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During the Civil War, some 13,000 soldiers and civilians are tried before 5,000 military commissions. Among them are eight civilians with ties to the Confederacy. President Andrew Johnson, President Lincoln's successor, signs the order for the commissions based on the recommendation of Attorney General James Speed, who argues that Lincoln's assassination was an act of war against the US's commander in chief. Historian Edward Steers will later argue that Johnson wants a military trial to avoid a jury of potential Confederate sympathizers drawn from the Washington, DC, populace. A panel of seven generals and two colonels finds all eight of the civilians with Confederate ties guilty of conspiring to assassinate Lincoln. Four are executed and four are jailed for lengthy prison terms. The proceedings are swift; the hangings take place less than three months after Lincoln's assassination. Historian James Hall will later say of the commissions: "That's the beauty of the thing… from the government's perspective. Things move quickly, and from a legal standpoint it's all self-contained." [USA Today, 11/15/2001]
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Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce holds a hearing on the news networks' election night decision to project George W. Bush the winner of the Florida election, and thereby the winner of the US presidential election (see November 7-8, 2000). One of the matters at hand is Fox News's choice to have its election night coverage anchored by John Prescott Ellis, President Bush's cousin and an intensely partisan Bush supporter (see October-November 2000). The chairman of the committee is W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-LA). Opening Statements - In his opening statement, Tauzin tells the assemblage that the hearing is to "give us a real sense of what went wrong in terms of the election night coverage of the presidential election of November 2000." He notes that news coverage issues have been raised in every election since the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon election. Early calls—the practice of news outlets to "call," or project, winners in states before elections in other states have closed—have long been acknowledged as having a "deletorious" effect on voting, and the use of "exit polling"—polls of voters taken outside polling booths—have proven both "valuable" and "dangerous." Voter News Service (VNS), the independent consortium that provided polling and other data to the networks and press agencies for their use during their election coverage, uses exit polling to help those news outlets "project" winners in races. Tauzin spends much of his opening statement attacking VNS and the use of exit polling as the "source" of the election night dissension, and says that on the whole, VNS data "produces statistical biases in favor of Democrats in this case today and against Republicans, that the statistical flaws tend to overstate the Democratic vote in the exit poll and understate the Republican vote." Tauzin says that investigations have "discovered no evidence of intentional bias, no evidence of intentional slanting of this information," and instead says the entire problem rests with VNS and its use of exit polling data. In their opening statements, many Republicans echo Tauzin's remarks. Ranking minority member John Dingell (D-MI) calls the election night coverage "a monumental screw-up which I think has embarrassed an awful lot of people." Dingell repeats Tauzin's claim that no evidence of intentional bias has been found—calling such allegations "inflammatory"—and says that the focus of future hearings should be on the issue of voter disenfranchisement. Having said all that, he goes on to say that the networks' decision to call Florida for Bush in the early hours of November 8, 2000 was premature, and lent itself to later allegations that attempts by Democratic challenger Al Gore were baseless and troublesome. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) accuses the networks of trying to influence Florida voters in the Panhandle, a traditionally Republican stronghold, by prematurely calling the state for Gore eight minutes before polls closed in that region. In questioning, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) notes the almost-immediate appearance of the "Sore Loserman" campaign (derived from the names of the Democratic candidates, Gore and Joe Lieberman), which attempted, successfully, to paint attempts by the Gore campaign to force vote recounts as attempts to "steal" the election. Focus on Fox - Henry Waxman (D-CA) is the first to mention Fox News. He reads from a Los Angeles Times editorial, quoting: "Suppose that a first cousin of Al Gore had been running one of the network news teams issuing election night projections. Suppose that having previously recused himself from a columnist job saying his objectivity would suffer from family loyalty, this cousin had chatted with Gore six times on Election Day. Suppose the same cousin had been the first to declare Gore as the winner in Florida on election night, helping coax the rival networks to follow suit, leading George W. Bush to call up Gore in order to concede, thereby helping to create that Gore was the duly elected president of the United States long before all the votes had been counted. Can anybody reasonably doubt that the pundits would be working themselves into a nonstop lather charging the liberal media as accessories to grand larceny? Can we imagine, say, Rupert Murdoch's Fox news channel right-leaning heads dropping the subject?" Waxman says this was absolutely the case, but with Fox News and John Ellis, not Gore and an imaginary Gore cousin at another network. "[O]f everything that happened on election night this was the most important in impact. It created a presumption that George Bush won the election. It set in motion a chain of events that were devastating to Al Gore's chances and it immeasurably helped George Bush maintain the idea in people's minds than he was the man who won the election." Several other Democrats echo Waxman's statements. Issues with Florida Election Practices - Peter Deutsch (D-FL) cites issues of rampant voter disenfranchisement of African-Americans, a traditionally Democratic voting bloc, with over 100,000 ballots, mostly from African-American voters, apparently not counted. Deutsch says flatly that "there is no question, it is no longer debatable that if the vote in Florida were counted, Al Gore would be president of the United States." Bobby Rush (D-IL) cites a large number of incidents where minority group voters were "harassed by police departments" in Florida and in other states besides. In many instances these voters were stopped from voting entirely; in others, their votes were not counted. Other Democrats, such as Eliot Engel (D-NY), echo Deutsch's and Rush's concerns; Engel says: "Al Gore was not the only one who lost that night. The American people lost that night, and the news media also lost that night." Testimony regarding Independent Review of Election Night Coverage - The first witness is Joan Konner, a professor of journalism at Columbia. Konner led a panel commissioned by CNN "to look at what went wrong in [CNN's] television coverage of the presidential election 2000." Her panel submitted a report on the election night coverage to CNN, and CNN provided that report to the committee. "[S]omething went terribly wrong," she says. "CNN executives, correspondents, and producers themselves describe election night coverage as a debacle, a disaster, and a fiasco; and in our report we agree." She blames the problems with CNN's coverage on "excessive speed and hypercompetition, combined with overconfidence in experts and a reliance on increasingly dubious polls. We have stated that the desire to be first or at least not to be consistently behind the others led the networks to make calls unwisely based on sketchy and sometimes mistaken information." The choice to create, fund, and use VNS by all the networks was primarily a cost-cutting decision, she says, but that choice was a mistake: "Relying on a single source eliminates the checks and balances built into a competitive vote-gathering and vote system. It eliminates the possibility of a second source for validating key and possible conflicting information." Another member of the panel, James Risser of Stanford University, notes that the report's findings apply equally to other networks along with CNN. Media Panel - After much questioning of the CNN panel, a second panel is sworn in. This panel includes: Fox News chairman Roger Ailes; CBS president Andrew Heyward; CNN chairman Tom Johnson; NBC president Andrew Lack; ABC president David Westin; VNS director Ted Savaglio; VNS editorial director Murray Edelman; and the Associated Press's president, Louis Boccardi. In an opening statement, Savaglio admits that VNS made "errors" in vote tabulation and predictives based on "flaws" in the statistical analyses. Two major errors were made on election night, Savaglio says, the first leading to the incorrect awarding of Florida to Gore early in the evening, and the second provision of data that indicated Bush had a statistically insurmountable lead in Florida that did not include an accurate tabulation of votes cast in Volusia County as well as errors in other county tabulations and estimates. Boccardi says that the Associated Press used VNS-provided data in the erroneous Gore projection, but "takes full responsibility" for the error. The Associated Press did not join in with the second, Fox News-led projection of Bush's victory. "[T]he race was too close to call" at that point, he says. "It would be right to surmise that the pressure on AP at that moment [to join the networks in calling the election for Bush] was enormous." Heyward testifies that CBS, like CNN, hired an independent panel to assess its election coverage, and has a number of improvements to be made for future coverage. "Our method of projecting winners, one that, as you have heard, has produced only six bad calls in over 2,000 races since the 1960s, failed us this time; and as a well-known candidate would say, failed us big time in the very state that held the key to this election," he says. He also notes that charges by Republican committee members that there is an inherent bias in the statistical models against Republicans "has been rejected by every single outside expert who examined each of the networks, even those experts, and you heard from them today, who are the most highly critical of us." Lack asks why there was not more media coverage and examination of other voting-related problems, from "ineffective voting machines" and "confusing ballots" to allowing felons to vote. Ailes's Statement - Ailes blames VNS for Fox's "mistakes" in its reporting, saying: "As everyone knows, Voter News Service, a consortium with a good track record, gave out bad numbers that night. In the closest race in history the wheels apparently came off a rattle trap computer system which we relied on and paid millions for." He claims, "Through our self-examination and investigation we have determined that there was no intentional political favoritism in play on election night on the part of Fox News." Ailes does not mention his choice to use Ellis as Fox's election night anchor in his verbal statement, but in a written statement he submits to the committee, he says that Ellis was not the person who made the final decision to declare Florida for Bush. The news division's vice president, John Moody, made the final call. As for hiring Ellis, he praises Ellis's professionalism and experience, and writes: "We at Fox News do not discriminate against people because of their family connections. I am more than happy to give you examples of offspring of famous politicians who are employed at Fox News." He also says that he was aware that Ellis was speaking to both George W. and Jeb Bush throughout the night, and writes: "Obviously, through his family connections, Mr. Ellis has very good sources. I do not see this as a fault or shortcoming of Mr. Ellis. Quite the contrary, I see this as a good journalist talking to his very high level sources on election night." Though Ellis has freely admitted to sharing VNS data with both Bushes, Ailes writes, "Our investigation of election night 2000 found not one shred of evidence that Mr. Ellis revealed information to either or both of the Bush brothers which he should not have, or that he acted improperly or broke any rules or policies of either Fox News or VNS." He concludes: "[I]n my heart I do believe that democracy was harmed by my network and others on November 7, 2000. I do believe that the great profession of journalism took many steps backward." Questioning the Media Representatives - Almost immediately, Ailes raises the question of skewed exit polling that appears to favor Democrats, though experts have refuted these claims in just-given testimony, and Savaglio has just said that exit polls exhibit no such bias. Ailes tells the panel: "I do know that when Republicans come out of polls and you ask them a question they tend to think it's none of your business and Democrats want to share their feelings. So you may get some bias there that is inadvertent, just because it's a cultural thing and unless you send the Republicans to sensitivity training you're not going to get them to do that." Tauzin says that a study of VNS results tends to bear out Ailes's claim. Westin says if there is bias in exit polling, it cuts both ways, an observation with which Tauzin also agrees. Savaglio admits that after midnight, VNS provided substantially inaccurate information to the networks that led them to conclude Bush had a slight but insurmountable lead in Florida. Lack denies the rumor that Jack Welch, the CEO of NBC's parent company General Electric, made the decision for NBC News to follow Fox's lead in declaring Bush the presumptive winner in Florida. Waxman accepts Lack's denial, but notes that he has been told Welch's command to declare Bush the winner is preserved on videotape, "filmed by NBC's advertising and promotions department." Lack says if the tape exists, he will provide it to the committee. Bart Stupak (D-MI) asks the representatives directly if they believe any bias towards one party or another exists in their networks' coverage, and all answer strongly in the negative. Heyward says that rumors of networks such as his trying to "slant" their coverage to give the idea of an "inevitable" Gore victory are entirely negative, and says: "[C]ertainly we displayed the popular vote graphic 15 times between 7 and 11. President Bush was ahead every single time; on the electoral count, 75 out of
100 times.… The video [shown by the commission at the beginning of the hearing] that gave the impression that the networks were saying Gore's got it in the bag I believe was misleading, yes." Westin agrees with Heyward, and says the networks generally gave the impression of "a much more balanced, much closer race throughout the night." Under questioning by Gene Green (D-TX), Ailes contradicts previously presented evidence and says no one at the election desk, Ellis or anyone else, was in contact with "Austin" (meaning the Bush campaign and George W. Bush personally) at all that night. [House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 2/14/2001]
Entity Tags: CBS News, Sherrod Brown, Bobby Lee Rush, Roger Ailes, Raymond Eugene ("Gene") Green, Ted Savaglio, Tom Johnson, US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Voter News Service, ABC News, Andrew Heyward, Andrew Lack, Associated Press, W.J. ("Billy") Tauzin, Peter R. Deutsch, NBC News, Rupert Murdoch, Louis Boccardi, Fox News, Eliot L. Engel, David Westin, Clifford Bundy ("Cliff") Stearns, CNN, Murray Edelman, George W. Bush, John Prescott Ellis, Jack Welch, Joan Konner, John Dingell, John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush, Joseph Lieberman, James Risser, Henry A. Waxman, Bart Stupak
Timeline Tags: 2000 Elections, Domestic Propaganda
American Third Position logo. [Source: Octoberfreedom (.com)]William Daniel Johnson, a white nationalist corporate lawyer, joins with California State University professor Kevin MacDonald and white nationalist radio host James Edwards to form the American Third Position (A3P), a California-based white supremacist political party. The party is assisted by Jamie Kelso, a former colleague of Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Johnson and his colleagues have plans to run candidates for office throughout the nation. According to the A3P Web site: "The American Third Position exists to represent the political interests of White Americans.… We want an America that is recognizable to us, one that we can feel comfortable in." In a February 2010 interview on Edwards's radio show The Political Cesspool, Johnson will explain: "The initial basis of our own upstart organization is the racial nationalist movement. It has been in disarray for the last 20 years so there's not as large a base for us to draw on." Founding of A3P - A3P is formed from the remnants of the Golden State Party (GSP), a political party founded by the racist skinhead group Freedom 14. Members of Freedom 14, who organized the party via the forum of the Stormfront Web site (see March 1995), were known for handing out anti-immigration fliers in Orange County, California. In September 2009, when GSP members learned that their leader Tyler Cole was a convicted felon who had used at least two pseudonyms to hide his criminal past, Freedom 14 decided to abandon him and the GSP and start afresh. On October 15, they hold a meeting to form a new party and elect new leadership, choosing Johnson as their chairman. Johnson has long advocated the deportation of all non-white immigrants and citizens alike from the US, particularly anyone with what he has called an "ascertainable trace of Negro blood." In 1986, he addressed the Aryan Nations World Congress to promote his anti-immigration book. There is little ideological difference between the A3P and the GSP; some of the latter's policy statements are cut-and-pasted from the old GSP Web site. The A3P does not advocate violence; to achieve its goal of "purging" the US of all non-whites, it advocates the government offering financial incentives for immigrants to return to their countries of origin. The party is stringently pro-segregationist, attacking government policies encouraging integration and diversity as "tyrannical and racist." The party says, "Parents have a right to choose where and with whom their children are schooled," an argument used by segregationists during the civil rights movement. MacDonald is virulently anti-Semitic, a position reflected in the A3P policy statements. Edwards is a board member of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), and uses his radio show to promote white nationalism and its leading advocates. Like MacDonald, Edwards is openly and crudely anti-Semitic; among his guests have been MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan (see June 20, 2009), "birther" advocate Jerome Corsi (see August 1, 2008 and After), and right-wing icon Ted Nugent (see August 21-24, 2007). Former Croatian diplomat Tomislav Sunic and Don Wassall, another CCC member, round out A3P's board of directors. [Octoberfreedom (.com), 3/23/2010; Southern Poverty Law Center, 2011] Active in Right-Wing, Tea Party Politics - Johnson is particularly interested in taking A3P national, and running candidates for public office in a number of states. He has extensive contacts with Republicans and libertarians who supported the 2008 presidential candidacy of Representative Ron Paul (R-TX). In a July 2010 radio broadcast, Kelso will say, "There's a great overlap in Patriot activities and Patriot causes, and we have, we will have a big effect on this much larger movement, the Ron Paul Revolution, that has millions of people engaged… we'll be pulling them from the right." Since its inception, A3P has also involved itself in a number of tea party organizations and events. Since some tea party groups do not publicly advocate racist policies, Johnson uses what the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will call "coded language to indicate his ties to the white supremacist movement" that is calculated not to raise concerns among less overtly racist tea partiers. In a 2010 video address, Johnson will say, "We… embrace principles that will secure the existence of our people and a future for our children." This innocuous statement is almost a direct quotation of white supremacist terrorist David Lane (see June 18, 1984 and After and May 1992) and his "14 Words," which are, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The "14 Words" are a direct and deliberate reference to a passage from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and are used as a rallying cry for neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the United States. The SPLC will observe, "By speaking in codes while trying to mainstream his party, Johnson is attempting to make his party radical enough for neo-Nazis and moderate enough for mainstream voters." [Media Matters, 2011; Media Matters, 2011] In March 2010, an A3P admirer writing under the moniker "Octoberfreedom" will say of Johnson, MacDonald, Edwards, and Sunic, "These people aren't your typical stereotypical nationalist [sic], they're decent, new, and very appealing compared to some of the nationalist of the past few decades." [Octoberfreedom (.com), 3/23/2010]
Entity Tags: Don Wassall, Tomislav Sunic, Tyler Cole, David Edan Lane, Aryan Nations, American Third Position, Ted Nugent, Stormfront (.org), William Daniel Johnson, Ron Paul, James Edwards, Golden State Party, Freedom 14, Council of Conservative Citizens, Southern Poverty Law Center, Kevin MacDonald, Jamie Kelso, Jerome Corsi, Patrick Buchanan
Timeline Tags: Domestic Propaganda
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Data centers are facilities dedicated to the processing, storage, and relay of large amounts of digital information. As a whole, it is an energy intensive industry, characterized by a sizable carbon footprint and a short-term exponential growth rate. At a macroscopic level, their operation requires balancing the offer and demand of computational, cooling, and electrical power resources. The computational workload is influenced by external factors such as the end-users' activity, while the overall run-time costs depend on the weather conditions and the fluctuating pricing of electricity. In this context, the adoption of optimizing control strategies and co-design methodologies that address simultaneously both the mechanical and control aspects, has the potential to unlock more sustainable designs. Improvements in the overall energetic efficiency open to larger-scale deployments in less favorable geographical locations. Recovery systems addressing the vast amounts of by-product heat can support other heat intensive processes such as district networks, wood drying, greenhouses, and food processing. This work focuses on how to adapt the provisioning of the cooling resources to the cooling demand, without negotiating the computational throughput. We devise top-down designs, that address unexplored control possibilities in existing deployments. We moreover apply a bottomup perspective, by modeling and studying co-designed cooling setups which bring significant simplifications to data center level optimal provisioning problems. The analysis aims at the different levels of the data center infrastructure hierarchy, and provides answers to centerpiece questions such as i) what are the optimal flow provisioning policies at different levels of the data centers?; ii) how to design simple but effective control strategies that address the complexity induced by the large scales?; iii) what are the exhaust heat properties that can be expected in air-cooled and liquid-cooled data centers?. Exploiting a model-centric approach we demonstrate the effectiveness of tailored control strategies in both achieving better cooling efficiency and a higher quality of the heat harvest. This thesis presents opportunities to simplify data center control structures while retaining or improving their performance. Furthermore, it lays modeling and control methodologies toward the holistic control-oriented treatment of the computing, cooling, and power distribution infrastructures. The results have a practical character and the model-based analysis establishes important development directions, confirming existing trends. Enabling intelligent data center management systems might not need to imply more complex tools; rather, a co-design effort might yield both simpler and effective control systems.
Given a generic Control Configuration Selection (CCS) protocol and a plant uncertainty description isomorph to a unit ball in a finite-dimensional Lp space, we search for the largest perturbation radius for which the nominal configuration remains the preferred one. To this aim, we develop a randomized search algorithm based on sampling the uncertain plants and characterize its statistical performance. By adopting an intuitive accuracy measure that relates to the volume of points in which the preferred configuration differs from the nominal one, we devise a generally applicable strategy that allows for arbitrarily accurate estimates, in a specific probabilistic sense, depending on the number of uncertain plants that are sampled. We benchmark the proposed algorithm using examples from the literature and in a data center flow provisioning problem. In the latter setting, we identify the uncertainty description with the space of controls and sample the "uncertain" plants from an underlying nonlinear model.
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This study considers how to efficiently manage the thermal state of data servers by provisioning their cooling airflow dynamically. It introduces a thermal network framework that is tailored to capture the temperature dynamics of the on-board thermal inertiae. On top of this modeling, it devises LeakageCooling, a novel flow provisioning controller that balances the temperature dependent leakage dissipation within the electronic chips and the power consumed by the local fans to produce the cooling airflow. The prediction capabilities of the proposed modeling and the overall control performance are assessed over several relevant experimental scenarios on an Open Compute Windmill V2 server.
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We design a Newton-like phasor-based Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) aimed at multi-variable nonlinear control systems. We first augment the derivative estimator underlying the phasor approach to capture the Hessian of the plant index. Then we use these estimates to steer the system along a Newton-like direction. We assess the closed-loop stability of the proposed scheme and demonstrate its effectiveness in a data center cooling scenario.
Aiming at improving the energy efficiency of air cooled servers in data centers, we devise a novel control oriented, nonlinear, thermal model of the servers that accounts explicitly for both direct and recirculating convective air flows. Instrumental to the optimal co-design of both geometries and cooling policies, we propose an identification methodology based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for a generic thermal network of m fans and n electronic components. The performance of the proposed modelling framework is validated against CFD measurements with promising results. We formalize the minimum cooling cost control problem as a polynomially constrained Receding Horizon Control (RHC) and show, in-silico, that the resulting policy is able to efficiently modulate the cooling resources in spite of the unknown future computational and electrical power loads.
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More about books. Thoreau writes:
"Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind."
All but a tiny minority of writers are little known and poorly paid — and this was certainly true of Henry during his lifetime. But it can be said that while kings and presidents come and go, in the long run it is ideas that change the world… and books are an efficient vehicle for ideas.
But can't you hear a bit of self-congratulation here? OK, we writers may be broke and unknown, but never mind that — we're a natural and irresistible aristocracy!
On the other hand, what's the point of writing at all unless you think you can change the world just a little bit, even by giving one other person a good idea they hadn't thought of before?
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Following on from our initial introduction course, this course of 8 weeks explores and encourages participants to extend and enhance principles of art through observation and mark making. Working with a range of drawing materials and pushing the boundaries of a formal drawing practice this course acts as a springboard for adventures in drawing and art processes.
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - June 28th, 2016
Long ago the kingdom of Morocco formed at the edge of the great Sahara, sustained by thirst-quenching fountains and storytellers who brought the people together. There it flourished for many years, but as the kingdom grew, the people forgot the dangers of the desert and the importance of the storytellers. This beautifully illustrated folk tale illuminates and celebrates the power of a story well told.


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Discussion in 'Reticulated Pythons' started by jaythesnake, Apr 30, 2017.
Hi, did you cover the screen top as completely as possible?
Cutting no apeice of sheet plastic out to fit the screen. Long at story short after he grows out of this cage I'm building a vivarium
I think the sooner you can build a decent solid topped enclosure the better, the snake has already "outgrown" the fishtank!
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As society continues to work toward ending the stigma related to mental health, we talk a lot about the social determinants of health, i.e., the various factors that can impact our emotional well-being. This includes things like physical health, employment, community, and connectedness.
For military members and veterans specifically, the latter two elements — community and connectedness — often make the most significant impact on overall health and wellness.
One often overlooked element of community and connectedness in the military community is the role of military spouses. Indeed, it is often the military spouse who holds a family together in face of trying events such as deployment, disability, and frequent moves.
In order to ensure optimal health and wellness for those serving in the military, we must ensure that military spouses also receive the necessary support they need around physical health, employment, community and connectedness that also leads to optimal health.
However, just as community and connectedness is often overlooked for the service member, employment is often overlooked for military spouses.
We have made great progress over the last 10 years with regards to veteran hiring programs. Although under-employment for transitioning veterans is still high, overall veteran unemployment is now at 3 percent nationwide — an 18-year low.
Given the success of these programs, it is now time for lawmakers and stakeholders to turn their attention to military spouse-specific hiring programs. Here's why.
First, the role of a military spouse is a challenging one. Currently, military spouses face a 24 percent unemployment rate, due to factors such as occupational licensing requirements, interview bias, and resume gaps as a result of frequent moves or overseas duty stations. Despite the fact that of the roughly 500,000 military spouses in the United States, 84 percent have a college education, for those that are employed, nearly 38 percent earn less than their civilian counterparts. 67 percent state that they have quit a job because of a military move, and 41 percent of those stated that the time it took to find a new job exceed four months.
Second, as noted above, family support and a healthy marriage impact personnel and readiness. It is well-documented that marriage results in a number of health-related benefits, including living longer, better physical health, and lower rates of depression, compared to unmarried individuals. These factors carry additional significance for military families, who are often faced with more high-level stressful circumstances than their civilian counterparts.
Fortunately, there is some progress being made with regard to employment for military spouses. Last May, President TrumpDonald John TrumpMichael Flynn transcripts reveal plenty except crime or collusion 50 people arrested in Minneapolis as hundreds more National Guard troops deployed Missouri state lawmaker sparks backlash by tweeting 'looters deserve to be shot' MORE signed an executive order aimed at improving military spouse hiring in the federal workforce, a rare bipartisan initiative on the part of the administration that continued efforts begun by the Obama administration.
And, more recently, the private sector has also gotten involved, through programs like the Grow With Google Initiative.
The Grow With Google Initiative sponsors workshops and scholarships that help military spouses maintain flexible careers that are conducive to the frequent moves required by the military.
Similar to its search-engine tool to help veterans find jobs that match their military experience, the Grow With Google Initiative for military spouses allows job-seekers to "build flexible, meaningful careers, despite all of their frequent moves," states Lilyn Hester, Google's head of Southeast External Affairs and Government Relations, who also grew up as a military child.
Similarly, with regard to the veteran-specific platform, Matthew Hudson, a Google Cloud program manager and U.S. Air Force veteran, stated that "there isn't a common language that helps recruiters match a veteran's experience with the need for their skills and leadership in civilian jobs. As a result, 1 in 3 veterans – of the roughly 250,00 service members who transition out of the military each year – end up taking jobs well below their skill level."
Certainly, the same technology can be levied to help military spouses as well.
As is so often the case, whereas technology is a starting point for addressing employment for military spouses, it is not a silver bullet. In addition to technology initiatives, Congress can help by passing legislation such as the Portable Certification of Spouses (PCS) Act.
Introduced by Sens. Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonDemocrats call on FTC to investigate allegations of TikTok child privacy violations GOP senators urge Trump not to restrict guest worker visas Chinese official accuses US of 'pushing our two countries to the brink of a new Cold War' MORE (R-Ark.), Jeanne ShaheenCynthia (Jeanne) Jeanne ShaheenThis week: Surveillance fight sets early test for House's proxy voting Open Skies withdrawal throws nuclear treaty into question GOP faces internal conflicts on fifth coronavirus bill MORE (D-N.H.), and Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyThe Hill's Campaign Report: Minneapolis protests rock the nation Democrats gear up to hit GOP senators on DACA Pence names new press secretary MORE (R-Ariz.), the bill, which was recently included in the Chairman's mark of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020, seeks to improve the portability of occupational licenses from state to state and alleviate the burden of re-registering small businesses in a new state every time a service member is reassigned. Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Susan DavisSusan Carol DavisThe Hill's Campaign Report: Minneapolis protests rock the nation Gloves come off as Democrats fight for House seat in California Warren announces slate of endorsements including Wendy Davis and Cornyn challenger Hegar MORE (D-Calif.) introduced companion legislation in the House.
In a press release, Cotton stated that "military families already shoulder heavy loads for our country – they shouldn't also have to worry about state regulations that prevent wives or husbands from working in their own profession."
Similarly, Shaheen added that "military spouses make immense sacrifices and whenever we can find ways to support them, we should act. This legislation will cut through red tape that military spouses face as they practice their licensed professions and move their business from state-to-state. This legislation is an opportunity to demonstrate to the nation that Congress can still work across the aisle to solve urgent problems."
Military spouses support our country in an important way. They provide stability and support to service members, which in turn increases our national security by ensuring optimal health and wellness for those in uniform. Supporting military spouses through employment-specific programs should be a no-brainer for legislators on both sides of the aisle.
Rory E. Riley-Topping served as a litigation staff attorney for the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP), where she represented veterans and their survivors before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. She also served as the staff director and counsel for the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs for former Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.). You can find her on Twitter: @RileyTopping.


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Paris Saint-Germain must wait to secure the Ligue 1 title after a humbling 5-1 defeat to second-placed Lille on Sunday.
Second-half goals from Nicolas Pépé, Jonathan Bamba, Gabriel and José Fonte inflicted a painful defeat on PSG, who had Juan Bernat sent off in the 37th minute after losing Thiago Silva and Thomas Meunier to injury.
Kylian Mbappé had two efforts disallowed for offside in the first half, in which Lille led through a Meunier own goal before Bernat replied.
PSG's eighth title remains a matter of time but they have now passed up chances to confirm it on consecutive Sundays after last week's 2-2 draw with Strasbourg.
With Lille's first real attack, Jonathan Ikoné crossed from deep on the right and Meunier inadvertently turned it into his own net with Alphonse Areola wrong-footed. PSG needed four minutes to respond as Mbappé controlled a bouncing ball and floated over a looping cross for Bernat to finish.
PSG's problems began to mount as they lost Silva and then Meunier to injury but the biggest blow to Thomas Tuchel's plan came eight minutes before the break when Bernat was sent off for a tug on Pépé. It looked soft – with the contact surely not enough to send the Lille man to the floor – but with Pépé through on goal the referee stuck by his decision after consultation with VAR.
Five minutes after the break Lille struck on the counterattack, Pépé slipping the ball under Areola after Ikoné's ball split the PSG defence. In the 65th minute Bamba rifled the ball past the keeper at his near post after breaking the offside trap. PSG looked lost and were further punished in the 71st minute when Gabriel headed in Pépé's free-kick for his first Ligue 1 goal. The former Southampton defender Fonte headed in Pépé's corner for a fifth.
Bayern Munich moved back to the top of the Bundesliga after Kingsley Coman's first-half double spearheaded a 4-1 victory at Fortuna Düsseldorf.
Borussia Dortmund went to the summit on Saturday after edging out Mainz but Bayern reclaimed their position, with Coman setting them on their way after a quarter of an hour.
He doubled his and Bayern's tally just before half-time and Serge Gnabry gave the visitors a 3-0 lead in the 55th minute. Dodi Lukebakio pulled one back for Düsseldorf in the penultimate minute but Leon Goretzka restored Bayern's three-goal cushion in time added-on.
Eintracht Frankfurt missed the opportunity to consolidate fourth spot after a surprise 3-1 defeat by lowly Augsburg, who moved seven points clear of the drop zone.
Gonçalo Paciência put Frankfurt ahead in the 14th minute but Marco Richter struck twice before half-time. Michael Gregoritsch made sure of the win for Augsburg six minutes from time. Frankfurt's Gelson Fernandes was sent off just after the restart.
Nadiem Amiri's 29th-minute effort and a goal from the on-loan Arsenal forward Reiss Nelson with a quarter of an hour remaining gave Hoffenheim a 2-0 triumph over Hertha Berlin.
Napoli delayed Juventus's coronation as Serie A champions for another week at least as a goal in each half from Kalidou Koulibaly helped them secure a 3-1 win at Chievo.
Juventus could have ended the title race by avoiding defeat at Spal on Saturday but suffered a shock 2-1 loss, and Napoli closed to within 17 points of their rivals with six matches remaining. Arkadiusz Milik also scored for Napoli before Bostjan Cesar grabbed a late consolation for Chievo.
Third-placed Internazionale regained their five-point lead over fierce rivals Milan after a 3-1 victory at Frosinone, who are eight points adrift of safety.
Goals from Radja Nainggolan, an Ivan Perisic penalty and Matías Vecino clinched Inter's victory. Francesco Cassata pulled one back for Frosinone just after the hour mark.


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Baba Ramdev and Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy did not incite any communal passion,leading to the beating up of a man by their followers for throwing black ink on yoga guru's face in a press meet here,the city police told a Delhi court today.
In a report to the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur,police said,"During the press conference,Baba Ramdev neither spoke against the Muslim community nor abetted the supporters to assault him (Kamran Siddiqui). Subramanian Swamy was also with Baba Ramdev and he also did not incite any person to assault Siddiqui."
The report,which gave clean chit to Ramdev and Swamy,was filed by the police in response to the court's direction to it on a private complaint by Siddiqui,seeking prosecution of Ramdev and Swamy,allegedly for committing offences of promoting communal enmity,assaulting and dishonouring him besides trying to kill him.
The court fixed the matter for further hearing on March 6 and asked the police to file a fresh status report on Siddiqui's medical records.
It also asked the police to explain as to why Siddiqui was not examined at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital instead of Lady Hardinge Hospital here.
Quoting Siddiqui's medical reports,the station house officer (SHO) of the Parliament Street police station said the nature of injuries inflicted on him were "simple" and no witness or evidence has been found which could substantiate the allegation that the yoga guru and his supporters incited communal passion after the ink-throwing incident on January 14 in the press meet at Constitutional Club here.
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Gift idea: the ultimate Carrera RS and 911 R books from TAG
Porsche / Porsche 911 / Christmas / Gift Idea / TAG Motorbooks / Carrera 2.7 RS / Carrera RS / 911 R / 991 R /
Only a few more days until it's again that most wonderful time of the year. Whether the kids will be jingle belling or not, it's pretty sure that the 911 enthusiast will only be of good cheer once those wonderful gifts arrive. After all, in most countries the Christmas weather hardly proves ideal to be cruising around in the car we all love the most. What gift could ever possibly compensate that, you would be wondering. Well, none to be honest. But there are some that come pretty close like these two wonderful books published by TAG Motor Books.
TAG Motor Books describe themselves as "a little special interest publishing house", which is perhaps the most appropriate definition of the wonderful work they deliver. For 25 years this German company has dedicated itself to publishing limited edition books focused on automobile classics. Combining thorough research with a soft spot for layout and design, they deliver what we as enthusiasts could easily consider dream books: each book is part of a numbered production run, manufactured using fine materials and often complex printing procedures not seen in many books today. Their first-edition book dedicated to the Carrera RS has long been sold out, becoming somewhat of a rare collector's item. Fear not, as they still have a more-than-worthy alternative book about this mythical 911 available today. And recently there's even a second great addition in the collection, focusing on the iconic 911R.
Published as a dedicated hommage to what might be the most iconic of 911s, the Carrera RS book does not wait until being opened to unveil its appeal. The wonderful yellow (would it be a Signal Yellow hue?) fabric cover sits comfortably inside its brown slide-over cover, giving way for a wonderful first impression when seeing the book on the shelf or below any living room table. The non-English versions of the book have an equally cool brown fabric cover inside a yellow cover. The English and German versions of the book are limited to 3,000 copies each, whereas the Italian and (sold out!) French translations each saw a limited production of 210 copies.
Inside the book is a true marvel, providing an unseen level of detail when it comes to the history of the Carrera RS. The car's ancestors are highlighted before moving into a detailed description of the car's early development. All technical specifications of the car are reported in the book, including optional equipment up to the motorsport career of the RSR racing versions. The sheer extensiveness of the documentation provided in the book is just stunning. There is a fully comprehensive list of each serial number produced, need we say more! This book is a must have for the 911 enthusiast's living room.
The Carrera RS book is available on the TAG Motor Books webshop for order (MSRP €434 excl. shipping).
Having enjoyed the Carrera RS book it would be hard to imagine any other book matching its level of detail and collectibility. But this year it seems that the master publishers at TAG have done it again with the release of their new 911 R collector's book. This new release comes in a wonderful silver slide-over cover with red stripes for the English edition and green stripes for the German edition (we see what you did there!). Both editions are numbered, with the former limited to 1,500 copies and the latter to only 991 copies. Get them while they're hot!
To top off its meticulous outside design, the new 911 R book cover is finished in the R's typical brown leather with houndstooth pattern. The book is finished just like the car itself! "The 911 R is the father of all motorsport derivatives of Porsche's 911 model. The story of the R is connected to Huschke von Hanstein, Ferdinand Piëch as well as Vic Elford. Originally it hadn't been planned by Porsche to use the 911 as a flagship model for motorsports." says co-author Christoph Mäder. Their decision to publish this very special book caught the eye of many prominent Porsche people including Andreas Preuninger. The result is stunning yet again, offering an incredible treasure of documented information about this mythical 911.
"The first part of the book describes the development of the 911 R in the sixties, highlighting the efforts made by the works team on the plastics and engine works on the car, including the quad-cam type 916, which made the car set a world record at Monza." The history of the car is carefully illustrated with supporting files and photographs, taking the reader back to the exciting heydays of the 911 in motorsport. "The second part of the book covers the 991 R and dives into the story of how it came about: how it was derived from the GT3 and GT3 RS, the available options and its detailed stages of technical development." The book also features exclusive 3D-illustrations printed on acetate foils to provide an X-ray view of the modern 911 R and finishes off with a comprehensive list of each finish available and each serial number produced of the 991 R.
The 911 R book is available on the TAG Motor Books webshop for order (MSRP €387 excl. shipping).


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The Journolist story continues today with more fun reads at The Daily Caller. First, a Tucker Carlson letter about the Journolist revelations: "Again and again, we discovered members of Journolist working to coordinate talking points on behalf of Democratic politicians, principally Barack Obama. That is not journalism, and those who engage in it are not journalists. They should stop pretending to be. The news organizations they work for should stop pretending, too.'
The blog The Volokh Conspiracy has a post showing there was at least one person linked both to the Obama campaign and to Journolist. "One question that has arisen in the last week is how closely JournoList members, not only discussed how to shape the news to advance the fortunes of Barack Obama, but coordinated with the Obama campaign. Jared Bernstein's position as an unpaid adviser and surrogate shows that there was at least one direct link between JournoList and the Obama campaign."
For the first time in longer than I can remember, Andrew Sullivan has something worth referencing with his post about the Journolisters' collusion to construct the worst possible Sarah Palin narrative after her selection as Vice Presidential candidate. "Look: you know how appalled I was by the Palin pick, but on this issue, I have to side with the JournoList critics. If this was not an organized media campaign in the service of a political candidate, what would be?"


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To be eligible to deliver training and assessment services subsidised by the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training through one of its VET Investment Plan funded programs, a registered training organisation (RTO) must have pre-qualified supplier (PQS) status.
PQS status, if approved by the department, is granted for particular publicly-funded programs and identified qualifications, is possibly subject to conditions and is subject to finite contractual timelines.
Note: User Choice PQS are RTOs that the Queensland Government approves to deliver publicly-funded training and assessment services to apprentices and trainees.
PQS status is granted to successful applicants for the duration of the period specified in letters of authority, unless otherwise advised by the department.
Applications are now closed for 2019-20 PQS status.
The department has released Skills for Queensland - Great training for quality jobs which includes the Skills Assure initiative to strengthen the criteria to become a PQS in Queensland. Applications for PQS status will re-open during the later half of 2020 and information on the new Skills Assure PQS application process published once these arrangements are implemented.
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RTOs must meet the following requirements to be eligible to apply for PQS status in Queensland:
- have an active RTO registration status on or prior to 1 July 2017 (as indicated on www.training.gov.au) to satisfy the department's requirements in relation to financial viability and training history
- be registered to deliver full qualifications in Queensland under its scope of registration (as indicated on www.training.gov.au) for the qualifications it wishes to deliver under a publicly-funded program in Queensland
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Please note PQS applications are closed for 2019-20.
To apply, RTOs must complete and submit a PQS application through the department's Purchasing Online (POL) system for the funding program they are seeking to deliver i.e. Queensland VET Investment (Certificate 3 Guarantee/Higher Level Skills) or User Choice.
RTOs are required to nominate the qualification(s) they intend to deliver under the relevant funded program.
If applying for Queensland VET Investment, the relevant qualifications for delivery in Queensland are available on the Priority Skills List.
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Please note that some qualifications in Queensland are restricted, meaning that no RTO can apply to deliver them. To find out which qualifications are restricted, please refer to the Restricted qualifications information on the Prority Skills List page and the User Choice Funding and pricing page.
As part of their application, RTOs must familiarise themselves with the contents of the PQS policy, specific program policies, and the VET Pre-qualified Supplier Agreement (the Agreement) for the relevant programs. These are located on the relevant funded program web pages, with copies of the Agreements located at the bottom of this page.
For all the information on how to apply, it is recommended that RTOs refer to the PQS application guide (PDF, 225KB) or (DOCX, 111KB).
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Assessment of PQS applications takes into account a number of factors including, but not limited to, consideration of the following:
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The department retains the right to conduct any other investigations as necessary and seek further information as required.
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Applicants will be notified in writing of the department's decision.
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The department will publish information about PQS and their approved qualification(s) on the Queensland Skills Gateway.
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Key documents to become a PQS in Queensland
Queensland VET Investment programs
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Re: st: nonparametric regression with sampling weights
Austin Nichols <email@example.com>
Re: st: nonparametric regression with sampling weights
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:11:26 -0500
Andaleeb Alam <email@example.com> :
-lpoly, deg(1)- allows aweights and does a kernel weighted linear
regression. If you want to construct standard errors, you should wrap
your estimation inside a -program- and then -bootstrap- clusters (you
can ignore stratification without too great a loss).
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Andaleeb Alam <email@example.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working with Pakistan Standard Living Measurement Survey (it's a
> household level survey with a two-stage stratified sample design). I am
> interested in running a kernel weighted linear regression. From what I have
> tried, Stata does not allow the use of analytic weights if I am using
> svy:reg. What do you recommend I should do? Transform my data by my kernel
> weights and then do svy:reg? I have come across papers that do non
> parametric estimations using survey data so I am assumig that there must be
> some stata command that lets you do this?! If there is no such Stata command
> or my suggestion to transforms the data is incorrect, please recommend what
> can I do?
> Thanks
> Andaleeb
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Bookfinder - Database of Hungarian Books
The Bookfinder is the first and most complete Hungarian database of books on the Internet. Its goal is to provide all possible information in the database about Hungarian publications ranging from literary works and light reading to technical books. In the Bookfinder one can find most of the books published in Hungary since 1992, as well as the most important data on publishers, bookshops, distributers and libraries.
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I'm an author, blogger, mum and naturally messy person!
I have never found organising my home, or life in general, particularly easy. When my little one came along it became even harder! With less time, and an extra mess-maker in the house, something had to change.
I tried other methods, systems and organising gurus-but nothing would stick because it felt like they were not made for me. I realised that I would not find the perfect solution out there and instead would have to do things the hard way-BY MYSELF!
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Categories: Family Fun
TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown
My kids are going to help choose some of their all-time favourites and we'd love to hear from you with some of yours. Feel free to email us at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have a special kid's book you'd like to suggest!
Daddy's Little Girl by Peter Wilson
Our very first pick is extra special since it's written by local Ajax author, Peter Wilson and illustrated by Carol Matsuyama from Port Perry. Daddy's Little Girl is a heart-warming story about a father and daughter relationship. It begins with a newborn bundle of joy and follows through to her wedding day! If you enjoyed Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, you'll definitely want to buy a copy of this story to add to your family collection.
The Salamandar Room by Anne Mazer
This book is about a young boy who befriends a salamander. He sets up a magical room to make the salamander feel right at home with him. The illustrations are gorgeous and any nature-lover will enjoy this story. Boys who are engrossed with slimy creatures will particularly love it and probably want to make a salamander room of their very own! Suitable for ages 5-9.
Cleo the Cat by Caroline Mockford
This colourful board book is perfect for toddlers with its simple text and bright illustrations. It's about a curious kitten who is looking for a home and finds a friend!
The Rainbow Magic Fairy books are the perfect first chapter books for young girls to read themselves. This special Halloween edition seemed a good pick for our October edition. We started reading these books to our daughter when she was 5 or 6 and now she flies through them herself. While the plots in these books are fairly unoriginal (come on Jack Frost, leave the fairies alone!), the kids seem to just LOVE them!They even have a fun website with online games and activities!