text: The embattled Washington Times announced it would shrink dramatically Wednesday, cutting two sections entirely. Employees were gathered and told by publisher Jonathan Slevin to collect packets that would privately reveal whether they had been laid off, kicking off a wave of cuts that the paper's executives warned earlier this month would include about 40 percent of all staff. The paper's managing editor, David Jones, was among those let go, along with managing editor for digital operations, Jeffrey Birnbaum. Metro and Sports will no longer exist as standalone sections beginning after Friday. "Our market-based, forward-looking plan is both a response to the recessionary economy, continued downward financial pressures on the news industry and our transition into a 21st-century multimedia enterprise," Slevin said in a statement.

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This month, the Journal of Neurosurgery reported that side effects from Pradaxa could be fatal and irreversible. Medical researchers focused on a case in which an elderly man taking Pradaxa sustained a seemingly minor fall at home, and died as a result of intracranial bleeding that rapidly expanded and could not be stopped by doctors.
In Florida, many seniors have likely been prescribed Pradaxa, and should be aware of the dangerous side effects associated with the drug.
What is Pradaxa?
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Pradaxa (or dabigatran, its generic name) is a blood thinner prescribed to help prevent strokes or serious blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the heart beats irregularly, increasing the chance of blood clots forming in the body and possibly causing strokes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Pradaxa for stroke prevention in 2010, but has always warned that Pradaxa may cause bleeding that can be serious, and sometimes lead to death. This is because there is no effective reversal agent for Pradaxa in the event of catastrophic hemorrhage. If you are taking Pradaxa, the FDA advises that you should call your doctor immediately if you have any of the following signs or symptoms:
- Unexpected bleeding or bleeding that lasts a long time
- Bleeding that is severe or you cannot control
- Pink or brown urine
- Red or black stools
- Bruises that happen without a known cause or get larger
- Coughing up blood or blood clots
- Vomiting blood, or your vomit looks like “coffee grounds”
- Unexpected pain, swelling, or joint pain
- Headaches, or feeling dizzy or weak
Even without any signs of a problem, Pradaxa may result in serious adverse effects for patients. As the Journal of Neurosurgery researchers concluded in their report, “Imbalance and falls are common in [the elderly] population, and intracranial hemorrhage resulting from even minor trauma may occur with increasing frequency as use of this drug becomes more widespread.”
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Leslie Grace is giving us a look at the Batgirl costume that might have been. In a look-back end-of-year video posted on Instagram, Grace, who would have starred in the titular role in the HBO Max film, has shared some behind-the-scenes photos and clips during filming of Batgirl, which was permanently shelved by Warner Bros. and DC Films earlier this year. It was to have bowed on HBO Max sometime in 2023.
“thank u for teachin’ me, 2022. you were singular in many ways that will stay with me,” Grace captioned the post. “my gratitude and love for life is much deeper thanks to the experiences you brought me. i take your lessons with me as we part.”
The video features Grace in costume in what appears to be her trailer. The use of yellow in the costume is a reminder of the Batman suit worn by Michael Keaton in the 1989 Batman film and sequel Batman Returns. Keaton was to reprise his role in Batgirl.
The film, which also was to star Brendan Fraser, was to bow in 2023. As Deadline previously reported, the exact reason behind the shelving was not made clear, but, according to sources, did not fall in line with the new strategy being implemented by DC Films as well as HBO Max. The studio is looking to make theatrical tentpoles with budgets at $90 million-plus, and from early footage seen this did not fall into place with that model. (Batgirl was greenlighted at $70 million budget.) The decision also followed several changes across company including major changes to HBO Max. The film was in the final stages of post-production when it was canceled.
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ABOUT THE RUBY
The Ruby is an arts & letters–focused work and gathering space for creative Bay Area women of all definitions. It's a 3,800-square-foot multipurpose space for women, trans women, and nonbinary individuals with diverse interests, seeking a welcoming, supportive environment in which to learn, share, and connect. During nights and weekends, The Ruby hosts social gatherings, skill-sharing, political organizing, and more. At The Ruby, women can recharge, focus on — and find inspiration for — their creative work, and get support from a likeminded community.
Located in the Mission district of San Francisco (walking distance from the 24th Street BART station), The Ruby is firmly rooted in the culture of San Francisco: our members are representative of the city's diversity & creative spirit; our food & beverage program celebrates the local cuisine and supports local chefs, caterers, and winemakers. Our upstairs artist's loft hosts the occasional visiting writer and artist. The Ruby is entirely member funded and takes no outside investments. Our space is available for rent to organizations and groups aligned with our mission.
WHO'S IT FOR?
The Ruby is a collective of Bay Area women and nonbinary creatives with a desire to learn, curiosity, and a range of interests, and who are continually seeking enrichment. It's for those who are passionate about their creative and professional pursuits and want to share them with others, and who value community and are interested in new friendships — especially outside of their chosen fields of work. More than just a workspace, The Ruby offers its members opportunities to learn new skills and engage over a communal table of food and drink made by local women.
We call our members — who include writers, artists, photographers, filmmakers, podcast hosts, and other creatives — "Rubies." Rubies are multifaceted, and share a common desire to expand their world views and communities, share their passions, and make meaningful connections. And Rubies are strong: as resilient as sapphires and only a little bit softer than diamonds. Almost all rubies have flaws, and that’s what makes them interesting: we wear ours proudly.
WHY THE RUBY?
The San Francisco Bay Area is a special part of the world that, though beautiful, can sometimes be isolating. And San Francisco artists are being priced out of the city; in recent years so many writer & artist friends have had to leave. The Ruby will be an antidote to that, as well as a space to cultivate new friendships and widen our circles, with the hope that we can all learn from and be able to help one another. What makes San Francisco so special as a city — multiculturalism and diversity — is unfortunately being lost to homogeneity. Our hope is that The Ruby can be as unique, diverse, down-to-earth, and inspirational as we first found San Francisco to be.
The Ruby exists because of the many inspiring spaces that have come before it: San Francisco's own The Makeshift Society (which closed in 2016), LA's Women's Center for Creative Work (who created the excellent reference A Feminist Organization's Handbook), Brooklyn's New Women's Space, New York's The Wing, and Brooklyn's Powder Keg. We're excited by the things Twin Lities in Minneapolis, Pineapple Collaborative in DC, and Hedgebrook in Washington are doing.
Here in the Bay Area, we're very proud to be part of a growing cast of businesses and organizations where women can gather together, including Mill Valley's The Hivery, San Francisco's The Assembly, Radiant & Double Union, and Oakland's Qulture Collective. Other San Francisco spaces we're inspired by (not just for women!) include Impact Hub and The Writer's Grotto.
HOW TO APPLY
A note about accessibility: The Ruby has a set of stairs leading up to it; we always have a staff member on hand to help if you require assistance. We are saving up to outfit The Ruby with a stairlift and hope to offer this as an option down the line. (If you have suggestions or are able to donate one, please get in touch!)
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Directed by Leslie Howard.
Screenplay by Anatole de Grunwald.
Based on a story by Baroness Emmuska Orczy.
Starring Leslie Howard, Francis Sullivan, and Mary Morris.
Released by British National Films, 1941.
Running time: 120 minutes.
Author’s note: This review contains spoilers for both “Pimpernel” Smith and The Scarlett Pimpernel.
“The mind of man is bounded only by the universe.” If you do not recognize this quote, you are about to discover one of the most exciting and entertaining examples of Romantic art in movie history. Leslie Howard produced, directed, and starred in “Pimpernel” Smith, which is a remake of the better-known 1934 film The Scarlett Pimpernel (also starring Howard).
In this version of the story, written by Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947), the hero is British archaeology professor Horatio Smith who, like Sir Percy Blakeney in the original movie, leads a double life. On the surface, he is an absent-minded ivory-tower scholar who devotes his attention to the study of ancient civilizations. But beneath the facade of this mild-mannered persona lies a courageous hero who risks his life rescuing innocent victims of state persecution. The setting, in this case, is not the Reign of Terror in France but Nazi Germany.
Although a work of art is an end in itself, this movie was created with an additional purpose in mind: to serve as a war propaganda film. Howard, the quintessential British actor, achieved considerable success and recognition in Hollywood films such as Of Human Bondage (1934), Pygmalion (1938), and Gone with the Wind (1939). But he decided to abandon his Hollywood career and return to England (at considerable financial cost) to help with the war effort. During the war, he contributed to the anti-Nazi campaign by writing articles, participating in radio broadcasts, and creating films and documentaries.
The term “propaganda” often carries a negative connotation, but there is nothing negative about opposing Nazi Germany. “Pimpernel” Smith is full of humor, designed mainly to mock Nazi claims of superiority, but that does not detract from its serious artistic impact. Balancing the elements of a thriller with comedy is not an easy task, but “Pimpernel” Smith does so admirably by using comedy not merely as a diversion, but also in support of its theme and plot. It is interesting to contrast this movie with another war comedy, To Be or Not to Be (1942), directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Both movies poke fun at the Nazis, but Lubitsch’s film has neither an inspiring hero nor a serious theme. (However, it is very entertaining and carries the renowned “Lubitsch touch,” meaning a lighthearted sense of life.)
The theme of “Pimpernel” Smith is brain versus brawn, and every element of the film is constructed to illustrate and support the idea that intelligence always will triumph over brute force. The quote at the beginning of this review indicates this theme in the very first scene of the movie. In time, we come to learn its meaning—that a man’s mind cannot be forced. This message was sent as a secret code to the victims of persecution before their rescue. (In the original movie, the Scarlet Pimpernel’s secret message was simply “Courage.”)
The casting of the slender Howard as the hero and the plump Francis Sullivan as his nemesis, General von Graum, was another deliberate choice in support of the movie’s theme. Professor Smith looks nothing like a dashing action hero. However, we quickly learn that intelligence and courage do not require physical strength (a fact that clearly eludes his Nazi pursuers). Speaking as the placid professor, Smith states, “I hate violence. It seems such a paradox to kill a man before you can persuade him what’s right. So uncivilized!”
There is an important difference between the two versions of the Pimpernel story, beyond the different historical periods. In the original version, the victims rescued from the guillotine by Sir Percy were aristocrats persecuted simply because of their class. In the WWII version, the rescued victims are “scientists, men of letters, artists, doctors”—in other words, men of the mind. Why does Professor Smith risk his life to rescue these people? This is the reason he gives:
You see, when a man holds the view that progress and civilization depend in every age upon the hands and brains of a few exceptional spirits, it’s rather hard to stand by and see them destroyed.
Astonishingly, this statement was made sixteen years before the publication of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I do not mean to suggest that “Pimpernel” Smith is on the philosophical level of Atlas Shrugged. But in many places, it exhibits a similarly powerful clarity of thought.
One such instance occurs at the climax of the movie—the final confrontation between Professor Smith and General von Graum. The hero’s true identity finally has been revealed, and he faces certain death at the hands of the general. Stripped of his disguise, Smith fearlessly addresses the general as “Captain of Murderers” in a short but awe-inspiring speech that must be one of the greatest movie speeches of all time. In it, Smith eloquently expresses the movie’s theme and, amazingly, predicts the outcome of the war.
All of you who have demoralized and corrupted a nation are doomed. Tonight [referring to the 1939 German invasion of Poland] you will take the first step along a dark road from which there is no turning back. You will have to go on and on, from one madness to another, leaving behind you a wilderness of misery and hatred. And still you will have to go on, because you will find no horizon, and see no dawn, until at last you are lost and destroyed.
The movie was released in July 1941, before the United States entered into WWII, when the outcome of the war was far from certain. Note that the statement does not refer to politics or military strength, but to the Nazis’ immorality and irrationality.
Visually, “Pimpernel” Smith’s style exhibits remarkable conciseness and economy (perhaps due to a limited budget). Every scene in the movie either advances the plot or develops the characters. Many scenes contain few camera cuts. Often the viewer is left to imagine details that occur outside the camera’s frame. The specific details of the escapes Professor Smith engineered often are not shown. What the camera does capture is the essence of the scene.
I first saw “Pimpernel” Smith as a child, long before I had learned about Romantic art. For a long time, I remembered little from the movie, other than a brief part of one scene. In it, Professor Smith enters a party held by the British Embassy in Berlin, knowing that his pursuers will be there looking for him. I recall thinking, “What courage! What a hero!” Years later, I was happy to discover the movie again and appreciate it on a deeper level. Only Romantic art, by concretizing the abstraction of a moral ideal, can inspire such admiration for heroism.1
Although in “Pimpernel” Smith the hero triumphs, in real life Leslie Howard was killed by the Nazis in 1943 while flying from Lisbon to England. His commercial flight was shot down over the Bay of Biscay. Although it is known that Hitler and Goebbels hated Howard because of this movie, there is no conclusive proof that he was the specific target of the attack.2
Nonetheless, his work continued to inspire other heroes. Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish architect and businessman, saw the movie in 1942 and reportedly identified strongly with the hero. Two years later he planned and executed a daring rescue mission, saving thousands of Jews in Hungary from the Nazis and Hungarian Fascists. Wallenberg died in 1945 in the prison of another tyrannical regime, the Soviet Union.3
Once difficult to find, this cinematic gem has now become easy to locate and watch. As of this writing, it is viewable in its entirety on YouTube (with no copyright violation).4 You also can find The Scarlett Pimpernel and To Be or Not to Be on YouTube. “Pimpernel” Smith is available for download on archive.org as well.5
If you love soul-fueling heroism, put “Pimpernel” Smith in your queue. It’s worth watching, and watching again.
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1. For more on Romantic art, see Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature (New York: Penguin, 1971).
2. See Jerrold M. Packard, Neither Friend Nor Foe: The European Neutrals in World War II (New York: Scribner, 1992).
3. Richard Raskin, “From Leslie Howard to Raoul Wallenberg: The Transmission and Adaptation of a Heroic Model,” POV, https://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_28/section_2/artc9A.html (accessed June 5, 2019).
4. Fadedhour, “Pimpernel Smith (1941)—Leslie Howard,” YouTube, January 22, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P67A5xLoJcw.
5. “Pimpernel Smith by Leslie Howard & Harold Huth,” archive, https://archive.org/details/PimpernelSmithVideoQualityUpgrade (accessed June 5, 2019).


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It's been a busy time around the Croley home this past weekend. Saturday Dad had to work 12 hrs at work. It was good but there was so much to do. Saturday was Family Fun Day at the park we live beside. They had games and things to do and Subway was doing a free lunch. So we went and had a blast. After we got done there we stopped by the playground and the kids played for a bit.
Sunday was a big day too. Dad had to work again all day never got home until 9 pm. Jennifer had her 1st Birthday party to attend from a classmate at school. She was so excited and I was to. I had to take all the kids because Dad was at work. The birthday party was at Gold Dust West Bowling Center. They also have a casino there and the kids could see all the flashing & pretty lights. So while Jennifer was at the party Carly & I hung out between the arcade and the party. Ridge and Marie spent there time playing games and having fun. I had fun watching Jennifer try to bowl along with all the rest of the Kindergarden classmates that came. Ridge and Marie and I had some birthday cake too. It was really fun and I got to spend some time with the kiddos all weekend.
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Baler in Aurora, Philippines is home to the annual Aurora Surfing Cup. It is steeped in history, serving as the birthplace of former President Manuel L. Quezon. However, besides the historical background that attracts the tourists to come here, Baler Bay has become one of the adventure surfing getaways for those living in Metro Manila.
- 2 days/ 1 night Standard aircon room accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- 1 session of surf lesson with surfboard rental
- Countryside Tour: Digisit Beach, Ermita Hill, Dimutabo Falls and San Luis Falls
- Other meals that are not stated above
- Roundtrip land transfers to Baler Bay
- A few hours north of Manila lies one the Philippines most popular surfing spots, Baler in the Province of Aurora. Avid surfers and tourists ock its beaches to experience the one-of-a-kind waves that has made it a gem in the international surfing community. This offer is Best for beginners and novice surfers, Sabang beach gives you a chance to experience Balers waves under the guidance from the areas top surfing instructors.
- Minimum age is 7
- Subject to weather conditions

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Check out these companies at the Spring Career Fair!
The Public Power Internship Program was created by a network of public power utilities and facilitated by Energy Northwest, to strengthen the pipeline of talent for the engineering workforce, and opportunities in public power in the Pacific Northwest. The Public Power Internship Program includes civil engineering and additional engineering disciplines for summer internships and networking opportunities through this summer program with public power utility locations across Washington state. Energy Northwest produces reliable, affordable, environmentally responsible electric power and delivers it to Northwest public power utilities at the cost of production.
FIAlab Instruments is a leading manufacturer of flow injection analysis (FIA) and sequential injection analysis (SIA) instrumentation. These instruments are used to automate and streamline many chemical liquid-handling procedures. Our instruments are mostly used for environmental and agricultural analysis. However, research departments and industries ranging from fertilizer to biopharma have found our instruments vital to their operations. Other applications include on-line process monitoring and sensor development. Beyond instrumentation, FIAlab also specializes in software development – including custom work. We realize that quality software is just as important as quality hardware. We have developed software that takes full advantage of the dynamic capabilities of FIA and SIA. These programs are revolutionarily powerful and, most importantly, easy to learn and use.


text: In this paper we examined the temporal and spatial environmental structure of the lagoon system at Humacao Natural Reserve (HNR), Puerto Rico under a restricted, imposed water-flow regime to determine if: 1) the lagoon system maintained its estuarine conditions, 2) there were defined environmental gradients along the longitudinal distribution of the lagoons, and 3) there were hypo- or hyperhaline conditions in the lagoon system. We collected environmental data as part of a broad project effort to evaluate the fisheries of the HNR. Data were analyzed with analysis of variance using mixed linear models and principal components analysis. Two sub-systems environmentally different were identified in the HNR lagoon system: Mandri System (Mandri 1, 2, and 3 lagoons), and Santa Teresa System (Santa Teresa 1 and 2 lagoons). The lagoon system at HNR kept its estuarine conditions under low levels of precipitation and long-term isolation from the sea. There was a salinity gradient; salinity decreased as we moved along the linear series of lagoons from Mandri 1 to Santa Teresa 2. The environmental structure of the lagoons changed as a consequence of the interplaying effect of precipitation and evaporation; either hypo- or hyperhaline conditions that could eventually limit fish and invertebrate communities were not directly measured in the HNR lagoon system. Dissolved oxygen was sufficiently high to support even those species most sensitive to hypoxia; we never recorded hypoxia ( < 2 mg/L of dissolved oxygen). Under the prevailing exceptional environmental conditions, the HNR lagoon system offered sufficient spatiotemporal structure to fish and invertebrate populations to develop.


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Children of the Resurrection, Luke 20:27-40 (Donna King)
File size: 11.51 MB. File type: mp3.
Sunday Evening 17th January 2016
Donna King looks at the context of Jesus’ teaching on marriage in heaven, and goes on to explore what it means to be children of the resurrection, seeing life through resurrection eyes.

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Symfony 2.4 adds the ability to define an idle timeout for a Process run.
Symfony 2.4 introduces a new tag to use the stopwatch in Twig templates.
Symfony 2.4 helps you fix those class not found and undefined function PHP errors.
Symfony 2.4 automatically shows your log messages in the console output of commands.
This week, the development activity focused on fixing the handling of the format and locale parameters for exceptions, forwards and sub-requests. In addition, some interesting discussions were initiated around a new directory structure for Symfony and the removal of the ACL from the Security Component. Lastly, the Symfony repository achieved the 7,000th star and the 2,500th fork milestones.
This week, development activity focused on the Process component, which fixed some bugs and tweaked some of its features. In addition, the master branch changed the ESI fragment renderer to be always registered. Lastly, the full schedule of the upcoming Symfony Live London 2013 conference was unveiled.
This week, four important security releases were published, containing security fixes for the Validator and the HttpFoundation components of every Symfony major version. Meanwhile, a new 2.0 experimental branch was created to test the new features of the upcoming Twig 2.0 version.
Symfony 2.0.24, 2.1.12, 2.2.5, and 2.3.3 have just been released and they contain security fixes for the Validator component (CVE-2013-4751) and the HttpFoundation component (CVE-2013-4752).
This week, the Apache routing matcher added ability to handle array values, the image validator added options to validate the aspect ratio and the orientation of the images and the Process component added a feature to define an idle timeout. In addition, the Form component fixed a lot of reported bugs.


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HOBBS, N.M. — The Hobbs Police Department on Wednesday identified a man who was hit and killed by a vehicle near the intersection of West County and Mahan on November 1.
According to police, the pedestrian was identified as Crecencio P. Garcia, 51, of San Antonio. Next of kin was notified, police said.
HPD said, “No criminal charges will be filed in this case.”
See full press release below.
The following is a press release from the Hobbs Police Department:
On November 1st, 2022, around 10:00 pm, Hobbs Police Department officers responded near the intersection of West County and Mahan in reference to a male pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle.
The male has now been identified as 51 year old Crecencio P. Garcia of San Antonio, TX. Next of kin has been notified.
Hobbs Police Department Detectives, in collaboration with the District Attorney’s office, have determined that no criminal charges will be filed in this case.
The Hobbs Police Department would like to thank all agencies that assisted with this case.
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Amaravati will shrink water bodies: Experts
Hyderabad:The ‘blue and green’ concept of the AP government notwithstanding, the upcoming capital city of Amaravati on the right bank of river Krishna will reduce the extent of water bodies by 6.6 sq km.
According to official data, water bodies in the proposed capital city are spread over 32.43 sq km, including small lakes covering an area of 2.78 sq km. But when the capital city becomes operational, the size of the water bodies will come down to 25.78 sq km. This includes reduction in the capacity of the Krishna and its tributary Kondaveeti Vagu.
The loss of 6.6 sq km of water bodies may prove detrimental to the local ecological balance as the capital city and the capital region are nestled in the highly fragile Krishna delta.
Vijayawada which is on the other bank of the river, is spread over 61.88 sq km and Amaravati will eat away as much as one-tenth of the municipal area of the city. The existing scrub jungles spread over 4.54 sq km will also vanish once the capital city comes into existence.
Moreover, the government has earmarked 12.26 sq km for industries, which will have an impact on the local environment, particularly Krishna river.
The data submitted by the state government to the state level environment impact assessment body reveals that the fully developed Amaravati city will require 1,067 million litres of water per day. And ironically, 203 million litres will be utilised by industries. The government has proposed to draw drinking water from river Krishna and the Kondaveeti Vagu. The city will generate 877 million litres of waste water and of this, industries will contribute 175 million litres.
“The government has devised the blue and green concept. While blue stands for water, green stands for plantation. Unfortunately, both water and greenery have been put on the altar of the greenfield capital city. The data submitted by the government clearly shows that the water expanse will come down after the construction of Amaravati. The government has grand plans for greenery, but it is not clear how it will sustain the plantation by reducing the extent of water bodies,” wonders social activist K Srinivasa Rao from Vijayawada.
One-fifth of the garbage and sewage produced in Amaravati will ironically come from industries. As against the projected solid waste generation of 3,662 tonnes per day, industries will produce 796 tonnes of waste daily. Even if the government ensures stringent environment norms, a portion of the waste is bound to enter the river polluting it further. Already the river and its canals are highly polluted, thanks to unscientific disposal of waste in Vijayawada.
“Once Amaravati becomes a reality, Krishna river will be pounded by pollution from both the banks, Vijayawada on the left bank and Amaravati on the right,” warn the environment activists.
They suggest that the government should immediately take up a study to arrive at the ‘baseline data’ before beginning the construction of Amaravati so that it could compare it with the data obtained after the city is ready. The government has begun work without conducting the baseline study on the environmental damage Amaravati will cause to the greenery and water bodies.
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Joseph Miko, 87; filmed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, then had to flee
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By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Joseph S. Miko, a former cameraman whose extensive footage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was smuggled out of Budapest and is considered a significant piece of the documentary record of the historic national uprising against Soviet oppression, has died. He was 87.
Miko died of blood cancer April 28 at UCLA Medical Center, said his son, Joe.
A retired owner of camera and electronics stores in Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach, Miko was forced to flee Hungary with his family after capturing the short-lived revolution on film.
see: Imre Nagy's Daughter Dies: Died, Child of Hungary's 1956 revolution prime minister
Some of the footage that Miko shot of the massive crowds of demonstrators and fighting in the streets of Budapest was shown on "The 20th Century," a CBS documentary series narrated by Walter Cronkite. More than four decades later, Miko and his footage were featured in a segment of the four-part History Channel special "Caught on Film."
Miko's footage, which he stored in his garage for decades before donating 177 minutes' worth to the Hungarian National Film Archive in 1993, has also been used in the recent documentaries"Freedom's Fury" and "Torn From the Flag."


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During a press conference, indeed, the Mayor Carolyn Goodman explained that the city now uses only renewable energy (solar, wind and geothermal) to meet the energy consumption of institutional buildings and power the public lighting. An aim that is the result of a transition path from traditional power plants to those powered by renewable energy lasted 10 years but which led, one year ago, a partnership with NV Energy, a public utility company.
The electricity needed to meet the energy consumption of the city comes from local sources. In particular, Las Vegas can count on clean energy provided by geothermal plants and solar panels installed in the area and on the electricity generated by the photovoltaic power station Boulder Solar 1, located in the Southeast of the State of Nevada. The path to renewable began in 2008 and since then the city has saved about 5 million dollar per year, reducing more than 30% the energy consumption. Las Vegas is the largest US city to use only green energy but other realities such as San Francisco, San Jose in California, and Grand Rapids in Michigan have already announced plans to reach 100% renewable energy by 2035.


A recent poll conducted by Fox News reveals President Biden’s dismal standing with American voters is worse than he thinks. The poll revealed that 60 percent of Americans would prefer to see a candidate other than the president run in 2024.
The Hill reports:
Just more than one-fifth of voters — 21 percent — said they would “definitely” vote to reelect Biden, while 44 percent say they would “definitely” back someone else.
By comparison, the percentage of voters who said they would back someone other than former President Trump never rose above the 56 percent recorded in January 2018. The 54 percent who said they would vote for someone other than former President Obama in September 2010 was also the highest percentage registered during his time in the Oval Office.
The Fox News survey released Sunday also inquired about Biden’s current job performance, which has been plummeting in recent weeks. The Fox poll found that 52 percent of voters said they disapprove of the job Biden is doing as president, with 47 saying they approve.
The network noted that a record 52 percent now disapprove of his handling of the pandemic, adding that 34 percent disapproved early last year.
However, while American voters may be hoping Biden decides not to run in 2024 he’s repeatedly said he plans to run for a second term as long as he remains in good health.


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No specs, designs, or costs had been talked about, however there are some things we will assume based mostly on different leaks. The Nord N10 5G is probably going the higher-end of the 2, rumored to pack a Snapdragon 690 chipset. The N100, then again, looks like it will likely be a less expensive system that even lacks 5G connectivity and makes use of a mere Snapdragon 460 chip. Which may be the system we know as “Clover” which has been rumored to price beneath $200.
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By Dave Nadig
Matt Hougan may think it’s all about Zecco. I think it’s all about advisers.
Zecco? Really Matt? Honestly, for investors who are holding big accounts at Zecco, Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) isn’t likely to be an issue in any case. Zecco, for those who don’t know the firm, is a super-low-discount broker, offering everything from bargain basement foreign exchange trading to $5 options. A few ETFs are unlikely to even be on the radar of Zecco customers.
I think the real target for Schwab’s new ETFs is the money Schwab’s existing customers have in ETFs.
Schwab’s huge. They custody $1.3 trillion for their 5.3 million customers, and process over 300,000 trades each and every day. Perhaps most importantly, Schwab acts as the back end for over 6,000 independent advisers in their adviser services business.
It’s a mistake to think that Schwab, as a broker, is in the transaction business. Fundamentally, they’re in the banking business. Schwab makes 35-40 percent of its revenue, quarter in and quarter out, by loaning money to its customers on margin and by investing cash balances for better rates than they have to pay through in margin balances. Another 25 percent of their revenue comes just from investment management fees (with another 10 percent from the annual fees mutual funds pay to be in their OneSource program). Commissionable transactions make up just 20 percent of their revenue stream.
Now, you and I both know that exchange-traded funds are the future. I can easily see a world 5-10 years from now when ETFs have become such a dominant force that direct mutual fund accounts are seen as a quaint throwback for folks who just can’t give up their opaque active management addiction. But this rise in ETFs does absolutely nothing for Schwab’s bottom line. They’re facing a terrible margin environment in their biggest revenue line, and the death of the mutual fund industry for that other 35 percent. Every Schwab client who moves away from mutual funds and into ETFs is a flat-out money loser for them, now and forever.
Schwab’s move is a tacit acknowledgment that this is where the money is. Ten basis points may not seem like much, but for a company pushing trillions around, a billion here and there is big business. Schwab, like most asset management firms, has been suffering from declining asset balances. This move aims to recapture a large portion of existing client assets through marketing, low fees, and, yes, no transaction costs.
Why does the transaction cost matter? Because it means a financial adviser can start dribbling her client’s cash back into the market without showing any costs for the transaction. The more I talk to advisers, the more I’m convinced that those $15 transaction costs have a deleterious effect on their client relations out of proportion―many zeros out of proportion―to their actual impact on their clients’ wealth.
And how big could the Schwab move be? Well, let’s assume for a moment that Schwab has 20 percent of all ETF assets under custody. That’s not an unreasonable guess, since they have about 20 percent of the retail market (I’m ignoring the large institutional presence in ETFs for this, I admit). This would mean that—just to pick two-bit ETFs—Schwab is holding some $20 billion in the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) and iShares S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:IVV) ETFs. I think it’s entirely reasonable that this move could recapture at least half that position, putting $10 billion in Schwab’s Large-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHX). If you run the same math on the rest of the large-cap ETFs, and the ETFs in the other seven asset classes Schwab’s competing in, I think it’s in the realm of possibility that they’ll have gathered $100 billion in assets by the end of next year, solely from poaching off existing ETF assets in existing Schwab accounts.
And this, of course, is only a fraction of their real target market.
No, Schwab won’t be grabbing Zecco customers by the handful. They’ll do just fine getting a big fat slice of their own customers’ pie.


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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov unleashed a torrent of invective against the American “hegemon” and the free world generally during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, reiterating his accusations of “Nazi” sympathies against the Ukrainian government and condemning “grotesque” “Russophobia.”
Lavrov spoke in the aftermath of his boss, Vladimir Putin, announcing last week a conscription plan to feed into Russian troops currently fighting in Ukraine – a move many interpreted as a sign that Moscow had suffered enough losses in Ukraine to require a significant military buildup to recover.
Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014, colonizing its Crimean peninsula and fueling the ongoing war in the eastern Donbass region. The eight-year-old conflict has become arguably the most mentioned topic at this year’s General Assembly as Putin announced a “special operation” in February to oust the Ukrainian government and recognize the Donbas’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions as countries.
As Putin did last week, Lavrov claimed that Ukraine’s Western allies, including America, were not simply seeking to take sides in the war but to eradicate Russian identity from the planet.
“The official Russophobia in the West is unprecedented now. The scope is grotesque,” Lavrov said. “They’re not shying away from declaring the intent to inflict a military defeat on our country but also to destroy and fracture Russia. In other words, what they want to do is remove from the global map a geopolitical entity that has become all too independent.”
Russia, the top diplomat continued, was fighting a war to save the planet from a future in which America’s moral and political values stood paramount.
“The future of the world order is being decided today and it is clear to any impartial objective [sic – as per U.N. translator],” Lavrov said. “The question is whether or not that we need a kind of order with one hegemon ahead of it, making everyone else living following his notorious rules of benefit to the hegemon only, or we’re going to have a democratic, fair world without blackmail and without … neo-Nazism and neo-colonialism.”
“We made a firm choice for the latter,” he declared.
Lavrov went on to accuse Washington of wanting “to stop the march of history” by deterring the malign influence of rogue states such as Russia.
“At some point in the past, declaring that they were victorious in the Cold War, Washington erected themselves into an almost envoy of God on Earth without any obligations but only the sacred right to act with impunity,” the foreign minister said, “to act whenever and wherever they want, and this can be done anywhere against any state – especially if they’ve somehow displeased the self-proclaimed masters of the world.”
Lavrov then went into an extensive harangue on the Iraq war and American “adventurism,” requesting of his audience, “name a country where Washington interfered by force and, as a result of that, life improved.”
About Ukraine, Lavrov repeated the talking point that the 2014 uprising against pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych was a “bloody coup” and not a popular revolt – the claim Russia uses to make the case that current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not legitimate. Zelensky played no political role in the events of 2014; he was starring in the Ukrainian television series Love in Vegas at the time. Yanukovych was replaced by the stridently anti-Russian President Petro Poroshenko in 2014 – the candidate Zelensky defeated in the 2019 election.
“We were expected to acquiesce in the Kyiv intent to ban the Russian language, education, our mass media and culture,” Lavrov proclaimed, “their insistence on chasing the Russians out of Crimea, on waging war against Donbass.”
While Lavrov dedicated most of his remarks to what he described as a global attempt to eradicate the Russian nation, he deviated on two occasions: to condemn America’s sovereign decision not to engage in business with its proxy state Cuba, and to call for India and Brazil to be given permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council.


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Peterborough City Council leader Cllr John Holdich:
I was delighted to hear that this year’s A-Level results are above the national average for pupils achieving passes for the fourth year in a row.
With results received from all of the city’s 11 secondary schools who had students sitting A-Levels this year, the overall pass rate has remained above the national average at 98.2 per cent, with the national average standing at 97.6 per cent.
The proportion of students achieving higher grades has remained high, with 44.7 per cent of pupils in city schools achieving A* to B grades, sustaining last year’s improvement compared to 42.4 % in 2016. So I would like to say a big well done to all pupils who collected their results and the their teachers. It’s an exciting time as A-levels open many doors, whether you are remaining in education, taking a training course or entering the world of work.
It’s also important not to worry if you’re unsure about your next move because there’s plenty of advice and support on offer right now.
The Youth Access Hub at City College Peterborough is a good place to start, giving students the chance to speak to careers advisers and a range of providers about their options.
I was equally thrilled to learn that the council has achieved a silver award in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
The prestigious initiative was launched in 2014 by the Prime Minister to recognise and reward UK employers for their support and commitment to the Armed Forces community.
Silver award holders demonstrate their support by employing at least one person from the defence community and actively communicating and projecting a positive image of the Armed Forces to their employees as we do in the council.
But this isn’t just about promoting the Armed Forces, it’s about providing practical assistance as well. So for example, staff with Armed Forces connections may need to take leave at short notice or go on training exercises and we work to support them.
We employ a number of people with Armed Forces connections and have an Armed Forces Board which organises a number of supportive events, such as Armed Forces Day, a ‘Blitz Bash’ and celebrations for veterans.
This award is a big feather in our cap, I’m proud of everyone who has worked towards it and in doing so helped the Armed Forces to do their sterling work.
If you love Italian food and let’s face it, who doesn’t, then you should definitely make a date in your diary for the Peterborough Italian Festival.
This will be the tenth year that the popular event has taken place in the city, with crowds set to flock to Cathedral Square on 8 and 9 September.
As in previous years, the Mediterranean extravaganza will feature a mouth-watering array of sweet and savoury food on offer, with lovers of pasta, ice cream and confectionery in for a treat. There will also be an Italian market, classic cars and motorcycles, football and boxing demonstrations and much more.
Also returning for this year’s event is celebrity chef and restaurateur Aldo Zilli, famed for his TV appearances and string of Zilli-themed restaurants, who will share his culinary expertise and sign books.
This week also sees the annual Peterborough Beer Festival take place, which always draws visitors from near and far to the Embankment.
We are lucky to live in a city with so many fantastic events going on - these are putting us on the map and boosting local tourism, which is one of our key priorities.
You may recall that we recently invited local traders to take up a stall at the city market for free this month.
Well I’m pleased to report that the initiative has been a success and we’ve attracted three new stall holders who are selling tea, local produce and Nigerian food, adding to the rich variety of products already on offer there.


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Non-ownership of land impacts delivery of government services in Bihar
THE FIRST TIME Sadhu Manjhi was introduced to the idea of having a toilet of his own, he felt his head spin. “A landless man like me! Imagine that,” he told himself.
Sadhu lives in Bihar, where more than three in five rural households have no land as per the 2011 Socio Economic and Caste Census. He is a member of the Musahar caste—one of the state’s most socially and economically backward groups—listed under the larger category of Mahadalits. Sadhu was born partially blind.
Standing at the intersection of the above three facts, the uneducated 55-year-old is an example of how government schemes can overlook those who are most in need of their benefits. In Sadhu’s case, one such scheme is the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), launched in October 2014, to ensure universal sanitation coverage. Though the SBM prioritises persons with disabilities such as Sadhu without land, they are either excluded from its benefits or become just a number in its beneficiary count.
Sadhu’s one-room house in Badauan village, Nimmi panchayat (Fatehpur block), stands by the side of State Highway 70, a busy 58km stretch that connects his home district of Gaya with Rajauli. His wife, Mina Devi, 46, is incapable of walking and drags herself a few feet at a time. The only toilet the couple knew till very recently were the farms some 500m away from their home.
“I have had countless falls since I was a child,” says Sadhu of his daily trek to those fields. Five years ago, he was hit by a tempo and was left with a fractured leg. Mina, who stitches bedcovers from old saris and makes ropes from coconut fibre to add to Sadhu’s income as a singer at weddings, births and celebrations, says, “I feared going to the fields on my own. Many times, I would not eat the whole day to avoid it.”
Walk for water: Sadhu Manjhi still has to take the busy highway by his home to get to the village pump to fetch water twice a day | Puja Awasthi
The challenge of being landless and thus being excluded from government benefits is an oft-repeated lament in Bihar. Maini Manjhi, a 44-year-old mother of eight in Mathna village in Gaya, says, “It is all very well to talk of toilets. But without any land to call one’s own, all conversation about good habits and behaviour change is just talk.” The uneducated and landless Maini’s observation is not just born of her lived reality as a Mahadalit. She speaks also as a flag-bearer of change in her village, where since 2016 she has been an elected ward member of the panchayat. “Toilets offer a sense of security and freedom. But without people owning the land on which they live, those feelings are not possible. It is not enough to just live on a land. You must have the papers to prove that it is yours,” she says.
SBM is only one of many schemes where benefits are hampered owing to landlessness. Till a decade ago, the house construction scheme for the poor—Indira Awas Yojana—was rendered useless to those who did not have land to build a house on, or those who could not prove legal ownership over the homestead they had inhabited for generations.
The Bihar Privileged Persons Homestead Tenancy Act, 1947, provides landless households with permanent and legal ownership of such land on which they have been living continuously for a year, provided they do not own any land elsewhere. As per the 2016-2017 report of the state’s department of revenue and land reforms, since 2009-2010, such land has been provided to 2,38,606 families, of which 88,068 are Mahadalits.
The presence of the law, however, is of no comfort to the residents of Dasli Tola, a tightly-packed hamlet of 350 Musahars in Budhaul. Uday Kumar Bhuiya, 29, has been fighting to get his people a share of their legally entitled land (three decimal for household purposes, as per Bihar’s above-mentioned act) since 2016. No one in his settlement owns any land. Yet Uday can clearly count three generations of his family who have lived in Budhaul. “We are six brothers living in four rooms. Each one of us is married. Land for toilets is a luxury,” says Uday, who gave up studying after a failed attempt at class 12 board exams.
In 2015, many families of the hamlet had their lands identified and measured. Receipts were also handed out. “We had to give a bribe of Rs10,000 to the amin (a survey official of the land department). Some families could not afford any money, so others paid for them. Not a single one of us has got the legal documents to prove land ownership,” says Uday. “The other castes in the village tell us not to get into a useless fight. What our grandfathers did not get, we will not either.”
There are only some like Sadhu in Badauan who can see beyond that generational despair stacked against them. For Sadhu, a chance encounter with a local organisation propagating toilet construction prompted him to build his own toilet. He dug a 40-feet pit in a tiny space next to his house. “For five days, I dug. We worked 12 hours a day. We worked till we could move no more,” he says. He then repeatedly demanded the local ward member’s help for accessing the government subsidy for toilet construction.
Sadhu’s toilet is far from ideal. Lack of space means it has just one pit against the mandated two. It does not include conveniences, such as a low-gradient ramp and handrails, which have been suggested by the ministry of drinking water and sanitation in its Handbook on Accessible Household Sanitation for Persons with Disabilities.
And, without a source of running water, Sadhu still makes the dangerous 125-step journey on the busy highway by his home to get to the village hand pump to fetch water, twice a day. If he is not at home and Mina runs out of water, she still avoids food for fear of having to use the toilet. Yet, just like that they are part of the numbers that have contributed to the village’s open defecation free status.
Birendra Kumar Mishra, Bihar’s director of land acquisition, says, “It is true that without land where does one construct a house or a toilet. How does one get benefits of the Indira Awas Yojana? It is all interrelated.” In October 2018, the state government decided to give eligible families Rs60,000 to buy land, and then give them the grant to build a house on it. “It might not seem like much, but it is enough to buy land in rural areas,” Mishra told THE WEEK. “One decimal of land comes at Rs20,000.” He, however, adds that the number of beneficiaries of the new scheme is still to be counted.
Sadhu says that owning land of their own does not figure in his dreams. “We are small people. This little is enough,” he says, as he strikes his red tambourine to sing a song he composed in praise of toilets.

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More locavore reading
These three nonfiction books by Tampa Bay area authors delve into local history.
Cocktail Noir: From Gangsters and Gin Joints to Gumshoes and Gimlets (Reservoir Square Books) by Scott Deitche, author of several nonfiction books about the Mafia in Tampa, here turns his knowledge of true crime into recipes for mobsters' favorite drinks.
Hidden History of St. Petersburg (History Press) by Will Michaels looks at both distant history, like the Maximo Park Indian mounds, and more recent events like Babe Ruth's and Al Capone's visits to the city.
Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down (University Press of Florida) by Bill DeYoung is a meticulously reported, compellingly written and sometimes surprising account of the 1980 disaster.
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The same is true for merchants that place orders with manufacturers. Finally, this might help eliminate waste in the supply chain.


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Those who’ve paid more than an occasional visit to MM will know of our love for Matthew Houck’s
Phosphorescent, and next month Dead Oceans will release a live triple album taken from their four night residency (including one night solo) at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn in December 2013.
Ten hours of music was eventually edited down to 19 tracks covering four Phosphorescent albums, including 2005’s Aw Come Aw Wry, 2007’s Pride, breakout 2010 album Here’s To Taking It Easy, and ultimately, 2013’s brilliant Muchacho.
A whole host of MM faves appear including two versions, one solo, of Wolves, our favourite song of 2013, Song For Zula and many others. Have a listen to the wonderful Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly) below.


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The Empire Attacks BDS For The Same Reason Nixon Started The Drug War
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Arkansas’ anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, because it plainly does.
“The Arkansas Times has successfully challenged a law that prohibits the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel,” Mondoweiss reports. “The Little Rock-based weekly filed the lawsuit in 2018 and was represented by the ACLU. The paper takes no official position on BDS, but it launched the legal challenge after the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College refused to sign an advertising contract with The Arkansas Times, unless it signed the pledge. A U.S. district court judge dismissed the case in 2019, but last week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found the law unconstitutional in a 2-1 decision.”
“One of the greatest threats to free speech are laws banning state contracts with any company or citizen advocating a boycott of Israel,” tweeted journalist Glenn Greenwald of the ruling. “Every court to review them, except one, declared them unconstitutional. That sole court just got overruled: good news. These laws, which proliferated in numerous states, haven’t received the attention they deserve given what a grave threat to free speech they pose.”
One of the greatest threats to free speech are laws banning state contracts with any company or citizen advocating a boycott of Israel. Every court to review them, except one, declared them unconstitutional. That sole court just got overruled: good news.https://t.co/mds7J36XCZ pic.twitter.com/zMS0ocCaz2
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 16, 2021
This is an important victory for civil rights defenders and for Palestinian rights activists, but it’s just one battle in a much larger war.
In a recent article titled “Biden officials pledge to fight BDS“, Electronic Intifada‘s Josh Ruebner documents the “vitriolic opposition” which various members of the current administration have voiced against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions protest movement against the Israeli government’s flagrant violations of international law and its apartheid abuses of the Palestinian people, and the administration’s support for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism which civil rights advocates criticize as “a pretext to smear and censor supporters of Palestinian rights.”
The Biden administration “embraces and champions” the so-called IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, a State Department official said on Monday.
Kara McDonald, deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, praised the definition “with its real-world examples” as “an invaluable tool” to “call hate by its proper name and take effective action,” according to the JTA news agency.
McDonald is serving temporarily as the Biden administration’s point person on the issue until it names a special envoy on anti-Semitism.
The IHRA definition has been promoted by Israel and its lobby groups.
It has been strongly opposed by civil libertarians and Palestinian and Jewish organizations which see it as a pretext to smear and censor supporters of Palestinian rights.
Its use as a tool of censorship has even been criticized by the definition’s original author.
This is because some of the definition’s accompanying examples equate legitimate criticisms of Israeli government policies and actions with anti-Jewish bigotry.
— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) February 4, 2021
So we can definitely expect the attacks on BDS and other Palestinian rights activism to continue with extreme aggression. Anti-imperialists often attribute this forceful campaign to Israel’s central role in the western empire’s geostrategic agendas in the Middle East, and that’s certainly a big part of it; if Palestinians are able to obtain equal rights in Israel the nation’s government and behavior will look drastically different from the way it looks today.
But another major motive behind these attacks which doesn’t get enough attention is to sabotage and undermine the left in the western world, in much the same way as the “war on drugs” was originally intended to do.
In 2016 the late journalist and author Dan Baum revealed something that he’d been told in 1994 by former top Nixon advisor and Watergate co-conspirator John Ehrlichman (emphasis added):
At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
In much the same way, those in charge of the capitalist empire could never get away with outlawing support for socialism or opposition to imperialism, but they can target things that socialists and anti-imperialists happen to support in order to disrupt the left.
Last month the prominent Israeli civil rights organization B’Tselem published an analysis titled “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid”, finding that “the bar for labeling the Israeli regime as apartheid has been met.”
Anyone who moves a sufficient distance to the left of the mainstream so-called “center” will necessarily find themselves in opposition to a right-wing government with institutionalized apartheid. The true left’s inherent opposition to injustice, racism and imperialism necessarily means a leftist will inevitably find their way into that position once they learn enough and move far enough outside of imperialist mainstream indoctrination.
By taking this natural consequence of sincere leftism and labeling it “anti-Semitism”, as the aforementioned IHRA definition of anti-Semitism effectively does, the imperial propaganda engine has given itself a bludgeon with which to attack every part of the ideological spectrum which opposes capitalism and imperialism.
Whether or not Ehrlichman’s account of the origins of the drug war is accurate (some dispute its exact nature), it cannot be denied that minorities and political dissidents have been affected far more adversely by the drug war than the white right-wingers who comprised Nixon’s base. Their leaders absolutely were arrested. Their homes absolutely were raided. Their meetings absolutely have been broken up. They absolutely were vilified night after night on the evening news.
In the same way, it hasn’t been neo-Nazis and other right wing extremists who’ve wound up targeted by the dishonest conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, it’s been peace activists and the left, whether that be on college campuses or in politics.
Astue analysis on the antisemitism accusations against the Corbyn-led Labour Party. @jsternweiner identifies three main groups who perpetuated the crisis.
Some of us were saying this from the outset!https://t.co/jsmmb1Em0J
— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) August 7, 2020
The strongest example of the latter is of course the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn, who through a series of odd accidents found himself within spitting distance of leading a major western power as an anti-imperialist socialist. This could not be tolerated, so an entirely bogus narrative about an epidemic of anti-Semitism in Corbyn’s Labour Party, largely aided by Corbyn’s history of support for Palestinian rights, was hammered day after day by the mass media with unbelievable force until his party lost and his faction was subverted.
Anyone of sufficient influence who is far enough outside the capitalist, imperialist consensus worldview will necessarily find themselves similarly targeted for their inevitable opposition to Israeli apartheid, with the shrieking narratives of the political/media class as shrill, urgent and hysterical as they need to be to undermine their subject into impotence.
This weapon will continue to be used against the left, not only to support Israel but to prevent the rise of any political movements in powerful western nations which would threaten the capitalist, imperialist world order.

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Plans for the McMillan Sand Filtration Plant in Bloomingdale/Stronghold have taken another baby step forward, with the distribution of a draft planned unit development application. Something very like it is supposed to hit the Zoning Commission this fall. For now, it helps to get a sense of what the developers have in mind for the scale, layout, and traffic circulation of the new community. Full thing here and after the jump.
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There’s just something I will never get over about going to a fine restaurant in a shopping mall. Even if it is a clinically chic, modern mall like the Time Warner Center. Partly, great eating experiences make you feel special, and there’s nothing like jostling your way down marble halls and up escalators packed with tourists and teenagers to set the wrong tone for your fine dining experience. But that’s exactly where Masa Takayama’s, highly hyped restaurant (which is split into two halves, Masa and Bar Masa) is located. Masa (the main dining room) seats 26, has no menus, and will set you back $300 a pop without wine or sake, that is, if you can get a reservation. Consequently it has gone on the “wish list” of restaurants to visit, and will get a review in its own time. For now, let’s talk about the part of the restaurant that mere mortals are likely to visit with more regularity, and the place Ruth and I happened to pop into for lunch a couple of months ago.
Though you do have to wend your way through the commercial space to get there, Bar Masa has done a good job at creating an atmosphere that leaves all that bright shiny mall world phenomena behind — J. Crew dims as a fading memory, soothed away by soft perfectly placed lighting, earthy palettes, and spare furnishings. You are assuaged with calm when you pass through the traditional hanging cloth “Noren” to enter the bar, which is divided directly in half by a main isle — tables on the left, bar on the right — with more hanging cloth creating a psychological if not physical divide of the two sections. The left wall is made up of large handmade Japanese ceramic tiles lit from above and below by diffuse lighting, the right wall is dark volcanic stone, which contrasts beautifully with the long bar, made from a single slab of African hardwood that just begs, with its dark red color and perfect finishing, to be stroked.
I think Bar Masa had been open for dining mere weeks when we stopped in, which might have accounted for both the lack of diners as well as what unfortunately ended up being somewhat slipshod service. Gaffs like taking my order for lemonade and then coming back several minutes later to tell me they didn’t serve it, and having to clarify our order several times were not things we expected from one of the top new restaurants in the city. No doubt kinks like these will get worked out as operations continue, but you know what they say about first impressions.
Most of that, thankfully was remedied by the meal. The food, which is an odd mix of items that in most cases wouldn’t end up on the same menu at a fine dining establishment in Japan, was generally very well done. The menu ranged from a la carte sushi to tempura; udon and soba to fried rice with Kobe beef. Interested in trying several things, we ordered a selection of sushi to start, as well as some toro sashimi, (which Ruth doesn’t like but is manna from the sea to me) and a small plate of tempura.
Masa gets several things very right for me when it comes to Japanese cuisine. The first is the presentation of the food, which most restaurants in America overdo with garnish: sprigs of daikon, fanned shiso leaves, you name it. Masa lets simplicity reign, carefully choosing the appropriate serving dish for each item — the unique ceramics are shaped, textured and colored to set off the food — and adds very little ostentation. Our sushi was eight pieces of nigiri on an eggshell colored long narrow porcelain tray that turned slightly at the corners, rough like the texture of dried sharkskin. Each dish we ordered was equally considered in arrangement, from the small, square blue plate under piles of tempura to the triangular earthenware that held the simple pyramid of fried rice with Kobe beef that we decided to split as an entree. If I knew more Japanese, and was able to understand more subtleties, I’m sure there are names for all of these types of ceramics, as well as the techniques for pairing them with food based on seasonality and other aesthetic concerns. Lacking that knowledge, all I can say is that Takayama gets it closer to what I’ve experienced in Japan than almost any other restaurant I’ve been to.
The other thing that I must applaud are the ingredients, which make the difference between ordinary and awesome in Japanese cooking. Everything we had was perfectly fresh — fresh grated wasabi with the sushi (sadly all too uncommon in the US), excellent cuts of fish, and snapping fresh vegetables and seafood in the tempura (which incidentally was some of the best I have had in the States). All of the dishes were the epitome of perfection with the exception of the Kobe beef fried rice dish, in which the precious meat was horribly overcooked and a little too salty. It seemed to me that the color of the beef was intentional, so I didn’t bother to send it back, but it was definitely a travesty, and a waste of good Kobe.
The wine list and sake list made available to us was short, though interesting, and I’m kicking myself for not asking to see the full dinner list before I left. The sake selection in particular is full of excellent choices, including a number of the upper echelon labels like Kubota, an old favorite. Presumably the dinner list is even better.
Desserts at lunchtime were simple, including green tea sorbet, and a few other confections that seem to have slipped off my notes. Ruth and I were a little too full to partake in sweets, so I can’t comment on their competence or tastiness.
Despite the service slip-ups and the strikeout on the fried rice, Bar Masa clearly offers some of the best Japanese cuisine in New York, and I certainly imagine it would be in the top few sushi restaurants, had I more experience trying a lot of them.
The evening menu is more extensive and more expensive, so while Bar Masa offers a good alternative to the wallet shredding prices of the main restaurant, if you’re not careful you can easily spend over $100 per person for dinner.
How Much?: Lunch for two ran $90, dinner will be probably twice that.
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New York, NY 10019-1201
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Dinner: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Friday, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday.

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LAKHIMPUR, Aug 12: Though the hunger strike unto death, initiated by the All Assam Salary Deprived Working Teachers’ Union at the Tyag Kshetra campus of North Lakhimpur town entered the third day on Sunday, the Lakhimpur district administration showed no response to the protest.
On that day, several teachers suffered from health problems like high blood pressure, gastritis and headache. During the past two nights, the protesters faced much inconvenience as the Tyag Kshetra has not been electrified.
More than 11 organizations, including the Lakhimpur district units of AASU, MASS, AJYCP, AMSU, AKRSU, Nikhil Bharat Krishak Sabha and Senior Citizens Association extended their moral support to the teachers. Lakhimpur MP Pradan Baruah arrived at the spot to take stock of the situation there. He promised to raise the issue in the State Finance Department. He also promised to talk to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on August 17 about the regularization of the posts of 9,236 teachers under the union who were appointed during the period between1991 and 2001.
The Lakhimpur district unit of MASS submitted a memorandum to him, strongly urging him to negotiate with the State and Union governments with a view to immediately resolve the sensitive issue.


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DescriptionHorticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in the horticultural sciences. The emphasis is on applied topics including the production of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamental plants of commerical importance. The title appears in the form of two volumes per year. These articles perform the valuable function of collecting, comparing, and contrasting the primary journal literature in order to form an overview of the topic. This detailed analysis bridges the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists.
Dedication: Margaret Sedgley (Bryan Coombs).
l. Analyzing Fruit Tree Architecture: Implications for Tree Management and Fruit Production (E. Costes, P. E. Lauri, and J. L. Regnard).
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V. Concluding Remarks.
4. Leucadendron: A Major Proteaceous Floricultural Crop (Jaacov Ben-Jaacov and Avner Silber).
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5. Chinese Jujube: Botany and Horticulture (Mengjun Liu).
IV. Environmental Requirements.
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Cumulative Subject Index.
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