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Introduction to The Dr. Peter David Beter Audio Letter (R) Excerpted from the Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER(R) REFERENCE DIGEST Copyright (C) Audio Books Inc., 1983
The AUDIO LETTER cassette tape reports were recorded over a period from June,
1975, to November, 1982, by Dr. Peter Beter. Each AUDIO LETTER tape report is
approximately one hour in length. The basic schedule of release was once a
month, but the exact date of release each month was flexible to accommodate
events. There were also two periods during which the AUDIO LETTER reports were
suspended temporarily. The first, which extended from May to August 1977,
separated AUDIO LETTER issues #24 and #25, and took place due to an action
campaign by Dr. Beter with his listeners. The second suspension extended from
February to June 1980, and separated issues #54 and #55. It was brought about
by a major heart attack which Dr. Beter suffered while in the midst of recording
Dr. Beter terminated his AUDIO LETTER cassette tape report series in
November, 1982, after recording AUDIO LETTER #80. Having fought heart-related
ailments for years, his health was declining. After conferring with doctors,
he decided that the time had come to discontinue recording the tapes.
The Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER series grew out of Dr. Beter's collaboration with
supporters who first learned about Dr. Beter by way of radio talk shows in 1974.
At that time Dr. Beter was in great demand to appear on talk shows nationwide,
which he did in most cases by long-distance telephone hookup from his residence
in suburban Washington, D.C. After many years as a highly successful
Washington attorney, government official and international legal and financial
consultant, Dr. Beter had become famous in 1973 as the author of a best-selling
book, The Conspiracy Against the Dollar.
In his talk shows Dr. Beter had a habit of saying things which sounded
preposterous at the time, but which were proven correct later on. Early in
1973 he declared that Vice President Spiro Agnew would be swept up in a sudden
scandal beginning in late summer that would lead quickly to his resignation.
At the time Agnew was flying high, and it sounded like an unlikely turn of
events. But it happened, right on schedule. In the spring of 1974, Dr. Beter
described a sequence of events by which the Watergate Scandal would make Richard
Nixon the first U.S.
President in history to resign. At the time, Watergate
seemed to be running out of steam, and Nixon appeared to be "toughing it out."
Even less believably, Dr. Beter described a secret agreement which he said
existed by which then-Vice President Gerald Ford would nominate Nelson
Rockefeller to be his new Vice President after Nixon resigned. In the spring
of 1974 those things sounded hard to believe indeed. But they took place.
Dr. Beter claimed that events like these, while shocking to the public, were
planned far in advance. He said that they were known within certain
intelligence and even business circles here in America and abroad. Drawing
upon his extensive contacts with these circles, Dr. Beter was making public what
the privileged few already knew.
Having begun as skeptical listeners to Dr. Beter's radio appearances, a small
group of private citizens became increasingly concerned as they saw Dr. Beter's
revelations proven correct, time after time. They decided to investigate
further, and finally contacted him. In September, 1974, Audio Books, Inc., was
founded by these supporters of Dr. Beter to provide an avenue by which Dr. Beter
could make his reports public without censorship or cutoff by those who
controlled the radio waves. After several individual AUDIO BOOK(R) tapes, the
Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER series began in 1975.
About Dr. Beter [Note: born June 21, 1921; died March 14, 1987 (J.V.)]
Dr. Peter Beter (yes, it rhymes) first came to widespread popular attention
in 1973, through his best-selling nonfiction book, The Conspiracy Against the
Dollar (George Braziller, Inc., N.Y.). It was a gripping tale of international
economic intrigue and monetary manipulation, carried out by the coordinated
action of multinational corporations grown more powerful than many of their host
countries. The objective: to deliberately undermine and ultimately destroy the
United States dollar, as a major tool of political and economic conquest under
the banner of a "new imperialism." A crescendo of unhappy consequences were to
be expected: an accelerating economic "stagflation" (a now-popular word coined
years ago by Dr. Beter), deteriorating financial status of municipal and state
governments, deepening social unrest, increasing tensions over the Panama Canal,
and more.
Events during the past decade have followed to an astonishing degree
the blueprint which Dr. Beter revealed in his book.
In September 1974 Dr. Beter acquired a new distinction as "the man who opened
Fort Knox." The previous April Dr. Beter had charged in congressional
testimony that the legendary U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox had been
looted of America's monetary gold hoard allegedly stored there. He stood ready
to present evidence and witnesses to substantiate his charges. But neither a
grand jury nor a congressional inquiry into the matter materialized...so Dr.
Beter then took his case directly to the public. Through lectures, radio talk
shows, and publication of his charges in a tabloid newspaper (National Tattler),
he was able to put such intense pressure on the federal government that a
completely unprecedented step was taken in order to still the public outcry.
The U.S. Treasury Department arranged a so-called "gold inspection" visit for a
few Congressmen and 100 invited newsmen on September 23, 1974. Significantly,
however, Dr. Beter himself was not among those invited...nor was any other
outside expert on gold. The celebrated Fort Knox visit and the so-called "gold
audit" which followed contained many irregularities which the Treasury
Department has never explained.
In AUDIO LETTER tapes #14 and #15 (July and August 1976), Dr. Beter made
public intelligence he had been given that the Soviet Union was planting
short-range underwater missiles in U.S. territorial waters in preparation for a
surprise nuclear attack. In issue #15 he listed navigational coordinates for
64 missiles which he said had been planted worldwide so far...urged his
listeners to pressure the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take counteractive
measures...and in effect dared the government to prove him wrong. The
resulting hue and cry from Dr. Beter's listeners nationwide created shock waves
within the U.S. Government which were never reported by the major news media.
In mid-September 1976, Dr. Beter and an associate met for over an hour with
General George S. Brown, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in Gen.
Brown's Pentagon office. Only two weeks earlier, a letter over Gen. Brown's
signature had been sent to Dr. Beter (with photocopies to concerned citizens
nationwide), seeming to say that Dr. Beter's charges about Soviet underwater
missiles had been investigated and found untrue. Yet when Dr. Beter then
requested a meeting with Gen. Brown to relay to him the locations of a second
round of 48 newly-planted missiles, the meeting was granted without delay. The
Pentagon confirmed to the press that the meeting had taken place*, but never
explained this curious sequence of events.
*See, e.g., Norfolk (Va.) Ledger-Star, Sept. 27, 1976, p. E8, article by G.
Bradshaw and J. Kestner. Or see Chicago Tribune, Dec. 4, 1977, Section 2,
"Special Report: Undersea Warfare."
Professional credentials: The things made public by Dr. Beter are
extraordinary--but so is the professional background which preceded his public
visibility. He practiced general law in Washington, D.C., from 1951 to 1961,
becoming a member of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in 1952 and the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1964. Many of his cases were against the federal government,
all of which he won--including one case in which he caught none other than the
U.S. Department of Justice burning records in an attempt to defeat him. The
resulting decision--Farley vs. U.S., 131 C. Cls. 776 (1955), 127 F Supp.
562--made new law.
In 1961 President John F. Kennedy appointed Dr. Beter Counsel to the U.S.
Export-Import Bank, the largest government-owned bank in the Western world,
where he served until 1967. After leaving the Ex-Im Bank, Dr. Beter became an
international financial and legal consultant, as well as one of the chief
developers of private international business in the Republic of Zaire. He is a
member of the Judicature Society, the Bankers' Club of America, the Royal
Commonwealth Society of London, and the United States Naval Institute. He is
listed in biographical reference works such as Who's Who in the East, the Blue
Book of London, and 2000 Men of Achievement (London).
Dr. Beter (1921-1987) was an attorney and businessman. He has published during years 1975 to 1982 his audio letters where he talked about political events but with new and secret informations.
Monday, November 6, 2017
Index of News Alerts
- Peter Beter News Alert 1: Poland After the Pope: Why Walesa Was "Fired"
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- Peter Beter News Alert 2: Setback in the Space Shuttle ASAT Program
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- Peter Beter News Alert 3 : The "Korean Airliner Massacre": Who, How, Why
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- Peter Beter News Alert 4 : Marine Deaths and a New "Vietnam" in Lebanon
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- Peter Beter News Alert 5 : Economic Time Bombs & Deregulation and the Secret New U.S. Constitution
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- Peter Beter Newsletter 6 : Perspective: Soviet-American Confrontation The "Reverse Cuba" Missile Crisis Now Underway
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- Peter Beter News Alert 7: The "Mayaguez Strategy" for Invasion of Grenada & The Campaign to Control What Americans Know
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- Peter Beter News Alert 8: Perspective: Soviet Union & The Legacy of the Late Yuri Andropov
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- Peter Beter News Alert 9: Perspective: The Gathering Storm & U.S.-Israel "Strategic Cooperation" to Partition Lebanon
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- Peter Beter News Alert 10: Perspective: The Gathering Storm (Part 2) Multiplying Storm Clouds on the World Horizon
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- Peter Beter News Alert 11: Jesse Jackson's "Wild Card" Mission to Syria
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- Peter Beter News Alert 12: Key Trends and Events to Watch
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- Peter Beter News Alert 13: ProgressReport
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by Americans for Innovation
With these encryption keys, nothing in our digital lives is off limits to the Clinton's and their conspirators
President Trump's new executive order can be sabotaged with these keys; alternatively, he can use the order to prosecute these criminals
Many foreign powers have conspired with the SES and their Queen's Privy Council overlords since before 1993
AFI (Nov. 06, 2015). Complicit encryption geeks enable the American spy state. Americans for Innovation.
AFI (Nov. 25, 2015). Dell and Lenovo (IBM) ship computers with spy state backdoors. Americans for Innovation.
http://youtu.be/-zWWJ1BzKgI | (Raw *.mp4 video file—use if the YouTube version is censored).
SPECIAL NOTICE: This post is a work in progress. You are encouraged to return to pick up additional evidence as it is added. Indictable evidence continues to pour in for use by prosecutors, alternative media, Treasury, U.S. Marshalls and military tribunals. These criminals have relied on the fact that encryption, cryptography and cryptanalysis is a field of esoteric mathematics for which the average person has little interest. Hopefully, that will now change.
Cryptography—the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets—began thousands of years ago. Until recent decades, it has been the story of what might be called classic cryptography — that is, of methods of encryption that use pen and paper, or perhaps simple mechanical aids. In the early 20th century, the invention of complex mechanical and electromechanical machines, such as the Enigma rotor machine, provided more sophisticated and efficient means of encryption; and the subsequent introduction of electronics and computing has allowed elaborate schemes of still greater complexity, most of which are entirely unsuited to pen and paper.
In a simple form, simply scrambling the letters in a word is a basic form of cryptography. HELLO might become OLHEL or LEHLO. In more sophisticated approaches, look up tables contain readable words in the first column and a replacement word in the second. The resulting message looks like jibberish until the look up table is used by the recipient. The public key infrastructure and certificate authorities discussed in this post are simply more scrambled forms of encryption.
The earliest example known was from an Egyptian scribe about 1900 BC. Assyrian merchants used a form of encryption called intaglio in 1500 BC. Hebrew scribes wrote a copy of the Book of Jeremiah in a substitution cipher in 605 BC. In 487 BC the Greeks used a "skytale" to encrypt important messages. Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) encrypted government communications. Abu ' Abd al-Rahman al-Khalil ibn Ahmad ibn Amr ibn Tammam al Farahidi al-Zadi al Yahmadi wrote a book on cryptography in 725-790 AD. Thomas Jefferson invented a wheel cipher. Tellingly, a design in 1976 by IBM based on "the Lucifer cipher" is now used and called "triple-DES" (the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm).
When the German Enigma Machine was cracked in World War II, the Allies could read ALL German communications from that point forward. In the same way, Hillary's access to the PKI, Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm and Certificate Authorities gives her access to The Internet of Things' version of the Enigma Machine break, which was considered by western Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower to have been "decisive" to the Allied victory. See History of Encryption.
(SEP. 16, 2018)—Imagine that your identity is stolen suddenly.
Your healthcare, education, police, employment and bank records are all altered overnight to make you look like an embezzler. Imagine you are jolted awake the following morning by the police bashing in your door to arrest you. Imagine that the local TV is already carrying news of your arrest using a drunken party photo of you off your phone.
Imagine further that you are Hillary Clinton. You need for 55,000 Clinton Foundation emails on FBI director James Comey computer to disappear. Poof. They're wiped without a trace.
Imagine still further that you are Lord Mark Malloch-Brown from the Queen's Privy Council. You need to erase the U.S. Department of Treasury's new evidence of foreign meddling embedded in your Smartmatic voting machines. Your bunk buddy George Soros makes a call to Hillary. Poof. This evidence is digitally wiped, without a trace.
This cannot happen in America you say? Think again.
Since these people have full backdoor access to any computer or phone on the Internet, can they ever be caught? Yes, once we realize how they do it. That method has just been discovered.
Truth is, Hillary Clinton literally has access to every computer on the Internet through a company named ENTRUST. Her 19-year Rose Law Firm partner Jerry C. Jones directs the company (now ostensibly run by a Silicon Valley dude named Orlando Bravo and his private equity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC), and has done since Dec. 2003. Entrust issues the encryption keys for most major governments and companies in the world.
Put simply, encryption keys are used on both the sender's and receiver's computers to send data. It takes two keys to make a connection to send or receive data. The Clinton Administration created "trusted Certificate Authorities (CA)" to check with to make sure that the two keys are the real sender and receiver. If your keys are not approved by the CA, your connection will be blocked. In the hands of tyrannical globalists like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George Soros, Eric Schmidt and Robert Mueller, this will be the new censorship on the Internet.
Encryption scrambles the contents of your messages then files and unscrambles them once they reach their intended destinations using digital keys managed by encryption engineers.
For example, the phrase "your cancer treatment program" would be encrypted with a digital key and travel through the Internet as "Qij\aq6NB5Lf@;kndFq7CN{Q{." So, even if it was intercepted it could not be read. The theory is that this knowledge of your medical condition would remain confidential between you and your doctor. Not so for Hillary, she would see you have cancer and could use that information for blackmail, extortion or murder, whatever worked for her.
These CA's make a big deal in their propaganda that you can "trust" them not to use or spoof your identity to get access to data that you and they are not authorized to have. That is a boldface lie. No wonder these people have the countenances of criminals. They are, and they know it.
Suppose you are the CA who issues keys to the FBI. Suppose you want to see the evidence being gathered against you in an investigation.
All you have to do is "borrow" the FBI key from Hillary or ENTRUST. Then you can connect to the target FBI computer using a bogus key created for you by ENTRUST, and voile! You then have two "trusted" keys so the FBI computers let you in. There are technical nuances to this description, but basically, you can do what you want with these keys. Don't let trollers try to baffle you with techno-jargon to throw your dogs off the scent. Lucifer(literally, IBM Triple-DES) is in these encryption details.
Hillary Clinton has this level of access to practically all data on the planet, including the FBI, NSA, Departments of State, Commerce, Energy, Treasury, GSA, Patent Office, Post Office, NIST, as well as numerous foreign government and commercial entities. See ENTRUST 10-K Annual Reports (1998-2009). SEC Edgar.
Now that we finally know how the Clinton's stay one step ahead of the sheriff, we can now stop them.
In this post, we will prove without a doubt how Hillary Clinton cleverly wormed her way into full access and control for 50,000 FBI encryption keys.
They are likely managing this empire from Obama's Google-constructed U.S. Digital Service bunker three blocks from the White House manned by Valerie Jarrett and Eric Holder.
We admit that these findings sound more like Grisham fiction. But the evidence is a pesky thing. The evidence is now pouring out.
"Notoriously public" information, like the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filings that we cite, is evidence that requires no further verification to be used in litigation, hence the adjective "notoriously." This means that the information is so publicly noteworthy that further proof of validity is unnecessary. For example, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1973. That is a notoriously public fact and no proof is needed.
Notoriously public facts, like SEC filings, are "judicially recognizable" and can be accepted as truthful since the submitter attests to the SEC that they are true. It is criminal fraud to lie intentionally in SEC filings.
On Jun. 07, 1993, the new Clinton Administration convened the "Third CPSR Cryptography and Privacy Conference (CPSR – Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility)."
The conference was held two days before an important Jun. 09, 1993 House hearing on "encryption and telecommunications network security." The conference gathered over 106 attendees representing government, politics, commerce, manufacturing, industry, media, technology, telecommunications, healthcare, banking, education, faith and accounting. That's plenty of arm-twisting, even for Washington, D.C.
The meeting sponsor was globalist advocate Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The hosts included:
(1) James P. Chandler, III, George Washington University intellectual property and national security law professor, and later patent attorney for social networking inventor Leader Technologies, Inc. (Jan. 2000);
2) John D. Podesta, chief of staff and campaign manager to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton;
(3) Stephen D. Crocker, founding member of the illegal public-private conspiracy group Highland's Forum/Group (Feb. 1995), then Barack Obama's director of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) who ceded control to the UN on Oct. 01, 2016—one month before Donald J. Trump was elected president.
The information about this meeting was hidden on Hillary's private email server. It was unearthed by corruption watchdog Judicial Watch after they pressed the State Department in court to release the document.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
New site: www.topblogs.ca
I just placed my blogsite on Top Blogs: Canada's Best Blogs. So far, I am number five in the rankings. Then again, there are only six blogs listed so far. Top Blogs was created by one of the volunteers with the Canadian Blog Awards.
The rankings for Top Blogs are based upon ranking is based on pageviews on your own blog. Everytime someone visits your blog, you get a point.
I do hope that bloggers will participate. There are the following categories: general, art,journalism, professional, GLBT, French, humour, pop culture, culture and literature, politics, personal, religion & philosophy, sports, and science & technology.
I encourage you to join.
7 comments:
- fern hill said...
I went there and couldn't figure out how to vote. Am I being extraordinarily dense today?
- January 3, 2010 at 4:08 p.m.
- Skinny Dipper said...
You do have to register your blogsite first. When you do that, you will get a lengthy code to put on your own site. Note that you can only vote on the star ratings (1-5). The blog rankings are based on the number of clicks that one receives on one's own site. I am not the one who created this site. If you do have any further questions and can't contact the person running the site, contact the Canadian Blog Awards site.
- January 3, 2010 at 4:27 p.m.
- fern hill said...
Thanks. We at DAMMIT JANET are kinda bloggers non grata with the CBA, so I hope I can figger it out myself.
- January 3, 2010 at 4:32 p.m.
- Chrystal Ocean said...
Looks the same as Canadian Blogosphere site. Is Top Blogs intended to replace that one? And how does one manage to list more than one blog?
- January 3, 2010 at 6:22 p.m.
- rww said...
Wish there was more information about the site on the site itself.
- January 3, 2010 at 10:28 p.m.
- Skinny Dipper said...
Hi Chrystal,
I'm only a messenger, but I don't believe that topblogs.ca is meant to replace any other blogsite.
I do believe you can list more than one blog by inputting the different blog addresses. However, I think you can only place a blog in one category.
To fern hill and everyone else,
I did volunteer with the CBA's this year. However, I kept my focus with the administration of two of the categories. I'm not aware of all the politics, but I do hope that if people have suggestions, they can make comments or email the Canadian Blog Awards.
I will email the person running the topblogs.ca site to see if an email contact can be listed.
- January 4, 2010 at 8:04 p.m.
- Skinny Dipper said...
If you have any further questions, email topblogs.ca(at)gmail.com.
- January 4, 2010 at 9:11 p.m.


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Braun wins drug suspension appeal
"It is the first step in restoring my good name and reputation," Braun said in a statement. "We were able to get through this because I am innocent."
Braun will hold a press conference at Brewers camp in Arizona upon reporting to spring training on Friday.
According to sources with knowledge of the two-day arbitration hearing in January, at least part of Braun's defense hinged on his sample having been collected on a Saturday afternoon -- Oct. 1, after the Brewers beat the Diamondbacks in Game 1 of the NLDS -- but not in time for the doping control officer to get it to FedEx that day. The sample was not delivered to FedEx for shipping to a World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab in Montreal until the following Monday afternoon. The Joint Drug Agreement between the league and players' association specifies, "Absent unusual circumstances, the specimens should be sent by FedEx to the Laboratory on the same day they are collected."
It is not uncommon for doping control officers in a wide array of sports to hold onto a sample -- often in a refrigerator -- if shipping is not immediately available, and while details of the chain of custody of Braun's sample were not immediately available, a source with knowledge of the sample said that the seals on the sample were unbroken when it arrived at the lab, and that standard lab tests on the sample showed that it had not degraded. In December, SI.com confirmed that Braun's sample was found to have an elevated level of testosterone, and that it tested positive for synthetic testosterone.
A source familiar with the situation said the evidence in defense of Braun highlighted several unusual circumstances: that the sample was not taken to FedEx for shipping until two days after it was collected; that his testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio was three times higher than any result in the history of baseball's program; that Braun showed no physical side effects of use; and that, in the time this news was public, no one came forward to offer evidence or raise any further speculation of Braun's alleged use.
A separate source familiar with Braun's sample said that his elevated testosterone ratio was not unusual when compared to athletes from other sports who have failed drug tests and served suspensions.
"Around the world, on Sundays or holidays, couriers don't pick up and they don't deliver," said Travis Tygart, the CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which drug tests American athletes in Olympic sports. "Some of the labs around the world are closed over the weekend, so they can't even accept samples. And, importantly, they don't need to because synthetic drugs don't magically appear in urine because it took 48 hours versus 20 minutes to get to the laboratory."
The independent arbitrator's decision was announced Thursday afternoon by Major League Baseball and by the Player's Association, which took the unusual step of announcing what is intended to be a confidential process because of a media leak that made public the result of the test before the appeal had been heard.
"We always felt he was innocent," Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said in a telephone interview, "and I have to believe him and I have to trust him."
Major League Baseball, however, offered a strong dissent to the ruling in a statement from executive vice president Rob Manfred, saying that the league "vehemently disagrees with the decision rendered today by arbitrator Shyam Das."
Major League Baseball voted to go forward with a suspension for Braun, while the Player's Association voted against a suspension, with Das casting the deciding vote. Das has 30 days to complete a written decision.
"Major League Baseball considers the obligations of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program essential to the integrity of our game, our Clubs and all of the players who take the field," Manfred said. "It has always been Major League Baseball's position that no matter who tests positive, we will exhaust all avenues in pursuit of the appropriate discipline. We have been true to that position in every instance, because baseball fans deserve nothing less."
Too much is at stake -- millions of dollars in player salaries and the competitive integrity of games watched by millions of fans -- for anything to be left to chance, which is why the JDA explains the collection process in extensive detail.
"If you don't have the process, then there's no validity to the test," the source with knowledge of the hearing said.
Yahoo! reported that the collector found the FedEx office closed and so he "stored the sample, which had been sealed, bagged and boxed and carried Braun's signature, in his Milwaukee-area home, per usual protocol."
A third source familiar with the arbitration confirmed that the sample arrived two days after it was taken.
More will be known if Das's forthcoming written decision is released or leaks publicly. Whether one agrees with the end result or not, Braun received his due process and the ruling was administered by an independent arbitrator who has been working on such cases since 2000.
"I support the drug program," Melvin said. "The commissioner's office has worked hard. They've taken a lot of hits in putting the drug program together with the union. I support the program, and I would say Ryan Braun supports the program. Most players support the program. That's why it's out there."


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As the party raged on in the stands, the children were left to clean up the court.
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I would sit on our front doorstep watching in awe as my brother did wheelies on his BMX, whizzing up and down our cul-de-sac with his friends – with me looking on enviously, but never asking to have a go.
It was just not the done thing. Growing up in a Pakistani household in inner-city Birmingham I had never seen any of my female peers cycling. It's not something that I discussed with my parents; they weren't against it, but they never encouraged it either. It was ingrained that perching atop a saddle in a salwaar kameez (traditional Pakistani dress) was un-ladylike. So I never learned.
But then at the age of 17 I suddenly found myself living in rural Cambridgeshire, with the nearest bus stop to get to college more than a mile away – it was time to get on my bike. A boyfriend decided he would teach me, and I spent weekend after weekend in a disused quarry, wobbling up and down a dirt track. There were falls into stinging nettles, tumbles over handlebars, and a complete inability to ride in a straight line. But eventually – admittedly with little finesse – I was able to stay on.
Fast forward almost 18 years, and last week saw me cycling just over 13 miles into work for the first time, on canal towpaths, over motorway bridges, and along a busy main road into Manchester city centre. I was a sweaty, nervous wreck by the time I sat at my desk, but I had done it.
I often wish that I had been taught how to ride a bike as a child, because I carry around an added anxiety whenever I saddle up. There are many consequences of not learning early on in life: you miss out on the freedom that it affords you, the health benefits, the expansion of social horizons. So recent research that more than a third of British primary school children have never been taught how to cycle is worrying. The traditional pursuit is said to be in decline as time-pressed parents are not taking their youngsters to parks. The study, by the charity Keep Britain Tidy, suggests the outdoor skills traditionally learned by children could be dying out.
Earlier this year, seeing my four-year-old son going from a precarious wobble to an exhilarating freewheel on his pedal bike was wonderful. His little face lit up with the sheer joy of travelling under his own steam. Laura Hales, from the campaign group Cycling UK, says children are being failed. Almost a third of children are overweight or obese in this country. "School-age children need to be doing at least an hour of vigorous physical activity every day, and ideally significantly more – and we are seriously failing. One of the easiest ways to get children to exercise is through what we call active travel, through cycling and walking, because you can do it on your way to school."
For Hales the situation is becoming desperate, and she calls for a complete cultural shift that would allow children to use their bikes on a daily basis within their communities. "This is the fattest generation of kids that we have ever had, and the problems it is storing up for them when they get older is really frightening. We shouldn't just blame the parents. We as a society need to take more responsibility, stop using our cars, and change the way our roads are built to encourage more cycling and walking. Only then will things begin to really change."
While we lag behind many countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany – recent statistics revealed that just 3% of British pupils aged five to 16 cycle to school – there is change in the pipeline.
In Greater Manchester a thousand miles of safe cycling and walking routes are to be created after a campaign by the Olympic gold medallist Chris Boardman. The network – named Beelines, in homage to Manchester's civic symbol of the worker bee – includes 75 miles of Dutch-style segregated lanes, and will be the largest joined-up network in the UK. A Beeline sign, as Boardman's mantra has it, would indicate that "a competent 12-year-old" – the proxy he uses to indicate a vulnerable road user – would be safe.
Jo Somerset and Liz Clarke set up BikeRight!, a cycling training company , to empower everyone in the UK to cycle with confidence. They run a course, Bikeability, in British schools to make children feel more confident on roads. At Velo-city 2017 – the annual cycling summit in the Netherlands – they discovered that children in that cycling nirvana have weekly traffic education classes, and at the age of 11 every child takes a proficiency exam similar to a driving test.
"In the Netherlands it is part of their culture, and they really encourage children to play outside, to be free, to ride bikes. And they also have the infrastructure," says Somerset. "From the conference we learned that we have to start young, you have to start in nursery school. Schools need to have bikes available. We have got children who are not nearly active enough. It is perfectly within the realm of possibility for the education sphere to take on teaching children to ride bikes.
"Every child should be able to ride a bike, just like every child learns how to swim and read a book. It is one of the very basic skills."
Not learning to ride a bike at primary-school age has left me with a feeling of trepidation every time I cycle. I doubt I'll ever be truly confident on a bike now, but I won't let that stop us enjoying cycling as a family.
Watching my son ride, he does not carry an ounce of my anxiety, and that is because he was on a bike pretty soon after learning to put one foot in front of the other. I'll do the same with our daughter, who is almost one, so she won't just be watching her brother's wheelies from the doorstep – she'll be doing them herself.
- Nazia Parveen is the Guardian's north of England correspondent


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Notes on three scandals
A bad week for the president is revealing of what really irks voters
JUST a few days ago Barack Obama's administration was being followed around by one substantial scandal, involving the September 2012 terrorist attacks in the Libyan town of Benghazi, which left America's ambassador and three aides dead. The allegations are both grave and convoluted, but the central Republican charge is that there was a monstrous cover-up: Team Obama put officials on television to claim that Americans were killed by spontaneous protests that turned deadly, rather than in attacks by terrorists that could have been foreseen.
Frustratingly for the right, the Benghazi scandal, though big on conservative radio and TV, has struggled to gain traction beyond core Republicans. Most Americans tell pollsters they are not paying attention, and split along party lines when asked who they believe over Libya.
In part, that is because a Benghazi cover-up has always been a slender reed on which to construct an edifice of Republican outrage. Some senators suggest that it might lead to Mr Obama's impeachment, and growl that it disqualifies his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, from ever seeking high office again. But that's a stretch. The government's initial response to what happened in Benghazi, as exposed by recently leaked e-mails, does reek of evasion and inter-agency finger-pointing. With the 2012 elections looming, officials feared handing Congress a weapon with which to beat the administration, or being first to admit a harsh truth: that to encourage Libya's post-Qaddafi rulers, American envoys and spooks were sent to a lethally dangerous city.
But Mr Obama has admitted that American officials died in Benghazi because they were not properly protected and has taken responsibility for those lapses. For proof that Republicans know they do not have enough to hang the president, consider the efforts by members of Congress to improve the scandal. At hearings on the matter in Congress, Republicans have repeatedly asked whether fighter jets or special forces could have been scrambled in time to save lives in Benghazi, but were grounded by faint-hearted superiors. If true, that would indeed be scandalous, but each time the evidence has pointed the other way, leaving Mr Obama's foes grumbling about "unanswered questions".
Now Mr Obama has two more substantive scandals to keep and cherish. The first involves astonishing misconduct by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Facing a surge in campaign groups formed during Mr Obama's first years in the White House, and worried that many were too political to merit tax-exempt status, inspectors hit upon the shortcut of targeting groups with names containing "tea party" or "patriot". Later, when that triggered complaints of bias, IRS officials switched to scrutinising groups that wanted to change the size of the government or even criticise it, firing off demands to know who led each group, what they were saying in newsletters or on the internet, and even what their members were reading.
Though the government has a right to police overly political non-profit groups, liberal groups appear to have endured less harassment. Worse than wicked, the IRS's behaviour was stupid: faced by angry citizens with a Don't Tread On Me loathing of taxes, the agency sent taxmen to tread on them. Mr Obama, so confident in pushing back over Benghazi , has taken a very different line over IRS overreach, calling it "intolerable and inexcusable". On May 15th the acting IRS boss was told to resign and Mr Obama vowed to work with Congress on new safeguards.
A third scandal involves the Department of Justice, which secretly obtained screeds of telephone records for journalists at the Associated Press (AP) news agency while hunting for the source of leaks about a failed al-Qaeda attack. Unlike the IRS, which—post-Watergate—is supposed to operate at arm's length from the president's administration, the Justice Department is under its direct control, and the trawl of journalists' records seems unusually sweeping. Though that might make the AP scandal sound dangerous, Washington cynics are already suggesting that it may not go very far. Most Americans do not like journalists very much, they note; nor are they keen on officials who leak secrets.
But again, normally defiant allies of the president have been forced onto the back foot. Democratic bigwigs in Congress have called for more complete answers about the AP and IRS sagas, with one complaining that Mr Obama cannot raise the flag and expect supporters to "salute it every time".
Beneath the noise, a row about government
Republicans have duly pounced, and in doing so executed a neat pivot away from their Benghazi rage. In essence, the real charge driving their Benghazi scandal was one of dereliction of duty, and the insinuation that Mr Obama is too weak (or does not love his country enough) to use American might to keep his own envoys safe. Now Republicans have begun calling him a tyrant, willing to use government power to crush freedoms crafted by the founding fathers. In a twinkling he has gone from a weakling Jimmy Carter to a modern-day George III.
That may be a dizzying turnaround, but it makes political sense. The IRS row is, at a minimum, a gift to Republicans ahead of 2014 mid-term elections, while the AP row deals a double blow to a president who has disappointed supporters over civil liberties before, and suffers from chilly relations with the press.
More broadly, calling Democrats weak on national security used to be a vote-winner. Two costly wars have altered that. This may be the first lesson of the scandals now lapping at the White House door. Spend months attacking Mr Obama for using America's might too cautiously, as in Libya, and he shrugs it off. Attack him for government overreach, and he is on the defensive. For supporters of an activist government, these are perilous times.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Notes on three scandals"
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Michael Bennet has been mocked on the right and left as the state's "unelected" senator. He was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter and has never held elected office before. He may be an insider for his history of government employment and long association with wealthy influence-wielders like Phil Anschutz, but he is no career politician. Needless to say, in the era of the Tea Party, this is a good thing. He views the goings on in Washington with welcome freshness during this especially charged first act of the Obama administration, where the politics of health reform have highlighted the ugliest aspects of the legislative sausage-making process.
His speechmaking seems unselfconscious and determinedly not theatrical. The speech he gave Monday explaining his vote for the Senate health care bill will speak to the feelings of Americans from coast to coast. The speech will be the reference point for the heated election campaign he will be waging this year against tough challengers Andrew Romanoff on the left and Jane Norton on the right. The speech was a smart move. The bonus is that what he had to say needed to be said and that he said it well.
Bennet on why he voted yes on an historic bill.
A number of years ago I left a rewarding job in business because I had the chance to lend a hand to my community during a very difficult time in Denver. The economy was slow, and the City was facing a record budget deficit. Our great Mayor John Hickenlooper asked me to come help as his chief of staff. It wasn't a glamourous job, but it was rewarding, because we got results, not by seeking out what divided the people of Denver who were going through a very rough time, but by reaching out time and time again through what the Mayor called "our alignment of self-interest."
We fixed the City's budget, and then I had the chance of a lifetime to become the Superintendent of Public Schools and serve our children and the people who work so hard every day to support them. I came away from that experience believing that much of the Republican and Democratic orthodoxies relating to public education are essentially useless to our children (and maybe worse) and that Washington, as a whole, has absolutely no clue about what is going on in America's classrooms.
So it is fair to say that I didn't come to Washington with a partisan axe to grind. As is probably obvious to everyone around here, for good or for ill, I'm not a career politician. I didn't come here to win political points so that someone else could lose. I'm not interested in that. I'm here, as the father of three little girls, with an abiding concern that we are at risk of being the first generation of Americans to leave less opportunity to our kids and our grandkids than our parents and grandparents left us. That prospect is shameful.
Mr. President, we are not the only Americans who have been working weekends and late into the night recently. There are people in small towns and big cities all across America, doing jobs much harder than ours who are taking an extra shift before Christmas so they can afford that extra gift beneath the tree. Americans who are unemployed in this savage economy and still trying to make sure the kids know Santa remembered them.
These same people are reading their papers and watching their televisions wondering what in the world we are doing here in Washington. All they see are talking heads yelling at each other on cable news, needless partisanship paralyzing their government, and even people praying that Senators won't be able to make votes.
I am not naïve about politics, but I expected more. I will vote for health care reform because it is a step in the right direction. But I will not go home and defend the actions of a Washington that is out-of-touch. A Washington that is more interested in scoring political points, more interested in the 278 health care lobbyists who used to work for Members of Congress, than in it is in what our constituents have to say. A Washington that is more concerned with the millions being spent by big insurance companies, than the thousands of dollars being lost by working families who are struggling to pay for coverage.
Columnists opposed to reform have criticized me for saying that I am willing to lose my seat to enact meaningful health care reform. Now, I am being asked why I didn't negotiate a special deal with Leadership. In fact, there was a report this morning criticizing me because the National Republican Senatorial Committee was rejoicing that I did not ask for special favors. Only in Washington would someone be attacked for not negotiating a backroom deal. Just because others choose to engage in the same tired Washington rituals, doesn't mean that I have to.
So I have a message for the columnists, the political professionals, and those back home. I am not happy about the backroom deals. I am not happy that the public option was held hostage by people in our own party. I do not support rewarding delay with special deals. I will let others justify their vote and their tactics.
As for me, I am voting to provide coverage to 840,000 uninsured Coloradans. Voting to extend Medicare for our seniors and provide free preventive care for everyone. Voting to close the prescription drug loophole and provide tax cuts to small business. Voting to make health care more affordable and eliminate exclusions based on pre-existing conditions. Voting for health care reform that is fully paid for.
The people in my state and in our country deserve better than a politics that cares more about lobbyists and talk show hosts, than the people we represent. I am committed to delivering on that, despite what the political experts have to say. And in the end, when the dust settles and the stories focus more on substance than process, I am confident that Coloradans will see it the same way.
I also commit to the people of Colorado and the people of this Chamber that I will do everything I can to make sure this bill really is fully paid for. That is why I introduced an amendment that will ensure that health care will help pay down the deficit by forcing Congress to make adjustments if reform doesn't meet the cost estimates we have projected.
I urge my colleagues and the leadership in the Senate to see to it that this amendment is included in the conference report. If not, I will fight to get it passed on its own.
I believe so strongly in this because everyone here knows that keeping things the way they are is no longer acceptable.
When I first started in the Senate, 800,000 Coloradans were without health insurance. That number has grown by 40,000 in the months we have debated this bill. On average, 111 Coloradans have lost their health insurance every single day. This number will only get worse if we do nothing. Our state had just spent $600 million in the last year alone on uncompensated care.
Colorado's working families suffered double digit health cost increases year after year for the last decade. Many families have made terrible sacrifices — no longer investing in their children's futures, saving for a home, or carrying crushing credit card balances — all to pay for health care.
Small businesses paid 20% more for health insurance than large businesses did just because they are small.
I think back to the Coloradans who shared their stories with me. I remember Bob and Deb Montoya of Pueblo. They were torn between providing health care for their small business employees and keeping their business afloat. Last year, their business paid out $36,000 to cover two families and one employee. He couldn't afford to give their other twelve employees health care or he would be forced out of business. So he dropped coverage for these twelve employees to keep his doors open.
Hollis Berendt owns a small business in Greeley and told me about her daughter Abby who graduated from Colorado State University in 2004 and found a job in New York with a large company. Her daughter's company made her wait a year before she was eligible for health insurance and during that time, Abby was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Hollis took out a second mortgage to pay out her daughter's bills and told me, "This experience brought to light, all too clearly, how close we all are to losing everything due to a health issue."
I've spoken here before about a young boy named Alex Lange. Alex's parents' insurance company refused to cover Alex because he was four months old and 17 pounds. They said he had a preexisting condition, at four months, of obesity. Then there was two year old Aislin Bates, whose parent's insurance company denied her coverage because she was underweight. One child too big, the other too small. Today in America, you have be just right to get insurance.
There was Peggy Robertson of Golden, Colorado who was told she couldn't receive coverage unless she was sterilized. She came and bravely testified in Washington about the need for reform. Matthew Temme of Castle Rock, who couldn't receive coverage because his wife was pregnant, even though she was on her own health insurance.
The sad thing is that there is nothing unusual about these stories. None of these people were trying to cheat or game the system. They were trying to gain some peace of mind, some stability in their lives, and instead they wasted weeks of their lives fighting against insurance company bureaucracy and mounting bills.
Mr. President, we have debated health care reform for over a year. Some have been working on these issues for decades. Killing health care reform under the disguise of starting over is not an option. We can't wait until after the next election. We can't wait until we've fixed the economy or until we've come home from Afghanistan to deal with our broken health care system.
Now standing so close to the finish line, it's completely understandable that some Americans doubt whether this bill will improve their situation. They understand that we cannot live with the current system, but they are also deeply concerned about our capacity to make it worse.
The special interests are using tried and true tactics that have been employed over and over again – across the decades – to prevent reform. Phone calls to scare seniors. Direct mail to scare those already covered. Television ads to scare just about everyone else.
And opponents of reform in this body are trying every delay tactic permitted by the Senate's rules.
Now, amidst all of this, there is still a reason to hope.
After almost a century of trying, the Senate is very close to finally passing a meaningful health care reform bill. A piece of legislation that, while not perfect, represents a substantial step forward from business as usual.
We have a bill that does three important things — its saves money, it saves lives, and it gives families a fighting chance in their relentless struggle with health insurance companies.
This bill will save money — it reduces the deficit by $130 billion over the 10 years according to the nonpartisan CBO, and is projected to reduce the deficit by ten times that — up to $1.3 trillion — in the second decade. We will save half a trillion dollars by improving the way we deliver services for to our seniors. These savings will prevent Medicare from going broke in 7 years by extending the life of the Medicare trust fund.
This bill will save lives. It will extend health insurance coverage to 31 million Americans who don't have it today. Over 90% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, the highest percentage in the history of the United States. For Colorado that means over 840,000 people who don't have insurance will now have access and another 300,000 people who have insurance in the unstable individual market will be able to get affordable coverage through the new health insurance exchange.
The Senate bill makes preventative services like breast cancer and colorectal cancers screenings available without co-payments. Now, mammograms and colonoscopies, which can cost between $150-$200 on average, will be free as well for seniors – half a million seniors in my home state alone, Mr. President. This means catching diseases earlier, promoting wellness, and saving millions of lives.
And for our nation's working families, this bill will also rein in the worst practices of private insurance companies. They'll have to commit to covering patients, instead of gouging them for excessive profits and overhead. And starting in 2011, if an insurance company doesn't give you value for your dollar, they will have to refund you back the difference. They won't be able to impose arbitrary lifetime limits on consumers that punish you just for getting sick, or deny you insurance because of a preexisting condition. The newest Senate bill does more to contain costs, more to demand accountability and transparency from insurance companies, and more to give consumers a better choice.
For my home state in particular, I am glad that the bill addresses other critical areas.
This reform does more for small business and small business workers than ever before. Small businesses tax credits will begin next year, giving eligible businesses a tax credit for six years to purchase health insurance for their employees. We have expanded the tax credits for small businesses allowing more than 68,000 small businesses in Colorado to buy health insurance.
This bill makes a significant investment in Medicare payments to rural areas. When I first joined the Senate, my first piece of legislation called for a deficit-neutral reserve fund to address the differences in Medicare payments between urban and rural areas. This Senate bill recognizes the geographic differences between rural and urban areas and make sure providers in rural Colorado who provide higher quality at lower costs receive higher Medicare payments.
This bill also delivers on its promise to seniors. This bill doesn't use a dime of the Medicare trust fund to pay for reform and does not cut guaranteed benefits. That is why on the first day on the health reform debate, I introduced an amendment that would make sure seniors will still see their guaranteed benefits, like hospital stays, and prescription drug coverage, no matter what changes we made in health reform.
It was the most bipartisan piece of legislation we have had this year, with 100 Senators agreeing that health reform would not take away guaranteed Medicare benefits for seniors. For Colorado, that means half a million Medicare beneficiaries who will continue to have their guaranteed benefits protected and preventative services free of charge through health reform.
I am very pleased that Majority Leader Reid included a version of a piece of legislation that I wrote based on the work in Mesa County, Colorado — home of Grand Junction. Currently, one out of every five Medicare patients that's released from the hospital winds up back in the hospital in the same month they were released. But not in Mesa County — they have reduced the readmission rates at the hospital to about 2 percent, compared to the national average at 20 percent. That's 12 million patients who aren't receiving the care they need.
In Mesa County, they have lowered readmissions by creating a transitional model that makes sure when patients leave the hospital, they do so with a coach. That coach helps them go from the emergency room to their primary care physician and their mental health provider, making sure they get the care they need over a period of time. Making sure they don't forget their prescriptions. And making sure they have the guidance they need to take responsibility for their own care. I am pleased that the Senate bill compensates and reimburses hospitals and providers that set up models like the one in Mesa County that actually saves money.
On another note, I want to thank my fellow freshman. Together, we worked hard to introduce a package of amendments to further contain cost and make our system more efficient.
As I traveled throughout Colorado on the August break, I heard from doctors and nurses who told me, repeatedly, all they wanted to do was work with patients while all the government was doing was making them fill out one form after another. When I came back I was determined to do something to help cut the red tape and bureaucracy for these people so they could spend more time with their patients. That's why as a part of the freshman package, I introduced an amendment to put an end to multiple forms, confusing codes, and unnecessary paperwork that burden providers. And if health plans don't follow the rules, they will suffer financial penalties. Our health care workers deserve better — this amendment gives them back time to spend with their patients.
Our freshman package rewards and emphasizes efficiency. One form to fill out, not ten. Less red tape. Fewer bureaucrats. A system that makes sense. That package was endorsed by the Business Roundtable, AFL-CIO, and Consumers Union. Proof that, at least off this floor, there are still people from all different points of view who are willing to work together.
This bill also makes groundbreaking progress in the area of tort reform. This bill includes language I worked on with Senators Baucus, Carper, and Lincoln to create a state grant program for states to develop, implement, and evaluate alternatives to tort litigation for medical malpractice claims. The purpose of these grants is to limit litigation, while preserving access to courts for patients and promoting strategies to reduce medical errors.
Mr. President, I know many in this chamber take issue with one particular part of this bill or another. I have my own issues with the bill. I am one of many who have expressed their strong preference for a public option. But I urge you to consider how much good this bill can do for the American people — those with skyrocketing health care costs, small businesses forced with the impossible choice of helping workers keep their coverage or even just maintaining their business. To have the non-partisan experts, the CBO, validate that in the second decade, we will have cut health care costs by up to $1.3 trillion, and that we will reduce the rise in costs of Medicare from 8% in the last two decades to 6% in the next two decades, all while covering 31 million uninsured Americans is truly groundbreaking.
We know what more time elapsing without fixing this system means for Colorado's working families and small businesses. It means more double-digit premium increases, less time to fix Medicare before it goes bankrupt in 2017, and more names added to the rolls of the uninsured.
It means another big win for the special interests. More people denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, and more small business employers will have to make impossible decisions about covering their workers or keeping their doors open.
So let's reject business as usual. Let's look at the promise of this Senate bill as a whole. Let's put the pettiness, scare tactics, and obstruction aside. Reform is what's needed to control costs, give people more choice and provide support for our small businesses. This package will reduce our deficits, and it does so by reforming the way we provide health care.
Mr. President we have much to do. Even before we were in the worst recession since the Great Depression, during the last period of economic recovery, working families' income actually declined, the first time in the history of the United States. The first time that our economy grew and left the middle class behind. At the same time, in my State of Colorado, and all states across the country, the cost of health insurance rose by 97% and the cost of higher education in my state went up by 50%. Finally, because of the short-term politics practiced here, we now have an annual deficit and long-term debt that is cheating our children and constraining their choices.
We still have a lot to do to live up to the legacy that our parents and grandparents have left us. And it has taken me less than a year to understand that Washington still doesn't get it. I know we can do better.
And despite so much evidence to the contrary, I believe we will. I believe we will in the end because the national creed that each generation of Americans has fought for and fulfilled — the idea expressed in our Constitution that our responsibility lies not just to ourselves but to our prosperity – is so much more powerful than the trivial politics that animates so many of the charges and countercharges that ricochet around this building.
It is for this reason I urge my colleagues to come together and support this meaningful improvement to our health care system.
Mr. President, I yield the floor.


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Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
This is a tricky one to review. Why? Because while love McLain's writing (LOVE IT), I was not a fan of the actual story. However, this is not necessarily a fault of McLain's as it is historical fiction. Allow me to explain.
Love and Ruin is the story of Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway's whirlwind romance and subsequent divorce. Here's the thing - I am never a fan of love stories that begin as affairs. Again, this is not McLain's doing - it is what happened in real life. However, with a writer as strong as McLain, I actually did find myself rooting for them (or at least for Gellhorn) in the beginning. I was able to see things through her eyes. That's a first for me, so I applaud McLain for it.
But, then again, McLain clearly strives to not only bring Gellhorn to life but also to focus. Gellhorn, a remarkable journalist, feared she would live her life in the shadow of Hemingway. Therefore, the novel covers the time periods surrounding Hemingway by telling what Gellhorn was doing. And, she was doing a lot. Unfortunately, she was doing so much, that the book seemed longer and longer. And, if I'm being honest, I just wasn't as invested in every little career pursuit during this time as I was the story of her and Hemingway - shame on me!
Based on the title (and general knowledge about Hemingway's four wives), I knew that the "Ruin" was coming. And, it was not fun. It is terribly sad. So, there is a lot of build-up, and then a lot of stagnant career stuff, and then a sad ending.
Again, this is not the writer's fault - it is the fault of the story itself. It is hard to read about two extraordinary, ambitious people who both want to burn the brightest and because of this couldn't get things right. To give you a better idea of the writing, here are some of my favorite quotes:
"This is the light of childhood. I was all the ages I had ever been."
"Confident about some things and not at all about others. Like all the men I knew. Like all the people I knew. Like me."
"Anything and anyone could disappear on you, and you could disappear, too, if you didn't have people around who really knew you. Who were there solidly, meeting you exactly where you stood when life grew stormy and terrifying. Who could find you when you were lost and couldn't find yourself, not even in the mirror."
"This is personal, this life, and every time we graze against one another even for a moment, we aren't the same afterward."
"Paradise was always fragile. That was its very nature."
Fans of McLain's The Paris Wife will also enjoy this one, as well fans of history.
***Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with this copy to review!


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Ed. Note: We don't often have instances of plagiarism, but we believe we have been duped by Idk (email address name Clio Baumgardner) with this image which does not appear to have been shot by Idk, despite the claims in the body of the submission. We overlooked the copyright information on the image which does not match either the Idk signature or the Clio Baumgardner return email address. Once we began to suspect, after Eucharitid expert John Heraty wrote "it certainly didn't come from California (Old World only)," we located the image on the Myrmecos Blog Best Insect Photos of 2009 and credited to Rundstedt B. Rovillos. We also found it on FlickR where it is also credited to Rundstedt B. Rovillos. Plainly and simply, stealing images from the internet is dishonest and it is plagiarism. Idk is a thief.
Subject: Weird Bug
Location: California
January 10, 2016 2:41 pm
I found the super weird bug hanging in my favorite picnic spot, I'm wondering what it is! Luckily I got a clear shot of the bug. ???
Signature: Idk
Dear Idk,
This really is an unusual looking insect, and our gut instincts said "Parasitic Hymenopteran" however we could not find any matching images on BugGuide. The feathered antennae are quite unusual for Hymenopterans, which include Ants, Bees and Wasps, so we did a web search of "wasp feathered antennae" and we discovered this image on FlickR that is identified as a Eucharitid Wasp from the Philippines with this information: "Eucharitid wasps are specialized parasitoids of ants. Larvae develop inside ant nests feeding on ant brood. Adult wasps sometimes form large mating swarms in meadows, where the females oviposit in plant material. Young larvae attach themselves to passing ants, or to ant prey items, to be carried into the ant nest." There is another image with no information on Pinoy PHotography. We couldn't find any images on BugGuide with that distinctive thoracic spine, though we did find a species on BugGuide, Pseudochalcura gibbosa, that has feathered antenna. We found a similar image on the UC Riverside site, but there is no species name. PBase has an Ecuadorean individual called a Bison Wasp. We would really like to be able to provide you with a species identification, so we are contacting Eric Eaton for his input. Could you also provide us with a city in California where this Eucharitid was sighted? We hope they prey on invasive Argentine Ants.
Eric Eaton Responds
Hi, Daniel:
Happy New Year!
I found I already liked the Facebook page for WTB, and saw this posted there. I have shared it with the "Hymenopterists Forum" group, which is filled with experts on all things ants, bees, and wasps. Someone there should be able to offer help. I'll keep checking the results.
Identification by expert John Heraty: Schizaspidia species
This, from John Heraty, a world authority on the family:
"This is Schizaspidia (Eucharitidae), but it certainly didn't come from California (Old World only)."
We write back to Idk for clarification.
Hi again Idk,
Please clarify where in California this image was shot as it is not a California species. It is also curious that the name on the file is Rundstedt B Rovillos, which is different from the Idk you signed and the Clio Baumgardner return address on the email.
We write to Rundstedt.
Dear Rundstedt,
This gorgeous image was just submitted to What's That Bug? and after posting it and having it identified as a Schizaspidia species thanks to the opinion of Eucharitid expert John Heraty, we realized that the image was plagiarized from the internet. We hope you will allow us to continue to keep the image on our site, correctly credited to you.
Daniel Marlos
Dear Daniel,
Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention. I am the owner of this image.This tiny wasp was photographed at La Mesa Ecopark located in Fairview, Quezon City Philippines several years ago.
Yes, you may keep this image on your site to inform others about this beautiful creature.
Rundstedt Rovillos


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From THE Reliable Source at The Washington Post:
Celebrities: Don't get into a fight with anyone carrying a video camera. It's the newest weapon in the ideological arsenal, and never ends well.
On Wednesday night, Bill O'Reilly shoved a camera-wielding man with his umbrella while on his way to a White House holiday party. The Fox News star upped the stakes by telling a nearby policeman he wanted to press charges against the protester. Within hours, it was all on YouTube, fodder for his critics across the Web.
Which is pretty much the point of videorazzi: Show the target in an embarrassing light.
O'Reilly's case was a little different because Brendan Lane didn't plan to ambush him. Lane, a paid organizer for Wisconsin Jobs Now, was filming outside the Willard Hotel Wednesday because Newt Gingrich was holding a fundraiser inside. Someone spotted O'Reilly on the sidewalk, and Lane jogged through the pouring rain to catch up.
"Leave me alone right now," warned O'Reilly. Lane asked, "Mr. O'Reilly, were you at Gingrich's fundraiser?" He wasn't, it turns out — but that's when O'Reilly knocked Lane into the street with his umbrella and taunted, "Hey, sorry about that."


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