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Texts: Mississippi ex-governor knew of Favre welfare money
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Newly revealed text messages show how deeply a Mississippi governor was involved in the state paying more than $1 million in welfare money to Brett Favre to help fund one of the retired NFL quarterback's pet projects.
Instead of the money going to help low-income families in one of the nation's poorest states, as intended, it was funneled through a nonprofit group and spent on a new $5 million volleyball facility at a university that the football star and the governor both attended.
One of the texts from 2017 showed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who left office in 2020, was "on board" with the arrangement. The state is suing Favre and others, alleging they misspent millions of dollars in welfare money. The director of the nonprofit has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Mississippi's largest public corruption case in decades.
The texts were in documents filed Monday in state court by an attorney for the nonprofit, known as the Mississippi Community Education Center. Messages between Favre and the center's executive director, Nancy New, included references to Bryant. The documents also included messages between Bryant and Favre and Bryant and New.
New pleaded guilty in April to charges of misspending welfare money, as did her son Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others. Favre has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing.
"Just left Brett Farve," Bryant texted New on July 16, 2019, misspelling the athlete's last name. "Can we help him with his project. We should meet soon to see how I can make sure we keep your projects on course."
New responded: "I would appreciate having the opportunity to follow through with all the good things we are working on, especially projects like Brett's."
Later that day, New texted Favre to let him know she was meeting with the governor.
"I love John so much. And you too," Favre responded to New, referring to the Mississippi Department of Human Services director at the time, John Davis.
The texts also showed discussion between Favre and New about arranging payment from the Human Services Department through the nonprofit to Favre for speaking engagements, with Favre then saying he would direct the money to the volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Favre played football at the university, located in Hattiesburg, before going to the NFL in 1991. His daughter began playing on the school's volleyball team in 2017.
According to court documents, Favre texted New on Aug. 3, 2017: "If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?"
New responded: "No, we never have had that information publicized. I understand you being uneasy about that though. Let's see what happens on Monday with the conversation with some of the folks at Southern. Maybe it will click with them. Hopefully."
Favre replied: "Ok thanks."
The next day, New texted Favre: "Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!"
Favre responded: "Awesome I needed to hear that for sure."
According to a previous court filing, New's nonprofit made two payments of welfare money to Favre Enterprises, the athlete's business: $500,000 in December 2017 and $600,000 in June 2018.
On Dec. 27, 2017, Favre texted New: "Nancy Santa came today and dropped some money off (two smiling emojis) thank you my goodness thank you."
"Yes he did," New responded. "He felt you had been pretty good this year!"
Attorneys for Favre did not immediately respond to a phone message Wednesday from The Associated Press.
In a July 11 court filing, New's attorney wrote that Bryant directed her to pay $1.1 million in welfare money to Favre through the education center for "speaking at events, keynote speaking, radio and promotional events, and business partner development."
In July, a Bryant spokesperson said allegations that the governor improperly spent the money are false and that Bryant had asked the state auditor to investigate possible welfare fraud.
Billy Quinn, an attorney representing Bryant, told the AP on Wednesday that Bryant did not direct New to make the $1.1 million payment to Favre. Quinn said a careful examination of court records will show "there's no proof that occurred. And that's because it didn't."
Bryant served two terms as governor and could not run again in 2019 because of term limits. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.
In May, the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against Favre, three former pro wrestlers and several other people and businesses to try to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars. The lawsuit said the defendants "squandered" more than $20 million from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.
About 1,800 Mississippi households received payments from the program in 2021, according to the Department of Human Services. A family of three must have a monthly income below $680 to qualify, and the current monthly benefit for that family is $260. Payments are allowed for up to five years.
In pleading guilty, Nancy and Zachary New acknowledged taking part in spending $4 million of welfare money for the volleyball facility.
The mother and son also acknowledged directing welfare money to Prevacus Inc., a Florida-based company that was trying to develop a concussion drug. Favre has said in interviews that he supported Prevacus.
Mississippi Auditor Shad White said Favre was paid for speeches but did not show up. Favre has repaid the money, but White said in October that he still owed $228,000 in interest.
In a Facebook post when he repaid the first $500,000, Favre said he didn't know the money came from welfare funds. He also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi and Wisconsin.


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Babies on Board! These Country Stars Have All Had Kids in 2020
The country music family is growing in 2020. A number of artists have welcomed new babies to their broods -- glimmers of hope during a tumultuous year.
Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd became first-time parents this spring: Son Hayes Andrew Hurd arrived in late March. Morgan Wallen, meanwhile, surprised fans with the news of his fatherhood in mid-July. His son, Indigo "Indie" Wilder, was born to Katie Smith, the singer's ex-fiancee.
Thomas Rhett and Jimmie Allen are dads multiple times over now, too, thanks to the arrivals of daughters Lennon Love and Naomi Bettie, respectively. And Gabby Barrett and husband Cade Foehner, among others, are counting down the days until the arrival of their little one.
Flip through the photo gallery below to meet all of the country music babies born in 2020:

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Office of the Press Secretary
October 22, 2003
Remarks by President Bush and Prime Minister Howard of Australia in a Photo Opportunity
Parliament House
Canberra, Australia
10:46 A.M. (Local)
PRESIDENT BUSH: Can't get any better than that. (Laughter.)
Q Mr. Bush -- Mr. Bush, did you discuss the free trade agreement? And how are you committed to keeping agriculture in the free trade agreement if it goes ahead?
PRESIDENT BUSH: What I'm committed to is seeing that we can get this free trade agreement done by the end of December. That's what John and I talked about in Crawford. I think a free trade agreement with Australia would be good for America, good for American workers. I also believe that it would be good for Australia.
PRIME MINISTER HOWARD: Very good.
PRESIDENT BUSH: And the commitment we talked about was to make sure our negotiators push forward with a deal. Obviously, agriculture is an important issue, intellectual property is an important issue. There's a lot of important issues that we've got to work through if -- and I think we can.
PRIME MINISTER HOWARD: Thank you. American?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, Tom.
Q Mr. President, the Defense Secretary has written a memorandum saying there have been mixed results in the war on terror, that it's going to be a long, hard slog, and no bold steps have been taken yet. Do you agree with that characterization?
PRESIDENT BUSH: What I agree with is that the war on terror is going to be tough work, and it's going to take a while. And we're making great progress. We're dismantling the al-Qaeda network. They hide in hills, in caves and, you know, they hide in free societies. And it takes a while to find them, which is why John Howard and I talked a lot about sharing intelligence and finding these killers before they kill again -- people like Hambali, who was routed out of society. The Australians and the Prime Minister were very helpful, as was our intelligence service. But the success went to the Thai authority.
PRIME MINISTER HOWARD: Yes, I met the general that handcuffed him.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, he's a good fellow. Anyway, we've got work to do. This is a long war on terror. And removing Saddam Hussein from power was an important part of winning the war on terror. Ridding Afghanistan of the Taliban was an important part of winning the war on terror.
I haven't seen the Secretary's comments, but somebody told me they thought he said we need to make sure our military's intelligence services are focused on the war on terror. And I couldn't agree more with you. That's exactly what we're doing.
Q Mr. President, on the war on terror, and in light of the Rumsfeld memo, are you inclined now to ask Australia for more assistance in Iraq? And how long do you intend to hold the two Australians detained in Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial? And have you discussed that with the Prime Minister?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I did discuss it with the Prime Minister. There's a process, ongoing process to deal with these two people that were picked up off of a battlefield of war. And I think one of the -- somebody in the Australian media when they were in America asked me about torture, or some -- it's alleged allegations of torture. It's ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. And we will deal with them in a -- in a way that conforms to our standards.
John -- the Prime Minister -- I keep calling him John; we're close friends. The Prime Minister and I have talked about the procedures, and I assured him these people will be taken care of in a way that conforms with our rules and regulations.
The first question was -- oh, Iraq. Listen, Australia has made a tremendous contribution in Iraq. Their troops were fantastic. They laid it on the line, and every military person I talked to about the contribution of the Australians was -- had high praise for the skill and the strength and spirit of the Aussie troops.
In my judgement, Australia has made a significant contribution to peace and freedom, and the people of Iraq who suffered in the hands of a brutal tyrant are very thankful for the contributions of the Australians.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, you called Australia a sheriff. Does that -- does that mean Australia should flex its military might more in Asia? And, Mr. Howard, how do you see the job of a sheriff?
PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, Adam -- can I put it in context?
Q Please.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I was asked the question, is Australia America's deputy sheriff, that was the question. It was a very careful, clever question. I don't think you were -- I don't think you asked it, Adam. And my answer was, no, we're equal. We're equal partners on the war on terror. We're equal partners working for a world that's more free.
And today in my speech to the Parliament, I will praise Australia's work in this part of the world. I'll note the fact that Australia led in East Timor. And Australia's -- Australia is carrying a heavy load, for which we are grateful. And I appreciate you, Mr. Prime Minister.
I said Mr. Prime Minister -- somebody told me that they made fun of me for calling -- or they made fun of the Prime Minister, when they call him the man of steel. I'm going to repeat the words. That's a high compliment. That means in the face of criticism, he's staying strong, that he does what he think is right. And the world is better for the leader -- leaders like Prime Minister John Howard.
PRIME MINISTER HOWARD: You asked me did the President put in correct and proper Texan -- we were in Crawford. And so the language of sheriff and deputy, sort of, rolls easily off any tongue, particularly an American tongue.
Look, our role in the region is -- I've categorized it as that of Helpem Fren. That is -- for the benefit of the Americans, that is pidgin English used by the Pacific Islanders. It means helping a friend. And I see Australia's role in the region as helping friends. And that's what we're doing in the Solomons. It's what we did in East Timor. It's what we may have to do again in other parts of that region. But when necessity arises, we help people. We don't see ourselves as having any kind of enforcement role, but we're always good to our allies, particularly the United States, to defend values that are important to both our societies.
Thank you.
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Please take a look at this post as well.
Often when a incident is created with the Exchange Connector, it lacks some vital information that the customer forgot to write in his/her's email. The analysts will therefore use the Send email task that was provided together with the Exchange Connector to request more information. And because of the lack of information, the analyst can't start working with the incident. Therefore it's important to notify the analyst when the customer has updated the incident with the required information so he/she can start working with it as soon as possible.
Note: This blogpost assumes that you have installed and configured the Exchange connector and the Send Email task. For more information regarding this, see the official blogpost:
To do this, we will create a workflow that will trigger on the incident status, and send an email to the assigned analyst once it changes from one value to another.
- To start with, we need to create some incident templates. One of these will be applied when the analysts use the Send Email task, and the other will be used once the incident is updated by the Exchange Connector.
Navigate to Library -> Templates in the SCSM console. - Click the Create template task and enter the information needed. When you press Ok the template form will be displayed.
- The only thing we want to configure in this template, is the incident status. This can be done by using the task "Change Incident Status" and choosing a incident status. In this post I will be using the status Pending. However, it might be a good idea to use a custom status if you have other workflows tied to Pending. If you want to use a custom status, you can add that to the Incident Status list (Library -> Lists -> Incident Status).
- Now, repeat step 2 and 3 again, but this time create a template that sets the status to Active.Note: If you have a template that you use when the Exchange Connector updates a incident and you want to maintain that information, you will have to edit that template to also set the status to Active.
- We should now have two templates to use when the different workflows are triggered. The next step will be to edit all your workflows related to the Send Email task that does require input from the customer to apply the "Set incident status to Pending" template when being triggered. (For instance, you might have a Send Email template to inform your customer. On those workflows, this template should not be applied.)
To do this, go to Administration -> Workflows -> Configuration -> Incident Event Workflow configuration. Locate the workflows that needs to be edited and open them one at a time to edit. Then go to the Select Incident Template part of the form and choose to apply the template we created.
- So whenever we use a Send Email that is bound to this workflow, it will send the notification/request to the customer, but it will also update the status of the incident to Pending. Great! Next, we will have to go to our Exchange connector, and change the "Incident template to apply when incidents are updated" setting. Here we will be using our template that changes the status to Active. (Remember the note in step 4!)
(Administration -> Connectors. Double click your Exchange connector to edit)
- Now, go ahead and create a Notification template to use when the customer has updated the incident. (Administration -> Notifications -> Templates. Use the Create E-mail template task)
- The last thing we need to do now, is creating a workflow that will notify the assigned analyst whenever the incident status changes from Pending to Active. So let's go back to our workflows and create a new workflow that does this. (Administration -> Workflows -> Configuration -> Incident Event Workflow configuration. Then press Add.)
– Enter an appropriate name and description, trigger when the incident is updated and save it in a management pack of your choice.
– Set the Changed From criteria to Incident status Equals Pending and the Changed To criteria to Incident status Equals Active.
– Skip the Apply template part (unless you would like to do that)
– In the Select user to notify, select to notify the Assigned to user and the template of your choice. Remember to press Add 🙂
– Complete the wizard by pressing Next followed by Finish and Close.
- And we are Done! It might be a good idea to try some different scenarios together with a colleague to make sure it works as expect.


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The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.


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Enter the clue you need help with in the "Clue" section above. In the "Pattern" section, enter the letters you know, and question marks or periods for letters you don't know. For instance, you might enter Hawaiian dance in the "Clue" field and .U.. in the pattern field. You can also type a clue without a pattern, or a pattern without a clue.


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Government funds and the tuition fee form the most important source of income of Leiden University. Read more about the other streams of income, the distribution of funds and the Treasury.
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The Finance Guide contains all agreements relating to financial operations at the University. Financial Economic Affairs (FEZ) is responsible for the Guide. The University's financial management and reports are based on various regulations and guidelines.
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Back in 2007 Xandros struck a patent deal with Microsoft, while in June this year they said they were: "kind of getting away from being a Linux company."
I never actually noticed this before, but Xandros sells patent protection from Microsoft directly to end users who purchase their Debian based GNU/Linux distribution.
They call it "Intellectual Property Assurance" but I call it a "Protection Racket":
A protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a criminal group or individual coerces other less powerful entities to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase protection services against various external threats, usually violence or property damage – sometimes perpetrated by the racketeers themselves.
Isn't that a perfect explanation of what Microsoft's been doing?


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Cyprus Forced Into Bailout Deal
Do you think that depositors in Cyprus are being taxed? That their money is being taken from them to go to the government in Cyprus or to Europe? Most analysis of the Cyprus bailout is wrong on this point.
Cypriot banks are like all banks in one respect. They raise capital to buy assets that earn a yield, keeping the difference between what they must pay for the money and what they earn on it. Like all banks, they raise money first from equity investors. Equity investors get to keep all of the gains on the upside and therefore are first exposed to losses on the downside.
Banking uses leverage, which multiplies gains when assets rise and losses when they fall. Imagine using 20:1 leverage. You buy a house for $100,000 using $5,000 of your own money (equity) and $95,000 of borrowed money. If the house rises to $110,000 you have tripled your $5,000 of initial equity to $15,000. If the house falls to $94,000 you have negative equity. That may be fine for a homeowner so long as you can pay the interest and principle when due. It's not fine for a bank.
Banks raise money next from junior, unsecured creditors. Equity capital is expensive capital. Borrowing money is cheaper than selling a stake in the business. Next on the capital hierarchy is senior, secured creditors. Borrowing at this tier is cheaper because the risk of loss is lower. Not only would the shareholders have to be wiped out first, but also the junior creditors. Additionally, secured creditors can take the assets pledged as collateral.
Finally, banks raise money from depositors. Depositors get the lowest rate of interest, which is the tradeoff for having the strongest position in case of bankruptcy. In addition to not suffering any losses until all other classes of capital are zeroed out, depositors also enjoy a government guarantee today, at least up to a certain amount (€100,000 in the case of Cyprus)—so long as the government can pay. It is important to note that while the government maintains the fiction of a "fund" to cover such losses, in a bank crisis the losses are imposed on the taxpayers. Today in the US, for example, the FDIC has a tiny reserve to cover an enormous deposit base.
In the modern world, government bonds are the key security in the financial system. They are defined as the "risk free asset" by theory and regulatory practice. They are used as collateral for numerous other credit transactions. And banks hold them as core assets. Let's focus on that. A bank borrows from depositors and buys a government bond (and not entirely by choice). There are two problems with this.
First is duration mismatch. The bank is borrowing from depositors, perhaps via demand deposits, and then buying multiyear bonds. Read the link to see why this will sooner or later blow up.
Second, the government bond is counterfeit credit. Governments are borrowing to pay the ever-expanding costs of their welfare programs and the interest on their ever-expanding debt (it is no help that they lower the rate of interest to keep down the interest expense—this increases their burden of debt and destroys capital). Governments have neither the means nor intent to ever repay the debt. They just endlessly "roll" the liability, selling new bonds to pay the principle and interest on old bonds at maturity. This would be like taking out a new credit card to pay off the old one. It "works" for a while, until it abruptly stops working. It has stopped working in Greece; it will stop working everywhere else at some point.
The Cypriot banks bought lots of government bonds, including the defaulted bonds of bankrupt Greece. They lost the euros that were invested by their shareholders, bondholders, and a majority of what was lent to them by depositors. In a way it is accurate to say that the government took it. However, his taking did not occur this week. It occurred when governments sold them fraudulent bonds over many years.
The money is now long gone.
Call it what you will, the government, central bank, and commercial banks of Cyprus are bankrupt; they needed a bailout—new credit from outside the country to postpone collapse. In a week of drama, posturing, demands, reversals, and a vote in parliament, a deal was struck. No one is likely to be happy. Here are the key points so far as we can glean them:
- A fresh tranche of €10B will be lent to Cyprus
- Funds to come from (presumably?) the "Troika": ECB, EC, and IMF
- Shareholders and bondholders in Laiki (2nd biggest bank) will be wiped out
- Laiki deposits under €100,000 will be transferred to Bank of Cyprus
- Larger deposits will bear big losses (not specified at this time)
- No bailout funds will go to Bank of Cyprus (presumably to government?)
- 50% or more of large deposits in Bank of Cyprus converted to equity
- "Temporary" capital controls will remain when banks reopen Thursday
- CEO of Bank of Cyprus just resigned, fueling rumors it too will collapse
The Europowers have a big dilemma. If they allow euro backwardation to persist much longer, or they open a schism in the euro where Cyprus euros are not fungible, they risk the collapse of the euro. On the other hand, if they do not impose capital controls then depositors would run on the Bank of Cyprus and it will collapse (ZeroHedge has been covering the story that large Russian depositors have found ways to make withdrawals even though the banks have been closed, using branches located outside the country).
We hope that if the reader gets nothing else from this article, at least he now understands that the Cyprus banks lost their depositors' money over a long period of time. They used leverage to buy assets that collapsed and now they are insolvent. External parties are providing a bailout (which Cyprus will never be able to repay). For the first time in this crisis, the bailout does not cover depositors in full. Losses are to be suffered by not only shareholders and bondholders, but even by depositors. We expect future bailouts to incorporate this feature.
It is good that Eurozone leaders are beginning to assert that banks should fix themselves. In a free market, there is no such thing as a bailout that takes money from taxpayers to give to those who made a mistake. Hopefully they will take this to the next logical step and realize that bank solvency is impossible under the regime of irredeemable paper currency wherein the government bond is defined as the "risk free asset". Gold is the risk free asset. Everything else has a non-zero risk of default.
We will continue to monitor and publish the gold basis to see when world markets begin to shift away from trusting the banking system, when people are willing to forego a yield to avoid having to trust a counterparty. When this happens, we expect gold to move more significantly towards gold backwardation.
Compared to the first proposal last week, this bailout is less unfair (we can hardly call any bailout fair)—at least shareholders go first, then bondholders then depositors.
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Dr. Keith Weiner is the president of the Gold Standard Institute USA, and CEO of Monetary Metals. Keith is a leading authority in the areas of gold, money, and credit and has made important contributions to the development of trading techniques founded upon the analysis of bid-ask spreads. Keith is a sought after speaker and regularly writes on economics. He is an Objectivist, and has his PhD from the New Austrian School of Economics. He lives with his wife near Phoenix, Arizona.


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Four in 10 Americans Support Controversial Contraception Mandate
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey
- Updated Jun 03, 2014
More than four in 10 Americans support the Obama administration's controversial contraception mandate, which requires nonprofits and businesses to provide birth control even if they have religious objections.
The poll from Public Religion Research Institute comes as the Supreme Court prepares to issue its decision in a challenge to the contraception mandate filed by the evangelical owners of the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain and a Mennonite-owned wood cabinetry business.
Churches and houses of worship are exempt from the mandate, but nearly 100 nonprofits, colleges and universities and businesses run by people with religious objections to various forms of contraception have filed lawsuits over the mandate.
The poll found majority support for requiring publicly held corporations (61 percent) and privately owned corporations such as Hobby Lobby (57 percent) to provide contraception coverage at no cost to their employees. In addition, majorities of Americans said religiously affiliated hospitals (56 percent) and religiously affiliated colleges (52 percent) should be covered by the mandate.
The poll found less support (51 percent) for applying the mandate to privately owned small businesses; 53 percent oppose applying the mandate to all institutions, including churches and houses of worship, while 42 percent said it should apply to them.
A 2012 poll by the Pew Research Center found that 48 percent supported a religious exemption to the mandate, while 44 percent said businesses should be required to cover contraceptives like other employers. The PRRI poll asked a bit differently, asking whether institutions and businesses should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception or birth control at no cost. Pew asked whether those groups should be extended an exemption.
PRRI's poll also found that a majority (54 percent) of Americans believe that the right of religious liberty is being threatened in America, up from 39 percent two years ago. Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats (80 percent vs. 40 percent) to say that religious liberty is being threatened.
White evangelicals especially believe religious liberty is being threatened in the United States today, at 83 percent, compared to 55 percent of Catholics and 53 percent of white mainline Protestants.
While more than 50 percent of Catholics believe that public and private businesses should be required to provide employees contraceptive coverage, less than half of white evangelicals support the mandate.
In other findings, the poll found that even religiously unaffiliated Americans (58 percent) support public officials opening a meeting with prayer. Nearly 80 percent of Americans support allowing public officials to open meetings. The Supreme Court held last month that public officials could hold sectarian prayers.
Courtesy: Religion News Service
Publication date: June 3, 2014


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A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
The LHC successfully collided particles at record force earlier this week, a milestone Mr Cole was attempting to disrupt by stopping supplies of Mountain Dew to the experiment's vending machines. He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.
Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.
Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."
This isn't the first time time-travel has been blamed for mishaps at the LHC. Last year, the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya and Danish string-theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen put forward the hypothesis that the Higgs boson was so "abhorrent" that it somehow caused a ripple in time that prevented its own discovery.
Professor Brian Cox, a former CERN physicist and full-time rock'n'roll TV scientist, was sympathetic to Mr Cole. "Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn't mention bloody black holes."
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Forget the C5: Sinclair has reinvented the bike – Sunday Times – Times Online
Priced at less than £200, weighing about 12 pounds, Clive Sinclair's newest folding bike is expected to come to market in Britain in July. The whole rig can be unfolded in about 15 seconds, and uses wheels less than 6" in diameter.
Sinclair thinks he'll sell 100,000 the first year in Great Britain alone, before turning his attention to Japan and the United States. A London cyclist quoted in the Times article says the bike looks well-suited to quick jaunts like a city commute between a subway station and job.
"It's obviously not a bike for long journeys, but I can see an application for small journeys. It's extremely light and easy to carry."
Here's a story from Gizmodo in 2004 with a picture of the strange-looking prototype. I think I would feel like I was riding a tripod instead of a bicycle on one. It seems like those little wheels are going to have trouble when they hit the real world.
On the other hand, these could be awesome rides around the shop floor in big factories.
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The Opinion Pages | LETTER
An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump's Mental State
To the Editor:
Fevered media speculation about Donald Trump's psychological motivations and psychiatric diagnosis has recently encouraged mental health professionals to disregard the usual ethical constraints against diagnosing public figures at a distance. They have sponsored several petitions and a Feb. 14 letter to The New York Times suggesting that Mr. Trump is incapable, on psychiatric grounds, of serving as president.
Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn't meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn't make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.
Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).
Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness, and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely. Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump's attack on democracy. He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers.
His psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting, and analyzing them will not halt his headlong power grab. The antidote to a dystopic Trumpean dark age is political, not psychological.
Coronado, Calif.
The writer, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical College, was chairman of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (D.S.M.-IV).


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Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University assesses the nation's housing outlook. The recently-released The State of the Nation's Housing in 2014reveals that troubled housing areas remain in the midst of rising prices, higher interest rates and low inventories.
According to the report, "Millions of homeowners, particularly in minority and high-poverty neighborhoods, are still underwater on their mortgages, while millions more renters have been forced to live in housing they cannot afford or is structurally inadequate. And with the ongoing growth in low-income households, housing assistance reaches a shrinking share of those in need."
A few more data points from the 2014 report reveal:
• Homeownership rates have fallen six percentage points among Black households — double that among White households;
• In 2011-12, Black applications for conventional mortgages were denied 40 percent of the time; among Hispanics, the denial rate was 25 percent – nearly two to three times that for whites; and
• More than 25 percent of mortgage homeowners in both high-poverty and minority neighborhoods were underwater – owing more than their homes are now worth – in 2013. This rate is nearly twice the shares in either white or low-poverty neighborhoods.
For Mike Calhoun, president of the Center for Responsible Lending, these homeownership disparities reflect a devastating generational loss of wealth. Participating in a panel discussion with the Joint Center and other housing policy experts, Calhoun noted that the loss of homeownership in Black communities really reflected a one in six reduction, as Black homeownership peaked at 49 percent before the housing crisis.
"With promising increases in home construction, sales, and prices, the housing market gained steam in early 2013,, states the report. "But when interest rates notched up at mid-year, momentum slowed. . . . This moderation is likely to persist until job growth manages to lift household incomes. Even amid a broader recovery, though, many hard-hit communities still struggle and millions of households continue to pay excessive shares of income for housing."
The combined effects of student loan burdens and lower median incomes for younger and middle-aged adults are also cited as key factors in the nation's housing recovery. Median incomes are at their lowest levels in records dating back to 1970, according to the report.
"Between 2001 and 2010, the share of households aged 25-34 with student loan debt soared from 26 percent to 39 percent, with the median amount rising from $10,000 to $15,000 in real terms. Within this group, the share with at least $50,000 in student debt more than tripled from five percent to 16 percent. For these borrowers, the need to pay off these outsized loans will likely delay any move to homeownership."
For the ninth consecutive year, the rate of homeownership continues to decline. According to the Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS), it is the lowest level since 1995. Housing rentals, by contrast, show growth doubling the average pace in any decade since the 1960s. Between the 2005 peak in homeownership and 2013, more than 1 million new renters were added each year.
Whether owning a home or renting, however, nearly 41 million households are now paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing – 1 million more than last year and 9 million more than a decade earlier. A household is considered 'housing burdened' when their monthly housing costs exceeds 30 percent of income. Severely housing burdened households where 50 percent or more of income is for housing, now number 5.8 million households.
The most cost-burdened households – whether renting or owning in 2012 – earned less than $30,000 per year.
Working households would need to earn at least $42,200 a year to afford the $1,052 median monthly gross rent charged for new units built in the past four years – well above the income of many renters.
Further in 2012, there were only 3.3 million rental units that were affordable and available to 11.5 million extremely low-income households. The added factor of a $3 billion sequestration cut in HUD's FY2013 budget, led to 42,000 fewer households receiving housing vouchers in 2013 than in 2012.
For Black consumers, the news doesn't get any better.
Looking to the future, the report observed, "If mortgage markets cannot accommodate the limited financial resources of this new generation of households, there is a real possibility that fewer Americans will be able to enjoy the benefits of homeownership in the future," states the report.
Calhoun spoke directly to the importance of shared prosperity through greater inclusion in homeownership and how the needs underserved communities and communities of color must be addressed.
"We have got to turn this around," said Calhoun. "Not just so we are serving everybody; but also because everybody is invested. The whole economy will be profoundly affected by how well we reverse this homeownership gap."
Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending.


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Chinese President Hu Jintao, making an extremely rare direct address to the foreign media, defended his government's preparations for the coming Olympic Games in Beijing and pledged to continue reform policies despite increasing economic challenges.
Private apologies are often warranted, but public apologies are not. The Right was adamant that Clinton apologize for the Lewinsky affair, but that was just a camel's nose under the tent for more apologies and concessions. So too with the Left demanding that Bush apologize for getting WMD wrong. Every apology just leads to more requests: if you apologize for getting X wrong, why not do what you disagreed with when you asserted X?
As a prior litigant, I understand that there is a big difference between being reasonable with someone arguing in good faith, and being reasonable with someone who does not have good faith. A public apology will be used by everyone, and that will necessarily include lots of people with bad faith.
Your allies don't need apologies, they will understand mistakes are part of life; your enemies will use them against you.


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Margaret Kimberley Retweeted
Since there seems to be confusion about who to thank for Trump: reminder that the DNC was caught red-handed conspiring with media elites to "elevate" Trump - who won GOP primary after receiving an unprecedented $2B in free airtime.
She wanted Donald Trump to run against.
Her campaign used their media connections and friends to elevate him.
And she still lost.
Against her chosen and selected opponent, she still lost.
What a loser.
It's all on her.
She needs to stop blaming others.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Friday, December 22, 2017. Hayder al-Abadi continues to offer no
leadership in Iraq, the League of Righteous threatens the US,
journalists remain under attack in Iraq, and much more.
As noted last week, Sarah Idan, facing death threats, has fled Iraq. She competed in this year's Miss Universe representing Iraq. Prior to the competition, she and Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel, took a selfie.
As noted last week, Sarah Idan, facing death threats, has fled Iraq. She competed in this year's Miss Universe representing Iraq. Prior to the competition, she and Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel, took a selfie.
Remember how Miss Iraq and Miss Israel posed together to model coexistence at the Miss Universe pageant? Well, Miss Iraq's family was just forced to flee Iraq due to death threats. She has nonetheless refused to take down the photo.
In the midst of the backlash and death threats, Sarah Tweeted the following:
I'm not the first nor the last person to face prosecution over a matter of personal freedom. Millions of Iraqi women live in fear. #freeiraqiwomen
She spoke with CNN yesterday.
Here's TV interview I did this morning with @CNN
Eric Levenson and Yasmin Khorram (CNN) report:
She said she was "a little bit disappointed" in the Iraqi government because they have not said anything official about the incident and no one has reached out to her. "For me the whole thing is strange," she told CNN. "I was expecting like at least a statement from the government saying, OK we approve, or we don't approve, but I haven't heard anything yet."
Hayder al-Abadi is the prime minister of Iraq.
He could have stepped forward. He could have offered leadership.
But he's not a leader and he's a thug himself.
The whole thing brings to mind 2015, when REUTERS' journalist Ned Parker was reporting accurately and the response was attacks from the various mobs in Iraq -- mobs Hayder has now made part of the armed forces.
Over the airwaves of Iraqi TV, Ned's life was threatened.
And Hayder had not a word to say in Parker's defense.
Even worse, he made a single statement on the topic when it was taking place, a statement that further incited anger at Ned Parker leading Ned to leave Iraq for his own safety.
Other than that, Hayder was silent until April 16, 2015 when he was visiting DC. From that day's snapshot:
While ignoring hard hitting questions from Twitter, they couldn't ignore the journalists present and, after Iran, the most asked of topic was Ned Parker.
Barbara Slavin: And also, one of our colleagues, Ned Parker, recently has left because of threats against Reuters for reporting what happened in Tikrit. Will you issue a statement in Arabic protecting journalists for reporting what goes on in Iraq. Thank you.
Haider al-Abadi: As with Mr. Parker, Ned Parker, I've known him for many years. I heard this story while he was still in Baghdad. My natural fact, a spokesman for my office has given me a message and he told me Ned Parker feels threatened and asked what sort of threats he had received? We want more information so that I can take action about these people who have threatened him. I haven't received anything on that, to be honest with you. I asked for protection of his office -- to increase protection of his office -- and we did. But all of the sudden, I'd heard he left. I know he sent a message he wants to meet me in Washington but unfortunately my program is, uh -- I didn't even have time to talk to my wife yesterday. [Begins chuckling.] So I don't think I would talk to Ned instead of my wife.
And a statement in Arabic?
I-I think my office issued a statement. In English? Okay, we translate.
What followed was an embarrassing and shameful round of laughter.
This isn't a laughing matter.
When the guffaws finally died down, the next question returned to the topic but with less 'jolly' and 'funnin'.'
Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory: [. . .] But piggy backing on the last question about Ned Parker, I was just wondering if you could briefly comment as to your take on the current state of press freedom within Iraq? And also, in terms of going and taking action in response to Parker's being chased out of the country, what steps are you planning -- or are there any steps planned to institute protections for international press covering your country? During your address, you said, and I quote, "A free society needs a free press." And so I was just wondering if that would extend to foreign press as well?
Haider al-Abadi: Well I think if you look at the Iraqi press first, I think they're free to criticize. I think that number one institution which is being criticized in Iraq is the government. We don't even reply to them. We don't do anything. I drop charges against all-all media. But I ask the media to have their own self-discipline. That's important. The media shouldn't be free to accuse others falsely. They should respect freedom of others. Freedom of speech is there but -- We need facts. But I refuse so far -- and I hope I continue on that -- you never know what office does. Office usually corrupts people, right? But I hope it doesn't corrupt me. We keep on respecting the freedom of the press, we keep on protecting it. As to the foreign press, as far as I know, there's no limitation on them, no restrictions. They're free even to go to our --within our military unit. I think we went to that extent to allow free reporting from the fronts. I remember when the US army was there in 2003 [that's when Haider returned to Iraq after decades of exile in England], they had embedded journalists and they were restricted to what they were reporting. I very much respect that. I hope I can have that power to do that but unfortunately I cannot do it now. It's so free, the situation in Iraq. Now I'm not sure if Mr. Parker, why he has left. To be honest with you, I didn't have the story from him. He wrote something to me. I cannot see why he left. Was he really threatened? Or he felt he was threatened? I know some -- some Facebook thing and social media has mentioned him in a bad way but the-the thing I've seen -- in actual fact, they were condemning the government in the first place, not him. They were condemning me as the prime minister to do something about it -- rather than him. I know some of these, they want to use these things to just criticize the government in the same way when they accuse the coalition of dropping help to [the Islamic State] or accuse the coalition of killing Iraqis falsely. In actual fact, what they're trying to do -- trying to criticize the government for its policies. They don't want the government to seek the help of the coalition -- international coalition or to work with the US. But to -- I think me, as prime minister, the safety of the Iraqi people, the interests of the Iraqi people is number one [. . .]
He continued to babble on and avoid the question.
Ned Parker appeared on today's Morning Edition (NPR -- link is audio, text and transcript) and here he's discussing, with host Steve Inskeep, the Reuters report and what followed.
NED PARKER: Well, our team on the day that Tikrit was liberated, they called me during the day and said we've witnessed an execution by federal police of a detainee in the street, and it was a mob mentality. And they could only stay a few minutes because it was such a crazed scene. I think our people feared for their own safety.
So when they came home that evening, we had a huge debate about, do we report this? Is this too sensationalist? It's one incident. But when we looked at the whole picture, we also saw a body being dragged by a group of Shiite paramilitaries. We had photos of this, which we published, and there had been looting and arson of areas that surround Tikrit. So we felt that we had to report what happened there, that if we didn't, we wouldn't be meeting our obligation to report fairly and impartially about the critical issue right now, what happens when security forces enter an area that has been under Islamic State control, that is Sunni and then has predominantly Shia security and paramilitary forces enter?
INSKEEP: This is the most basic job of a war correspondent; go look at a war and report exactly what you see.
PARKER: Right. And this was a test case for the government. The Iraqi government and the U.S. government have spoken about the importance of post-conflict stabilization operations in Iraq.
INSKEEP: What happened after you published this story?
PARKER: It was picked up everywhere. I think it was seen because of what our correspondents witnessed - this execution, which was horrific - where they watched two federal policemen basically trying to saw off the head of a suspected Islamic State fighter to cheers from federal police. Our story became really the example of what went wrong in Tikrit, and it was published on April 3. The night of April 5, on Facebook on a site associated with Shiite paramilitary groups and political forces, a picture of myself went up calling for Iraqis to expel me. It quickly received over 100 shares and comments, including better to kill him than expel him.
INSKEEP: Did it blow over?
PARKER: No, it only got worse. I did go out and try to have meetings with some people, different prominent Iraqis, about it. And then on Wednesday night on the channel of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, which is a prominent Shiite political party and paramilitary group, my face is the backdrop as the anchor talks, and he actually waves also a printout of my face and talks about how I should be expelled from the country and then proceeds to read a letter from an Iraqi living in the United States who also again calls for me to expel and describes Reuters as trampling upon the dignity of Iraq and Shiite paramilitary groups. And after that, there's no way I could've stayed in the country both for myself and for my staff. My presence was polarizing the situation, so I left the next day.
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PARKER: Prime Minister Abadi last Thursday, the day after the broadcast against Reuters and myself, he gave a speech in public where he spoke in very broad strokes against a journalist who had been in Tikrit and had reported on the execution and the lootings and arson and implied perhaps some of the journalists who had been there had even been there deliberately to smear the government and the Shiite paramilitary forces on...
INSKEEP: This is the same prime minister who was installed with the support of the United States recently and who's visiting Washington?
PARKER: Right, and on the eve of his visit, a statement was issued by the prime minister's office in English talking about the need to protect and respect journalism in Iraq, including Reuters, and the statement referred to the incident involving myself and Reuters. But that statement was only put out in English and until now, it has not come out in Arabic.
INSKEEP: So he's sympathetic to you in English and something else in Arabic entirely.
PARKER: We're still waiting for the statement to come out in Arabic. It hasn't yet.
Hayder's a lackey, he's no leader. And things really have not improved for the press since 2015. He has threatened the television network RUDAW. At the start of this year, RUDAW noted:
Iraq's Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi says Kurdish media have encouraged the killing of Iraqi
troops and therefore they're committing war crimes. The reality is that
the Kurdish media, chief among them Rudaw, have worked to uncover crimes
committed by Iraqi forces and militia groups, most recently in the war
against ISIS. You know a media outlet has done something right when
you've to make up accusations and look for an excuse to shut it down.
Iraq's media commission
has also advised government institutions, especially the military, to
prevent Rudaw teams from carrying out their work anywhere in the country
and seize their staff and equipment. Iraqi authorities, Mr. Abadi among
them, must remember that Rudaw reporters and cameramen risked their
lives to cover their operations against ISIS in Mosul, Qayyarah, Baiji,
Ramadi and Fallujah round the clock. One of the network's most prominent
anchors Shifa Gardi lost her life in Mosul when she was trying to tell
the world the crimes of this extremist group against the Iraqi people.
Iraqi military and government officials, including Mr. Abadi himself, often appeared on Rudaw and conveyed their messages to the world. With its multilingual media platforms Rudaw has been a major source of news for the outside world. Rudaw television featured Iraqi soldiers in their drive for the liberation of their country. And when hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced or massacred by ISIS Rudaw was always on the forefront to carry their voices to the world.
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It is ludicrous that Mr.
Abadi is now accusing the Kurdish media of inciting violence while his
government threatens to shut down Rudaw. Not only is this a major
affront to freedom of press, it is nothing but a step by yet another
Iraqi leader to stifle freedom of press. Some of the recent victories in
the battle have perhaps given Baghdad this air of confidence that it
could remove the free media as the final barrier to absolute rule.
If he indeed is worried
about incitement of violence Mr. Abadi should perhaps look into myriads
of radio and television channels that spew out sectarian hatred day and
night without any regulation or oversight. His government should try to
close down those social media pages that encourage revenge killings in
broad daylight. A reliable media outlet in Iraq is a rare thing. Most
are owned and steered by militia groups, political parties, businessmen
and clerics who have fanned the flames of Iraq's sectarian war with
deadly consequences.
And, as noted yesterday, The Committee to Protect Journalists issued their yearly analysis and Iraq was at the top of the list when it came to number of journalists killed in 2017.
What many observers didn't seem to grasp, or maybe didn't care, was that a common threat would not erase problems. The Islamic State took hold in Iraq because of very real grievances -- these included, but were not limited to, the persecution of Sunnis and the refusal to treat the KRG as a partner in the government.
The common threat of ISIS put many things on hold. For example, Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr put his protests against corruption on hold. But Hayder's insisted the Islamic State is conquered in Iraq. So the common threat is gone.
RUDAW reports:
A press freedom and protection organization says "threats against journalists will worsen" even though ISIS has largely been ousted from in Iraq and Syria.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) predicted released on Thursday after a mission to Erbil and Lebanon in March that a post-ISIS Middle East would come with the "emergence of militias, political pressure, censorship, and sectarianism that would pose a threat" to journalists in a new report.
"I don't think the end of [Islamic State's] presence in Syria will bring any opportunities for Syrian journalists, says Abdalaziz al-Hamza, co-founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a citizen journalist group that covered atrocities under ISIS rule. "Threats against journalists will worsen."
Co-founder, Ragaz Kamal of 17Shubat for Human Rights, a local Iraqi rights organization told CPJ that journalists in Iraq face threats threefold from "armed groups that have gained political cover, like the PMF, political parties and authorities because of their job."
"None of these groups tolerate criticism and they are rarely held accountable for their actions against journalists,| Kamal added. " The end of [Islamic State] will not change much for journalists in either Iraq or Kurdistan."
Rahman Gharib, coordinator of an Iraqi freedom of press organization highlighted the dangers that such militias pose, mentioning the case of Arkan Sharifi, a Kurdish cameraman working with the Erbil-based Kurdistan TV who was stabbed to death by a number of unidentified gunmen in the town of Daquq south of Kirkuk.
Rudaw's 2016 coverage of the liberation of Mosul has been commended and syndicated by major US news networks including CNN, Fox News, and ENEX, a European TV network.
"Not only do militias threaten journalists, they also identify them on a sectarian basis as Sunni, Shia, Kurds, Arabs," Gharab said. "Journalists are threatened, harassed, and sometimes killed. Arkan Sharifi for example, was killed by the PMUs," he added, referring to the Popular Mobilization Forces, the mostly Iran-backed militia including Hashd al-Shaabi that works alongside the Iraqi military.
Now let's move to the topic of militias:
It is clear that certain units of Iraq's Shiite Muslim militias are still very active. The battle against the IS group has not yet ended in Syria. In Iraq, the country's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, declared victory over them in early December. As a result of the latter, a message came during the weekly prayers in Najaf last Friday: The highest clerical authority for Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Ali al-Sistani, said that now that the Islamic State group had been defeated, it was time to integrate the militias into the existing Iraqi security forces. Al-Sistani also warned against the militias participating in upcoming federal elections, in a statement read by his representative, Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai.
That's Mustafa Habib reporting for NIQASH yesterday. Let's also note this from his report:
Last Saturday in the city of Karbala, during a ceremony celebrating victory over the IS group, Qais al-Khazali, who heads another Iran-loyalist group, the League of the Righteous, announced that they now had three new enemies: Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia. The latter, in particular, is trying to deceive the Iraqi government, al-Khazali said, with the instigation of better diplomatic relations.
In his speech al-Khazali didn't forget to thank Iran and the military group, Hezbollah, for their support to Iraq either. This is a common sentiment among leaders of the Iran-loyal militias.
Just two days afterwards, al-Khazali appeared again, this time in a video in the south of Lebanon, near the border with Israel. Dressed in military clothing, al-Khazali said his fighters were ready to stand with the Lebanese and Palestinian people, after the US government's decision to recognise the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The League of the Righteous?
Dropping back to the June 9, 2009 snapshot with the realization that some who looked the other way in real time will now be outraged:
This morning the New York Times' Alissa J. Rubin and Michael Gordon offered "U.S. Frees Suspect in Killing of 5 G.I.'s." Martin Chulov (Guardian) covered the same story, Kim Gamel (AP) reported on it, BBC offered "Kidnap hope after Shia's handover" and Deborah Haynes contributed "Hope for British hostages in Iraq after release of Shia militant" (Times of London). The basics of the story are this. 5 British citizens have been hostages since May 29, 2007. The US military had in their custody Laith al-Khazali. He is a member of Asa'ib al-Haq. He is also accused of murdering five US troops. The US military released him and allegedly did so because his organization was not going to release any of the five British hostages until he was released. This is a big story and the US military is attempting to state this is just diplomacy, has nothing to do with the British hostages and, besides, they just released him to Iraq. Sami al-askari told the New York Times, "This is a very sensitive topic because you know the position that the Iraqi government, the U.S. and British governments, and all the governments do not accept the idea of exchanging hostages for prisoners. So we put it in another format, and we told them that if they want to participate in the political process they cannot do so while they are holding hostages. And we mentioned to the American side that they cannot join the political process and release their hostages while their leaders are behind bars or imprisoned." In other words, a prisoner was traded for hostages and they attempted to not only make the trade but to lie to people about it. At the US State Dept, the tired and bored reporters were unable to even broach the subject. Poor declawed tabbies. Pentagon reporters did press the issue and got the standard line from the department's spokesperson, Bryan Whitman, that the US handed the prisoner to Iraq, the US didn't hand him over to any organization -- terrorist or otherwise. What Iraq did, Whitman wanted the press to know, was what Iraq did. A complete lie that really insults the intelligence of the American people. CNN reminds the five US soldiers killed "were: Capt. Brian S. Freeman, 31, of Temecula, California; 1st Lt. Jacob N. Fritz, 25, of Verdon, Nebraska; Spc. Johnathan B. Chism, 22, of Gonzales, Louisiana; Pfc. Shawn P. Falter, 25, of Cortland, New York; and Pfc. Johnathon M. Millican, 20, of Trafford, Alabama." Those are the five from January 2007 that al-Khazali and his brother Qais al-Khazali are supposed to be responsible for the deaths of. Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Robert H. Reid (AP) states that Jonathan B. Chism's father Danny Chism is outraged over the release and has declared, "They freed them? The American military did? Somebody needs to answer for it."
Somebody sure should have answered for it.
But, remember, Barack's 'scandal' free -- according to the press.
Not only did Barack betray the fallen, his 'big deal' (which did not serve US interests) only resulted in the release of one living British citizen. The other four were dead and the corpses turned over.
Peter Moore, the only one released alive, was a computer tech working in Iraq. Four British bodyguards were protecting him. The bodyguards were McMenemy, Jason Swindlehurst, Alec MacLachlan and Jason Cresswell. The families of the four have continued to publicly request that Alan McMenemy be released.
Barack entered into an agreement that did not benefit the US or Iraq. He freed known killers from prison. Killers of Iraqis, killers of American citizens. There was nothing to be gained by that act for Iraq or the US. At some point, history will ask how Barack Obama thought he was fulfilling his duties of commander in chief by making such an ignorant move?
In the meantime, let's remember that the same League now threatening the US is the one Barack freed from prison.
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text: Healthy Aging and Housing: Moving vs. Aging in Place Posted by Caring Transitions on September 23, 2021 at 1:00 PM Establishing short-term and long-term housing goals can help families plan ahead for large moving or remodeling projects. It is best to consider changes to home and housing as early as possible in order to avoid situations where last minute decisions may wreak havoc on financial and emotional stability. Today, older adults are fortunate to have many housing choices, including independent living, assisted living, active adult communities and the ability to continuing living at home with assistance and safety modifications. Reorganizing, remodeling and redesign may also serve to make existing home environments comfortable for years to come. Moving While a change in health often initiates a senior move, many aging adults simply decide they no longer want to stay in a home that is too large or requires a great deal of maintenance. Increasingly, older adults choose to move to a residential setting designed exclusively for seniors. This lifestyle choice provides a number of benefits such as safety, security, meal plans and health care services. Regardless of these benefits, many older adults and their families are overwhelmed at the thought of managing a move late in a loved one's life. Fortunately, companies like Caring Transitions work closely with Senior Living Communities to help manage the entire move process from start to finish. A wide range of services are available including space planning, sorting, downsizing, packing, unpacking, plus van line and real estate referrals, as well as liquidation of personal property through a professional estate sale and online auction. Staying at Home According to AARP, over 85% of older adults prefer to age in their own homes. Today, there are more agencies and tools available that can make your "stay at home" choice a safer and more achievable reality. Just as with our moving options, older adults need to evaluate their real needs, finances and community/caregiving resources and then formulate a "stay at home" plan. If you or an older relative decides to stay in his/her own home or apartment but finds household tasks too overwhelming, or needs assistance with personal or health care issues, an array of home care support services are available in most communities. Contacting your local Area Agency on Aging or home health care agencies can help you obtain access to these services. Planning for a Late Life Move or Aging-in-Place An increased number of resources are available in communities and online. There are basic tools to control what could be a stressful family situation. Use the tips below to create a healthy aging plan that includes short term and long-term housing goals. Assess the Situation Decide how you or an aging loved one feels about changing health and household needs by asking simple, open-ended and non-threatening questions. Then Consider these three primary areas which may require third-party professional assessment: medical concerns cognitive concerns assessment of functional abilities or "Activities of Daily Living" (ADL's includes items such as socialization, personal hygiene and the ability to prepare meals, take medications and manage finances) Organize Important Information Have an open conversation with family members to review the location of important medical, legal and financial documents and determine who will need access to this information. Alternatively, you may prefer to keep paperwork in the hands of legal or financial representatives. Establish a Support System A healthy aging plan often involves a team approach. Resources vary for every family, and may involve medical professionals, social services, care managers, home care providers, attorneys, financial advisors and more. If possible, enlist more support in the form of relatives, close friends, neighbors, religious leaders or other associates. Map a Path to Your Goal As conversations progress, openly discuss short- and long-term housing options. Take into account the advice of professionals and assess the best outcome that includes personal wishes. Once areas of necessary support have been identified, communicate with local or family care givers to make sure things are progressing as planned.


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A BioBlitz is part contest, part festival, part educational event, and part scientific endeavor where MPM brings together a group of scientists in a race against time to see how many species they can count in a 24-hour celebration of biodiversity in a Wisconsin natural area.
The public is invited to observe the scientists' activities, to interact with them, and to participate in other activities that are presented by the Museum and a host of invited nature-oriented organizations.
Why do it?
The BioBlitz is designed to increase awareness of the variety of life, especially in neighborhood parks and natural areas, and the services these various species provide to improve the quality of our lives. We usually hear the word "biodiversity" in regard to rainforests with their vast number of species. Yet the diversity of life in our own backyards is phenomenal. We take for granted clean water, fertile soil, and air to breathe. Yet these are all the result of working ecosystems filled with species that perform these tasks. From our morning shower to our late night snack, we are supported by biodiversity every minute of the day. What better way to address the topic than to invite people to share in our 24-hours of discovery and to experience the vast array of species that we can find in their neighborhood over the course of just one day?
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Peanut acreage falls, but yields look strong
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- An application of peanut fungicide costs $15-20 per acre, so growers are relieved when they catch a year like 2018 when disease pressure is low.
While statewide peanut acreage is down significantly from last year -- about 25,000 acres compared with 42,000 in 2017 -- the crop benefited from good growing conditions, with average yields of 2 tons per acre.
"Peanuts were a bumper crop last year, and it's going to be same this time. Disease pressure was probably at the lowest we've had in a number of years," said Malcom Broome, Mississippi Peanut Growers Association executive director. "I haven't heard any complaints with white mold. Growers are using routine fungicide amounts to control leaf spot, and that's it. We've had a low amount of inputs with plenty of moisture -- sometimes too much."
Charlie Stokes, MSU Extension area agronomy agent, discusses peanut harvest progress in Mississippi.
As of Oct. 21, 77 percent of the peanut crop has been dug, with 58 percent harvested, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"Peanut production will be about 96 million pounds in Mississippi this year," said Josh Maples, Mississippi State University Extension Service agricultural economist. "This is quite a bit lower than the 172 million produced during 2017 due to a lower number of acres planted."
One reason peanut acreage has declined is the inclusion of cotton -- a common rotational planting partner with peanuts -- as a crop covered in subsidy programs in Title 1 of the 2014 U.S. Farm Bill. That provision took effect this year and allowed cotton growers to enroll in the Price Loss Coverage program, which protects them from fluctuations in the market.
Another reason for the acreage reduction is a smaller return on investment for growers this year.
"Peanut prices for all farmer stock peanuts are averaging around $440 per ton for a national average. This is $20 per ton below the average for the same time a year ago," Maples said. "Prices have mostly hovered in the $400-460 price range over the past year. At least compared to soybean and corn prices, peanut prices have not faced the same declines during 2018."
Charlie Stokes, Extension area agronomy agent, said that, as long as cotton prices remain strong, he expects growers in northeast Mississippi to plant that crop on land where peanuts grew before.
"Peanut buyers like it when cotton is at a good price because it keeps growers from planting too many peanuts and getting a bad price," Stokes said. "We could still stay down a little on acreage unless peanuts get a price bump soon."
Broome also expects acreage to remain at this year's levels in the near future.
"We've got one more year to work out this surplus we have; then, hopefully, the market will be back in line," he said. "I think 2020 could be a good year for the peanut market, and we'll plant more acres to meet demand."


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In the years that followed, the monastery became the spiritual and national center for Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. It developed rich action to strengthen the morale of both the oppressed Greeks during the Ottoman domination, and during the Macedonian Struggle, especially during the prelacy of Saint Chrysostom of Drama. In the Nera Monastery there was the famous Greek School. The monastery owned hundreds of precious relics of great religious and historical value. Particularly significant was the Library of Eikosifoinissa. Before its desecration it included at least 1300 volumes, of whom 430 were codes handwritten on parchment or paper, and the rest of them were printed. There were 567 volumes of old books by classical Greek and Latin authors and by Byzantine intellectuals, as well as other rare printed editions of the 16th and 17th century. The reconstruction of the Monastery began intensively in 1965 by the late Bishop Kyro Dionysius of Drama (1965-2005) who deservedly owns the honor of the third founder. Most of the manuscripts thanks to diligent private research efforts, have been identified. Most of them are now at the Center of Slavo-Byzantine Studies «IVAN DUJČEV» of University «SV. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI » of Sofia. The same applies for most relics. Telephone: +302592061556
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CNN and 'Sesame Street' Will Team Up For a Town Hall on Racism
Families looking to talk with younger children about the ongoing protests around the country and the pervasive issue of racism will get some assistance this weekend from the experienced educators of Sesame Street, who are hosting a special town hall on the subject of racism on CNN. The announcement notes that none other than "Big Bird will join CNN commentator Van Jones and CNN anchor and national correspondent Erica Hill to moderate the event," which is called Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. Additional Sesame Street characters like Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and Rosita will join experts in the field to talk about these issues and answer questions submitted by families.
Sesame Street and CNN held their first joint town hall earlier this spring covering the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, Sesame Workshop posted this statement to its Twitter account, saying "Racism has no place on our Street — or on any street" and encouraging "diversity, inclusion, and, especially, kindness":
Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism will air on CNN on Saturday, June 6 at 10AM ET. It will also be streaming live on CNN.com and on CNN's mobile apps, with no cable log-in required. You can submit your own question for the town hall at this link.
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