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This Case Foundation-sponsored discussion paper focuses on the rise of Millennials—a Net-native, globally oriented generation whose cause lifestyle is redefining how we view activism. The paper investigates the potential impact of this group on the civic landscape and raises provocative questions about their role in affecting positive, lasting change.
Social Citizens
In early 2008, the Case Foundation released Social Citizens, a blog and nontraditional discussion paper, which brought with it a unique platform for discussions on how the Next Generation — and Millennials in particular — are changing the nature of social change.
With the creation of the Social Citizens initiative, we recognized that Millennials were poised to reshape activism, engagement, service and philanthropy as we knew it. While we did not know how this shift would manifest itself exactly, we knew that we had to be bold and take a risk to try and spark dialogue and new forms of engagement that at the time did not yet exist between Millennials and the nonprofit sector.
While we did not know what the outcome of our efforts would be back in 2008, we can now recognize the many ways in which Social Citizens, as an initiative, has helped to define not only our own Foundation's work, but also cross-sector efforts to explore the impact of the next generation. Our Social Citizens white paper was just the beginning of our own multifaceted effort to explore the potential of this generation — leading to the hundreds of blog posts we've written and curated exploring the latest issues on social changemaking; multiple mini-grants and competitions we've administered; daily conversations with more than 330,000 followers via the @SocialCitizen Twitter handle; dynamic, innovative ambassadors who exemplified the power and potential of Millennial leadership; and fruitful partnerships promoting the next generation.
In 2013, the Foundation announced that Social Citizens would move to a new home with the Collaborative Fund in the belief that this transition will allow for the continued expansion of Social Citizens' mission—and ultimately help inspire, activate and empower the next generation of changemakers.
The Case Foundation continues to support next generation initiatives through its work with the Millennial Impact Project, including MCON13, and the Millennial Impact Report; and through Be Fearless Next Gen Forums; posts on CaseFoundation.org; and promotion of Cause for Change.


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in this article, paul hart details the third revision of his underwater camera housing. by using a few reed switches that interface with the camera remote (for zoom control) and a small solenoid (to depress the record button), he is able to control the camera from the outside of the housing with a magnet. don't miss the page that describes the electronics. it works well, it looks good, and you can watch some cool videos that he's made with it. two thumbs up. thanks for the tip, paul!
now, i'm sort of an 'above sea level' kind of person, but i guess one of the things that hackaday is all about is finding out what's going on under the surface of things. if you didn't read it already, check out the article on making a timer activated camera. we should combine some ideas between these projects and make a tethered still/video (or both) system that you just toss off the side of a boat. got a better idea? let's hear it!

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Hailee Steinfeld Teases 'Half Written Story' on New Album
Welcome to PopCrush's Daily Break! Here's a breakdown of today's hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. Check out what New Yorkers do for fun on their roofs in quarantine, Hailee Steinfeld's album announcement and more, below!
Hailee Steinfeld Teases New Album
On Monday (April 27), the artist dropped the track list for her upcoming album, Half Written Story. The mini-album will be out May 8 and will feature five songs.
Americans Have Bags Packed and Ready for End of Quarantine
In a survey of 30,000 Americans, 46% said they are set to travel once the coronavirus quarantine is lifted. While some expressed they would wait some time after social distancing concludes before they travel, many are set to go right away. Visiting friends and family, as well as leisure travel, are all on to-do lists. (via PIPLSAY)
Bouquets May Be in Short Supply for Mother's Day
The upcoming holiday is well known for its abundance of floral arrangements and greeting cards, but this year may be a little different due to the coronavirus. This Mother's Day will likely see florists and farmers struggling amid a projected lower demand for floral arrangements. (via TMZ)
Man Walks Goldfish to Get Around Stay-at-Home Orders
Many cities have shut down all social activities and interactions and enforced stay-at-home orders, something which has prompted many to get creative with ways to escape their homes. In a tweet by the Spanish National Police, one man was shown to be walking a pet fish, bowl and all. Others, meanwhile, have actually dressed up in full-body animal costumes to go outside in. (via CNN)
Lysol Warns Against Injecting Their Products to Combat COVID-19
The makers of Lysol and Dettol products released a warning against using their products by ingesting of injection to prevent against COVID-19 after the President mused about such usage during a press briefing last week. (via TooFab)
Kylie Jenner Shows Off Her New $36.5M Digs
Jenner's new estate in L.A. is a massive multi-million dollar complex fit for a superstar. Check out shots of her new pad via TMZ!
New Yorkers' Quarantine Roof Activity Enchants Social Media
Check out what people do on nice days in the city during social distancing protocols in this uplifting viral video, below.
Celebrity Trio Sing and Drink in Their Bathrobes
Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald put together a little number that is a must see. Watch below! (via Cosmopolitan)
Chrissy Teigen Sets Twitter Trolls Straight
The celebrity shared her true feelings toward the insults circulating online about her figure. (via Cosmopolitan)
Canadian Stars Join Together To Lift Spirits and Raise Funds for COVID-19
Canadian artists like Justin Bieber and Avril Lavigne came together to sing "Lean on Me" for charity. Watch below. (via People)


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Spend a few days exploring Oak Park's connections to architect Frank Lloyd Wright and author Ernest Hemingway.
Idyllic Oak Park, Illinois – with its historic sites, inviting restaurants, lovely shops and tree-lined streets set just west of Chicago and easily accessible via the "L" Green line or Metra – is truly a gem. There's much to see from Frank Lloyd Wright and Ernest Hemingway's time here, but make a point to enjoy downtown's shopping and dining scene, too.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Pioneering Architect
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park is a world-renowned complex where the famed architect lived and worked for the first 20 years of his career. From his living quarters to the adjacent studio showcasing original designs and drawings, the complex provides an intimate glimpse into the life of a man who shaped the course of architecture in the U.S. and beyond.
For those unfamiliar with his work, Wright is known for his organic architecture – structures inspired by nature and designed to maximize natural light. Art glass (stained glass), fabric walls, high-backed chairs, high ceilings instead of an attic; it's amazing to see such a "modern" house that dates to the late 1800s.
Take a guided tour of the interior of his home and studio – the guides are very knowledgeable, pointing out meaningful architectural details that you might otherwise miss. Also, take advantage of the self-guided audio tour of the surrounding historic district, including 25 Wright-designed buildings. Oak Park has the highest concentration of his work in the world.
Ernest Hemingway, Legendary Author
Charming Oak Park is also the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway, the famous American author and icon. Pay a visit to the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace, which is the actual house Hemingway was born and raised in. After hundreds of hours of restoration, the home has been returned to its Victorian-era beauty. Take a tour to learn about Hemingway's early years, his family and the inspiring environment he grew up in.
Just down Oak Park Avenue from his birthplace is the Ernest Hemingway Museum, which will take you deeper into the writer's life with a stunning collection of rare photographs, films and special exhibits. Here we see a sensitive young man portrayed in mesmerizing photographs, video footage, childhood diaries and personal letters. On an old desk sits a typewriter of the very sort Hemingway used – visitors are encouraged to sit down and type away on a sheet of paper provided by the museum staff.
By the way, the entrance fee is valid for both locations, and the hourly tour at the birth house is included.
Downtown Oak Park
For refined European cuisine, dine at Hemingway's Bistro, across the street from the museum, where you can feast on such dishes as coq au vin, cassoulet and duck à l'orange while enjoying the French bistro ambiance. Or head to downtown Oak Park, where the welcoming streets are lined with charming shops and restaurants. If the weather cooperates, enjoy an al fresco meal of farm-to-table fare accompanied by a fine selection of microbrews.
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MySQL provides some great enterprise features beside the MySQL Server. The ones we are asked the most at customers are:
The new FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL (MPM) v0.9 is released
Many bugs were fixed, items added, graphs reniced and cleaned-up...
On April 2nd 2012 FromDual released the new version v0.9 of its Performance Monitor for MySQL (mpm). The new version can be downloaded from here.
The Performance Monitor for MySQL (mpm) is an agent which is hooked into Zabbix. Zabbix is an integrated Enterprise Monitoring solution which can produce performance graphs and alerting.
The changes in the new release are:
Many of you may monitor their databases for different purposes. Beside alerting it is often good to also make some graphs from MySQL performance counters to see what is actually happening on your database.
On December 2nd 2011 FromDual released the new version v0.7.2 of its Performance Monitor for MySQL. The new version can be downloaded from here.
The Performance Monitor for MySQL is an agent which is hooked into the agent of the well known Monitoring solution called Zabbix. Zabbix is an integrated Enterprise Monitoring solution which can produce performance graphs and alerting.
We have just released v0.7.1 of the FromDual MySQL Performance Monitor. The new release can be downloaded from here.
In all editions some error messages have been cleaned-up, the fall-back data gather method mysql has been removed and the Maria SE template has been renamed to Aria.
In the edition dedicated to our customers most of the InnoDB graphs which are available with MEM v2.3.3 have been implemented now.
FromDual releases its new version v0.5 of its MySQL Performance Monitor working with Zabbix.
What has changed so far in this release:
FromDual launches its database Performance Monitoring solution for MySQL, Percona Server and MariaDB. This solution provides monitoring capabilities for most MySQL Storage Engines (Aria, InnoDB, MyISAM, NDB, PBXT and XtraDB). Further you can monitor MySQL Master - Slave replication set-ups, UNIX processes (mysqld, ndbd) and MySQL specific information.
More details you can find on the page Performance Monitor for MySQL.
FromDual veröffentlicht seine Datenbank Performance Monitoring Lösung für MySQL, Percona Server und MariaDB. Diese Lösung verfügt über Monitoringmöglichkeiten für die meisten MySQL Storage Engines (Aria, InnoDB, MyISAM, NDB, PBXT und XtraDB). Im Weiteren können MySQL Master - Slave Replikationen, UNIX Prozesse (mysqld, ndbd) und MySQL spezifische Informationen überwacht werden.
Mehr Informationen finden sie auf der Seite Performance Monitor für MySQL.
Sometimes it is nice to show customers the functionality of MySQL-Enterprise Monitor (aka Merlin). I install the agents on the servers and the dashboard runs on my laptop. But very often only ssh is open to these servers.
So how to dig a whole through the firewall for MySQL-Enterprise Monitor?
# ssh -R 18080:localhost:18080 oli@where_the_agent_sits
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SUP 11.8 Changes in the circumstances of existing controllers
A firm must notify the appropriate regulator9 immediately it becomes aware of any of the following matters in respect of one or more of its controllers:
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if a controller, or any entity subject to his control, is or has been the subject of any legal action or investigation which might put into question the integrity of the controller;
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99In respect of SUP 11.8.1 R (3), the appropriate regulator9 considers that, in particular, the removal or replacement of a majority of the members of a governing body (in a single event or a series of connected events) is a substantial change and should be notified.
9If a matter has already been notified to the appropriate regulator9 (for example, as part of the firm's application for a Part 4A permission9), the firm need only inform the appropriate regulator9 of any significant developments.
99The level of a firm's awareness of its controller's circumstances will depend on its relationship with that controller. The appropriate regulator9 does not expect firms to implement systems or procedures so as to be certain of any changes in its controllers' circumstances. However, the appropriate regulator9 does expect firms to notify it of such matters if the firm becomes aware of them, and it expects firms to make enquiries of its controllers if it becomes aware that one of the events in SUP 11.8.1 R may occur or has occurred.
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When Overeating, Calories, Not Protein, Contribute to Increase in Body Fat
In a study conducted among 25 healthy individuals living in a controlled setting who were randomized to overconsumption of different levels of protein diets, those consuming the low-protein diet had less weight gain compared to those consuming normal and high protein diets, and calories alone, and not protein appeared to contribute to an increase in body fat, according to a study in the January 4 issue of JAMA. The researchers also found that protein did contribute to changes in energy expenditure and lean body mass.
"Obesity has become a major public health concern with more than 60 percent of adults in the United States categorized as overweight and more than 30 percent as obese," according to background information in the article. The role of diet composition in response to overeating and energy dissipation is unclear.
George A. Bray, M.D., of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, La., and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether the level of dietary protein differentially affected body composition, weight gain, or energy expenditure under tightly controlled conditions. The randomized controlled trial included 25 U.S. healthy, weight-stable male and female volunteers, ages 18 to 35 years, with a body mass index between 19 and 30.
The first participant was admitted to the inpatient metabolic unit in June 2005 and the last in October 2007. After consuming a weight-stabilizing diet for 13 to 25 days, participants were randomized to receive diets containing 5 percent of energy from protein (low protein), 15 percent (normal protein), or 25 percent (high protein), which they were overfed during the last 8 weeks of their 10- to 12-week stay in the inpatient metabolic unit. Compared with energy intake during the weight stabilization period, the protein diets provided approximately 40 percent more energy intake, which corresponds to 954 calories a day.
All participants in the study gained weight and there were no differences by sex. The rate of weight gain in the low protein diet group was significantly less than in the other 2 groups (6.97 lbs. [3.16 kg] vs. 13.3 lbs [6.05 kg] for the normal protein diet group and 14.4 lbs [6.51 kg] in the high protein diet group).
"Body fat increased similarly in all 3 protein diet groups and represented 50 percent to more than 90 percent of the excess stored calories. Resting energy expenditure, total energy expenditure, and body protein did not increase during overfeeding with the low protein diet," the authors write.
Lean body mass (body protein) decreased during the overeating period by 1.5 lbs. (0.70 kg) in the low protein diet group compared with a gain of 6.3 lbs. (2.87 kg) in the normal protein diet group and 7 lbs. (3.18 kg) in the high protein diet group. Resting energy expenditure (normal protein diet: 160 calories/day; high protein diet: 227 calories/day) increased significantly with the normal and high protein diets.
"In summary, weight gain when eating a low protein diet (5 percent of energy from protein) was blunted compared with weight gain when eating a normal protein diet (15 percent of energy from protein) with the same number of extra calories. Calories alone, however, contributed to the increase in body fat. In contrast, protein contributed to the changes in energy expenditure and lean body mass, but not to the increase in body fat," the researchers write.
"The key finding of this study is that calories are more important than protein while consuming excess amounts of energy with respect to increases in body fat."
(JAMA. 2012;307[1]:47-55. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://www.jamamedia.org)
Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
Editorial: Overeating and Overweight - Extra Calories Increase Fat Mass While Protein Increases Lean Mass
In an accompanying editorial, Zhaoping Li, M.D., Ph.D., and David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles, write that the results of this study "informs primary care physicians and policy makers about the benefits of protein in weight management."
"The results suggest that overeating low protein diets may increase fat deposition leading to loss of lean body mass despite lesser increases in body weight. Policy makers and primary care physicians need to understand the role of the Western diet in promoting overweight and obesity. Because this diet increases the risks of overnutrition through fat deposition beyond that detected by body mass index, the method used to assess the current obesity epidemic and the magnitude of the obesity epidemic may have been underestimated. Clinicians should consider assessing a patient's overall fatness rather than simply measuring body weight or body mass index and concentrate on the potential complications of excess fat accumulation. The goals for obesity treatment should involve fat reduction rather than simply weight loss, along with a better understanding of nutrition science."
(JAMA. 2012;307[1]:86-87. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://www.jamamedia.org)
Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
Source: American Medical Association (AMA)


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Grizedale Forest PMBA Enduro was a marvellously mucky affair
Roots and rain
Check out some primo mudbath attack. Grizedale was a fine way to end another successful season of the Hope-PMBA Enduro series. Well done to all involved!
Last weekend was the final round of this year's Hope-PMBA Enduro series. This was the 5th round of the series but PMBA did also host the Enduro National Champs at Grizedale Forest earlier this year. Round 5 of the PMBA saw an impressive number of ELite riders taking part, with local hero Adam Brayton taking the win in Elite Men.
Full results can be found on Si Entries
This final PMBA was a two day affair with Saturday being practice the day and Sunday being the timed racing day.'Practice' is perhaps rather a grand term; there weren't many folk doing repeated runs or even sessioning sections on the Saturday. The sheer magnitude of the route didn't lend itself to repeated riding.
The full distance of the route was around 20 miles. 20 miles in the Lake District is a lot. And doing the route two days on the trot is an achievement in itself never mind actually trying to race the thing. Hats off to everybody who managed to get around the whole thing, twice.
And we haven't even mentioned the weather yet. Let's just say, it wasn't dry. The Saturday was the worst weathered day with patches of drizzle and a generally chilly temperature. Sunday was rain-free but the conditions had been set by then.
There were six racing stages in total. Whilst some of the tracks were on firmer, armoured surfaces, the main meals of the racing took place on steep and rooty woodland tracks that could best be described as "challenging". The two most talked about stages were Stage 4 and Stage 6.
Stage 4 ("Viking") was epic in both length and in nature. Its 1.4km length is unusual for a British enduro stage and when combined with an average gradient of 15% it really makes for quite an experience. Burning legs, aching feet, buzzing forearms, loads of near-crashes and plenty more. If it takes Adam Brayton three and half minutes to get down, you know it's a biggie.
Stage 6 ("Blind Mice") was somewhat controversial – there were rumours of it not being used due to the conditions – and whilst most riders struggled on its mixture of steepness, wrist-thick roots, wheel-swallowing holes and general wholesale unpredictability, by the finish line (the comedy filth-bath finish line) pretty much everyone thought it was strangely in-keeping with the rest of the day; difficult and slippy.
All-in-all, the Grizedale race was a fine way to end another successful of the Hope-PMBA Enduro series. Well done to all involved.
Between this series and the return of the UK Gravity Enduro races, 2018 looks set to be a landmark year for British enduro racing. In a time when the UK downhill race scene is looking decidedly worse for wear, it's interesting to see what happens to enduro.
Whitenosugar Productions: "300+ riders made the trip to Grizedale Forest for the 5th round of the Hope/PMBA enduro series. The rain held off on race day and the tracks were running fast and loose for a great end to the season. Music by Sisteray."


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A response to 'Gertrude Stein's Translations of Speeches by Philippe Petain'
Fascinating indeed. My own guess — (I guess we're all guessing) — is that Gertrude, a political naïf capable of only rough calculation re: nuance in current ('39, '40, '41 etc) winds of doctrine, and with very genuine affection for Fay — a very affable gentleman indeed, (if you remember our brief meeting with him in Paris), and his returned affection for her, his persuasion to do a friend a favor and say nice things — stretching conscience no more than her willingness would permit — to help his dear friend by translating speeches that might show him in his best light for Americans (faced with defeat and Nazi military invasion, Petain was, after all, saying nice things to shore up his nation's continuing pride in itself even in a time of terrible adversity), and not until the reality of the Occupation, the deportations, the clouds of war, and its meaning for her, given her lifelong American at-one-ness did she lose enthusiasm and feel distaste for the task and took occasion to let the obligation sort of fade away. Thinking of the whole incident retrospectively in the Janet Malcolm vein, Gertrude should have bravely and publicly denounced Fay for getting her into this evil, evil business, bravely and publicly denounced Petain as well, and so inviting her own deportation and demise, but after that outcome, knowing inward reward, moral cleansing, and Pyrrhic victory. The movie version. My guess is — to come back to my guess — that to put political and moral weight on this episode to Gertrude's shame is to lose all sense of normal human behavior and its moderate demands on political propriety. To ask of private conduct that it be appraised from the perspective of world-historical events is to pretend that everybody is obliged to behave by taking into account the perpetual glare of Heaven's own Book of Political Virtues, and heeding its call, go willingly into the flames. If Gertrude didn't have pristine political virtue, she did have common sense.


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Peter Frampton Has a Rare Muscle Disease
Yesterday (Feb. 22), Peter Frampton announced that he'll embark on his farewell tour this summer and fall, and today, he revealed the reason for his retirement. In a pair of new interviews, he said he suffers from inclusion-body myositis (IBM), a degenerative disease that slowly weakens his muscles.
As he told Rolling Stone, he started to show symptoms eight years ago, when he noticed his ankles getting tight, followed by a weakening of his legs. At the time, he chalked it up to aging, but in 2015, after sustaining a few falls and realizing he now had trouble lifting objects over his head, he consulted a neurologist, who diagnosed him with IBM.
He kept the news a secret from everybody but his family and band -- reassuring them that it's not life-threatening -- and continued with his touring schedule, but as he said on CBS This Morning, another fall while on vacation in Maui with his daughter convinced him that it was time to quit before it spreads to his hands and affects his ability to play guitar.
"The reason I'm calling it the 'farewell tour,'" he said, "is because I know that I will be at the top of my game for this tour and I will make it through this and people won't be saying, 'Oh you know, he can't play as good.' I can. But we just don't know for how long."
He's been working with Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, creating the Peter Frampton Myositis Research Fund, which will receive one dollar from every ticket sold on his tour. Although only 24,000 Americans have been diagnosed with the disease, Frampton added that there could be more who with it but think that it's a natural part of the aging process.
"There's no specific treatment for IBM," he said. "They have traditional medicine that is working. They are coming out with some drug trials. I'm hoping to be involved with those. That is something that is in the future. Right now, the only thing that works for me is exercise. I work out like a maniac all the time. It's strengthening the muscle that I have. It seems to be the best possible thing for IBM is to work out every day."
Knowing that a time will come when his guitar skills will diminish, he and his band have been working hard at his Nashville studio. He's estimated that they've recorded 33 songs for three projects since October.
"There's a double album, but I can't tell you what it's about since that would spoil the surprise," he said. "We're working on sorting out the release. Hopefully that will come out in June when the tour starts. There's that and another single album that we're finishing off tracking next week and then after, if I can muster it, we're going to do yet another project. They're all different. As I say, I can't really say what they are since it's not time."
He hopes he will be well enough to do a short European leg next spring, but for now he's scheduled to call time on his performing career on Oct. 12 in San Francisco, where he'll be surrounded by his loved ones.
"I know that all my kids will be there," he said. "My ex-wives will be there. [Laughs] I hope not. No, they probably will. It's going to be a party and a celebration of what's going to come. We're going to celebrate. We're not going to look backwards. We're going to go forward. I know I've got so much more to do. It will be an emotional evening, obviously. I have such a great support group. My kids. My ex-wives. [Laughs] I'm very lucky."


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Shirley Chisholm–Remembering a Hero
March 24, 2014 | Book Beat
Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and one of Brooklyn College's most famous alumni. Yet many people under 40 know little of her, says Brooklyn College professor Barbara Winslow. Hoping to raise awareness of the political trailblazer, Winslow penned the new biography, Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change.


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In a stunning reversal from comments he made just one day prior, President Trump said on Tuesday "there's blame on both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
On Monday, Trump specifically called out the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists in a choreographed statement read at the White House — but that was two days after his initial statement on the protests, for which he was criticized for not condemning those groups and instead cited violence "on many sides."
On Tuesday, Trump was back home at Trump Tower in New York City and took questions from reporters in an impromptu, highly combative press conference that was expected to be limited to statements by the president and members of his Cabinet about infrastructure.
Instead, he returned to equating the demonstrators — who came to the college town to protest the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, donning Confederate flags and swastikas, some carrying guns and shields, chanting "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us" — with counterprotesters.
"I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I'm saying is this — you had a group on one side, and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch," Trump said. "But there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you've just called them the left, that came, violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is."
Trump also pointed out that the "Unite the Right" rally had received a permit from the city for their demonstration, while "the other group didn't have a permit."
"So I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country. A horrible moment. But there are two sides," the president said.
"OK, what about the alt-left that came charging ... at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? Let me ask you this, what about the fact they came charging, that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do," the president added. "As far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day."
And he also equated Confederate statues with ones of slaveholding Founding Fathers and former presidents.
"Are we going to take down statues of George Washington? How 'bout Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK, good," Trump argued. "Are we going to take down the statue because he was a major slave-owner? Now we're going to take down his statue. So you know what, it's fine. You're changing history; you're changing culture."
The gathering of white nationalists over the weekend in Charlottesville resulted in multiple injuries and the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, who was killed after a car was rammed into a group of counterprotesters. The suspect has been denied bond and is charged with second-degree murder.
Trump said he hadn't called Heyer's family yet but that he would soon. He thanked her mother for a "beautiful statement" that was "really terrific" in response to his comments Monday.
Of the suspect, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., Trump said he was a "murderer and what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing." But he didn't call it domestic terrorism as did Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Trump also took particular umbrage at the idea that he had waited too long to condemn the hate groups.
"I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct. Not make a quick statement," the president said. "The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you don't make statements that direct unless you know the facts. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don't know the facts. And it's a very, very important process to me. ... I want to know the facts."
However, in the past Trump has rarely shown restraint in responding to incidents like the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., when he tweeted "Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism," and terrorist attacks in London earlier this year, when he criticized the response of the city's mayor. Back in 2011, he began peddling the false birther conspiracy against then-President Barack Obama, at one point tweeting that "An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud." He has made plenty of false statements just since entering the Oval Office.
After the press conference, former KKK grand wizard David Duke thanked the president on Twitter for his "honesty and courage" and for being willing to "condemn" Black Lives Matter and anti-fascists (whom Trump did not name).
Trump faced widespread criticism for what was seen as an insufficient statement about the events on Saturday. Seeming to bow to those critiques on Monday, he delivered a new statement and placed blame on white supremacist groups. But after his apparent walkback on Tuesday, some GOP leaders spoke out again.
"We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity," House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted, apparently in reference to Trump's remarks, although he didn't mention the president by name.
"I don't understand what's so hard about this. White supremacists and Neo-Nazis are evil and shouldn't be defended," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, tweeted.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said on CNN that he "tried to give [Trump] the benefit of the doubt, for just saying the words yesterday. But he just couldn't move on. I think the residents of Charlottesville will be extremely disappointed but not surprised."
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TRUMP: Hello everybody. Great to be back in New York with all of our friends and some great friends outside the building, I must tell you. I want to thank all of our distinguished guests who are with us today, including members of our cabinet, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, OMB director Mick Mulvaney and of course our transportation secretary, who is doing a fabulous, job Elaine Chao. Thank you all for doing a really incredible and creative job on what we're going to be discussing today, which is infrastructure.
We've just had a great set of briefings upstairs on our infrastructure agenda. My administration is working every day to deliver the world class infrastructure that our people deserve and frankly, that our country deserves.
That's why I just signed a new executive order to dramatically reform the nation's badly broken infrastructure permitting process. Just blocks away is the Empire State Building. It took 11 months to build the Empire State Building. But today it could take as long as a decade and much more than that. Many many stores where it takes 20 and 25 years just to get approvals to start construction of a fairly routine highway. Highway builders must get up to 16 different approvals involving nine different federal agencies, governed by 29 different statutes. One agency alone can stall a project for many many years and even decades. Not only does this cost economy billions of dollars but it also denies our citizens the safe and modern infrastructure they deserve. This overregulated permitting process is a massive self-inflicted wound on our country.
It's disgraceful. Denying our people much needed investments in their community and I just want to show you this, because it was just shown [to] me and I [said], I think I'm going to show it to the media, both real and fake media. by the way. This is what it takes to get something approved today. Elaine, you see that? So this is what it takes — permitting process flowchart. That's a flowchart.
So that can go out to 20 years, this shows about 10. But that could go out to about 20 years to get something approved. This is for a highway. I've seen a highway recently in a certain state, I won't mention its name, it's 17 years. I could have built it for four or five million dollars without the permitting process. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars but it took 17 years to get it approved.
And many many many many pages of environmental impact studies.
This is what we will bring it down to. This is less than two years. This is going to happen quickly. That's what I'm signing today. This will be less than two years for a highway. So it's going to be quick. It's going to be a very streamlined process. And by the way, if it doesn't meet environmental safeguards, we're not going to approve it. Very simple.
We're not going to approve it. So maybe this one will say ... let's throw the other one away. Would anybody like it from the media? Would anybody like that long beautiful chart? You can have it.
So my executive order also requires agencies to work together efficiently by requiring one lead agency for each major infrastructure project. It also holds agencies accountable if they fail to streamline their review process. So each agency is accountable. We're going to get infrastructure built quickly, inexpensively, relatively speaking, and the permitting process will go very very quickly.
No longer will we tolerate one job killing delay after another. No longer will we accept a broken system that benefits consultants and lobbyists at the expense of hardworking Americans.
Now I knew the process very well, probably better than anybody. I had to get permits for this building and many of the buildings I built — all of the buildings I built in Manhattan and many other places.
And I will tell you that the consultants are rich people.
They go around making it very difficult. They lobby Congress, they lobby state governments, city governments, to make it very difficult so that you have to hire consultants and that you have to take years and pay them a fortune.
So we're streamlining the process had we won't be having so much of that anymore. No longer will we allow the infrastructure of our magnificent country to crumble and decay. While protecting the environment, we will build gleaming new roads, bridges, railways, waterways, tunnels and highways.
We will rebuild our country with American workers, American iron, American aluminum, American steel. We will create millions of new jobs and make millions of American dreams come true. Our infrastructure will again be the best in the world. We used to have the greatest infrastructure anywhere in the world. And today we're like a third world country. We are literally like a third world country.
Our infrastructure will again be the best and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation, and all over the United States we'll be proud again. So I want to thank everybody for being here. God bless you. God bless the United States.
And if you have any questions, we have — Mick, you could come up here please. Come on up. Mick Mulvaney. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
REPORTER: Why do you think these CEOs are leaving your manufacturing council?
TRUMP: Because they're not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country. We want jobs, manufacturing in this country. If you look at some of those people that you're talking about, they're outside of the country, they're having a lot of their product made outside. If you look at Merck as an example, take a look where, excuse me. Excuse me. Take a look at where their product is made. It's made outside of our country. We want products made in the country.
Now I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside. And I've been lecturing them, including the gentleman that you're referring to, about you have to bring it back to this country. You can't do it necessarily in Ireland and all of these other places, you have to bring this work back to this country. That's what I want. I want manufacturing to be back into the United States so that American workers can benefit.
REPORTER: Why did you wait so long to blast Neo Nazis?
TRUMP: I didn't wait long. I didn't wait long. I didn't wait long. I wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians, that what I said was correct. Not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. But you don't make statements that direct unless you know the fact. It takes a little while to get the facts. You still don't know the facts. And it's a very, very important process to me. And it's a very important statement. So I don't want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. I want to know the facts —
If you go back to my ... in fact, I brought it. I brought it.
As I said on, remember this, on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America. And then I went on from there. Now here's the thing --
Excuse me. Excuse me. Take it nice and easy. Here's the thing. When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts. This event just happened. In fact, a lot of the event didn't even happen yet, as we were speaking. This event just happened. Before I make a statement, I need the facts. So I don't want to rush into a statement. So making the statement when I made it was excellent.
In fact, the young woman, who I hear is a fantastic young woman, and it was on NBC, her mother wrote me and said through, I guess Twitter, social media, the nicest things. And I very much appreciated that. I hear she was a fine, really actually an incredible, young woman. But her mother on Twitter thanked me for what I said.
And honestly, if the press were not fake, and if it was honest, the press would have said what I said was very nice. But unlike you —
But unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.
REPORTER: The CEO of Wal Mart said you missed a critical opportunity to help bring the country together. Did you?
TRUMP: Not at all. I think the country, look, you take a look, I've created over a million jobs since I'm president, the country is booming, the stock market is setting records, we have the highest employment numbers we've ever had in the history of our country, we're doing record business. We have the highest levels of enthusiasm. So the head of Wal Mart — who I know, who is very nice guy – was making a political statement.
... I want to make sure, when I make a statement, that the statement is correct. And there was no way, there was no way of making a correct statement that early. I had to see the facts, unlike a lot of REPORTERs. Unlike a lot of REPORTERs -
I didn't know David Duke was there. I wanted to see the facts. And the facts as they started coming out were very well stated. In fact, everybody said, his statement was beautiful, if he would have made it sooner, that would have been good. I couldn't have made it sooner because I didn't know all of the facts. Frankly, people still don't know all of the facts.
Excuse me. Excuse me. It was very important to me to get the facts out and correctly. Because if I would have made a fast statement, and the first statement was made without knowing much other than what we were seeing. The second statement was made after, with knowledge, with great knowledge. There's still things. Excuse me. There's still things that people don't know. I want to make a statement with knowledge. I wanted to know the states.
REPORTER: Was this terrorism?
TRUMP: The driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family and this country. And that is, you can call it terrorism, you can call it murder, you can call it whatever you want. I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict. That's what I'd call it. Because there is a question: Is it murder, is it terrorism? And then you get into legal semantics. The driver of the car is a murderer and what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable thing.
REPORTER: Do you still have confidence in Steve Bannon?
TRUMP: Look, look. I like Mr. Bannon. He's a friend of mine. But, Mr. Bannon came on very late, you know that. I went through 17 senators, governors and I won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that. And I like him, he's a good man, he is not a racist, I can tell you that. He's a good person. He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. But we'll see what happens with Mr. Bannon but he's a good person and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly.
REPORTER: Senator McCain has called on you to defend your national security advisor H. R. McMaster against some of these attacks —
TRUMP: I've already done that. I did it the last time.
REPORTER: And he called on it again —
TRUMP: Senator McCain? Senator McCain? You mean the one who voted against Obamacare? Who is Senator? You mean Senator McCain who voted against us getting good health care?
REPORTER: Senator McCain said that the alt right is behind these attacks and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in Charlottesville —
TRUMP: Well, I don't know. I can't tell you. I'm sure Senator McCain must know what he's talking about. But when you say the alt right, define alt right to me. You define it. No you define it for me.
REPORTER: Sen. McCain defined them as —
TRUMP: Ok what about the alt left that came charging — excuse me. What about the alt left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? Let me ask you this, what about the fact they came charging, that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a minute, I'm not finished. I'm not finished, fake news.
That was a horrible day.
I will tell you something. I watched those very closely. Much more closely than you people watched it. And you have, you had a group on one side that was bad. And you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that. But I'll say it right now.
You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent.
REPORTER: Do you think that what you call the alt left is the same as neo Nazis?
TRUMP: All of those people — excuse me. I've condemned neo Nazis. I've condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, Robert E. Lee. So. Excuse me. And you take a look at some of the groups, and you see and you'd know it if you were honest REPORTERs, which in many cases you're not, but many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
So, this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?
But they were there to protest, excuse me, you take a look the night before, they were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. Infrastructure question, go ahead.
REPORTER: Should statues of Robert E. Lee stay up?
TRUMP: I would say that's up to a local town, community or the federal government depending on where it is located.
REPORTER: ... race relations in America and do you think things have gotten worse or better since you took office?
TRUMP: I think they've gotten better or the same. Look, they've been frayed for a long time. And you can ask President Obama about that because he'd make speeches about it. But I believe that the fact that I brought in, it will be soon, millions of jobs, you see where companies are moving back into our country, I think that's going to have a tremendous positive impact on race relations.
We have companies coming back into our country. We have two car companies that just announced, we have FoxConn in Wisconsin just announced. We have many companies, I say pouring back into the country. I think that's going to have a huge, positive impact on race relations. You know why? It's jobs. What people want now, they want jobs. They want great jobs with good pay. And when they have that, you watch how race relations will be. And I'll tell you, we're spending a lot of money on the inner cities. We're fixing the inner cities. We're doing far more than anybody's done with respect to the inner cities. It's a priority for me. And it's very important.
REPORTER: Are you putting what you're calling the alt left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?
TRUMP: I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I'm saying is this. You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other and they came at each other with clubs and it was viscous and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left, you've just called them the left, that came, violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is.
REPORTER: You said there was hatred and violence on both sides —
TRUMP: Well, I do think there's blame, yes, I think there's blame on both sides. You look at both sides. I think there's blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it. And you don't have any doubt about it either. And, and if you reported it accurately, you would say it.
TRUMP: Excuse me. You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park, from Robert E. Lee to another name.
George Washington was a slave-owner. Was George Washington a slave-owner? So will George Washington now lose his status — are we going to take down — excuse me. Are we going to take down statues of George Washington? How 'bout Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Ok, good. Are we going to take down the statue because he was a major slave-owner? Now we're going to take down his statue. So you know what, it's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture. And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo Nazis or the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo Nazis and white nationalists, ok? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.
Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats. You got a lot of bad people in the other group too.
REPORTER: You said the press has treated white nationalists unfairly?
TRUMP: No. There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before, if you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people. Neo Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest. Because I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit. So I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country. A horrible moment. But there are two sides.
TRUMP: Does anybody have a final —
REPORTER: What makes you think you can get an infrastructure bill, you didn't get health care –
TRUMP: Well, you know, I'll tell you. We came very close with health care. Unfortunately, John McCain decided to vote against it at the last minute. You'll have to ask John McCain why he did that. But we came very close to health care. We will end up getting health care but we'll get the infrastructure and actually infrastructure is something that I think will have bipartisan support on. I actually think Democrats will go along with the infrastructure.
REPORTER: Have you spoken to the family of the victim of the car attack?
TRUMP: No, I'll be reaching out. I'll be reaching out. I was very, I thought that the statement put out — the mother's statement — I thought was a beautiful statement. I will tell you, it was something that I really appreciated. I thought it was terrific and really under the kind of stress that she's under and the heartache that she's under, I thought putting out that statement to me was really something I won't forget.
Thank you all very much. Thank you.
REPORTER: Will you go to Charlottesville?
TRUMP: I own a house in Charlottesville. Does anyone know I own a house in Charlottesville?
REPORTER: Where is it?
TRUMP: Oh boy. It's in Charlottesville, you'll see.
REPORTER: Is it near the winery?
TRUMP: It is the winery. I mean, I know a lot about Charlottesville. Charlottesville is a great place. It's been very badly hurt over the last couple of days. I own actually one of the largest wineries in the United States. It's in Charlottesville.
REPORTER: What do you think needs to be done to overcome the racial divide?
TRUMP: Well, I really think jobs going to have a big impact. I think if we continue to create jobs — over a million, substantially more than a million — and you see just the other day the car companies coming in, I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact, a positive impact, on race relations.
TRUMP: Because the people are going to be working, they're going to be making a lot of money, much more money than they ever thought possible. And the other thing, very important, I believe wages will start going up. They haven't gone up for a long time. I believe wages now, because the economy is doing so well with respect to employment and unemployment, I believe wages will start to go up. I think that will have a tremendously positive impact on race relations.
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With slightly more than a month to go before Somalia's current transitional governing period comes to end, the top United Nations political official for the East African nation today called on all Somalis to help their country on its path to peace and stability.
"The end of the transitional period will be an important benchmark, but it is time for us all to begin to look past 20 August and think about the future political dispensation of Somalia," the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), Augustine Mahiga, said in an open letter to the people of Somalia.
"Let me urge all Somalis who are stakeholders in the peace process to sustain the political commitment for a broad-based, inclusive and representative post-transitional arrangement. Somalia deserves a political dispensation based on election, not just selection. Somalia deserves peace, prosperity and development," he added.
After decades of warfare, Somalia has been undergoing a peace and national reconciliation process, with the country's Transitional Federal Institutions currently implementing the so-called Roadmap for the End of Transition in Somalia, devised in September last year, that spells out priority measures to be carried out before the current transitional governing arrangements end on 20 August.
Mr. Mahiga pointed to recent events as key steps in Somalia's transition process, including the agreement on a provisional constitution by the Roadmap signatories, major meetings on international support for the Horn of Africa country, and the withdrawal of Al-Shabaab militants from around the capital, Mogadishu.
In late June, at a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, the so-called Joint Communiqué of the Consultative Meeting of the Signatories of the Process for Ending the Transition, which included an official draft constitution, was agreed on by all the Roadmap signatories, including President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG); the Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden; Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, and others. The Principals also agreed on a number of mechanisms to help move the process forward in the small amount of time left before 20 August.
The Nairobi meeting was convened to discuss a number of outstanding issues and to finalize agreements reached at a meeting held in Ethiopia in May, at which the Somali leaders had agreed to set up a National Constituent Assembly (NCA), which would adopt the East African nation's new constitution in line with the roadmap.
The draft constitution will be submitted in mid-July 2012 to the NCA, which will represent the full spectrum of Somali society, and which will be selected by a group of 135 traditional Somali Elders representing all of Somalia's clans in accordance with the '4.5 formula' used to apportion roles in government such as parliamentary seats.
"The adoption of the provisional constitution will indeed be a watershed. But here, let me make an important point: this approval will not be the end point of the constitutional process but the beginning of a new chapter," Mr. Mahiga said. "The Somali people will have ample opportunity to provide input and amendments to the document in the post-August period ahead of a public referendum to be held before the end of the new parliament's first term."
In the wake of recent major international conferences and meetings in London, Istanbul, Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Rome, the envoy said the message from the international community has been uniform and crystal clear: now is the moment for Somalia to make headway on its path to peace and development.
"We must work together to seize this golden opportunity for peace," he said. "The world is looking to the future of Somalia and sees a state that serves the Somali people with effective governance through representative, inclusive and accountable institutions at all levels."
Mr. Mahiga welcomed military advances made by the UN-backed African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), TFG forces and their allies in regaining territory held by the Al Shabaab militant group, which still controls parts of Somalia, primarily in its south-central regions.
Until last year, most of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, was, for several years, riven by a fluid frontline dividing the two sides – Al Shabaab fighters and troops belonging to the TFG, with the latter supported AMISOM. Displaced by fighting and drought elsewhere in the country, some 184,000 people have sought humanitarian relief in the city.
Since the Al Shabaab withdrawal from the capital's central parts in August, the frontlines have been pushed back to the city's surrounding area. However, the use of roadside bombs, grenades and suicide bombers still take place, as do armed clashes. Since late May, AMISOM and TFG troops and their allies pushed into the Afgooye corridor, outside of Mogadishu, and also gained control of the town of Balad, located within an important agricultural area near the capital.
As well, Mr. Mahiga noted in his letter, AMISOM forces are close to capturing the port town of Kismayo, an important stronghold of the Al-Shabaab.
The envoy also warned of the likelihood of parties trying to spoil the progress achieved so far by trying to hold "the political process hostage to further their own political and personal ends."
"There will always be a place for vibrant discourse and spirited disagreement—it is an intrinsic and healthy part of any democratic process. But determined action will be taken against those who are willing to undermine and subvert the process," Mr. Mahiga said. "The international community will simply not tolerate spoilers when we are so close to achieving real progress. After 20 years of strife, Somalia cannot afford more delays, more procrastination."


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Atlanta (Roswell), GA, November 2, 2011—Catholics Come Home® announces a major, national, prime-time network television evangelization initiative, for the first time ever in the 2,000 year history of the Catholic Church, to air from December 16, 2011 through January 8, 2012.
This invitation of the New Evangelization highlights the history, beauty, spirituality and accomplishments of the Catholic Church. The positive message will reach 250 million television viewers in over 10,000 U.S. cities and every diocese throughout the United States, airing over 400 times during the three week period spanning before Christmas through the Feast of the Epiphany, January 8, 2012.
Catholics Come Home® hopes to inspire as many as one million souls to come home to local parishes. This evangelization goal is based on statistical census results from Catholics Come Home® media initiatives that have aired in 30 past partner dioceses, ranging from Chicago to Seattle and Boston to Atlanta. Where these ads have aired, Mass attendance has increased an average of 10%, and helped over 300,000 people home to the Church, just since 2008.
The bi-lingual Catholics Come Home® commercials are scheduled to air on CBS, NBC, Univision, TBS, USA, TNT, CNN, FoxNews, and other networks during shows like 60 Minutes, NCIS, Kennedy Center Honors, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Jay Leno, O'Reilly, major sports, and highly rated sitcoms. Viewers will be directed to their parish and will learn more at CatholicsComeHome.org or CatolicosRegresen.org (Spanish).
According to a recent CARA Catholic Poll (CCP), only 33% of U.S. Catholics attend weekly Mass. That means 42.7 million, or two-thirds of U.S. Catholics, are not going to Mass. The number of Americans identifying themselves as non-religious/secular increased 110% from 1990 to 2000, now 13.2% of the total population. The average American spends 38 hours per week consuming media, with TV and internet being the top two choices. Mormons, Christian Scientists, and Atheists are now advertising.
"These inspiring messages are sponsored by 30,000 Catholic families who want to invite neighbors, relatives, and co-workers to the largest family reunion in modern history" said Founder, Tom Peterson.
CatholicsComeHome.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit media apostolate, dedicated to producing and airing Catholic evangelism television ads on local, national and international television networks.


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EXCLUSIVE VIDEOInside Jenni 'JWoww' Farley's Baby Shower at the Jersey Shore!
Only in the new issue of In Touch Weekly, Mom-to-be Jenni "JWoww" Farley, shares details and photos inside her May 18th baby shower filled with drag queens, junk food and … yes, tons of booze!
"I just wanted everyone to eat, drink and hang out," Jenni, whose expecting a baby girl this July, explains to In Touch, on newsstands now.
"I wanted to stay true to me," for the bash, held in — where else? — Seaside Heights, New Jersey. "The only place I really feel at home is Seaside. It's central and all my family that are here have never been," she tells In Touch.
And all her Jersey Shore casemates joined the seaside celebration! "It was really nice," she tells In Touch about seeing former roommates Deena Cortese, Sammi Giancola and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, who's pregnant with her second child. "It's important because they are family."
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PRESS RELEASE: Line 6, Inc, the industry leader in digital modeling technology for music-creation products, announces MIDI Mobilizer, the only MIDI interface for Apple iPhone and iPod touch.
"We're very excited to announce MIDI Mobilizer, the first MIDI interface of its kind," remarked Marcus Ryle, SVP of New Business Development at Line 6. "It will connect MIDI musicians to the most portable platform ever, and allow them to play, record, and store any MIDI information."
MIDI Mobilizer, a low-profile piece of hardware that fits into the standard 30-pin connector of an iPhone and iPod touch, together with MIDI Memo Recorder, the free app available for download at the Apple App Store, will present MIDI musicians with a host of solutions related to performing, recording and data backup.
MIDI Mobilizer is compatible with millions of pieces of classic and modern MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) devices such as synthesizers, digital pianos, effects processors, and even Line 6 guitar amps and POD® products. Virtually any gear with standard MIDI 5-pin DIN connectors can now be directly connected to an iPhone or iPod touch.
Musicians who rely on computers to store and recall MIDI data during performances will celebrate the ease and reduced setup time afforded by an iPhone or iPod touch, and the simple interface of MIDI Memo Recorder. Plus, no longer will musicians need to travel with the extra weight, bulk and fragility of a computer.
The size and simplicity of MIDI Mobilizer make it ideal for inspiration capture as well as for performance support. Whenever inspiration strikes, MIDI Mobilizer will allow for the capture and review of even the most fleeting of keyboard ideas. Recorded inspirations can then be emailed as an SMF (Standard MIDI File) and opened and edited within virtually any Mac or PC-based digital audio workstation.
MIDI Mobilizer can also be employed as a safety net for performing musicians. During equipment failure, or when using rented gear for a gig, MIDI parameter data stored on an iPhone or iPod touch can be imported into replacement keyboards or other MIDI equipment to quickly restore the exact settings and sounds needed. MIDI Mobilizer is the most portable and affordable solution for transferring MIDI information.
MIDI Mobilizer will ship April, 2010.
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The Terasic TR5-F40W Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit provides the ideal hardware platform for developing high-performance and high-bandwidth application. With a standard-height, half-length form-factor package, the TR5-F40W is designed for the most demanding high-end applications, empowered with the top-of-the-line Intel Stratix V GX, delivering the best system-level integration and flexibility in the industry.
The Stratix® V GX FPGA features 340K logic elements and integrated transceivers that transfer at a maximum of 12.5 Gbps, allowing the TR5-F40W to be fully compliant with version 3.0 of SATA, version 3.0 of the PCI Express standard, as well as allowing an ultra low-latency, straight connections to four external 10G SFP+ modules. Not relying on an external PHY will accelerate mainstream development of network applications enabling customers to deploy designs for a broad range of high-speed connectivity applications. An HSMC expansion port also allows users to connect custom daughter cards such as those found on cards.terasic.com. The feature-set of the TR5-F40W fully supports all high-intensity applications such as low-latency trading, cloud computing, high-performance computing, data acquisition, network processing, and signal processing.
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[High Energy Theory Seminar]Anomalies of Discrete 1-Form Symmetries in QCD-like Theories
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날짜 | 2023-04-05 16:00 |
일시 | April 5 (Wed), 4PM |
연사 | T. Daniel Brennan (University of California, San Diego) |
We are delighted to announce the upcoming High-Energy Theory Seminar by Dr. T. Daniel Brennan visiting us from UC San Diego.
The seminar will take place next Wednesday (April 5) at 4PM and you are all invited to participate.
Speaker: T. Daniel Brennan (University of California, San Diego)
Time: April 5 (Wed), 4PM
Place: E6-2, #2502
Title: Anomalies of Discrete 1-Form Symmetries in QCD-like Theories
Abstract: In this talk we will discuss a new class of non-perturbative anomalies of discrete 1-form global symmetries in 4D QCD-like theories. This generalizes the techniques developed by Wang-Wen-Witten to more general theories that allow for discrete 1-form global symmetries including chiral gauge theories. We will demonstrate several new anomalies and comment on their implication on symmetric mass generation in 3+1D.


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St Sophia Cathedral (Kiev)
St Sophia Cathedral (Kiev) (Ukrainian: Собор Святої Софії, Sobor Sviatoyi Sofiyi or Софійський собор, Sofiys'kyi sobor, Russian: Собор Святой Софии, Sobor Svyatoi Sofii or Софийский собор, Sofiyskiy sobor) is a major and the best known church in the city of Kiev, Ukraine. The cathedral is a part of the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kiev" a Ukrainian State institution responsible for preservation of the cathedral complex. The cathedral dates from the eleventh century. This church is also a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Construction of the cathedral began in 1037 by Yaroslav I the Wise and took two decades to complete. In its original form the cathedral had five naves, five apses, and was surrounded by two encircling galleries. The cathedral was surmounted by thirteen cupolas. The St Sophia was built in honor of the victory over the Pechenegs and showed a desire by Yaroslav to pattern Kiev as the Russian capital after Constantinople and its great cathedral Hagia Sophia. The name Hagia Sophia is from the Greek, meaning '''Holy Wisdom'''.
The cathedral is famous for the mosaics and frescos produced by the Byzantine masters of the eleventh century. The mosaics and frescos are unique in that secular as well as religious subjects are shown. In addition to a large image of the Theotokos and Biblical subjects, the cathedral displays portraits of Yaroslav's family. The belfry displays paintings of scenes of games arranged in Constantinople in honor of the Princess Olga that include representations of clowns, jugglers, dancers, musicians, and other secular subjects. The cathedral is the burial place for a number of princes of Kiev, including Yaroslav, his son Vsevolod, and Vladimir Monomakh.
Over the years the cathedral was damaged many times. In 1169, it suffered pillage by Andrei Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal . In 1240, invading Tatars heavy damaged the cathedral. In disrepair for many years during Tatar occupation, the cathedral came under control of the Greek Catholic Church after the Union of Brest in 1595-96. In 1633, the Orthodox Metropolitan Peter Mogila obtained control of the cathedral and commissioned repair and reconstruction of the buildings. The reconstruction was done under the Italian architect Octaviano Mancini who produced a Baroque style exterior for the cathedral while preserving the splendid byzantine interior, bringing, in 1740, the appearance of St Sophia Cathedral to its present form.
After the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian Empire in 1917, the new government planned the destruction of the cathedral during the 1920s. Through the efforts of many scientists and historians the cathedral was saved, but, in 1934, it was confiscated by the Soviet government that turned it into an architectural and historical museum. St. Sophia remains today as an architectural and historical preserve.
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- Kiev, An Illustrated Guide, Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1987


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Two former Liberal leaders have called for sweeping reforms to political donations following revelations that Treasurer Joe Hockey's campaign fundraising body, the North Sydney Forum, offered VIP meetings to groups including business people and industry lobbyists in return for annual fees of up to $22,000.
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A furious Mr Hockey hit back on Monday, labelling the report "both offensive and repugnant" and denying any suggestion of improper behaviour.
"The Treasurer will not let this distract him from the important task of putting the Budget together. As the matter is now in the hands of lawyers no further comment can be made,'' he said in a statement.
Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser and opposition leader John Hewson both called for "continuous disclosure" of political donations that would require parties to report to the Australian Electoral Commission within days of donations being made.
Dr Hewson went further in calling for a $1000 limit on individual donations, greater public funding and a ban on donations from organisations including businesses and unions.
Mr Fraser said it was "very likely" a federal version of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption was needed as he argued Liberal Party founder Sir Robert Menzies had been determined to keep party fundraising at arm's length from policy-making and politicians.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten offered to work with the government on Monday on any proposal to reform electoral donations as it emerged he will host a fundraiser in Sydney on Thursday for a pre-budget Federal Labor Business Forum event that will cost etween $2500-$3300 a head.
"I make this invitation to Tony Abbott, that if you want to improve transparency of political donations, so does Labor, we will work with you,'' he said.
"The Parliament of Australia should constantly be seeking to improve the election funding rules in this country ... I think like every other Australian we have been nauseated by the toxic revelations out of ICAC about NSW politics."
Mr Abbott played down the significance of Mr Hockey's North Sydney Forum, a fundraising body run by his North Sydney Federal Electoral Conference, offering VIP meetings with the Treasurer in exchange for membership fees ranging from $5500 to $22,000.
The Prime Minister stopped short of committing to the creation of a federal ICAC but vowed he would ensure lobbyists had "no role in the running of political parties".
"All political parties have to raise money and typically you raise money by having events where senior members of the Party go, and obviously, they meet people at these events. The alternative to fundraising in this time-honoured way is taxpayer funding and at a time when we're talking about a very tough Budget indeed, the idea that we should scrap private fundraising and fund political parties through the taxpayer I think would be very, very odd,'' he said.
The former Labor government had agreed a sweeping package of reforms to political donations last May but the legislation was shelved amid an outcry of the changes, which would have seen tens of millions in additional public funding handed to political parties.
Mr Fraser said he was certain Mr Hockey was "totally honest" but that he abhored the system that had developed around donations to political parties.
"If you go back to the [predecessor to the Liberal Party, the] United Australia Party, the people who funded the party thought they could control policy. Menzies was determined that that would not happen. That's why he as founded it fund raising was the responsibility of the organisation, policy and politics the responsibility of members of parliament."
"Public funding and banning private donations to political parties is not necessarily a simply solution...the easier thing is to establish total transparency, and to have that transparency immediate, reporting weekly or every few days."
Dr Hewson said declaring donations every few days would "create a different climate" in politics.
"And if you can't limit it to individual donations to a maximum of $1000 then you just have to go to public funding of elections to have a transparent process. It's the lack of transparency and disclosure that is a fundamental problem,'' he said.
"My preference is to ban all donations by organisations, companies, associations, unions and research bodies, and then limit individual donations to a low maximum. And we need immediate disclosure of donations."
The NSW branch of the Liberal Party has been rocked by recent revelations at the ICAC that have seen Premier Barry O'Farrell resign and a slew of MPs, including two ministers, move to the cross bench amid allegetions of improper links to the controversial infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings, which has in turn been linked to the family of corrupt former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.


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What is the mu variant? It's a version of the coronavirus that was first identified in Colombia in January and has since caused isolated outbreaks in South America, Europe and the United States.
The World Health Organization last month listed it as a "variant of interest" because of concerns it may make vaccines and treatments less effective, though more evidence is needed.
Scientists monitor emerging COVID-19 variants based on suspicious genetic changes and then look for evidence to determine whether the new version is more infectious or causes more severe illness. Viruses evolve constantly and many new variants often fade away.
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So far, the mu variant doesn't seem to be spreading quickly: It accounts for fewer than 1% of COVID-19 cases globally. In Colombia, it may be responsible for about 39% of cases. Most countries remain concerned about the highly contagious delta variant; it is the dominant variant in almost all of the 174 countries where it's been detected.
Officials have been tracking the mu variant in Europe, where it has been seen in about a dozen countries. The French Ministry of Health recently said the mu variant "does not seem to have increased recently" across Europe.
A report from England's public health agency last month suggested the mu variant might be as resistant to vaccines as the worrisome beta variant first seen in South Africa, but said more real-world data was needed.
COVID-19 vaccine boosters are coming but who will get them and when?
WHO officials said the mu variant appears to be rising in some countries in South America, but that the delta variant still spreads far more easily.
The mu variant "is of interest to us because of the combination of mutations it has," said WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove. "But it doesn't seem to be circulating."
The U.S. is "paying attention to it," but it isn't considered an immediate threat, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert.


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Father Staib speaks about the parish and its history.
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The mustard tree was not considered a tree in the times of Jesus, but rather an invasive weed. While some people believed there was no value to the mustard tree, others saw the value of its fruit and reaped the benefits of their harvest. There are many people who do not believe that God is real and relevant in their lives, but to those who have faith He gives the greatest blessings.


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I read an interesting "framing paper" written by two learned scholars from Brookings Institution and Kellogg School of Management. The question they addressed revolved around the change in what they called the "retirement paradigm". I thought you might like to read their paper. They discuss "the risk faced by retirees and offer tractable solutions to improve the American retirement." One suggestion they make are "policies that can help expand the market and encourage, or nudge, people towards buying annuities." Their rationale behind this 'nudge' is worth reading. Let us know if you have any questions, we are always here to help.
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IBM partners with universities on Watson projects
Watson is going to college. Students at seven of the country's top computer science universities will get a chance to try out IBM's famous cognitive computing system as part of new classes set for next fall.
The partnership between Armonk, New York-based IBM and the universities, which was set to be announced Wednesday, will let students use the "Jeopardy!" champion to develop new cognitive computing applications for a variety of industries ranging from health care to finance.
"If they're interested in these kinds of technologies, when they graduate they're going to have a natural proclivity to designing them," says Michael Rhodin, IBM's senior vice president overseeing Watson.
"The logic here is that the next generation of entrepreneurs is in universities today."
The move follows IBM Corp.'s January announcement that it was investing more than $1 billion in Watson, including about $100 million in startup companies working on Watson projects. The investment also includes a shiny new headquarters for the division on the edge of New York City's East Village close to New York University, one of the schools taking part in the project.
The partnership will provide a unique opportunity for the students, who will mostly be seniors and graduate students, because Watson isn't programed like traditional computers.
Instead of relying only on the information that's put into it, Watson learns by "reading" vast amounts of information and combining it with the results of previous work to find answers to problems, making it ideal for data-heavy industries.
As part of the Watson classes, students will be given access to a Watson system that IBM will provide through a cloud. They'll then break into teams and use those resources to build and test their own applications, which will be geared toward a particular industry.
Participating students at the University of Michigan will likely develop their apps in collaboration with the University of Michigan Health Center and specifically its C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, says Eric Michielssen a professor of engineering and computer science, who also serves as associate vice president for advanced research.
It's also possible that the university's business school could get involved to help gauge the commercial potential of the apps, he says.
"Yes, we have a fantastic artificial intelligence group here, but Watson's technologies are very unique," Michielssen says. "This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to use the extraordinary capabilities of Watson."
Student response to the new class has been phenomenal, Michielssen says. The 75 spots for the fall semester filled up within two days and there are currently about 50 students on the waitlist, which is expected to grow.
Besides NYU and Michigan, the schools currently signed up for the program include Carnegie Mellon University, Ohio State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Berkeley.
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I use the Logitech Media Server to stream multi-room audio in our apartment. Lately I wanted to be able to also control the Spotify Plugin from the KNX buttons at home and automate some tasks.
This is a simple user library to allow you to send commands to a player attached to your LMS.
--Functions for Logitech Media Server integration
squeezboxserverip = '192.168.178.2' -- IP of the Logitech Media Server
function unescape(space)
return string.gsub(space, ':', '%%3A') -- the telnet server returns : as %3A
function squeezeboxsendcommand(player,command,value)
local client = socket.connect(squeezboxserverip, 9090)
playercommand = player .. ' ' .. command .. ' '
client:send(playercommand .. value .. '\n')
local result=client:receive()
status = string.sub(result, string.len(unescape(playercommand))) --remove the MAC and command to get to the answer
function squeezeboxstatus(player)
local client = socket.connect(squeezboxserverip, 9090)
playercommand = player .. ' status'
client:send(playercommand .. '\n')
local result=client:receive()
status = split(result, ' ')
--status = string.sub(result, string.len(unescape(playercommand))) --remove the MAC and command to get to the answer
to play a Spotify Playlist you need to add this code to a KNX object.
require('user.squeezebox') --get the user library to access LMS
local player = 'b8:27:eb:ad:6b:c3' --set witch player to access
if (event.getvalue() == true) then
squeezeboxsendcommand(player, 'playlist', 'clear') -- reset any playlist
squeezeboxsendcommand(player, 'playlist add', 'spotify:user:1175125342:playlist:7yCDwOnYZTXFTYymXZxp0t') --get this command from the logs of the LMS when playing the Spotify playlist
squeezeboxsendcommand(player, 'playlist shuffle', 1) -- shuffle, if you want
squeezeboxsendcommand(player, 'play', '') -- now play the list
grp.write('11/6/1', 'Playing Spotify')
squeezeboxsendcommand(player, 'playlist', 'clear')
grp.write('11/4/0', false) --turn off player


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What is a CSR?
When you secure your site with SSL you are creating a trusted connection with your site's users. In order to create this connection, both sides need to verify that they are exactly who they say they are.
This is to prevent certain types of cyber attacks. For example, a so-called "Man-in-the-middle" attack can create a copy of a trusted site that looks exactly like it. When people enter their login details into the site, it simply returns an error. In the meantime, the attackers have already logged into the accounts (using the details submitted through the fake malicious site) and stolen all their information!
This obviously isn't good, so the way a site equipped with an SSL Certificate can stop this from happening is by verifying its identity. Even if an attacker can visually recreate portions of a site, they can never use the same domain name and identifying information as the original site. The more information, the better. That is why certificates with more validation are more trusted.
So, in order to create an SSL Certificate, you need to submit some pieces of information. Here is some of the information that a CSR normally needs, although in the case of EV SSL Certificates, this may be considerably greater:
Distinguished Name (DN) | The domain name that you want to use to make secure connections. |
Business Name (or Organization) | This is the legal name of the organization or company that is applying for the SSL Certificate. It should be written in full and include LLC, Ltd, Inc or Corp, if applicable. |
Organizational Unit | The name of the department that will be handling the certificate. This is usually IT, but it can be any department. |
Town | The town or city where your operations are based. |
County, Region, State or Province | This name should not be abbreviated, but should instead be written in full. |
Country | The ISO country code for your location - e.g. AU, NZ, UK, etc... |
Email contact | A way of reaching a responsible person via email. |
All of this information is encrypted in the CSR and used when you create your SSL Certificate to ensure that nobody is ever able to compromise the security of your connections with your users.