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LAST NIGHT . . . Anne & I Lit our first Chanukah Candle in our Menorah, Representing the First Night in an Eight Day Festival, which Celebrates Freedom, Determination, & Courage . . . won by a Jewish Military Force, led by the Maccabees, some 200-Years before the Birth of Christ, against Greek Idol-Worshipers throughout Israel . . . and Specifically in Jerusalem, with all Odds Against The Jews.
THE MACCABEES – not only had to Fight the Enemy from Without . . . but also the Jewish Enemy from Within, who Chose to Sell-Out to the Idol Worshipers, Rather than to Stand-Up for what was Right.
I’M NOT GOING TO RE-FIGHT THE ALABAMA ELECTION . . . OTHER THAN TO WRITE:
Moore Was Not The Best Candidate . . . But That Changes Nothing.
No one, but Roy Moore and his Accusers . . . REALLY KNOW if the nearly 40-Year Old Accusations against him were TRUE & ACCURATE other than them. And at this point in time and place, there is no way to Prove the Accusations one-way or the other.
SO . . . WHETHER MOORE DID WHAT HE’S ACCUSED OF DOING OR NOT IS MOOT:
BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT . . . The Point – was that Roy Moore had to Fight ALL THE MEDIA, all the LEFT, all the DEMOCRATS and almost all the REPUBLICANS, only because of Unproven Accusations . . .
. . . And when it came right down to it, a Majority of Alabamans, just like the Jewish Pro-Greek Idol Worshipers, Sold Out, Rather than Fight, because Selling-out, and Buying the Accusation was the much Easier Path . . . than Standing-Up for the Truth .
THE LEFT, RINOS & MEDIA KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING:
SO I ASKED MY FRIENDS . . . Who said that Roy Moore was the Wrong Choice because of the Accusations, who also said they would vote for him, but very Unwillingly . . . if they had any Proof WHATSOEVER . . . that Judge Roy Moore was Guilty of any of the Charges against him?
THE ANSWER WAS NO . . . But the Accusers were Compelling – So the Victim of this Election wasn’t Really Roy Moore, but was actually the Essence of the American Judicial System, OF EVERYONE’S INNOCENCE UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.
In Other Words . . . The Conservatives – who did not vote for Roy Moore, or who WROTE-IN a Name on their Ballot, or perhaps voted for the Democrat . . . SWALLOWED HOOK, LINE & SINKER – a Totally Unproven Allegation of things that MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED ALMOST 40-YEARS AGO.
THE OTHER VICTIM OF THIS ELECTION . . . Is a great Part of President Donald Trump’s Campaign to Make America Great Again, since by electing the Democrat, Doug Jones . . . President Trump BARELY has enough Senators to help Pass his Agenda, not that he had much support amongst the RINOS before this SIGNIFICANT LOSS.
AND IF THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO STOP-TRUMP . . . SO FAR SO GOOD FOR THE LEFT:
I am Hearing & Reading Everywhere in the Mainstream Media . . . INCLUDING FOX NEWS, how this LOSS was a Monumental LOSS for Steve Bannon and his Core of Real Conservative Supporters. IT WAS NOT.
Steve Bannon Isn’t Running For Anything . . . But the RINOS who are doing all they can to Obstruct the Progress of the President’s Agenda – Mostly Are.
And if anyone thinks this Knife In The Back of a Conservative Republican, by SWAMP DWELLING Republicans is not going to have a Serious Consequence for RINOS IN 2018, they are Deluding themselves.
Mark Twain Famously Wrote . . .
. . . “Never Pick A Fight With People Who Buy Ink By The Barrel”.
In Today’s Modern World . . . Steve Bannon Buys Ink By The Barrel.
If anything, this LOSS was Proof Positive, that Steve Bannon, President Trump, and others who share the President’s View that the SWAMP MUST BE DRAINED, are 100% Vindicated, seeing how all the SWAMP CREATURES Circled the Wagons to Keep an OUTSIDER like Roy Moore from getting into their Private Club.
It’s Very Likely that Republicans throughout the USA might not have liked Roy Moore. He just might not have been their Cup of Tea. And they might not have been Comfortable with his Deep Southern Religious Acumen, or his Old Fashioned Down-Home Country Culture . . . BUT ROY MOORE IS A CONSERVATIVE, and would have supported President Trump, gone after the Swamp Creatures, and helped to keep the Barbarians At The Gate.
SO FOR ALL THE REPUBLICANS WHO WENT TO WAR AGAINST ONE OF THEIR OWN:
If we Really knew about the Inside Private Lives of all the Members of Congress . . . who they’ve Screwed, what kind of Perverted Sex they Enjoy, who they’ve Sold-Out To, how many are on Drugs, how many are Alcoholics, how many are Degenerate Gamblers, how many are Spouse Abusers, how many Cheat on their Wives or Husbands, how many are Unfit Parents, and how many are OUTRIGHT Cheats & Liars . . .
. . . WE WOULD HAVE VERY FEW PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR – And Judge Roy Moore, By Comparison, Might Come Off As A Paragon Of Virtue.
Last Night . . . Conservative Americans Danced With The Devil.
I ONLY ANSWER TO MYSELF . . .
I do not Pretend to be anything that I am not. And I don’t pretend to want to give LEFTISTS the Right to Comment on my Editorials on Galganov.com, to prove how nice a guy I am, when in Fact, I HAVE ZERO USE TO GIVE THE LEFT ANY KIND OF A PODIUM.
AS I SEE THE LEFT . . . They are the Enemy From Within, who wish to either Take Away or Restrict my (our) FREEDOMS, which are Essentially One and the Same.
Outside of Three Sponsors & Fewer than One Hundred Supporters who Help Cover some of my Costs, which makes it somewhat easier for me to Publish Galganov.com . . . I owe nothing to anyone, including the aforementioned.
I Write For Myself. And I make No Pretense of being Fair & Balanced, so as to Create the Illusion that I am Something that I’m Not.
WHAT I GUARANTEE . . . is that I will always Move Heaven & Earth to do my Best to Present the FACTS as Honest and as Accurate as Possible. And that I am an UNABASHED ADVOCATE FOR FREE SPEECH & CONSERVATIVE VALUES.
ANOTHER REASON NOT TO WATCH DAY-TIME FOX NEWS:
YESTERDAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2017 . . . as Anne and I sat down to have lunch, ON FOX NEWS – the “Outnumbered” program was Playing in the Background, when I heard Marie Harf, the LEFTIST Former Taking-Head for John Kerry’s Despicable State Department, when she called the President of the United States of America a “JERK & BULLY” . . . How’s That For Fair & Balanced?
With every passing day . . . the Perimeter between Right & Wrong, Truth & Lies, Freedom & Restriction, Community Rights Opposed to Personal Liberties, are Becoming Progressively more like the GORDIAN KNOT, where we either Break the Knot or Succumb to its Strangulation.
I For One Will Not Submit . . . And Neither Should You.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov


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Avocado and Prawn Mousse
|White wine||1⁄4 Pint (150 Milliliter)|
|Ripe avocados||2 Large|
|Mayonnaise||1⁄4 Pint (150 Milliliter)|
|Lemon||1⁄2 , zest grated|
|Double cream||1⁄4 Pint, whipped (150 Milliliter)|
|Peeled prawn||6 Ounce, chopped (100 Gram)|
1) In a small bowl, dissolve the gelatin in white wine.
2) Using a knife, peel, halve and stone avocados. Cut the flesh coarsely.
3) In a blender, blend with the mayonnaise, gelatin, lemon zest and seasoning.
4) Add a little water and liquidize until smooth.
5) Take a bowl and let to stand till it almost sets. Fold in the whipped cream and shellfish. Leave a few prawns for decoration.
6) Spoon it equally in 6 dishes and chill until set.
7) Garnish with some peeled prawns and parsley. Serve.

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Tech Roundup Episode 17 – Governor Doug Ducey on Tech Policy and Innovation
Eight years after he was first sworn in, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will leave office in January 2023 due to the state’s limit of two consecutive terms. In this episode, Governor Ducey joined tech policy experts Brent Skorup and Adam Thierer to discuss initiatives aimed at boosting innovation Arizona has launched during his time in office. Their conversation covered regulatory sandboxes, occupational licensing reform, autonomous vehicle policy, and much more.
This episode was co-sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Although this transcript is largely accurate, in some cases it could be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors.
[Music and Narration]
Introduction: Welcome to the Regulatory Transparency Project’s Fourth Branch podcast series. All expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
Jack Derwin: Welcome to the Regulatory Transparency Project’s Tech Roundup podcast, part of RTP’s Fourth Branch podcast series. My name is Jack Derwin, and I’m Assistant Director of RTP at The Federalist Society. For this episode, we’re very excited to be joined by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey for discussion on tech policy and innovation with Brent Skorup and Adam Thierer. In the interest of time, I’ll keep these intros very brief, but our speakers’ full bios are available at regproject.org. Governor Ducey has served as the 23rd governor of Arizona since 2015 and, due to Arizona’s limit of two consecutive terms, will leave office in January 2023. Governor Ducey was Arizona State Treasurer from 2011 to 2015. And before entering public service, he was CEO of Cold Stone Creamery.
Brent Skorup is a Senior Research Fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, where his research areas include transportation technology, telecommunications, aviation, and wireless policy. And Adam Thierer, who’ll be our moderator today, is a Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center, where he specializes in innovation, entrepreneurialism, and internet and free speech issues with a particular focus on the public policy concerns surrounding emerging tech. Finally, I’ll note that, as always, all expressions of opinion on today’s episode are those of our guest speakers. With that, I’ll get out of the way and turn things over to you, Adam.
Adam Thierer: Well, thank you so much, Jack, and thank you, Governor Ducey, for joining us today.
Doug Ducey: Good to be here.
Adam Thierer: Really appreciate it.
Doug Ducey: Thanks for having me.
Adam Thierer: So my colleague, Brent Skorup, and I, we do a lot of work on innovation and entrepreneurialism policy at the Mercatus Center and with our friends at The Federalist Society. And we hear a lot of discussion about innovation culture, which we generally think of as the unique combination of attitudes and public policies that can encourage or influence entrepreneurialism, job creation, labor mobility, and various types of consumer welfare choices. So Arizona is thought by many to be a leading sort of innovation culture state today in the United States and a model for many others. So take us, first, back in time a bit to when you came into office and how you set out an innovation culture for Arizona to lead the nation.
Doug Ducey: Well, thank you for the kind words about Arizona. I came from the private sector. My company was actually Cold Stone Creamery, the ice cream brand. So we opened up 1,440 stores in all 50 states. And in many ways, it was like a policy primer on how easy it is. Anybody that’s ever opened up a lemonade stand knows how an ice cream shop operates. And to see that we could open up in a state like Arizona for nearly $100,000, open and operating selling ice cream, and it was $500,000 plus in California, you start to ask, “Why is this, and how do you make the franchisee successful?” So when I came into office, I wanted to do everything I could, knowing that governors and legislators have nothing to do with creating jobs.
And I always get a kick out of it during the silly season of the election cycle, people talking about the jobs they’re going to create or the jobs that have been created. It’s the private sector, the innovators, and the risk-takers that create the jobs. But a governor can create the environment in which jobs are created. And for me, that was low tax, light regulation, and actually having an effective bureaucracy that could be responsive to any licenses that were necessary and clearing obstacles. So we set out to get the taxes lower and to eliminate regulations. And it was a much heavier lift than I thought. We’ve had a lot of success on the tax front. Today, Arizona has the lowest flat tax in the nation at 2.5 percent. We had the largest tax increase in state history last session. And I think if you took our state tax, income tax, corporate tax, and sales tax, you’d find Arizona to be the most competitive place in the country. And that’s not where we were eight years ago.
But the heavier lift was the reduction of regulations. I said in my first State of the State that if you want to learn something new, read something old. And Barry Goldwater had actually run for president, saying he did not want to pass laws but repeal them. We intended to do the same thing with regulations. But it took us about 18 months with a terrifically talented staff to get our arms around how many regulations the state of Arizona had. It was about 11,000 regulations. We’ve been able to eliminate over 2,100 of those. That’s the equivalent of $171 million tax cut without costing the general fund one penny. I think those two things, combined with a governor that very much enjoys being the chief spokesperson and salesperson for the state, has done a lot to bring innovation to Arizona.
Adam Thierer: That’s great. And specifically, the mechanism you utilize is something we’ve recommended a lot and at our institution, sort of a one-in-two or one-in-three-out kind of approach. And I mean, that was one of your first steps, right? That, and then you also addressed occupational licensing, and sort of did this under the banner of a right to earn a living. Talk to us through about the mechanisms that other governors could follow if they wanted to take your same approach.
Doug Ducey: Well, I think that mindset, that you do have a right, a fundamental right to your labor, and if you want to earn a living, we want you to earn a living — now, people are moving to Arizona from all over the country. I said in my second State of the State I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank my partner in growing Arizona’s economy, and that was then California Governor Jerry Brown. I had no idea that Gavin Newsom would be even more valuable to our population growth.
But what we wanted people to do when they arrived was to be able to earn a living immediately. So we passed something called universal recognition of occupational licensing. We kind of had a paradox on government here. We were going to actually trust your state government, that if you had a license in good standing from wherever you came, we were going to believe your government and allow you to apply it and get to work immediately and begin earning a living. I give credit to our state legislature for passing that. I’ve only got a one-seat majority in both chambers, so everything is a challenge. But we were able to do that. And it was funny to hear because we were the first state in the nation to do that — some of the objections were, “Well, if we do this, we’ll be benefiting people that are moving to Arizona. But what about Arizonians that are moving to Illinois? They won’t have the same option.” So I had to talk to some people that our job was Arizona, and we’d leave Illinois to Illinois.
But I think some new ideas like that bring a mindset, one, we have a job available for anyone that wants one right now. It’s the lowest unemployment in state history. And anybody that wants a better job can find one. Eight years ago, we were very much known for construction and call centers. And listen, there’s dignity in all work, including that work, and we need people in those jobs. But I had a lot of businesspeople from the community that I came from and say, “We’re going to help you. We’re going to support you. We love the state. We’re not going to leave. But my son or daughter who just graduated from you-pick-the-college, well, they can’t apply their degree in the state.” Well, we haven’t heard that for five years. I mean, high-tech, high-paying jobs to the service and tourism sector, opportunity’s abundant in the state of Arizona.
Adam Thierer: That’s great. And you mentioned Illinois. That’s my birth state. I wish you could help that state because, boy, it needs some help.
Doug Ducey: We’re Chicago’s favorite suburb.
Adam Thierer: So let me ask you about one other big picture reform before I turn to my colleague, Brent Skorup, for a few other questions. You’ve done a lot of work on experimental governance in the form of sandboxes.
Doug Ducey: Yes.
Adam Thierer: And Arizona has been a leader first and foremost on the financial sandbox field and then the more broad base—sort of what’s called universal sandboxing—which is an exciting example of what we refer to as decentralized governance or experimental or entrepreneurial governance. Explain to us how that came about and how effective it’s been.
Doug Ducey: Well, we are the home of Barry Goldwater. And Barry Goldwater certainly embraced liberty—the Goldwater Institute remains. They were the folks that promoted Right to Try. And Darcy Olsen was the leader on that. And it’s that mindset that — listen, state government should not be in the business of innovation. We should be doing things that are tried and true. But you do want to have a landscape where innovation can thrive. In many ways—I don’t know if we’re going to talk about education today, but I’ll use the same analogy—America never really solves a problem. We innovate out of it. And these new industries of Fintech and Proptech, things that we’re now starting to understand — we did some things with guardrails that allowed the private sector to thrive to bring new ideas where consumers and participants would be protected to a certain degree but also realized they’re taking a risk. There’s no guaranteed upside but allow that to then, the dynamism of the marketplace — to figure things out, and then policymakers can come in and say what’s necessary here to protect either public health or public consumption. And if nothing’s necessary, then let’s not do anything.
Adam Thierer: That’s great. So Governor, my colleague, Brent Skorup’s an expert on broadband transportation technology, driverless cars, and drones, and more. So I’m going to let him ask you a few questions about specific reforms Arizona’s undertaken on those fronts.
Doug Ducey: Yes.
Brent Skorup: Yeah, Governor, I just want to say thank you for making the time today. I’m an economic refugee from Illinois. I know there’s many of us in Arizona.
Doug Ducey: You’re fleeing. You’re fleeing.
Brent Skorup: Yeah. I mean, you’ve got Portillo’s in Arizona.
Doug Ducey: We have several. And we have several more being more being built.
Brent Skorup: Yep, yep.
Doug Ducey: What a concept. I mean, it’s incredible.
Brent Skorup: Yeah. I was very happy to see that. I do tech policy, and I think for many of us in tech policy, what put you and your state on the radar for us was, several years ago, the autonomous vehicle —
Doug Ducey: Yes.
Brent Skorup: — policies you put in place. And I know several years ago — but I’m curious if you could walk us through what happened. As I understand it—and I’ll just say for the audience—my impression of that, you put a task force in place and, probably speaking, took this permissive approach to autonomous vehicles with some oversight because, obviously, public safety is implicated by having autonomous vehicle testing on public roadways. But I was very encouraged by that.
I think you’ve seen other — I mean, I know you’ve seen other states take that model, apply it to autonomous vehicles, apply it to drones, apply it to passenger drones now today. I just want to add I see traffic safety as a huge public health crisis.
Doug Ducey: Yes.
Brent Skorup: The numbers are astounding, 38,000 deaths every year, many of these people in the primes of their lives. Autonomous vehicles will become part of improving traffic safety in the future. And so, I’m just really encouraged by what I saw. I can’t remember what year you did that, but can you walk us through autonomous vehicle—was this 2018, 2019 —
Doug Ducey: A little earlier than that.
Brent Skorup: — and what happened there? Yeah. Right.
Doug Ducey: Yes. Actually, in my first month as governor, we were hosting the Superbowl that year. And I was interviewing the agency heads that existed in government—all the people that helped me get into the governor’s office didn’t necessarily want to come work with me in the governor’s office. So I had to find out who was worthy of staying and basically asking agency heads, “Who are you, and what do you do? And how do you know if you’re doing it well?” And the guy that was leading the Department of Weights and Measures shared with me his plans to sting Uber and Lyft during the Superbowl and shut them down. And I thought, “Well, this guy certainly didn’t pay attention to the campaign.”
And it was the first time I talked to my general counsel about what my authority was over agency heads, and they serve at the pleasure of the governor. So he was returned to the private sector at that moment, and we brought somebody new in. And we also made it clear that that would not happen. And you would have thought I’d freed all the prisoners the way the press responded to this. They couldn’t believe that an agency head was fired, and they also thought that the regulations that had been written decades earlier for taxicabs could be applied to Uber and Lyft. So we made certain, in no unclear terms, that that was not going to happen. I don’t know if you’re watching this series on HBO of Travis Kalanick and Super Pumped with Uber. But that actually — I had never met Uber or Lyft. I, of course, was a customer. It was also eye-opening to me.
I asked the press at that time—and this was 2015—how many of them had ever taken an Uber. And not one of them—the state capitol press—had taken an Uber. And I said, “Well, these very convenient, very safe — people make better decisions.” Both Uber and Lyft were grateful because a lot of these big city mayors, including Phoenix’s, were trying to shut them down at the airport. And then, California started to charge Uber a fee to test their autonomous vehicles. And it was a few days before Christmas in 2015 or 2016—I can’t recall—but we were going to go on a family vacation. And Travis Kalanick called me, and he said, “Do you want to have some fun?” I said, “Well, what does that mean, Travis?” And he said, “I’m going to bring every autonomous car to Arizona, and we’re done with California.” So they came in on a double-wide with all the cars stacked up, and we began testing with Uber. Google was soon to follow with Waymo.
And the motivation was, one, we did want to be a place for innovation and welcoming of technology. We did see California as a major competitor. We thought we could be a better quality of life with the same attributes of Silicon Valley. But we were able to work with these organizations, I think have responsible protocols in place, and the motivation is public safety. You mentioned the tens of thousands of people that die every year through a human error. Now, of course, autonomy has not yet been perfected. It has come a long, long way, and we’re seeing some of these products being put to use in terms of food delivery on sidewalks, on campuses. You’ll see it at Arizona State University when you’re there. But I just don’t think we’re all that far away.
And at the time, I was thinking about my grandmother, who was 95 at the time. She was still alert. She still loved to be out and about. She couldn’t drive, and wouldn’t one of these vehicles be a terrific convenience for her and people that are blind and handicapped and disabled in addition to just people that are commuters? I mean, as governor, you enjoy a detail. And it’s amazing to me how much work you can get done in the car from the time you leave your home until you get to the office. So you’re talking real increase in productivity and quality of life as well. So those are the types of ideas that we welcome. I’ve talked to other governors about where they go for economic development. And you’ll hear — before the previous administration, you’d hear people talk about Shanghai or Beijing or Seoul or Tokyo. I’ve done a lot of economic development by going over to California and letting people know how welcoming we would be to this, how we would embrace new ideas, and at least let them thrive. Of course, we’re going to protect public health and public safety. But I think oftentimes, many of the regulators and bureaucracies can actually stop those innovations or make them feel unwelcome before they stop. That doesn’t happen in Arizona.
Adam Thierer: It’s a great example of competitive federalism at its finest —
Doug Ducey: Yes.
Adam Thierer: — and what we sometimes call innovation arbitrage. Innovators and investors shop around for where they’re going to be treated most hospitably. Increasingly, that’s Arizona.
Doug Ducey: That’s what frustrates me so much about coming to Washington, DC, is this is like Rome. All roads go through Washington, DC. And even some of the smart guys on my side, if I’m on a panel or a podcast like this with them and they get asked a question, they always have a federal solution rather than saying that’s out of our lane. And I do think if we had more of a laboratories of democracy among the states — when you become a new governor, you are actually invited to something called new governor’s school. It was very helpful to me. It’s led by the NGA. And at the first break, I had to go up to my hotel room and google John Hickenlooper and Steve Bullock because I couldn’t tell what party they were in. And it dawned on me then that they didn’t want Barack Obama running Colorado or Montana any more than I wanted him running Arizona. And I think most governors feel that way. So if we could find a way where Washington would stay in its lane—and it’s certainly here for a reason and there are worthy things to do—but there’s also so many things that could just be offloaded back to the states, full programs and dollars with no strings attached, and then let those governors and state legislators compete.
Adam Thierer: Brent, you had a question about broadband or drones?
Brent Skorup: Well, I just want to follow up and say, I mean, you really did start something. You saw governors across the nation really tripping over each other to invite autonomous vehicle companies come test on public roads after that. I know the democratic governor — I mean, this was not a Republican-Democrat thing. You had a Democratic governor in Virginia boasting that they were — they were permissive about autonomous vehicles.
Doug Ducey: Was that Northam or McAuliffe?
Brent Skorup: McAuliffe.
Adam Thierer: McAuliffe, yeah.
Doug Ducey: He liked to copy a lot of our good ideas.
Brent Skorup: Yeah.
Doug Ducey: I’m joking. I mean, I actually think when there is success in a state, governors do apply, just like businesspeople, best practices, where you say we’re going to reapply that, sometimes with attributions, sometimes without.
Brent Skorup: Yeah, no. I think it’s to their credit and Republican governors as well. And it really did jumpstart. Now, you are seeing this, as I said, in the areas where I work, which is drone policy and passenger drone policy and what’s called the advanced aviation industry. There are probably two dozen states that are creating task forces to, much like you did, experts and academics discussing, “How do these old laws and policies interact with a new industry that was not anticipated?” And you’re seeing that happen all across the nation. Yeah. I’m curious what’s — your term is winding up within a year. I’m curious on the regulatory side, the tech policy side, what’s an issue that you wish you could have spent more time on or that you think governors in the upcoming years need to spend more time on—again, on the regulatory reform or tech policy side?
Doug Ducey: Well, it’s encouraging to me seeing governors—like you mentioned Terry McAuliffe or Jared Polis in Colorado, Gina Raimondo to a large degree in Rhode Island — I do think, as thrilled as I am as what we’ve been able to achieve in contrast to California — and I’m under obligation and contract to take full advantage of it for the next 235 days. And it’s been great for Arizona. I don’t think it’s great for our country. Ronald Reagan said, had the Pilgrims landed on the West Coast, they would have never bothered to discover the rest of the country. Yet, you see this mass exodus today to places like Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. This is pretty simple policy that we’re all applying that can be applied elsewhere.
And it wasn’t that long ago that the way it was painted — a failed governor of a small state was elected president, and he was actually considered to be damn good on the economy. And that was Bill Clinton of Arkansas. And somehow, the economy has become a partisan issue, where it used to be something where, “Hey, we were going to provide opportunity for all, unleash the economic dynamism of our nation. And we may argue a little bit about the social safety net and how we cared for the most vulnerable.” But it seems to me that so many of these blue state governors have actually taken a page out of big city mayors’ book, and COVID-19 really demonstrated that.
I mean, small businesses were crushed to earth. Schools were shut down, oftentimes unnecessarily. Even today, we’re hearing about unnecessary vaccine and mask mandates. And I think if we look to basically the more conservative states that realize that it’s the individual, the family, and the small business that make the place run and tick and hum, you’ll see much more success, a higher quality of life. And Americans vote with their feet. We’re proud that people are packing up U-Haul trucks and coming to our state. We think it’s a sign of choosing.
Adam Thierer: Another one of your boldest reforms, Governor, involved the Right to Try, and now you’re off to Right to Try 2.0. So this is a really bold set of reforms and really exciting for many of us who’ve worked in this area for a long time and wonder will we ever get traction again at the federal level on this. The answer has been, unfortunately, not much. But now, you’ve made progress on this. Explain to us first what we mean by right to try and then how you’ve done this.
Doug Ducey: Well, again, this is a reform. The Goldwater Institute has been a font of good ideas. I think you heard the former President Trump talk about Right to Try in one of his State of the Union speeches. These are people that are in the worst of circumstances that have run out of options, and yet we know, and we’ve seen in many ways, the modern medical miracles that are possible but how they get stuck at the regulatory framework, at the FDA and other federal agencies. So this is the opportunity, in consultation with doctors, for people to try different therapies that can be efficacious for them, and they get to make that decision in full consultation. And we want to remove every possible legal obstacle. And we’re not talking about people out there experimenting. We’re talking about people in dire need.
Adam Thierer: Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Brent, do you have any other questions on more targeted issues? Broadband, perhaps.
Brent Skorup: Yeah. I wonder if you could speak about the broadband issues. I know you and your office prioritize broadband, particularly in rural and tribal areas. And if you could speak to that, there’s a lot of federal funding coming at the states.
Doug Ducey: Yes.
Brent Skorup: Over the past couple years, there’s billions from the Treasury Department, billions from MTIA, which is part of the Federal Commerce Department. Can you talk about what your state has done and just what you’ve heard about the importance of broadband and, frankly, how you prevent — or how do you keep this money going where it belongs because this will be a big issue for states as literally tens of billions of dollars come at states in the next couple years?
Doug Ducey: Well, I believe in opportunity for all. That was the theme of the campaign in 2014. And opportunity for all includes our rural communities, includes our tribal communities. And yes, the urban core already has this broadband. And in many ways—I mean, you know this hear being in DC—it’s much like electricity. If you can’t connect, you really can’t compete. And there’s many people that don’t aspire to one day move to Phoenix or Scottsdale. They’re happy living in Mohave County, and that’s where they want to stay. But they may have entrepreneurial energies, and they should be able to access the internet. Their kids should be able to learn and, where appropriate, have distance learning available. So I think everything under the economy, public health, we’re the first state to codify telehealth post-pandemic so that people don’t have to drive to the big city to meet with an excellent doctor. I am concerned, although grateful — I think there’s a number of things that Congress did right during the pandemic. They certainly strengthened and stretched the social safety net.
Now, in Arizona, we think it went on too long. We actually stopped paying people to stay home, not work. We flipped that and used the dollars to bonus people to go back to work. But we stopped paying out supplemental dollars. We just said jobs are available. The virus has subsided. You get a $2,000 bonus for going back to work full time. If you were in a situation where you couldn’t go to work full time, you get $1,000 bonus to go back. And now, we do have a river of resources that are coming from the federal government. Like I said, for the things that we can apply them to, I think there’s purchase there. I also think this is the answer to the question of, “Why do we have inflation that’s not transitory?” I mean, my economics teacher said it was too many dollars chasing too few goods, and we’re sitting on $5.2 billion surplus in Arizona. This is on a $8 billion budget when I came into office, and we had a $1 billion deficit.
So you can just see, yes, I’m proud of our economy. Yes, we have been able to lower taxes. Yes, we had been running surpluses. But part of the reason that it is so immense right now is the amount of printing and borrowing that’s coming from the federal government. So this is really where governors come into play—their teams and administrative heads. We met with Mitch Landrieu yesterday. I find him very effective on how he’s working these programs around infrastructure and the reconciliation bill. And we’ve got our chief operating officer working with our commerce authority working with our leader on the energy component to work together in cross purposes working with the federal government. And Mitch, as a mayor, knows how maddening it can be to apply a federal dollar to a local issue.
So I have some confidence that we’re going to be able to this on the broadband front along with some other things around electric vehicles, these hydrogen hubs. There’s a lot of opportunity here. But the important thing is to make sure this money just doesn’t evaporate into the ether, that it actually comes back in improving the lives of everyday Arizonans in our communities that are outside of the big city.
Adam Thierer: Governor, as our time winds down, let me ask you if – first, if you want to talk about any of your other priorities before you leave office, including — you mentioned education as a priority. But also, I want to ask you to talk to your fellow governors here and say — I can understand them probably expressing frustration when they hear you talk, like, “Oh, it’s Arizona. Ducey had it easy.” But you didn’t have it easy. You had a lot of opposition to all of these bold ideas. So how would you communicate to them when they face challenges on these fronts and say you can do it, too? Because I know you work with the Republican Governors Association and many other Democratic governors as well, what would your advice to them be and what you’ve learned in the process?
Doug Ducey: Well, I would say looking out across the landscape, I think governors really make things happen. Some of my Democratic peers might make different things happen than I would have happen, but the great thing about being a governor is you are the chief executive officer. You get to paint the vision, chart the course, pick the people, and put your agenda into place. So I see a lot of governors having the success that at least they want to or that they ran on. I would encourage governors — I’d like us to get more on this same page to lobby the United States Congress to offload some of what they’re doing. I mean, how about you guys focus on defense and foreign policy, possibly secure the border and reform immigration, and give us the rest and let us have at it. And I think we’d see what the founders intended in terms of a true federal system, a Washington, DC with powers that were few and defined, and the others left to the states.
And I do think governors, while we’re collegial and we do collaborate, at the end of the day, we’re competitive. I want to have lower taxes than the folks in my conference. And I do think we like to brag. And you see right now so much of this flow of people to these red states. Well, the way that’s going to be fixed is the pendulum’s going to swing back. You know, it was amazing during the pandemic seeing Andrew Cuomo on TV every day. And one of the press conference I caught, somebody asked him about the exodus of people out of New York to Florida. And he said, “Well, I’m going to have them over to my house. I’m going to cook. I’m going to persuade them.” And it’s just amazing to me that they don’t understand just lower taxes a little bit, lighten the burden.
Adam Thierer: Right.
Doug Ducey: And we’ve seen that as well in Arizona with out-of-state interest trying to come and actually target our most successful producers with the highest tax rate. Luckily, we were able to stop that and reverse it. And today, we have the lowest flat tax in the nation. So I think governors, by and large, are getting done what they want to get done. I think we should be asking for more responsibility. I think we’d have more involvement and focus on state government, and then we’d actually be able to see solutions because we’re not seeing that out of Washington, DC today. And in many ways, it’s because they’re trying to do way too much, and they’re doing most of it poorly.
Adam Thierer: Right. So before I turn it back over to Jack, to close us out, let me just thank you, Governor, for being here. And any other—I know you’re here talking about education in ton—any other priorities you want to mention before we wrap up?
Doug Ducey: Well, the number one line item on every state budget—and this is all 50 governors—is education. And I think we see that education is not working. It’s flatlined since 1972 in the United States with an unbelievable amount of investment. We’re spending $14,656 per student in Arizona, and I always try to get out of the mindset that somehow spending is the measure of success. We’re proud that our kids are leading the nation in improvement in math and reading. But where this is happening is where parents have a choice. We have more charter schools in the state of Arizona, over 550. These are schools of choice. Public schools, open to all but with private management where they could actually hire the people around the table here to possibly teach economics or student government, those types of things that don’t need the traditional certifications. We’ve got over 20 percent of our students in Arizona—over 200,000 kids—in those schools. Those schools, if you took those kids, are the number one performing state in the nation in terms of math, reading, science, and American civics. So this really works.
I’d like to see the next innovation be what we call educational savings accounts—actually backpack funding. I have found that parents are very good consumers, and they know when their child is not being challenged or learning something of value. And if we put that in the position where they were actually the customer, the client, in these public district K12 settings rather than just another number who had to take what they got and didn’t have much ability to push back or ask for some special attention, I think we’d get dramatically better outcomes in K12. And when K12 education is working, all the other things in public policy will just be better.
State budgets are pretty simple to understand. We educate, medicate, and incarcerate. That’s about 97 percent of the budget. You get the education right, you’re going to really reduce the incarceration part of it. People are going to make better personal decisions around their healthcare as well. So I’m a big fan of focusing on education. And please, Washington, DC, stop trying to help us on this. Just push those dollars back and let the states innovate but also give us the opportunity to do that. What the Biden administration has done in recent months to try to stop and cripple charter schools is really mind-boggling, especially when this issue, just the day before yesterday it seemed, was a bipartisan issue being championed by people like Michael Bloomberg in New York City.
Adam Thierer: Yeah. Well, that’s really exciting. And thank you, Governor, for spending time talking about these issues with Brent and I today. And thank you for providing a model –.
Doug Ducey: Thanks for having me. Thanks for the good work you do.
Adam Thierer: Thanks for providing a model for innovation culture for all other states to follow. So with that, I’ll turn it back to Jack to wrap us up.
Jack Derwin: Can’t thank you enough, Governor, Adam, Brent for taking the time to join us today for this great discussion. And thank you to our audience for tuning into this episode of RTP’s Tech Roundup Podcast. You can subscribe on any major podcast platform and check out our website, regproject.org, or our social media account @fedsocrtp to stay up to date. Thank you.
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Libya won the bronze medal in the World Shooting Championship, which kicked off at the El-Remaya Square in the Giza Governorate in Egypt.
350 shooters participated in the World Shooting Championship, representing Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Italy, the United States, France, England, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Armenia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Japan.
The French team, consisting of the trio Franck, Delmas and Francis, won the gold medal for achieving 54 successful throws.
The Egyptian team, consisting of the trio of Hassan Al-Kori, Franco Donato and Ahmed Youshra, won the silver medal with 53 successful throws.
The Libyan team, consisting of the trio of Osama Abu Khdeir, Miftah Al-Mushahi and Arhuma Mohamed, won the bronze medal with 48 successful throws.
The championship began with the Grand Prix Championship and the competitions of the African Championship on the fields of shooting ranges in Egypt’s International City for Olympic Games in the New Administrative Capital.
The tournament is held under the auspices of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. It was hosted by Egypt from October 11th to 18th, with the participation of 350 male and female shooters from 15 Arab and foreign countries.
Major General Hazem Hosni, Head of the African Shooting Sport Federation and Head of the tournament’s organizing committee, confirmed that the championship will witness skilled competitions. He noted that the last World Shooting Championship was in 2016 and Egypt had won the organization of the world championship in 2018. However, due to the repercussions of the spread of COVID-19, it was postponed to 2021 (the current championship).
The tournament is judged by a group of international judges including, Amr Abu El-Ezz, Burj Mashgian, Magdy Shafiq, Salah Qassem, Atef Naim, Ayman Attia, Tarek Othman, Misak Leon, headed by Ahmed El-Amrawy.

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Archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old church in Turkey’s northern Sinop (Greek Sinope) province, the excavation lead told reporters.
The discovery was made during excavations which were launched in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The lead archaeologist Professor Gulgun Koroglu from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University told the Anadolu Agency that the structure they found was used as a church in the late 6th century.
“We have reached the southern wall of the church and found various tombs under it,” Professor Koroglu said, adding that the church had also been used for burials. Koroglu noted that the church was used until the 11th century.
Archaeologists expect to make other historical findings near the area, the professor said, adding that they have reached over 1,000 tombs so far.


For the first time, researchers have been able to observe the thoughts of a living fish while it engages in its natural behavior.
Using thought alone, a paralyzed woman has been able to move a robotic arm to serve herself coffee for the first time in 15 years.
German researchers have used drivers' brain signals, for the first time, to assist in braking, providing much quicker reaction times, they say.
A 'brain cap' being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion, potentially allowing them to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized wheelchairs and even digital avatars.
If you like to let your thoughts wander while driving, then this car's definitely not for you. Not content with having created a car that can be steered entirely through eye movements, engineers at Freie Universität Berlin have now built one that can be controlled with the power of thought alone.
Japanese scientists are preparing to develop "mind-reading" robots and consumer electronics that can be controlled by thought.


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OMAHA, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., is not interested in becoming President Bush's next agriculture secretary, the Omaha World-Herald said Friday.
Citing a congressional source speaking on the condition of anonymity, the paper said White House political adviser Karl Rove called Nelson, a centrist, last Friday to inquire whether he had any interest in becoming the second Democrat in Bush's Cabinet. After considering the offer, Nelson decided to remain in the senate.
Nebraska's other senator, Republican Chuck Hagel, said Thursday he doubted Nelson ever was under serious consideration. A second congressional source said no formal job offer had been extended to the Democrat.
"The White House has told this congressional staffer that reports that Nelson was offered the job of secretary of agriculture are inaccurate," the second source said.
Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced her resignation Monday.


Swamy Ra Ra, starring Nikhil, Swathi and Pizza fame Puja in the lead roles, has released recently and gained a good success. Sudheer Varma is the director. Chakri Chigurupati produced and Shankar Chigurupati presented this film under Lakshmi Narasimha Entertainments banner.
A success meet has been arranged at Prasad's Imax and the team has organised a flash mob to entertain the audience.
Nikhil said, " The movie has been getting a good response right from the release. The response has been very good from all the areas and the movie running successfully even in overseas. The director has made a brilliant subject into a movie very innovatively and stylishly. I did not expect a huge hit like this. I have got a success after a very long time. Krishna Vamsi and Nani praising us after watching the movie has boosted us. I thank all the audience who have made this movie a big hit".
Sudheer Varma said, " I am very happy at my first success. Music, editing and background score have become the plus to this movie. I thank all my team and the audience who have made this movie a big success".
Swathi said, " I congratulate all my team. This is a very special movie for all of us and I thank the audience for making it a hit".
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LOS ANGELES (May 14, 2015) – Nissan North America recently teamed up with the longtime partners Habitat for Humanity and the Heisman Trophy Trust to change the lives of a local Los Angeles family.
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Liverpool forward has thanked Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp for his superb form.
Salah has arguably been the Premier League’s best player behind Kevin de Bruyne, having returned to England following a difficult spell at Chelsea.
Asked why he believes his improvement is so marked, Salah took the chance to praise Klopp for his motivation of Liverpool’s players.
“The boss has given me the chance to improve and show the world my football – that made up my mind to come,” Salah told FourFourTwo magazine in an interview for their latest edition.
“Is he the same every day as he is on the touchline? Yeah, definitely.
“He always wants to do his best for the team, to make everyone smile and be happy, which means every player wants to give 100 per cent for him.
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The Wright State baseball team swept this week's Horizon League awards as Jake Hibberd was named the Batter of the Week while Cody Kopilchack was selected as the Pitcher of the Week.
Hibberd (Miamisburg, OH/Miamisburg) picked up Batter of the Week accolades after hitting .500 in Wright State's four games last week. He started the week by going 1-for-4 at nationally-ranked Kentucky on March 13. In Wright State's three-game league-opening series against UIC, the senior first baseman batted .571 (8-of-14) with one home run, driving in six runs and scoring four himself. In Friday's 5-1 loss to the Flames, Hibberd went 3-for-5 and scored WSU's only run of the game. In the Raiders' 8-0 win on Saturday, Hibberd was 2-for-3, scoring one run and driving in another. In the series-clinching win on Sunday, the Raiders were behind 7-6 in the bottom of the seventh inning when Hibberd hit a grand slam to give WSU a lead it would never relinquish.
Hibberd has steadily climbed the conference hitting lists this season and now ranks in the top-10 in the League in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and RBIs.
Kopilchack (Lima, OH/Shawnee) notched the Pitcher of the Week honor after pitching seven shutout innings in Wright State's bounce-back win over UIC on Saturday. The junior lefthander gave up only four hits and struck out four as the Raiders defeated the Flames 8-0 to even the series.
Kopilchack improved to 2-2 on the season with the win and now ranks third in the league in ERA (3.33) and leads the conference in opponent's batting average (.196).
Wright State (8-9, 2-1 Horizon) will host Wilmington Wednesday at 6:30 at Nischwitz Stadium before hitting the road this weekend for a three-game league set at Butler.

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COLUMBUS — Douglas Krumlauf pleaded guilty Wednesday to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
Krumlauf, 63, of Mount Vernon, had been indicted in April 2018 of one count of aggravated murder and murder with gun specifications in the Jan. 30, 1985, death of Sharla R. Spangler, 24.
Wednesday he was sentenced to eight years in prison after agreeing to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The victim’s sister, Carla Hamilton, agreed to support the deal in exchange for an explanation of why her sister was shot twice in the head and her body dumped in a northeast side parking lot in 1985, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Judge Gina Russo approved the eight-year sentence — five years for involuntary manslaughter and three years for a gun specification — recommended by the prosecution and defense. The maximum sentence for the offenses is 14 years.
Krumlauf’s attorney, Sam Shamansky, explained in court how Krumlauf fatally shot Spangler after meeting her at a go-go bar on Jan. 30, 1985.
Spangler disappeared at the end of her shift as a dancer at the Gold Fox Lounge on West Johnstown Road in Gahanna. Krumlauf met her there that night, and the two agreed to leave together.
“Unfortunately, as they drove off, an argument ensued,” Shamansky said, directing his comments to Hamilton. “Mr. Krumlauf’s wallet was grabbed, and as she was getting out of the car, and through absolutely no fault of her own, and with no justification, and with no reason under the sun, Mr. Krumlauf took your sister’s life.”
Spangler’s body was discovered the next day beneath a parked tractor-trailer in a Hamilton Road parking lot.
Fingerprints were recovered from the trailer and a roll of tape, according to the prosecuting attorney’s office. There was no match until Krumlauf’s fingerprints were collected after a domestic violence arrest in 2015. After they were entered into the computer database, they were a match to those found in 1985. Investigators then re-tested DNA found on Spangler’s body and made a further link to Krumlauf.
Krumlauf was the owner of Tileman, Inc., in Mount Vernon.


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That’s because your credit score impacts so much in your life these days, from rent and homeownership to credit card approvals, interest rates on student and auto loans to even employment. But too often, we’re still in the dark when it comes to credit scores, credit reporting, and general financial knowledge about debt management.
As the nation’s leader in credit repair solutions, Nationwide Credit Clearing is committed to helping educate you about these important topics. This is part three of our ongoing series as we count up to 50 things you didn’t know about credit score, credit reporting, and debt.
Look for part one and part two here and contact us if you have any questions or credit issues at all!
1. A survey by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) discovered that the majority of consumers (just over 50%) had no clue that their credit scores can be checked and monitored by anyone other than credit bureaus. Only 53% of respondents knew that electric utilities checked credit scores and only 68% knew that home insurers, cell phone companies, and landlords regularly do the same.
2. However, even you may be shocked to hear that 90% of home and auto insurance companies check credit scores to help determine your coverage options and also what premiums you’ll pay.
3. A 2016 survey conducted by VantageScore found that only 32% of Americans (less than one-third) had received a copy of their free credit report within the last year, and 16% hadn’t even received a free report within the last three years.
4. Not to pick on college students, but they still have a lot to learn – about their classroom subjects as well as about credit scoring. In fact, a study by Equifax found that only 45% of college kids have any idea what their credit score is! It seems the majority of college students check their credit when applying for a credit card (41%), a new debit card or bank loan (33%) compared to only 4% who request and receive a paid copy.
5. Not only is credit score a crucial factor when you want to apply for a new loan or a mortgage, but employers are screening their potential employees for credit score like never before. It’s estimated that 1 in 4 unemployed Americans have been subjected to a credit score check when they applied for a job, and 1 in 10 has been denied a job because of a bad score or something on their credit report!
6. Adding to the credit score confusion, 45% of respondents think that age is a factor in credit scoring, and 38% believe marital status plays into their credit score. (Do they believe single or married people get a score bump?)
7. On the other end of the spectrum, about 26 million people – or 14% of the adult U.S. population – has no credit score at all, called “credit invisible.” Some of them are immigrants who haven’t had the chance to establish credit lines in the U.S., while others are from low-income or unstable environments and never have taken out a credit card or loan.
8. We all know the Big Four credit card companies now (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and Amex), but the first ever credit card that allowed a member to purchase anything they’d like and then pay it back over time was called BankAmericard. Issued in 1958, they changed their name to the more-familiar “Visa” in 1977.
In 1966, the Interbank Card Association bought the rights to “Master Charge” from the California Bank Association, which they renamed “MasterCard” in 1979.
9. Americans may be buying new cars, homes, and fancy electronics, but how are we paying for everything? Too often, the answer is with debt. In fact, 52% of Americans spend more money than they earn every single month, and 21% have regular monthly bills that are more than their take-home pay! 1 in 4 Americans have more debt than savings, and the average American spends $1.33 for every dollar they earn.
10. The American Bankers Association found that 44% of Americans surveyed thought that credit scores and credit reports were the exact same thing! That’s probably why a study by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) revealed that a significant portion of consumers thought that they didn’t need to know their credit score because they already had a copy of their credit report.
Online fraud is one of the fastest growing forms of crime, reaching epidemic proportions in a nexus of technology and cruel anonymity that defies international borders. The highest instance of fraud attempts is now aimed at businesses, violating their often-weak or nonexistent firewalls to access customer financial data, and using it with impunity.


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Brasilia, Brazil (CNN) - President Obama defended his decision to authorize U.S. involvement in the military action in Libya by casting himself as a reluctant warrior, saying he and other key U.S. allies had no choice but to act because of fears that Moammar Gadhafi was planning to kill more of his own people.
"I want the American people to know that the use of force is not our first choice and it's not a choice that I make lightly," said Obama. "But we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy, and his forces step up their assaults on cities like Benghazi and Misurata, where innocent men and women face brutality and death at the hands of their own government."
Obama added pointedly: "Actions have consequences, and the writ of the international community must be enforced. That is the cause of this coalition."
Aides said Obama has no plans to cut this five-day trip to this region short because he has secure communications wherever he goes around the world and is traveling with top aides like National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Chief of Staff Bill Daley who can offer face-to-face briefings. Obama will visit Rio on Sunday before heading to Chile and El Salvador later in the week.
In an interestingly symbolic twist, Obama authorized U.S. military force on what just so happened to be the eighth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. No doubt with that conflict in mind, Obama sought to address lingering concern around the world about unilateral U.S. military action.
Obama said he is "deeply aware" of the risks of any military action, repeatedly stressing that key members of the international community have come together to confront Gadhafi in Libya.
"In this effort, the United States is acting with a broad coalition that is committed to enforcing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which calls for the protection of the Libyan people," said Obama. "That coalition met in Paris today to send a unified message, and it brings together many of our European and Arab partners."
A senior U.S. official also emphasized to CNN that Obama is privately planning for the U.S. portion of the military action in Libya to only last for a few days.
"In terms of the heavy kinetic portion of this military action, the president envisions it as lasting days, not weeks," said the senior official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about private military planning. "After that we'll take more of a supporting role."
In his public remarks, Obama again and again used the phrase "broad coalition" and also noted that he had carefully consulted with Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress on Friday, and aides placed calls to lawmakers on Saturday, before the military action was taken.
It was also significant that French planes started the military action on Saturday before the U.S. missiles were launched, as if to underscore Obama's determination to not put his administration's signature all over it.
Mindful of the long deployments for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, he also emphasized again that he will not use any ground troops in Libya.
"As a part of this effort, the United States will contribute our unique capabilities at the front end of the mission to protect Libyan civilians, and enable the enforcement of a no-fly zone that will be led by our international partners," said Obama. "And as I said yesterday, we will not - I repeat - we will not deploy any U.S. troops on the ground."
Obama also carefully framed the military action as an unfortunate consequence of Gadhafi's refusal to stop attacking his own people.
"Even yesterday, the international community offered Moammar Gadhafi the opportunity to pursue an immediate cease-fire, one that stopped the violence against civilians and the advances of Qaddafi's forces," Obama said. "But despite the hollow words of his government, he has ignored that opportunity. His attacks on his own people have continued. His forces have been on the move. And the danger faced by the people of Libya has grown."
It was the second time on Saturday that Obama addressed the urgent situation in Libya. Earlier, during talks with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he had also stressed the broad-based nature of the coalition and his reluctant to take military action.
"The people of Libya must be protected," said Obama. "And in the absence of an immediate end to the violence against civilians, our coalition is prepared to act, and act with urgency."
An initial resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council imposing sanctions against Libya did not stop Gadhafi from attacking his own people. Therefore the council passed a second resolution on Thursday night authorizing open-ended military action by member nations, including a no-fly zone over the skies of Libya.
While Brazil abstained on the vote because of its concerns that the resolution was too broad, a coalition of the U.S. and other key allies passed the resolution by a 10-0 margin, leading to French planes firing on Libyan military vehicles on Saturday.
Obama declared that "our consensus was strong and our resolve is clear" coming out of the U.N. debate.


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A total of 2,000 cold- affected people living in Bhola district have been given blankets from the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund.
Lalmohan upazila administration in this regard organised a programme on the premise of the Badarpur Union Parishad in the upazila on Friday morning.
Member of Parliament (MP) from Bhola-3 constituency Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shawon handed over the warm clothes to the poor and cold-hit people living in Badarpur union as the chief guest.
Lalmohan Upazila Parishad chairman Principal Gias Uddin Ahmed, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) Touhidul Islam, Upazila Awami League general secretary Fakhrul Alam Hawlader and chairman of the UP Asadullah Melkar, among others, were present on the occasion.
MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shawon urged the rich people to stand by the cold affected poor people to reduce their suffering.


The spread of the disease is measured by country-level reports of confirmed and probable cases.
How reliable is this data. Does the data justify a Worldwide public health emergency, including a $40 billion dollar vaccination program which largely favors a handful of pharmaceutical companies? In the US alone, the costs of H1N1 preparedness are of the order of 7.5 billion dollars.( See Flu.gov: Vaccines, Vaccine Allocation and Vaccine Research)
Following the outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu in Mexico, the data collection was at the outset scanty and incomplete, as confirmed by official statements.( See Michel Chossudovsky, Is it the "Mexican Flu", the "Swine Flu" or the "Human Flu"? Michel Chossudovsky Political Lies and Media Disinformation regarding the Swine Flu Pandemic)
The Atlanta based Center for Disease Control (CDC) acknowledged that what was being collected in the US were figures of "confirmed and probable cases". There was, however, no breakdown between "confirmed" and "probable". In fact, only a small percentage of the reported cases were "confirmed" by a laboratory test.
On the basis of scanty country-level information, the WHO declared a level 4 pandemic on April 27. Two days later, a level 5 Pandemic was announced without corroborating evidence (April 29). A level 6 Pandemic was announced on June 11.
There was no attempt to improve the process of data collection in terms of lab. confirmation. In fact quite the opposite. Following the level 6 Pandemic announcement, both the WHO and the CDC decided that data collection of individual confirmed and probable cases was no longer necessary to ascertain the spread of swine flu. As of July 10, one month after the announcement of the level six pandemic, the WHO discontinued the collection of confirmed cases. It does not require member countries to send in figures pertaining to confirmed or probable cases.
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The spacecoast business 2017 Business Leaders of the Year is a rare opportunity to meet and hear from seven leaders in healthcare, technology, civic development, entrepreneurialism and more, who are having an impact not only their business sector, but on the larger business and cultural ecosystem.
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Titusville, Florida – SpaceCoast Business magazine is recognizing RUSH Construction’s President & CEO, William Chivers, along with some of the most admired and influential individuals in Brevard, on December 5 th at the 2017 Business Leaders of the Year celebration. This year’s event will be held at the Space Coast Convention Center in Cocoa, FL.
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MELBOURNE, FL (Nov. 1, 2016)-SCB Marketing, one of Central Florida’s leading multimedia marketing firms and producers of the area’s foremost Business and Lifestyle publications today announced the promotions of two employees.Eric Wright has been promoted to President, Publishing Division, for all company publications, including SpaceCoast Living, SpaceCoast Business, i4 Business and.
Space Coast, Fla. (June 2, 2017) – GrowFL has announced the 2017 Florida Companies to Watch finalists. The awards ceremony – now in its sixth year – honors 50 select second-stage companies from throughout the state for developing valuable products and services, creating quality jobs, enriching communities, and broadening industries throughout Florida.
Spacecoast Business, Melbourne, Florida. 5.5K likes.. Both teams from last year’s Super Bowl, 8K Solutions – Space Coast Business Magazine. 8K Solutions in Titusville provide expert service and innovative lines of ultra-high-definition cameras to professional and collegiate sports.
Melbourne, FL (February 9, 2017) – Space Coast Women In Defense (SCWID) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 STEM Innovators of the Year Awards: 2016 – STEM Business Innovator of the Year: Larsen Motorsports, Palm Bay, Florida 2016.


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As far as wood-fired food goes, pizza is the tip of the iceberg at Il Falò, an upscale Italian eatery that opened last week at the Westin hotel in Raleigh’s Brier Creek neighborhood.
Nearly every dish on Il Falò’s dinner menu, designed by James Beard award-winning chef Bradford Thompson, contains an element of wood-fired blister, crisp, or char. Secondi courses (half chickens, strip steaks, halibut) are given the full inferno treatment, as are vegetable sides like cauliflower and romanesco.
The three antipasti on the menu—arancini, Tuscan white bean hummus, and shaved-to-order Italian salumi with cheese—come paired with wood-grilled vehicles (crostini) or garnishes (sweet peppers).
Even some cocktail ingredients, like carrots, get a taste of the flame. (The carrots are juiced post-char, in case you’re picturing, as I momentarily did, a whole carrot standing upright in an old-fashioned, like a buoy in a bourbon bay.)
Il Falò’s pizzas are light on toppings, as is tradition with Italian wood-fired pies, which have thin, leopard-spotted crusts that are as much a part of the experience as the dollops of black truffle pesto they accommodate.
Wood-fired cooking methods, which deepen flavor and refine texture, can be difficult to build entire menus around, especially for a large restaurant like the 5,000-square-foot Il Falò. Pizza ovens in particular are temperamental and limited in space, rapidly losing heat when overloaded.
Il Falò’s kitchen, though, has two wood-burning apparatuses: a stone hearth pizza oven as well as a newfangled system called the “Grillworks Infierno.” How much good would two wood fires do if Il Falò didn’t chiefly serve wood-fired food?
Il Falò is currently open for dinner and breakfast seven days a week. The breakfast menu, also created by Thompson, is served buffet-style and includes a fire-roasted mushroom frittata as well as regular stuff like waffles.
In the future, the restaurant plans to open for lunch and weekend brunch hours, including a Mother’s Day brunch on May 14.
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This video from Britain is called Peter Mandelson confronted over MPs’ expense claims.
From daily The Guardian in Britain:
Lord Mandelson confirms he is advising company accused of illegal logging
Peer’s consultancy works for paper and pulp multinational alleged to have chopped down protected trees
Rob Evans and Kate Hodal in Jakarta
Thursday 10 May 2012 20.36 BST
Lord Mandelson has been recruited to advise a multinational company accused of illegally chopping down endangered rainforest.
For more than a decade, APP, one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, has been accused by environmental groups such as Greenpeace of destroying thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest and endangering some of the world’s rarest animals. A growing number of firms have boycotted APP.
The disclosure comes as Mandelson and other peers are expected to face pressure from the House of Lords authorities to declare their clients.
Global Counsel, the consultancy Mandelson chairs, does not name its clients as it “respects their privacy”. But after inquiries by the Guardian, he has confirmed that Global Counsel has a contract with APP, the first time he has acknowledged a client of his firm. The company says it is helping APP meet new EU rules requiring timber imported from Indonesia to be sustainably sourced.
The peer acquired a large roster of contacts from his time as the European trade commissioner between 2004 and 2008, and as a key member of the administrations of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
There has been long-running concern about politicians who exploit their contacts and knowledge gained while in public office after they leave power. …
The peer has travelled twice to Jakarta in recent months and held meetings with the EU ambassador there; his staff have met members of the Indonesian government.
When Mandelson lost his post as business secretary after the 2010 general election, he set up the “strategic advice consultancy” with financial backing from WPP, the marketing services group headed by Sir Martin Sorrell. Under Whitehall rules, he was barred from lobbying ministers and officials in the British government for two years after he left office. It appears that he has been concentrating on getting work from foreign companies.
Mandelson has been accused of using a loophole in the Lords’ register of financial interests to sidestep a new requirement to disclose certain clients of Global Counsel. He is understood to reject the accusation on the grounds that he acted with advice from the Lords authorities. A Lords committee is reportedly recommending that peers who have set up consultancies declare their clients or leave the parliament.
APP is a controversial Chinese-Indonesian company owned by the Widjajas, a rich dynasty. In recent months, APP has come under growing pressure after it was accused of illegal logging in Indonesia and damaging the habitats of rare animals such as the Sumatran tiger. A year-long Greenpeace investigation, published in March, alleged that endangered trees, known as ramin, have been chopped down and sent to factories to be pulped and turned into paper. The trees grow in peat swamps in Indonesia where the dwindling number of surviving Sumatran tigers hunt. Greenpeace alleged that it found ramin logs in a paper mill belonging to APP on nine occasions over a year. Chopping down ramin trees, a protected species under an international treaty, has been illegal under Indonesian law since 2001. Wood from the rainforests is being turned into everyday products around the world such as photocopying paper, tissues and paper packaging, according to Greenpeace. …
Last month, three large companies said that they were going to stop buying paper products from APP, either for ever or until they were satisfied that the products were being produced sustainably.
At least 67 companies worldwide, such as Tesco, Kraft Foods and the office suppliers Staples, have boycotted APP since 2004, according to a Greenpeace list.
APP has consistently said it has always acted in an environmentally responsible manner, that it has not been destroying large areas of Indonesian rainforest and that it was a prime mover behind establishing a sanctuary for the Sumatran tiger.
A Greenpeace spokesperson : “Asia Pulp and Paper has been responsible for the destruction of vast swaths of Indonesia’s rainforests, including areas of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger. Mandelson joins a growing list of spin doctors and industry stooges who have tried to rehabilitate APP’s image.” …
The peer, who is also an adviser to investment bankers Lazard, has been recruiting to Global Counsel individuals whom he reportedly “rated in government and who have the skills and connections to help him in his business”. His staff include the ex-civil servants Stephen Adams and Duncan Buchanan.
Adams worked as a speechwriter for Mandelson at the European commission and the business department, while Buchanan was the head of the South Asia unit of UK Trade and Investment, the government agency that promotes exports.
More than a year after the EU’s law governing the timber trade came into force, a survey by WWF confirms that many EU countries are still failing to stop illegal wood products entering the EU markets: here.

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Standing Rock, North Dakota (TFC)— As Dakota Access police operations intensify, Wisconsin State Patrol has deployed a second officer group. This occurs shortly following raids on some of the last well-entrenched water protector camps. It’s also a move seemingly contrary…
The protest at Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, US has mobilized hundreds of Native American tribes as well as solidarity across the world. The protests are against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multi-billion dollar project that would transport almost half a million barrels of oil per day across the northern US. The pipeline could contaminate the Missouri River, a key water source for the region. It would also cross through a prominent Sioux burial site.
Although the US government stated last week that it would not grant the easement–the right to cross or use someone’s land–under Lake Oahe for the Dakota Access Pipeline construction, the struggle is not over. The announcement cited that further examination was needed, and that an Environmental Impact Statement will be initiated. Demonstrators have said they plan to remain in the camps surrounding the northern edge of the reservation.
I regretted not having my computer and keyboard with me on this journey to Standing Rock. I knew that regardless of the notes I took and the promises I made myself to hold close to memory all of the things I wanted to share, much would be lost. Now, 5 days after returning home, that feeling is even stronger. I’ve meant to sit down and document the experience a hundred times since returning but haven’t done so until now for reasons unknown. I think part of the delay is feeling inadequate to the job along with the understanding that what I contributed to the effort is minuscule, in my mind almost insignificant and the juxtaposition of that feeling with the anticipation when we first started out is jolting. I have no idea where this narrative will go. I don’t plan to do very much editing and if it goes on and on and on and you choose to leave it behind, that’s okay! I can tell you I came home changed and challenged as if this is the culmination of 65 years of the journey so far. Here goes……
* If you plan to go to Standing Rock, be sure to check your ego and white self at the door when you leave your house. This is a hard lesson for many of us. It was humbling to say the least, to be in a community where my face and experience were part of a most noticeable minority; where my thoughts about what/how things should or should not go are absolutely meaningless and quite frankly, disdained by the native people who are on their own sacred land and IN CHARGE of every iota of planning, decision making and definition. I was reminded of the lessons I am still learning from Black Lives Matter – support does NOT mean leadership or decision making. Support means accepting that we are limited in our understanding and that often those whom we support have every right and reason to look at our faces and first see a historical enemy.
Tensions flare once more as North Dakota officials graduate their militarized tactics against protesters. Sheriffs have now threatened a blockade of people, food, and medicine to the camps.
The threats comes on the heels of the US Army Corps of Engineers warning protesters to leave by December 5th. Anyone remaining stay under fear of prosecution for trespassing. Fines have also thrown into the basket of incentives for the water protectors to surrender.
Establishing a blockade represents yet another ultra-militarized tactic used against peaceful American citizens. Denying nourishment and medical treatment is a classic strategy to degrade will and resolve. Combined with harsh weather conditions, water protectors are faced with a tormentingly deadly roulette.
Authorities have only amplified an already ultra-militarized presence against water protectors at Standing Rock. Supporters and journalists are targeted, arrested, and charged with various crimes on a daily basis including renowned reporter Amy Goodman. Amy’s charges were recently dropped, but surveillance and abuse continue without halt by the government.
Democracy Now! has been on the forefront of Dakota Access coverage since construction of the pipeline began. The $3.8 billion dollar project has already destroyed sacred Native American lands and threatens water supplies. Although focus on water tainting revolves around native communities, they certainly aren’t the only one’s in danger. Dakota Access also flies in the face of pleas by climate scientists that literally no more oil or gas can be harvested from the earth, if we want to prevent climate catastrophic.


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The agreement is expected to give KQ customers improved connectivity to the Indian Ocean Islands.
Passengers from Kenya Airways will be able to access Air Austral hub of Saint-Denis, Reunion Island and onward destinations, whereas Air Austral passengers will have access to KQ’s Nairobi through connecting flights in Madagascar, Mauritius and Johannesburg.
“This partnership offers us an opportunity to provide our guests with access to more destinations in the Indian Ocean Islands and opens up the country for tourism opportunities from visitors coming from the islands,” says KQ Chief Commercial and Customer Officer Julius Thairu.
The codeshare allows customers to benefit from a single fare and a single ticket for an entire trip within the codeshare routes.
The Pilots Association issued a strike notice on 19th October 2022, citing, among other things, the airline’s failure to contribute to their Provident Fund.
The court has slated the petition for hearing on November 8 2022.
Kenya Airways chairman Michael Joseph says that over the past six months, KQ has witnessed an improved performance marked by full flights, increased frequencies and improved financial position, that readies the carrier to breakeven by 2024.

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