took, PC Inglis patrolled the roads of all surrounding areas. He came upon a stationary car on a road between Winskill & Melmerby. Aware that the car could be the getaway vehicle, and the driver was armed, he took no chances. The driver could have been hiding with the gun trained on him. He rode into Melmerby to report the car, and was told that the driver was found dead in the car, with what was thought to be a self inflicted bullet wound. The pistol he carried was a German Mauser.
A card was found with his identity on it. He was Charles Corbett Kennedy. A trace was placed on the car, and it was found that Kennedy hired the car from a garage in Durham. A mechanic named Ernie Ingram drove Kennedy to Stanhope, but never returned. His body was discovered in a ditch outside Stanhope. Mr Ingrams had been shot in the back of the head. At an inquest into all three deaths, details about Kennedy emerged. He was from Morpeth in the North East, and the son of a grammar school maths teacher. He went to Queen's College, Oxford, but this was cut short by military service. He joined the Royal Armoured Corps, then went into the 8th Hussars, rising very quickly to the rank of Captain. Why he turned robber and murderer was never established. The murder earlier in the year of Bristol Bank Manager George Black was thought to have been carried out by Kennedy. Two witnesses from Bristol travelled up to Cumbria to view the body, but it is not known if they identified Kennedy as the killer.


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What are you most proud of?
I love the colors, and that they all came from my collection of scraps, I am reminded of each project I created when I look at it. : )
What advice would you give someone starting this project?
Have fun with it.
What you will need
red scrap fabric
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What did you use to attach the hearts? And how did you attach them?
I used a darning needle with twine carefully went through the heart from one side to the other I tied knots on either side of the heart to keep it in place

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Scea curvilimesJames S. Miller and Andrew V. Z. Brower
IntroductionThis name was based on two specimens from northern Peru, which may represent separate taxa. Miller (2009) hypothesized that similar specimens from southwestern Ecuador represent a Pacific slope counterpart to the eastern Ecuadorian cloud forest species Scea cleonica.
CharacteristicsAccording to Miller's (2009) hypothesis of species circumscriptions in this complex, Scea curvilimes is virtually identical to the eastern Ecuadorean Scea cleonica, but occurs on the western slopes of the Andes.
Miller, JS. 2009. Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 321, 1-971 + 48 plates.
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Correspondence regarding this page should be directed to James S. Miller at and Andrew V. Z. Brower at
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March 28, 2011 12:01
"Please Look After Mom," a runaway bestseller in Korea by Shin Kyung-sook, is now a hit in the U.S. Even before the official release on April 5, the book has already gone into a second printing following a record 100,000-copy first run.
The book ranks among the top 15 major books of the year by Barnes and Noble, and Shin (48) is scheduled to go on a book tour of seven U.S. cities and eight countries in Europe.
Published by Knopf, the book debuts in the U.S. with a first print run of 100,000 copies, which is unprecedented for a foreign writer. The hardback is priced at US$24.95 on Amazon.
"Please Look After Mom" deals with a family's search for their mother, who suddenly disappears one afternoon into the crowd at the Seoul Station subway. It has garnered rave reviews and the first print run sold out through pre-orders.
Shin's U.S. tour starts in Seattle, Washington on April 11 and takes in Philadelphia, New York and Pittsburgh. The European leg starts on May 18 in Madrid and goes on to Portugal, Italy, the U.K., France and Poland and ends in mid-June.
Shin and her husband, a literary critic, have been staying in New York since last summer as visiting researchers at Columbia University. "It looks like things have gotten off to a good start," Shin said. "It is a very packed schedule and I hope everything will go smoothly."
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The families of flowering plants.
Habit and leaf form. Leaves alternate; non-sheathing; simple. Lamina entire. Leaves stipulate (small), or exstipulate. Stipules if present, caducous.
Reproductive type, pollination. Plants hermaphrodite.
Inflorescence, floral, fruit and seed morphology. Flowers aggregated in ‘inflorescences’; somewhat irregular to very irregular; zygomorphic. The floral irregularity involving the perianth and involving the androecium. Flowers neither papilionaceous nor pseudo-papilionaceous; cyclic; tetracyclic.
Perianthwith distinct calyx and corolla; 8; 2 whorled; anisomerous. Calyx 5; 1 whorled; unequal but not bilabiate; spurred; imbricate. Corolla 3; 1 whorled; polypetalous; contorted; somewhat unequal but not bilabiate; green; spurred to not spurred (the largest petal gibbous at its base).
Androecium 3–5, or 6. Androecial members free of the perianth; coherent; 2 adelphous (the filaments of the fertile stamens basally connate, separate from the single staminodal member). The androecial bundles alternating with the corolla members (?). Androecium including staminodes. Staminodes 1 (this across the flower from the spurred sepal). Stamens 3–5; isomerous with the perianth to diplostemonous. Anthers dehiscing via longitudinal slits; introrse.
Gynoecium 3 carpelled. Carpels isomerous with the perianth. The pistil 3 celled. Gynoecium syncarpous; eu-syncarpous; superior. Ovary 3 locular. Gynoecium stylate. Styles 1; apical, or lateral (?). Stigmas truncate. Placentation axile. Ovules 2 per locule.
Fruit non-fleshy; dehiscent; a capsule. Capsules septicidal (3-valved). Seeds non-endospermic; conspicuously hairy. Cotyledons 2. Embryo straight.
Geography, cytology. Neotropical. Tropical. Northern tropical South America.
Taxonomy.Subclass Dicotyledonae; Crassinucelli. Dahlgren’s Superorder Rutiflorae; Polygalales. Cronquist’s Subclass Rosidae; Polygalales. APG 3 core angiosperms; core eudicot; Superorder Rosanae; fabid; Order Malpighiales.
Species 3. Genera 1; Euphronia.
General remarks. This inadequate description lacks information on “esoteric characters”, including anther development and embryology.


State Lands Commission Throws in Towel!!
We have more good news for you concerning FOGG’s efforts to preserve our neighborhood open recreational center.
The State Lands Commission met in San Diego last Friday, October 16, 2015 to discuss the appeal they lost in the 1st District Court of Appeal on September 17, 2015.
The deputy attorney general handling the case advised attorney Susan Brandt -Hawley that SLC (led by Chairman Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom), decided NOT to seek review by the California Supreme Court. Continue reading “FOGG Alert – October 21, 2015”
Waterfront Vision Workshop – October 19 – Please Attend!!!
FOGG wants to advise you of the SF Port’s ‘1st Waterfront Vision Workshop’ scheduled for Monday, October 19, 2015 from 6:00pm-8:30pm.
The Workshop will be held at the James R. Herman Cruise Terminal – Pier 27, on the Embarcadero.
The Port’s Notice can be read at this link: Waterfront Vision Workshop
Here is your opportunity to present your interests and concerns on the future development of the waterfront, including Seawall Lot 351 and the adjacent open space. Continue reading “FOGG Alert – October 8, 2015”


DPP presidential nomination process stalls
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has postponed a public opinion poll, originally scheduled for April 15th‑17th, to decide on the party's 2020 presidential election candidate. This has also delayed the party's plans to announce its presidential candidate on April 24th.
The DPP said that it has postponed the candidate selection process to continue the mediation process between the two candidates—the current president, Tsai ing-wen, and the former premier, William Lai Ching-te. This suggests that there are significant divisions within the party over who should run in the 2020 polls. It also indicates that Ms Tsai still commands strong support, despite recent public surveys that suggest Mr Lai would receive more votes than her in the presidential election. In any case, the DPP secretary-general, Lo Wen-jia, said that the procedure will resume after May 22nd if current mediation efforts fail.
We believe that the DPP will win the presidential election regardless of the candidate, owing in large part to the lack of a widely popular opposition candidate on the Kuomintang side, and our wider political policy forecast is predicated on this assumption. However, there is a rising risk that these internal tensions—highlighted by the delay in the nomination procedure—will dampen popular support for the party.
Impact on the forecast
We continue to believe that the DPP will hold on to the presidency in the 2020 elections, but that the party will lose its majority in the Legislative Yuan (parliament).


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DESIGN: A marketing and design company set up just two years ago has moved to larger premises to give itself room to grow.
Umber Creative is forecasting a 30 per cent growth in business over the next 12 months.
The company also expects to take on another member of staff to help with the expanding workload and manage clients' accounts.
Creative director Kevin Wilkie, 35, said the company currently has a full order book, which he felt was "an achievement in this current climate".
He said: "Our new office is three times the size of our previous office, so we now have the room we need to grow the business.
"We've shown year-on-year growth and are forecasting 30 per cent growth over the next 12 months.
"People are starting to take a harder look at us because we have been around for a couple of years and we are clearly not a flash in the pan."
Mr Wilkie launched the company in May 2010 with fellow director Luke Foster, 27. Previously, they worked together at another local marketing agency where Mr Wilkie was the creative director and Mr Foster was the senior web developer.
Umber Creative has now moved less than 500m from the University of Hull's Enterprise Centre to Newlands Science Park.
Last year, the company took on apprentice designer Kara Dawson, 17, under a Govern- ment scheme and over the past two years, Umber Creative has established a client base of local and national companies.
The company also offers marketing support to the Smile Foundation, and has donated a website to the charity's Boss Behind Bars challenge.


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While most vitamins, like A, the B’s, C and E, are essential, vitamin D is technically nonessential. That’s because the skin produces vitamin D upon exposure to light. Despite this, it is still essential that you supplement with vitamin D. That is, if you want to reap all its benefits, which include better bone building, fewer colds, higher testosterone levels, more strength, better mood and brain function, and even greater fat loss.
There are two forms of vitamin D: D-3 (cholecalciferol) and D-2 (ergocalciferol). Vitamin D-2 is found in plant sources and some supplements and can only enter the body through the diet. As mentioned above, sunshine triggers vitamin D production in the skin by converting cholesterol into vitamin D-3. That form can also be acquired through the consumption of animal products like fatty fish or by supplementation. However, both those forms are inert and must be converted to the active form of the vitamin, a steroid hormone called 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, before the body can use it. That work is done by the liver and the kidneys, and because D-3 is more readily converted to the active form, it’s considered the more potent form of the vitamin. Any extra D that’s not immediately needed by the body is stored in fat tissue for future use.
Although in theory, the body should be able to make all the vitamin D it needs, in reality, it doesn’t even come close, regardless of how much sun time you get. Supplementing with vitamin D is, therefore, essential.
The D You Know
Some of vitamin D’s functions have been so well-publicized that you likely don’t need us to tell you about them. The most obvious is its role in promoting bone health. Vitamin D helps to maintain bone health by aiding calcium absorption and regulating the movement of calcium in and out of bone tissue. Without D, you would absorb less than half the calcium you do from food and supplements. (This is why dairy products are almost always fortified with D.) Vitamin D also bolsters the immune system, triggering the killer T cells that fight off germs like colds and flu before they can beat you down and force you to miss workouts.
Vitamin D also may help to protect from certain cancers. One study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reported that women living in sunnier regions of the world had higher blood levels of vitamin D, as well as a significantly lower risk of ovarian cancer, than those in less sunny regions. Another study found that sun exposure and a diet rich in vitamin D lowered the risk of breast cancer. And sunshine exposure also has been correlated with a lower risk of colon cancer.
You may know that vitamin D boasts brain benefits. Low levels of vitamin D are associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders, as well as a greater cognitive decline with aging. One study from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported that vitamin D deficiency was associated with depression and diminishing cognitive performance. In fact, Georgia State University researchers reported that individuals with vitamin D deficiency have an 85 percent greater risk of developing depression.
The D You Don’t Know
In addition to the many health benefits covered above, vitamin D has several physique and performance benefits that are worth noting. Given that vitamin D gets converted into a steroid hormone in the body, it makes sense that it has effects on muscle fibers. The active form of D binds to specific receptors found on muscle cell membranes and in muscle cell nuclei. When it binds to these receptors, it enhances muscle contraction and protein synthesis — the buildup of muscle protein. Research shows that certain types of these receptors may be responsible for greater muscle size and strength. Although you can’t alter the type of vitamin D receptors you have in your muscles, making sure you have adequate levels of D in your body can help ensure your receptors are activated for optimal muscle function, strength and growth.
Another study reported that female students at the University of Southern California who had lower blood levels of vitamin D had significantly higher levels of fat in their muscles than those with high blood levels of vitamin D. (Yes, the body can store fat in muscles as well as under the skin.) Having fattier muscles not only means that you have more total body fat, but it also can result in weaker muscles with less endurance. Muscles with higher fat content have impaired mitochondrial function, so they produce less energy and can develop reduced insulin sensitivity.
Although researchers are not sure precisely how vitamin D prevents fat accumulation in muscle, it is well-known that vitamin D and calcium work together to encourage fat loss. One recent study published in the journal Clinical Nutrition reported that when men and women consumed a breakfast containing more than 500 milligrams of calcium and about 350 IU of vitamin D, they burned more calories and fat and ate 320 fewer calories throughout the day as compared to when they started the day with a breakfast containing about half as much calcium and D.
Because vitamin D is produced in the body from cholesterol, as is testosterone, it follows that higher vitamin D levels can encourage higher testosterone levels in men. In fact, Austrian scientists from the Medical University of Graz reported that men with higher blood levels of vitamin D had significantly higher levels of testosterone and lower levels of sex hormone-binding globulin than those with low levels of vitamin D in their blood. Having lower SHBG means that more of the testosterone produced is free to get into muscles and increase muscle growth. This group of researchers did a follow-up study on men to see whether vitamin D supplementation actually could raise testosterone levels. They reported in a recent issue of Hormone and Metabolic Research that the men receiving just more than 3,300 IU per day of vitamin D for one year had a 25 percent increase in testosterone levels, while those getting a placebo had no such rise.
So how much vitamin D do you have to take to increase bone health, promote better immune function, enhance mood and brain function, boost testosterone levels, increase muscle size and strength, and encourage fat loss? Although the Recommended Daily Allowance is 200 IU per day, many scientists and doctors are recommending that you get at least 10 times that amount per day. We suggest you go with 2,000 to 5,000 IU per day, taken with meals, to maximize all of D’s benefits.
But while it’s not important that you supplement with a particular brand of vitamin D, it is important that you supplement with D-3. One study from Creighton University reported that D-3 supplements were 90 percent more potent at raising levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, the storage form of vitamin D in the body, than vitamin D-2. It also increased stored levels of the vitamin three times more than D-2 did.


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Composer held after drink-driving crash
Renowned musician Gao Xiaosong was detained for drink-driving after being involved in an accident in Beijing on Monday evening, state media reported.
The composer, singer and film director, who made his name with the popular song My Deskmate in the 1990s, was at the wheel of his SUV when it crashed into three other vehicles stopped at a red light on Dongzhimen Outer Avenue around 10.30pm, Xinhua reported.
A breath test conducted by traffic police immediately after they arrived at the scene of the crash found the 42-year-old had an alcohol concentration of 243 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood, the report added.
The legal blood-alcohol limit on the mainland is 80mg/100ml.
If Gao is convicted of drink-driving, he could be detained for up to six months, with his driving licence revoked for at least five years.
'I drank a bottle of white wine and another bottle of imported spirits,' Gao was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
He said he had been drinking with two friends at a downtown hotel and the accident occurred about 10 minutes after he left.
An unnamed police officer cited Gao as saying: 'What I did broke the law. I am ready and willing to take full responsibility.'
Gao rejected a request from Xinhua for an interview but gave the news agency a signed statement that read: 'I'm sorry. I will never drive again when I drink.'
The statement was posted yesterday on Sina's microblog website.
In light of an increasing number of drink-drivers being involved in tens of thousands of road accidents on the mainland each year, the National People's Congress amended the Road Traffic Safety Law to make it a criminal offence in August.
The new law took effect on May 1, with scores of drink-drivers detained nationwide since then.
The Fangshan District People's Court in Beijing on Monday sentenced the first person to be convicted of drink-driving on the mainland to four months' detention and fined him 2,000 yuan (HK$2,391).
According to official figures, nearly 80,000 people died in about 200,000 road accidents. Drink-driving accounted for a considerable percentage of these, though no specific figures were available.


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Workers and students fight cuts in colleges and universities
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Tuesday 22 May 2012
- Lecturers at Sussex Downs College in Eastbourne were set to strike on Thursday of this week against redundancies.
The NUT union members backed strikes by 96 percent in a recent ballot. UCU union members there are also balloting for strikes against the cuts.
- Workers and students at the University of Sussex protested against privatisation on Tuesday of this week. They were set to protest again this Thursday.
University management plans to privatise support services at the university. The protests coincide with visits from firms looking to take over the services.
- Sunderland College lecturers in the UCU have voted by 88 percent for strikes to defend their jobs and pay.
- Lecturers at the University of the West of England are balloting for strikes over workload.
Their UCU union says that 70 percent of workers regularly work “unreasonable hours”.
Some 60 percent say they don’t take the holidays that they are entitled to because of overwork.
- Students and lecturers at Hackney College in east London planned to march on Saturday of this week to defend jobs.

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The autumn season is the perfect time to learn some new fall barbecue recipes! Between the beautiful weather, family coming together, football, and much more, now is the time to embrace the outdoors before it becomes to chilly. Oklahoma City movers suggest bringing the perfect seasonal ingredient into your barbecue: pumpkins! Barbecuing with pumpkin may sound a little strange, but we are sure that pumpkin will add a bold flare to your meal when utilizing these fall barbecue recipes.
Pumpkin Barbecue Sauce. Creating a pumpkin barbecue sauce is a lot easier than it sounds. Follow your standard barbecue sauce recipe with ketchup, cider vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire, and just add pumpkin puree! Combine this with whatever seasonings you desire. You can use salt, pepper, paprika, or whatever else your taste buds prefer. This favorite of our fall barbecue recipes will give any dinner dish the perfect fall zing!
Grilled Pumpkin. Pumpkin is a member of the squash and gourd family, making it a healthy and hearty vegetable. For this one of our delicious fall barbecue recipes, we remove the seeds and stringy flesh inside, cut up the pumpkin, and grill! Adding sea salt and rosemary will give the pumpkin an earthy touch.
Spicy Pumpkin Seeds. Take your pumpkin seeds and put them on a tray or foil to put on the grill. Spice them up with some garlic salt and cayenne pepper. These pumpkin seed fall barbecue recipes make for the perfect side or appetizer for your barbecue.
Pumpkin on Burgers. Hold off on the traditional lettuce and tomato on your burger for this fall barbecue. Top your burger with some seasoned pulled pumpkin and feta cheese! This unconventional burger will prove to be a crowd pleaser.
Your Oklahoma City movers want to you feel at home as quick as possible in OKC. Use these fall barbecue recipes to get to know your neighbors, invite family and friends over, and have a great time! We are sure you will love the city this fall.


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Fifth Third Bank boosts commercial equipment financing support.
BANKING AND CREDIT NEWS-June 29, 2017-Fifth Third Bank boosts commercial equipment financing support
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Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) has added two regional relationship managers to its growing Commercial Equipment Financing group, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to provide a variety of financing options for equipment, vehicles, facilities and more for commercial businesses, the company said.
These two new hires build upon last year's announcement that Fifth Third's Commercial Equipment Financing Group is expanding its market presence, operating as four distinct regions: South, North Central, Midwest and East.
The new regional relationship managers are Robin Harmon (Nashville, Tennessee), who will serve customers in the Tennessee and Mississippi markets; and Mike Duffy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), who will serve customers in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Fifth Third's equipment financing solutions enable customers to reduce costs, preserve assets, improve cash flow and liquidity, expand budgets for capital and more. The team customizes solutions for each client, offering traditional and non-traditional options for equipment, vehicles, facilities and other critical purchases for a business.
Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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