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For some employers, 'immigration reform' means cheap labor
For some employers, 'immigration reform' means cheap labor
By David Frum, CNN Contributor
updated 10:35 AM EDT, Mon March 11, 2013
President Obama's push to overhaul immigration could mean profits for employers, David Frum says.
Washington (CNN) -- "When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he was unconscious of the then undeveloped capabilities of the word 'reform.'"
So quipped U.S. Sen. Roscoe Conkling of New York 130 years ago. The particular reform that irked Conkling was the then-novel proposal to eliminate patronage in federal civil service hiring.
Conkling lost his argument and lost his battle, but his quip endures -- and applies much more aptly to today's most discussed "reform": immigration reform.
"Immigration reform" is a deliberately ambiguous phrase, a phrase used equally by opposite sides in the immigration debate. Those who want amnesty for illegal immigrants call themselves "reformers." So do those who want stricter enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration.
But there's a third group to be heard, and these are the people who validate Conkling's cynical remark: the group of "reformers" who want to expand and enlarge guest worker programs.
The United States is entering its sixth year of extraordinarily high unemployment. Twelve million Americans who want work cannot find it. Millions more have quit searching. Slack labor markets have depressed wages throughout the economy.
Labor's declining share of total income (Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, calculations by Margaret Jacobson and Filippo Occhino
Here's the picture that's worth a thousand words, from an economic commentary by Margaret Jacobson and Filippo Occhino for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Whichever of the two competing data series you use, wages account for a substantially lower share of national income today than at any point since World War II, when record-keeping began.
Yet even these dismal findings understate the problem. Remember, "labor income" includes all salary income, including the salaries of the most highly paid, the famous 1%, who have enjoyed the benefit of almost all productivity gains since the 1990s. The wage situation of the typical worker looks even worse than the chart implies.
Whatever else you say about the U.S. economy of the 21st century, it cannot be described as suffering from labor shortages.
Yet however little workers earn, there is always somebody who wishes they earned even less. And for those somebodies, the solution is: Import more cheap labor. But not just any cheap labor -- cheap labor that cannot quit, that cannot accept a better offer, that cannot complain.
Bonded labor is the oldest idea in American labor markets. In the 17th and 18th centuries, about half the British migrants to the United States arrived as indentured servants, people who agreed to work for a term of years in exchange for food, lodging, and the cost of their passage. Perhaps you assumed that such arrangements had expired centuries ago? Think again.
The March 8 Wall Street Journal tells the story of 14 foreign students who entered the United States on "J" class visas, which allow three months of work to support student study and travel.
"'Since I got to the States, I have been working just to pay to live in a basement,' says Mr. Rios, who arrived in mid-December and shares the one-room space with five other foreigners who work at the same outlet. He said he worked about 25 hours a week earning $7.25 an hour and Mr. Cheung, his boss, deducted weekly rent of $75 from his pay. ... Kah Inn Lee, a 23-year-old student from Malaysia, said a curtain separated the men's and women's beds in the tiny basement she shared with seven other students in a house owned by Mr. Cheung's son. Earning about $250 a week, she calculates she is in the red after paying for housing and food. To travel after completing her assignment at McDonald's, which ends this weekend, she has asked relatives to wire her money."
Stories like this are often told about the J-1 visa program, which brought about 109,000 students to the United States in 2011.
The Associated Press reported on the program last year: "In August 2011, dozens of workers protested conditions at a candy factory that contracts to pack Hershey chocolates in Hershey, Pa., complaining of hard physical labor and pay deductions for rent that often left them with little money. Then in December, a federal indictment accused the mafia of using the cultural exchange program to bring Eastern European women to work in New York strip clubs."
J-1 visa workers have told investigators that deductions for rent and food reduce their earnings to zero. They have described sexual abuse and exploitation. The State Department has proposed some changes to the program, but -- well, let Alaska's KTVA Channel 11tell the rest of the story.
"Many seafood processors in Alaska rely on foreign students to fill their seasonal employment needs. Now there is uncertainty in the industry because of proposed changes to the foreign worker visa program. These changes could take effect as soon as this spring.
"The federal government wants to remove some jobs offered to foreign students who want to work in the U.S. on a J-1 visa. They include jobs in factories and manufacturing, a potential change that could hit Alaska's seafood processors hard.
"In a letter Senator Mark Begich wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, he says 'such an abrupt change in the available labor pool just before the start of the salmon season would have immediate negative consequences for the companies, and the fishermen and communities, which depend on their operations,'" KTVA reported.
You might wonder: Are there really no Americans who could do these jobs? The unemployment rate for Alaskans 16-24 years old was over 15% in 2011. Mightn't they want the work? Yes, they might. But the wage for lawful American labor in the seafood-processing industry averages over $10 an hour. Employers can cut their wage costs by almost 25% by using J-1 labor instead, according to one union-backed think tank.
And J-1 labor is not only cheaper, but also often more motivated.
"The J-1 student workers have been a godsend for Nancy Blakey, co-owner of Sno-Pac," reported PRI's "The World." "'They're educated, they're bright, and they're working really hard, long hours,' Blakey said. Alaska fish processors started hiring J-1 students in the 1990s when unemployment was low and they couldn't find American workers. The J-1′s are not just hard workers, Blakey said; they're also really interesting.
"'We had a young man come through who was studying nuclear physics. And we were talking, and he loved the beauty of nuclear physics. He was passionate and he was explaining it to me, in his limited English and doing very well. And he was going to be going out to gut fish. I think that's pretty fantastic!'"
The immigration debate is often premised on the assumption that high wages for American workers are a problem to be overcome. If you'll look again at the Cleveland Fed chart above, you'll notice that the collapse in labor's share of national income coincides with the start of the mass immigration influx after 1970. Since then 40 million people have migrated to the United States, most of them very low-skilled. About one-third that number arrived illegally.
Immigration advocates insist that this huge surge of cheap labor has nothing to do with the persistent decline in wages that began about the same time. If so, that's one hell of a coincidence. With President Obama proposing accelerated flows of immigration in future, American workers should ready themselves for more coincidences ahead.
For some employers, 'immigration reform' means cheap labor - CNN.com
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NEW: Storms kill one in New York and one in Pennsylvania
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Greed is a terrible thing! This mystery/suspense novel by John W. Mefford the first in his Greed Series will take you on a journey to right several wrongs perpetrated by several very greedy individuals. They will stop at nothing to form the merger of a giant Indian company with a small North Texas oil company. Michael, a laid back kind of guy with definite commitment issues (just ask his long time girlfriend) has just found out about the merger and steps out for a breath of air where he finds someones arm sticking out of a black garbage bag. From that moment forward Michael knows he has to find the killer which for some reason is not being covered very well by the local press and one of his friends and co-worker has been arrested for the murder.
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Behind the façade of every corporate takeover executives pull levers this way and that, squeezing the last profitable nickel out of the deal. But no one knows the true intent of every so-called merger.
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In a teaser video posted on Twitter, Netflix has announced today the premiere date for its upcoming Marvel miniseries The Defenders.
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CVE-2020-9818, CVE-2020-9819: Multiple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in iOS Mail App Exploited in the Wild
Patches for a pair of critical iOS vulnerabilities that were reportedly exploited in the wild are now generally available. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of iOS and iPadOS.
Update 5/26/2020: The Title, Analysis and Solution sections have been updated to reflect the availability of CVE identifiers for both vulnerabilities as well as the versions of iOS/iPad OS that address these flaws.
On April 20, researchers at ZecOps published a blog post about their discovery of multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in the iOS Mail app. According to the researchers, the vulnerabilities were discovered during a digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) investigation. The DFIR led the researchers to discover the flaws had been exploited in the wild against a variety of targets, including employees at a Fortune 500 company in North America, a Japanese carrier executive, a VIP from Germany, managed security service providers in Saudi Arabia and Israel, and a European journalist.
The vulnerabilities have reportedly existed within iOS going as far back as iOS 6, which was released in September 2012. However, the researchers say they identified these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild as early as January 2018 against iOS 11.2.2.
Apple has followed up ZecOps disclosures stating "based on the information provided, [we] have concluded these issues do not pose an immediate risk to our users." Apple also noted that these vulnerabilities alone "are insufficient to bypass iPhone and iPad security protections, and we have found no evidence they were used against customers."
ZecOps has in turn responded to Apple's statements saying that "there were triggers in-the-wild for this vulnerability on a few organizations" and they plan to "release more information and POCs [proofs of concept] once a patch is available."
The researchers at ZecOps identified two specific vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.
CVE-2020-9818 is an out-of-bounds write flaw, while CVE-2020-9819 is a heap overflow flaw. Both flaws originate from the implementation of the MFMutableData interface in the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) framework in iOS. These vulnerabilities exist because MFMutableData does not handle errors from the ftruncate() system call.
Additionally, researchers believe the attackers unintentionally discovered the first vulnerability while trying to exploit the second one.
For the full set of technical analyses, please read the ZecOps blog.
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending a specially crafted email to their victim. Most notable about these vulnerabilities is that on iOS 13, the heap overflow vulnerability can be triggered without interaction (zero-click), while on iOS 12, the vulnerability requires the victim to click the email. However, if the attacker has control of the mail server the user is connected to, they could achieve zero-click exploitation on iOS 12 devices. The out-of-bounds write requires the implementation of an additional vulnerability that allows the calling of an arbitrary selector in order to trigger remotely.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities would only grant an attacker the capability to perform actions in the context of the Mail app, such as leaking, modifying or deleting emails. To gain full control over the device, researchers say that an attacker would need to incorporate a kernel vulnerability into the exploit chain. ZecOps suspects attackers had a kernel vulnerability in these attacks, but they've not yet identified one during their investigation.
Proof of concept
While a proof-of-concept (PoC) for this vulnerability was not publicly available on GitHub or Exploit-DB, the ZecOps blog provides enough information that can be used to craft a PoC.
On May 20, Apple released fixes for these vulnerabilities as part of iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 and iOS 12.4.7 for older Apple devices. This blog previously noted that Apple added fixes for these vulnerabilities in iOS 13.4.5 beta 2, which was released on April 15. Users seeking to patch these flaws should upgrade to the latest version of iOS/iPad OS.
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Hochberger, Christian; Koch, Andreas; Weinhardt, Markus (Ed.)
Fifth International Workshop on FPGAs for Software Programmers (FSP 2018)
August 31, 2018, Dublin, Ireland co-located with International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
2018, 80 pages, 140 x 124 mm, Slimlinebox, CD-Rom
Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title
As before, the key focus of FSP 2018 remains on looking at key aspects of using FPGA-based reconfigurable computing from a software developer's perspective. Contributions include not only the presentation of solutions, but also studies on the precise nature of the difficulties to guide further research. Furthermore, FSP is keen to maintain its workshop nature: It remains a venue for presenting not just mature research, but also exposing promising work-in-progress or prototype reports to a wider community for inspiring scientific discourse.
In this spirit, based on recommendations by the Program Committee, the FSP Chairs selected six submissions (33 %) to be presented as full papers, and three (17 %) as posters. These cover a wide range of topics, ranging from analysis and transformation tools to applications and frameworks for High-Level Synthesis. The Chairs would like to thank the Program Committee for their timely reviews, enabling us to base our decisions on at least three reviews per submission.
Presented at the workshop itself were two keynotes from industry, as well as three regular paper sessions and a poster session.


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OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open, vendor- neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized audio. The Audio Utility Toolkit provides some more abstractions and helper functions.
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This workshop helps participants learn the perks of typing, review the typing lesson dashboard, and explore the qwerty keyboard. We'll also learn typing tips and goal setting. Attendees will then sign up for typing.com and put what is learned into practice in the computer lab.
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Gertrud Sieverd Killed While Crossing Phoenix Street on Halloween Night
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Phoenix, Arizona—Gertrud Sieverd, age 79, was struck and killed as she crossed a street in central Phoenix last night. Phoenix Police accident investigators report that a car driven by an as-yet unidentified 36-year-old male was northbound on 7th Avenue at about 7:45 p.m. when he struck Ms. Sieverd as she crossed near Palm Lane.
The driver remained at the scene. Ms. Sieverd was transported to a nearby hospital where she was declared deceased. The investigation is ongoing.
We extend our condolences to Ms. Sieverd's family and friends at this time of great loss for them.


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'Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house, a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.'
Elizabeth Gilberts book 'Eat Pray Love' has been a New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller for over 182 weeks. The popularity of the book seems to be snowballing, picking up hordes of women young-and-old alike. Negative reviews claim it to be self indulgent, and hard to relate to because of the unusual situation that the main character Liz Gilberts (Julia Roberts) finds herself in. I am sure most of us would love to be able to just take off for a year, not have to work, and just go exploring the world. I am fairly certain (since I have been there myself), that your money wouldn't last for very long if you decided to live in Rome for four months! Anyhow, positive reviews praise the book for its humourous account of her intriguing and substantive journey. I think that the people who enjoyed the book will enjoy the movie.
Liz Gilberts is unhappy in her marriage to Stephen (Billy Crudup) and unsure of her place in life. After a painful divorce, and some soul searching whilst living on the couch of a close mate, Liz meets a young actor, David (James Franco) who serves as a distraction and satisfies her for a time. He still isn't enough for her, as there seems to be a void in Liz that she doesn't know how to fill. So as the title suggests, Liz sets out to eat in Rome, pray in India and love in Bali. That in itself might sound a bit cheesy for most. It is a nice idea though, and I can't say I have seen a movie like this before.
So, in Rome the extreme close-ups of some seriously-appetizing-looking-traditional-spaghetti and cheesy pizza and other Italian cuisine made me salivate as I watched Roberts devour it. There were some real home truths pointed out about the way western women view themselves, and how Americans feel guilty about indulging (I feel that Australians are the same). I felt that I related to this section of the movie, and will make an effort from now on to enjoy my 'indulgences' and not feel guilty about enjoying my food!
In India we are introduced to Richard-from-Texas (Richard Jenkins) who did a good job at adding some drama to the storyline, and helped Liz seek answers to her questions, and find forgiveness. He played a good part, and I liked the dynamic between these two characters the best.
In Bali we are introduced to Philipe (Javier Bordem) who seemed to make the older ladies in the audience swoon. I was eavesdropping on other peoples conversations and apparently he is 'just gorgeous'. I personally find him to be a bit weird, but his character was definitely nicer than the one he played in 'No Country for Old Men', that much is true. Liz is forced to make some decisions, which man will she choose (if any)? If you have read the book then you know the answer. For those of you who haven't… off you go!
The scenery in this film is incredible; it gives the viewer a taste of Rome, India and Bali, and left me feeling the need to pack a suitcase and go exploring. The only problem I had with this movie is that it went for so long. It was almost two and a half hours long! A bit epic for such a simple plot. Nevertheless, it was entertaining.
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'Not many in the country have cottoned on to the precise nature of the deepening hold the BJP has over the majority of the Indian people.'
'The secret is rooted in the fact that the majority of the electorate of this country, composed of Hindus, are for the first time in 70 years feel liberated, without having to conceal their identity as if it is a heinous crime.'
'Modi should not feel shy of proclaiming as the meaning of secularism regard for all religions in proportion to their numbers in tune with the spirit of democracy and adopting it as the State policy,' says B S Raghavan.
IMAGE: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi with Congress President Rahul Gandhi at the Congress steering committee meeting in New Delhi, March 16, 2018. Photograph: Kamal Singh/PTI Photo
Congress President Rahul Gandhi's speech at the recent gathering of the faithful is nothing short of an outright declaration of war against the Bharatiya Janata Party, presaging a campaign that will be no-punches-pulled, no-holds-barred and no quarters given or taken.
He has gone hammer and tongs at Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, in person, holding him up as a personification of corruption, and BJP President Amit A Shah as a murder accused. He has likened the BJP to the evil-incarnate Kauravas, fighting for power at all costs and by all means, and the Congress as the noble-minded Pandavas, fighting for truth.
Obviously, the Congress president has convinced himself, or been convinced, that this is the kind of campaign, hot on the heels of the shock and awe of the phenomenal serial loot of taxpayers' money by Nirav Modi and others of his ilk that is still unravelling, will touch the chords of the mass of electorate and help dislodge the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance from power in the 2019 election to the Lok Sabha.
Can it be that Rahul Gandhi has decided to play the cards of corruption and criminalised politics to the hilt in his party's forthcoming campaign? If so, he had better watch out. He may be committing a Himalayan blunder. Indeed, it will be political harakiri.
Rahul Gandhi ought not to take voters for fools. Elections all over the country since Independence have been political education for the masses on a vast scale, and by now the average voter has perfected his sense of discernment and native wisdom into a fine art.
Neither Rahul Gandhi nor the Congress can make the mud of corruption stick on Modi or the BJP or NDA, in the light of the horrendous scale on which it was practised by the UPA government.
Sonia Gandhi's attempt to condemn the NDA government for the handling of the Kashmir situation will also boomerang on the Congress. By now, the whole of India knows that the present pass in Jammu and Kashmir is entirely due to the original sin of the Congress.
People in the rest of India, of whatever persuasion, are thoroughly fed up with the duplicitous incompetence of Kashmir politicians and want the Gordian knot cut in a decisive manner.
Not many in the country -- and that includes most political parties other than the BJP -- have cottoned on to the precise nature of the deepening hold the BJP is having over the majority of the Indian people.
It may look like being based on the planks of development, a stress on inclusiveness (Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas), and its promise of basic minimum needs like housing, toilets, drinking water and so on.
A section of urban dwellers may have been taken in by Modi evocatively plugging for smart cities, cashless society, or digital India.
Aficionados of management and public administration may be impressed with the progress being made in the laying of roads and rail tracks, as also in project construction.
Businesspersons may applaud the country being pushed up by nearly 40 ranks in the ease of doing business.
In the overall, there is widespread appreciation for Modi's readiness to take bold decisions and determined pursuit of goals, evidenced by the Goods and Services Tax and demonetisation, and his commitment to bring ease of living within the reach of every citizen.
But these are not the unstated secret of his, and his party's, appeal. These are winning him some votes, but not all the votes.
Rahul Gandhi, immature in many respects and unversed yet in the art and science of politics and politicking, somehow stumbled on to the hazy glimmerings of the secret when he flaunted his sacred thread and embarked on darshans of deities during his Gujarat campaign.
The secret, in short, is rooted in the fact that the majority of the electorate of this country, common, simple, plain folk, composed of Hindus and being proud of that fact and its magnificent heritage, are for the first time in 70 years feeling liberated, without having to conceal their identity as if it is a heinous crime.
In the process of liberation, as if a cork in a champagne bottle released, there is occasionally unwelcome fizz from the frenetic, fanatic, fringe, but that is only to be expected.
Hitherto, the Hindus in this country had been like flies tightly shut in a bottle, with no place to go other than minuscule Nepal, and were made to grovel under all sorts of guilt complexes and humiliations, while those of other faiths enjoyed, in the name of secularism, unabashed State patronage and were pampered in all manner of unacceptable and inequitable ways to the majority's detriment.
For the first time in 70 years, there is a feeling of the balance being redressed.
The misguided 'secularists' -- whether among the Hindus or other religions -- are putting up a rearguard action, trying to foul up the atmosphere.
The answer to them is not to waver or vacillate in what conduces to the national interest, bearing in mind its demographic profile, but make it unambiguously clear that it is the duty of the minorities to take into account the well-being and happiness of the practitioners of the faith constituting the largest number.
That is what the presidents of Russia and the USA, and prime ministers of Australia, Canada, France and other European countries, committed to secularism, have done with respect to their polities and that has in fact helped in keeping those countries free from sectarian violence and brought about social harmony.
So, my advice to Narendra D Modi, if he wants to win the coming Lok Sabha election with a percentage of votes and a number of seats larger than those of any government in the past, is that he should not feel shy of proclaiming as the meaning of secularism regard for all religions in proportion to their numbers in tune with the spirit of democracy and adopting it as the State policy.
The corollary of this is to go unhesitatingly for legislating a common civil code and abolition of Article 370 of the Constitution and resettling and rehabilitating the Kashmiri Pandits back in the land of their birth and providing them with all means of security, protection and self-defence.
The government will find that once it stands up firmly and unyieldingly for the nation, the vested interests, both domestic and foreign, will back off.
B S Raghavan is a former member of the Indian Administrative Service who was also the secretary of the National Integration Council during the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi, and worked closely with the freedom heroes.


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EU shuns call to recognise Jerusalem as Israeli capital
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini rejects Benjamin Netanyahu's call to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The European Union has rejected Benjamin Netanyahu's call to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying the two-state solution remains the only path to resolving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Federica Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief, met Netanyahu on Monday in Brussels, the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to the European Union in 22 years.
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The meeting came less than a week after the United States announced it would recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and move its embassy to the city, a contentious move that has led to widespread condemnation and deadly clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers.
"You know where the European Union stands. We believe that the only realistic solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine is based on two states with Jerusalem as the capital of both the state of Israel and the state of Palestine along the 1967 line," Mogherini said during a press conference with Netanyahu.
"This is our consolidated position and we will continue to respect the international consensus on Jerusalem until the final status of the Holy City is resolved through direct negotiations between the parties," she said.
The Israeli prime minister, meanwhile, reaffirmed his support for Trump's Jerusalem decision.
"Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for the last 70 years. I think what President Trump has done is put facts squarely on the table," Netanyahu said.
"Jerusalem is Israel's capital. No one can deny. It doesn't obviate peace; it makes peace possible, because recognising reality is the substance of peace, it's the foundation of it."
New peace proposal
Netanyahu said the Trump administration is working to introduce "a new peace proposal" and called on countries to see what will be presented.
But the details of that plan appear to still be unclear.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, the foreign minister of France, said "some kind of American initiative" has been announced.
"We've been waiting for several months. If it's not the case, then perhaps the European Union should take the initiative, but it's too early to say," he said, according to The Associated Press.
During the press conference, Netanyahu said he expects "all or most of the European countries will move their embassies to Jerusalem" and "recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital".
But world leaders have roundly condemned US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Many European leaders have said the move risks enflaming tension in the wider region while hindering prospects of a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mogherini also rejected the idea that EU member states would move their embassies to Jerusalem, saying on Monday "this move will not come".


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With Xiaomi and Oppo showing off next-gen smartphones, Huawei too aims to be at the forefront of innovation. It is already expected to join the foldable smartphone party with the official launch of the Mate X later this month, but that's not all. Huawei has sent out invites to the French media that the launch of a new smartphone series is imminent on October 17 in France.
You can see the invite shared with the French media below and well, it suggests that the Chinese giant is prepping the launch of a new phone with a full-screen bezel-less display.
And well, if you closely look at the teaser image in the invite, you will see a smartphone with almost negligible bezels and a flare that suggests a punch-hole camera at the top-right edge. But, Jeb Su, Principal Analyst at Atherton Research says that Huawei will be launching a phone with an in-display selfie camera at this event.
@Huawei announced today that it will launch a new All-Screen Smartphone Category on October 17 in Paris, France which we expect will include an in-display selfie camera and fingerprint reader #AllThingsMobile #AthertonResearch pic.twitter.com/j8jPhutBsk
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The teaser image doesn't give anything away, but we can expect it to house a waterfall display (similar to the Mate 30 Pro, but without a notch) on the front. The bezels will be trimmed to the edges with the speaker, sensors, and camera sitting under the display. We aren't aware of the technology Huawei plans to use to bake the camera under the display since it has never shown or talked about one in public.
Oppo is the only smartphone maker who showed off its under-display camera technology earlier this year and well, it was not ready for prime time just yet. Oppo plans to bring its under-display camera to a commercial phone in 2020, but Huawei plans to undercut it )as well as Xiaomi's Mi Mix Alpha with a wrap-around display) by launching a truly bezel-less phone with the under-display selfie camera. Excited to see what this smartphone is going to look like? And how good will its selfies be?


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|The grave of Henry Gooden, a private in Company C, 127th U.S.C.T.
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It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.To many in Lincoln's audience that day, and to those who read his words in newspapers in the days and weeks after, the "unfinished work" clearly referenced the end of the war and reunification. Those with keener insight perhaps interpreted "a new birth of freedom" as support for the complete eradication of the system of slavery. Yet the Gettysburg Address lives on in American memory because its message still speaks to us, much like Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Today, while we recognize Jefferson's self-evident truths as the founding principles of our nation, we can always look to Lincoln's address as a call to action to complete the unfinished work remaining to reach those lofty truths.
|Gettysburg TimesNovember 13, 1936
Gooden died on August 3, 1876. Initially buried in the Alms House Cemetery, he was reburied in the National Cemetery on November 8, 1884. His presence there was an anomaly in a period of segregated cemeteries. Though a few black veterans from more recent wars were interred in the National Cemetery, Gooden remained the only black Civil War veteran in the cemetery until 1936, when Charles H. Parker joined him.
Parker served in Company F of the 3rd USCT, and died on July 2, 1876. His remains originally rested at Yellow Hill Cemetery north of Gettysburg, and his grave was rediscovered in the 1930s at the neglected cemetery by Dr. Henry Stewart, who was conducting a graves survey for the Gettysburg camp of the Sons of Union Veterans. Parker was moved to the National Cemetery in November, 1936. Today, Parker and Gooden remain the only black Civil War veterans buried in the National Cemetery.
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May 29, 1933
After a creditable parade in which a number of visiting organizations participated, colored residents of Gettysburg paid fitting tribute to the memory of their soldier dead in Goodwill cemetery Sunday afternoon. A threatening rain held off until the exercises were concluded. The principle speaker for the occasion, Edward W. Henry, Philadelphia magistrate, delivered a forceful address in which he called upon colored citizens everywhere to combat the influences of communism, pointing to the results of that system in Russia, Germany, Spain and Mexico. He urged colored residents to live for and by the principles laid down by the constitution of the United States and Lincoln's proclamation of emancipation.The procession to the cemetery itself included three bands and a group of African American school children. Upon arriving at the cemetery, the Gettysburg Boys' Band played a dirge, and the school children strewed flowers over the graves. Similar ceremonies continued at least through the 1960s.
|Gettysburg Times
June 1, 1992
In the years since, community members have continued these remembrances, and have worked hard to keep the cemetery in good condition. The cemetery has been fenced in and the same "Silence and Respect" signs that dot the National Cemetery are now posted.
Today the gates of Lincoln Cemetery are often locked - I have not yet made it inside those gates. Even so, I find that this out-of-the-way spot speaks so strongly to the "unfinished work" of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, and the struggles of the past 150 years (as well as those struggles that continue) for freedom and equality.


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Recreation & Senior Centers Closed; Meetings Scheduled for Tuesday Evening Cancelled
Farmingville, NY – In anticipation of Winter Storm Stella, the Town of Brookhaven is taking a number of actions:
Residents should call 451-TOWN to report snow related issues. Call 911 for police, fire and ambulance emergencies only. To report a power outage or downed wires, call PSEG at 800-490-0075 or go to their website to file a report online. Please go to the Town's website for up-to-date snowstorm related news, information, weather updates and emergency contact numbers. The Town will also be sending out e-mail alerts to residents who have registered on our e-mail list. If you are not on the list, you can sign up today. Residents can also sign up for countywide Code Red alerts.
More Town Closings and Cancellations Special Town Board Meeting is cancelled. Rescheduled for Monday, April 10 at 5 pm. The Historic District Advisory Committee Meeting is Cancelled Defensive Driving Course at Robert E. Reid Community Center is Canceled


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Engineered by Tony Mills and Ben Leinbach, Mixed by Tony Mills & Jai Uttal, Recorded at Spark Studios, Oakland, CA, Mastered by Juy Costa at Quadim, Westlake village, CA, Art Direction – Tom Bonauro, Design – Tom Bonauro and Hohn Choe, Photography of Jai Uttal – Christine Alicino
All songs published by Pavana Suta Music/BMI copyright 1994, Sultan Khan sample in track 3 courtesy of Moment Records cat. # 1006 copyright 1992.
Thanks to the Pagans, Renée, and all who helped and supported; to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan for his unending inspiration; and, once again, to the great Monkey whose blanket continually protects me. This album is dedicated to my father, Larry Uttal, 1921 – 1993.
All songs written by Jai Uttal except "Be With You" by Uttal/Linde, and "Menoka" which is based on a Bengali folk song. Arrangements by Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra. All Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali lyrics are traditional.
The Pagan Love Orchestra, Jai Uttal: voice, dotar, harmonium, keyboards, sampling, ektar, gopichand, gubgubbi, mandolin, oud, banho, hartals. Peter Apfelbaum: soprano and tenor saxophone, drums, qarqabas, conga, percussion, organ and piano on track 8. Will Bernard: electric guitar. Jeff Cressman: trombone, flugelhorn. Geoffrey Gordon: bandir, dunbek, tar, congas, bongoes, tabla, kanjira, percussion. Bruce Linde: bass. Irene Sazer: violin. Rob Vlack: keyboards on tracks 2, 3, & 10. Mala Ganguly: voice and vocal shenai. Steve Gorn: bansur; flute. Fazal Qureshi: additional tablas and dholak on tracks 1, 4 and 9.


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I have always liked Michael Moriarty as an actor. So it was with happy surprise that I learned that Moriarty had penned (can we still say that?) an editorial at the conservative Big Hollywood.
Mr. Moriarty describes himself as a pro-life libertarian. While I certainly do not subscribe to the libertarian ethos, I maintain a soft spot for any public pro-lifer of any political persuasion (including democrats).
Libertarianism, while often aligned with conservatism on issues of the day, is a radically different philosophy. Leaving that aside, I do not think that Moriarty's mental meanderings constitute an effective defense of any political philosophy. To suggest that his essay has entirely too many asides would, by implication, pose that there was a central point from which to veer. Alas, alack.
I think that Mr. Moriarty's political instincts may be good, but his philosophy inconsistent. Moriarty, as part of his crusade against the "revolutionary tide" and in defense of the unborn, assails Chris Matthews for his badgering of Bishop Tobin. Like I said, his instincts are good. What follows, however…
Recently, in the best French Revolutionary tradition, that enlightened despot rode roughshod over a rather royal member of the Catholic Church who was defending Rome's decision to excommunicate a Kennedy for supporting abortion.
Wha? Chris Matthew's is an enlightened despot? He is a talk show host. Besides, the food channel's "Ace of Cakes" has better ratings than Chris Matthews. He is hardly despot material. While Matthews is certainly in the tank for Obama, even Obama can only rightly be called a budding despot. But that is just the beginning of the trouble.
Moriarty suggests that Matthews was running roughshod over Bishop Tobin. He was, but that is what Matthews does and it shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone, least of all Bishop Tobin. Hardball is not where one goes for a fair hearing. Moriarty then suggests that Bishop Tobin was there to defend "Rome's decision" to "excommunicate" Patrick Kennedy.
Um, no and no.
Bishop Tobin was there to defend the Church's consistent teaching on life and his decision two years ago to request that Congressman Kennedy refrain from communion until he changed his public stance on life. Nobody was excommunicated here and Rome had nothing to do with it.
That is a whole lotta wrong in just one sentence.
May God bless Mr. Moriarty for his defense of life, but I hope I am not unkind in suggesting that perhaps he is not the best spokesman for the cause.


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- Identify and discuss at least two diversion programs and determine whether the diversion programs are only beneficial to offenders charged with misdemeanors and non-violent felonies or whether they are also beneficial to offenders charged with felonies and violent crimes. Discuss whether or not the two correctional facilities that you researched would benefit from diversion programs. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Discuss the pros and cons of privatized correctional facilities and discuss whether or not privatized correctional facilities are better alternatives for reaching the goal of preparing inmates for reentry into society. Support your position with one example from within the last three years to support your position of the better correctional facility alternative.
- Correctional officials are tasked with maintaining public safety with reduced resources while maintaining effective operations. The targets of cost reductions typically include the following: staffing, inmate medical and mental health services, and inmate/offender supervision. With this in mind, recommend a cost reduction strategy to reduce cost while maintaining public safety and effective operations (i.e. targeted reductions, business practice changes, the use of new technology, reduction in inmate population, or community supervision). Provide a rationale for your response.
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It all began waaay back in 2005, with a story arc in "Ultimate Fantastic Four." Ultimate Reed Richards had created a gateway to an alternate reality, and after conversing with his counterpart, decided to travel to that world and meet with some of their greatest minds. What Reed thought to be a grand adventure turned out to be Hell on Earth. Once he arrived, he found nothing but devastation and death, as well as the zombified Fantastic Four. The Zombie Marvel Universe, or ZMU as we'll call it, was very similar to the existing MU at that time. Fans of the Ultimate Marvel comics had been wanting a crossover with the standard MU for awhile, but Marvel decided to give them a little twist. So how did things go so horribly wrong you may ask? It all started with a single, powerful being from another alternate reality arriving on the scene through "A flash in the sky and a ripple through the clouds." He was an alternate version of a hero known as The Sentry, and the "hunger", as it came to be known, had driven him to punch his way into this reality looking for a new food supply.
Marvel zombies are also more resilient than standard zombies. Whereas a normal zombie is finished off by one bullet or a sharp blow to the head, a Marvel zombie can actually have large portions of his brain damaged or even cut right out and still be perfectly fine. Magneto slices off half of Colonel America's head and he acts perfectly normal (for a zombie). But if you manage to destroy the entire brain, then the Marvel zombie is destroyed. This is shown when Red Skull reaches into Cap's head and pulls out the rest of his brain. Throughout the story, we see several zombies with holes blown through them, decapitated, stepped on, burnt, you name it, but the only thing that seems to stick is complete destruction of the entire body or at least the entire brain. Poor Tony Stark spends a large chunk of the story as just a torso. The Wasp is shown as just a head for all of the second half. Though later on, we find out that if a Marvel zombie goes long enough without eating, their personality starts to revert back to normal. This is shown near end of the miniseries, when, after a five year jump, we see the Wasp in a robotic suit with her head floating in fluid and not trying to eat anyone or anything. One taste of flesh, though, and they are back to square one.
As you can imagine, when any powerful being arrives in such a fashion, the Avengers arrive to investigate. The Sentry's power, amplified by his hunger for flesh, tore through the Avengers infecting anyone he did not completely devour. The plague was very quick to affect anyone bitten or scratched. Within 24 hours, the Avengers had devoured almost everyone on the planet. Normal people without powers were the first to go, then anyone with powers that had not been changed. The "hunger" drove a being to want to consume the living and infect people with powers so it could spread further. Ultimate Reed barely managed to escape this initial attack, and after fumbling his way right into the path of the zombie Avengers, he managed to find one of the very few survivors left on this zombie Earth. Magneto, the master of magnetism, had managed to survive and was holding his own against the zombie heroes. After a grand escape and a meet-up with some human refugees, Magneto and Reed devised a plan to return back to the ultimate universe and seal the ZMU for good. Things did not go well at first, but a surprise save by the Ultimate Fantastic Four helped even the odds.
Smart, strong, and powerful, the Marvel zombies are every bit the same people they were before the hunger. With the virus in their systems, they are driven by an insatiable hunger, to the point of not caring what they have to do to eat. With their intellects intact, they are your worst nightmare in a zombie apocalypse. They even managed to devise a plan to kill and devour Galactus himself. This, in turn, granted the few zombies left after the battle the power cosmic. Granted, they had some of it when they ate the Silver Surfer, and then used that with a device they came together to build to kill Galactus. The cosmic zombies include: Iron Man, Ant Man, Spiderman, Luke Cage, Hulk, and Wolverine. At their full power combined, they are able to devour worlds much like Galactus, though quicker. If you want a great example of what the hunger is capable of, there is no better one than Hank Pym. Throughout the story, you are shown that he keeps his head cool the most, but its due to the fact that he keeps his friend Black Panther tied up in his lab and cuts off pieces of him to eat over time, sewing up his wounds to keep him alive and sedating him to both keep him from breaking free and give Hank a small, small sense of moral uplifting. He mentions he has to do this to keep himself calm enough to keep trying to find a cure, but he has no cares of what he is doing in the first place, and when given cosmic power from Galactus, his search for a cure is pretty much abandoned.
One of the most dangerous aspects of a Marvel zombie, though, is that the virus tends to desensitize its host very quickly. Only people who are normally very sensitive seem to show any morals or regret for the things they have done. Spiderman ends up being the fall guy on this one, as each time the zombies consume, they regain their sanity for a short time, which leads to Peter Parker freaking out again and again over his eating Mary Jane and Aunt May. Everyone else picks on him or tells him to shut up and stop whining. At one point Colonel America tries to lie to Tony Stark about what happend to Magneto when they caught him. The Colonel tells Tony that Magneto was incinerated in an explosion and no one got to eat him at all. Tony, disbelieving this story, asks Peter how his Aunt May and Mary Jane are doing to which he falls down crying proving he had eaten recently.
Through this initial story line and the follow up mini series (by Robert Kirkman of The Walking Dead), many precedents are set for the zombie heroes in their new undead forms. For the most part, every hero and villain retains his powers and personality with only a few exceptions. The virus negates any and all healing factor powers (i.e. Wolverine and Hulk) as well as suppressing their personalities until after feeding. While it is mentioned that the power to heal did slow the plague down, it did not keep it at bay completely. Any damage these particular characters sustain once infected stays with them. Wolverine has to cut off one of his arms at one point and it never grows back. When Hulk becomes Banner, he shrinks down but the food Hulk ate is still the size it was when he ate it, and in one instance, rips through Banner's stomach and falls to the ground. Magic itself seems to grow weaker as well over time. Thor slams his hammer into the Silver Surfer and it explodes. This shows that either the enchantment on Mjölnir remained while the hammer itself grew weaker, OR the hammer itself lost all of its power (possibly due to any incidents the hunger has had in Thor's home realm) and was just a normal hammer at that point. Likewise, the Juggernaut is shown to still be a mammoth of a man and in full armor, but Wolverine stabs right though his mouth opening in his helmet, piercing his skull. When the Cytterak Gem is fully active, Juggernaut cannot be cut even by adamantium claws, but the magic had faded and left him vulnerable due to the virus.
Hello readers, and welcome to a very spooktacular, all month long Halloween Celebration of two of the most horrorific comic book stories of all time. This is The Culture Cache's first Halloween, and being that it is my favorite of all holidays, I figured we'd do this with a comic book brawl to the undeath! For the first few weeks, we are going to be covering the Marvel Zombieverse: their powers, origins, victories and defeats. We'll be covering their greatest strengths and weaknesses and on the final week of the month we will open a poll for all of YOU, the awesome viewers of The Culture Cache. You will get to vote and choose who you think would defeat whom in this zombie eat all brawl! I will note to our younger viewers that the articles and videos on The Next Issue over the course of this month will hold images of zombie violence and gore so please be advised. So lets get ready to EEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT!!!!
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That's all for this week's episode of The Next Issue. Stay tuned for next week when I will discuss the capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses of the Marvel zombies further, as well as touch upon a little of the Black Lantern Corp to start drawing a few comparisons from the DC side of things. Sweet dreams, and I'll see you next week for The Next Issue.


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Pynes Community Infant & Nursery and West Croft Junior Schools: Proposal to Amalgamate.
Following consultation and the Brief Notice period, Devon County Council's Cabinet Member has reviewed and approved the proposals to amalgamate Pynes Infant and West Croft Junior Schools with effect from September 2015.
The initial consultation took place from 1-29 June 2015 and no objections were received. The Brief Notice period, which is a more formal consultation period, provided a further representation period and commenced on 1 July 2015 with a closing date of 30 July 2015. No responses were received.
The Governing Bodies of the schools and Devon County Council consider the provision of one single primary school will offer the best educational opportunities for children and families in the area. The combined schools will remain on their present sites and will have capacity for 630 pupils.
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