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By Steve Ahlquist
Over twenty religious and advocacy organizations have sent a letter to members of the General Assembly urging them to reconvene the 2017 session to pass the budget and complete work on several bills that were left unfinished.
“This year hundreds of your constituents came to the State House to testify on bills and speak with you about issues that were important to them,” says the letter. “They fought to disarm domestic abusers, guarantee earned sick days, adopt proven reforms to criminal justice, allow workers to form co-ops, reduce toxic substances, protect health care, and more. Before the abrupt adjournment, there seemed to be agreement in both chambers on the necessity of these bills, but the differences remain unreconciled.
“Constituents are now frustrated that these important policy changes are left in limbo. Failure to enact these bills will have a real and painful impact. Victims of domestic violence will be in mortal danger. Working parents will continue to need to choose between the job they need and the sick child they need to care for. Some Rhode Islanders, ready to begin productive lives in the community, will wait longer behind bars.”
The organizations cite the real human harm this delay is causing everyday Rhode Islanders and the financial strain the lack of a budget is putting on cities and towns throughout the state.
House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello has met with Senate President Dominick Ruggerio and there are talks of the budget being resolved, maybe as early as next week.
“Every day that goes by without a budget makes it harder to have a good revenue and spending plan for 2018,” said Rachel Flum, Executive Director of the Economic Progress Institute. “We’re glad to hear there is movement toward coming back into session and urge leaders to keep those conversations going.”
On Rhode Island Public Radio this morning Mattiello said that the General Assembly might reconvene in the Fall to deal with some of the bills held up during the budget impasse. So even if the budget is passed next week, serious work on the stalled bills might not begin for a month or two.
“Despite popular support among lawmakers for legislation that affects hundreds of thousands of state residents, change is stalled until the General Assembly can come back together to complete their work,” said Georgia Hollister Isman, director of Rhode Island Working Families. “Based on what we have been hearing in the news, we’re hopeful the House and Senate will come back soon. Rhode Islanders really want that to happen.”
Here’s a list of the groups that signed the letter:
The American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island
Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights
Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE)
Dorcas International Institute
Economic Progress Institute
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Mental Health Association of RI
Ministers Alliance of Rhode Island
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England
Religious Coalition for a Violence-Free Rhode Island
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence
RI Community Action Association
RI Council of Churches
RI Jobs with Justice
RI Racial Justice Coalition
RI Regional Adult Learning (RIRAL)
RI Working Families
Sierra Club, Rhode Island Chapter
Step Up Center International
United Nurses and Allied Professionals (UNAP)

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What does Big Brother mean in the book 1984?
Big Brother is the supreme ruler of Oceania, the leader of the Party, an accomplished war hero, a master inventor and philosopher, and the original instigator of the revolution that brought the Party to power. The Party uses the image of Big Brother to instill a sense of loyalty and fear in the populace.
Is Big Brother based on 1984?
The show Big Brother takes its title from the famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Published in 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four is universally regarded as one of the great novels of the 20th century, not to mention a spookily prescient view of the future.
What is the book 1984 about by George Orwell?
1984 is a dystopian novella by George Orwell published in 1949, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes of the party, and its ominous ruler Big Brother. ‘Big Brother’ controls every aspect of people’s lives.
What does the Big Brother symbolize?
Big Brother represents the totalitarian government of Oceania, which is controlled by the Party and therefore synonymous with it. Winston learns in Goldstein’s book that Big Brother is not a real person but an invention of the Party that functions as a focus for the people’s feelings of reverence and fear.
Where did the phrase Big Brother originate?
Origin of Big Brother is Watching You George Orwell coined this phrase in the third paragraph of the first chapter of his novel “1984.” He writes, “It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move.
Where did the term Big Brother originate?
The name “Big Brother” comes from George Orwell’s dystopian book “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” published in 1949. “Big Brother” is a mysterious character in that novel who’s an all-seeing leader of the totalitarian nation.
Why did Orwell choose the year 1984?
Partly because he wanted it to be ‘in the future’. But primarily because he wanted it to be a warning by reflecting contemporary society. He wrote it in 1948 and it was written as a ‘dark mirror’ to things he could see all around him (hence 1948 => 1984).

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Mirza Dinnayi, a senior Yazidi leader and a former adviser on minority affairs to the Iraqi president speaks at conference in Herzliya.
“The Islamic State has no nuclear capability, but it has thousands of suicide bombers that can attack people anywhere in the world,” said Mirza Dinnayi, a senior Yazidi leader and a former adviser on minority affairs to the Iraqi president.
The northern Iraqi city of Mosul fell easily upon being attacked by the Islamic State, he said, adding that similar incidents have happened repeatedly throughout the history of the city since the time of the Ottoman Empire.
“At first, the various minorities thought that they would be fine under Islamic State rule,” said the leader, as at first, even the small Christian community in Mosul remained.
However, eventually the Christian community in the Iraqi city was given three options: Convert to Islam, pay a poll tax or exile.
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Dinnayi asserted the group is being supported by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar and controls territory four times the size of Israel.
“This is a holy war in the name of Allah.”
“When the attacks against the Yazidis began, those who did not have the ability to travel, fled to the mountains,” explained Dinnayi, pointing out that the Muslims there cooperated with the terrorists in slaughtering them and raping their wives.
Dinnayi complained that the international community was too slow to react.
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Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), ACF, HHS.
Proposed notice of allocations to States of FY 2003 funds for refugee social services.
This notice establishes the proposed allocations to States of FY 2003 funds for refugee  social services under the Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP). In the final notice, amounts could be adjusted slightly based upon final adjustments in FY 2002 arrivals in some States.
This notice includes $2 million in a set-aside allocation to support programs promoting marriage education, relationship enhancement, divorce reduction activities, or other activities that promote and sustain healthy marriages. Unlike the FY 2002 healthy families' set-aside that provided for a wide-range of activities to enhance families, the FY 2003 set-aside is available for helping refugee couples who choose marriage for themselves to develop the skills and knowledge to develop and sustain healthy marriages. These set-aside funds are for married and non-married refugee couples, where appropriate.
Comments on this notice must be received by August 20, 2003.
Address written comments, in duplicate, to: Kathy Do, Division of Budget, Policy, and Data Analysis (BPDA), Administration for Children and Families, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447. Delays may occur in mail delivery to Federal offices; therefore, a copy of comments should also be faxed to: (202) 401-0981Start Further Info
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathy Do, Division of Budget, Policy & Data Analysis, (202) 401-4579. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
I. Amounts for Allocation
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has available $ 150,138,714 in FY 2003 refugee social service funds as part of the FY 2003 Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, Title II of Division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution FY 2003, Pub. L. 108-7.
The FY 2003 Conference Report (Pub. L. 108-10) reads as follows with respect to social services funds:
The conference agreement appropriates $446,724,000 as proposed by H.R. 246 instead of $442,724,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within this amount, $151,121,000 is provided for Social Services, as proposed in H.R. 246. The Senate bill included $147,121,000 for this purpose.
The conferees recognize the importance of continued educational support to schools with a significant proportion of refugee children, consistent with previous support to schools heavily impacted by large concentrations of refugees, and urges the Office of Refugee Resettlement to support these efforts should funding become available in the Social Services or other accounts.
The agreement also includes $19,000,000 for increased support to communities with large concentrations of refugees whose cultural differences make assimilation especially difficult justifying a more intense level and longer duration of Federal assistance.
After the conference agreement, a further .65 percent reduction was imposed before enactment, reducing the amount for social services to $150,138,714.
ORR proposes to use the $150,138,714 appropriated for FY 2003 social services as follows:
- $71,092,907 will be allocated under the 3-year population formula, as set forth in this notice for the purpose of providing employment services and other needed services to refugees.
- $12,545,807 will be awarded as new and continuation social service discretionary grants under new and prior year competitive grant announcements issued separately from this notice.
- $19,000,000 will be awarded to serve communities most heavily affected by recent Cuban and Haitian Start Printed Page 43143entrant and refugee arrivals. These funds will be awarded under a separate announcement.
- $26,000,000 will be awarded through discretionary grants for communities with large concentrations of refugees whose cultural differences make assimilation especially difficult thereby justifying a more intense level and longer duration of Federal assistance. A combination of new and continuation awards will be made through new and prior year separate announcements.
- $14,000,000 will be awarded to address the needs of refugees and communities impacted by recent changes in Federal assistance programs relating to welfare reform. Awards will be made through a separate announcement.
- $7,500,000 will be used to continue educational support to schools with a significant proportion of refugee children, consistent with previous support to schools heavily impacted by large concentrations of refugees. Available surplus funds will be used to raise educational support to $15,000,000.
In addition, we are adding $2 million from FY 2001 unexpended refugee funds for allocation to States to fund programs promoting healthy marriages. Through this set-aside, ORR is looking to promote marriage education, relationship enhancement programs, divorce reduction activities, and/or other activities that promote and sustain healthy marriages. Unlike the FY 2002 healthy families' set-aside that provided for a wide range of activities to enhance families, the FY 2003 set-aside is available exclusively for marriage-building or relationship enhancement activities.
Refugee Social Service Funds
The FY 2003 population figures for the formula social services allocation include refugees, Cuban/Haitian entrants, Amerasians from Viet Nam, and victims of severe forms of trafficking. (A State must, however, have an approved State plan for the Cuban/Haitian Entrant Program or indicate in its refugee program State plan that Cuban/Haitian entrants will be served in order to use funds on behalf of entrants as well as refugees). Data on trafficking victims are taken from the total number of trafficking victim's certification letters issued by ORR. States that have served asylees during the past three years may submit to ORR the asylee-related information listed at the end of this section in order to have their service population estimate adjusted to include those asylees whose asylum was granted within the 36 month period ending September 30, 2002.
The Director is proposing to allocate $71,092,907 to States on the basis of each State's proportion of the national population of refugees who have been in the U.S. three years or less as of October 1, 2002 (including a floor amount for States that have small refugee populations).
The use of the 3-year population base in the allocation formula is required by section 412(c)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) which states that “funds available for a fiscal year for grants and contracts [for social services] * * * shall be allocated among the States based on the total number of refugees (including children and adults) who arrived in the United States not more than 36 months before the beginning of such fiscal year and who are actually residing in each State (taking into account secondary migration) as of the beginning of the fiscal year.”
As established in the FY 1992 social services notice published in the Federal Register on August 29, 1991, section I, “Allocation Amounts” (56 FR 42745), a variable floor amount for States which have small refugee populations is calculated as follows: If the application of the regular allocation formula yields less than $100,000, then—
(1) A base amount of $75,000 is provided for a State with a population of 50 or fewer refugees who have been in the U.S. 3 years or less; and
(2) For a State with more than 50 refugees who have been in the U.S. 3 years or less: (a) A floor has been calculated consisting of $50,000 plus the regular per capita allocation for refugees above 50 up to a total of $100,000 (in other words, the maximum under the floor formula is $100,000); (b) if this calculation has yielded less than $75,000, a base amount of $75,000 is provided for the State.
Population To Be Served and Allowable Services
Eligibility for refugee social services includes persons who meet all requirements of 45 CFR 400.43 (see Footnote 1 for service populations). In addition, persons granted asylum are eligible for refugee benefits and services from the date that asylum was granted (See ORR State Letter No. 00-12, effective June 15, 2000). Victims of a severe form of trafficking who have received a certification or eligibility letter from ORR are eligible from the date on the certification letter (See ORR State Letter No. 01-13, May 3, 2001, as modified by ORR State Letter No. 02-01, January 4, 2002).
Services to refugees must be provided in accordance with the rules of 45 CFR part 400 Subpart I—Refugee Social Services. Although the allocation formula is based on the 3-year refugee population, States may provide services to refugees who have been in the country up to 60 months (5 years), with the exception of referral and interpreter services and citizenship and naturalization preparation services for which there is no time limitation (45 CFR 400 152(b)).
Under waiver authority at 45 CFR 400.300, the Director of ORR may issue a waiver of the limitation on eligibility for social services contained in 45 CFR 400.152(b). There is no blanket waiver of this provision in effect for FY 2003. States may apply for a waiver of 45 CFR 400.152(b) in writing from the Director of ORR. Each waiver request will be reviewed based on supporting data and information provided. The Director of ORR will approve or disapprove each waiver request as expeditiously as possible.
Allowable social services are those indicated in 45 CFR 400.154 and 400.155. Additional services not included in these sections that the State may wish to provide must be submitted to and approved by the Director of ORR as required under 45 CFR 400.155(h).
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is currently supporting several initiatives that promote and encourage healthy marriages and strengthen families. The $2 million set-aside allocation reflects ORR's participation in these initiatives as they relate to supporting healthy marriages and strengthening refugee families. The cultures of most refugee populations are built upon successful and stable family life. ORR believes that refugee married and non-married couples face unique difficulties because of their flight from persecution and long periods of insecurity and that marriage education is social services that can help refugees cope with these difficulties. ORR also believes that there are benefits to marriage that extend to children, adults, and to all society. Thus, ORR is committed to promoting policies and programs that help strengthen marriage as an institution and help refugee parents raise their children in positive and healthy environments.
Many refugee families have endured persecution or torture, trauma, abrupt flight from war, and separation from, or death of, friends and family members. Furthermore, the relationships in refugee families may become strained before arrival because of suffering and Start Printed Page 43144deprivation endemic to the refugee condition. Refugees in the U.S. face many challenges. The pressure of their new American environment may weaken the strong, positive family relationships that refugees have brought with them to the United States.
Family relationships may undergo strain and transformation when refugees resettle in the U.S. Strong authoritarian and sometimes patriarchal family structures may provoke conflicts when members take on new roles as they adapt to American culture. For example, school/parent relationships may differ from those in their home countries and may produce miscommunication and tension; refugee parents may have concerns or object to the range of freedom American youth are afforded; and the physical disciplinary practices between a husband and wife or between parents and children may differ from what is the norm or legal in the U.S. The low wages of entry-level jobs may force both adults to work outside the home, thereby disrupting traditional roles. Typically, low incomes force refugee households to locate in neighborhoods with high crime rates. Poor public transportation adds to time spent away from family members and complicates efforts to access services and participate in community activities. The resulting strain from these difficulties may damage refugee marriages, families, and communities.
Marriage education can help refugee couples strengthen and adjust relationship skills and help them cope with the difficulties of their new American environment with the result of improving the quality of family life. Along with the skills that enable couples to communicate more effectively, manage conflict and work together as a team, marriage education can also teach the benefits that can be obtained from identifying future challenges in their relationships so that these challenges can be successfully negotiated when they arise.
Research reveals that the benefits of healthy marriages are particularly beneficial for children. On average, children raised by parents in healthy marriages are less likely to fail at school, suffer an emotional or behavioral problem requiring psychiatric treatment, be victims of child abuse and neglect, get into trouble with the law, use illicit drugs, smoke cigarettes, abuse alcohol, engage in early and promiscuous sexual activity, grow up in poverty, or attempt suicide. On average children raised by parents in healthy marriages are more likely to have a higher sense of self-esteem, form healthy marriages when they marry, attend college, and are physically healthier.
In summary, under this set-aside ORR seeks to provide opportunities for states to offer to refugees, entrants, asylees, Amerasians, and victims of trafficking programs for strengthening marital and parenting skills within healthy and supportive relationships. ORR also seeks to expand understanding of the refugees' marriage and family difficulties in the resettlement experience and the factors that contribute to successfully meeting the challenges to the marriage relationship. If the issues faced by refugee families are addressed early through marriage education, the problems they encounter may be reduced or prevented and refugee families can work towards achieving the bright future they seek in the U.S.
Services to be rendered should be, to the extent possible, culturally and linguistically compatible to the refugee populations. Permissible marriage promotion activities to ORR-eligible populations include the following:
- Offering marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs
- Offering marriage education, marriage skills, and relationship skills programs that may include parenting skills, financial management, conflict resolution, and job and career advancement for non-married pregnant women and non-married expectant fathers.
- Offering pre-marital education and marriage skills training or workshops for engaged couples and for couples or individuals interested in marriage.
- Providing marriage enhancement and marriage skills training programs for married couples.
- Creating divorce reduction programs that teach relationship skills.
- Training program staff in why marriage matters, what to expect in marriage, the knowledge and skills necessary to form and sustain a healthy marriage, and examples of marriage education programs and resources.
- Training program participants and clients in why marriage matters, what to expect in marriage, and the knowledge and skills to make a healthy marriage a reality.
- Training qualified participants to be marriage program leaders, facilitators and mentors.
- Creating marriage mentoring programs that use married couples as role models and mentors in at-risk communities.
- Training experienced couples to be mentors as a strategy to assist newly married couples, new parents, stepfamilies or other couples facing special challenges.
- Providing vouchers for registration and materials to program staff and participants who attend marriage education activities. For example, a young woman or man considering marriage could be given vouchers to take a premarital inventory and a marriage education class, workshop, or weekend seminar. Similarly a newlywed couple, expecting their first child, could be given vouchers to attend a marriage education program.
- Providing vouchers for mediation services, marital counseling, or marriage education programs designed for those having serious marital problems, prior to separation or divorce.
- Establishing a resource center or library of books and videos on marriage for staff and clients at program service center offices.
- Developing and using a referral list of local marriage education programs and resources.
- Establishing institutional partnerships and collaboration networks with community mental health agencies, courts, local colleges and universities or the USDA's Extension Service regarding marriage education.
- Sponsoring training events on marriage education for local agencies that serve refugees.
- Hosting events for unmarried couples and weekly or monthly couples' nights with specific activities to encourage participation of couples. Provide child care if possible.
- Hosting a couples' night on a quarterly basis to celebrate marriage anniversaries and to provide brief educational activities that sustain healthy marriages.
- Including a marriage component in parenting programs.
- Gathering baseline data, establishing performance objectives and measures, and evaluating marriage education program activities.
- Providing marital health assessment quizzes and questionnaires with appropriate referrals when warranted.
- Using a marriage protocol to ask about the marital relationship in addition to parenting and other family relationships during intake, assessment, or follow-up interviews.
- Providing programs that help refugee teenagers prepare for healthy dating relationships, develop relationship skills, learn budgeting, and learn the value of marriage.
ORR has assembled a program guide entitled “Web-based Program Planning for Healthy Marriages Grants”, which explains marriage education more fully and provides reference material useful Start Printed Page 43145for program planners. This guide is available on the ORR Web site under the Programs section at: (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/programs/marriagegrants.htm).
The organizations funded by the set-aside amount are expected to have ties to the ethnic communities they serve and to conduct outreach into the community to identify refugee families in need of services. We strongly encourage States to fund, to the extent possible, Mutual Assistance Associations (MAAs), ethnic community-based organizations, and indigenous faith-based organizations with refugee experience to provide family support, outreach, education, orientation, and counseling. ORR defines an MAA as an organization with the following qualifications: (a) The organization is legally incorporated as a nonprofit organization; and (b) not less than 51 percent of the composition of the Board of Directors or governing board of the mutual assistance association is comprised of refugees or former refugees, including both refugee men and women.
States wishing to participate in these marriage enhancing programs must notify ORR within 30 days of the publication date of this notice that they will use the set-aside funds exclusively for the relationship skill-building and marriage enhancement activities described above. States that fail to notify ORR by that date of their intention to establish healthy marriage programs are not eligible the set-aside. Funds listed in the accompanying table for States that do not notify ORR that they will establish marriage enhancement programs will be made available to the States that are willing to establish such programs.
To be eligible for the Healthy Marriage Set-aside funds, States should notify ORR of their intention to use the set-aside funds exclusively to establish healthy marriage program through a brief letter or by E-mail. Correspondence should be directed to Loren Bussert, Division of Budget, Policy, and Data Analysis (DBPDA), Office of Refugee Resettlement, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447; or by E-mail at L.Bussert@acf.hhs.gov.
In accordance with in 45 CFR 400.147, States are required to provide social services to refugees in the following order of priority, except in certain individual extreme circumstances: (a) All newly arriving refugees during their first year in the U.S. who apply for services; (b) refugees who are receiving cash assistance; (c) unemployed refugees who are not receiving cash assistance; and (d) employed refugees in need of services to retain employment or to attain economic independence. In order for refugees to move quickly off Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), States should, to the extent possible, ensure that all newly arriving refugees receive refugee-specific services designed to address the employment barriers that refugees typically face.
ORR encourages States to re-examine the range of services they currently offer to refugees. Those States that have had success in helping refugees achieve early employment may find it to be a good time to expand beyond provision of basic employment services and address the broader needs that refugees have in order to enhance their ability to maintain financial security and to successfully integrate into the community. Other States may need to reassess the delivery of employment services in light of local economic conditions and develop new strategies to better serve the newly arriving refugee groups.
States should also be aware that ORR will make social services formula funds available to pay for social services that are provided to refugees who participate in Wilson/Fish projects which can be administered by public or private non-profit agencies, including community-based organizations. Section 412(e)(7)(A) of the INA provides that:
The Secretary [of HHS] shall develop and implement alternative projects for refugees who have been in the United States less than thirty-six months, under which refugees are provided interim support, medical services, support [social] services, and case management, as needed, in a manner that encourages self-sufficiency, reduces welfare dependency, and fosters greater coordination among the resettlement agencies and service providers.
This provision is generally known as the Wilson/Fish Amendment. The Department has already issued a separate standing notice in the Federal Register with respect to applications for such projects (64 FR 19793 (April 22, 1999).
States are encouraged to consider eligible sub-recipients for formula social service funds to include public or private non-profit agencies including, faith-based, refugee, or community organizations.
As stated earlier, to be eligible for the Healthy Marriage Set-aside, States should notify ORR within 30 days of publication of this notice of proposed allocations through a brief assurance statement in writing or by E-mail that they will use the set-aside funds exclusively for the relationship skills-building and marriage enhancement activities. States that use the set-aside funds will be expected to report on the activities conducted with these funds in the narrative section of the Quarterly Progress Report (QPR).
States that fail to notify ORR within 30 days of publication of this proposed notice of their intention to establish healthy marriage programs are not eligible for the set-aside. Funds listed in the accompanying table for States that do not notify ORR that they will establish marriage enhancement programs will be made available through reallocations to the States that are willing to establish such programs in the Final Notice and distributed in the fourth quarter social services formula awards.
II. (Reserved for Discussion in the Final Notice of Submitted Comments in Response to the Proposed Notice)
III. Allocation Formulas
Of the funds available for FY 2003 for social services, $71,092,907 is proposed to be allocated to States in accordance with the formula specified in A. below.
A. A State's allowable formula allocation is calculated as follows:
1. The total amount of funds determined by the Director to be available for this purpose; divided by—
2. The total number of refugees, Cuban/Haitian entrants, parolees, and Amerasians from Viet Nam, as shown by the ORR Refugee Data System, and victims of severe forms of trafficking as shown by the certification and eligibility letters issued by ORR, who arrived in the United States not more than 3 years prior to the beginning of the fiscal year for which the funds are appropriated. The resulting per capita amount is multiplied by—
3. The number of persons in item 2, above, in the State as of October 1, 2002, adjusted for estimated secondary migration.
The calculation above yields the formula allocation for each State. Minimum allocations for small States are taken into account.
IV. Basis of Population Estimates
The population estimates for the proposed allocation of funds in FY 2003 for the formula social service allocation are based on data on refugee arrivals from the ORR Refugee Arrivals Data System, adjusted as of October 1, 2002, for estimated secondary migration. The data base includes refugees of all nationalities, Amerasians from Viet Nam, and Cuban and Haitian entrants. Data on trafficking victims are taken Start Printed Page 43146from the total number of trafficking victims' certification and eligibility letters issued by ORR.
For Fiscal Year 2003, ORR's formula social service allocations for the States are based on the numbers of refugees, Amerasians, entrants and victims of severe forms of trafficking. The numbers are based upon the arrivals during the preceding three fiscal years: 2000, 2001, and 2002.
The estimates of secondary migration are based on data submitted by all participating States on Form ORR-11 on secondary migrants who have resided in the U.S. for 36 months or less, as of September 30, 2002. The total migration reported by each State is summed by ORR, yielding in- and out-migration figures and a net migration figure for each State. The net migration figure is applied to the State's total arrival figure, resulting in a revised ORR population estimate.
ORR estimates are developed separately for refugees and entrants and then combined into a total estimated 3-year refugee/entrant population for each State. Eligible Amerasians are included in the refugee figures. Havana parolees (HP's) are enumerated in a separate column in Table 1, below, because they are tabulated separately from other entrants. Havana parolee arrivals for all States are based on actual data.
Table 1 (attached) shows the estimated 3-year populations, as of October 1, 2002, of refugees (col. 1), entrants (col. 2), Havana parolees (col. 3), trafficking victims (col. 4), total population, (col. 5), the proposed formula amounts which the population estimates yield (col. 6), the proposed total allocation (col. 7), the proposed amount of set-aside (col. 8), and the proposed final allocation by states (col. 9).
If a State does not agree with ORR's population estimate and wishes ORR to reconsider its numbers, it should submit written evidence to ORR, including a list of refugees identified by name, alien number, date of birth, and date of arrival. Listings of refugees who are not identified by their alien number will not be considered. Such evidence should be submitted separately from comments on the proposed allocation formula no later than 30 days from the date of publication of this notice and should be sent via overnight mail to: Loren Bussert, Division of Budget, Policy and Data Analysis, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Telephone: (202) 401-4732, or as an Excel spreadsheet or other compatible spreadsheet format as an email attachment to: email@example.com.
States which have served asylees during the past three years also may submit the following information in order to have their population estimate adjusted to include those asylees whose asylum was granted within the 36 month period ending September 30, 2002: (1) Alien number, (2) date of birth, and, (3) the date asylum was granted.
A State which has served a victim of a severe form of trafficking who the State believes was residing in a different State at the time that the ORR certification/eligibility letter was issued, should submit the following information in order to have their population estimate adjusted to include these trafficking victims: (1) Alien number, if available; (2) date of birth; (3) certification letter number and, (4) date on certification letter. Victims of a severe form of trafficking who have received a certification or eligibility letter are eligible to the same extent as refugees for benefits and services.
Please submit the above data on asylees and trafficking victims served on separate Excel spreadsheets as an email attachment within 30 days of the publication date of this notice to: firstname.lastname@example.org.
V. Proposed Allocation Amounts
Funding subsequent to the publication of this notice will be contingent upon the submission and approval of a State annual services plan that is developed on the basis of a local consultative process, as required by 45 CFR 400.11(b)(2) in the ORR regulations.
Table 1, attached, represents the proposed allocation for refugee social services in FY 2003.
VI. Paperwork Reduction Act
This notice does not create any reporting or recordkeeping requirements requiring OMB clearance.Start Signature
Dated: July 14, 2003.
Nguyen Van Hanh,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
|State||Refugees 1||Entrants||Havana parolees 2||Trafficking victims 3||Total population||Final formula amount||Final allocation||$2 million set-aside||Total final allocation|
|Dist. of Columbia||88||3||3||1||95||30,425||75,000||5,000||80,000|
|Kentucky 4||2,232||1,052||7||—||3,291||1,053,975||1,053,975||29,210||1,083,185 Start Printed Page 43147|
|North Dakota 4||875||0||0||—||875||280,227||280,227||7,766||287,993|
|South Dakota 4||971||0||0||—||971||310,972||310,972||8,618||319,590|
|1 Includes Amerasian immigrants. Adjusted for secondary migration.|
|2 For all years, Havana Parolee arrivals for all States are based on actual data.|
|3 Includes all victims of a severe form of trafficking since program inception in March, 2001.|
|4 The allocations for Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alabama, and for Diego County, California are expected to be awarded to Wilson/Fish projects.|
|5 Wyoming no longer participates in the Refugee Resettlement Program.|
1. Eligibility for refugee social services include refugees, asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, certain Amerasians from Viet Nam who are admitted to the U.S. as immigrants, certain Amerasians from Viet Nam who are U.S. citizens, (45 CFR 400.43), and victims of a severe form of trafficking who receive certification or eligibility letters from ORR. (ORR State Letter #01-13 on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, dated May 3, 2001). The term “refugee,” used in this notice for convenience, is intended to encompass such additional persons who are eligible to participate in refugee program services.Back to Citation
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Urgent change is needed to assess the full impact of fossil fuel proposals on the climate, the government was told today.
New plan for Notts shale gas site criticised as “speculative, misleading and unsound” – residents complain: “quite frankly we’ve had enough”
The lives of many people in the village of Misson in north Nottinghamshire have been blighted by shale gas since 2014, the parish council has said.
IGas is seeking to extend the life of two small Nottinghamshire oil sites until 2031.
IGas has appealed against the refusal of planning consent for its oil site at Avington in the South Downs National Park.
2020 was a frack free year in the UK because the shale gas industry failed to persuade ministers to lift blocks on the process.
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An environmental campaigner has failed in her legal challenge about the climate effects of long-term oil extraction near Gatwick Airport.
The drilling rig at Rathlin Energy’s West Newton-B site in East Yorkshire will be allowed to stay for another two months, council officials have confirmed.
Surrey County Council told the High Court today it had acted lawfully in granting consent for two decades of production at the Horse Hill oil site near Gatwick Airport.
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Malaysia’s prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim will contest a by-election that is expected to pave the way for his return to active politics, officials said Wednesday.
Lawmaker Danyal Balagopal Abdullah said he has resigned as a member of Parliament in Port Dickson, a southern coastal town, to make way for Anwar’s comeback. The Election Commission must set a date for the by-election within two months.
Anwar, 70, is the anointed successor to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The two had a power struggle 20 years ago that led to Anwar’s sacking and imprisonment. Anwar was convicted again in 2015 on the same charge of sodomy but joined hands with Mahathir to win national elections in May that ushered in the first transition of power since independence from Britain in 1957.
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Domestic Trade Minister Saifuddin Nasution, who is a senior official in Anwar’s party, said there is no timeframe for Anwar to take over the top job and that Anwar has reiterated that he will give his full support to Mahathir.
“He has stated clearly that if he wins as a member of Parliament, he will focus on parliamentary reforms. He will not hold any government positions,” Saifuddin told a news conference.
Anwar has previously said he wasn’t in a rush to take over as prime minister and that he will not interfere with Mahathir’s governance.
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Woodbridge class-action suit expands to Treasure Coast brokers Klager, Gilchrist, Hannah
An ongoing class-action lawsuit now claims three Treasure Coast brokers helped prop up a $1.2 billion "Ponzi scheme."
The civil suit filed in federal court in West Palm Beach alleges Al Klager of Atlantic Financial Services in Vero Beach, Gordon C. Hannah of Retirement Planning Solutions in Stuart and James H. Gilchrist of Florida Tax Advisory Services in Fort Pierce participated in a "civil conspiracy" to defraud investors by selling investments in Woodbridge Group of Companies.
In a December 2017 lawsuit, the Securities and Exchange Commission dubbed Woodbridge a Ponzi scheme, alleging the company violated multiple securities laws.
Unlike the SEC lawsuit, the class-action suit targets those who sold investments for Woodbridge.
“We believe that those individuals are culpable and have a responsibility to these clients who they solicited investments from," Jonathan Butler, an attorney representing the investors, told TCPalm.
“At this point, we're giving the sales reps the benefit of doubt that they weren’t knowingly engaged in a Ponzi scheme," Butler said. “At best, they dropped the ball. At worst, they ignored blatant red flags.”
Florida's combination of elderly people and their money make it a popular target for schemes like this, Butler said.
“We may well be titled the Ponzi scheme capital of the world in South Florida," Butler said.
The suit was filed Jan. 6, but the three Treasure Coast brokers weren't added until Friday. None of the three Treasure Coast brokers were licensed to sell securities, and the Woodbridge investment itself was unlicensed, according to federal registration documents and the SEC suit.
Klager, whom the suit alleges sold $20 million in Woodbridge investments and made $1.2 million in commissions, told TCPalm he was duped, too.
“I have my money and my family’s money in it, too," Klager said. “I wouldn't have put more of my own money into it back in October if I knew (the bankruptcy) was going to happen.”
The amount of money Klager made, according to the lawsuit, shows brokers who sold Woodbridge investments may have profited more from the investment than originally reported.
The lawsuit claims Woodbridge paid brokers such as Klager 9 percent interest on money invested, while brokers offered investors 5 to 8 percent interest and kept the difference. All told, Woodbridge paid its brokers more than $64.5 million in commissions, the lawsuit alleges.
The suit also names Klager's wife, Michele, who is listed as the company's assistant treasurer and secretary as a defendant.
"Al and Michelle Klager's actions in providing a constant and significant source of investor funds were critical to the success of the Woodbridge scheme and conspiracy as it allowed (Woodbridge Owner Robert Shapiro) and Woodbridge to continue to defraud investors throughout the country," the lawsuit says.
Meanwhile, Vero Beach resident Gerald Roy claims to have invested $450,000 in Woodbridge, according to the suit. Others, such as two Palm Beach County residents named in the suit, claim to have invested over $1 million each.
Klager disputes the SEC's distinction Woodbridge operated like a Ponzi scheme.
Asked what research he did to verify Woodbridge's claims before investing other peoples' money, Klager said he visited one of Woodbridge's Beverly Hills properties and pulled public records that allegedly showed the property was worth more than Woodbridge paid.
“They obviously are legit," Klager said he thought at the time. "They had to be.”
Klager is confident investors will get their money back; but Butler is more cautious, given some of that money is already gone.
At least $21 million of investor money was spent to finance Woodbridge owner Robert Shapiro's lavish lifestyle, which included private jets, luxury cars and country club memberships, the SEC suit alleges.
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Microsoft (News - Alert) is previewing its Dynamics AX 4.0, the company's offering for providing what officials describe as "next-generation business value to customers in the form of powerful role-based activity."
As a composite application, Microsoft Dynamics AX is engineered to enable the use of business logic and data from multiple systems to show a complete view of a customer's business processes, "keeping the focus on people and the work they need to do," company officials say.
Mark A. Jensen, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics AX for the Microsoft Business Products Group at Microsoft says the product's "extraordinary level of integration with Microsoft SQL Server," among other considerations, "will deliver a product that challenges the competitors by providing a true role-based composite application."
Microsoft Dynamics AX, formerly Microsoft Business Products-Axapta, is a multi-language, multi-currency enterprise resource planning (ERP) product marketed as addressing "intricate business scenarios involving complex collaboration within and across companies." Company officials say its core strengths are in manufacturing, supply chain management, wholesale and distribution, retail, government, and services industries.
Last week Basis Technology announced the completion of a Unicode-enabled version of Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 to support a wide variety of European and Asian languages, including German, Russian, Czech, and Simplified Chinese.
Microsoft Dynamics AX has user interfaces in a wide variety of languages, and fully supports multilingual data in a single database.
Microsoft Dynamics partnered with Basis Technology to audit, implement and Unicode enable Microsoft Dynamics AX, to handle multiple character sets in a single environment. The project included completely reengineering the software for Unicode and implementing the GB18030 character set required by China.
In addition, Basis wrote a database upgrade tool which reads a Microsoft Dynamics AX 3.0 database and converts all the non-Unicode data to Unicode to work with Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0, available later this year, will allow customers to expand into global markets such as Japan and China, company officials say.
Greg Lush, CIO of The Linc Group Inc., says that while "acquisitions have created an environment with many systems," including Oracle (News - Alert)-, PeopleSoft- and UNIX-based environments, "Microsoft can provide the entire platform with business applications, infrastructure and support.
The software giant from Redmond, Washington has recently admitted it won't have its new Windows operating system ready for the end of the year as it had been planning.
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Chennai Super Kings will face a record chase when it comes out to bat against Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2023 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday.
CSK’s highest successful chase so far is 206 against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in 2012. The four-time champion has chased three totals of 200 or more in the IPL. The last time it did so was back in 2018 against RCB at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
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80% of technology products and services will be built by non-technology professions by 2024, says research firm Gartner.
This is according to a new report from Gartner, which claims a new category of buyers outside the traditional IT organisation is now responsible for a growing share of the overall IT market.
“Digital business is treated as a team sport by CEOs and no longer the sole domain of the IT department,” said Rajesh Kandaswamy, distinguished research vice president at Gartner. “Growth in digital data, low-code development tools and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development are among the many factors that enable the democratistion of technology development beyond IT professionals.”
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Technology has started expanding into all areas of business, creating demand for products and services outside IT departments. In 2023, Gartner anticipates that US$30 billion in revenue will be generated by products and services that did not exist pre-pandemic. Gartner analysts said the rapid expansion of cloud services, digital business initiatives, and remote services opened the door for new possibilities in integrations and optimisation.
The research found that COVID-19 also reduced barriers for those outside of IT to create technology-based solutions by providing an entry point for anyone who was able to serve pandemic-induced needs. Gartner said technology providers are now finding themselves increasingly entering markets related to, or in competition with, nontechnology providers, including innovative firms in financial services and retail.
Gartner expects high-profile announcements of technology launches from nontech companies to proliferate over the next 12 months.
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If the Inquisitor has found Frederic's supplies on a dead man's body in the Western Approaches' Canyons, they show them to the professor at their first meeting near the Nazaire's Pass Camp. Frederic will fear for his expedition's other members and ask the Inquisitor to help him recover the rest of the supplies.
If all five supplies already have been found before this meeting, the quest can be turned in immediately.
Walkthrough[edit | edit source]
Recover four more Research Supplies on top of the initial one. The latter usually will be found around a broken wagon in the Canyons, shortly south of the entrances to the Forgotten and the Sand Rock Mine, while the others are carried by White Claw Raiders throughout the Western Approach, enemies who will attack the Inquisitor on sight.
Unless already obtained before the first meeting with Frederic and returned on that occasion, all five supplies can later be given to him in his camp on Nazaire's Pass.
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- Influence 80
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- If also asked to "tell [me] of this place," the quest Assault on Griffon Wing Keep is unlocked.
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- The White Claw Raiders drop the Research Supplies, until five of them have been acquired. It is not necessary to examine that wagon in the Canyons; in fact, the examinable sack becomes inactive and the "new quest" marker disappears, if all five supplies are looted from dead raiders.
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New Delhi: In a bid to curb digital fraud, the government has taken decisive action by blocking 1.4 lakh mobile numbers associated with financial fraud. Financial Services Secretary Vivek Joshi chaired a meeting to address cyber security concerns in the financial services sector, focusing on integrating banks and financial institutions into the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System (CFCFRMS) platform.
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Enforcement Actions And Results
The government’s proactive measures have yielded significant results. Over 500 arrests have been made, and around 3.08 lakh SIM cards and 50,000 IMEIs have been blocked since April 2023. Numerous fake links, APKs, and URLs associated with cybercrimes have been blocked.
The meeting emphasized the importance of ensuring round-the-clock availability of resources to address complaints promptly. It also stressed the need for banks and financial institutions to conduct customer awareness programs in regional languages to enhance digital payment security.
Officials from various departments and organizations, including the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Reserve Bank of India, and National Payments Corporation of India, among others, attended the meeting, highlighting the collaborative effort to combat financial fraud effectively.
(With PTI Inputs)


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Bayer Floats $2B Deal in Attempt to Head Off Future Roundup Cancer Claims
Post Date: 2021-02-05 18:39:26 by Horse
Monsanto owner Bayer AG hopes the federal judge who rejected the pesticide makers prior plan will approve the new deal, which includes at least $1.325 billion to compensate future qualified claimants. Monsanto owner Bayer AG said Wednesday it was attempting again to manage and resolve potential future Roundup cancer claims, laying out a $2 billion deal with a group of plaintiffs attorneys that Bayer hopes will win approval from a federal judge who rejected a prior plan last summer. Notably, the deal calls for Bayer to seek permission from the Environmental Protection Agency to add information on the labels of its glyphosate-based products such as Roundup that would ...
Texas Governor Orders New Arrivals From California To Quarantine For 30 Years
Post Date: 2021-02-05 18:37:26 by Horse
AUSTIN, TXIn his most recent round of new COVID guidelines for Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has announced any new arrivals from California must quarantine for 30 years before they will be allowed to assimilate into the general population. "Hey, Y'all-- California has a ton of COVID problems, but they have a ton of other nasty issues as well," said Governor Abbott in a press conference. "Lord knows what kind of filthy debauchery those communists engage in on a daily basis. They could bring back any number of icky diseases! Worse, they might bring their socialist voting habits! We can't allow that." Anyone from California who wishes to live in Texas will be ...
Snopes Rates AOC's Account Of Capitol Attack As 'Factually Inaccurate But Morally True'
Post Date: 2021-02-05 18:35:35 by Horse
U.S.Snopes has fact-checked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's account of the attack on the Capitol, rating her claim that she was in mortal danger with rioters literally inches away from her as "factually inaccurate but morally true." The fact-check pointed out that while Ocasio-Cortez's wild claims were factually untrue, they supported the narrative that the unbiased fact-checkers at Snopes approve of, and so they were compelled to rate her claims as "morally true." Snopes was slammed on social media for the rating. But the founder of Snopes, Bob Snopes, says he stands by the decision. "We ran it by the Snopes cat, and he said it checks out," Bob ...
CNN Reports: Biden’s Brother Has Already “Used His Presidential Ties” For Profit (2 min video)
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:48:56 by NeoconsNailed
Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:You won't believe the goofy, jack-o-lantern mug of the pseudo-prez's brother.
The Shady Reason Amazon Has To Pay Its Drivers $61 Million
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:24:28 by Horse
This really happened. The Los Angeles Times confirmed it. An Amazon Flex driver based in Virginia began to suspect that Amazon was pocketing his tips. So, on a two-hour shift, he ordered and delivered a pack of paper towels to himself, tipping himself $15.90. For the same shift, Amazon only paid him its guaranteed base pay. When he complained, the company adjusted his pay rates accordingly, but offered no further explanation.
Cornell law professor creates online database of 220 universities teaching critical race theory to help parents choose colleges that don't make the 'racist ideology' mandatory
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:22:13 by Horse
A Cornell Law School professor has launched a new database which lists schools teaching critical race theory, after blasting the practice as very racist and accusing anti-racism ideology of causing discrimination on campuses.
BEZOS REPLACEMENT AT AMAZON IS DIE-HARD OPPONENT OF FREE SPEECH
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:15:52 by Horse
Poster Comment:Starts at 1:10. Andy Jassy is Jewish.
Newsom Recall Now “Unavoidable” – Newsom’s Poll Numbers Tank, More Than 1.4 Million Signatures Collected in Recall Effort
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:11:17 by Horse
California Governor Gavin Newsoms recall is unavoidable. Newsoms poll numbers are tanking and the recall effort has attracted 1.4 million signatures. According to two trusted California polls, Newsoms approval rating has sharply dropped in the last few months.
Mike Lindell Lays It Out
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:06:37 by sonny
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Who's Hiring And Who's Firing: Government Accounted For 88% Of All January Job Gains
Post Date: 2021-02-05 14:06:21 by Horse
The government accounted for almost all of the headline gains, with 43K of 49K jobs, or 88% of all. Poster Comment:This won't last long. Neither will $4 trillion annual budget deficits. At this rate whoever becomes President in January 2025 will inherit a $50 trillion national debt. Suppose the interest rate due to inflation rose to 10%. That would add $5 trillion to our annual $4 trillion budget deficit.
Foreign Invaders are Not Neighbors
Post Date: 2021-02-05 13:50:43 by Horse
What's Wrong with This Picture
Post Date: 2021-02-05 13:48:24 by Horse
Why every weapon should have a binary trigger system
Post Date: 2021-02-05 13:20:06 by Lod
Supreme Court May Finally Reverse Kamala Harris's Attack on Free Speech
Post Date: 2021-02-05 11:43:06 by Horse
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up two vitally important cases dealing with the freedom of speech and association. Back in 2015, Attorney General Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) demanded that two conservative nonprofit organizations, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), hand over their donor lists. This demand threatened to reveal the identity of donors, potentially subjecting them to threats and harassment for supporting these groups. It also flew in the face of a 1958 Supreme Court decision upholding Americans right to support causes they believe in without government harassment.
FBI Raids Trump Supporters Who Spoke At Rally The DAY BEFORE The Capitol 'Storming'; Interrogates Random Trump Supporters Who Never Even Went
Post Date: 2021-02-05 11:40:58 by Horse
The FBI reportedly raided the homes of two Trump supporters who spoke at rallies the day before the Capitol protest and is now contacting random Trump supporters who didn't attend any Capitol protest-related events for questioning.
Lessons from the Roman Army for Post-SHTF Combat Operations-
Post Date: 2021-02-05 11:25:05 by Horse
Small unit tactics are more than just a matter of either superior arms or numerical advantages. lright, we have done a couple of articles on Knowing Yourself, and Knowing Your Enemy. Now that everyone knows one another, lets take it to another level. As a single individual, as a family member, or operating in a group, after it hits the fan, you will have to fight eventually. You will not be able to avoid it and hunker down until the cavalry comes, because it will be in your neighborhood and the cavalry isnt coming to your rescue. Weve discussed Fabian Tactics in previous articles. These were based on the exploits of Quintus Fabius ...
China flooding | crack appear in three gorges dam make China worried
Post Date: 2021-02-05 11:11:40 by Horse
Poster Comment:This could be a problem for the CCP's survival if floods come again this summer.
Budweiser "Farmer's Daughter"
Post Date: 2021-02-05 10:55:43 by Horse
Poster Comment:Funny beer ad.
The TCF Center Election Fraud – Newly Discovered Video Shows Late Night Deliveries of Tens of Thousands of Illegal Ballots 8 Hours After Deadline
Post Date: 2021-02-05 10:42:56 by Horse
On Tuesday, November 3rd President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden in the swing state of Michigan by over 100,000 votes. This appeared to be another solid win for President Trump in Michigan with a greater margin than his 2016 victory. The ballot counting in Detroit, Michigan on election night took place at the TCF Center, formerly known as Cobo Hall. This is the site where Detroit City Officials put cardboard over the windows to prevent the GOP observers from seeing in, where poll workers were militantly hostile to the GOP observers, and where hundreds of affidavits by election observers claim they witnessed voter fraud. At least three election observers testified in sworn affidavits that ...
The Horror! MSM Freaked Out By “Shocking” Video Of Maskless Supermarket
Post Date: 2021-02-05 10:38:04 by Horse
Mainstream media is throwing a fit over footage of a Florida supermarket where multiple employees and customers are not wearing face masks. Sam Brock @SamBrockNBC As #Flordia fights community spread of COVID on a massive scale, this is a 15-second snapshot of a supermarket in Naples. Many employees and customers- even older ones- with no masks on inside. Store sign outside cites medical exemptions, we cant ask questions. @NBCNews https://twitter.com/i/status/1357047400548950023 Former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, now with NBC News, reported on the video clip Wednesday night. Smith condemned the Floridians for jumping the gun when it comes to taking off the face ...
USA Today Op-Ed Denounces Tom Brady For Being White
Post Date: 2021-02-05 10:33:38 by Horse
USA Today published an op-ed which denounced Tom Brady for refusing to walk back his previous support for Donald Trump and for being white. Yes, really. With the Super Bowl just days away, Nancy Armour (who is white), took the opportunity to fan the flames of more political and racial division by attacking Brady for refusing to cave to the woke mob that requires total subservience to its ideological consensus. As Dave Blount explains, the motivation for the hit piece is the fact that Brady committed the sin of refusing to recant his previous statements about Trump. In order to terrify the rest into compliance, leftists appear to reserve their most vitriolic invective for ...
US Warship "Expelled" From South China Sea By PLA Forces
Post Date: 2021-02-05 10:23:11 by Horse
The Superpower feud between China and the U.S. continues on Friday as the U.S. Navy sailed near the Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands in the heavily disrupted South China Sea, only to get an appropriate response from Beijing. Poster Comment:Is Biden headed for a two front war? Iran and China? US can't win either war.
Senate Dems Push Through $1.9TN Stimulus Blueprint As Harris Casts First Tiebreaker
Post Date: 2021-02-05 10:21:03 by Horse
Democrats moved to push through President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan with or without - most likely without - Republican support. Following an hours-long "vote-o-rama" (a sophisticated legislative procedure, for those who aren't familiar), VP Kamala Harris cast her first tie-breaking vote to approve the budget plan in the Senate. The deciding vote came early Friday morning, after about 15 hours of all-night debate, and votes on dozens of amendments. In the end, the Senate found itself in a 50-50 partisan deadlock, allowing Harris to break the tie in a 0530ET vote... https://twitter.com/i/status/1357673923614302215 . but not before a series of amendments were ...
The Digital Police State Is Being Institutionalized Throughout the Western World
Post Date: 2021-02-05 09:43:58 by Ada
This report sounds like science fiction, but it comes from a credentialed source and is posted on a respected website. If correct, the only possible conclusion is that a police state is being institutionalized throughout the Western world and perhaps all of the world. If correct, the report certainly validates my conclusion that the digital revolution is the worst disaster ever to befall humanity, and it validates my conclusion that no Western government represents the people. PCR Implanted Vaccine Package ID: Germanys Parliament Has Ratified GAVIs Digital Agenda ID2020 By Peter Koenig, Global Research Introduction and background by Global Research: ...
Red Line War Room Ep158 (New Cali variant B.1.429 worse than B.1.426) by Dr. Paul Cottrell
Post Date: 2021-02-05 09:25:21 by Horse
Poster Comment:The original covid was made in labs in the US and in Wuhan paid for by the US government. These continuing mutations originated in areas where the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were first tested. The plague will continue until the Deep State can establish a medical tyranny. Deaths will mount when the vaccinated ones are hit wild a wild virus.
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President Joe Biden will announce a massive new spending program, have lunch and receive a briefing.
President Joe Biden’s Itinerary for 6/26/23
Live stream links will activate as streams become available
ALL TIMES EST
- 11:45 AM Announce massive broadband internet spending program
- 12:30 PM Have lunch with the VP
- 2:00 PM Receive the daily briefing
White House Briefing Schedule
- 2:00 PM White House Press Briefing [video]
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The goal of the South College Surgical Technology program is to prepare competent entry-level surgical technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Graduates of this program of study will:
- Demonstrate competency in the background information, content, and skills required for performance as a surgical technologist in the operating room;
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with all members of the health care team in terms of staff and patient needs;
- Exhibit conduct that reflects practice standards that are legal, ethical, and safe.
Upon completion of the program, graduates will be eligible to sit for the Certified Surgical Technologist Certification Examination as administered by The National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting.
Certification Pass Rates are listed below.
Asheville Certificate Program Outcomes
|2020 (8/1/2019 – 7/31/2020)|
|Cohort Completion Rate||81% (17/21)|
|Certification Pass Rate||77% (13/17)|


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Settlement reached in Gregg County Jail religion lawsuit
by Glenn Evans
Claims by a former Gregg County Jail inmate that his Islamic faith was violated have been settled locally and await a Dec. 29 announcement he has settled his dispute with two federal agencies — but the settlement will not cost Gregg County.
A federal judge will have to sign off on any pending deal before it is official.
Mohammad Moosa Yahya sued Gregg County, Sheriff Maxey Cerliano, six of his deputies and two federal law enforcement agencies in March. He claimed in the federal lawsuit that he was denied meal accommodations during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which that year coincided with his stint in the Gregg County Jail in the summer of 2014.
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