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Fact: Inspection can also mean a night watch; where the structure is observed at dusk in hopes of seeing the bats exit from the primary entrances. This can make exclusion go smoother.
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It's important to complete the bat inspection before taking any kind of action. Wildlife Nuisance Removal Services will inspect your entire home, business, commercial or industrial property for signs of infestation. We will inform you of any bat or other vermin issues we find.
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Fact: It is highly illegal use lethal ways of getting rid of a bat colony. Companies who do are subject to heavy fines, even jail time for those responsible. Live exclusion is the only legal way to remove bats.
The Photo Below Shows An Ineffective Attempt To Exclude Bats With Foam. As You Can See From The Bat Guano The Effort Failed.
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- Bats both large and small are insectivores. A single bat on its routine night feeding can consume about 1000 insects an hour or roughly 6000-8000 insects each and every night, many times being equivalent to their body weight. This is simply the best natural pest control we have on earth! Done our way, every bat will to return to the wild and provide this beneficial service to humans.
- Do not think of bats as vampires. Myths have been running around for centuries that bats will come and suck your blood during the night, but it's simply not true. Bats only feed on insects, nothing else. The only exception is Europe's Vampire Bat who will suck the blood from livestock animals but would never come into contact with a person.
- Bats have a built in sonar hearing capability called echolocation. During feeding routines the bats will emit vocal screeching sounds that create sound waves. The sound will bounce off an object (let's say a mosquito) and come back to the bat's ears, so the bat will know exactly where that mosquito is, and how he's gotta maneuver in order to catch it. It is said bats can detect the number of hairs on a person's head through their echolocation, which remains a theory, but it gives you an idea of the complexity of a bats echolocation hearing capability!
- Bats are colonizing animals in nature by gender specific groups. Female bat colonies are known as maternity colonies. A female bat will give birth to only 1 pup every year, which is a big reason for why bat species are becoming more endangered. On the flip side, male bat colonies are known as bachelor colonies. Bachelor colonies are much fewer in numbers compared to the maternity colonies.
- Bats will bite if handled. They have tiny razor-like sharp teeth and should only be handled by a trained professional who is wearing gloves and exercising care in their handling.
- Bats are not blind. They do have very poor vision, but we have not deemed them legally blind by our standards. Bats are very light sensitive which is why they are nocturnal in nature.
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- Bats In The Attic – When bats invade an attic space they are likely to build up large amounts of guano deposits scattered throughout the attic. Wildlife Nuisance Removal Service can provide attic cleanup when bats make a mess.
- Bats In The Chimney- Bats are very common to invade the chimney area. Many people will get bats flying around in the house when bats are present inside their chimney. This is generally due to an open flu in the chimney.
- Bats In Vents- Vents can be highly attractive to bats because of the drafts protruding from the vents. People will often notice bats in vents when waste begins to accumulate somewhere below the vent area.
- Bats In The House- The hot summer seasons can drive bats to come down from an attic into living areas. Bats do this because the attic becomes too hot for them, so they go lower seeking cooler temps.
- Bats In Church- One of the more common structures for bats to invade are churches. Many times churches have open steeples, welcoming many different creatures including bats. Wildlife Nuisance Removal Service can help.


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Mid-frequency active (MFA) sonar pings were detected this morning (Monday, 2/6/12) on the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network by Jeanne Hyde and signal processing computers. Utilizing online ship tracking data from the Automatic Identification System, Jeanne found the Canadian Naval vessel HMCS Ottawa (MMSI 316195000) entering Haro Strait as she continued to hear "pings" from its SQS 510 (V) mid-frequency active sonar on the live hydrophone located at Lime Kiln State Park. Her experience is detailed on her blog, Whale of a Porpoise.
Here's an example of what she heard: a single ping from the SQS 510 sonar.
Jeanne's recording (below) begins at 04:49 and ends at 05:39. 82 pings occur in the first 38.25 minutes of the recording, resulting in an average ping rate of 1 ping every 28.35 seconds. Extrapolating back to the first automated detection of a ping (at Lime Kiln) at 04:42:50, there were likely at least 14 pings emitted before Jeanne started recording. So, the minimum total number of pings emitted is 96.
41-minute recording of 82 pings (15 Mb mp3 file) by Jeanne Hyde from the Lime Kiln live hydrophone stream
This is the first detection of Canadian MFA sonar on our hydrophone network, and — to our knowledge — the first time Canadian sonar has been used in the U.S. critical habitat of the Southern Resident killer whales, an iconic marine mammal population that is listed as endangered on both sides of the border. While policies guiding Canadian Naval use of mid-frequency sonar in U.S. critical habitat are not clear to us, there is guidance on the web regarding Canadian use of Canadian Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar (at least in the Atlantic).
As a start to evaluating the potential acoustic impacts of this incident, we report here on the preliminary hydrophone and vessel location data collected by the Network during this incident, including: human detections and recordings; automated detections and recordings; and AIS data logged at the Lime Kiln. We are also aggregating information from regional sighting and listening networks about species that may have been ensonified. As additional data and analyses become available, updates will be posted here. Authors of this analysis are bioacoustians: Jason Wood, Research Associate with The Whale Museum; and Scott Veirs, of Beam Reach Marine Science and Sustainability School.
Below are the compressed (mp3) recordings and coarse spectrograms of the sounds that were auto-detected this morning. They begin with a series of low frequency sounds and echoes that may have been from an impulsive source, like a detonation or explosion. Then the series of high-frequency pings occurs between 4:42:50 and 5:08:17 at three network locations: Lime Kiln (13 pings), Port Townsend (1), and Orcasound (1). While we are not yet sure if pings were detected at Neah Bay or on the NEPTUNE Canada hydrophones located near the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, it appears that the sonar ensonified a good portion of the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca and southern Haro Strait.
First there were 4 detections of explosive sounds (3/12/2012 update: 5 detections)
Note of clarification added on 2/9/12 at 13:30: In the following table of audio recording files and spectrogram images, the "node" or hydrophone location is denoted with "lk" meaning Lime Kiln State Park, "os" meaning Orcasound (5 km north of Lime Kiln), and "pt" meaning Port Townsend Marine Science Center. The "dB" label offers an estimate of the 30-second average (RMS) received sound pressure level at the time the recording was triggered, and therefore should not be taken as an indication of the receive level of any particular sound heard within the recording (i.e. an explosion or sonar ping) The trigger label indicates whether the sound was recorded because it was exceptionally loud ("PWR") or because it had the changing pitch and duration typical of a killer whale call ("PKT").
3/12/2012 update — 1 Detection at Orcasound (~5km north of Lime Kiln)
2012-02-06 04:31:05 node=os dB=107 trigger=PWR |
3/12/2012 update — The Lime Kiln recordings were made from a single Reson TC4032 (on both channels in the stereo recordings). The single detection at Orcasound does not match the arrival times of auto-detected explosive-sounds at Lime Kiln within the few seconds that would warrant estimation of the bearing to the source (or at least suggest whether the source was north or south of the hydrophones. The only explanation for the distinct arrival times are: (1) the sound source was too faint to be detected at both locations; (2) the computer clocks were not synchronized to NIST (though software was installed to do so at all hydrophone network locations); or (3) (more likely) something caused the longer-term mean receive level to rise at LK or OS to the point that the PWR trigger threshold was exceeded only at the quieter location when a given explosive-like sound arrived.
2012-02-06 04:32:37 node=lk dB=102 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:33:08 node=lk dB=103 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:38:35 node=lk dB=103 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:39:07 node=lk dB=104 trigger=PWR |
Then there were 14 detections of sonar pings
Note of clarification added on 2/9/12 at 13:30: In the following table of audio recording files and spectrogram images, the "node" or hydrophone location is denoted with "lk" meaning Lime Kiln State Park, "os" meaning Orcasound (5 km north of Lime Kiln), and "pt" meaning Port Townsend Marine Science Center. The "dB" label offers an estimate of the 30-second average (RMS) received sound pressure level at the time the recording was triggered, and therefore should not be taken as an indication of the receive level of any particular sound heard within the recording (i.e. an explosion or sonar ping) The trigger label indicates whether the sound was recorded because it was exceptionally loud ("PWR") or because it had the changing pitch and duration typical of a killer whale call ("PKT").
2012-02-06 04:42:50 node=lk dB=118 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:43:44 node=lk dB=121 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:44:12 node=lk dB=120 trigger=PWR |
False positive deleted… |
2012-02-06 04:44:41 node=lk dB=118 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:45:35 node=lk dB=121 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:46:32 node=lk dB=120 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:47:00 node=lk dB=121 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:48:01 node=pt dB=91 trigger=PKT |
2012-02-06 04:48:52 node=lk dB=119 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:49:22 node=lk dB=120 trigger=PWR |
2012-02-06 04:57:50 node=os dB=126 trigger=PKT |
2012-02-06 04:57:55 node=lk dB=106 trigger=PKT |
2012-02-06 05:05:56 node=lk dB=114 trigger=PKT |
2012-02-06 05:08:17 node=lk dB=115 trigger=PKT |
While it is possible that other vessels were involved in the sounds recorded this morning, the location and public description of the Ottawa are consistent with what was heard. We are particularly curious about the source of the explosive sounds heard before the sonar pings.
According to hazegray.org, the Ottawa is a multi-role patrol frigate (FFH [Cardinal Mark N; Eog BEOFOR, "Ocean Beaver"?]) Halifax class vessel, 134 m long and X 16 m wide, displacing 4,470 metric tons, with maximum speed of 29+ knots and a compliment of 225 sailors. It carries two sonar systems: the hull-mounted mid-frequency SQS-510 and the low-frequency SQR-19(V) w/CANTASS towed array.
AIS systems report that it was last in port in San Diego, has been operating in the north Pacific, and was bound for Esquimalt mid-morning today. The "show track" feature of marinetraffic.com revealed mid-day today this track from 21:15 2/5/12 through 08:52 this morning (2/6/12).
A rough chronology from combining acoustic detections and AIS data (Google spreadsheet embedded below) suggests the following sequence of events. After steaming through the night through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Ottawa slowed down near Race Rocks and turned into the waters south of Victoria. It then reacted — possibly to detonation-like sounds that were auto-recorded at Lime Kiln — and then changed speed and course, began pinging, crossed into U.S. waters, turned northward at near maximum speed, stopped pinging and slowed down as it crossed over Middle Bank, proceeded further north, and then turned back to return to the Canadian waters south of it's home port of Esquimalt.
A 50 millisecond sample of the starting frequencies of an example ping had peak power at 7042 Hz with a secondary peaks at 1523 Hz, 12615 Hz, and 21171 Hz (see figure below from Audacity). The peak power frequency is consistent with the 2-8 kHz frequency range specified for the SQS 510 sonar system, which is manufactured by General Dynamics Canada. Each ping had high intensity receive levels for ~0.5 second duration and pings were separated by about one minute.
Further details regarding the expected source and receive levels from the SQS 510 can be derived from its 1997 description in the book "The Naval Institute guide to world naval weapons systems, 1997-1998." While it is likely that the system has been up-dated since 1997, this general description provides helpful characteristics:
SQS-505/509510/Type 5051
SQS-505 is the standard Canadian surface-ship sonar. Its 36 stave [10 elements/stave] cylindrical transducer (4ft dia x 4 ft) produces 35 10×10-deg beams at 6.4, 7.2, or 8.0 kHz [bandwidth 400 Hz divided into sixteen 25-Hz channels for each beam]. Modes: ODT, triple RDT (TRDT), directional transmission (DT), ASPECT, and swept FM (wide-band mode). Pulse lengths: 2.5, 10, 40, 480 msec. Source level: 126 dB (ODT), 135 dB (TRDT, DT). Signal processing: matched filter with time, function automatic gain control (TFAGC) or incoherent (wide-band) processing. Nominal range is 200-32,000 yd (range scales 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 kyd). Target Doppler can be up to 40 kt. Passive operation: 10 kHz. Track capacity is five targets.
The (V)6 version for the "City" class has new transmitter and receiver (source level 133 dB, pulse length 10 or 40 msec). Active frequencies match those of earlier versions, but passive frequency is reduced to 4.5 kHz and there is a steerable passive mode.
Our next steps are to estimate calibrated receive levels during the event and to gather more information about animals that may have been exposed to harmful sound levels. We may also attempt to estimate the approximate location of the explosive sounds.
In the interim, please report any observations of injured or stranded marine mammals in U.S. waters to NOAA by calling their hotline: 1-800-853-1964. Report unusual behavior or strandings in Candian waters to DFO by calling their hotline: 1-800-465-4336.

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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for coming. I'm honored to be here in East Tennessee. I've got a fond spot in my heart for Tennessee, if you know what I mean. (Applause.) I've got a good feeling about the people in this state, and I want to thank you for coming. I'm -- your congressman, Bill Jenkins, is doing a fine job, by the way. He said, you know, it's time to quit sermonizing and it's time to pass the plate. (Laughter.) I think what he meant was, it's close to voting time, and it's time for you all to go out and vote for the next governor of Tennessee, Van Hilleary. (Applause.)
See, we have a duty in this country to support our freedoms. And one of the ways we support freedom is to vote. We have an obligation as American citizens to vote. So as we're approaching election day, I'm traveling the country reminding Republicans and Democrats and people who don't give a hoot about politics to do their duty and go to the polls. But I've got some suggestions once they get in the box. (Laughter and applause.)
For the good of Tennessee, for the good of the taxpayers of Tennessee, for the good of the schoolchildren in Tennessee, vote Van Hilleary as your governor. (Applause.) And for the sake of making sure the United States Senate and its important seats stays in the hands of a good, honest capable senator, vote for Lamar Alexandar. (Applause.)
I appreciate Meredith Hilleary working so hard with her husband. She's going to be a great First Lady on behalf of the people of Tennessee. (Applause.) I'm pretty good about understanding great First Ladies. (Applause.) The American people are beginning to see why I asked Laura to marry me. She's calm and steady under fire; she's got great, great vision about making sure every child gets educated; she's got a wonderful heart. A lot of people are wondering why she said yes. (Laughter.) But she sends her best to the Hillearys and the Alexanders and the good people of Tennessee. She's doing a fabulous job as our First Lady, and I'm really proud of her. (Applause.)
I'm proud to be up here with two fine United States senators. First, we're going to miss Fred Thompson. (Applause.) He's been a good friend, solid senator. But we're not going to miss him nearly half enough when -- half as much when Lamar Alexander takes his place. (Applause.) I know you join me in sending our best to Fred and expressing our deep appreciation for his great service to the country. (Applause.)
And you sent another good one up there, too, and that's Frist. He's a good man. (Applause.) A good, solid citizen. Both of these men are allies; both of them are doing a great job for all the people of Tennessee. Bill Jenkins is doing a great job for this congressional district, too. He's a reliable voice who cares deeply about the people of East Tennessee. You ought to be proud of his service to you, as well. (Applause.)
I want to thank all the grassroots activists who are here. I want to thank you for what you have done and I want to thank you for what you're going to do, what you're going to do for candidates such as Janice Bowling, who's going to get elected in the congressional district right next door to here. (Applause.) I appreciate Janice. She's a strong voice; she's a solid soul; she'll make a great congresswoman.
I also want to thank my friend, Darrell Waltrip. (Applause.) There he is. (Laughter.) I've known him for quite a while. He's looking younger and I'm looking older. (Laughter.) Keeps asking me whether or not he can drive the presidential limousine. (Laughter.) No. (Laughter.) He's a good, solid man. One of the reasons Hilleary is going to win is because he's going to win the Nascar vote. (Applause.)
I also appreciate Law and Grace and the Singing Sheriffs group for being here. I'm sorry I didn't get here in time to hear you. Just leave your CD at the door. (Laughter.)
But I really want to thank you all and remind you that not only do you have a duty to vote, but if you care about the quality of government in Nashville and in Washington, turn out to vote. (Applause.) Go to your houses of worship, go to your coffee shops, when you get there Monday morning, instead of sitting around worrying about the weather, worry about who the next governor is going to be. Worry about who the next senator is going to be. Talk it up with people who may not pay attention to the politics as much as we do. And don't be afraid to talk up the story of Lamar and Van to Democrats. There's some discerning Democrats out there. They want good government, just like we do. They don't want higher taxes, just like we do. Find those independents that are open-minded and convince them that when you've got good ones, like Van and Lamar, we have a duty in America to support these good people.
We're going to win this election, come Tuesday, because of good, hardworking folks such as yourself, and I'm here to thank you for what you're going to do. (Applause.)
No, there's some reasons -- you know, old Van, he's not what we call a show horse, he's a work horse. He can get the job done. He's a plainspoken fellow. The good thing about him is he doesn't need a poll or a focus group to tell him what to think. (Applause.) He's well-grounded in East Tennessee. He has those values of faith and family. The kind of man you can count on. He's not going to be swayed by the special interests, he's going to do what he thinks is right for all the people of Tennessee. And that's important.
We share a vision about the children of Tennessee, too. It says that every child can learn. You've got to have you a governor who believes every child can learn; somebody who's willing to set high standards and high expectations; somebody who is willing to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations. See, when you have you a governor who believes in not setting high standards you're going to get lousy results. Van Hilleary worked with me and members of the United States Congress to make sure that the federal bill we passed did two things -- provided plenty of money for Tennessee. There's $760 million in federal education money coming your way, thanks to the hard work of your Senators and Van Hilleary. (Applause.)
But that bill that he worked on said two other things: One, we trust the people of Tennessee to chart the path for excellence for every child. We believe in local control of schools, and that's the way he'll be as your governor. (Applause.) And secondly, in return for the money spent, we expect results, don't we. You see, we believe every child can learn; therefore, we expect every child to learn. And therefore, we're going to use accountability to make sure your money is being spent wisely. We use accountability to praise those schools that are meeting expectations so we can thank our teachers. We will use accountability, though, to make sure that no child, not one single child gets trapped in a school which will not teach and will not change. Van Hilleary will work with us to make sure no child is left behind in the state of Tennessee. (Applause.)
Our economy is bumping along, it's not doing as well as it should. After all, we're coming out of a recession, then the enemy hit us. That created a problem which we're overcoming. Then we had another problem -- some of our citizens thought they could fudge the numbers, thought it's okay if they're in positions of responsibility to not tell the truth. I want to thank the Senators, I want to thank Van Hilleary, I want to thank Bill Jenkins for joining me to pass the most comprehensive reform law since Franklin Roosevelt was the President. See, our message today -- my message today is, those who aren't responsible to shareholder and employee, no easy money in America, just hard time.
I want to thank these members for understanding that confidence in our economy depends upon us holding people to account if they're not honest with the people. (Applause.) That's the kind of leadership you need in Nashville, and that's the kind of leadership you've got in Washington.
But we need to do more work on our economy. We need to understand if somebody is looking for work and they can't find a job we've got a problem. Anybody is looking for work and wants to put food on the table, and they can't find work, we need to make sure we've got people in the federal office and the state office who understand job creation. The role of government is not to create wealth; the role of government is to create an environment in which the small business person can grow to be a big business person. (Applause.)
That's why it's important you have somebody in Nashville who understands the role of the small business owner. Seventy percent of new jobs in America are created by small businesses, the entrepreneur. And you better get you somebody as the governor who understands that, who understands policy ought to be to encourage the growth of small business. And one way to do that is to let small business owners and taxpayers keep more of your own money. (Applause.)
That tax relief bill we passed is going to give Tennessee people $27 billion over the next 10 years. That's your money to begin with, by the way. That's not the government's money, it's your money. And when you've got it in your pocket, you're going to demand a good or a service. If you demand a good or a service, somebody is going to produce that good or a service. And when somebody produces that good or a service, somebody is more likely to find work.
You see, if you listen to that other bunch, they're going to say we need to revisit the tax relief. That's Washington, D.C. code for we're going to get back in your pocket. (Laughter.) Tax relief was good for our economy, it's going to be good for our economy; it's going to be good for the working people. And we need to make tax relief permanent. (Applause.)
No, I look forward to working with Van to do a lot of things to help Tennessee -- make sure that welfare system works. Part of the welfare reform that worked and something that needs to go forward is to have a governor work with the Congress to help people find work. See, when you work you find dignity. If you want to help people get off welfare, if you want to help them help themselves, you help them have the skills necessary to work. Work needs to be the central core of any good welfare policy. (Applause.)
And Van Hilleary understands that. No, when you put Van Hilleary in office, you're going to be putting a good man in office, a man who's going to work hard to represent all the people of Tennessee; a man who will make you proud as governor; a man with whom I can work; and a man who will represent that office, that high office, with class and dignity. I'm here to urge the good people of East Tennessee to turn out to vote next Tuesday and put Van Hilleary in as governor of the great state. (Applause.)
And I need Lamar up there in Washington, too, and so do you. He's got a great record for Tennessee. People know that he is what we call a class act. When given the responsibilities, he handled his business well. More importantly, he cares deeply about the all the citizens to this state. Lamar is going to make a great United States senator, and there's a lot of things we can work together on. Whether it be education -- of course, he's an expert on that subject -- or whether it be making sure our economy grows, I know we'll have a strong ally, and the people will have a strong ally in Lamar Alexander.
Oh, there's some things we need to work on like making sure the health care system works. We need his vote up there to make sure that you've got affordable and accessible health care. We need his vote up there to make sure the Medicare system works. There are too many lawsuits these days which are driving up the cost of medicine and driving doctors out of the practice of medicine. (Applause.) We want the system to work. We want our people to have access to the courts, of course, but these frivolous and junk lawsuits are running these docs out of business, running up your price of medicine. We need to have medical liability reform at the federal level, and Lamar Alexander will vote that way. (Applause.)
And we've got to make sure Medicare works. Medicine is becoming modern, technology is changing medicine, new discoveries have changed medicine. But Medicare isn't modern, it's stuck in the past. Just ask the seniors. We need Lamar Alexander in the United States Senate to work to modernize Medicare, which means prescription drug benefits for our senior citizens. (Applause.)
And I need him up there, along with Senator Frist, to make sure that our judiciary works properly. (Applause.) We can't get our judges through the United States Senate. There is a vacancy problem in our federal courts. Too many of our benches have got vacancies, which means you can't get access to the courts. They're playing politics with the judges in Washington, D.C. They don't like the fact that I'm naming good, honorable, decent people who will not use the bench from which to legislate, but from which to interpret the United States Constitution. (Applause.)
No, there's a lot of issues we can work on to make America better for everybody. The biggest issue we'll work together on is to secure our homeland, is to prevent the American people from coming under attack again by a bunch of cold-blooded killers. (Applause.) These people hate us because of what we love. And we love freedom, and we're not going to change. (Applause.)
I asked Congress to join me in a creation of a department of homeland security. I did so because I want all the agencies involved with protecting you to be under -- to have as their priority protection of the American people, and if need be, change cultures so people get it in their head that there's still an enemy out there which lurks around, so we can coordinate better. The House of Representatives, thanks to Van and Jenkins, supported me on a good bill. The bill is stuck in the Senate. This bill is stuck in the Senate, in spite of the good efforts of Fred Thompson and Bill Frist. And the reason it is was because the Senate wants me to give up a power that Presidents since John Kennedy has had, which is the capacity to suspend certain work rules, certain collective bargaining rules in the name of national security.
I won't accept a lousy bill out of the Senate. I need a bill to put the right people at the right place at the right time to protect the American people. (Applause.) Under some senators' vision, I would have the capacity to make national security decisions in Agriculture Department, but not in the department of homeland security. That don't make any sense to me, and I know it doesn't make any sense to you. We need Lamar Alexander and we need to change the United States Senate. (Applause.)
But the best way to secure the homeland is to chase the killers down, one at a time, and bring them to justice, what America is going to do. (Applause.) We've got them on the run, and we're going to keep them on the run. And one of the reasons we've got them on the run is we've got a fantastic military. (Applause.)
I signed a good defense bill, thanks to the Senators and thanks to Van and Bill Jenkins, a good defense bill that pays our people, equips our people and trains our people the way you want them. We've got to get them the best pay, the best training and the best possible equipment. (Applause.) We owe that to the loved ones. We owe that to our troops. But we're also sending a clear signal to friend and foe that we're in this deal for the long haul. We love freedom. It doesn't matter how long it takes to defend America and to protect our freedoms, we're going after them, one at a time. (Applause.)
And we're making progress. Sometimes you'll read about it, and sometimes you won't. Sometimes you'll see the fact that somebody got hauled in, and sometimes it's just not going to make it on to your radar screen. But make no mistake about it, there's no cave deep enough, no corner of the world dark enough to prevent the long arm of justice from the United States to reach them around the world. (Applause.)
And the reason I feel so strong about it is that I recognize we're living in a different world today than we were last -- prior to September the 11th. It's a different world because no longer can we be content with the fact that two oceans protect us from danger. It used to be that we don't have to worry about some potential threat overseas because oceans protected us. It used to be we could pick or choose whether or not we wanted to be involved. But at home we were confident we were okay because of oceans, because of our geography. And that changed on that fateful day. Therefore, it's very important for you to elect people to office who are clear-eyed realists, people who see the world the way it is, not the way we would hope it to be.
And that's the reason why I started the debate in our Congress and amongst the American people, in fact, in the world community, about the threat to America and threat to our friends and allies from Mr. Saddam Hussein. He's a dangerous man. He told the world he wouldn't have weapons of mass destruction -- 11 years ago he said that. He's got them. We found out a while ago that he was close to having a nuclear weapon. We dismantled that when he used to let inspectors in. We don't know where he stands today, but we know what's in his mind. We know the implications of him having a nuclear weapon.
We know that this is a man who has chemical weapons, and we know he's used them. See, he's used them. He hasn't stockpiled them, he's used them in his neighborhood, and he's used them on his own people. We know he can't stand America. We know he can't some of our closest friends. We know that he has had contacts with terrorist networks like al Qaeda. And we know, clearly, that one of the dangers we face is him serving as a training ground and an arsenal for one of these shadowy terrorist networks, which could come home, come home here. And so he's a danger.
I went to the United Nations because I want that body to be effective to help us keep the peace. I said to the United Nations, this man has defied you 16 times. How long is it going to take for you to show some backbone so we can work together to keep the peace? (Applause.) You have a choice to be the United Nations, which is an effective body to keep the peace, or the League of Nations. That's your choice to make.
And Saddam Hussein has a choice. He can disarm like he said. He can get rid of his weapons of mass destruction. But if the United Nations won't act, and if Saddam Hussein won't disarm, this country, in the name of peace and in the name of freedom, will lead a coalition to disarm Saddam Hussein. (Applause.)
I say that as a man who longs for peace. I say that as a man who knows the stakes. I say that as a man who's not going to forget September the 11th, 2001, or the attack on a French vessel recently, or the attack in Bali, Indonesia. I say this as a man who is briefed on a daily basis about the threats we face in America. I say this as a man who is absolutely confident that out of the evil done to America can come some good, because I understand the nature of this country. I believe if we remain the course and stay strong and diligent and focused, and remember that freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to the world, that we can achieve peace. (Applause.) That we can have a peaceful world.
I believe out of the evil done to America we can achieve peace if we're strong and diligent and focused, not only here at home, but, because we value each life, everybody counts, in parts of the world which have quit on peace. I believe peace is possible if we're tough and strong in the Middle East. I believe peace is possible in South Asia. And I know at home, out of the evil done to America can come a more compassionate and better country.
See, government can help, and we will -- we'll all work on laws to make things better. But what government cannot do is put love in people's hearts, or a sense of purpose in people's lives. And amongst our plenty we've got to remember there are some who hurt, some who are lonely, some who are addicted, some who are wondering whether the American Dream is meant for them. I'm optimistic that out of the evil done to this country can come a better day where everybody understands the great promise of this country, because I know the strength of America, and the strength of America is in the hearts and souls of our fellow citizens. If you want to fight evil, if you want to be a patriot, love a neighbor just like you'd like to be loved yourselves. (Applause.)
Today I met Kathy Henderson. She's an active volunteer at Central Heights Elementary School. She decided she wanted to be part of the army of compassion, she wanted to make a difference in somebody's life. So she's helping young children learn to read. There's all kinds of ways where we can change America for the better -- whether it be Boy Scouts, or Girl Scouts, or Boys and Girls Clubs, or mentoring like Kathy. She asked me to say she needs volunteers, by the way, on the Read Along With Me program. You can do it by just telling somebody you love them, a shut-in, that you love them. You can help feed the hungry, you can house the homeless. There's all kinds of ways we can help.
No, the enemy had no idea who they were hitting. Oh, they probably thought we'd file a lawsuit or two. (Laughter.) They didn't realize America like we know. The spirit of America is alive and well. It's the spirit which says, when it comes to the defense of our country, we'll be plenty tough. But the spirit also says that a patriot is somebody who is willing to serve something greater than themselves. A patriot is willing to help somebody who hurts.
No, I boldly predict to you that out of the evil done to America is going to come a more peaceful world. And out of the evil done to America will become a more hopeful America. Because this is the greatest country, full of the finest people on the face of the Earth.
Thank you for coming today. May God bless, and God bless America. (Applause.)
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Source: Pa. lawmaker gets positive COVID test at Trump meeting
Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House to discuss efforts to overturn president-elect Joe Biden's victory in the commonwealth.
A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Donald Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press.
Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano had gone to the White House last Wednesday with like-minded Republican state lawmakers shortly after a four-hour-plus public meeting that Mastriano helped host in Gettysburg — maskless — to discuss efforts to overturn president-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state.
Trump told Mastriano that White House medical personnel would take care of him, his son and his son's friend, who were also there for the Oval Office meeting and tested positive. The meeting continued after Mastriano and the others left, the person said.
The person spoke to the AP on Sunday on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private session because the matter is politically sensitive.
Positive coronavirus cases are surging across the United States and the nation's top infectious disease expert said Sunday that the U.S. may see "surge upon surge" in the coming weeks. The number of new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States topped 200,000 for the first time Friday.
Everyone who will be in close proximity to the president must take a rapid test. Trump was himself hospitalized in October after he contracted the virus. Dozens of White House staffers and others close to the president have also tested positive, including the first lady and two of the president's sons.
All participants in Wednesday's meeting took COVID-19 tests, but the positive results were not announced until they were in the West Wing of the White House, the person said.
"The president instantly called the White House doctor in and he took them back to, I guess, the medical place," the person said. The meeting with Trump was to strategize about efforts regarding the election, the person said.
After Mastriano and the others left, the discussion with Trump continued for about a half-hour. Mastriano did not return to the meeting.
Mastriano sought the meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Policy Committee earlier Wednesday that drew Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, a second Trump lawyer, several witnesses and a crowd of onlookers. Only a few of them were masked.
The committee let Giuliani and others, for several hours, air their beliefs that there had been problems with how the Pennsylvania vote was conducted and counted. All claims were baseless; no evidence was presented to support any of the allegations they made.
Trump even participated, calling from the White House while one of his lawyers held a phone up to a microphone. He reiterated the same unfounded claims of fraud he's been tweeting about for weeks.
Those beliefs have persisted despite Trump losing repeatedly in state and federal courts, including a Philadelphia-based federal appeals court's decision Friday that said the Trump campaign's "claims have no merit," and a state Supreme Court decision Saturday that threw out a legal challenge to the election and effort to stop certification of its results.
Mastriano, a conservative from a rural district in central Pennsylvania and outspoken Trump supporter, did not return several messages left Sunday seeking comment.
Republican state Sen. Dave Argall, who chairs the policy committee, declined Sunday in a text message to discuss Mastriano's medical condition and the White House visit.
"I've received some conflicting information that I'm trying to resolve," Argall said in the text. "It's my understanding a Senate statement later today will help us all to understand this better."
Argall said he would not talk publicly about the matter "until I know more."
Senate Republican spokeswoman Kate Flessner declined comment, describing it as a personnel matter.
The person with knowledge of the White House visit said several people rode in a large van from Gettysburg, where the policy committee met in a hotel, to the White House. Mastriano, his son and his son's friend drove in another vehicle.
It's not clear why Mastriano's son and his friend accompanied the state senator to the meeting, which the person said was also attended by Trump and the president's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who tested positive in early November.
Mastriano has aggressively opposed policies under the administration of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and keep people safe.
He has led rallies where he advocated to reopen businesses despite the risk of infection and he has repeatedly and sharply denounced Wolf's orders. Mastriano also spoke to a few thousand Trump supporters who gathered outside the Capitol on Nov. 7, hours after Democrat Joe Biden's national win became evident.
Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in Washington contributed to this report.
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When I first began working as a blogger, b5Media was at the top of my list of places to work. I mean, Liz Strauss, Brian Clark and Darren Rowse, all bloggers I looked up to, were part of b5Media. As someone who wanted to make a name for myself as a blogger, I felt this was a positive step in the right direction. My little freelance writing jobs blog was doing OK, I had some lucrative freelance writing clients, I just started working for About.com as their guide to Weblogs, a b5 gig was the icing on the cake…and I got in.
Good people, a good vibe…burnout
I dug the vibe. I made many friends and I learned a lot, especially with Darren Rowse's regular blogging lessons. There was one problem; in order to bring in a decent paycheck I had to work my butt off. My goal with b5 was to work with the best bloggers in the business so I could learn to build my own stuff. However, the more I blogged for b5, the less time I had for my own blog.
Something interesting was happening though. I was writing over 100 blog posts per month for four different b5Media blogs and earning more with my own stuff. I was also beginning to burn out. Trying to make monthly quotas and traffic bonuses was taking its toll. Little by little I began letting my b5 blogs go and when I was offered a full time job as Community Manager at BlogTalkRadio, I gave it up for good.
b5Media made me realize my biggest blogging mistake. I spent so much time building up someone else's brand, I wasn't paying attention to my own. My freelance writing blog was doing well… damn well. If I had invested all those hours I put into someone else's stuff into my own, it probably would have hit years ago.
The beginning of the end
Soon after I left , b5Media laid off many of their bloggers, cut pay for many more, and ceased production on many of their smaller blogs. Partners were fired. Some popular b5 bloggers were hired full time to continue popular blogs or blogs left behind by fired bloggers. Speculation and nastiness ensued around the web. As I watched b5 change from this happy, bloggy commune to a content portal I was sad for my friends at b5 but happy I made the right decision. The whole community element was gone. Everything I dug about the place was gone.
Better off blogging for myself
Don't get me wrong, I learned a lot. However, it was sad to see such a once mighty and promising blog network crumble. It also made me think about my own blog which was being built into a network. Though I don't rely on VC funding or a board of directors, will it last? Will we continue to grow? I hope so.
I think b5Media's downfall was that they were too big. They opened blog after blog after blog. They didn't take the time to build and grow one blog at a time, it was an all or none effort. Beyond the above-referenced A-listers, most blog readers would be hard pressed to name many b5Media blogs or bloggers. The names aren't as important as the brand. Now b5Media is as impersonal as it gets.
I'm in a better place now. I am grateful for my b5Media experience, but realize that if I put the energy into my own stuff that I put into theirs, my blogs would have started earning and growing years ago. I understand this isn't an option for everyone, but it's a good personal reminder.
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The world faces urgent challenges in the coming decades as climate change and a growing population make many of our current systems of production unsustainable. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway and former director general of the World Health Organization, addressed the 800 experts, leaders, scientists and professionals from 500 companies and over 80 countries attending the three-day event. She said: "There is no turning back. The need for private sector engagement is stronger than ever. We cannot solve all the challenges without the resources, the expertise, the technology and brain power of business." Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler Group, said: "We are ready to accept the challenge and in fact we are convinced that this is a pathway to building sustainable businesses delivering sustainable solutions. But we are running out of time. That is why we have increased our sustainability goals: our aim is to reduce energy requirements, water consumption, and waste by 50 percent in our customers' value chains. No business can do this alone. We need widescale collaboration from every sector and part of the world."
Bühler's second Networking Days in Uzwil took place under the motto "Creating tomorrow together" and provided a forum for manufacturers, industry partners, scientists and start-ups to share ideas and inspire each other, focusing on the key questions: How can we feed a global population of nearly 10 billion people and help fulfill their mobility needs in 2050 whilst respecting the limits of the planet?
Industry must become part of the solution
"The challenges have accelerated dramatically. The world today is better, in many respects, than ever before. Yet the progress we have made comes at too high a price. We are using nature's resources faster than our planet's ecosystems can regenerate. We now have just 10 years to prevent irreversible damage from climate change," said Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler Group. "But today we have the opportunity to make a real difference and shift course. Business has to be part of the solution."
The earth's population is predicted to grow to 9.8 billion by 2050, with 70 percent living in urban areas. These shifts will put a strain on food and transport systems unless we make fundamental changes. Speaking at the event, Sunny Verghese, Group CEO of Olam International Limited and chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, underlined the importance of the challenges: "You cannot produce the food, feed, and fiber that all of us need if we destroy the planet," he said. "There has to be an alternative way to do this on a more sustainable basis. Business as usual will not get us there so do not accept the status quo."
Good reason for optimism
The combined potential for change embodied by the businesses present at the Bühler Networking Days is enormous. Together they feed 4 billion people and provide mobility for 1 billion every day – a powerful lever for change. The food of the future could well be grown in the fermentation tank, rather than in the field and ocean. Both disruptive new companies and incumbents are investing to address the consumer needs of today and the future. They are developing new technologies using biomanufacturing and digital advances to revolutionize agriculture and increase yields to meet the world's nutritional needs within the environmental boundaries.
Saint-Gobain, representing the building and construction sector, brought the perspective of heavy industry. "The built environment is one of the most emitting sectors, responsible for one third of the CO2 emissions in the world," said Patrick Dupin, CEO of Saint Gobain Northern Europe. His company's approach of pricing CO2 into innovation and investment projects was given as an inspiration for participants from other sectors. In mobility, participants shared ideas on how to achieve sustainability goals with advances in battery technology, shared mobility, and the development of autonomous vehicles, enabled by new digital technologies and increasing connectivity.
Actions taken by participants at Bühler Networking Days can have a significant impact. "In this room we have convened people that influence the three most important levers to make a change to carbon emissions," said Ian Roberts, chief technology officer of Bühler. A third of global CO2 emissions are created by buildings, a third by mobility and a third by agriculture – the major players from each of these sectors were present at Bühler's Networking Days 2019.
Digital technology and collaboration – the key ingredients
A theme throughout the event was the power of digitalization to help meet these challenges. "Digitalization has changed the world. It allows completely new technical solutions, changes how we collaborate, communicate, and innovate. It is changing and disrupting our lives and, crucially, can help us to meet our sustainability targets," said Ian Roberts. Bühler is already leveraging the power of IoT, Artificial Intelligence and big data to enable faster, smarter, better decisions. Bühler Insights, the first cloud platform dedicated to the food and feed industry, is helping to drive up yields, reduce waste, and improve food safety.
"Technology has a huge role to play," said Ian Roberts. "But it cannot solve these challenges alone. We also need to think and work across value chains and systems. We cannot achieve our targets by working in isolation. Collaboration is no longer an option – it must be a core competence in all businesses." Bühler is already creating networks with industry partners, research institutes, universities, startups and not-for-profit organizations to broaden and deepen the knowledge and expertise focused on solving these challenges. Through its 29 application and training centers it has created a worldwide network for innovation.
This view was echoed by Stefan Palzer, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Nestlé Global, who said that his company—the world's largest food company—has launched an accelerator this year and opened it labs and its expertise to startups, to help them advance more quickly to valid prototypes.
The first collaboration is agreed
The Bühler Networking Days 2019 provided the opportunity for much networking across and within industries, and was the impetus for new collaborations. After just one day it bore fruit: MassChallenge, the largest global startup accelerator and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, announced at the event that they had agreed to collaborate to identify climate change solutions. Minutes later, One Young World, a not-for-profit that promotes young leaders, offered their support. John Harthorne, founder of MassChallenge, said: "We will each get more value and impact out of the collaboration than we could get as individual entities." Sunny Verghese, chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, said "What I like about Networking Days is it's not all about Bühler; it's about bringing us all together."
How to become part of the solution
No one could embody better the sense of purpose shared by participants at Bühler Networking Days than Isabel Wijsen. At the age of 10, she and her sister founded a campaign group in their home, Bali, to tackle the issue of plastic waste. Bye Bye Plastic Bags succeeded in getting single-use plastic bags banned on the island and has since gone global – a perfect demonstration of the power and determination of young people to make change.
Bühler recognizes the potential in its own employees and already provides a platform for them to contribute their ideas about how the company should develop in future through Generation B. Kate Robertson, co-founder of One Young World, said: "When you see a company as efficient, as innovative, as driven as Bühler taking their young talent seriously, you begin to see what the world of business can actually do."
Closing the event, Stefan Scheiber underscored the need to hand over a better world to future generations. "We recognize the urgency of the challenges and have dramatically increased our sustainability commitments. It is now our goal to reduce energy, waste and water by 50% in all our future solutions, and make a significant impact in the value chains of our customers," he said. "As industries, companies and individuals, we all have to ask ourselves, today, how we can become part of the solution. We hope that Bühler Networking Days 2019 will be seen as a turning point. The challenges are demanding, but we can do it."


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The 2-day fest takes place on Hill Farm in Steventon, on July 19th and 20th. Tickets are priced £20 before July 1st, or £25 thereafter.
Bands from the Truck stable are set to appear as always: Goldrush (with ex-Ride man Mark Gardner this time), Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia, Fonda 500, KTB & The Will Bartlett Orchestra, Black Nielson etc...
Other bands confirmed so far include:
British Seapower
Butterflies of Love
Chris T-T
Fionn Regan
Vic 20
The Young Knives
Dive Dive (ex-Dustball)
Edible Five Foot Smiths
Lots and lots more to confirm, including some headliners. There will be DJs and all that. For more details on the festival and its history, check out www.truckrecords.com
We'll bring you updates as they happen.


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What are the differences (if any) in anti-reflective, anti-fingerprint, anti-smudge, and anti-glare?? Every piece of information I find ends up as a sales pitch. Can you clarify things for me?
Touch guy thought that the new fad of taking and sharing selfies meant everyone wanted to see themselves (a lot), so he wonders why there are so many requests for anti-reflective/anti-fingerprint films (AR/AF) on his products. He is so out-of-touch (haha). Ok, enough cracking myself up.
What customers want when they ask for AR coatings is to reduce the ability to see oneself when looking at the display, especially when you are outside. Ultimately, AR coatings make the display easier to see.
In legacy touch products, glare reduction was done using anti-glare (AG) coatings. AG treatments are made by either coating the touch surface with silica "bumps" or lightly etching the glass. The result is that some of the light hitting the touch surface is diffused or scattered, and not reflected back at the user. This was good enough for 25 years of touch technology.
Then along comes Apple and their beautiful high-resolution display to upset the cart. To preserve that super display image, polished glass was used on the iPhone instead of the traditional AG treatment. It is kind of OK for mobile devices because you can tilt the surface to reduce reflections, but less easy to "fix" on bigger devices such as pads.
So the market is asking for something that reduces reflections but preserves that pretty little picture on the display. This has traditionally been done using anti-reflection treatments. Reflection reduction can be achieved in a number of ways, including moth-eye treatments, circular polarizers, eliminating the reflective surface, or that which I will talk about, multi-layer thin film interference coatings.
AR thin film treatments work by "trapping" the light. OK, English majors, stay up with me here….if you took a physics class you know that most energy can be represented by a wave of peaks and valleys (sine pattern). In your physics class you probably also played with a 3 by 5 card with slits, or (as touch guy did) a wave generator made of Popsicle sticks which showed that light can "cancel" itself. Angstroms wide thin films, made up of multiple layers of transparent materials, are put down (on the touch surface) to a precise thickness relative to a visible wavelength (550nm) so that light (from your smiling face) passes into the thin film, reflects on the touch surface, and then is reflected back on itself by the thin film, and, as if by magic, the reflection is gone (canceled). Another benefit of AR coatings is that because the light is not reflected, much more light from the display passes through the AR coating so the display is actually brighter. (OK, physics majors, I know this is not a complete explanation, but I might have lost most readers by now)
Touch Guy finds that customers want less than 1% of the light (your pretty face) to be reflected, and that is pretty commonly (though still not cheaply) achieved. If you have enough money (and don't mind parting with a chunk of it), you can get an AR stack to have less than 0.1% reflection. It used to be that only a few companies could make production quantities of AR coated material but the demand for this stuff has dramatically reduced the cost and increased the number of suppliers, both on plastic and glass.
There are two problems with AR coatings on touch screens. The fingerprint problem has been fixed with anti-fingerprint (AF) coatings. Recalling the description above, you know that the thin film coating must be the precise thickness of a light wave (say ¼ of the width) to work. Along comes your dirty, oily fingertip, laden with hand cream, to touch the screen. Boom, the oil you left on the AR coating has changed the thickness of the coating which reduces the ability to trap the light and most often shows up as a fingerprint. AF coatings work by resisting the ability of the oil on your finger to "stick" to the AR coating; these are called hydrophobic (fear of water) coatings. Of course, for the AR coating to work, the AF coating must be built into the precise thickness of the thin-film stack. Touch Guy is not impressed with the aftermarket spray-on AF coatings over AR stacks. Not impressed at all.
AR problem number two is that it wears off…think about it, angstroms thick material in an abrasive and chemically active environment, and you have limited time before its anti-reflection properties go away, especially on frequently touched areas. There seem to be two solutions…the first is that the AF coating on the AR stack is made of (secret) tough material that will wear-off your fingertip (just kidding) before it gives up. The other is to use thicker, but less effective (2% reflection) organic AR coatings, that seem to have better resistance to finger wear.
Another way around the AR wear problem is to eliminate the reflective surfaces in the first place. Touch International is a big supplier of optically bonded (touch panel to display) products which increased the ruggedness of the display while eliminating the internal reflections. An AG coating and an optically bonded p-cap touch panel eliminates the wear, and anti-fingerprint issues, with only a minor loss in display sharpness. And the new p-cap+ product has a secret method of AR reduction.
Until next time,
Touch Guy


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By Lynn Stuter
January 13, 2009
On January 8, 2009, with no objection being raised, Congress — House and Senate — voted unanimously to certify the Electoral College.
Not one legislator, Republican or Democrat, Senator or Representative, could or did refute even one of the undisputed facts concerning the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to the office of president under Article II, Section 1, United States Constitution. Not one!
Those undisputed facts are as follows:
Barack Hussein Obama has not been vetted or certified eligible to the
office of president of the United States by any agency tasked to do so
or authorized to do so.
2. Not one American citizen, not one Senator, not one
Representative has seen, touched or examined Barack Hussein Obama's
vault copy Hawaii birth certificate. While October 31, 2008, Dr Chiyome
Fukino, Department of Health, Hawaii, issued
a press release in which she stated that she had "seen and verified"
that a Hawaii birth certificate for Obama did exist; she did not state
what was on it nor did she state that it showed that Obama was born in
3. The Certification of Live Birth (COLB) that Obama
has been waving about is not a "birth certificate" as he claims,
as the mainstream media claims, as FactCheck.org
and FighttheSmears.com
claims. The COLB is a short form, computer printed document deriving the
information printed thereon from a database of information supposedly
(See #13 and #14 below) taken from the original long form vault copy Hawaiian
birth certificate.
4. Factcheck.org claims to be a non-partisan organization.
Factcheck.org is funded by the Annenberg
Foundation on whose board Obama sat. Factcheck.org is about as non-partisan
as is Obama. The Annenberg Foundation has never passed up a chance to
fund a "progressive" (a.k.a., Marxist) cause.
5. Hawaii has a law, HRS
338-17.8, which allows for the birth registration of a child born
in a foreign country so long as one parent is a U.S. citizen and so long
as that parent claimed Hawaii as his or her permanent residence for one
year prior to the birth. Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama met both of these
6. If Obama was born in Hawaii, he is, at best, a dual
citizen. At his birth, his father was a British subject as Kenya was a
British colony. Dual citizenship precludes Obama from eligibility under
Article II, Section 1, United States Constitution. Prior cases decided
by the United States Supreme Court, involving the determination of "natural
born" have used Vattel's "The
Law of Nations" definition which states, "The natives,
or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who
are citizens." (Part
I, Chapter 19, Section 212). Factcheck.org states that Obama was a
citizen at birth.
7. If Obama was born in Kenya, he was, at birth, a British
subject as Kenya was a British colony. American law, at that time, required
that Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama be a minimum
of 19 years of age at his birth to confer to him her American citizenship
if he was born outside the United States; she was only 18 years old when
Obama was born.
8. Barack Hussein Obama's paternal step-grandmother
has stated before witnesses, said witnesses signing affidavits, that she
was witness to the birth of Obama in Kenya. See here,
and here.
9. Michelle Obama has stated that Barack Hussein Obama
was adopted
by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen.
10. When Barack Hussein Obama was registered at the Fransiskus
Assissi Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia, his father was listed
as Lolo Seotoro; his citizenship as Indonesian; his name as Barry Soetoro.
11. When Stanley Ann (Dunham) Soetoro divorced Lolo Soetoro
in 1980, the
divorce papers show they had two children: one minor child (Maya),
one over 18 (Barack).
12. When Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, became
an Indonesian citizen, his British citizenship would have been terminated;
if he was born in Hawaii, also his American dual citizenship. Indonesia
does not allow for dual citizenship.
13. Returning to the COLB.
This document, as waved about by Obama, may be authentic on its face (See
#14), but it is not accurate. Were it accurate, it would show Lolo Soetoro
as his father; his name as Barry Soetoro.
14. The COLB
Obama waves about lists the race of his biological father as "African."
African is not a race any more than American is. This brings into question
the authenticity of the COLB Obama is waving about as his "birth
15. If Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, did become
an American citizen, he became a naturalized American citizen which precludes
him from eligibility under Article II, Section 1, United States Constitution.
There has been no proof presented that he is even a naturalized American
16. Barack Hussein Obama has multiple aliases: Barry
Soetoro, Barry Dunham, Barry Obama, Barack Soetoro, Barack Dunham. When
he registered with the American Bar Association, he listed none of these
as is required by law. Unless he had his name legally changed to Barack
Hussein Obama after his adoption, of which there has been no proof presented,
Barry Soetoro is his real name and Barack Hussein Obama is an alias.
17. All his passport records, education records, medical
records, birth records have become "not available" to the
public. Those records show where he was born, if he applied for or received
aid as a foreign student, the country or countries from which he has received
18. His selective
service registration appears to be fraudulent. If he was a naturalized
American citizen when he turned 18, and he failed
to register with the selective service, he is barred from holding
any position in government, elected or otherwise.
19. If he is not even a naturalized citizen, he is barred
from holding any elected office.
20. If he is not even a naturalized citizen, he is an
illegal alien.
When Senators and Representatives are elected to service their fellow
Americans in Washington, DC, they take an oath of office to "support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic." That oath ends with "So help me God."
Following are some of the responses American citizens received from their elected representative to Washington, DC.
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA):
Without a doubt, Congress has the responsibility to uphold the Constitution, including assuring that our elected officials meet the requirements of the job. As you point out in your letter, one must be a natural-born citizen of the United States in order to serve as the president. There have been a few cases brought before the courts in various states that address concerns about the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. None of these cases have been taken up by the courts. It is my understanding that Obama's birth certificate has been certified as being authentic and as placing his birth in Hawaii. I thank you for bringing this concern to my attention and wish to assure you that I support transparency for the records of all candidates but especially for a job as grave as the President of the United States.
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA):
The United States Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen of the United States. Senator Obama's campaign provided his birth certificate to the media amid allegations that he did not meet this qualification. The certificate, confirmed by the Hawaii Department of Health as authentic, shows that he was born in Hawaii. There are a number of lawsuits pending on this matter, and I will be following the outcomes of the cases closely.
Representative Wally Herger (R-CA):
As you know, some questions have been raised about whether President-elect Obama is a natural born citizen. There was a recent lawsuit arguing that he is not eligible for the Presidency for this reason. I understand that the Supreme Court considered hearing this lawsuit, but it ultimately turned down the request to have the case before the full court. I also understand that the director of Hawaii's Department of Health recently confirmed that President-elect Obama was born in Honolulu and has said that she has personally verified that her agency has his original birth certificate on record. Although I value your concern, and I will continue to monitor this issue, I do not believe that sufficient evidence has been brought to light at this time to conclude that President-elect Obama is ineligible for the office.
Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL):
As you may know, a voter recently raised this issue before a federal court in Pennsylvania. On October 24, 2008, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania released an order in the case of Berg v.Obama. In that case, the plaintiff, Phillip Berg, raised the same issue that your letter raises regarding proof of the President-Elect's birthplace. Through his lawsuit, Mr. Berg sought to compel President-Elect Obama to produce a certified copy of his birth certificate.
The District Court dismissed Mr. Berg's suit and held that the question of Obama's citizenship is not a matter for a court to decide. The court further noted that voters, not courts, should decide whether a particular presidential candidate is qualified to hold office.
Presidential candidates are vetted by voters at least twice - first in the primary elections and again in the general election. President-Elect Obama won the Democratic Party's nomination after one of the most fiercely contested presidential primaries in American history. And, he has now been duly elected by the majority of voters in the United States. Throughout both the primary and general election, concerns about Mr. Obama's birthplace were raised. The voters have made clear their view that Mr. Obama meets the qualifications to hold the office of President.
After he is sworn into office, Mr. Obama will be our nation's President and I intend to bestow upon him the honor and respect due any man who holds that Office. Yet, I am certain that there will be times when I will disagree and oppose President Obama's policies. When that happens, you can be assured that I will pursue vigorously what I believe to be in the best interest of Florida and the nation.
And these people were elected to serve the American people in the U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives. If they approach something as important as the eligibility of a candidate to the office of president with this level of apathy, how can we ever believe they approach a bill with anything less? Is it any wonder our country is in the mess it is?
But indifference of the facts is not an excuse for the failure by Senators and Representatives to uphold the U.S. Constitution and their oath of office. It has been proven, beyond reasonable doubt, that Barack Hussein Obama is not an American citizen and is not, therefore, eligible to the office of president under Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, United States Constitution. And every lawyer among those serving in Washington DC knows that just because a lawsuit is dismissed does not mean it is without merit. As so adequately displayed in the irresponsible responses above, these representatives try to make the claim, by insinuation, that since cases were dismissed on administrative grounds (procedural), that they are without merit (factual basis). Nothing could be further from the truth. Administrative procedure has nothing to do with the merits of a case. A case can have merit but still be dismissed on administrative grounds. This is often the process used by judges to get out of addressing cases they don't want to address; especially cases where their loyalty is to the money-changers in the temple. There is not a judge in American that cannot be bought like a whore on a street corner. Those who can't be bought, like Judge Roy Moore, find themselves removed from the bench.
If there was any doubt before January 8, 2009 of how the U S Senators and Representatives, and the U.S. Supreme Court view the people of this nation, that doubt is no more; they have made it crystal clear that, in their eyes, the people of this nation are nothing more than chattel to be used, abused and discarded at the pleasure of a centralized, totalitarian global regime.
If we, the people, subjugate, we deserve the misery we heap on ourselves! The Declaration of Independence makes it clear:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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To the traitors that are our U.S. Senators and Representatives; Numbers 30:2 is quite apropos, "If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." Every Senator, ever Representative takes an oath before God; the closing words of that oath being "So help me God." While they may scoff at the word of God now except when it suits them to do otherwise, will they scoff when they stand before God in atonement?
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Introducing OpenBSD 3.9
OpenBSD began life as a fork of NetBSD, the oldest of the currently active BSD projects. A personality clash between Theo de Raadt and the rest of the NetBSD team lead to Theo's access to the project's CVS tree being revoked.
At the time, the standard way of developing F/OSS was for a small group of developers to have access to a private CVS repository. They would then publish periodic snapshots of the tree for download. One of Theo's first acts after leaving NetBSD was to create a public anonymous CVS server containing his local copy of the NetBSD tree, including the improvements he had not been allowed to commit to the main tree.
This transparency in the development process gave the new project the name OpenBSD. The openness is reflected in the project's license philosophy. Most of the base system is BSD licensed, with a few MIT licensed or public domain pieces. A few GPL'd components, such as the GNU Compiler Collection, are permitted but only in cases where no alternative is available with a more permissive license. Closed-source code is not permitted in the base system at all.
Another feature of this openness, and something that sets OpenBSD apart from many other systems, is the documentation. In OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a program or function call does not behave exactly as the manual describes, this is considered a bug. This is reflected in the development process, which does not allow any code that result in a user-visible change to be committed to the tree without an accompanying update to the documentation.
Within the last few years, OpenBSD has become more militant in its advocacy of openness. Prior to the 3.7 release, the team decided that its reverse-engineered drivers for several Adaptec cards did not meet the required quality for inclusion in the base system, and could not without documentation from the manufacturers. When this documentation was not provided, they removed support for Adaptec RAID hardware for the 3.7 release.
OpenBSD is also very unfriendly to the idea of drivers that rely on binary blobs; lumps of closed-source code that are loaded by an "open" driver. The NVIDIA drivers for Linux are an example of this; they provide a thin skeleton of open source code that is compiled and linked against the kernel which then loads the real, binary driver. Because the code for the real driver is not open, it cannot go through the same auditing process as the rest of the kernel, and so are likely to introduce bugs and security holes.
Some manufacturers are very reluctant to release the specifications required to create a driver. A common reason for this is that their product has a large number of bugs that are worked around by the driver. In some cases, it is because they heavily optimize a specific code-path used by a benchmark (sometimes even to the point of compromising accuracy) in order to gain a marketing advantage over their competitors.
The most common excuse given is that the documentation or the drivers contain valuable IP that they are not allowed to release, or do not wish to provide to their competitors. While this may be true of some complex graphics card drivers that include a significant portion of an OpenGL implementation in software, it is not true of the specification from which the drivers were created. To quote Marco Peereboom, one of the OpenBSD developers:
"One fills in a few structures, one hands it off to the hardware, one gets notified when the work is done. There that's all a driver does. There is no IP in filling out a structure and handing it off to hardware."
Another example of OpenBSD's activism came from the license restrictions placed on the firmware for wireless network cards. To save costs, most WiFi cards do not include their firmware in ROM. Instead, it is loaded by the driver at runtime. This means, obviously, that a working driver must have a copy of the card's firmware. Unfortunately, most manufacturers placed redistribution restrictions on these firmware files, meaning that the end user had to download them directly from the manufacturer, rather than having them shipped with OpenBSD. Since then, most Southeast Asian manufacturers have modified their licenses to allow redistribution of the firmware.
In 2004, Theo De Raadt was presented with the Free Software Foundation's Award for the Advancement of Free Software in recognition of these efforts.
The forked NetBSD code base that OpenBSD began with had a significant amount of history. It inherited code dating back to the first BSD releases in the 1970s. Some of this had never properly been audited or even read by anyone other than the original author. As such, it was full of small bugs, many of which were potential security holes.
In 1996, shortly after OpenBSD began, they started auditing the codebase. This is an ongoing process, and continues to this day. Every time a new type of bug is discovered, the entire codebase is searched to find other occurrences of it.
In spite of the audit process, the OpenBSD team admits that it (along with third-party developers) is not infallible. The OpenBSD kernel contains a number of features that protect against various categories of attack. More information about these can be found in the Security section of the OpenBSD web site.


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Roulette's 40th Anniversary Gala Honoring Hal Willner
Thursday, October 25, 2018
What: Roulette honors eclectic and prolific musician/producer Hal Willner at its 40th Anniversary Gala
When: Thursday, October 25, 2018. 7–11pm.
Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR
Cost: Remaining tables start at $5,000, Tickets at $100
Info: www.roulette.org / (917) 267-0368
Tickets: https://roulette.org/gala/
Roulette's Director Jim Staley and Board of Directors are thrilled to announce Roulette's 40th Anniversary Gala honoring eclectic and prolific musician/producer Hal Willner. The evening will feature performances by artists from Willner's extensive career, including avant-pop icon Laurie Anderson, incomparable performance artist and filmmaker Kembra Pfahler, Joan Wasser (Joan as Police Woman) of Antony and the Johnsons, composer and slide-trumpeter Steven Bernstein, SNL Musical Directors Lenny Pickett and Eli Brueggemann, singer Janine Nichols, singer/songwriter Teddy Thompson, actress Chloe Webb, saxophonist Doug Wieselman, and more.
Mr. Willner's unexpected approach to curation and music production has made him one of the most refreshing musical connectors of our time. His many concept albums and live events celebrate unlikely collaborations—his Kurt Weill tribute records feature the likes of Sting, Charlie Haden, Lou Reed, Nick Cave; while his Amarcord Nino Rota tribute album features Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Bill Frisell, Muhal Richard Abrams; his Disney album features performances by artists like Sun Ra and Ringo Starr; and his live events bring together dozens of leading creative voices across film, comedy, music, and theater. He has been the sketch music producer of Saturday Night Live for the past 30 years and is currently working on his next concept album celebrating the music of T. Rex.
All proceeds from the evening go to the creation of Roulette's Future Fund—a multi-purpose reserve fund to help build a strong, sustainable future for our organization and the artists we present. Support for the Future Fund will be matched up to $150,000 by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Meredith Monk
Joseph Walker
Sean Buffington
MV Carbon
Dick Connette
Mario Diaz de Leon
Robert Flynt
Paul + Rochelle Gertner
Mary MacArthur Griffin
Simon Hanes
Anne Hemenway
Pauline Kim
John King
Gordon Knox
John Madsen
Stéphanie Palmer
Zeena Parkins
Catherine Pavlov
Tomeka Reid
Ned Rothenberg
Jason Weiss
Scott Wollschleger