Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by Frankfree, May 12, 2019.
What DNS service are you using ?
System: Quad9 secure.
Firefox: DoH - https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query, mode 3, 220.127.116.11 bootstrapped.
Cloudflare (18.104.22.168) with Simple DNSCrypt.
Quad9, because it combines filtering of harmful domains and DNSSEC. If OpenDNS would include DNSSEC I would use OpenDNS.
Why do you need an app? it is simply changing two lines of code in your iphone or pc
System: Quad9 Secure
Browser: CleanBrowsing Security
Firefox has built-in DoH client.
I had been using https://www.dnsfilter.com/ on my router to protect my home network but they went from $5 per month to $20 which was to much, to bad to it had a nice dashboard gave you all the statistics, what was connecting and how many times, custom blocking polices, white listing etc...
For now Cloudflare 22.214.171.124 it is about the fastest I get on the GRC benchmark https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
I wish I could use Simple DNSCrypt, but this darn issue is ruining everything for me.
It's been a year since it was reported, and the owner doesn't give a duck.
Lines of code?? If by "two lines" you refer to two DNS IP address fields in a settings dialogue, ever since the advent to DoH and DoT, now subjects in any discussion about DNS, things are a bit more involved than two of anything in the avoidance of port 53, UDP, etc. Search up on it, it's fascinating and 30 years overdue.
Anyhow, I was referring to my real computers: Windows desktop and laptop.
If by "iphone" you mean mobile, for my google controlled Pie Moto X4 and Oreo Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.6 stupid devices, I use AdGuard's DoH in their Android app, both licensed. That controls DNS, among other awsome features, for ALL apps on the devices. (Yes, I know about google Pie's "Private" DNS setting but choose not to use that for reasons beyond the scope of this thread.)
If you mean an Apple iPhone, I can't afford the extra hundreds of $$ they want for their logo. Besides, Apple don't need no stinkin' DNS.
I see, I guess I am lucky, it works like a charm here.
They seem like good people. And not so anti-Tor as some make them out to be.
My ISP's DNS are the quickest for me and they block known phishing and malicious websites. Why not? Privacy? By law Australian ISPs have to store our metadata for two years now anyway.
We have a similar situation here in Sweden, which is why I've blocked all internet access on my computer if I'm not connected to my VPN
Phone is a different story though.
Mainly my VPN Provider's DNS
Else: SecureDNS.eu (provides Dns over Https to).
CloudFlare provides "Dns over Tor" too:
DNS provided by my ISP and DNS from VPN service when connected.
System via AcrylicDNS: Cloudflare > Quad9
Router: Cloudflare > Quad9
Browser: Cloudflare DoH
I was using dnscrypt-proxy with Acrylic at one point but didn`t bother replacing it after a reinstall, not sure if it was worth it.
Have you tried dnscrypt2?
I use several for different purposes including my own DNS black hole server set up on a VPS. The one I don't use is the one from my ISP. Not that there is anything wrong with it but there are better options. I tend to use a VPN provider's DNS with a VPN but I sometimes make exceptions.
Please provide more information , What is DNS black hole and how can it be useful ? I have solusvm on a dedicated server so I can create openvz VPS
Just started using the free public pi-hole. Wanna see if it blocks more ads than Adguard DNS.
That is pretty cool. If it were faster for me, I would likely use it.
I need to get around and look into setting up my own one of these days.
I use pi-hole for ad filtering on mobile devices and have found it very reliable. The latest versions are very easy to install and configure too.
For privacy and security reasons I'd personally avoid directing all my DNS queries to a public pi-hole but each to their own.
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This event is designed to be a great "first time" trail run for the novice runner or road runner that will also challenge the seasoned trail runner at the 1/2 marathon distance. This year will challenge runners even more with the addition of the 50k ultra distance. Beautiful scenery mixed with a challenging course will make the Canyon Crash a favorite year after year!
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Campaign promises, the promises a candidate makes while campaigning for a public office, are usually integral to their election. But these promises rarely get follow ups, tending to cause a rift in trust between the official and their constituents.
One of Joe Biden’s most famous campaign promises was the integration of stimulus checks almost monthly, to help the lower class and unable to work individuals during the pandemic, where working can be extremely hazardous. In fact, this promise was one of the biggest reasons most people had for voting for him, apart from being the alternative to Donald Trump. This promise spawned hope in the possibility to subset the poverty caused by COVID-19, which has caused a sharp increase in the number of households under the poverty line, and according to the World Bank Organization, “This is equivalent to an increase in the poverty rate of 2.3 percentage points compared to a no-COVID-19 scenario” in reference to the poverty increase.
Coronavirus has laid off tens of thousands of people, and is projected to financially hurt the economy for years to come. So Joe Biden made a promise to get stimulus checks to the people who needed them. But it’s projected that he won’t be keeping that promise, as he originally supported a two thousand dollar check plan, and instead we are getting a one thousand and four hundred dollar plan. This may seem like a small difference, but one needs to consider that is a six hundred dollar difference. For some people, that difference could mean the difference between paying for food and paying for bills. For some people that difference means not living paycheck to paycheck. For some people that means college application money. Six hundred dollars isn’t a small amount. So this break in promise could very well mean a stark difference in what people thought they were voting for, and what they are receiving.


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This dramatic growth has a combined 2.98 million square feet and is 49 percent above the quarterly averages in 5 years. This was according to the latest data that was taken from a very trusted real estate firm, Knight Frank.
Birmingham on the other hand saw that the performance in the second quarter with the taking of at least 500,000 square feet which was in turn boosted by larger transactions, the most significant for a couple of years now.
In the second quarter this year, the pre-letting activities also increased which impacted the new grade A availability which was significantly down by about 17 percent on a year on year basis. This percentage is collectively about 2.2 million square feet.
During the first half of 2015, it was reported that the investment market of about 2.09 billion pounds of assets from the regional offices changed hands which is the strongest so far of the sector since the second half 8 years ago. The main focus of the investment activities were Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham and accounted for more than half of the turnover in investments.
Bristol particularly saw some huge transactions which include the off market buy of Templeback by the Orchard Street Investment Management back in June 2015 for about 58 million pounds. The transaction reflected a net yield of about 5 percent. Another huge transaction was the acquisition of Aviva Investors of the 66 Queen Square for over 32 million pounds and had a net initial yield of about 5 percent.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Del Monte Foods Co. announced that it has appointed David West as its new CEO, effective Aug. 15. West will also join the company's board of directors in June.
West joins Del Monte from The Hershey Company where he is currently president and CEO. He will replace Neil Harrison, Del Monte's interim-CEO, who will remain on the board of directors. Harrison was appointed as Del Monte's interim CEO after the company was acquired by an investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Vestar Capital Partners and Centerview Capital. The acquisition was completed on March 8.
rior to his CEO role, he held various leadership positions at Hershey including COO, CFO, chief customer officer and SVP strategy and business development. Earlier in his career, he served as SVP and CFO at Nabisco Biscuit and Snacks Group.
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I have some new AC ducts in our new house that will soon be concealed behind new drywall, but before the drywall goes up, I wanted to run some conduit from the upper floor down to the basement for cable and network. Unfortunately, in the space between the two ducts (where I pretty much would have to put the cables, there is, attached to the floor joists a run of knob and tube wiring. I tested it with a voltage tester and it doesn't appear to be hot, so I'm assuming it's the neutral line (I can see where it's partner live line is, however). It looks to be in pretty good condition with the insulation in tact, but I'm leery about trying to run flexible aluminium condition right next to it. I have limited space to work in and limit options on securing it, but obviously I don't want the potential for the conduit to end up live!
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Some streets near Union Station are closed Tuesday morning after a District police officer shot and killed a man wanted in a recent homicide outside a Northwest Washington apartment.
Police have closed K Street NW between North Capitol Street and New Jersey Avenue as the investigation continues.
The incident occurred about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday between First and K streets NW in the Sursum Corda neighborhood between NoMa and Union Station, police said.
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D.C. Police Chief Cathy L Lanier said the suspect came out of a residence with a gun and opened fire on officers. She said police returned fire. The man died shortly after arriving at an area hospital.
The officers were members of the U.S. Marshal’s Capital Area Regional Task Force, which hunts down fugitives. The shooting prompted the arrival of heavily armed police carrying semiautomatic weapons to the area near First and K Street NW.
Officer Araz Alali, a D.C. police spokesman, said no officers were injured in the incident, which occurred about 6:35 a.m. in Sursum Corda, a public housing complex between the train station and the newly branded NoMa neighborhood.
Lanier said the name of the man who was killed along with details of the homicide in which he is suspected will be released later this morning.
Tim Reese, a crane tower operator for a construction company building a nine-story apartment building at First and K streets, said he arrived thus morning to find his parking lot filled with dark unmarked police sport utility vehicles. He said officers drove off about 6:30 am and headed straight to an apartment building dressed in tactical vests and helmets.
A few minutes later he said he heard a volley of gunshots — between six and eight — followed by a pause and then another round of shots. “It was like a war,” Reese said. “It was just like in the show Cops.”
Michael Sprague, a concrete supervisor, said he was in his car parked on the east side of the building. He said he saw officers rushing toward an apartment and thought, “I have to get out of here.” He rushed into the partially constructed building and hid near an elevator shaft as the gunfire erupted.
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A TV news producer’s ambitions take an awkward turn when her mother rejoins the workforce and snags a job as the station’s newest intern. Katie finally lands the lead story at work the same day her mother, Carol, is hired as an unpaid intern. What can possibly go wrong? An overprotective Carol tries to stop Katie from covering a dangerous story. Chuck and Portia’s post-show banter needs serious work. With Chuck out for cataract surgery, giddy staff members seize the chance to make major changes. Meanwhile, Carol can’t help but play caretaker.
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The on-again-off-again couple joined Dorinda, 55, at her Massachusetts mansion, Blue Stone Manor, over 4th of July weekend. In a now-deleted Instagram, Carole and Adam were seen together joined by a group of friends. While Adam was not featured in the picture, Carole shared a shot on Wednesday where she lounged in the pool with her former costar at Blue Stone Manor.
The duo further ignited sparks of a romance after they each posted the same picture of their golden-doodle, Baby. In March, the former Housewife appeared on friend Heather McDonald’s podcast to reveal the pair are close but did not still have a physical relationship.
Real Housewives of New York’s Carole Radziwill seemed to be that it could have been due to Radziwill’s then-boyfriend Adam asking for a.
Pete is shovelling dirt into a flower bed beside the brick wall he’s building. When I say I’m searching for happy stories for the end of our newscast, the year-old indicates he has one about the wall, but can’t tell me. Pete stops working when he hears a pair of seagull calling from his roof. He gestures me to follow him and shows me a box he built along the roofline. Pete pours food in it, knocks its side with his knuckles, and starts making seemingly incomprehensible sounds towards the seagulls.
But the birds answer back. They look at the food, look at me pointing the camera at them, and look back at Pete. The seagulls caw and Pete croaks, seeming to say: It’s ok, the camera won’t hurt you. The seagulls understand, walk down the roof, and start feasting on the food. Inside the house, Pete shows me a collection of plates on the wall depicting baby seals.
There’s also a pair of stuffed seals on the table, a seal poster in a bedroom, and a seal-shaped mirror in the living room. They are part of his wife Carol’s seal collection.
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Science in Christian Perspective. In this paper, I try to apply the findings of modern geology to Gen. I deduce from the evidence that the four rivers of Eden–the Pishon, the Gihon, the Hiddekel, and the Euphrates–were real rivers which existed on a modern landscape before Noah’s flood. The now-dry Wadi al Batin was probably the Pishon River, the Gihon was probably the Karun River, and the Hiddekel Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flowed in approximately the same courses as they occupy today.
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With Carole being right about everything. And Bethenny being, well, wrong about everything. Because, we came to learn over time, Carole likes to be right. Carole left RHONY in a blaze of her own glory, announcing she was leaving the show before the season even finished airing, which is a no-no in Housewife land. At the time, Carole claimed she was leaving the show to pursue her journalism career. Recently, Carole revealed that there might have been more to it than that.
Which we all probably suspected. Sure, Tinsley participates in a little pot stirring when induced by her co-stars, but the drama she creates is usually centered around her own life. Tinsley must not have watched previous episodes before joining the cast three seasons ago—the other women are meant to be the targets-not yourself , Tinsley!
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So why did Carole and Adam break up? It actually seems pretty amicable. Back when the Season 9 reunion aired, Carole admitted that temporarily living with Adam — or “shacking up” in her words — for six months while he was between apartments pushed their relationship into a territory that neither of them particularly liked.
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The story was written by Dickens in order to tackle the relatively new issue of urban poverty, and in particular the growing underclass of impoverished townsfolk produced by the Industrial Revolution. With the rapid shift away from conventional farming and trade practices, and with the rise in new technological advancements, many people were suddenly without work and without the necessary skills to find a job. Amongst other things, this law saw the establishment of brutal workhouses and treadmills that turned huge swathes of the urban poor into de-facto slaves.
As a result, many were trapped in a cycle of poverty which led them into the ghastly and degrading conditions of the poor houses, where they would live a miserable existence, rarely ever earning enough to lift themselves out of their predicament. Dickens himself had first-hand experiences with the ruthless attitude towards the poor which was prevalent in Britain during this period.
As a result, year-old Charles was forced to board with a family friend and leave school to begin working ten-hour days in a shoe-blacking factory. Being from a relatively middle class background, Dickens struggled to fit in among the rest of his work colleagues and he had a fairly miserable time of it during this period. His experiences working in the cruel and backbreaking conditions of the factory, as well as the harsh treatment meted out to his father, had a profound effect on young Charles, and a great impact on his later literary work.
January 6, Season 2, episode 14 With Tim Conway. A salute to Paramount Studios includes spoofs of some memorable films, a medley of Oscar-winning songs by Crosby and Miss Fitzgerald and a musical tribute to the Marx Brothers. In skits, Bing is fawned over by his waitress Carol in a restaurant and, as Alice Portnoy, Carol outsmarts a gang of bank robbers. Griffith narrates and plays the prince to Miss Burnett’s Cinderella – country style; Andy portrays a police officer who brings the “office” home with him; Carol recites “Pink”, a poem by a child-fan.
Carole Radziwill Sends Supplies to Adam Kenworthy Amid Social Distancing. The Real Housewives of New York City alum has her.
Real Housewives of New York City star Carole Radziwill met self-taught chef and non-profit Nicaraguan fruit farmer, Adam Kenworthy back in while filming an episode of the Bravo reality series. Despite their year age gap and the fact that many people doubted whether the relationship would last, including Carole herself, these two seem to be stronger than ever!
Even though they are on a reality show, they like to keep their relationship fairly private, so not much is known about their personal life together. When Carole Radziwill first met Adam Kenworthy, she was 51 and he was Carole was one of the guests at the party. The party was filmed as part of season 7, so viewers got to see their relationship unfold on camera from the moment they met. It was eight months later by the time [the episode] got on the air.
So to watch that initial moment when we met was really like a little bit of magic. In an episode of season 7 when Carole and Adam had first started dating, Carole told the other ladies about her first date with the vegan chef which included accidentally taking drugs, a pedicab ride and throwing up on him! He stayed overnight after their first date, and the two hung out the entire next day.
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Radziwill eventually worked for Peter Jennings ‘ documentary unit, producing shows on abortion and gun control, and covering foreign policy stories in Cambodia , Haiti , and India. In , during the War in Afghanistan , she spent six weeks in Kandahar , embedded with an infantry unit of the st Airborne Division. After her husband’s death, Radziwill left ABC News to write a memoir about her personal life, her career at ABC News, as well as her effort to manage her husband’s cancer.
Radziwill signed with Glamour magazine to write a monthly column called Lunch Date. It was released on February 11, Radziwill said she wanted to go back to journalism and producing. By virtue of marriage, she is member of the House of Radziwill , an aristocratic European family. In , Radziwill started dating chef Adam Kenworthy, 21 years her junior. The pair dated on and off before announcing their split in Following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell , images of Radziwill photographed with Maxwell resurfaced online.
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By the time it ended last year, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had gifted songs to the world. But by all accounts, the sound of Crazy Ex belonged in large part to Schlesinger, so Vulture reached out to his colleagues to share their memories of him as a musician, a writer, and a friend. Yesterday I was mourning him as a friend. What he and Jack and I did was so special. It just puts Crazy Ex in this new light. The finale aired almost a year ago, but then we did Radio City in May and London in June and we were slobbering all over each other.
I know the collaboration with Adam and Jack and Aline was communal, but the cast really got to know Adam so much better on tour. They knew him from recording, but Adam was rarely on set because he was so busy with his other duties. In every culture throughout human history, you mourn as a group. Adam, Jack, and I are all secular Jews, but I would love to sit shiva for him.
He had so many more songs to write and so much creativity and things to say. I was a fan of his even before I started working with him. I was just floored that Adam would want to do our show. I found out Adam was in the hospital on a ventilator hours after my daughter was born, and she was in the NICU also on a ventilator.
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The former Real Housewife goes in on Bravo, claiming she was “too rational” for the show. Actually, she came to the screening of the documentary with me last week. She’s really awesome.
Are Carole Radziwill and Ex Adam Kenworthy Still Meeting for “Coffee”? Carole gave an update on if they still “have coffee” when she appeared on Heather Former ‘Southern Charm’ Star Welcomes Son With Ex-Girlfriend.
By Dailymail. Wet and wild! Pool day: The Real Housewives Of New York star showcased her slim 5ft7in figure in a white two-piece as she played around with vegan chef boyfriend Adam Kenworthy, The May-December pair certainly seemed to be having fun together, as they then flirtily played in the pool, splashing around in the idyllic blue pool. After getting wet together Adam turned paparazzi as he got behind the camera to shoot pictures of his reality star lover.
The two have been dating for three years, which Carole admits has been good for her figure. Having fun: Carole sprays water from her mouth during her swim for an Instagram picture.

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That data is based on Google trends data comparing January-December 2019 to January-December 2020.
“Across the country, people have been looking for ‘black-owned restaurants,’ ‘black-owned bookstores,’ ‘black-owned beauty supply’ and more, which speaks to the diversity within the Black business community,” Google says in a release. “We want to make it easier for people to support and spend dollars with the Black businesses they love.”
Business owners now have the chance to add the ‘Black-owned attribute’ via the Google Merchant Help Center. This feature will then become vissible to shoppers.
“This update builds on the Black-owned business attributes we launched across Google Search and Maps last summer and is another way people can shop with Black businesses across Google’s products and platforms,” the company says.
When in Google maps, a feature appears to identify Black-owned businesses, like the example seen below for the Salt Lake City and St. George areas.
February is Black History Month.


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Thanks to Instagram I recently stumble across Bee Goddess sparkling wicked jewellery range, which offered me a magical insight about my emoji of choice.
I am a quite intuitive person who tries to live under my inner guidance - even when it feels like I am lost, I still listen to my internal voice and go all the way with it.
Most of the time, I do not understand intellectually what leads me to take actions that might look crazy to the outside world (like leaving behind the perfect husband or an awesome job). I just have feelings inside of my heart that I can’t ignore.
I am a self-development student and working on myself it's my full time job. So like a detective, I went on the Bee Goddess website to look for more information on the symbolism of the lighting.
Here I share my findings and hope they might offer some enlightening information to you too!
Enlightenment & Energy
Lightning is a symbol of enlightenment, ultimate goodness and truth.
It is a ‘creative spark’ to renew our lives. It announces the presence of the divine forces in our life.
Light is a metaphor for the creative power of spirit. The force and magnitude of divine inspiration and grace is related to a thunder.
Thunderbolt produces an inward light; it enlightens and stirs the spirit, creates desire to manifest. It brings clarity and sharpness to the mind.
As it strikes it destroys all that does not serve us any longer and brightens up the sky with the splendor of a magnificent light visible to our eye only in seconds.
Fire is an expression of spiritual energy of transformation and regeneration. It initiates major positive change; opens space, inspires and energises us. Linked with both re and water, lightning purifies, nourishes and lets grace pour into your life.
As the thunderbolt cleaves the cloud to turn it into rain, it becomes a fertility symbol. This is a metaphor to open a woman’s womb so that she may soon give birth.
In Native American tradition the wink of the great creator spirit; Thunderbird; in India the ashing third eye of Shiva, the light of truth are a few examples of lightning symbolism.
Inspiration, Splendour, Illumination, Purification, Intuitive, Awakening, Insight, Burst of Energy, Creative Power, Fertility, Renewal, Grace Descending, Revelation.
'The longing of the heart for a dream is a call to a mythical journey' Ece Sirin, Bee Goddess Founder.

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Faries Gray, Sagamore of the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag / at the State House : November 19, 2019 / Anna Gyorgy photo
Another year, another legislative session, and the racist flag of Massachusetts still flies above the gold dome of the state house on Beacon Hill.
It disgraces the stage of every town hall meeting room, city council chamber, and public school auditorium in the Commonwealth.
Thirty-eight years after former representative Byron Rushing of Boston, acting in cooperation with the late director of the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs John “Slow Turtle” Peters, first introduced legislation to establish a special commission to change the flag and seal of Massachusetts, we are still upholding the imagery – supposed to express the highest ideals of our Commonwealth – of a white hand holding a drawn sword over the head of an Indigenous person. That is our state symbol. “Peace Under the Sword, but Peace with Liberty,” reads the Latin motto underneath.
This is the symbolism we teach to our grade school children each year when they study the state flag and seal as part of the elementary school core curriculum.
This is the symbolism our elected officials share with all of their constituents on letters and documents, part of the daily working of our state bureaucracy.
This is the imagery we find on the doors of state patrol cars, on the dais of our courtrooms, on bridge abutments and the welcoming road signs standing at the border of each town and city in the Commonwealth.
It is ubiquitous. It is invidious. It is the last state flag of white supremacy still flying in America today, and it is not going away unless we push for final action and take it down.
Special Commission in Limbo
After 40 cities and towns took formal votes in favor of changing the flag and seal, adding their voices to the call of Indigenous leaders, racial justice committees and faith based groups from the Berkshires to Cape Cod, finally, in the wee hours of January 6th, 2021, the legislature passed the bill Byron Rushing had championed over more than 30 years. They set up a special commission – which would invite six Indigenous leaders from the area we now call Massachusetts to sit with state legislators, historians, the secretary of state’s designee, and others – to study the present state symbol and recommend changes.
The commission was given no funding to work with, and told to complete this historic work in less than nine months, by October 1st, 2021. But, then Governor Charlie Baker failed to even fully seat the commission until November of that year.
The commission began meeting in earnest in January of last year. After months of hard work, the Indigenous leaders on the special commission finally forged a consensus among their white colleagues, and the entire commission voted in favor of seeking a total redesign of the flag, seal and motto on May 18th, 2022.
Statewide media reported the unanimous vote as if a new flag and seal for the Commonwealth were now a done deal. But the commission never had the power to do anything other than make a recommendation to the state legislature – the same legislature which has consistently sidelined and blocked the effort to change the racist symbol of our Commonwealth since 1985.
Over the summer and fall, the commission sought a way to translate their unanimous vote into action. They asked for more time and for long needed funds to conduct public polling and listening sessions around the state, to gather public input on a new design. The asked for funds to pay for graphic artisans to create a mock-up for a new design.
That funding finally came as a line item in the negotiated-behind-closed-doors Economic Development Bill signed by the governor in mid-November. But the extension the special commission had sought (until March 31st of 2023) somehow failed to be included.
The commission was given $100,000 to work with and no time to spend it, or to complete their work in an orderly fashion.
Senate advocates for the long overdue change to the state flag and seal are calling for the special commission to simple reconvene and complete their work.
The reasoning is, “We gave them the money, and the money does not go away with the turning of the calendar year.”
The $100,000 remains available for the special commission to spend until 2025. The legislature is awaiting the final results of the special commission’s labor, says one of the chief backers of the bill that established the special commission. But the commission remains unsure of its mandate, and unclear on next steps.
Towns and Cities Continue to Weigh In
Meanwhile, every year since 2018, more and more cities and towns have joined a long, growing list of municipalities that are calling on their state legislators to get this long awaited change accomplished. Last year, 14 more towns, many of them in heartland counties in the center of the state, voted in favor of changing the flag and seal.
This spring, concerned citizens, members of faith communities, and racial justice groups will bring similar resolutions to their city council and annual town meeting agendas, heeding the call of Indigenous leaders on the special commission to Change the Flag and Seal!
Your Help is Needed
Please take a moment to look at the map of towns and cities that have already voted in favor of this long awaited change on the home page of this website: http://changethemassflag.com
You can click on the towns shaded in a light tan color to see where upcoming votes are being scheduled, where help is needed.
If your town is not on the map yet for either voting in favor or about to hold a vote, please contact us to find out how you can help us add your town or city to that growing list. The contact button is on the home page, under the heading “Get Involved.”
As of today, 56 Massachusetts cities and towns have voted in favor of changing the flag and seal. Only two, Rowley and Harwich, have so far voted to keep the flag and seal unchanged.
A great deal of hard work and effort on the part of grassroots volunteers has led to this impressive outcome., and they deserve all our thanks.
Whatever Massachusetts city or town we live in, we all need to press our state legislators to take heed of the growing chorus among the municipalities, small and large, from Stockbridge to Provincetown, that are calling on the legislature to get this done.
The time has come. Allow no further delay. Take down the racist flag and seal today. Give us a state symbol we can be proud of, to teach our school children and show the world at large that in Massachusetts we believe in equity, justice, and harmonious relations among all the people who call the Commonwealth home today.
Findings of the Special Commission
When you contact your state legislators, tell them the special commission was unambiguous in their findings that change must happen now.
Here are the findings of the special commission on the seal and motto of the Commonwealth, as of December, 2022
- Massachusetts should create a new design for the seal and motto of the Commonwealth
- Massachusetts should incorporate symbols and terms in a new seal and motto that are inspirational and inclusive of the diverse perspective, history, and experiences of Massachusetts residents.
- Massachusetts should dedicate more resources to educating the public about the history and cultures of Massachusetts, in particular: the Indigenous history and cultures of Massachusetts, the history and usages of the current seal and motto, and the harm inflicted by the current seal and motto, and the efforts to change the seal and motto.


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Barro describes coming out of the closet as a “duty”:
San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk got this right in 1978, when he admonished his fellow gays and lesbians to come out of the closet in order to build opposition to a ballot measure that would have banned gays and lesbians from teaching in public schools: “Come out to your relatives. I know that is hard and will upset them but think how they will upset you in the voting booth.”
This obligation is only stronger now that social acceptance of gays and lesbians is higher, meaning the cost of coming out has declined. And it lies particularly with those in positions of privilege and power, who have the resources to withstand negative reactions. Coming out was stressful for me like it is for most people, but let’s be real: Announcing that you’re gay in a wealthy family in a progressive suburb of Boston as you’re about to enter Harvard University is a pretty easy hand to play.
I’m afraid I have the same conviction, possibly burned more deeply by the memory of the plague. I remember one HRC dinner back in the day when I was asked to speak. I asked people who were out to their families, friends and co-workers to put their hands up. In a well-heeled, tuxedoed, bejeweled crowd, only about a third put up their hands. I asked who were not out – and another third went up. I then said, in words I reiterate today to anyone in the closet writing checks to gay groups, “Why don’t you leave right now and come back when you’ve done something for gay rights?”
If you’re reading this, and your hand went up as in the closet, my question stands.
(Photo: Openly gay pro boxer Orlando Cruz celebrates victory over Jorge Pazos at Kissimmee Civic Center on October 19, 2012 in Kissimmee, Florida. By J. Meric/Getty Images.)

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Darden Restaurants Sees Unusually-High Trading Volume Following Dividend Announcement (DRI)
Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) saw strong trading volume on Friday following a dividend announcement from the company, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports. 3,213,582 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 214% from the previous session’s volume of 1,022,196 shares.The stock last traded at $48.27 and had previously closed at $49.52.
The newly announced dividend is scheduled for Friday, August 1st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, July 10th will be given a dividend of $0.55 per share. This represents a $2.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.44%.
DRI has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Analysts at Susquehanna raised their price target on shares of Darden Restaurants from $46.00 to $49.00 in a research note on Thursday. Separately, analysts at UBS AG cut their price target on shares of Darden Restaurants from $51.00 to $49.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 22nd. Finally, analysts at Credit Suisse cut their price target on shares of Darden Restaurants from $48.00 to $46.00 in a research note on Tuesday, May 20th. They now have an “underperform” rating on the stock. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have given a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Darden Restaurants presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $51.47.
The stock has a 50-day moving average of $49.82 and a 200-day moving average of $50.36. The company has a market cap of $6.342 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.76.
Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, June 20th. The company reported $0.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.29. The company had revenue of $2.32 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.33 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.01 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up .9% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts predict that Darden Restaurants will post $2.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Darden Restaurants, Inc is a full service restaurant company. As of May 26, 2013, the Company operated through subsidiaries 2,138 restaurants in the United States and Canada.
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California Gold Nutrition, Superfoods, Organic Camu Camu Powder, Dry Milled Peruvian Whole Berry, 8.5 oz (240 g)
Comprar California Gold Nutrition, Superfoods, Organic Camu Camu Powder, Dry Milled Peruvian Whole Berry, 8.5 oz (240 g)
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- California Gold Nutrition® Superfoods Organic Camu Camu Powder
- Sourced from Peru, Manufactured in the USA
- USDA Organic, Certified by A Bee Organic
- Naturally Occurring Phytonutrients such as Vitamin C
- Tart, Sour, Citrus-like Flavor
- 8.5 oz (240 g) Whole Berry Powder
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- Formulated to Contain: No Gluten – No GMOs – No Soy
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Camu Camu (Myrciaria dubia) is a tropical superfruit indigenous to South American that can be found along the flooded areas of the Amazonian Rainforest which gives access to Native peoples to harvest the fruit directly into canoes. The Camu Camu tree has been planted along floodplains as part of reforestation projects because their hardiness and their productivity as a food source.
California Gold Nutrition® Superfoods Organic Camu Camu Powder is a dry milled whole berry powder sourced from Peru. Camu Camu Berries are known to contain a wide variety of naturally occurring phytonutrients such as Vitamin C and polyphenolic antioxidant-like compounds such as flavonoids. The tart sour taste can add a twist in recipes that call for lemon, lime and other citrus-like flavors.
Scoop it. Blend it. Sprinkle it. Bake it. It’s that easy!
Pairs well with: Banana, Carrot, Orange, Raspberries, Strawberries, Sweet Potato
California Gold Nutrition® Superfoods Organic Camu Camu Powder is manufactured in the USA and meets or exceeds all qualitative and quantitative Quality Control specifications:
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Use one or more servings daily. Blend with shakes or smoothies. Sprinkle over yogurt or oatmeal. Bake in your favorite recipes.
Once opened, best used within 6 months.
Organic Acerola Cherry Puree Powder, Organic Acacia Gum Fiber (5%)
Truth in Food & Labeling NOTE: 5% Acacia Fiber is included as our Acerola Powder is hygroscopic and it helps ensure flowability and reduces the possibility of clumping.
This product is not manufactured with milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy or gluten. Produced in a third-party, audited and registered cGMP complaint facility that may process, other products that contain these allergens or ingredients.
Sealed for your protection. Best stored at Controlled Room Temperature (CRT) 20ºC to 25ºC (68ºF to 77ºF). Improper storage conditions, such as extended exposure to direct sunlight, high heat & humidity can cause product degradation over time.
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Hi, My name’s Steve. My daughter Penny and I will be looking after your pet dogs at our Woolloongabba property.
We are both members of the RSPCA. Penny’s a junior volunteer, and I take photos and make short videos for the RSPCA website.
We also do a lot of fostering of dogs for the RSPCA. Our back garden is very bushy which the dogs enjoy. It’s almost like being out in the bush, even though it’s a suburban back yard.
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Countering Radical Narratives Requires Understanding the Radicalized
Nimmi Gowrinathan writes: Reports that women have formed their own brigade within the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have confounded experts — and worried them. For many, the idea of women as violent extremists seems paradoxical. After all, why should women want to join a political struggle that so blatantly oppresses them?
“In war zones across the world, women absorb a disproportionate amount of the fallout from conflict, including material deprivation in refugee camps, daily harassment and fear in militarized zones, and a constant vulnerability to rape.”
That question reveals more about the experts than the fighters. Those who ask it assume, first, that women are more peaceful than men by nature; and second, that women who participate in armed rebellion are little more than cannon fodder in a man’s game, fighting foolishly for a movement that will not benefit them. As the women of ISIS prove, both assumptions are false.
“Joining the fight is sometimes the only way to survive.”
To understand the women of ISIS and their motivations, it helps to place them in their historical context, among the legions of women in El Salvador, Eritrea, Nepal, Peru, and Sri Lanka who voluntarily joined violent movements and militias, sometimes even as highly ranked officers. In each of these cases, women joined for the same basic reasons as men. Living in deeply conservative social spaces, they faced constant threats to their ethnic, religious, or political identities — and it was typically those threats, rather than any grievances rooted in gender, that persuaded them to take up arms. Read the rest of this entry »
Courtesy of those upbeat folks at foreignaffairs.com
Remember that ISIS guy who promised to raise Islamic flag over the White House? Me neither!
The Islamic State’s Press Officer Abu Mosa became a figure of international notoriety overnight when he took on a starring role in a captivating Vice News documentary about ISIS in Syria.
“We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House.”
– The late Abu Mosa
Instead of doing that, according to the U.S. State Department, he’s just going to be dead.
— Think AgainTurn Away (@ThinkAgain_DOS) August 21, 2014
Mosa was reportedly killed near the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, where much of Vice’s documentary was shot. His death comes as Islamic State forces mount a long-awaited assault on the Tabqa Syrian military airbase. Read the rest of this entry »
President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 “in solidarity” with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was “just not worth it anymore” to play the sport in a time of war…(more)
NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE: OBAMA VOWS TO ‘STAY ON COURSE’
The vacationing commander-in-chief returned to the golf course Wednesday after calling for justice in the brutal killing of an American journalist by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) terrorists. …
The president zipped quickly from a local school to a Martha’s Vineyard golf course after his 12:45 p.m. media session. Obama delivered a short statement and took no questions from the assembled media.
The Rock Squirrel has been raiding our bird feeder, carrying away pounds of seed. Nancy figured a quick solution. I don’t know which is funnier, the squirrel or Nancy’s narration.
For anyone who is concerned about the squirrel, he still raids our other two feeders and the vegetable garden. The tiny amount of Vaseline used is non-toxic…He quickly learned that this feeder was not worth the trouble…(read more)
Prefer something a little more militant? In this marvel of modern aviation, witness this highlight reel of theft-prevention techniques involving what we charitably call “involuntary squirrel flight.”
Ultimate Squirrel-Launching Compilation
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FERGUSON, Mo. AP — Police records show that 163 arrests have been made in the Ferguson protest zone since the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, but just seven are residents of the St. Louis suburb…(read more)
“Oil production gains from the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale formations are a major reason why U.S. imports of crude oil have dropped to levels not seen since the mid-1990s.”
– Benteck Director of Energy Analysis Jack Weixel
HOUSTON, Aug. 21 (UPI) — Oil production from shale basins in North Dakota and Texas are the primary reason for a decline in U.S. oil imports, data published Thursday show.
“Total U.S. crude oil production reached 8.5 million barrels per day in July, the highest monthly level since April 1987.”
Bentek Energy, the analytical division of Platts, said July oil production from the Bakken area in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford shale play in Texas increased 3.4 percent year-on-year, or more than 86,000 barrels per day.
The chart below shows the combined daily oil output in America’s three most productive oil fields — the Bakken in North Dakota, the Eagle Ford Shale in south-central Texas and the Permian Basin in west Texas — from January 2007 to June 2014, based on estimates released by the EIA. From combined output of 1 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) in 2007, total crude oil production in those three oil fields will top 4 million barrels in June, based on drilling rigs data and EIA estimates of changes in production from existing wells…(read more)
“Oil production gains from the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale formations are a major reason why U.S. imports of crude oil have dropped to levels not seen since the mid-1990s,” Benteck Director of Energy Analysis Jack Weixel said in a statement Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Tom Rogan: Obama White House ‘More Concerned with Domestic Popular Opinion Rather Than Foreign Strategic Threat’Posted: August 21, 2014
See Tom Rogan’s recent piece on the Islamic State and James Foley’s murder, “A Man of Courage and ISIS’s Face of Evil.”
Man Shot and Killed by St. Louis Police Officer
On Tuesday, two officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed Kajieme Powell, who was 25 years old.
“There is a dangerous dynamic in the night,ﾔ he said. ﾓIt allows a small number of violent agitators to hide in the crowd and then attempt to create chaos.”
Powell was suspected of shoplifting energy drinks and donuts from a convenience store. The shop owner, believing that Powell was carrying a weapon, contacted police. Another witness, Ald. Dionne Flowers, who represents the area and owns a beauty salon in the same block, noticed that Powell was acting erratically and also called police. Flowers told police she saw a second knife, though only one was recovered at the scene.
Sam Dotson, St Louis Police Chief, said in a tweet that officers had responded to a call and found an apparently agitated man, armed with a knife who yelled, “Kill me now” before approaching the patrol.
Some bystanders questioned whether the man was armed and said he was accused of stealing two bottles of soda.
An angry crowd grew quickly outside the convenience store where the latest victim died.
Some young men said they planned to burn it down and accused the police of being intent on murdering young black men.
“Why didn’t they use a Taser,” said Germaine Leroy. “What are they shooting for? I’ve been shot with a Taser so I know how it incapacitates.”
The case of Michael Brown, 18, who was unarmed when he was shot dead by a white officer, has polarised the nation. Night after night demonstrators have fought running battles with police who are struggling to maintain control. Read the rest of this entry »
College Newspaper Can’t Be Called ‘The Bullet’ Anymore Because It’s Too Dangerous
“The editorial board felt that the paper’s name, which alludes to ammunition for an artillery weapon, propagated violence and did not honor our school’s history in a sensitive manner.”
A Virginia university has decided to stop calling its newspaper “The Bullet” over concerns that the name was so insensitive and inappropriate that it could even make people violent.
“I would say this: Something needs to be done to respond to this brutal murder. I think we have to take a stronger stand with the Islamic State.”
Via The Corner:
GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni told MSNBC he is confident that the U.S. government “tried very hard,” and he has communicated with officials since Foley was kidnapped in November 2012. In light of Foley’s death, though, the government must do more, he said.
“I would say this: Something needs to be done to respond to this brutal murder.”
“I’m not an expert — I don’t know what exactly should be done — but this brutal murder of an American citizen cannot go unanswered,” he said…(read more)
For SingleHop, Stephanie Crets writes: Net Neutrality has been the topic of intense conversation recently, as the FCC solicits and considers public comments about how to regulate Internet traffic. We’ve put together the overview below to help you understand the issues and players that influence the way we use the Internet daily for business, research, entertainment, and social activities.
Net Neutrality Overview
Net Neutrality refers to the idea that all data on the Internet should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For most of the Internet’s history, ISPs generally did not distinguish between the various types of content that flow through their networks, whether web pages, email, or other forms of information. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the few ISPs that tried to block certain types of data faced strong opposition from consumers, tech companies, and regulators.
With the rise of bandwidth-heavy services such as Netflix, ISPs have increasingly sought to sell more bandwidth, or “fast lanes,” to companies willing to pay for it. Other traffic would move through their networks at a slower pace.
An FCC History of Net Neutrality
The term “Network Neutrality” (later shortened to Net Neutrality) was coined by legal scholar Tim Wu in a 2003 study of potential ways to regulate the Internet. Over the last decade, the FCC has tried multiple times to enforce “guiding principles” in support of Net Neutrality. Read the rest of this entry »
Our co-found and Editor-At-Large. Though this snapshot looks vintage, it was actually taken fairly recently, around 2007, back when he had a bit less gray hair, and long before he had a 3-D printer. But his hobbies are essentially the same. He’s currently heading up our Hong Kong Bureau, where his time and space doesn’t allow for recreational rocket building, so I’m sure he’ll enjoy this archival snapshot as a winsome reminder of a cherished pastime.
L.A. Desk: City of Hawthorne is going to ‘look into’ mandating the use of ‘body cams’ for all uniformed police officersPosted: August 20, 2014
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This cascading beauty prefers to sit on a ledge or hang from the ceiling so its long, leafy tendrils can be fully appreciated. The pothos are low maintenance plants and can grow to be about six to ten feet long over time. They're also easily propagated when pruning; simply place a cut stem (with a node) in water and wait for it to root.
- Pothos plants, metal hanger, soil, plastic grower's pot
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- Fertilizer about once a month
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News of Uzbekistan
Development of IT sector in Uzbekistan discussed
On June 8, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev was provided with information on the progress of reforms in information technology and digital economy development.
The legal framework for the consumer basket to be developed
On June 3, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a videoconference on poverty reduction.
3769 COVID-19 cases in Uzbekistan
Project implementation criteria defined
The investment program for 2020 includes more than 3 thousand projects, the implementation of which involves the development of capital investments in the amount of 235 trillion UZS, including foreign direct investments worth $7 billion.
New system to be introduced to support families in need of housing
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the meeting in Andijan paid special attention to improving the living conditions of the population, developing infrastructure in the region.
Presidents of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan talk over the phone
On May 17, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Important directions in regional economic development outlined
On May 7, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a videoconference on measures to increase the economic potential of districts and cities in Andijan, Navoi and Surkhandarya regions.
Official Statement: 648 patients are being treated for COVID-19
Head of the State Inspection of Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Chief Sanitary Inspector of the country Nurmat Otabekov notes:
The number of confirmed coronavirus infected reaches 2217
As of May 6, 10:00, the number of coronavirus infected in Uzbekistan has reached 2217 people, the Ministry of Health reports.


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Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you!
I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product, And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
Births have brought us richness and variety, And other births will bring us richness and variety.I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.Do you take it I would astonish?Firm masculine colter it shall be you!I do not press my fingers across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart, Copulation is no more rank to me than death.Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?Night of south winds-night of the large few stars!O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues, And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom, I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.Smile, for your lover comes.A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me, lokale seksuelle overgripere The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself?33 Space and Time!One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like man leaving charges before a journey.I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
From the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head, Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled underbrush, Lighting on every moment of my life, Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses, Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them.


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January 22, 2016
Pakistan has around 130 nuclear warheads to
deter an Indian military attack: US report
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Pakistan's nuclear warheads which are estimated to be between 110-130 are aimed at dissuading India from taking military action against it, a US Congressional report says.
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is widely regarded as designed to dissuade India from taking military action against Pakistan, the report said adding: "but Islamabad’s expansion of its nuclear arsenal, development of new types of nuclear weapons, and adoption of a doctrine called “full spectrum deterrence” have led some observers to express concern about an increased risk of nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India, which also continues to expand its nuclear arsenal."
The Congressional report titled "Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons" was released on January 14. It is written by Nonproliferation experts, Paul K. Kerr and Mary Beth Nikitin.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the research wing of the US Congress, which prepares periodic reports by eminent experts on a wide range of issues so as to help lawmakers take informed decisions.
"Pakistan has in recent years taken a number of steps to increase international confidence in the security of its nuclear arsenal," said the CRS report.
Moreover, Pakistani and US officials argue that, since 2004 Islamabad has taken a number of steps to improve its nuclear security and to prevent further proliferation of nuclear-related technologies and materials, it said. A number of important initiatives, such as strengthened export control laws, improved personnel security, and international nuclear security cooperation programs, have improved Pakistan's nuclear security, the CRS said.
"However, instability in Pakistan has called the extent and durability of these reforms into question. Some observers fear radical takeover of the Pakistani government or diversion of material or technology by personnel within Pakistan's nuclear complex," the CRS said.
"While US and Pakistani officials continue to express confidence in controls over Pakistan's nuclear weapons, continued instability in the country could impact these safeguards. Furthermore, continued Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons development could jeopardize strategic stability between the two countries," it concluded.
Chronic political instability in Pakistan and Islamabad’s military efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda have raised concerns about the security of the country’s nuclear weapons, the report said and added that "some observers fear that Pakistan’s strategic nuclear assets could be obtained by terrorists or used by elements in the Pakistani government. However, U.S. officials have generally expressed confidence in the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons."
According to the CRS report: "Islamabad is expanding its nuclear arsenal and developing of new types of nuclear weapons. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Richard Olson told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 16, 2015, that the United States is “concerned” about “the pace and the scope of the Pakistan’s missile program, including its pursuit of nuclear systems.” The administration also worries that “a conventional conflict in Southwest Asia could escalate to include nuclear use as well as the increased security challenges that accompany growing stockpiles,” he added."
The CRS report pointed out that the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has argued that “Pakistan’s strategic posture, including nuclear, is clearly framed around its perception of the threat from India.” Similarly, then-DIA Director Burgess told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 10, 2011, that the “persistent India-Pakistan rivalry drives Islamabad to develop its nuclear infrastructure, expand nuclear weapon stockpiles ... and seek more advanced nuclear warheads and delivery systems, including cruise missiles.” Pakistan has repeatedly described its strategic doctrine as “credible minimum deterrence.” Islamabad has pledged no-first-use against non- nuclear-weapon states, but has not ruled out first-use against a nuclear-armed aggressor, such as India.
Abdus Sattar Ghazali is the Chief Editor of the Journal of America.


Indian Army HQ Southern Command Group C Recruitment 2023 | HQ Southern Command Group C Vacancy 2023 | | Apply Offline
Indian Army invited online Applications for eligible and interested Male and female Indian citizens to fill up Indian Army HQ Southern Command Group C Recruitment 2023. HQ Southern Command vacancies for the Group C Examination 2023 in the setting up of HQ Southern Command, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, Vacancies are as follows:
|Organization:||HQ Southern Command Group C|
|Selection Process:||Written, Physical, Skill Test & Medical|
|Online Apply Date:||18th September 2023|
|Last Date of Online Apply:||08th October 2023|
Recruitment Post & Vacancies:
Total No. Of Posts: 37 Posts (Male & Female)
Name of the Post:
Recruitment Eligibility Criteria:
Recruitment Age Limit:
- Candidate age should be between 18-25 years for as on date: 08.10.2023
- Age Relaxation of 5 Years is applicable to SC/ST & 3 Years for OBC Candidates.
Wester Command Group C PST & PET:
Wester Command Group C Qualification:
A candidate should have passed the 10th & 12 Standard as per the notification from the concerned State/UT coming under the State/Regional Office to which he/she is applying. Such qualification should be from a recognized board. Please read carefully for educational qualifications.
Wester Command Group C Syllabus:
|Subject||No. of Questions||Marks|
|General Intelligence & Reasoning||25||25|
Wester Command Group C Pay Scale:
As Per the Post Please read the notification
Southern Command Group C Selection Process:
- Written Exam
- Skill Test / Trade Test
- Medical Examination.
- SC/ST/PWD/EXM – Nil
- For all others – Nil
Southern Command Group C How to Apply:
Eligible candidates can apply online application at the Official Website before the last date. Fill out the application form as per the guidelines given in the official notification. Successful submission takes a printout of the application form.
Who Can Apply: India Candidates can apply for this vacancy. (Male & Female)
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Indian Army HQ Southern Command Group C Recruitment Important Dates:
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What is the point of my blog? Well, like me, my children are very social. They can talk you up a storm. They love talking on the phone, going out and talking with their friends, and seem to have a lot of my personality. Loud, boisterious, and attention grabbing.
On top of having some of my personality, my oldest son has determined he wants to be a writer.
After seeing a horrific YouTube video (horrific in the terms that it was a first-person account of surviving the Joplin, MO tornado this past May), he became overwhelmed and felt that he needed to do something to help those people. We have family in Missouri, thankfully they were over an hour away from the disasterous tornado.
While watching the video and hearing the little children cry, tears formed in his eyes. While I wanted to shield him from this reality by turning it off, part of me let him continue watching it knowing it was the real world and sooner -rather than later- he would need to know that this could happen to anyone and to be prepared should it happen to us. Not a few weeks later did it happen very close by; in Springfield, MA - about an hour and a half away from us. This was like the push he needed to form an idea and get it moving.
While cooking dinner, he came up to me and said rather definitely, "Mom, I want to write a book."
I said, "Ok. What is your book going to be about?"
He said, "I want to write a children's book and, like you did with your book, I want to put it online for people to buy. And when they buy it, I will give all the money I get to charity to help those families caught in the tornado."
I remember putting down my stirring spoon and giving him a squeeze. "Let me think about it, Cameron," I said, and watched him go to his room with a pad of paper and a pencil.
I didn't want him to make a rash decision. I didn't want my child to be disappointed. I was afraid, as there are so many books online for sale and many of them not selling, that if we published his book that it wouldn't make anything (aside from a few family and friend sales). I didn't want all of his hardwork, and his noble cause, to be a waste of his time. I slept on it. Let it fester, and eventually posted a comment on Twitter asking what people thought of a ten-year-old writing a children's book for charity. I received three comments to that post, all of which were very eager, positive, and encouraging. One poster said, 'cherylshireman @jatitus Yes. I think that is wonderful!', another poster said, 'jennspiller @jatitus For this? Yes? I'd talk it up to my daughter.', and the last said, 'keiraleabooks @jatitus I think that's awesome. I would buy it. :-).'
With that, how could I not allow him to do this? The next day when I returned home from work, I told him to go ahead and begin writing. We sat at the computer and I asked him what his idea was. He said he wanted to do a children's A to Z book, and that each of the sentences would have the letter represented in each word within the sentence. Immediately he came up with, 'Anna anteater ate an appealing apple'. They came to him quickly, at least most of them did. He finished letters B, C, D and was soon up to letter X. X was quite the difficult letter. He used Google and a Crossword Puzzle website to help him come up with words for each letter. Then he'd take as many words as he could and conform them into a funtional sentence. He'd then bounce his ideas on my husband and myself. Some of them didn't flow well, but others he literally hit the nail on the head -- they were perfect! Each of the characters in the book (initially, as some have been changed since forwarding to the illustrator) represented a family member or a friend, when they could (we don't have any X lettered family members, lol) . For example his aunt Christy in Missouri, is a 'caged calico', and his cousin in Missouri is, 'Kaitlin kangaroo'.
After he completed all the sentences to his satisfaction, he prepped himself to draw each of the pictures. Being the perfectionist that he is, he didn't like his initial concepts and asked if I could find him an illustrator out of the writer friends that I have. I posted a couple of threads on FB asking if anyone would be interested in donating their time, and asked a friend of ours if he'd be interested. Before our family friend responded an author by the name of G. R. Holton messaged me on FB. He said he would be interested, and immediately our working relationship started off without a hitch.
Bob (G. R. Holton) has taken this project off running, and has created some of the most fantastic illustrations any children's author would hope to have! He's been wonderful to us and we couldn't be more thankful! I'm so glad he was willing to do all of this work and put in so much effort. We are truly blessed.
On top of all of this, Bob has put us in contact with a publishing company, World Castle Publishing, that is willing to donate all of the author royalties to Habitat for Humanity on Cameron's behalf. That is 90% royalty on paperbacks and 40% royalty on eBooks. That's more than Amazon would give if we went through them directly!
So with this being said, on July 15th, Cameron's A to Z children's book will be available to the masses via Amazon (eBook and children's soft cover), Barnes & Noble, Borders and so on ...
Cameron Titus, haunted by a YouTube video of a group of Joplin, Missouri tornado survivors stranded in a small convenience store's cooler, decided to take action and came up with an original idea to help raise money for Habitat for Humanity -- to help the victims of the recent tornado destruction around our nation. Despite his tender age, he decided to write a small children's book, in hopes to encourage donations for those in need.
So with this in mind, we'd like to invite you to join Anna anteater, Kaitlin kangaroo, and other alphabet animal friends in this whimsical, tongue-tangling, lesson on the alphabet.

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CLEVELAND, OH – U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today congratulated NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) on a successful spacecraft test in the world’s largest vacuum chamber at the Plum Brook facility in Sandusky.
“This is great news for the NASA Glenn Research Center and proof of Ohio’s innovative strength,” said Brown. “SpaceX’s testing at Plum Brook is an example of the facility’s importance to the NASA family and as a job creator in Northern Ohio.”
The testing will last through the month and is in advance of President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal, which will be released this Monday, as well as NASA reauthorization hearings which begin this month in Congress. Each will help to determine the amount of resources, and where, that will be allocated to NASA and its facilities.
Brown has long supported the NASA Glenn Research Center and efforts to ensure its full utilization. In January 2012 Brown sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden urging him to support a proposed partnership between GRC and the European Space Agency (ESA) that would help ensure that the Plum Brook facility in Sandusky is fully utilized.
Thanks to Brown, a Senate bill passed in 2010 preserved civil servant jobs at GRC for the next three years. Earlier that year, an effort to eliminate aeronautics research and development from NASA’s mission was stripped on the Senate floor also as a result of Brown’s leadership.
SpaceX is a private company owned by management and employees, with minority investments from Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Valor Equity Partners. The company has more than 3,000 employees and is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. In June 2010 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 spacecraft held its first flight, which successfully achieved Earth orbit. In December 2010, on Falcon 9’s second flight and the Dragon spacecraft’s first, SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch a spacecraft into orbit and recover it successfully.


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TWW:: Hamper : Pulverize : Taunt – An excerpt from The Last Feather
I’m nearly a week late, but I’m taking up the Three Word Wednesday writing prompt. I just couldn’t resist that combination of words. I mean, look at them? Don’t they just beg for angst and heartbreak? And what else do I write ;)
The following is what I wrote. It’s an excerpt from my current WIP, The Last Feather. Love how the words kicked the muse in gear for this scene. Do stop by the host site, Three Word Wednesday, and check out some of the other offerings!
Give or take.
Ten centuries and four decades.
Give or take.
One thousand, seven years.
Given or take.
Three hundred, sixty-seven thousand, six hundred and four days.
Give or take.
I woke to a weak dawn reaching through the windows of the Queen Mary II and a warm, strong pair of arms wrapped around me. It wasn’t until the location of my last feather was revealed that I became brutally aware of time. It’s maddening, you know, to be so keenly aware you have no end.
I ignored time as I drudged through my existence. But somehow, when faced with the final certainty of an end I sat down and plucked my way through memories and journals to find out just how long I’d been trapped in my human form. Too long. I knew that, but knowing that grand total…
That morning after letting myself remember Adara’s death I stared out the frosted window and felt my sanity fray. I’d always laughed at Thomas Gray’s phrase, “Ignorance is bliss.” And yet, so true. I wished for ignorance of my age again. It hampered my ability to push on, to persevere to the end, when the end was so near. I tried to make myself realize that I was a year, less maybe, away from my goal. What’s a year to someone who’s lived so long?
A year. It’s that straw, that infinitesimal unit of measure that, while weighing nothing, has the ability to pulverize. I sighed, air escaping me so softly yet carrying so much. The body at my back shifted, a smooth cheek nuzzled across my shoulder blade and I frowned.
I didn’t remember the prior evening. Nothing. Not a whisper of it remained in my mind. The last thing I could recall, though it made me wince, was the blistering, not-hot-enough shower and my willing descent into one of my most painful memories. Beyond that was a clean slice that fuzzed, eventually, into my waking. It had been a very, very long time since I’d purposefully not recalled an event with such thoroughness. I shied away from the events leading up to that incident as well. No need to dig deeper into things that would tear at the thinning fabric of my no longer sound mind. No sense in taunting myself with the absences. The ones that did exist were there for good reason.
The arms around me squeezed and a soft leg slid up and over my hip. I stared fixedly out the window as I cataloged what I could. She. Oh yes. A woman. Her hips flexed and I felt the crispness of her pubic hair against my ass, her fingers slid down my stomach. The hot smell of copper, iron, and wood ash, so strong in my nose, cleared and I could smell sex. Musky, sweet sex, and. . .
Her fingers dipped over my mound and teased circles there. The brazen cockiness, combined with the little noise she let out just then. I knew who was in my bed. I just couldn’t remember how the young Laia arrived there. Her touch grew more certain and for just a moment I considered rejecting her.
“You tasted so good last night.” The words murmured against my neck were followed by a sharp bite that shocked a gasp from my throat. A rush of heat flushed through me and any thought of rejecting this newest lover in a parade of so many fled before the racing flames of my own need.
“Perhaps you would like to taste more,” I whispered, rolling over.
~finis….for now ;) ~


Fashion for Good launches startup accelerator program for India and Sri Lanka
20 Jun 2019
Fashion for Good, the global initiative to make the fashion industry more sustainable, is expanding to South Asia. The organization is launching a dedicated innovation program to scale startups from India and Sri Lanka with the potential to disrupt the fashion supply chain.
The organization founded in 2017 by the C&A Foundation is particularly interested in companies working on key areas such as raw materials, dyeing and finishing, manufacturing, retail, end-of-use and transparency & traceability.
Selected companies will get the chance to showcase their work at the next Mercedes Benz Sri Lanka Fashion Week, to be held on November 24. They will also be provided with mentoring, coaching and funding opportunities, as well as access to Fashion for Good’s network of global partners, which includes big players like Adidas, Kering and PVH Corp. Those interested in applying can obtain more information about the program on Fashion for Good’s website.
Commenting on the decision to launch a startup accelerator program in the region, Fashion for Good said on its website: “South Asia is a global leader in manufacturing and one of the largest consumer markets for fashion. The rapidly growing region represents significant opportunities to create value and impact both socially and environmentally.”
The organization will also be hosting an Innovation Day leading up to the program, in which ten of the top innovators will be selected to pitch their ideas to industry leaders from the region.
This isn’t Fashion for Good’s first endeavor in the region, however. The organization has already partnered with Hong Kong-based tech incubator The Mills Fabrica as well with India’s Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF), an initiative from innovation platform Intellecap.