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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. Vote out most US Republicans! Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. [35]. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell will not take up the minimum wage issue, and Trump says he will veto it.
12 Aug 2020: Kamala Harris and Cannabis: Setting the Record Straight.
6 Aug: NPR. 300,000 Deaths By December? 9 Takeaways From The Newest COVID-19 Projections. If 95% in US wore masks (50% now), 66,000 lives would be saved. Republicans refuse to MANDATE MASKS!
2 Aug: We Should Consider Starting Covid-19 Vaccinations Now. From: Forbes.
31 July: Women Who Use Marijuana More Often Have Better Sex, Study Says. What this really means: Trump supporters overall have worse sex, since they have a higher rate of disapproval towards cannabis.
26 July: Texas House Speaker Says Legalizing Marijuana 'Could Be A Help' To Budget Woes, But He'd Vote Against It. We need to vote out these Republican morons.
16 July 2020: Seth Rogen Says Racist Cannabis Policing Harms Black Community, But Expungement Can Help. From: Forbes.
Countries with more people wearing face masks have much lower Covid-19 death rates. [39]. Chart below from BBC: Coronavirus: Japan's mysteriously low virus death rate. See more charts. [40][41][42]. See Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country.
9 July: Canada. Police chiefs call on Ottawa to decriminalize possession of illicit drugs for personal use.
26 June 2020: With 40,000 Americans Incarcerated For Marijuana Offenses, The Cannabis Industry Needs To Step Up, Activists Said This Week. From: Forbes.
14 June: Trump has trouble lifting glass of water and walking down ramp at West Point graduation.
12 June: Readers React: U.S. drug war partly to blame for rift between communities and police. "It is time to treat drug addiction as a public health problem rather than a police matter. Portugal takes this approach and their drug-induced death rate is one-fifth the European Union average." 12 June: Bernie Sanders And Cory Booker Talk Racial Injustices Of Marijuana Criminalization At Virtual Town Hall.
10 June: Should Police Departments Receive Military-Grade Equipment? "Critics also argue that the requirement the 1033 Program equipment be used within a year of approval incentivizes police departments to bring military equipment to situations that don't warrant it."
1 June: Since the beginning of 2015 Minneapolis police rendered 44 people unconscious using neck restraints 237 times. Half of those 44 were injured.
29 May: Biggest US petition of all time! Justice for George Floyd. Change.org.
27 May: After George Floyd's death in Minnesota, still think Colin Kaepernick's knee was the problem?
10 May: AOC. In Denmark starting pay at McDonald's is about $22 an hour. It's true. See Politifact.
10 May: Saturday Night Live. Alec Baldwin returns as Trump drinking Clorox in 'SNL' opener.
8 May: DW. Cannabis may increase resistance to coronavirus. Preliminary research.
in Jackson and Iacono's analysis [of the twin study], marijuana use and IQ were completely uncorrelated, and IQ measures fell equally in both the users and abstainers. Subsequent twin studies, including one performed with U.K. data by the Dunedin team, corroborated these findings of no relationship between marijuana use and a falling IQ.
6 May: Louisiana Lawmakers Vote To Allow Medical Marijuana For Any Debilitating Condition, And To Legalize Delivery Services.
2 May 2020: 2020 Global Cannabis March. Many virtual, online events.
27 Apr: Swiss Parliament Passes Motion To Authorize Cannabis Production And Export.
22 Apr: Majority Of Americans Think Marijuana Legalization Is A Successful Policy, Poll Finds. Most Republican politicians follow the lead of their base. So vote out most Republicans. From the article: "Democrats were the most likely to say that legalization has been successful or mostly successful (67 percent), followed by independents (54 percent) and Republicans (41 percent)."
Names of 50 nurses who died from COVID-19 read aloud in the shadow of the White House. [70]. Hospital horrors: Hospitals Tell Doctors They'll Be Fired If They Speak Out. [71][72] Stats. Video [73]. See News. Jails are hidden Republican death camps. [74][75][76][77] [78][79][80][81][82]. And: Nursing homes too (lack of testing). [83][84][85][86]. Republicans refuse to raise minimum wage of essential workers. [87]. Republicans bail out banks over people. So, Vote! See: Taiwan's COVID-19 control without a lockdown: Tests, contacts, GPS apps, masks, distancing, fevers. Calling for Trump's cabinet to invoke 25th Amendment to remove president after his call to inject disinfectants. [88][89][90][91][92]. US Republicans Voted Often to KILL Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [93][94][95]. COVID-19 is killing them. Blacks pushed to back of COVID in-hospital treatment line.
21 Apr: Lebanon Passes Legislation Legalizing Medical Marijuana Cultivation As Economy Struggles Amid Coronavirus Fallout.
20 Apr: Coronavirus sends 420 gatherings up in smoke, but potheads still plan virtual toke - ABC.
2020 events. And: Online 420 events: Facebook: World's Biggest 4/20 Online Smoke Sesh by International Highlife. See: Main page. See: F*ck Corona: Virtual 420 Celebration. [102][103][104]. More online 420 events: Brazil: [105][106]. Canada: [107][108]. Colombia: [109][110][111][112][113]. Italy: [114][115][116]. Germany: [117]. Mexico: [118][119][120][121] [122][123][124][125]. Puerto Rico: [126][127]. Phillippines: [128][129][130]. United Kingdom: [131][132][133][134][135][136]. United States: [137][138][139][140] [141][142][143][144] [145][146][147]. Free 420 Virtual Event. April 17-20. [148]. Compilations of many events: [149][150][151][152][153] [154][155][156][157].
18 Apr: 'They're Death Pits': Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes. Many more deaths in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities have not been counted yet.
16 Apr: Snoop Dogg smoking a blunt outside the White House saying 'f*ck the president'
10 Apr: Massive testing, masks, contact tracing, and app mapping are the big lessons from South Korea's coronavirus response. Now they can go out more (in masks). Vox video. [161][162].
Wikipedia: United States influenza deaths and hospitalizations by flu season. COVID-19 US deaths have already surpassed 2020 US flu deaths. 10 April: Hundreds of bodies recovered from New York City homes every day are NOT included in coronavirus death count even if they had symptoms. [163] COVID-19 table by country (scroll down). Cases, total deaths, deaths per million, etc.. [164].
8 Apr 2020: Massachusetts. If Liquor Stores Are "Essential," Why Aren't Marijuana Dispensaries?
7 Apr: Charlotte Figi, namesake of Charlotte's Web medical marijuana strain, dies with COVID-19. Girl who inspired CBD movement dead at 13. [165][166][167].
7 Apr: Businesses that 'indirectly' work with marijuana industry ineligible for federal coronavirus loans. Another result of Republican refusal to federally reschedule or deschedule cannabis.
As many as 100,000 incarcerated people in US jails and prisons will die from the coronavirus, unless Republicans (mostly) act now. [168][169][170][171] [172][173][174][175]. Federal prison workers say conflicting orders on coronavirus response is putting lives at risk. COVID-19 safeguards are collapsing. Many guards staying home. [176][177][178][179][180][181]. Jails and state prisons are releasing nonviolent inmates early: [182][183][184][185][186] [187][188][189][190] [191][192][193][194][195].
4 Apr 2020: Trump Administration Adopts Mini-Universal Health Care for COVID-19. $$$. Health Care CEO Who Makes Millions Says No to Hazard Pay for Coronavirus Workers. These leaders should take a huge pay cut to buy more equipment to save nurses' lives.
4 Apr: Canada: Double standard! Ontario's marijuana stores ordered to close. While alcohol sales are liberalized through take-out and delivery services! [196]. See: Cannabis is safer!
CNN: 11 times Donald Trump has 'belittled' coronavirus. CNN: Documents show backlog of 160,000 coronavirus tests at just one US lab company. It's Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work. Many studies cited. WIRED. [197][198] No-Sew Pleated Face Mask. Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines. [199][200][201][202]. The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life. How South Korea started mass testing right away in Jan 2020. [203] 'A perfect storm': US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars.
29 Mar: New Jersey. Let sick people grow their own weed at home, N.J. medical marijuana industry advocates say.
29 Mar: "A Michigan emergency room nurse posted a gripping, seven-minute video on Instagram saying that they're out of fentanyl, Tylenol and ventilators." From: Article with more videos. [204][205][206]. Healthcare workers need crowd-sourced masks. State by state lists.
28 Mar: Biden leads Trump in new polls despite coronavirus approval bounce. 2020 US election may come down to "My rapist is better than your rapist". Lesser of evils. Google Tara Reade. And Bernie Sanders shot himself in the foot by refusing to give up his pet word, "socialist". Presidential power should be abolished. They are all flawed. Presidents should be figureheads only, like UK's queen.
Facebook. [208]. See New York City hospital video. Trump completely ignorant about lack of ventilators: [209][210][211][212][213][214][215]. And: Snopes says; This Timeline of Trump's Coronavirus Responses Is Accurate. [216][217][218][219]. See TV ad Trump is trying to stop. [220][221].
24 Mar: Nepali lawmakers push marijuana legalization. Production, sale, consumption. Grow 6 plants.
19 Mar 2020: Los Angeles, California. Cannabis dispensaries listed as essential businesses under L.A. County coronavirus order.
18 Mar: Baltimore To End Most Drug Prosecutions Amid Coronavirus Outbreak.
Republicans have declared War on the Middle Class.
22 Oct 2019: Average French households 'more wealthy than Americans and Germans', new study reveals. See median-wealth chart. See graphic below about how Trump Republicans transferred wealth from average American households to the rich.
Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).
US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [228][229][230].
Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also:
Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization
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- 12 Trump's far-right Republicans
- 13 GOP taxes screw middle class
- 14 Falling inflation-adjusted wages
- 15 US has stingiest minimum wage
- 16 US has high wealth inequality
- 17 US has high income inequality
- 18 Massive US household debt
- 19 Massive US medical debt
- 20 Progressive Republicans:
- 21 President Eisenhower. 1953
- 22 His 91% top marginal tax rate
- 23 Equaled prosperity for more
- 24 President Abraham Lincoln
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Global Marijuana March[edit]
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Return to top. See 2018 Global Marijuana March and 420 events. And: 420 event lists.
- May 5: [234].
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- Facebook: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana 2011. Argentina cities listed, with event info and links. Click "See more" in the "More info" section.
- Pidieron que el cultivo de marihuana sea despenalizado.
- Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana 2011 Mar del Plata.
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Mar del Plata. 2010 - Hosting GMM for the first time!
Mar del Plata: Federico Abuelo TE 46998934 Cel 1562736866 http://www.gmmargentina.com.ar/ The march will take place at 14:00 pm at Plaza San Martín.
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Cannabis is safer.[edit]
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."
|2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans' access to medical cannabis.
23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass incarceration.
|Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example."
Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [235]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [236][237][238][239][240].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [241]. "My suspicion is that you're gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [242][243][244].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [245]. December 2015.
- Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [246]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
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Trump's far-right Republicans[edit]
Return to top. See: Happy alternatives to Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
News: Americans want universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman worked for both. Roosevelt and Truman, followed by Eisenhower, a progressive Republican, had steep progressive taxation where the prosperous middle class paid less taxes as a percent of their income, because the rich paid more. All 3 Presidents increased the minimum wage, [247], which pushed up middle class wages too. Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages are declining [248].
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GOP taxes screw middle class[edit]
Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Chart below. 2017 Republican tax and individual mandate repeal bill. Yellow is for an average increase in cost for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. Up to incomes of $75,000.
|Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage.
|Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds.
|"By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries".
|2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2.
Falling inflation-adjusted wages[edit]
- Return to top. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages are declining (especially for Republican states with low minimum wages).
The Trump Matrix. Wage slaves waking up.
28 Feb 2020: PolitiFact: Rep. Mark Pocan is on point that wages haven't moved much in the last 30 years. "The cost of everyday goods like rent, groceries and cars have outpaced median wage growth. ... Accounting for inflation, the median wage has only increased $3 since 1990 — and the cost of living expenses has far outpaced that number."
|Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts. 7 Feb 2020.
25 Sep 2018: Real Wage Growth Is Actually Falling. Forbes.
|14 Aug 2018: Stagnating salaries: Real US wages are essentially back at 1974 levels, Pew reports. Daniel B. Kline. USA Today.
In U.S., wage growth is being wiped out entirely by inflation. 10 Aug 2018. Washington Post.
|7 Aug 2018: For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Pew Research Center.
Top line in timeline below is hourly wages adjusted for inflation. It is flat: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
US has stingiest minimum wage[edit]
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2 Jul 2019: There's More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won't Cost Jobs.
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." Dec. 29, 2017. Washington Post. Chart below is from the article.
Chart below. USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years.
Source. See also: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [249].
- 2020 State Minimum Wage Rates. Plus map showing lower minimum wages in Republican states. [250][251].]]
US federal minimum wage timeline below. Top line is adjusted for inflation. Middle class prosperity peaked under Truman and Roosevelt in the 1950s due to steep progressive taxation where the middle class paid less. And the minimum wage was increased. That also pushed up middle class wages.
US has high wealth inequality[edit]
See the median wealth by country chart:
Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult - 2019 publication: The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($107,004) is much higher than that of the former great nation, the USA ($65,904). It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Plus predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. Google News search: student debt.
Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion). Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.
US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [252]. See chart below. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult.? Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.
- Middle class wealth collapsing. [253]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse. 2019 report. Country links are to Wikipedia articles. Click red column headers to sort. Link.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars
1 Switzerland 227,891 2 Australia 181,361 3 Iceland 165,961 4 Hong Kong 146,887 5 Luxembourg 139,789 6 Belgium 117,093 7 New Zealand 116,433 8 Japan 110,408 9 Canada 107,004 10 Ireland 104,842 11 France 101,942 12 United Kingdom 97,452 13 Singapore 96,967 14 Spain 95,360 15 Austria 94,070 16 Italy 91,889 17 Malta 76,016 18 South Korea 72,198 19 Norway 70,627 20 Taiwan 70,191 21 Qatar 69,671 22 United States 65,904 23 Denmark 58,784
US has high income inequality[edit]
Timeline below of real (inflation-adjusted) average US household income by quintile and top 5 percent in 2018 dollars. Note that the bottom 60% of households (bottom 3 quintiles) have had little improvement in real income. While the top 20%, and especially the top 5 percent, have had large, even exceptional, increases in real income.
Median income by country charts:
- Median GDP per capita: how much does the typical person earn in different countries? A look at Global Inequality - the Giving What We Can Blog. By Hauke Hillebrandt. 25 May 2016
- The World Bank's Poverty Statistics Lack Median Income Data, So We Filled In the Gap Ourselves — Download Available. February 6, 2016. Anna Diofasi and Nancy Birdsall. Center for Global Development.
- Above chart. United States leads in income inequality, and lack of economic mobility. Increasing income inequality on the horizontal axis. Increasing economic immobility on the vertical axis. Note the Scandinavian countries on the bottom left.
26 Jul 2018: As Workers' Wages Continue to Fall Under Trump, Analysis Shows CEO Pay Is Way Higher Than Typically Reported. Jake Johnson, Common Dreams.
17 Jul 2018: Bernie Sanders: Trump's economy is great for billionaires, not for working families. By Bernie Sanders. USA Today. 17 Jul 2018: If the economy is 'roaring', why are so many Americans still struggling? Bernie Sanders. The Guardian.
Real wages are not just flat, they are falling. 15 Jun 2018. Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam. Washington Post.
|Workers' wages fall after Republican tax cuts. 13 Jun 2018. Tax cuts went mostly to the rich. Should have gone mostly to the middle class who would have had more money free to plow back into the economy.
For the biggest group of American workers, wages aren't just flat. They're falling. June 15, 2018. Washington Post. [254][255][256].
Increasing income inequality over time. Chart below from:
17 Dec 2017: A Republican Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. New York Times.
1 Jul 2016: Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."
- Commons: Category: Median income. Charts, graphs, maps
Massive US household debt[edit]
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Household debt.
US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the PDF.
Total household debt. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times.
Total Household Debt by Type:
- Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.
Massive US medical debt[edit]
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.
17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
Progressive Republicans:[edit]
President Eisenhower. 1953[edit]
Wikipedia: Dwight D. Eisenhower. President: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961.
Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
President Eisenhower followed progressives like President Roosevelt. Roosevelt and General Eisenhower had worked together to crush the far-right of their day, the Nazis.
Quote source: Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act. June 16, 1933. "No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
Unlike today's Republicans, Eisenhower understood that trickle-down economics does not work.
14 Oct 2018: Bernie Sanders video: Trickle-Down Economics Does Not Work.
12 Oct 2018: Bernie Sanders video: Disney Heiress Abigail Disney Says The Wealthy Don't Need Another Tax Break.
His 91% top marginal tax rate[edit]
Equaled prosperity for more[edit]
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Chart below. Higher average effective tax rate on the top 1 percent of US households in the 1950s (42% average effective tax rate). Total of federal, state, and local taxes. In 2014 it was 36.4%.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here's the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [257][258].
Chart below. Highest marginal income tax rates over time.
- Above chart source. And: Source 2.
USA. Since 2001, labor's share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
- See above chart source. [259]. And source article.
Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income. When capital gains are included.
- Above graph source. And: Source 2.
|10 Jul 2018: National (US) Pay Trends. "Since 2006, wages have risen 12.9 percent overall in the US. But when you factor in inflation, real wages' have actually fallen 9.3 percent. In other words, the income for a typical worker today buys them less than it did in 2006."
2 Jul 2018: An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty. Paul Buchheit. Common Dreams.
For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation
President Abraham Lincoln[edit]
Abraham Lincoln. From a message to the U.S. Congress, 3 December 1861:
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
More sources: [260]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.
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Spinach & ricotta gnocchi
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal287
- fat15g
- saturates8g
- carbs19g
- sugars2g
- fibre2g
- protein20g
- salt0.86g
- 200g young spinach, washed
Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable…
- small handful parsley leaves, finely chopped
One of the most ubiquitous herbs in British cookery, parsley is also popular in European and…
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 140g ricotta
Ricotta is an Italian cheese made from whey and traditionally a by-product of…
- 85g plain flour
- 2 eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 100g freshly grated vegetarian Parmesan-style cheese, plus extra to serve
- freshly grated nutmeg
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- olive oil and rocket, to serve
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Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
Boil the kettle. Place the spinach in a large bowl and pour boiling water over it. Leave for 2 mins until wilted, then drain thoroughly. Leave to cool, then wrap a clean tea towel around the spinach. Hold it over the sink and squeeze out as much water as possible. Finely chop.
Place the spinach, parsley, garlic, ricotta, flour, eggs, cheese and a generous grating of nutmeg into a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Use a fork to stir very thoroughly until everything is completely mixed. Using wet hands, form the mixture into walnut-size balls. Place on a large plate or tray and refrigerate for at least 30 mins.
When ready to cook, heat the oven to warm and bring a large pan of water to the boil. Reduce the heat to medium and drop in batches of about 8-10 gnocchi at a time. They will sink to the bottom, and when they rise to the top give them about 1 min more, then remove with a slotted spoon and keep warm while you cook the rest. Serve the gnocchi on warm plates drizzled with olive oil and scattered with rocket and more cheese.


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The Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (MWAA) earlier this year published a document to its website containing sensitive security information that terrorists could potentially have used to launch cyber and physical attacks against Reagan National and Dulles International airports in Washington, D.C.
The document is a Statement of Work (SOW) published as part of a process to solicit contractors for electronic security maintenance, repair, modification, and installation services at the airports. Since being contacted for this article, the MWAA has removed information from the document that it deemed sensitive.
Rob Yingling, a spokesperson for the MWAA, acknowledges that he could not be certain exactly how long the SOW was available on the public Internet. He says SOW documents for contractors are typically published for temporary periods, but the length of each varies depending on the services the solicitation seeks.
A solicitation for the project dated March 2, 2012 gives an April 4 deadline for questions about the project. On Sept. 19, the same day the MWAA issued a statement declaring the sensitive information was removed from the document, the MWAA's board of directors approved a contract for the security services to TYCO Integrated Security, Yingling says.
Statement of work documents are often made available online. Several federal agencies, such as the Government Services Agency and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, publish their SOWs for construction projects regularly. However, the MWAA acknowledged that the documents need to be screened for sensitive information before being published.
"To ensure a wide range of competitive bids for the contracts we award, the Airports Authority routinely posts procurement documents online," according to a statement the MWAA provided to Network World. "The referenced contract has completed the procurement process, and therefore documents have been removed from our website. We agree postings of this type need to be fully vetted and only contain releasable information pertaining to the solicitation in question."
Matthijs Koot, an independent security researcher from the Netherlands, first voiced his concerns after spotting the document in a popular online disclosure forum. At first glance, the document appeared to be little more than a general rundown of maintenance projects typical of SOWs. Further examination, however, left Koot alarmed over the level of detail regarding hardware and configuration of sensitive security systems.
"The words 'airport' and 'electronic systems security' hit my curiosity bone," Koot says. "I skimmed through the file and noticed it contains a lot of details about security procedures, such as schedules for testing the alarm system and how security information is communicated."
The document included a detailed map of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a diagram of the entire electronic security system - including connection and protocol details for key components - and an outline of which COTS hardware/software are used, down to the router brands and types.
After reviewing the document, Koot asked for a second opinion from a senior-level U.S. military cybersecurity specialist and former leader of a military Red Team that challenged government systems to identify weaknesses.
Though he only agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, the specialist says the document contained "exactly the type of open source information that the team and I were always looking for in order to lay the groundwork for targeting of a system."
Others agree. After reviewing the SOW, Scot Terban, who performs penetration testing, incident response, forensics, and information security auditing at an aerospace company, says "all you'd need to really set up a nice hacking attack on Reagan and Dulles is in there." That includes the number and location of surveillance cameras, the operating systems used at the airports, the types of switching, routing and networking hardware used, network logic diagrams and data flows, and the locations of RFID readers.
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"It is also important to note that in this document set, they state that the work being done will allow for access to the codes for the airport facilities," Terban says. "So once in [the] clear, the attacker would have access to pretty much the keys to the kingdom at both airports."
To better understand what the information contained in the SOW could be used for from an attacker's perspective, an experienced hacker familiar with penetration testing and the techniques employed in undermining network security systems was consulted. Given the sensitive nature of the information, the source preferred to remain unnamed.
The hacker explained that anyone launching an attack could spend months gathering the necessary information. With the SOW, "someone decided to do all this work for me," he says.
Bureaucratic finger-pointing
The difficulty involved with reporting the issue to federal authorities raised additional concerns. The military cybersecurity specialist contacted the Department of Homeland Security shortly after reviewing the document. However, because the airports are classified as civilian facilities, his reporting was limited to a phone-based system developed as part of Secretary Janet Napolitano's "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign.
"DHS uses a multi-tiered system to accept reports. I am sure they are inundated with information, so the first line of operators are there simply to take down as much information as possible as it relates to the issue at hand," the specialist says. "From my experience, this first level had no technical expertise and was not there to evaluate as much as to simply record and report."
Two weeks after initially reporting the document, the specialist was contacted by TSA customer service representatives. Even after the specialist stated his position in the military and reiterated his concern over the information contained in the SOW, TSA officials informed him that they did not consider the document sensitive in nature. No further action involving the SOW was required, the TSA told him.
Responding to a separate inquiry months later, a TSA representative told Network World the matter was the responsibility of the MWAA, adding that "airports are responsible for airport security."
The military specialist who initially reported the security risks to the TSA says the inconsistency with which the two agencies responded revealed some "operational gaps and seams." These weaknesses are what adversaries often target when trying to launch an attack, "because it's usually at your seams where you're the weakest, as far as your staff is concerned," the specialist says.
Furthermore, the specialist expressed concern in the lack of oversight and accountability involving the document. The MWAA and many other airport authorities across the country regularly post similar SOW documents to the Internet. This one happened to be published with sensitive electronic security information that TSA agents either deemed harmless or counted on civilians to report. The document, as a result, was not altered until civilians contacted the responsible party directly.
After this chain of events, the specialist says the TSA would likely be held responsible by the U.S. public in the event the vulnerabilities in the SOW had been exploited. In this case, the specialist says, security should trump jurisdiction.
"If something were to happen because of a breach of the security at the airfield itself that led to items or personnel being introduced to an aircraft or something happening, I think the majority of the U.S. population would point their finger at the TSA and not at the MWAA," he says. "I understand where they're coming from because, when you look at the charter of the TSA, I don't think any time they're responsible for the physical security or the infrastructure of the airport. But most people don't get that differentiation."
Anthony M. Freed is a freelance security journalist and editor - follow him on Twitter: @AnthonyM Freed
Read more about wide area network in Network World's Wide Area Network section.
This story, "Security Flaws Exposed at Washington, D.C. Airports" was originally published by Network World.
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If you are out to acquire affordable public holidays for yourself or your family, then you must be willing to extend the effort. Sometimes, it may come easy but in most cases, getting to find cheap hotels and travel packages will be painstakingly difficult. And although it is smart to start looking at online sources for great deals, you should also extend your search to other options so that your chance of landing any holiday promos increases.
The most convenient resource you could initially try out would be online travel discount sites and travel aggregator search sites. These are trusted references when it comes to holiday bookings. The former extends discounts on holiday packages while the latter compares prices and shows you the best deals from different websites. Covering these two should secure you great savings and the best travel options your budget can afford. On top of that, they should also provide assistance in securing other amenities such as rentals. And they sometimes even suggest itinerary choices for travellers. It is important that you check them both out thoroughly because they could display different results. Some hotels don't necessarily sign up their deals in both portals, you know.
After you've signed up for membership and alerts, your next option to find cheap hotels would be look at smaller, local travel establishments. They are just as reliable when it comes to planning economical trips. And they may have special airline or hotel deals that are not made available through the web. It is important to remember that like the previous resources, they too have a special connection with travel-related businesses. And they can hook you up with their contacts for discounted rates without any problems.
Third, you should look up tourism websites and check out any clean and safe lodging options that are less expensive than what large chain hotels can offer. Bed and breakfasts, inns, and lodging houses are just some of the low-cost accommodation options you can take advantage of. You could also use your network of friends in social media sites to refer you to these alternatives. Some people might now some people who can set you up with a nice place to live during your escapades.
In addition you could also join travel clubs. Yes, there is a fee to consider but the cost reduction privileges their membership card can provide you will more than compensate for your initial outlay. It is applicable to all types of concerns during a travel, from the tickets and hotel bookings to the food and attractions. Besides, membership also allows you to access customer care representatives and they can ably help you when there are any problems during public holidays.
To go on a vacation abroad without incurring thousands upon thousands of dollars in expenses would be a dream. But this is not to say it is impossible to achieve in the real world. What you need to do is to extend a lot of patience in your quest and be resourceful when needed.


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Despite my best efforts, I have been unable to narrow this list down to anything that is in anyway manageable. It's been a great year for games- especially indies. At this point I think it's more useful to look back at certain movements in this year's releases rather than specific titles.
Naturally, in the course of that, we're going to be discussing plenty of titles. I started out creating this "game of the year" list believing I didn't have much to say about this year's offerings. The more I looked, the more I found was there. This has been a great year for the single-author game; for grassroots and fan-driven projects; for outsiders; and especially for animated discussions about the medium. In this I'm very much in agreement with Michael Abbott— I believe we're going to look back on 2012 as another important watershed year for games and criticism. The only lingering question I have remaining is– did it sneak up on you too? Or did you already pick up on it months before?


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China's palate ripens for European vineyards, chateaux
By Farah Master
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned firms, private corporations and wealthy individuals are buying European vineyards as they look to capitalize on a growing domestic thirst for foreign wine.
Demand for French, Italian and Spanish wines has boomed in the world's second largest economy over the last few years, bolstered by the growth of China's super-rich and burgeoning middle class, who are knocking back the vino and the vin in record quantities.
David Guillon, of IFL, a Hong Kong based firm that sells French vineyards, castles and luxury properties, said IFL completed six multi-million euro (dollar) transactions of vineyards in France's Bordeaux region with Chinese investors in 2011, including state-owned grain trading giant COFCO. He expects this number could double in the coming year.
IFL is currently in close negotiations with two major state-owned companies, multiple private firms as well as Chinese celebrities and football players.
"The demand is getting very huge and it has been a very rapid evolution," said Guillon, adding that 80 percent of IFL's buyers in Asia come from Hong Kong and China.
"For the state-owned companies, these firms can be conglomerates which have nothing to do with the wine industry, hold a large amount of cash and want steady returns," he said.
While global wine prices have softened from skyrocketing levels set in the last two years, private auction house Christie's sold all lots at its February wine sale in Hong Kong, fetching results that were more than triple pre-sale estimates.
In a testament to the strength of Chinese drinkers, the country usurped the United Kingdom as the world's fifth largest wine-consuming nation at the end of 2011 and is forecast to grow to nearly 250 million cases by 2016, according to International Wine & Spirit Research.
Cash-rich Chinese investors are keen to profit from the country's growing love of wine -- imports of Bordeaux wines and consumption in the middle kingdom soared 110 percent in 2011 -- by transforming chateaux into luxury resorts complete with Chinese restaurants, golf courses and French gardens.
French vineyards can range widely in price, Guillon said, pricing the 400-500 chateaux available for sale between 2-500 million euros.
Chinese investors have tended to buy "smaller ticket" vineyards in the range of 2-10 million euros, as opposed to institutional European and private investors who buy properties worth over 100 million euros, he said. But he expects Chinese buyers to rapidly move into a higher price range of 10-30 million euros in the coming year.
COFCO bought the 21-hectare Chateau de Viaud for 10 million euros, while Chinese jeweller Tesiro, Longhai International Trading and H.K. A+A International Holding all bought vineyards priced between 2-6 million euros last year.
Wine industry analysts say Chinese buyers are better positioned to tap their own connections in building a lucrative sales distribution within China, a crucial advantage that foreign wine producers are not as privy to.
"Ignoring for a second the fact that owning a Bordeaux chateau is prestigious for just about anyone means you can set any price and by extension, perceived value for the wine in question," said Aubrey Buckingham, marketing manager at Hewitson, one of Australia's main wineries based in Adelaide.
Some investors opt for foreign distributors such as retired NBA basketball star Yao Ming, who started his own Napa Valley based Yao Family Wines and distributes his own Cabernet Sauvignon to China through Pernod Ricard.
As well as Chinese sports stars, film and pop icons are also buying up vineyards with popular mainland actress Zhao Wei buying a 4 million euro Bordeaux chateau at the end of 2011, according to local media.
French residents welcome Chinese and Asian investors buying up acres of traditional vineyards and palaces, say industry experts, as the new money helps to improve the vineyard and wine-making facilities and results in better quality wine.
Charles Curtis, Christie's Head of Wine in Asia, also sees the trend moving forward.
"Christie's Asian clients are progressing rapidly in their love and connoisseurship of wine. As they do so, it is entirely natural that they would want to capture a piece of the dream. Most people who visit wine country want to stay."
Curtis added that even if the wine production itself did not yield a large return on investment, the attendant investments in real estate could be very remunerative.
(Reporting by Farah Master, editing by Paul Casciato)


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For this burger you will need:
Grilled Mushrooms and Onions
4 portobello mushrooms, stems removed
4 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed
2 Walla Walla onions, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch slices
Canola oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 untreated cedar planks, each about 5 by 12 inches, soaked in water to cover for at least 2 hours (available at hardware stores)
Canola oil
1 1/2 pounds ground chuck (80-percent lean)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup Red Wine Barbeque Sauce, recipe follows
8 slices good-quality aged white Cheddar
4 hamburger buns, split and lightly toasted on the grill
Red Wine Barbecue Sauce
1 1/4 cups ketchup
2 tablespoons ancho chile powder
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons molasses
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1 heaping tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon chile de arbol or cayenne powder
1 canned chipotle chile in adobo, chopped
2 cups dry red wine, such as pinot noir
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the grilled mushrooms and onions: Prepare a charcoal grill for direct and indirect heat. Brush the portobello mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and onions with oil on both sides and season with salt and pepper. Grill over direct heat on both sides until slightly charred and just cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes per side. Reserve for the burgers.
For the burgers: Remove the planks from the water and place them over direct heat for about 2 minutes per side. Remove the planks from the grill and brush the top side with oil.
Divide the meat into 4 equal portions (about 6 ounces each). Form each portion loosely into a 3/4-inch-thick burger and make a deep depression in the center with your thumb. Brush with canola oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put the burgers on the grill over direct heat and cook until nicely charred, about 3 minutes. Flip and cook until the second side is charred, about 3 minutes. Place 2 burgers on each cedar plank. Put the planks over indirect heat, brush each burger with 1 tablespoon Red Wine Barbeque Sauce and top each with 2 slices of cheese. Cover the grill to melt the cheese and finish cooking, about 5 minutes.
Put the burgers on the bottom buns and top each with more barbeque sauce, some mushroom caps, some grilled onions and the top bun. Serve immediately.
Red Wine Barbecue Sauce:
Combine the ketchup, 1 cup water, ancho chile powder, honey, molasses, sugar, mustard, paprika, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, chile de arbol, and chipotle chile in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer and cook until thickened, about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Meanwhile, bring the wine to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat. Simmer until reduced to 1 cup, about 20 minutes. Stir the reduced wine into the sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Pour into a bowl and allow to cool at room temperature. (The sauce will keep for 1 week in the refrigerator stored in a tightly sealed container.)


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Love Dazzles! Thanks for taking the time to show the transfer process.
These Dazzles are so beautiful!!!! When you came out with Dazzles 1 I only ordered one set. My biggest regret is that I did not order two sets. I have used every inch of them. When I went to reorder they were no longer available. Is there any way I could get another set? I won't make that mistake again. Your demo was so helpful with new ideals. Thanks to you both--you are amazing!!!
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I love dazzles, I'm making my Christmas cards in June so I can use my Christmas dazzles. keep them coming, can't wait to get these new one's.
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Wonderful idea with the transfer sheet.Would have never thought of it.Thanks for another great Webisode.
I am also addicted to dazzles! My very favorite is the last one... of pink-ish pearl ones. Everyone look up sea shell dazzle projects.. and see the amazing card. Everyone I know, wants, this card. (On the inside says..How the Shell are you?) I doctored up the brown sea shell dazzles, by dabbing on Pink Pearl stickles..with a sea sponge. What fun we have! Thank you ladies!
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I appreciate you showing how to use the dazzle transfer sheets!!!
Talk about "I really gotta have these"...what a wonderful array of colors and surfaces that shine. I am sure any card maker will want these, too.
I have become addicted to dazzles! I try to find lots of ways to use them and this episode is only serving to feed the addiction:).Thanks for the inspiration and I will be scraplifting the 12x12 page idea.
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By Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group
You must attend M2M Forum 2012 May 8-9 in Pittsburgh. If you are involved in MEMS in any way as a manufacturer, end-user/OEM, equipment or materials supplier, designer, or integrator – you HAVE to be here for M2M Forum this year when we uncover the HOLY GRAIL of successful MEMS.
We will be sharing success stories and exchanging lessons learned! We will be having honest conversations in a neutral forum about what works, what doesn't, why and WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT when it comes to taking a MEMS device from lab, to fab to commercialization.
Maybe you saw my video clip on the M2M homepage (and on YouTube). It's a short simple message of "be there or be square" – but to get a real taste of what we'll unveil at M2M Forum you should check out the webinars that our working group moderators have hosted as part of our MEMS Education Series.
The one on "Market Pull vs. Technology Push" featured Mike Mignardi of TI and Jim Knutti of Acuity as well as MIG's consultant, Eric Levy-Meyers. To quote one of the comments from the webinar audience "this is great, you guys should write a book." Yup, you guys should and guess what: THEY WILL BE DOING THE REAL THING LIVE IN PITTSBURGH ON MAY 8-9. Mike and Jim will share stories of success and failure – when it was tech push (like the DLP going into the pico projector) and when it was clearly market pull (tire pressure sensors, airbags, microphones). There is GOLD in these hills and you have to come join us in Pittsburgh to mine it.
The other equally amazing working group is focusing on "MEMS Technology Development" and will beta test a set of best practice guidelines for helping you navigate the minefield that is MEMS new product development with a Technology Development Process (TDP) Template. This is going to save you hours and hours of time and gobs of money. Honestly – you want to be with us at M2M so you can be a part of history and check it out. A preview of the TDP is in their webinar as well.
Beyond this LIFE altering, JOB saving information we will be giving you, you'll also hear from end-users of MEMS, including a keynote from Len Sheynblat of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. At M2M I gave Len a soapbox upon which to preach his message about the "importance of MEMS standardization." I told him he could bitch, complain and suggest what the MEMS industry needs to do to continue to grow and be adopted further into more products or perhaps…to become a trillion dollar industry (like our friend Janusz Bryzek is predicting).
You don't want to miss all that I have mentioned above, and so much more than I have time to describe here.
The one thing that I am probably most proud of is the fact that this M2M is also getting an inside, never-been-done-before tour of Carnegie Mellon University's Microsystems' Lab. We'll have an overview of the research at Carnegie Mellon's research labs and then during the poster session, we'll have the opportunity to see the research up close in areas including microfluidics, tip-based nanofabrication, micro/Nanofabrication, MEMS test, SEM, TEM, X-ray, AFM, micro-CT, Electrical characterization, Neural probes, Soft robotics, Multi-scale manufacturing, Micro/nanorobotics, and AlN MEMS. You do not want to miss this (and not just because I am an alumna).
Last but definitely not least, we'll close the conference with a fun night out at world famous PNC Park to watch the Pittsburgh Pirates take on the Washington Nationals. The Pirates aren't guaranteed to win, but you are guaranteed to have a great time.
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"No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL" (Dutton), by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
Some details are mundane: Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden wore a sleeveless white shirt and tan pants when he was shot and killed by U.S. Navy SEALS, he used Just For Men to dye his beard, he was a neat freak. Other details seem significant, even troubling: the unarmed bin Laden was shot after peeking out from behind a door, a young girl - perhaps a daughter - was the first to identify him, and an American serviceman, lacking adequate space in a Black Hawk helicopter, was forced to sit on the dead man's chest.
The memoir, written by Owen (a pseudonym, the author was subsequently identified in media accounts as former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette), has attracted controversy and criticism for whether Owen revealed classified information and whether the 24-man SEAL Team Six conducted itself properly. But what's missing is a reflection on the book's strengths - a cast of characters, including Owen himself, artfully drawn, yet painfully human, passionate descriptions of a lifestyle that few are privy to, as well as its breathlessly paced, inexorable march toward an inevitable ending.
Owen wrote the book with co-author and former journalist Kevin Maurer in the year after 2011's Operation Neptune Spear, which killed bin Laden at his family's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The actual raid consumes only as many pages as it did minutes in real life - about 40 - but the rest of "No Easy Day" (its title is derived from SEAL philosophy: "The only easy day was yesterday) is anything but filler. Instead, it's a remarkably intimate glimpse into what motivates men striving to join an elite fighting force like the SEALS - and what keeps them there.
Owen describes his childhood in Alaska and how he butted heads with his parents who wanted a college graduate, not a military enlistee (Owen got his bachelor's degree before enlisting). He details the physically and mentally grueling and near-constant training. And he doesn't shirk from alluding to the failed relationships left behind.
Little more than a day after killing bin Laden, Owen found himself driving home in Virginia Beach, Va. His disorientation was acute. He pulled into a Taco Bell drive-thru and ordered two crispy tacos, a bean burrito and a Pepsi. The reality of the history he had helped create began to sink in.
"This was pretty cool. It was the kind of mission I'd read about in Alaska as a kid. It was history," he writes. "But just as quickly as those thoughts crossed my mind, I forced them out. The second you stop and believe your own hype, you've lost."
Owen says he just wanted some quiet. And in telling his story, all of it, it seems clear he got it.
Book details U.S. raid that killed bin Laden
"No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL" (Dutton), by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer


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The rates go along these lines:
- First: US 66.3% survival past five years
- Second: Sweden 60.3%
- Last: Slovenia 36.6%
- First: US 62.9%
- Second: Iceland 61.8%
- Last: Scotland 48%
Is socialized medicine good for general ills but performs poorly in life and death situations? Or is it something cultural? Something else? The debate rages on.


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Lunar West Side Story - the SMART-1 Movie
This video was compiled with a sequence of images taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 during a full lunar orbit, when the spacecraft was flying over the west 'side' of the Moon.
AMIE obtained these images on 29 December 2004, flying over the west edge of the Moon around 70º West longitude. SMART-1 was on an orbit ranging between 1000 kilometres distance (perilune, over the South pole) and about 5000 kilometres distance from the Moon (apolune, over the North Pole).
From these distances, a series of images could be obtained with some overlap between them, that allowed to build a mosaic during a good part of the orbit.
It is possible to note that the images are mirror-inverted. The spacecraft attitude direction is also slightly changing along the orbit.
The beginning of the series shows close-up views of the old highlands areas at the edge of the Orientale basin. Then it is possible to see the edge of Oceanus Procellarum, a Mare area in Sinus Roris (from 30º to 50º North), and the Northern highlands with some conspicuous craters.
Elongated ejecta debris from the giant Orientale impact basin – image 25
Like a target ring bull's-eye, the lunar mare Mare Orientale (the 'eastern sea') is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. This impact basin is located on the extreme western edge of the visible side of the Moon, and it is difficult to see from Earth.
Basin ejecta begins just outside the Montes Cordillera and extend up to 500 kilometres beyond the base of the mountains. This ejecta feature has a rough texture and contains linear patterns that point back at the centre of Orientale.
Edge of Oceanus Procellarum – images 52-56
Oceanus Procellarum, Latin for 'Ocean of Storms', is the largest of lunar maria, and it is situated on the western edge of the visible side of the Moon. In this image, it is the flat area on the right hand side.
Oceanus Procellarum extends over 2500 kilometres along its north-south axis and covers an area of about four million square metres. Its name derives from the old superstition that its appearance during the second quarter was bringing bad weather.
Like all lunar maria, this area was formed by ancient floods from volcanic eruptions that covered the region in a thick, nearly flat layer of solidified magma. Unlike the other lunar maria, however, Procellarum is not contained within a single well-defined impact basin. Minor bays and seas such as Mare Nubium and Mare Humorum (to the South) lie around its edges. To the northeast, Oceanus Procellarum is separated from Mare Imbrium by the Carpathian Mountains.
Oceanus Procellarum was the landing site of the lunar probes Surveyor 1, Surveyor 3, Luna 9 and Luna 13, and Apollo 12.
Pythagoras crater – images 115-119
The Pythagoras crater is centred at 63.5° North latitude and 62.8° West longitude. Its diameter is about 130 kilometres and it is about 5 kilometres deep.
The rim of this crater is very well preserved. It presents a wide terrace system and a slight rampart around its external part. It is possible to observe that Pythagoras has a hexagonal form. The crater's floor is flattened, but with an irregular and hilly surface.
There is evidence of landslides around the periphery, while in the centre it is possible to see a sharp, mountainous rise with a double-peak that rises one and a half kilometres above the floor of the crater.
The crater was named after Pythagoras (582-507 BC), the Greek mathematician and philosopher who believed that everything was related to mathematics and thought that everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles.
Carpenter crater - image 125
The Carpenter impact crater is located in the northern part of the Moon, at 69.4° North latitude and 50.9° West longitude, and it is visible in the upper left part of the image. Carpenter is 2.6 kilometres deep, and its diameter is 59 kilometres.
In geological terms, Carpenter is a young lunar crater, much younger than the surrounding crater formations – as one can see from its features that have not been significantly eroded by new impacts. Its inner wall displays an appearance of slumping (especially along the eastern face) and presents some terraces. The outer rim presents a small crater along the south-southeastern inner wall. The interior floor within the slopping inner walls is quite flat, but it shows irregular features such as small bumps and hills. Near the middle it is possible to see an unusual double peak formation, with a smaller peak offset to the west and a larger ridge offset to the east.
The crater is named after James Carpenter (1840-1899), British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. In 1871, together with the engineer James Nasmyth, he produced a book about the Moon titled 'The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite'. The book contained images of plaster models of the lunar surface taken from different angles - more realistic than the images that could be achieved by telescope photography at that time.
Poncelet crater – image 127
Poncelet is an eroded formation 69 kilometres wide - the remains of a lunar crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon at 75.8° North latitude and 54.1° West longitude. It is visible at the bottom of the image, slightly decentred to the left.
Its interior has been flooded with lava, and it presents many tiny craters. The outer rim is a low, circular ridge which breaks towards south and northeast (in this image, the South is up).
Mouchez crater - image 133
Mouchez is an 81-kilometre wide formation - the remnant of a lunar crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon. It is centred at 78.3° North latitude and 26.6° West longitude (visible at the top of the image, slightly decentred to the left), to the north of Philolaus crater.
As visible in the image, almost the entire eastern rim of this crater is missing, and the remaining arc is heavily eroded. Also visible at the bottom-right of the image is the Gioja crater (in this image, the South is up).
Gioja crater – image 135
Gioja is a lunar crater that is located in the vicinity of the north pole of the Moon, at 83.3° North latitude and 2° East longitude (centre of the image, slightly decentred towards the bottom). Because it lies close to the Northern limb, it is difficult to observe it from Earth (in this image, the South is up).
Gioja is 2.9 kilometres deep and 41 kilometres wide (diameter). It is attached to the southern rim of the larger, low-wall Byrd crater. The highest point of the Gioja crater's rim is situated at northwest, where it has been reinforced by the rim of the Byrd crater and by other old formations no longer visible. The interior floor is nearly flat, with a ridge going from the middle to the north-northeast rim. The inner floor is also marked by tiny craters, such as the pair visible near the west-northwestern inner wall.
The Gioja crater is named after Italian marine pilot and inventor Flavio Gioja (14th century) that perfected the sailor's compass.


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More companies are risking escalating retaliation with the hacker community by directly going after hackers who break into their systems, Reuters reports.The publication describes the new techniques as "active defense" or "strike-back" policies that use deception to either distract the target hacker with misinformation or to get the hacker to inadvertently reveal more about themselves and their machines. For example, Reuters notes that some companies create "beacons" that contain false information and are then traced back to hackers' machines once they're extracted.
These new, aggressive measures have proven controversial because, as security experts have told Reuters, there are "some cases where companies have taken action that could violate laws in the United States or other countries, such as hiring contractors to hack the assailant's own systems." What's more, many security experts think that companies will only get fleeting satisfaction from retaliating against hackers because such actions could stir up the broader hacker community to take action against the company.
"There is no business case for it and no possible positive outcome," John Pescatore, a National Security Agency and Secret Service veteran who now heads up Gartner's Internet security practice, told Reuters.


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ICONIC IMAGE: Has the American Film Institute done a survey asking what's the single most iconic image to appear in a film? Should they ever helm such a survey we'll go out on a limb and guess what'll land at #1: Marilyn Monroe and her grate-blowing dress. (We're totally joking about that "out on a limb" part; it appears on countless mugs and posters and t-shirts, so, yeah, it is a main contender for the title.) And now that iconic moment has been captured in an especially unique way, via a 26-foot-tall statue called Forever Marilyn. And where does Forever Marilyn now appear? On the corner of Palm Canyon Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way in downtown Palm Springs. The statue's grand debut was on Thursday, May 24; it is set to stay put through June 2013. Seward Johnson is the artist behind the epic sculpture.
MARILYN IN P.S.: Ms. Monroe, like many stars of her era, had warm ties to the desert playground. She splashed for photos for Bernard of Hollywood at Charlie Farrell's Racquet Club (a keen-eyed Hollywooder spied and immediately signed her). Also interesting? Palm Springs local Bill Kobrin snapped her dress-blowing scene, along with other photogs, in promos of "The Seven Year Itch." Which, of course, is the film from which the iconic image springs.
MARILYN, BIG AND SMALL: While the 26-foot Marilyn is certainly one of the biggest tributes to the star, one of the smallest also debuted this week: The United States Postal Service released its Great Film Directors stamp series. Mr. Billy Wilder is one of the honored directors, and his stamp includes depictions of the Hotel del Coronado and Ms. Monroe (the stamp pays homage to "Some Like It Hot"). The stamp was released on Wednesday, May 23. Does it tickle you that a very large and very small Marilyn Monroe entered our world around the same time? How we do love a charming coincidence, especially when it salutes a very charming lady.


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McAllister Software Systems, Inc. v. Henry Schein, Inc., No. 06-0093, 2008 WL 922328 (E.D. Mo. April 2, 2008)
This case came out about three months ago, and I should have blogged about it then but it slipped by. It's a quirky holding, what with the Rule Against Perpetuities, so it's worth going back to pick it up. As it turns out, the Rule comes into play in real life, not just on the bar exam or in first year of law school Property class.
In 1990, McAllister and Schein entered into an Exclusive Distributor Agreement (EDA) whereby Schein would have the exclusive right to promote and sell veterinary management software. In 2006, McAllister sued, asking the court to declare the EDA void ab initio (from its creation), claiming that terms of the EDA violated New York's Rule Against Perpetuities. (The EDA provided that New York law would apply).
McAllister moved for summary judgment on its claim, and the court granted the motion. And now for the legalese, because I know that's the real reason you're here.
The New York Estate Powers and Trust Law at Article 9, Section 1.1 prohibits the suspension of the absolute power of alienation of any present or future estate for a period beyond lives in being at the creation of the estate plus twenty-one years. Although usually thought of as a real property question, under New York law, the Rule applies to personal property as well. Yawn.
The court found that two provisions of the EDA violated the Rule because they permanently restrained McAllister from freely selling the software and developing and marketing new software in the same market space.
One provision provided that
Schein shall have the right to be the exclusive distributor of any other software designed for the Market that [McAllister Software] produces, develops, or acquires the rights to, hereafter.
Another provision stated that
McAllister Software will keep and maintain a current version of the Software's source code and supporting documentation ("Escrow Materials") in escrow with its attorney or a professional computer software escrow agent ("Escrowee") …If [McAllister Software] fails to support the Software to the reasonable satisfaction of Schein and Schein's customers or if [McAllister Software] ceases to do business, Schein shall have the right to immediately obtain the source code from the Escrowee, and [McAllister Software], by its execution hereof, hereby authorizes Escrowee to release the source code to Schein only under said circumstances.
Both the parties were corporations so there were no "measuring lives" to use for purposes of the Rule Against Perpetuities calculation. So the court simply considered whether the power of alienation was suspended for at least 21 years. This situation fit the bill, so the EDA was void.


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ARMs as Automatic Stabilizers
An argument often heard for keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or some sort of subsidy for mortgages, is the desire to keep the 30 year fixed rate mortgage "affordable." The 30 year fixed certainly has some merits — which borrowers should be willing to pay for — but it also has the downside of reducing the impact of monetary policy in stabilizing the economy.
Generally interest rates go down in a recession and up in an expansion. Part of this is the reaction of the Federal Reserve, which tends to cut rates in a recession, but part is also the fact that the demand for credit also declines in a recession and increases in an expansion.
If borrowers moved to adjustable rate mortgages, then in recessions they would likely see a reduction in their mortgage rate, resulting in a reduction in their monthly payment, which would increase their disposable income, which itself should have some positive impact on consumption, helping to stabilize a weak economy.
The reverse would work in an expansion. If the economy became over‐heated, interest rates would likely go up, pushing up monthly payments, resulting in reductions in income and consumption. While of course this would be unpleasant for the borrower, it would have the benefit of moderating a booming economy, reducing the likelihood of inflation and the occurrence of bubbles.
The latter effect would also increase the degree to which consumers care about inflation and demand price stability from the central bank. Normally, borrowers have an incentive to favor inflation, as it reduces the real value of their debt. If however, inflation resulted in an increase in their mortgage rate, their preference could switch toward price stability, which would in the long run be better for growth and the overall economy.
While I do not expect the above to settle the debate over the role of the 30 year fixed rate mortgage, we, as a society, should openly and loudly debate its costs and benefits before we simply assume it needs to be subsidized.


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Los Angeles — The Sports Club Co., Los Angeles, had a 4.1 percent increase in its second quarter revenue, according to a statement from the company. The company's second quarter 2008 revenue was $16.4 million compared to $15.7 million for the second quarter of last year.
The company had a net loss, before preferred stock dividends, of $969,000, which included a one-time charge of $1.1 million for the impairment of certain real estate holdings that were being leased to an outside third party. Without that one-time charge, the company would have had net income, before preferred stock dividends, of $154,000.
For the first six months of the year, The Sports Club Co. had revenues of $32.3 million compared to $30.7 million for the first six months of last year, an increase of 5.2 percent.
By the year 2048, 100 percent of U.S. adults could be classified as overweight or obese, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which made the projection based on weight trends from the 1970s through 2004.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics


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I love the job coach has done but I have a few concerns.
1. Defense
Woodson is a defensive coach but we have seen much "Slipage" and no one knows why. Here are my observations-
There are only 3.5 true defensive oriented players on our squad: TC, Shump, Brewer, and Sheed (him being the .5)
Of those players only TC is a regular. Shump is just returning, Bewer's minutes have been reduced, and Sheed can't stay healthy. There is more concern when an injury occures with little to no contact that directly relates... see overuse injuries.
TC cannot hold down the D on his own and needs a valid perimeter defender and a formidable PF along side. STAT is our best hope at this and there are only 2 perimeter defenders... do the math.
2. Rotation
I hated the unwavering / stubborness of our former coach, and I see the same here. Case(s) in point-
Brewer was removed as a starter due to going into a slump ala so many under MDA. Instead of working with him, perhaps drawing him up some plays... he was held to the uber shooting 3 point standard that gassed so many seemingly including coach. Mistake.
Kidd started out as a 2, yet cannot guard his position. We are healthy... Kidd is a back-up. I thought coach valued Defense?
Smith was not allowed to be a starting 2 under no circumstances. (Thats both stubborn and demoralizing) Perhaps he could have helped with the scoring when Melo was cold?
I believed this all happened because coach had his heart set on a plan or vision being at least 1 perimeter defender on the floor. I guess coach figured remove Brewer insert Shump- Yet coach didn't remove Kidd thus playing a 3 guard alignment with Felton, Kidd, and Shump. This kept Melo at the 4 out of position (see MDA).
Instead of (one of) Brewer, Shump, or Smith rotating at the 2 we sacrifice size at the 4. That is a mistake. If coach noticed Shump was not fully back then, he had plenty of options including Kidd at the 2 but he soured on Brewer just like our former coach use to do. Its simple you could help re-develop a players confidence, or lose him forever.
Our 2 must get us points but that would be less important if we used a conventional lineup. That means players at their natural positions. Then we would learn that the 2nd scorng option is STAT (NOT off the bench).
I get what coach tried to do; have waves of offense coming at an opponent. In theory that was a good plan but not in practice. The (big) 3 positions SF, PF, and C are locked down. There should be no shuffling unless absolutely necessary, leaving 2 positions to decide.
Coach has envisioned Felton as our starting PG but hasn't allowed anyone to challenge him if only to give him an incentive to improve his game. (Former coach use to do this too)
Felton as much as a catalyst, is a defensive liability that we cannot make up for, thus as coach thought, there is a need to have at least one of Brewer or Shump on the floor with Felton at all times. But since he is promoting offense so much Shump nor Brewer fit the Bill offensively... but defensively? What is the priority?
4. Identity
I mentioned this before and I'll say it again... what is our identity? I thought coach wanted us to be a defensive team but then there is the 3 guard alignment I mentioned above (that leaves us undersized and lacking perimeter d) and the subsequent moving players out of position, leaving Stat on the bench, that affects our d. So what is it?
Honestly I see MDA all in coach now and I'm worried. The sacrificing of defense for offense. The reluctantance to change and try new things that perpetuate his philosophy (I thought was defense).
Felton cannot lock down any G.
Kidd cannot lock down any G.
Smith has improved but is offensive minded.
Novak may as well stay on one side of the court.
Yet these players get the most minutes! They do so because of offense just like our former coach... mistake.
And they have contributed to our league leading 3 pointers taken (and made).
Remember what I said about our former coach? About taking too many 3's and the false positives they perpetuate, not to mention the unintended consequences? Well it's here again and I expect a defensive coach to take heed.
But coach isn't doing this and I'm perplexed. Has he been conditioned?
So in conclusion it's time to scrap some things and get back to basics.
1- If Camby or Sheed cannot play NOW, make a move for some size, rebounding, and defense. Period.
2- If Felton cannot guard the 1, start grooming someone who can.
3- Rule # 1: I you can't guard YOUR MAN, we don't need you for 99% of the time.. have a seat Novak et al.
4- STOP switching on D. If you try to reinvent the wheel and you come up with something round that rolls... you are wasting everyones time. Stop! Find a man playing the same position and guard him. No more switching and parsing players off. Get the basics of man defense down FIRST, then worry about advanced techniques.
5- Understand the fundamental errors you keep making:
A) start and play your best players- this helps them gel, become familiar, forge an identity and gives them something to fall back on during times of adversity. Stop marginalizing players contributions.
B) at their natural positions- If I see my young Star Shump guarding and playing 3 for no good reason... I'm going to kill someone!
C) defense is the priority- stop worrying about scoring and Novak. We are a defensive team... cater to the defesive players and show the team that defense is the priority... act like it!
6- Felton, Kidd, and Melo @ the 4 = defensive liabilities. Remove Kidd, insert one of Brewer or Shump. Play Stat at the 4 with TC for help and work on the bench AFTER THE STARTERS ARE SET. Don't try to balance both lineups.
You have 32 games if you choose to accept this mission.
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Development and Life Skills Education Project
The DLSE Project is an intervention delivered by Pikin-to-Pikin, a Sierra Leone NGO, using a Child-to-Child approach to learning and action. The DLSE Sierra Leone Project trains Master Trainers who, at the same time, train teachers to: 1) implement ECD provision; 2) improve the quality of primary education; and 3) deliver life skills education (on topics such as child protection, teenage pregnancy and HIV and AIDS) using child-to-child approaches. The DLSE Project is for 5 years and is being implemented in three chiefdoms in the Kailahun District of Sierra Leone. The main objectives of the project are: 1) increase access and retention in primary education; 2) enhance children's academic performance; 3) improve classroom teaching and learning practices; and 4) reduce girls' vulnerabilities and risky behaviour.
The RRC's evaluation of the DLSE Project integrates both quantitative and quasi-experimental pre- and post-test methodology and qualitative methods. The integration of various data collection and analytical techniques will enhance the internal and external validity of the evaluation, eliminating alternative explanations for results, and increasing the ability to generalize findings.


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1. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientMohammad Rehman Aug 18, 2017 1:15 PM (in response to Ryan Nicosia)
I don't know about REST Client, I just came across Pentaho Spoon Rest Client video on you tube, also not sure whether it will be helpful or not.
How to use json input and the rest client in Pentaho 6.1 - Video #1 - YouTube
2. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientLJ LongWing Aug 18, 2017 1:27 PM (in response to Ryan Nicosia)
1000 different ways to skin a cat....I don't know how to use spoon to connect to Remedy, but if the intent is to take Remedy data and push it out to another system via Rest, you may want to look at this plugin (Restful API Plugin – A Programming Legacy )
Depending on where the 'trigger' is...if the trigger is you want Remedy to push the information out and the external system supports Rest...this plugin should work well for you.
If however the external system is the trigger, and they just want to reach in to get the information...I'm not sure Spoon is the proper demonstration tool...something more like Postman, or any number of other free Rest Clients out there may be more appropriated.
3. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientRyan Nicosia Aug 18, 2017 1:55 PM (in response to LJ LongWing)
Actual end state is to connect to NetMRI which is an Infoblox tool and pull in data. In preparation for that I'm just trying to get Spoon to connect to AR system with the REST Client step.
4. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientLJ LongWing Aug 18, 2017 2:27 PM (in response to Ryan Nicosia)
Ok, I would suggest an actual Rest Client that's not inside spoon...not because it can't do the work (I'm sure it can), but it's a bit more obscure and not as simple to control parameters as something like Postman is.
5. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientJamsheer KK Aug 20, 2017 9:25 AM (in response to Ryan Nicosia)9 of 9 people found this helpful
The HTTP method is POST and you have to use "FORM URLENCODED" as Application, include Header as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and Body you need to pass the username and pssword in the REST Client. Here is an attempt to consume Remedy REST API using Spoon RESTClient step. In example we've used Two Rest Client Steps. First one for setting the token (POST) and second one is for my actual GET operation.
Note: There could be a better optimised way of doing this. This is a simple apporach
1. Set the default values
2. REST Client - POST method and output is stored in token
3. To get the Authorization value Concatenate the AR-JWT + Token , you can use steps like Concatenate or Modified Java Script etc.
4. GET Operation to retrieve the User list, Application Type Must be JSON and must pass the Authorization as header and output will be in result field.
5. Use JSON input step and retrieve the values as required. JSON path selection and evaluation you may can use http://jsonpath.com/
6. Use Select value step to select the values that needed.
Here is the output preview
6. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientRyan Nicosia Aug 21, 2017 6:31 AM (in response to Jamsheer KK)
This is exactly what I needed!! Thanks for the assist
7. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientLevi Lippincott Mar 16, 2018 2:05 PM (in response to Jamsheer KK)
Is there a way to expand the Output fields for the REST Client step? Right now it only lets you pass out the Result field name, HTTP status code, and the Response time. I would like to grab other pieces of the return header, like Location. I haven't been able to figure that out.
8. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientNadeem Ansari May 6, 2018 11:39 PM (in response to Jamsheer KK)
Hi Jamsheer,
i have a similar situation as well... the only difference is that i am looking for a POST method in the second REST Client step. is that feasible?
9. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientJamsheer KK May 20, 2018 10:27 PM (in response to Nadeem Ansari)
Sorry for the delayed response.
In the above example first REST Client step getting the authentication token and Second REST Client Step is performing the GET. In similar way you should be able to POST as well. Make sure that you have all necessary header and parameter mapping as described below,
/entry/{formName} - Documentation for BMC Remedy Action Request System 9.1 - BMC Documentation
10. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientNguyen Dung Sep 18, 2018 11:36 PM (in response to Jamsheer KK)
I have an issue with API paging, how could I load data with undefined page numbers, example www.api.com/list?page=1, ..... please advice
11. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientJamsheer KK Sep 20, 2018 9:26 AM (in response to Nguyen Dung)
Could you please elaborate more on your requirement?
12. Re: Pentaho Spoon and REST ClientHellyson Lima Aug 6, 2019 10:18 AM (in response to Jamsheer KK)
Hello Jamsheer...
Do you have any sample to use put operation?


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NTSB declines to reopen review of TWA Flight 800 crash
The National Transportation Safety Board denied a group's petition to reopen the investigation into what caused the fatal TWA Flight 800 crash in 1996.
The plane was flying from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Paris when it exploded near Long Island, killing all 230 people aboard. Terrorism was initially suspected, and a number of witnesses on shore came forward with accounts of seeing a flare, rocket or "streak of light" headed toward the plane before the explosion.
After a four-year investigation, however, the NTSB determined that a fuel tank explosion — sparked by a short circuit in the wiring — caused the crash. The safety board found that witnesses were vague or imprecise in their recollections.
The FBI also conducted an investigation, and it did not find evidence of a crime.
In June 2013, a group called TWA Project 800 filed a petition asking the NTSB to reopen the case. The group claimed that "a detonation or high velocity explosion" was the cause, according to the NTSB.
The NTSB said the group did not show that the agency's original conclusion of a fuel tank explosion was incorrect, so the petition was denied.