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Settlers of Catan is a great board game that I've probably played too much. As far as I'm concerned, it's a great game, even though intense playing eventually caused us to introduce a number of house rules to challenge ourselves.
It is, however, a game that apparently can be divisive. I was looking at reviews of this game on American amazon the other day, during a particularly boring morning here at Ottenby, when there was fog all morning and we caught very few birds. Of course, I only looked at the one- and two-star reviews, which are generally the most interesting ones. What I noticed was that the game has political implications I'd never thought about. Here are some, with solutions for how to remodel the game to make it correspond better to your political preferences (1):
1. The People's Republic of Catan:
Settlers of Catan (SoC) is extremely addictive and fun, but it is also the most dangerous game ever created because it will teach your children and teens unrealistic economic theories that will eventually doom this planet.
If your children and teens play SoC, they will grow up thinking that when you use a commodity, it simply goes back into the existing reserves. When your children play a game that treats natural resources like iron ore are renewable instead of finite resources, they may grow up into climate change deniers or believe pseudoscience like abiogenic oil. Or even worse, they might grow up into economists and sell politicians and the mainstream media cornucopian theories that have no basis in reality, like "decoupling" and exponential long-term growth.
SoC also encourages competition for the limited resources of Catan instead of cooperation among all of the players. Your children and teens will be taught to steal resources from others, engage in hoarding and monopolistic behavior, and negotiate inequitable trade agreements, instead of trying to make Catan a better place for everyone.
If you MUST buy SoC for your children and teens, I suggest playing with an alternative set of rules. In order to more accurately model a closed system with finite resources, remove resource cards from the game as they are used during gameplay. Your children need to learn the consequences of the downward slope of Peak Brick on the transportation infrastructure of Catan while they are still young.
Making SoC socialist (2) is rather simple, but requires an overhaul of many of the core rules (optional rules in [ ] parentehes):
1. Set up the game as usual with regards to hexagons and so on. The different colours can still be divided up for some of the alternative rules presented below, but this is not necessary.
2. Divide the resources into the following groups: replenishable, renewable, and limited.
2.1 The limited ones are those that, once used, will not come back naturally. This category includes only Ore.
2.2 The renewable ones are ones that, once used, will be replaced naturally, but which cannot be hurried, or would not naturally be renewed within one round (= one year). This category includes Clay and Wood.
2.3 The replenishable ones are those that, once used, will be replaced naturally or through human agency, and which can be "hurried" and thus be replaced within one round (= one year). This category includes Wool and Grain.
2.4 The Coin commodity is discarded after the revolution. Anywhere this commodity is used, it can be substituted for two Grain.
[2.4.1 Alternatively, Ore produces Hammers and Sickles, which are represented by the Coins cards.]
2.5 The Paper and Cloth commodities work as before.
3. The game proceeds as normal for the first few rounds, with the following exceptions:
3.1 All proceeds from the dice roll are placed in a communal pile, from which anyone can take the resources that are needed. NOTE: not the resources "they need"; see below.
3.2 All roads are communal, meaning that anyone can build a settlement wherever this is allowed by the rules (i.e., not closer than two road-pieces from any other settlement or city).
3.3 Building of new roads, Settlements, improvements, or conversion of Settlements into Cities are allowed only when there is a consensus (3) between all players. That is, at the start of the round, all players (= the commune) discuss what the goals for the next X turns are (= planned gaming), and together seek to achieve these goals through rolling the dice.
3.4 Knights are now remodelled as Citizens' Guards, but function as in the normal game with regards to the Robber. The three different size categories are disbanded, as no citizen is above another; as the knights cannot fight amongst themselves, the differences in size have no meaning anyway.
4. The resources and commodities function as follows:
4.1 Each Resource or Commodity card can be in one of four different states: Available (obtainable on a suitable roll, but not yet harvested by the commune), Harvested (obtained after a recent suitable roll), Obtainable (already used, but become Available after a set number of rounds), and Discarded (not available as the resource has been depleted.
4.2 Limited resources are exactly that. Once an Ore card has been used, it is placed in the Discarded pile, and thus out of the game. These must thus be spent wisely.
[4.1.1 However, now veins may be found if, at the start of any subsequent round, any player who has a settlement or city of their colour bordering on a Mountain hexagon rolls a 12. The number of rolls are limited to one per player. The number of Ore cards that are placed in the Discarded pile are 1d6. Once a 12 has been rolled by a player, no further rolls are allowed for this round.]
4.3 Renewable resources, when used, are placed in the Obtainable pile, and will not be placed in the Available pile until 1d6 more rounds from when they were used. If the commune uses up two Clay in round 4, these are placed in the Obtainable pile, and not put back in Available pile until the beginning of round 4+1d6. This represents slow regrowth of mud flats and forests over time.
4.4 Replenishable resources, when used, are placed back in the Available pile immediately, and can be obtained during the same round.
[4.4.1 Alternatively, and more realistically, Replenishable resourced need to be "seeded" before they become Available. This means that, apart from at the beginning of the game, when all cards are in the Available piles, all used Replenishable resources are placed in Obtainable piles, and will only be moved to their respective Available piles after the commune has paid 1 Grain/Wool for every field of Grain/Wool the commune borders. This represents the necessity of actively sowing Grains and breeding sheep before these can be harvested.]
4.5 Commodities are produced as normally, except that Ore does not produce any commodities [But see above!].
4.6 Whether harbours can be used or not depends on if the Revolution has succeeded across the world or not. Decide this before the game starts. If it has, harbours work as normally, except that Ore in the Discarded pile will cost twice as much. If it has not, trade with the Capitalist world will only corrupt the Glorious Youth of the Revolution, and this can obviously not be permitted!
5. Special rules:
5.1 In case of an emergency, when no Citizens' Guards can be moved to a field where the Robber is, a set number (say, three) of Grain [and one Hammer and Sickle, if this alternative is used] can be spent to temporarily convert a Settlement to a Guard for one round only. A City can likewise temporarily be converted to a Settlement and a Guard, or two Guards. Note that these converted Guards cannot be moved, and will not yield any resources for the remainder of the round, after which they are celebrated as the Heroes of the Revolution, and revert back to Settlements/Cities.
5.2 If the Paper is used to print Marx' "Capital", this can be used to:
– instantly improve one Settlement into a City;
– Instantly remove the robber from the board entirely (until the next time someone rolls a seven);
– instantly harvest two resources of the commune's choice.
Note that due to the dignity and size of this book, a total of three Paper is needed to print this.
6. All points are scored communally, and all players either lose or win together. The goal is now to reach some preset total number of points, perhaps within a set amount of time.
My family bought this game to play at Christmas. Once we figured out all the rules it was a slow, boring strategy game. The idea is interesting, but there are too many rules regulating trade that make it a slow, agonizing board game experience.
Making SoC liberal is even more simple. As there is no central authority to regulate trade and otherwise interfere with the noble cause of amassing the world's wealth, all trade rules in the original game are suspended as "limiting the market". On the other hand, while all players have the same opportunities, competition naturally becomes more fierce, and this introduces some new uses for the knights.
The game proceeds as normal, with the following exceptions:
1. Trade
1.1 All Competitors can trade with each other whenever they want, regardless of if it is their turn or not. There is no restrictions as to prices between Competitors.
1.2 Any Competitor who has access to the sea, even it if is only by a road, can of course trade with the Market (= bank) whenever they want.
1.3 However, trade with the Market is of course fickle. When a Competitor wants to buy from the Market, the following rules apply:
1.3.1 All cards in the Market are potentially available, for a price. This price can be anything, including roads, Settlements, Cities, Improvements, knights, and so on. Resources and Commodities are of course the same market, and each can be used, either singly or in combination, to buy anything in the Market.
1.3.2 The price of any Resource is determined by the amount of cards of that type that are in the Market (n = the number of Competitors; c = number of available cards of the desired type):
– c lower than n = The prices are high, and the lowest possible price is n-2 per Resource card bought.
– c equal to n = The prices are normal, and the lowest possible price is n-3 per Resource card bought.
– c higher than n = the prices are low, and the lowest possible price is n-4 per Resource card bought.
188.8.131.52 The minimum price for any resource is always 1.
1.3.3 However, as soon as any Competitor declares that he/she is going to buy from the Market, any other Competitor can of course do the same, and all the Competitors who so choose thus enter a bidding war on the resources declared by the first Competitor.
126.96.36.199 Any player can join a bidding war at any stage of the war.
22.214.171.124 Bidding proceeds in an orderly fashion clockwise around the table, starting with the Competitor who first declared his/her intention to bid.
22.214.171.124 On a Competitor's turn in the bidding he/she can chose to offer a bid or pass. Competitors who pass can of course join the same bidding war at a later stage.
188.8.131.52 The bidding continues until all Competitors have passed in the same bidding round, whereupon the Competitor who bid the most will get the Resources or Commodities, and pay whatever the price was settled upon.
22.214.171.124 Coins are naturally preferable to all other Resources/Commodities, and thus count as 2 cards in bidding wars.
2. Everything is of course available, at a price. If you wish to buy your neighbour's roads, Settlements, or other objects, all you need to do is settle on a price, and it will change hands. The following petty rules apply, though:
2.1 If Competitor A has bought Competitor B's road, Settlement, or City, and thus bisected B's road network, B do no longer get the benefit of Longest Road (if applicable).
2.2. If due to such a transaction no road connects one part of B's network with the rest, any products arising from the smaller of the two halves must necessarily pass through the network of A. If A wishes to levy a fee for this transport, that is perfectly in order. The fee need not be constant, but can vary from turn to turn, and can exceed B's proceeds from that round, or consist of entirely different Resources or Commodities, as well as other transferable features of the game.
2.3 If A has bought a City Wall from B, but not the City it encircles, A may chose not to defend the City when the Robber or Barbarians attack, in order to protect his/her investment. Note, however, that if the city is destroyed (as in the normal rules), the City Wall is also lost.
2.4 If A has bought Improvements from B, B can not improve on these Improvements further except by permission from A, who may demand a set fee, a regularly occurring fee, no fee, future returns, or any other agreed-upon fee.
2.5 If A has bought Knights from B, these are immediately transferred to an available point in A's network, and become Inactive.
2.6 Similarly, all features of the game can be hired for a set amount of rounds or turns, or even for a set amount of time, at a price set by the two parties of the agreement. If A rents a feature from B, it is B's responsibility to keep track of time. If A receives benefits after the agreed-upon time has passed without B notifying, any Resources, Commodities, or other benefits A obtains from this shall be kept by A, unless the initial agreement stated otherwise; A cannot be punished for forgetting time, unless the original agreement explicitly allowed for this.
3. In case any agreement is not kept, it is perfectly reasonable for the damaged party to initiate hostilities by invading the party at fault by placing one of his/her knights at any available (i.e. previously unoccupied) hex-corner in the enemy's network that can be reached from the invading Competitor's network without passing any of the enemy's Knights or Walled City.
3.1 Any Settlements or Cities which are now cut off from B's network are effectively part of A's network, and any Resources or Commodities gained by these are given to A. This is referred to as the Occupied Network.
3.2 A Competitor may attempt to attack another Knight in order to displace it. This is done by a simple dice roll, with the following modifiers:
– The First-level Knight rolls 1d6;
– The Second-level Knight rolls 1d6+3;
– The Third-level Knight rolls 2d6.
– Deactivated Knights suffer a -1 penalty per die rolled.
The highest result wins.
3.2.1 The winning Knight displaces the losing Knight in the contested hex-corner, and is deactivated.
3.2.2 The same Knight can be attacked multiple times during the same round.
3.2.3 In case of a tie, the dice are rerolled, with both parties suffering a -1 penalty. This penalty is added cumulatively to any subsequent tie.
3.3 The losing knight can be placed at any available hex-corner in that Competitor's home network or Occupied Network (if any), and loses one level, and is deactivated. If there are no available hex-corners, or if no available hex-corner can be reached without passing another of the enemy's Knights or Walled City, the losing Knight is lost.
3.4 During war, mercenaries can be bought for a single Coin.
3.4.1 These mercenaries start at any available hex-corner in the Competitor's home or Occupied Network, and start out as an activated First-level Knight.
3.4.2 Promotions of mercenaries proceed as normal, but does not deactivate the Knight.
3.4.3 Every (d6)/2 rounds, another Coin must be paid, or the mercenaries will revolt and join the opposing side in the war, if that Competitor can pay a Coin. If not, the mercenaries will disappear, but only after sacking one City or destroying one City Wall of one of the warring players (decide by a die roll in a suitable fashion).
3.5 Walled Cities must be besieged:
3.5.1 The besieger must place at least one Knight next to the city on one of the hexes bordering this city. More than one Knight may be used for the same siege.
3.5.2 The besieged player receives no Resources or Commodities from besieged hexes; these are not harvested at all, and never leave the bank.
3.5.3 Every time it is the besieger's turn, he/she may either leave the siege by simply moving away the knights, or attempt to storm the City, by rolling as for attacks above. The besieged always rolls as for a Second-level Knight.
3.5.4 The first time the besieger wins a roll, the City Walls are removed, but the siege continues for one more round, after which the City falls, and the besieger can move on.
3.5.5 The besieger can of course pay deserters to open the gates, thus shortening the siege. For every two Coins, add +1 to the besieger's roll.
3.5.6 Forcing a siege deactivates the Knight.
3.5.7 The besieged can of course try to lift the siege on their turn, by the same rules as by normal combat. They still fight at a Second-level Knight's level, unless the City Wall has been destroyed, in which case they fight as a First-level knight.
3.6 Wars are generally fought for principle, not for annihilation, and once hostilities have ended (by mutual agreement) the Occupied Networks of each Competitor are returned to its original owner, unless something else is agrees. Destroyed City Walls are not rebuilt, unless this is specifically agreed (and then at the normal cost), and lost Resources or Commodities are only repaid if this is agreed.
4. Coins can always replace any 1.5 Resources or 1 Commodities. Thus, one Coin can always replace one Wool but two Coins can replace three Wool, and so on.
5. The game ends when one player has either reached a preset number of points as in the original game, or if any Competitor achieves a monopoly of two Resources or one Commodity.
5.1 The number of points is as in the original game, with the exception that the Competitor that reaches that many points must then retain this privileged position for an entire round.
5.1.1 If during that round, another Competitor gets more points, that Competitor must retain that number of points, and so on.
5.1.2 If during that round, the winning Competitor loses points enough to fall under the required goal, but without any other Competitor getting more points, the winning Competitor does not win, and have to gather more points again.
5.1.3 It is not enough for another Competitor to get the same amount of points as the prospective winner; he or she must get more points. That is the point of winning, after all. Sharing a victory is bolshie talk…
5.2 A monopoly is gained if any Competitor either:
– is the only Competitor with access to a certain type of hex after all Competitors have at least one more City than they began the game with;
– has gathered all Resource or Commodity cards of a certain kind on hand, and not lost these through war for an entire round.
The Holy Empire of Catan
Conservatives seem to be okay with the game, or at least I cannot find any reviews that are as obviously conservative as the other two are socialist/liberal. Or maybe most conservatives don't play games that:
1) aren't mentioned as "allowed" in the Bible;
2) doesn't have an obvious slave class to exploit.
Then again, maybe this is a conservative's review (except it seems to be anti-greed… hmmm…):
I read a review of this game in the local newspaper. It sounded like the "new" Monopoly,
without the greed, and with limited resourses (like the real world). With all the intelligent
people present in the household over the holidays, I thought this might be a hit. But after
assembling the board, it sat there for two weeks, and we never did play. The rules/procedures
were confusing and not at all inviting.
Too stupid to understand the rules of SoC, even when all the intelligent people in your family are visiting? I hope you at least managed to get them to tie your shoes, so you won't have to wait until next Christmas…
Nevertheless, here is how you could play the game with conservative rules.
1. First of all, let us make one thing very clear: the other players are either with you, or against you. They either submit to your just demands, or they must be punished. Additionally, even if they may claim to believe in the same God as you, you know somewhere deep down inside that this is not the case, and that is of course enough reason to punish them. As in real life, extermination of other religions is the goal of Conservative SoC, and the game does not end when someone has reached a certain number of points, but when there is only one King left (others may be vassals, see below).
1.1 Under Conservatism, all power emanates from the Fist. Therefore, all Kings get to place a single Second-level Knight on any valid location as their last move during the set-up phase.
2. God put YOU in charge of this nation, not any of the peasants, and their petty considerations are irrelevant. Therefore:
2.1 Any action that costs Grain costs one less Grain than in the normal game. The peasants can gather toadstools and acorns to eat, they don't need fine Grain.
2.2 In case of War (see below), any Settlement can be conscripted into a First-level Knight at will. This is placed at the location of the Settlement, and can be whipped into Activation immediately.
2.3 Cities can be reduced to Settlements in return for any combination of Ore, Clay, and Wood totaling five cards. Rebuilding costs the normal amount.
2.4 Settlements can be destroyed in return for any combination of Ore, Clay, and Wood totaling three cards. Rebuilding costs the normal amount.
2.5 Roads can be destroyed in return for either a Clay or a Wood. Rebuilding costs the normal amount.
2.6 City Walls can be destroyed in return for one Clay. rebuilding costs the normal amount.
2.7 Peasants are generally lazy. By placing one of your Knights on a Hex for one round (= "in the field"), you will receive double the amount of Resources and Commodities you would normally receive.
2.7.1 Note that your presence may cause the heathens of the other Kingdoms to declare war on you, as they will get nothing from this field while your Knight is there.
2.7.2 The Knight may be returned to any available hex-corner in your Kingdom after one round, or kept in the field by paying one Coin.
2.7.3 Knights in fields are always deactivated, and cannot be activated.
2.7.4 Knights in fields automatically protect the field from the Robber, and any neighbouring City from being raised by the Barbarians.
2.8 The lower classes are mobile, even if you may have to urge them to move. If you have two Settlements or Cities around two hexes, and no other King has any buildings around this hex (including roads) you may change the number tiles of these hexes at will once per round, before any player has rolled the dice. 6 and 8 cannot be exchanged for any other number tile, but can be exchanged with each other.
3. Wars proceed as under 3.1-3.5.7 in Laissez-Catan above, but rule 3.6 is of course not followed. Instead, all wars are fought to annihilation, unless a temporary truce is reached before then.
3.1 A victorious King may demand that the defeated loser becomes his/ her vassal, in which case the following rules apply:
3.1.1 A vassal cannot have Knights except by permission of its liege, and the number of Knights can never be higher than that of its liege.
3.1.2 The liege can at any time demand any sort of payment he/she sees fit from the vassal. If these cannot be produced, the vassal may be punished in a suitable manner.
3.1.3 The vassal's Settlements can be transformed into Knights by the liege during war. If they survive the war, they return to being Settlements of the vassal, but if not, the Settlement is lost.
3.2 Fighting Knights positioned in fields proceeds as normal, and they can be attacked from any road that leads to or borders the field. Similarly, a Knight in a field may move into any road that leads to or borders the field.
3.2.1 If the defending Knight wins, it remains in the field, and the attacking Knight is demoted one rank and placed on any available hex-corner of that hex, or at most one step away, and never into the winner's Kingdom. If no such hex-corner is available, the Knight is lost.
3.2.2 If the defending Knight loses, it is demoted and moved to any friendly hex-corner of the field, or at most one step away from it. If no such hex-corner is available, the Knight is lost. The attacking Knight can remain in the field, or retreat to any friendly hex-corner bordering the field, or at most one step away. If no such hex-corner exists, it will remain in the field automatically.
4 You are, as pointed out above, appointed by God. This has some perks. Once per turn, you may sacrifice one Coin and one Wool (representing animal sacrifice) in each of your Metropolises, and in every second of your Cities. Then roll 2d6 and check the following list for results:
2 – Receive your choice of four Resources or Commodities.
3 – Receive your choice of three Resources or Commodities.
4 – Receive your choice of two Resources or Commodities.
5 – Receive your choice of one Resources or Commodities.
6-8 – No effect. God is perhaps busy.
9 – Immediately build one Road piece in any legal place.
10 – Immediately build one Settlement in any legal place.
11 – Immediately improve one Settlement into a City.
12 – Immediately expand any of your Improvements one step.
Note: if God doesn't answer your prayers, the sacrifice may at least inspire the Church to help you out.
5. You are also a Conservative, so you may at any time during your turn press your peasants for one Grain per Settlement, one Grain and one Commodity per City, and two Grain and two Commodities per Metropolis. This extra taxation has no drawbacks, as anyone who complains is immediately sent to the Ore mines. Roll 2d6 and consult this table:
2 – Your persuasive methods have yielded you two Coin.
3 – More miners = more Ore. Gain three Ore.
4 – Only a few peasants survived the transport to the mines. Gain one Ore.
5 – No effect.
6 and 8 – The peasants are revolting! They are also in an uproar, immediately deactivating all your Knights and destroying one of your City Walls. The revolt will only last one turn.
7 – This is more serious than you thought. All your Knights are deactivated, all your City Walls are destroyed, and production will cease entirely in 1d6 Settlements and Cities (of your choice) for the next 1d6-3 (minimum 1) rounds, unless you can activate one Knight for every Settlement or City.
9 – No effect.
10 – The peasants see the error of their ways, and spontaneously hold a celebration in your honour at sword-point. The markets are open, and you gain one Commodity of your choice.
11 – The peons come around to your position on security and priorities, and volunteer to build one City Wall for free around any of your Cities. It is nice when everyone agrees that peasants should be in their beds at night, and production in the City with the new City Wall doubles in the next round.
12 – Inspired by your greatness, the rabble extends one of your Improvements for free. In addition, they agree to heat your dungeons with their bodies for a few days!
5.1 If you cannot build a new City Wall, chose a City with a City Wall to receive the bonus.
5.2 If you cannot extend any of your improvements, roll again.
5.3 If you have no Knights to activate, buying a new Knight counts as an activation. Moving a Knight and then activating it again is a good way to increase the number of activations needed.
Hope this helps to let you play Settlers of Catan the way you think the world should look like! And feel free to come with suggestions for improvements. Note that I haven't actually been able to play any of these versions, and they may be severely broken. But then again, at least Liberalism and Conservatism are severely broken in real life as well, so that may not be a problem.
(1) Note that these reworkings only concern SoC and Cities and Knights of Catan; I have played Seafarers of Catan too little to be able to include the mechanisms included in this expansion. I also don't remember what all the cards say, so pleas adapt these to fit the theme (which may include removing some cards from the game entirely!)
(2) The quoted comment is, of course, perhaps more environmentalist than traditionally socialist. Nevertheless, the problems addressed by environmentalism can never be resolved within any form of capitalist structure, due to its encouragement of cheating and disregard for human (and other animal) rights and well-being. It is a curious paradox that not more people (like the Green Party in Sweden) realise this.
(3) Please ensure that all players understand what a consensus is, or at least which form of consensus you will be using and what the valid ways for obtaining this consensus is, before you start playing.


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all seems normal in england... chelsea win again, sunderland lose again, titi scores a nice goal and then acts like a jerk....
oh and everton remember what a win tastes like. although it's at the expense of a missed handball in favour of newcastle. poor newcastle. even their midget has been sidelined lately.
it's the joey cole show at the pompey v chelsea game. and if you weren't driven mad by the dinner bell (??) you would have seen a nice crespo goal too.
the new boys continue to impress (well, aren't we all impressed by the absolute awfulness of sunderland?) even though they all lose this week. wigan try to come back against spurs, who are notorious for losing their concentration towards the end of the game, but it is not to be. maybe they were distracted by tottenham's ugly away kits. and west ham get off to a great start against manyoo... scoring in the first few minutes. but manyoo, or should i say rooney, bounce back and win it.
liverpool grind out another one-nil win. at least it was a nice risse goal.
and finally, the arse entertain us for some pretty goals. i was also highly entertained by blackburn & their bruiser boys (hello savage!) trying to break spanish legs (poor reyes). titi had a good enough goal to thump his chest in celebration *rolls eyes* but really, van persie's goal was better.

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I have an affiliate site with a lot of "thin content". I started in 2011, imported a lot of products from xml-feeds and hired some people to write content, category descriptions and so on.
I read all I could find about seo and optimized speed, titles, descriptions...
The website grew slowly but steady, and in 2015 the website made enough money for me and my family to live out of.
But in november 2015 something happened. The traffic took a 50% dive, and ever since, the traffic has decreased every month and is now about 10% of 2015.
Since the dive, I have tried even more articles, link building - I even tried to get SEO help from fiverr.com (don't do that), but nothing has helped.
My question is: Is the age for affiliate sites gone? Should I give up and find other ways to make business?
Does any of you have experience from affiliate sites?
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This is my sister. She has been Dei-Dei or Dei to us forever, but lately I've been calling her Fat Kid because she now weighs the heaviest in my family. :P
We look nothing alike and rarely share similar tastes but we get along really well. We do a lot of stuff together and enjoy spending time with each other.
No matter what happens we always have each other's backs because that's what sisters who are also best friends do. ^_^
I don't remember asking God for a sister but on this day nineteen years ago He gave me one anyway. I guess it just goes to show that God knows what's best for all of us. ^_^


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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Back to school
I started my winter term course today, "Diabetes Across the Lifespan." I find this class interesting and I know I picked up some new knowledge tonight! :-) I just love the teacher too! She has a fun personality and makes class interesting. I have a project due on Tuesday and all this reading to do. Yuck!
I am at the Mudhouse tonight just to chill and go over some of readings for class. Tonight for some reason, they somehow lost my drink order which happens every so often here. I went and told them and they told me that this always happens to you and you are one of our regular customers! I had to laugh and they even gave me a card for a free drink! :-) I love the Mudhouse!
My parents came over last weekend and helped me finish up some projects that we had started but I needed to buy some parts. I finally have my remote control system working in my ceiling fan in my bedroom again! Yeah! I just love it! I can now read in full light again all warm and cozy in my bed then turn the light off without getting out of my warm bed! I had been without light in my bedroom for almost 2 months so it is exciting to have light!
Anyway, I am thinking about heading home and doing some unfun stuff but I will finish it with the Sims2 so that will be a nice reward! :-)
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Looks like an awesome game.
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Months of anti-government protests have left Syria on the verge of civil war. Under the secular regime of Bashar al-Assad, Christians had relative freedom to worship, although Christian meetings were monitored by the secret police and evangelism was discouraged. Since March 2011 there has been a rise in the number of fundamental Islamic groups operating in the country. There have been reports of Christians being threatened and churches being raided. In one city, Christians are afraid to leave their homes.
- For an end to the bloodshed and that any change of government will lead to greater freedom for the people of Syria.
- That the rights of Christians and other religious minorities will be protected.
- That the church will have strength to stand firm and bring the light of Christ to their nation.
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Leader: President Bashar al-Assad
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Main Religion: Islam
Population: 21 million (1.9 million Christians)
Leader: President Bashar al-Assad
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Main Religion: Islam
Population: 21 million (1.9 million Christians)
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6 prayers for "Syria"
We need prar for Jim and kids not to go to afrika
Father in heaven…Holy Holy Holy is Your Name…
How do we pray for these precious Christians and the innocent in this Land?
All we can do is ask for Your Mercy and grace to be poured out into this Land…
Lord send forth Your angels to stop this war…Lord save these people from further blood
Open the windows and pour forth Holy Spirit to bring many into the Kingdom Lord..
we pray for signs and wonders…creative healings…
blessings up this land Lord.
Lord You are high and lifted up…the foundation of Your throne is rightousness and justice
we call forth Your righteousness today.
Have mercy Lord and send forth Your Holy warring angels to bring a stop to this horrible bloodbath…
we ask for You to intervine and bring about a new government over this land.
give the church strength to endure and healing for all of the trauma they go through.
shine Your light over this nation and bring deliverance…
Dear Lord,
I pray for those that are lost and dying. There are so many being killed that are not ready to face eternity, because they have never put their faith in Jesus. I pray that they may be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth. I thank you "That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Please use the unrest, uncertainty, and fear to bring people closer to You. Please protect your people and give them greater freedom in Christ.
Thy will be done in each individual situation.
Thank you that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to Your purpose.
We ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
I pray in agreement with all these prayers Lord!
Thank you for your faith in God. My prayer for you and your country is
that only light and peace will overcome the darkness of death and despair.
ramrajiya Commento sul tuo video: 46 Muslim Honour Killing rise Islam Christians martyr persecution Terrorism Islam is Hell for the Women, And zannat is sex pleasure for the man. laloca787894 Commento sul tuo video: 96 Overcomers Uzbekistan Islam Christians martyr persecution Terrorism May Allah guide these people, all opressed muslims around the world -ANSWER-- remove criminal sharia horror!
UNIUS REI VS NIMROD BAAL IMF 666 -- Micah 5:1-6 [a]Marshal your troops now, city of troops, for a siege is laid against us. They will strike Israel's ruler, on the cheek with a rod. 2. "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans[b] of Judah, out of you will come for me, one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times." 3. Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return, to join the Israelites.
UNIUS REI VS NIMROD BAAL IMF 666 -- 4. He will stand and shepherd his flock, in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness, will reach to the ends of the earth. 5. And he will be our peace, when the Assyrians invade our land and march through our fortresses. We will raise against them seven shepherds, even eight commanders, 6. who will rule[c] the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with drawn sword.[d] He will deliver us from the Assyrians, when they invade our land, and march across our borders.
IF I GIVE TO YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT? ALSO, YOU WILL BE KILLED BY MUSLIMA OF SATANALLAH, but, not by my holy Islam, is why, I am Messiaa Jewish: lorenzojhwh. and Mahdi lorenzoAllah
how satan in the bible Deuteronomy 21:18-21 Kill children Lev 26:27-29, Jer 19:9 Cannibalize children Num 31:18 Rape Virgins Deuteronomy 13:6-11 Kill preachers of foreign religions 1 Cor 14:34-35 Shame for woman to talk in church 1 Pet 2:18 Cruel slavery is ok The only book on earth, Which calls for the killing of children is the Bible The only book on earth, Which calls for the killing of children is the Bible - ANSWER - Leviticus 26:29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. --- IE, THEY BECOME Satanists! who teaches you: to study the Bible like a donkey? MAYBE, the King of Saudi Arabia? of course, the rabbis Pharisees, the Talmud Satanic Illuminati: IMF FED ECB 666, Bush 322, only they, are still, all these things: DIABOLICAL! but you can not say that the Jews and Christians .. because no servant of God, can love a lie!
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth...
video: 66 crudele male criminale Quranic Verses Inspired Satan koran prophet muhammad quran, 8:33" ---- max76689 8 months ago: Christians = satan. Islam is true. = John = 17:3. This is eternal life: that they may know You (God = Allah), the only true God. And Jesus Christ Whom you have sent. Christians worship messenger: O Wake Christians: Christians go to hell fire:-- ANSWER-- in truth, there is not a religious truth, which can be imposed: with the violence of law, because, the truth can be understood only by the power of the heart, that is love! when you, Muslims will stop: to hate, despise and judge honest people? (because it is by its fruit, which the tree is known) then, only then, you will learn to know God: personally!
God the Creator of the heavens and the earth and man said in the Holy Quran. (83) Say (O Muhammad): We believe in Allah (God) and That Which is revealed unto us and revealed unto Abraham and Ishmael That Which Was and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and That Which Was vouchsafed unto Moses and Jesus and Their prophets from the Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered. (84)Surah Al-E-Imran - ANSWER - IF YOU were doing the works of God and the prophets? you would never have killed innocent people (Christians), but Satan is your father, because you do the same works that murderer of Muhammad had done, in fact, you do not follow the teachings of Jesus, it is impossible for a Muslim to enter, in heaven if despise the Bible, or the Gospel, but many Muslims Satanists, they burn the Bible and the Gospel!
max76689 said: God says in the Quran: (74) The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him. And his mother was a saintly woman. Both And they used to eat (earthly) food. See how We make the revelations clear for them, and see how they are turned away! (75) Surah Al-Maeda: in = jesus bible say = This is eternal life: that they may know You the only true God and Jesus Christ Whom you have sent, but, Christians worship messenger. - ANSWER - you will not be condemned for being a Muslim, because Muslims good people? go to Heaven, you will be condemned, because, not having, received a divine revelation, you personally, as many Muslims, who have become Christians, you judge the infinite things of God, to do harm to innocent people on matters of conscience
if you understand Christianity? then, also, you will be killed by the Muslims, because, in their eyes, you will always be, a blasphemer and idolater! but this is the truth, God has given free will, while satanaAllah, has captured:: taken it! se tu capisci il cristianesimo? poi, anche, tu sarai ucciso dai musulmani, perché, ai loro occhi, tu sarai sempre, un blasfemo ed idolatra! ma, questa è la verità, Dio ha dato il libero arbitrio, mentre, satanaAllah lo ha tolto!
Christians believe that God is love ... a love which suffers and shares: the penis of men, through the Messiah, Christ Jesus, there must be no violence or contempt on religion, the Prophet says, but, you kill innocent Christians martyrs: 300 every day!
TheLansoprazole Commento sul tuo video: 73 Robert Spencer Muhammad Islam Christians martyr persecution Terrorism Numbers 31:17-18 King James Version (KJV) 17- Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18- But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. --ANSWER -- YOUR planet is the planet of the Satanic Illuminati of talmud: IMF FED ECB, 666, 322, or planet: of Salafis, Sharia law, for saudi imperialism, it is not my planet!!
youtube, my channel says I have 17 subscribers but when I click on it shows 2 or 3. what's going on? please help
Kain Warlike: all Cain 666 IMF CIA spammers: of synnek1: Satanism employer: international institutional Satanism. KainDarkullic has posted a comment: 6 hours ago said: "I am anger Under pressure Locked in cages, The first prisoner to escape I am wicked I am legion Strength in numbers, to lie The number is one that I see is Everything for me" --- ANSWER -- PROVERB ----"When men do not worship God? then, they end up worshiping the beasts! madness! "and in fact, he runs: around the world: with a condom: of donkey's dead: embalmed of Satan! the ultimate degradation of human nature? is betray its Creator! "Quando gli uomini non adorano Dio? poi, loro finiscono per adorare le bestie! pazzia!" ed infatti, lui gira: tutto il mondo : con un preservativo: di testa di asino morto: imbalsamato per satana! il massimo degrado della natura umana?, è tradire il proprio Creatore!
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– WWE Hall of Famer Billy Graham was hospitalized on Friday night after his legs went numb. He went in and x-rays showed 2 of the discs in his lower back fused on their own with the obliteration of a disc separating them. Graham underwent traction and is back at home but will miss an independent event in Massachusetts today he was scheduled to appear at.
The event he was going to appear at is a benefit show from the Millenium Wrestling Federation for "Mermaid Girl" so she can get into a summer camp. Stars like Awesome Kong, ODB, Spike Dudley, John Cena Sr., The Kat and others will be appearing. There will also be some taped stuff from JBL. The promoters are trying to get Graham to do a Q&A session with the fans by phone. The promotion is offering all ticket purchasers a free autographed photo by Graham, two new wrestling books and a free Graham action figure in an attempt to make good. For fans who pre-purchased the autographs and photos with Graham, refunds will be sent via PayPal this week.
– Sinan Habeeb sent the following: Just wanted to note that CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Title is being promoted for the July 3rd event in San Diego. Plans can always change after The Bash.
– Batista will be playing the lead villain role in a new movie titled Wapakman. The movie also stars top boxer Manny Pacquiao, a good friend of Batista's. The movie also stars Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, who sang at WrestleMania 25 this year.
– Some hot and fun new photos of ECW General Manager Tiffany have surfaced of her out drinking with friends and just being her hot self. You can view them by CLICKING HERE.


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Culture, Norms and Festivals of Saudi Arabia
This country is 98% desert. Its population consist upon 90% Arabs and 10% Arfo-Asian. Nationality of Saudi Arabia is Saudi and national language is Arabic but English is widely spoken. English is considered 2nd language in schools and in offices too. Many other languages are also spoken by Saudi residential like Urdu by Pakistanis and Turkish and Farsi. Currency of this country is Saudi Riyal. Riyadh is capital of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh has many attractive places to visit e:g; National museum, National Zoo, Kingdom center etc.
Islam was started in Saudi Arabia as told by a Muslim friend of mine working at San Antonio water softener. He said that People in Saudi Arabia are Muslims while large numbers of Muslims are Sunni Muslim and rest of others are Shia Muslim. They pray five times a day for their Allah. They fast in holy month of Ramadan on every year. Fasting means no food, no drink, no smoking and not even gum chewing. The time of fast starts from fajar (dawn) and ends on Magrib (Dusk). Friday is holy day in Islam (A Mubarak day) so it is holiday and Thursday is also off, considering a weekend.
They dance with sword on very special events and celebrations. At start of any important event or wedding they recite Quran (A Holy book). Painting, sculptures, and folk art is very famous in Saudi culture. They eat boiled rice with roasted meat, goat, cow, chicken, rabbit, camel, cheese, butter, barley, honey, dates, and fresh vegetables. They don't eat any meat which is not ritually slaughtered (which is not Halal means which is not slaughtered while saying Takbeer). Tea and coffee is very popular hot beverages in offices all day. They honored their guests by offering them many delicious food items.
The greeting style is very different in Saudi Arabia. Men shake hands for longer than in western culture and kiss on both cheeks. While women hug and kiss their close friends and in business they shake hands or place hand on heart to show respect and welcome the next person. While men and women do not greet in public as it is considered against Sunnah. Being rude or staring someone is considered worse than death. Men and women avoid eye contact as stated in Islam. They are very friendly, hostile, generous people.


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Ever had an exam that you got absolutely no enough time to finish it?
I am not a very bright student in every class I would say
but the only good thing about me is I am fast.
I cant hardly recall any of it that I cant finish on time and not leaving early
The exam is totally ridiculously ironically purposely sally made up.
Even the professor was telling us that:" For sure you guys wouldn't be able to finish the exam, so DO the part that YOU THINK you will do most well."but whats the point?
So there it is, 5 question, consists of at least 12 sub questions for each
total up 150 marks.
total up 150 marks.
And my prediction would be that no one can get higher than 50% for the test.
By the way, the feeling of having only done half of the paper and hearing "10 minutes left" really boost you up to a level than you can never imagine. You will speed up real fast.
For one second you were still at the first half of the exam paper, the next you had done crapping for the rest of the paper.
But what the heck eh?
I finally had it today :)


text: Earlier this year, CRTD.A (WLP-Lebanon) was engaged in some serious lobbying which led to the inclusion of the reform of the nationality law on the official agenda of the Cabinet meeting of March 21st 2012. This was the first time the matter was officially discussed with the Prime Minister that he gave indication that he is personally in favour of the reform of the law so that women have equal rights to transmit citizenship as men. During that same period, CRTD.A was also in discussions with the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) on the process of reforming the law as well as the development of a counter proposal for a new law. Both processes yielded results. The NCLW concluded a process of consultations which culminated in the drafting of a law petition. The Prime Minister for his part set up a Ministerial Committee formed of seven Ministers in order to review the nationality law and submit scenarios for reforms.


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January 8, 1959
Application of Angelo CHIEPPA, Plaintiff,
Alex KRIMSKY, Warden of Federal House of Detention, Defendant, to quash and vacate a warrant of arrest, etc
The opinion of the court was delivered by: HERLANDS
Petitioner has moved for an order (1) quashing a warrant issued by the United States Board of Parole, (2) releasing petitioner from the Federal House of Detention, (3) setting bail pending determination of the instant motion, and (4) for such further relief as may be deemed proper.
This matter of first impression involves the interpretation of a parole statute, title 18 U.S.C.A. § 4164.
To be decided is the following basic question: Does the 180-day period made deductible from the maximum term by the statute for certain purposes apply not only to a conditional releasee, i.e., a person who has been released after serving his prison term less good-time deductions, but also to a person (like the petitioner) who has been paroled after serving one-third of his sentence, i.e., as distinguished from having been released after serving his term less good-time deductions.
The distinction between a 'conditional releasee' and a 'parolee' is the fulcrum of this controversy because the statute (18 U.S.C.A. § 4164) literally read applies -- and this is admitted by petitioner -- only to a conditional releasee, that is, 'a prisoner having served his term or terms less good-time deductions.' The parties differ as to whether the statute should be interpreted literally.
The present application must be viewed against the background of the following prior proceedings affecting the petitioner.
On October 16, 1950, Honorable Philip Forman, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, sentenced petitioner to a term of three years' imprisonment in two cases involving violation of the Internal Revenue Liquor Laws.
On December 8, 1951, after serving 13 months, petitioner was released on parole for the remainder of his term which was to expire 23 months later on October 15, 1953. Petitioner was not released for 'good-time' while in prison, but was paroled in the discretion of the Parole Board.
On August 18, 1953, petitioner was again arrested for conspiracy to violate the liquor laws. On October 9, 1953, a warrant was issued by the Parole Board charging a violation of parole.
On September 13, 1956, petitioner was sentenced after trial before Honorable Alexander Holtzoff, United States District Judge, then sitting by designation in the Southern District of New York. A term of two years' imprisonment was imposed. In a presentence report made available to Judge Holtzoff upon sentence, Judge Holtzoff was advised that petitioner might be required by the Parole Board to serve twenty-two and one-half months over and above the sentence to be imposed. This Court has read the said presentence report.
On June 11, 1957, conviction having been affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (United States v. Chieppa, 241 F.2d 635), petitioner commenced serving the sentence imposed by Judge Holtzoff.
On December 3, 1958, petitioner became eligible for mandatory release from prison for 'good-time.' On that date, the warrant previously issued (on October 9, 1953) by the Parole Board, charging violation of parole, was executed and lodged with the Warden, Federal House of Detention.
Petitioner is presently incarcerated by virtue of this warrant. He seeks by the present motion to test the legality of his incarceration and to quash said warrant. Thus, two questions are raised: first, the propriety of the issuance of the warrant; second, the propriety of the delay in executing the warrant.
For the reasons hereinafter set forth, the Court has concluded that the warrant was properly issued.
Petitioner was paroled from prison on December 8, 1951, after serving thirteen months of the three-year term imposed by Judge Forman. Petitioner's release was pursuant to the provisions of Title 18 U.S.C.A. § 4202, and in the discretion of the Parole Board. Section 4202 provides:
' § 4202. Prisoners eligible
'A Federal prisoner, other than a juvenile delinquent or a committed youth offender, wherever confined and serving a definite term or terms of over one hundred and eighty days, whose record shows that he has observed the rules of the institution in which he is confined, may be released on parole after serving one-third of such term or terms or after serving fifteen years of a life sentence or of a sentence of over forty-five years. As amended July 31, 1951, c. 277, 65 Stat. 150.'
Parole pursuant to Section 4202 is governed by Section 4203, ...
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Maharashtra Postman Result 2015 | Maharashtra Postman Result | Maharashtra Mail Guard Result | Maharashtra MTS Staff Result 2015
Maharashtra Postman Result will be declared with in some days. The examination department of DOPMAH is announced the result very soon. They said the result will take some time or we say few days to making a list. This lists is formed due to the Selection pint of View. So the applicants belong to the state Maharashtra they have to now wait till the official website will not announced the result.
Maharashtra Postman Result 2015
Maharashtra Mail Guard Result 2015
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The Mail Guard and MTS Staff result is also make. The selection process you all know very well. So we are not repeat this thing. If any one need any assistant then he or she can ask us any time in the comment box.
Maharashtra Postman Result
In the month of January, Maharashtra Postal Circle released a notification for the recruitment of Postman, Mail Guard, and MTS. There were about 2426 vacant seats for these posts. The process to apply for the exam was through online mode. Large number of interested candidates applied for this post.
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As it was a state level exam, candidates belonging to Maharashtra state can apply for the exam. The examination centers were also pre-allotted in the Maharashtra state only according to the candidates' preference.
Both the exams were held on different dates. Written exam for Post man and Mail Guard was held on 29th march 2015. Written exam for the post of MTS was held on 3rd March 2015. All the candidates who applied for these exams appeared on the day of examination. The exam was Done Very good and completed in good manner successfully in all the various examination centers.
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RSA Conference kicks off with acquistion talk
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TIME TO PLAY THE GAME — IBM Monday kicked off the merger and acquisition buzz for the otherwise quiet opening day of the RSA Conference, announcing it would purchase incident response company Resilient Systems and partner with a second company, Carbon Black. Resilient is home to crypto guru Bruce Schneier, who serves as the company's chief technology officer and is expected to remain as part of the deal. Big Blue hailed it as a big play, and one outlet reported it as intended to undercut new entrants AND old school companies like Cisco, Symantec, FireEye and Rapid7. "With our intent to acquire Resilient Systems, and our other announcements today, we are doubling down on the incident response market," said Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager of IBM Security.
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— WHAT FIREEYE SEES: For its part, FireEye doesn't consider IBM or any other specific company competition, FireEye's Ajay Sood told MC in an interview. But FireEye's own recent acquisition binge is fueled by its perception that more companies are competing for a limited (though growing) pool of cybersecurity dollars. Sood, who's responsible for managing the company's Canada business, said the consolidation push is married to a globalization drive. That should reduce the company's current dependence upon the United States for 80 percent of its revenue to an even split between the U.S. and elsewhere. One target: NATO members.
On global cyber policy, Sood said he'd like to see clearer rules on cybercrime cooperation among nations. The big threat he sees spreading is hackers' targeting of intensely personal information, such as the penetration of the Ashley Madison adultery site. And while some saw uplifting news in FireEye's latest trends report about companies reducing their attack response time, Sood said that the improvement was driven by a small number of businesses that discovered breaches themselves. For companies whose attacks are detected by outside consultants, clients or law enforcement, attacks remain undetected for just as long.
— OVERHEARD ON PANELS: Jamie Danker, a privacy officer at the Homeland Security Department, talking about implementing the new information sharing law and what kind of personal info is swapped: "If you don't collect data in the first place, you don't have to protect it." Ari Schwarz, a former White House official now at Venable, talking about voluntary measures: "As you build these voluntary efforts and they're supposed to be able to get companies to participate, it's something that can be mirrored overseas." Don Davidson, a Defense Department official who works on cyber training and recruitment, previewing the "permeability" part of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's talk this week: "How do we promote the ability of our workforce to move between government and industry?" Karen Evans, a former top White House cybersecurity official who also served in a variety of agencies, now national director of U.S. Cyber Challenge: "One little thing on my resume that I don't highlight out there is that on Aug. 17, 1996, I was the lead for the first team that ever got hacked in the federal government, where the Justice Department's website was vandalized and Janet Reno's face was on the naked body of Jennifer Aniston."
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Q AND A WITH AARON HUGHES — Aaron Hughes spent six years helping the intelligence community integrate emerging technology as an executive at venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. For nearly 10 months, he's been using the same skills to help the Pentagon polish its cyber policy. "I've been able to bring in a good sanity check on how we're progressing on the technology side and that's absolutely something that developed by looking at hundreds of companies," Hughes, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, told Joe in a recent interview. Hughes also pushed back on complaints that the government isn't deterring cyber threats and discussed the cyber tools the department covets. Read the full Q and A here.
TODAY: APPLE, FBI CLASH IN CONGRESS — Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell and FBI Director James Comey share the stage today at the House Judiciary Committee, which kicks off its hearing on encryption at 1 p.m.. Comey goes first; his testimony wasn't public by our press time. Look for Sewell, leading panel two, to repeat Apple's belief that the issue — law enforcement access to data — is one best resolved by Congress.
The hearing's two remaining witnesses will take opposite sides in the debate, our friends at Morning Tech report. Cyrus Vance, the district attorney for N.Y. County, will repeat his argument that his office has more than 175 iPhones in its possession that it can't unlock thanks to Apple — and he'll detail draft legislation he share with lawmakers to help gain access to digital communications. And Susan Landau, a top professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute who previously worked at Google, will offer a strong defense of encryption. She'll echo many of Apple's arguments about the security threats that'd be posed if it's forced to unlock an iPhone tied to the San Bernardino attack last year, as DOJ seeks — but she'll stress a better solution is to beef up the FBI's capabilities so that it can obtain the data on its own.
SPLIT OVER ENCRYPTION COMMISSION — Industry groups and privacy advocates largely welcomed a new encryption and digital security commission formally proposed by Sen. Mark Warner, (D-Va.) and House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, (R-Texas) Monday. Ryan Hagemann, technology and civil liberties policy analyst at the libertarian-leaning Niskanen Center, called the new commission an "ideal resting place" for the encryption debate. BSA, the industry group also known as the Software Alliance, said the commission "could prove to be an important part of a comprehensive strategy to address security and technology challenges."
New America's Open Technology Institute, however, charged that the commission seems tilted in favor of weakening encryption. "Based on how the bill currently defines the commission's mission, the commissioners would necessarily have to consider and ultimately may even recommend legal mandates to force technology companies to redesign or weaken their products' security features," OTI Director Kevin Bankston said, adding that "such a surveillance backdoor mandate may just be the appetizer."
CARTER TO CALIFORNIA — Defense Secretary Ash Carter is in Silicon Valley today where he plans talks with top technology firms about topics including the Pentagon's cyber needs. Carter expanded on the role cyber is playing in the military campaign against the Islamic State during a news conference Monday, saying U.S. Cyber Command has used attacks, "particularly in Syria, to interrupt [and] disrupt ISIL's command and control, to cause them to lose confidence in their networks, to overload their networks so they can't function." Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declined to specify how and when the U.S. has used cyberattacks against ISIL, saying the military doesn't want terrorist forces to know when they're suffering from a U.S. attack as opposed to a bad Internet connection.
PAYROLL'S GONE PHISHIN' — This weekend saw two companies acknowledge that their finance staff gave up employee payroll information to phishing scammers posing as the CEO. Snapchat alerted employees Sunday that a duped employee had surrendered payroll information on some current and former employees. The company verified within hours that the email was not from the CEO and alerted the FBI, Snapchat said, adding that the company is "just impossibly sorry."
That same day, Evening Post Industries, parent of the Charleston Post and Courier in South Carolina, acknowledged that the company had mistakenly turned over W2 form information for everyone employed at the company in 2015, in response to a similar scam. Brian Krebs reported last month that phony CEO email scams were on the rise.
MONSTER MANUALS — The conventional wisdom is "that cyber attacks are so complex and so fast-moving," Verizon Enterprise Solutions' Bryan Sartin tells MC, and companies often say they've just been hit by "never seen before malware and tactics that we have never seen before." Nope. In Verizon's experience investigating breaches, "It's just the opposite. We see tremendous commonality in the breaches we investigate." Verizon has put together a "great big book of monsters" to be formally unveiled Wednesday that assigns names and personalities to some of the most common attacks. One bit of good news: Verizon-labeled "lethal" attacks that meet certain criteria — like significant potential damage — "are few and far between in number," said Sartin.
Along those same lines, the Cloud Security Alliance on Monday released its "Treacherous Twelve" list of top 2016 threats to cloud computing, in conjunction with the RSA Conference. Check it out here.
RECENTLY ON PRO CYBERSECURITY — A federal judge in New York has denied a government bid to force Apple to unlock the iPhone of a criminal defendant, intensifying the fight over encryption … Apple's happy; Justice will appeal … Verizon's CEO said his company isn't "taking sides" in Apple's legal fight against the FBI over unlocking a phone used by one of the San Bernardino, California terrorists, but contends Congress shouldsettle the encryption debate rather than the courts … The State Department has reversed itself and thus the United States will renegotiate export controls on cybersecurity products … Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) celebrated the move to renegotiate … NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers said the attack on the Ukrainian electricity grid should serve as a warning sign to the United States.
— U.S. tech employment grew by nearly 200,000 workers in 2015 to about 6.7 million employees, driven in part by persistent cyber threats, according to CompTIA's annual Cyberstates 2016 index out today.
— There's a Linux variant for the Derusbi malware, associated with Chinese hackers and used in a number of high profile breaches, according to aFidelis Cybersecurity analysis out today.
— It'll take up to three years for auto makers to address cybersecurity weaknesses in Internet-connected cars, predicts research firm IDC. That might not be quick enough, since half of drivers surveyed by IDC and cybersecurity firm Veracode say they're already concerned about connected applications such as self-parking and collision avoidance systems.
— Distributed denial of service attacks jumped 40 percent in the final quarter of 2015 as measured by Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet Security Report. Akamai also tracked a spike in repeat DDoS attacks. Customers that were hit with at least one DDoS attack were ultimately targeted an average of 24 times this quarter, the report said.
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— The EU needs help from U.S. firms for the Safe Harbor successor data privacy deal to work. Reuters.
— It looks like HackingTeam is back. Ars Technica.
— It's really easy to hack critical hospital systems. Threatpost.
— The case for making cybersecurity a big deal in the 2016 campaign. The Hill.
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Taking TEAS V 7/26- METRIC Conversions
Just wondering if I need to memorize:
1. English to Metric Conversions or do they give them to you? (i.e.: convert meters to feet, oz to grams, etc)
2. How about knowing how to find: area, perimeter, area of triangle, radius and diameter?
Thanks so much! I really appreciate all the input and any other nuances I may need to know for the test.
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Specialty: 1 year(s) of experience in ED/Trauma/Field Case ManagerJul 31, '12Woohoo! Congrats! I'm studying for the TEAS V now and was wondering the same thing. I know the basic conversions from milli to kilo but after reading my chemistry for dummies book I'm starting to get a little nervous about that! Anyways congrats again!Jul 31, '12No need to worry, all conversion problems i had (about 2) gave u the conversions you needed. Example: convert feet to miles, they gave you how many feet were in a mile, you just had to do the math. Good luck!Jul 31, '12^^^^^^for chemistry I've only hear about balancing equations and the basic bonds, atomic number, mass etc.Aug 1, '12The test may cover some very basic organic chem (being able to recognize alkanes, alkenes, alkynes). Look at the ATI study guide for what they want you to know.Aug 1, '12Know diff between ionic, covalent, hydrogen bonds. only had 1 to balance, it was easy. Make a list of each element, next column write.down how many are on reactant side, next column how many on product side. Start with 1st element & see how it changes the others in reactant, & product, til u balance it out. Know where metals, nonmetals, metaloids, alkine, halogen, etc. are.
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Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of First Liberty Institute, the largest legal firm in the nation dedicated exclusively to protecting religious freedom for all Americans, joined Glenn on set today to discuss the qualifications of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Shackelford gave Gorsuch glowing marks.
"A lot of people look at his education and see how incredible it was. He goes to Columbia undergrad, Harvard law school and then he went to Oxford. A lot of people don't know why he went to Oxford. He went Oxford to study under the top brain in the world on natural law, a guy by the name of John Finnis, the guy who trained Robby George," Shackelford said.
Additionally, Gorsuch has written or joined about 3,000 opinions which give a long history of his philosophy and beliefs.
"We're ahead of the curve, I'm just telling you," Shackelford said.
To watch the Gorsuch confirmation hearings and get analysis, go to TrumpNominee.com, a website created by Shackelford's organization.
Enjoy the complimentary clip above or read the transcript below for details.
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GLENN: Kelly Shackelford is the president and CEO of FirstLiberty.org. He is probably the guest that everybody wants to have on this week talking about the new Supreme Court nominee and the hearings that are going on this week because this is what he does for a living is look at the courts in regards to religious freedom, especially, but freedom and the constitutionalist view of the Supreme Court nominee. This is what he does. He looks for the case to be made. Do the Democrats have a case to be made that this guy is out of control? Do we have — can we take real solace in the fact that this guy won't turn out to be John Roberts. We go to Kelly beginning right now.
Welcome to the program, Kelly Shackelford, how are you?
KELLY: Great.
GLENN: It's good to have you here.
KELLY: Good to be here.
GLENN: You were looking at the list of all of the Supreme Court nominees when they had a list of 20, and I believe he was on your short list, Gorsuch, of somebody that you felt pretty comfortable with. Going into this, how comfortable are you that he's not John Roberts or any of the other conservatives that we always nominate, and then they always turn out to be a huge progressive?
KELLY: Well, there's a few things about him and what Republicans were doing in the past. In the past, there's this Republican thing of picking people without a record. And John Roberts, for instance, I mean —
GLENN: That was Ted Cruz's argument against him.
KELLY: And that's what people did. Now, John Roberts has been solid on most cases. ObamaCare twice, inexplicably.
GLENN: He wrote the law.
KELLY: Exactly. I will point out it was those two cases that — not on the same-sex marriage case or the —
GLENN: Pretty big, though.
KELLY: I agree with you. But John Roberts was the guy who had no record. Now, that usually says one of two things. If you're 50 years old, and you have no conservative record, you're either —
GLENN: You're not a conservative.
KELLY: You're either not a conservative, or you're hiding. And if you're hiding, then how much courage are you going to have when the heat's on? That's the approach that the Republicans had. That's not their approach anymore. Really it, it changed. You have Harry being appointed by President Bush. That didn't work. So they went back and said I'm going to pick a full fledged conservative with a long record and guess what? Alito got through. They tried to filibuster, they got 25 votes. So since then now, it has changed. When you look at Gorsuch, he had 3,000 opinions that his name's connected to. Either he wrote or joined those opinions. So you see a long sloth of where his philosophy has been, what he believes, where he stands, so that's a little different.
GLENN: Chuck Schumer said there are many reasons to fear him. But the one that they're going after is that he's a corporatist, that he's always for the corporation and he's just going to sink us all because smokestacks will be everywhere.
KELLY: Really silly. What you find with Gorsuch is he doesn't really care who the plaintiff and told are. He's just going to go what does the law say? And that's the result. And the funny thing when you ask him if he's this person that you're saying he is, then what are the opinions? And if you pull out two or three opinions, he'll go wait. Those are unanimous, and you have a liberal Democrat joining on the opinions. So I've never seen such a weak set of attacks on anybody. They really don't have anything on him, so I think their only hope is to create something in the hearing to hope that he says something or does something. Because I think right now, they're in serious trouble at trying to stop.
GLENN: It seems like — I mean, it was a really big deal. A lot of people voted for Trump because of this. In fact, I would say perhaps a majority of people voted for Trump because of this. And yet, here we are on the hearings, and it doesn't seem like it's going to be a big deal. It doesn't seem like when we were building up, we knew that was going to be a big deal and a big fight. Is it because we're replacing Scalia that it's not that big of a deal? Or what's happening?
KELLY: I think that's part of it. I think part of it most people for whatever reason don't even know it's occurring. We put a website up TrumpNominee.com where people can, like, watch the hearing, get the information, you know, where does he stand, what are his past opinions, what does the NRA say about him, what do the right to life say about him, what do the different groups out there have to say, I think most people have no idea that the hearings are starting this week.
GLENN: Starting today. We won't hear from him until later this afternoon.
KELLY: Right. It's something they don't know. And the media I think is probably not playing this up because I think they realize that as far as the left wing, this is not going to work out well for them, most likely. So they're not highlighting this. I do think, you're right, though, I do think if we had the next nominee.
GLENN: The next one's going to be big.
KELLY: The rumors are it's going to happen soon, like, within the next year. And let's say if Kennedy did step down, now you're talking about the control of the court because you essentially — when you had Scalia, you had four conservatives, four liberals, and one that moves back and forth.
GLENN: Kennedy was a conservative appointed; right?
KELLY: He was, but he has been voting on both sides of the issue.
GLENN: Never trust a Kennedy.
KELLY: Theoretically if you replace Kennedy, you're talking about a lot of huge issues now that if you had issues. You're talking about big issues. You can see the other side would really come out for that next seat. Where this, really, the conservatives the best they can do is stay even with replacing Scalia.
GLENN: Correct.
KELLY: Now, I think they're going to do that. In fact, some people may think that Gorsuch was more conservative than Scalia. But not as conservative as Thomas. But more conservative than Scalia.
GLENN: How close are these guys? I know that Scalia and Ginsberg were really close and good friends. I really wish that Ginsberg would have spoken at his funeral, because I would have liked to show America that you can be on complete opposite ends of the spectrum and still be good friends. But how close is Thomas with Roberts? Do they influence each other at this point?
KELLY: I don't know how much they influence, but they are friends. The uniqueness of the Scalia/Ginsberg relationship, they grew up in New York. There was a real connection there. And they're friends with one another. They're in a very small, special group, obviously. But guys like Thomas aren't really influenced by what other people say or do.
GLENN: So do you think — I mean, Calvin Coolidge, nominated a good friend of his who is a staunch, he thought, conservative. He gets onto the court, and he's so bad, he becomes proving that even FDR makes him the chief justice. Really crazy. Do they get in to the court, do you think some of them get into the court and think "Well, now I have such an important position, and I want to legacy."
Does that happen?
KELLY: Yeah, I think the old cocktail circles in DC wanting to fit in, wanting to be accepted. I mean, that's always what people really worry about. I think that's one of the unique things that Gorsuch has going for him that a lot of others didn't, and that is his mom was the head of the EPA under Reagan and was savagely attacked by the Democrats. And he felt that sting. It's well-known. I think he knows who his friends are and aren't, so I don't think he would fall into that trap.
GLENN: That's the best case I've heard yet.
KELLY: When you have somebody, though, who doesn't have a lot of record, and then they go in there, and then they get the social pressure, you can see that kind of thing happening. Again, Gorsuch has 3,000 opinions connected with him. He has a pretty strong, deep philosophy that's been expressed for many years. Anybody can surprise us; right? I mean, people are people but, you know, this is about as good of record — we're a group that focuses on religious liberty. We've never seen anybody with this many solid religious liberty opinions. I mean, he wrote the lower court. He was involved on the right side on hobby lobby, on little sisters of the poor, on just a number of these cases where you've heard about them later and maybe he was in the dissent, depending upon which one it was. But he always did the right thing, wrote an excellent opinion, stood for religious freedom, so I think he's going to be good on a lot of the constitutional issues that your listeners really care about. Really solid because he's an originalist, and he doesn't think it evolves what he wants it to mean, which is the common approach.
STU: I've heard the argument Gorsuch has made a lot of decisions that would indicate he would be on the pro-life side. However, there's never been a specific ruling by him on abortion. What is your level of concern on that?
KELLY: I don't really have any. Again, he's really solid about what does the constitution say? He's not going to create things that aren't there. He criticized — there's an article where he actually criticized the LGBT community for trying to use the courts instead of the legislative process and opinion. So even if he would agree with something, you would never think to use the courts.
GLENN: You think there is a constitutional case for pro-life?
KELLY: I think he is more likely to say this is something left to the legislative process.
GLENN: I'm asking you. Is there a —
KELLY: There's an argument. People can argue under the 14th amendment. There's a right to life.
GLENN: What about the preamble?
KELLY: Yeah, I mean, there are people that look at that and say he would look at the original intent of what the founders were doing with those things, whether they were trying to create a substantive right. Again, I think you're going to find a lot of the more conservative judges are more — if it's not clearly there, then let's leave it to the legislative process.
GLENN: Why is that when, you know, I quoted several of the signers of the constitution and decoration today that took a stand. I mean, this was not unheard of in the day. Abortion was a thing, and they all came out as that's murder. Why is that not in the constitution or do they just think it was so plain that murder is murder?
KELLY: I think that's it. There are a lot of things that they couldn't conceive that we would have to deal with. I mean, same-sex marriage; right? A lot of these things we're seeing now, they didn't even think of, so they didn't address them, necessarily, in the constitution in a direct way. I do think Gorsuch, you got a little bit more on where he stands, at least, personally. He wrote a book on euthanasia. His editor of the book was professor Robert George. Probably one of the most well respected —
GLENN: Oh, yeah. Robby George is fantastic.
KELLY: A lot of people look at his education and see how incredible it was. He goes to Columbia undergrad, Harvard law school, and then he went to Oxford. A lot of people don't know why he went to Oxford. He went Oxford to study under the top brain in the world on natural law. A guy by the name of John Finnis, the guy who trained Robby George.
GLENN: Long-standing philosophy. Let me ask you this final question. Nobody is really thinking about this. But he's young enough to be dealing with in the next 10 to 20 years. Is he going to be able to handle or is anybody looking into the definition of life when it comes to AI? I mean, we're moving into the realm of trans-humanism, and that is going to be an issue. Have you seen anything from him on that?
KELLY: Well, I don't know how he would do — you would have to look what legal case. But I think he's probably got the most extensive background to prepare him for that than any justice because, again, he studied his Ph.D. in understanding of natural law of life. What did he write his book on? Euthanasia. That he steeped on that philosophy.
GLENN: I wonder which way he would go on that.
STU: Two questions. One is this the first question you have had about trans-humanism with Neil Gorsuch.
GLENN: We're ahead of the curve, I'm just telling you.
STU: And he's a good Trump skeptic for Supreme Court because we were ought about it, and I didn't think it would be this good. I feel like Gorsuch is towards the top of that list and looking at it from my perspective, I think he did a great job with this pick. If you wanted your favorite guy for president, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, whatever, any of those guys, and they pick Neil Gorsuch, is that a good pick for them as well?
KELLY: Yeah. I think he's a good pick.
STU: It's that good.
KELLY: There are people out there that are, like, why aren't they on the list? But I'm not saying they're better than Gorsuch. I think we're going to have to wait and see, of course, after he gets on the court. But everything we see, we've got so many opinions. We have this steeped training background. We have this situation that happened in his own family where his mother was really unfairly treated by Democrats. So I don't think he's going to go to DC and cozy up. So there's a lot of things in his favor that, again, his manner is mild and humble and, again, I think that's why they can't attack him. They can't make him — he's just — that's not his personality. So I think they're really desperate during these hearings to get him to make a mistake, somehow, which I don't see him doing.
GLENN: If you really want to know where everybody stands from NRA on down the line, go to TrumpNominee.com. That's TrumpNominee.com. You'll be able to watch the hearings, get the analysis there, and, Kelly, I would love to have you back to get a highlight of what we saw, starting tomorrow because the hearings kind of start today with opening statements. Thank you so much, Kelly, appreciate it.
KELLY: Thanks for having me.
GLENN: TrumpNominee.com.
GLENN: I just asked Kelly to stay for a extra couple of minutes. How is he on privacy and the commerce clause?
KELLY: He's great on the commerce clause. On privacy, I would have to know what the issue — what you're going to find with him is he's one of those boring guys that's going to say what does the statute say? What does the constitution say? What did it mean?
GLENN: For instance, the gathering information on everyone. I mean, to me, the constitution is very, very clear. No, unless you have a warrant.
KELLY: Yeah, I would think you would be solid. You see, privacy has been converted into all kinds of other things. It was the basis for Roe v. Wade, so you can stretch it and turn into something else. What you're going to find with him, though, is he's all about what does it say? And now, I do think one of the things that's really important — I don't want to glaze people's eyes over, they show deference to bureaucrats. So congress passes a law, and they say we'll let the bureaucrats decide how to pass the law. And then they massively violate people's rights. Including criminal-type things. And then the court says we defer. We have chevron deference. He has been really strong on that saying, no, we protect our constitution.
STU: Better than Scalia on this issue.
GLENN: And that's where people like Mike Lee are going in congress.
KELLY: Absolutely.
JEFFY: Another thing you mentioned, there might be another opening.
GLENN: You said Kennedy.
KELLY: The rumors are there's going to be another.
GLENN: I've heard as soon as, like, ten months.
KELLY: That's very, very possible. I think we very well might have another one of these before a year from now.
PAT: So Kennedy maybe is stepping down then; right?
KELLY: He could be. He probably wants to step down under a Republican. He was appointed under a Republican. If you wait too late towards the end, then it gets stalled up.
STU: As every liberal in the audience is saying right now with Merrick Garland, you get too close to the end, you might not get a vote.
KELLY: So that's people talking about voluntarily stepping down if there's health issues, so that could be even more.


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Weekly Beans is a side project from Buzz Bookstore, curating delicious brews from around the world to sip alongside your favorite read. After drinking a few cups of coffee made with months-old coffee beans from my wife's travels, I quickly became a believer in buying smaller batches of beans more frequently. Fresher beans simply make better cups of coffee.
At this time, Weekly Beans does not distribute any of the featured coffees. All orders are made with and shipped from independent suppliers. It is safe to assume that any links leading off of this site may contain affiliate coding, simply meaning that Weekly Beans will receive a small referral fee for any purchases you make (not paid by you, though).