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Millow specializes in performing stringent background checks in the shortest amount of time. We utilize powerful APIs, databases, and experienced fieldinvestigators to ensure fast turnaround times (TAT) and authenticity. Below are some of the checks we offer our clients:
Documents/Identity Verification
Our identity verification system is designed to verify all of an individual's identity documents using advanced machine-readable algorithms. The documents that are verified include Aadhar, Pan Card, Voter ID, Driving License and Passport.
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Past Employment Verification
Millow provides a detailed verification service to verify the integrity of the applicant. This service is also known as 'experience check' and uncovers the credibility of the candidate's statements regarding designation, CTC, reason for leaving etc.
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Address Verification
This verification is performed to cross-check the address provided by potential employees and serves as an additional layer of verification ID. We have assembled a team of field officers (government and private) to cross check the given addresses across India.
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If you have plans of moving to another country and have applied for Residential status, immigration or employment, you will need a Police Character Certificate in order to move there. PCC is also used by companies hiring staff for restaurant chains, logistics, delivery boys etc.
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It is important to check the criminal records of potential employees before you hire them. A quick and effective solution is a criminal record check. This is done through a multi-million court case database covering civil and criminal cases on a pan-India basis. We also work with law firms and the criminal record is stamped by a lawyer to add legitimacy.
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Our team of qualified and experienced professionals scrutinizes academic certificates and mark sheets from various universities across India to detect frauds. Millow also accesses databases of blacklisted and dubious universities across India. We work with government agencies like NAD and Digilocker and also have alliances with universities across India.
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Marksheet Verification
To guard against forgery & counterfeiting of marksheets, the most advanced countermeasure we can implement is to subject all marksheets to stringent verification. Verification is performed directly from the marksheet issuing authorities.
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Drug check
Our Pan-India 5-Panel Drug Test or Drug Check is an important pre-employment background check used to determine if prospective employees are using amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, opiates or PCP. This is done through our partnership with Pan-India Laboratories.
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Credit check
To help you mitigate the risks of hiring employees, tenants and others who have a history of debt, we offer a comprehensive range of accurate and viable credit check services based primarily on their individual CIBIL report. A fiscally prudent candidate is always preferable.
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Social Media check
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Global Watchlist check
The global database check allows you to search various international sanctions lists, terrorist watch lists, etc. to determine if your potential candidates have a bad reputation and could cause harm to your company and brand.
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Economic default check
The Defaulters database check gives an insight into the financial transaction history of an individual to detect cases of fraudulent financial practices or tax avoidance or evasion and is entered in the CIBIL list of defaulters or loan defaulters.
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Many restaurants in Candidasa offer car pickup which was a really nice feature – even though the main part of town was a manageable walk from our hotel, the narrow roads and alleys make it a little dicey at night. Our first dinner was at Le Zat and we arrived before sunset so we could relax with a Bintang overlooking the water.
We found the food to be pretty good, which was a bonus, as this is the kind of place you come to primarily for the view. The service dropped off a bit at the night progressed, there seemed to be a lot of trainees on the floor (identified by their name tags), but overall it was a fine experience.
Vincent's (x2!)
We wound up eating at Vincent's twice because of a slight error on my part but thankfully it was some of the best food of the trip so I was not disappointed! We made reservations for the restaurant on our second night and the service, food and atmosphere was wonderful. We were seated in the outdoor courtyard behind the restaurant surrounded by plumeria trees. Eric had Bali pork (babi kecap) and I had the mahi mahi special with coconut milk in a banana leaf. Everything was delicious.
Even though we enjoyed ourselves, I decided that instead of going back the last night we should instead visit their sister restaurant, La Rouge, which had a bit more Indian flair. Instead of dealing with the hotel front desk again, I simply emailed the restaurant requesting a reservation. They wrote me back to confirm and I failed to notice that the byline said Vincent's Restaurant. Apparently the email for La Rouge goes to the same place as Vincent's and I did not specify which restaurant I meant. When the car arrived there was a bit of confusion about where we were going, but rather than stay at the resort, we decided to just go with the flow.
This time Eric had the chicken pot pie and I opted for the fish curry stew. We split another sorbet dessert and laughed about our accidental repeat visit, and the occasional 'moo' from the neighboring property.
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With Christmas just around the corner, we are all getting very excited to head home and celebrate. Christmas is often a day packed with fun memories and sweet traditions and with so many members of the lookfantastic team coming from all over the world, we've gathered some of the traditions they love.
6 Ways to Celebrate Christmas
It isn't all just about the presents at Christmas. All the little traditions help make the day extra special. From ways to enjoy presents to some unusual breakfast choices, here are some of the traditions our team love.
Get Cosy the Night Before Christmas
Christmas Eve pyjamas have to be brand new and so completely festive - Amelia Twentyman
Getting ready for Christmas is always the most exciting part and with a crisp pair of new Christmas pyjamas to wear to bed, you'll be wake up ready to run downstairs to unwrap those presents. Bonus points for extra reindeer in the prints!
Take a Little Time Out
On Christmas Eve during the day me and my fiancé always go for a lunch somewhere together. It doesn't have to be anywhere fancy, just so that we get a bit of time together- Rachel Jones
The Christmas rush is no joke and sometimes it is so easy to get caught up in all of the chaos. We love the idea of taking a little time out with your loved ones before the big day just to reconnect and catch up.
Celebrate Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve my mum, my brother and I first go to church, then we come home and have food (usually Raclette) before we share and unwrap our presents - Larissa Bollig
With a lot of the lookfantastic team coming from outside the UK, lots of us celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve instead.
A special meal in the evening and the present opening as midnight strikes is a wonderful way to celebrate! Then the 25th and 26th are all about the family time.
Go All Out for Breakfast
Baileys on Corn Flakes for breakfast - Rory Burns
A special breakfast on Christmas day was a common theme across the board, with Bucks Fizz, croissants and bacon sandwiches being the most popular choices.
For something a little different, we salute Rory's seasonal take on the everyday with his Baileys cornflakes, although he is in competition with the Brazilian Rabanadas that Isadora loves. Seriously, look them up!
Have a Luxurious Bath
After opening all the presents, I love heading for a Christmas soak in the bath with all my new beauty treats - Sally Lewis
Trying out all your new products is one of the real joys for any beauty lover! This is one tradition we could really get on board with. If you're lucky enough to get some gift sets under the tree, why wait to enjoy them? Plus then you can get all dressed up ready for Christmas Dinner.
The Obligatory Christmas Walk
After a mammoth breakfast and all the present opening, we always head outside for a good walk to build our appetite for Christmas Dinner - Laura Louca
It is a bit of an English institution to go for a walk on Christmas Day or Boxing Day. Get the wellies on and head out the door (and no, you don't have to get our of your pyjamas if you don't want to!).
With so many gorgeous stretches of countryside around to explore, it is the perfect way to blow away the cobwebs and counteract all that Christmas feasting.


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What better way to end an unforgettable trip than with a private sunset cruise? This is yet another example of the amazing amenities that Nisbet Plantation Beach Club offers to its guests. From Oualie Bay, my husband and I were picked up by a small, luxurious boat. We could not have had a better captain, as his enthusiasm for Nevis was infectious and he was so excited to show us all of his favorite spots around the gorgeous island. I am never one to drink beer, but that was the only beverage on board, and I definitely wanted to celebrate the experience.
If you visit Nevis, you simply cannot avoid Nevis Peak. This potentially active volcano is visible from everywhere and your eyes are constantly drawn to the ever-changing weather playing around the summit, which occasionally clears long enough so that you can appreciate its well-defined caldera and imagine the explosive forces that must have been at work when it last erupted a hundred thousand years ago. There have been no eruptions since prehistory, but there are active fumaroles and hot springs on the coastal slopes of the island, which represent low-level volcanic activity.
As we drove back to the hotel and I saw the magnificent full moon outside, I was reminded by one of my favorite travel quotes, "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." Those words were never more true than in that moment.


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He hasn't made a formal announcement yet, but sitting down with the Washington Post to mull your (possible) presidential campaign seems to be good way let the world know that, yeah, you're probably running. So let's just consider Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania's former U.S. senator, a lock to run for the 2016 Republican nomination. The Post's headline even drops the pretense: "Rick Santorum is running for president again," it shouts.
"Again." (He ran and lost the nomination in 2012 to Mitt Romney.) Only this time, he says, he's ready.
Where he had to build his operation from the ground up in 2012, Santorum now has a grass-roots operation called Patriot Voices, which boasts 150,000 activists across the country. Its current push, an online petition drive to oppose President Obama's recent executive action on immigration, has generated what Santorum strategist John Brabender says are "30,000 new e-mail relationships."
Whether Santorum can raise the money he needs is another question. Foster Friess, the benefactor who ponied up $2.1 million to a pro-Santorum super PAC in 2012, says he would support him again. The former senator is sounding out other deep-pocketed donors, whom he declined to identify.
Strikingly the story doesn't make much mention of Satorum's well-known social conservatism — never mentioning his anti-gay-marriage stance or anything associated with it. He said that voters are already familiar with his stands on social issues. Instead, he'll emphasize his stances on other hot-button issues, like immigration.
"We're just obviously in a better place right now," he told the Post. "Our message will be a lot more focused this time than it was last time." [Washington Post]


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Antonio Conte does not expect Tottenham to sack him before the end of the season but has remained coy over his future at the club.
The 53-year-old is expected to leave Spurs when his contract expires in the summer with no talks over extending his terms into a third season.
A poor start to March saw Tottenham exit the FA Cup and Champions League to increase the pressure on Conte, who joked after a goalless draw with AC Milan that he could be sacked.
But, speaking ahead of Saturday's trip to Southampton, the Italian said: "This was a provocation, you understand? About my future.
"A provocation, a joke, 'una battuta'. When you tell something, to joke.
"You asked me about the future and I said to you that you don't know what happens, because maybe the club can sack me.
"But I repeat, I don't think the club is thinking this. The club sees every day what me and my staff, we are doing for this club. It was only an answer about my future.
"I think there is not one club that can tell the manager you stay here until the end of the season. You know football is really strange.
"You don't know what happens tomorrow, you understand? But I repeat, in my opinion we try in every moment to do everything, me and my staff, and I think the club appreciates this.
"Because if you continue to ask me if I sign a new contract, it means that maybe the club appreciates what we are doing, the work that we doing, in this one-year-and-a-half."
Speculation continues over Conte's potential successor, whether it be before the end of the season or in the summer, despite Spurs getting their Premier League campaign back on track with a 3-1 win over Nottingham Forest last weekend.
"I think we have to accept every type of situation," the former Chelsea boss insisted on reports of his replacement.
"The most important thing to know is you're working very hard every day to improve the club you're working for.
Conte has recently trodden the path of another former Premier League title winner in Arsene Wenger, who once claimed finishing in the top four was the equivalent of a trophy for Arsenal during a tough period for the club.
The boss again stated the difficulty in qualifying for the Champions League.
"I think in every season to finish in the top four means you had a good season," Conte added.
"For sure to finish in the top four I think is a really, really good achievement for every club in the Premier League.
"You can see the table, you can see there are important teams, teams that in the past won trophies, important trophies and now they're struggling for a place in Champions League.
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We may have gotten an hour back, but that just means there was more time to make news. And so, we're here to gather up all the latest stories surrounding the commercial side of the AV industry and discuss them with a panel of experts. Joining us this week is Vice President of Sales & Operations for Nationwide AV Brock McGinnis, AV Consultant at Newcomb & Boyd Gladys Marroquin, Vice President of Sales for AtlasIED Michael Peveler and Founder of rAVe Gary Kayye.
This week was Zoomtopia, the conference devoted to the collaboration platform Zoom. The event looked at the hybrid and virtual space, and even had a performance by St. Louis' own Nelly. But rather than discuss musical acts, we talk about the key points to take away from the show, as well as where conferencing software is at within the corporate space.
Back in October, CEDIA announced a slate of additions to the board of directors. Previously, the organization had open elections to decide on who was joining the board and the change was a bit of a surprise. We sat down with CEDIA CEO Daryl Friedman along with another panel to discuss those changes in an AVNation Special. But today we discuss the organizations on the commercial side like AVIXA. We look at how governing bodies should be occupying their seats.
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In Britain, they call it "sex grooming."
In the Netherlands, they're called "Lover Boys."
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But the phenomenon is the same. A gang of Muslim "Asians" of mostly Pakistani descent seeks out, pursues, chats up and cultivates school girls for sex, turning them into bodies for sale.
A new book is out that the European left is trying its best to ignore. It contains research that blows away the theory, widely reported in the media, that it's a tiny minority of Muslim men involved in the rape gangs and then only in one British town, Rotherham.
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Author Peter McLaughlin argues in his exhaustive study, "Easy Meat: Inside Britain's Grooming Gang Scandal," that it's at least 300 Muslim men who were preying on girls in Rotherham over a 16-year period. And the same type of gangs have been operating in dozens of cities across the United Kingdom, as well as in Muslim areas of the Netherlands and Sweden.
"In 2008 one of the policing agencies having to do with sex trafficking commissioned a 20-minute educational video to be shown to school girls to show how the gangs operate," McLoughlin told WND. "They hang around schools and malls and use an attractive young man to convince them he wants to be their boyfriend and he gets them to drink and do drugs and then she has sex with him and later his 'brothers' and his 'uncles' and whomever else he pimps her out to."
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That video was never actually shown to the girls, he said. And Britain's homage to political correctness led police and child-welfare advocates to cover up what was happening for fear of being called racists.
Watch video postulating that it's unrealistic to believe the Rotherham rape scandal was an isolated incident perpetrated by a few Muslims in one city:
Even today, after the media spotlight has finally shined on the problem, there exists an element of denial as to its scope.
"In Britain people just keep talking about Rotheram and 1,400 victims because, to them, it's just one town," McLoughlin told WND. "It's a big number but it's not a shocking number. When you say it's multiple towns and between 100,000 and 350,000 victims, it's just so big you can't take it in."
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Up until four years ago most Brits couldn't place Rotherham on a map, he said.
"That town is completely ordinary. There is nothing unusual about it. It contains 1/250th of the population of the U.K.," he said. "So there are the equivalent of 250 towns that size and Rotherham also has a slightly lower than average number of Muslim residents.
"So if you do the math: Take 1,400 victims, and that's a conservative estimate, and multiply 1,400 by 250 and you get 350,000 (victims)," McLoughlin said.
"At least 40 towns have been named in this context but that doesn't mean it's not going on in far more."
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He said Muslims make up 5 percent of the population in Britain but have accounted for 90 percent of the sex-gang convictions.
In one area of northeast England, in and around Newcastle, 44 men were charged. All but six, possibly seven, were Muslim.
There have been more than 200 convictions so far in cities across the country, but McLoughlin says this likely amounts to less than 1 percent of the Muslim men who were involved.
See list of men convicted and the towns where they committed their rape crimes.
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How it started
McLoughlin, an Internet technology specialist by trade, said his interest in the sex-grooming gangs was sparked by a 2004 documentary film "Edge of the City." It included the stories of two British women whose daughters were being abused by grooming gangs in Bradford, a city in west Yorkshire. The film was immediately labeled "racist" by the BBC and other establishment media.
Like many Brits, McLoughlin didn't believe what he saw in the controversial film. The victims were as young as 10 and 11 years old.
"I didn't believe it was going on until 2009 when someone told me it was happening to their child. In 2010 I met another family," McLoughlin told WND. "One involved the family's niece who had been seduced by a Pakistani gang in Chester and in the other case it was a Somali gang in South London. So I had two cases in two different parts of the country that got me started on this."
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For the first two years starting in 2014 McLoughlin gave away his books to anyone who would read them.
"I didn't want people to say 'you're making money off of this,'" he said.
A nation in denial
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Then he found a publisher, New English Review, which took on the project last year. The books started rolling off the presses in March.
"And so far we're seeing absolutely no interest in the book in England," he told WND. "People are buying it, but there have been no book reviews in any newspapers or periodicals, no requests for interviews from media. It's a cover-up."
Between 1988 and 2011 there was virtually no mention in the British media of the problem with grooming gangs.
"One of the things that struck me was that people could deny this was going on when there was no information available," McLoughlin said.
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With the publication of "Easy Meat" the denials are no longer possible.
He said public officials, from police to child welfare agencies, all did their best to make sure no data was collected that would show the pattern of Muslim men raping young girls.
Rotherham was the exception, purely by accident.
"One of the things the childcare professionals have done is make sure there is no data," he said. "And the reason Rotherham has become emblematic and distinct is that Rotherham by accident had a private organization working for the local government called Risky Business. And what it did was ask these victims for details of who was doing these horrible things to them."
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The private agency built case files and took them to police.
"And so because of this organization there is data for Rotherham," he said.
Strangely, the offices of Risky Business were broken into and many of their files stolen.
"So there are indications police officers were involved in the pimping out and exploitation of the girls," McLoughlin said. "One officer who was being investigated died mysteriously in a car crash last year."
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With so much information now available, the establishment media and politicians can no longer deny the Rotherham tragedy. Instead, they attempt to minimize it, he said.
That doesn't change the fact that a huge cover-up took place to hide decades of sexual abuse of English school girls.
Only one female journalist would write about the Muslim gangs with any semblance of honest journalism and she was accused of being "racist" even though she was a left-leaning feminist, McLoughlin said.
"If Rotherham has this problem with 1,400 victims, and that's a conservative figure, then the local newspaper must have known about it," he said. "And if the same is true in the other towns, and they all don't publish anything about it, then it's like the problem doesn't exist."
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But they can't claim ignorance now. McLoughlin's 130,000 words of documentation, photographs, scanned documents and end notes stand as a huge obstacle between the willfully ignorant and the truth.
"I think it's the biggest political scandal in 100 years. I don't have any children myself and this is the last thing I ever thought I would do is write a book about this subject," he said. "I work in IT. I didn't want people to say I was trying to capitalize on this problem so I spent two years writing this book with the purpose of wanting to preserve for future generations the record of what happened.
"It's such a shocking problem," he continued. "The idea that a country would welcome immigrants, offer them every sort of benefit and rights, in some ways superior rights to its own citizens, and then to stand by and let them organize the baiting and prostitution of school girls is just outrageous. If we did not know about this and document it you would not believe it."
Importing a culture of rape
In fact, rape is deeply ensconced in the Muslim culture dating back to the seventh century and Muhammad himself, a panel of Islam scholars tells WND.
Daniel Akbari, a former top Shariah defense lawyer in Iran before he converted to Christianity and defected to the U.S., is a recognized expert in Islamic honor violence and recently authored a book on the topic, "Honor Killing: A Professional's Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources."
Akbari said Islamic migrants bring a culture to their adopted homelands in the West that is foreign to the Judeo-Christian mindset of female equality.
"These men come from Islamic communities in which any association with females other than unmarriageable kin is prohibited and subject to the Islamic punishment of flogging," he said. "When these Muslim men immigrate to Western countries where women are free to dress and behave as they wish, they become turbulent."
This "turbulent" behavior is acted out when confronted by Western women who move about freely and dress as they wish.
"For their entire lives these men have been taught that the women who do not wear a hijab and show skin are like whores," Akbari told WND. "They also assume that only Muslim women who follow sharia rules for women's dress and conduct, wear a hijab, lower their gaze, do not laugh or eat in public, and do not go out of house without their unmarriageable kin men escorting them deserve respect."
Even when the victim of a sexual assault is a Muslim woman, the Shariah court will blame her for the crime if she failed to follow Shariah rules for women's dress and conduct, Akbari said. And she must have multiple male witnesses to testify on her behalf.
But what about the non-Muslim woman? The Shariah rule is clear, says Akbari.
"Merely being a non-Muslim woman provides Muslim men with a legitimate Islamic excuse to justify their sexual harassment," he said.
There are exceptions under Shariah for Jewish and Christian women, which the Quran calls "people of the Book," but those exceptions come with a high price.
"Christian or Jewish women who live in lands controlled by Islamic governments are exempted from the rule if they have made a Dhimmi contract with the Islamic ruler promising to respect specific boundaries and limitations on their fundamental rights," he said." And they must pay jizya (tax)."
Not all Muslims know these rules, he said, but the general cultural beliefs about women are deeply ingrained. "Because for centuries all these rules have been practiced in their communities, they know by heart how to distinguish between a women who deserves respect and the one who does not."
Timothy Furnish, a historian of Islam who authors the Mahdi Watch blog and whose latest book is "Sects, Lies and the Caliphate: 10 Years of Observations about Islam," said Islam has a very different view of women than Christianity or Judaism.
"Islam perpetuates that men should dominate women in sexual matters culture, as per Sura al-Nisa' and the examples of Muhammad, who had as many as 11 wives," Furnish said, citing Quran 4:3 and 34.
See list of Muhammad's wives and concubines.
"Also, the afterlife in Islam holds the sexual 'houris' for men, but nothing for women."
The houris (explained here) are jinn-like "sex kittens," available to Islamic men in the afterlife, Furnish explained.
Do these beliefs lead to rape while Muslim men are living here on Earth?
"Not directly," says Furnish, "But it certainly posits females (both humans and houris) as primarily existing to sexually gratify men, and that can lead Muslim men to see all women that way."
It goes back to Muhammad
Another scholar, author and filmmaker G.M. Davis, whose latest work is "House of War: Islam's Jihad Against the World," devotes a section to Islam's view of women.
"In seventh century Arabic tribal culture, women were seen as commodities to be bought, sold, or otherwise appropriated as one was able, an attitude that Islam has perpetuated," writes Davis.
Davis cites the example of Muhammad granting permission to a fellow jihadist to take the slave girl Safiya following the massacre of the Jewish tribe Bani Nadir at a place called Khaibar, as documented by hadith narrator Abdul Aziz.
"We conquered Khaibar, took the captives and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, 'O Allah's Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.' The Prophet said, 'Go and take any slave girl.' He took Safiya bin Huyai."
As it turned out, Muhammad saw Safiya and decided he wanted her for himself.
"The hapless slave girl Safiya appears as little more than a prestigious trophy to be haggled over and traded at the will of the victors," Davis writes. "It is the same mentality that gave rise to the Muslim rape epidemic that has plagued major cities in Sweden and Norway, in which Muslims routinely attack unveiled women."
Muhammad's treatment of the slave girl's husband is even more disturbing -- he was tortured with a hot iron on his chest until he told the location of his treasure, then beheaded.
More than 25 years of exploitation
McLoughlin said the organized seduction of English school girls by Muslim rape gangs has been going on since at least 1988.
"That was the earliest public document I was able to find," he said.
"I got into it from a position of, well, it's a story that's basically being concealed in Britain," he said. "And I have a feeling it's being concealed in other countries as well."
The member of Parliament who represents Rotherham, Sarah Champion, has estimated there could be as many as 1 million victims across the U.K.
But McLoughlin sticks with his "conservative" estimate of 100,000 to 350,000 victims.
"There's an aspect of which I don't wish to believe it's a million victims, because it's too shameful for us as a nation to have allowed something like that to happen," he said. "We effectively have an army of childcare professionals and police officers -- it dwarfs the size of the British army -- that has ignored and denied this problem for decades."
Even after hundreds of convictions and Parliamentary hearings, there is still not "full honesty" about the subject of grooming gangs in Britain, McLoughlin said.
"And what's going on in Rotherham now is the state and the media have turned all their attention on this one town, as if this one town is singularly bad, when there's all kinds of evidence to suggest this is going on in towns across the country," he said. "We just don't have the data in the other towns."


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By Nick Beleiciks, Senior Analyst
Oregon Employment Department
There were 18,242 job openings in Oregon this spring, according to the results of the 2009 Oregon Job Vacancy Survey. That was significantly fewer than the 47,888 job vacancies employers reported last spring. Despite the weaker economy, employers reported a tough time filling certain occupations, and one in ten vacancies went unfilled for at least two months.
The survey, conducted in late May and early June, provided information regarding the number of job vacancies, their required education level or licenses, and starting wages being offered in Oregon. Employers also provided insights into how long openings went unfilled and whether the vacancies were for newly created positions. Some of the key findings are:
– Vacancies existed across a wide span of nearly 400 different occupations, and only 5 percent were for newly created positions, suggesting that most openings were created through turnover.
Registered nurses were in the most demand, with 1,004 vacancies statewide, followed by retail salespersons (556) and nursing aides (483).
– The health care and social assistance industry had the most vacancies with 5,744, followed by accommodation and food services (2,535), educational services (1,554) and retail trade (1,506).
– There were at least 3,562 vacancies for positions that offered starting wages of more than $15 an hour. The majority of these openings required education beyond high school and nearly all required previous experience.
The full statewide report and regional reports are available on-line at www.QualityInfo.org.
Disclaimer: Articles featured on Oregon Report are the creation, responsibility and opinion of the authoring individual or organization which is featured at the top of every article.


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President Obama signed Executive Order 13694 on April 1st 2015. Declaring a National Emergency over so-called cyber-enabled activities.
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, in order to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities declared in Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, and in view of the increasing use of such activities to undermine democratic processes or institutions, hereby order
Written in such broad terms it could apply to almost any entity involved in spreading information that is cyber-enabled. Whatever that means. Anything or anyone using a computer? Signed under the guise of stopping Russian influence in U.S. elections. It targets possibly anyone disseminating information that is "cyber-enabled" as well as actual hackers. Attention was called to this EO on December 29, 2016, by a recent press release from:
The release on Executive Order 13694 is titled.
A Declaration of National Emergency over cyber-enabled activities. Did you know that the U.S. declared a national emergency on April 1st, 2015 because of cyber-enabled activities? This order allows to the executive branch to financially sanction and any information dissemination entity as well as actual hackers that the government feels have interfered in the electoral process with its possible effects on voters decisions. If your information has changed someone's mind about how they vote, you could be punished. Right now only a couple Russian organizations and individuals are on the list cited in the Annex to this order. According to mainstream news, anyone with a different opinion works for the Russians. Government lists always grow for one reason or another once established.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, can make this determination if the entity, person or business is based in whole or part outside the continental United States and is trying to effect an election or any other critical infrastructure. Globalization of information technology is such that anyone using the internet may be using services and infrastructure not located in the U.S. Not just Russia but anywhere outside the United States. What about using sources for news articles that come from overseas? How about interviewing a foreign source? Is the information being carried outside the U.S.? What about affiliates in other countries? You can see the possibilities.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, in order to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities declared in Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, and in view of the increasing use of such activities to undermine democratic processes or institutions, hereby order:
Section 1. Section 1(a) of Executive Order 13694 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:
(i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order;
(ii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States that are reasonably likely to result in, or have materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States and that have the purpose or effect of:
(A) harming, or otherwise significantly compromising the provision of services by, a computer or network of computers that support one or more entities in a critical infrastructure sector;
(B) significantly compromising the provision of services by one or more entities in a critical infrastructure sector;
(C) causing a significant disruption to the availability of a computer or network of computers;
(D) causing a significant misappropriation of funds or economic resources, trade secrets, personal identifiers, or financial information for commercial or competitive advantage or private financial gain; or
(E) tampering with, altering, or causing a misappropriation of information with the purpose or effect of interfering with or undermining election processes or institutions; and
How convenient that Department of Homeland Security announced anything having to do with the elections is critical infrastructure.
If the government thinks a journalist or organization has altered, tampered or misappropriated information with the purpose of effecting an election they can be banned from doing business in the United States. Commentary can be construed as interfering with or undermining election processes. The very job of media is to influence opinions. If this were the standard for mainstream outlets, they would all have to go. Yet we know this was not intended for them.
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The Gombe State Police Command has arrested an 18-year-old girl, Hadiza Babayo for kidnapping her uncle's 4-year-old daughter, Miss Aishatu Mohammed.
Hadiza Babayo allegedly kidnapped to the little girl after school along with her boyfriend, Bala Shuaibu, and kept her at a hotel in Nayi-Nawa area of Gombe metropolis and demanded N6 million as ransom from her parents.
While parading the two suspects on Friday, September 20, 2019, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mary Malum, noted Babayo and her boyfriend Shuaibu were arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) based on credible intelligence for criminal conspiracy and kidnapping.
During the course of interrogation, Hadiza Babayo confessed to the crime and stated how she and Bala Shuaibu, abducted the victim from Gombe High school and kept her in a hotel at Nayi-Nawa quarters Gombe, where they demanded a ransom of six million naira (N6m) from the victim's father before she could be released.
"After bringing her from school, I arranged to take her to my boyfriend (Shuaibu), we wanted to use the opportunity to get money from my uncle since he had not shown me enough care," Babayo stated.
SP Mary Malum said that the SARS operatives who responded swiftly, rescued the victim unhurt, without any ransom.


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Director:Maria Luisa Bemberg
Script Synopsis:A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.
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Integrating Moodle into your School Please go to http: //bit. ly/n 1 YEj. Y and take a pre-class survey while we wait to start. Brian Pool Technology Coordinator National Trail LSD
My Background n Systems Analysis Degree from Miami University n Programmed for NCR Corporation and Dayton Power and Light USAF q T-37 Instructor q MH-53 Special Ops Pilot q C-141 Aircraft Commander q IT Director NTLS Tech Coordinator & Teacher q Since 2003 n n
Our Moodle Path n Original Installation in 2006 with version 1. 6 q n n Upgrade to 1. 7 in 2007 Upgrade to 1. 8 in 2008 q q n Teachers were included simply by word of mouth in the High School (Tech Saavy Teachers) 5 -12 Gradewide adoption in 2008 Started after schoolyear with Board Directive Upgrade to 1. 9 in 2010 q Inclusion of K-4 With indicator gradecards
Our Moodle Path n n Smooth until Board Directed 5 -12 implementation Then came the directive… 2 weeks into the school year. q q Moodle seemed daunting to our less tech saavy teachers We could not manually enroll every student in every class…so they had to. n n "Small things" like adding students to a class totally turned new teachers off to Moodle The vocabulary was also very new and different.
Hurdles! n n n Teachers with limited technology experience may "shut down" on you completely. Parents will come to expect a level of online class material that not all teachers will commit to. It is always Moodles fault when something doesn't work. Accept it!
Modifications to Overcome… n I learned PHP as fast as I could n Made a "automatic enrollment" of courses q Automatic to teachers…not me! n q I manually downloaded enrollments, created a CSV, and uploaded to Moodle daily Eventually (months later) got extract going from A Site that was truly automatic
Modifications to Overcome… n Language file Changes q Make vocabulary more familiar by changing Moodle n n Assign Roles vs Add/Remove Students Groups vs Course Sections Anything you can "normalize" for non-techie teachers. Gradebook vocabulary is especially confusing to some staff. q Consider limiting choices of calculations.
Modifications to Overcome… n Limit Available Modules q q Moodle may provide enormous opportunity and diversity, but too much can shutdown some staff members. Don't even allow modules that you deem unnecessary to be seen. n q n Teacher team anyone? Install best mods by testing beforehand but don't go crazy! (There are 700+) These things made training infinitely easier!
Train beforehand! n Although this seems fairly obvious… q Going completely online before actually training was a bit crazy n n (even though the first semester was optional. ) Training q q q Use subs to relieve teachers for ½ day Use after school sessions (Tech Tuesdays) Use in-services Use Moodle! - online lessons Subject of another class entirely
Ways to Smoothen Out Upgrades Upgrade for features, not just to upgrade. 1. q (2. x may look cooler, but what does it add? ) Keep upgrades looking similar to previous installs. 2. q Vocab! Make sure you can justify the upgrade to your staff. 3. q q Don't just do it without talking to anyone! Let a teacher team decide on "optional" upgrades.
Usage 5 -12 n Traditional Moodle q q q Middle and High School Teachers all use Moodle in similar fashion. Same myriad of resources and activities are used throughout these grade levels. Traditional Gradebook n q (which uploads to DASL for reportcards) e. Days will be "old hat" for all of these students when we implement this year.
Resources n n n n Links to other websites Internal Moodle webpages Documents (Word, Excel, Power. Points, pdf…) Pictures Videos Online File Directories RSS Feeds
Activities n n n n n Assignments Blogs* Chat* Choice Database Forum* Hot Potatoes* Journals Quizzes (Tests) Wiki* n n n Audio Recorder Podcasts* Surveys Vod. Casts* Webquest*
Usage K-4 n Limited Moodle q q q Elementary Teachers only Post Limited Resources Activity (Assignments) are put in to track Indicators (Moodle Outcomes) Limited Training required for 2 items! Report Cards are all Moodle Generated Indicator Reportcards e. Days will require training for all of these students when we implement this year.
Ongoing/Future Projects n e. Day Calamity Day Makeup Program q q q 100% Moodle Continuing to Train new and progressing teachers. Save 3 days of transportation costs for the district as a minumum!
Ongoing/Future Projects n Testing to Go Paperless and ALL Moodle q q q Social Studies Teacher agreed to not buy textbooks and instead got an android tablet lab to try online textbooks in class. Looking to go 100% in the HS 2012 -2013 school year. Projected to cost most students $0 and save the district $10000 annually.
Paperless Numbers n Students q q q n All buy TI-83 for $80 All pay $5 yearly for student handbook. = $100 total We would add $25 yearly to fees = $100 District q q q We spend $25000 annually on textbook replacements Supplementing tablets would be $7000 annually after initial year (which would be ~ $40000) We would collect $8000 annually on fees and "sell" them to students that did not pay 4 years of fees.
Paperless Advantages n Students q q q n All books on 1 device, downloaded from Moodle e. Books Dictionary Usage Calculator, Notes, voice recorder, Kindle App… District/Class q q q $20/year per class for online Response. Ware (Turning Point Clicker Software) Cost Savings Interactive lesson and research possibilities in ANY classroom
Paperless Disadvantages n Students q n Off Task District/Class q Teacher involvement and management a MUST!
Questions? ?
Useful links n National Trail Home Moodle page q q n http: //moodle. nationaltrail. k 12. oh. us www. edtechteach. com Moodle home page q Moodle. org
Thanks for coming! • Brian Pool National Trail LSD 6940 Oxford Gettysburg Road New Paris, OH 45320 937 437 -3333 x 1235 brian_pool@nationaltrail. us


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Controlled Dangerous Substances
Sheriff Williams is especially concerned about the impact on controlled substances on residents of all ages in Haralson County and alarmed by the growing trend of deadly overdose and crimes committed because of drug habits.
The state of Georgia classifies well-known drugs like marijuana, heroin and cocaine as controlled substances, as well as the compounds and materials used to manufacture them.
Georgia ranks Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) into five schedules, according to their likelihood for abuse. (Georgia Code Section 16-13-25 through 16-13-29.) Certain drugs, like codeine, may be legally possessed with a valid prescription.
- Schedule I drugs (such as heroin) have a high potential for abuse and have no accepted medical use.
- Schedule II drugs (such as opium and morphine) have a high potential for abuse, have an accepted medical use with severe restrictions and their abuse has the potential for severe psychic and physical dependence.
- Schedule III drugs (such as anabolic steroids) have a potential for abuse less than Schedule I or II drugs, have an accepted medical use and their abuse may lead to low or moderate physical dependence and high psychological dependence.
- Schedule IV drugs (such as diazepam) have a lower potential for abuse than Schedule III drugs, have an acceptable medical use and their abuse may lead to limited psychological and physical dependence in relation to Schedule III drugs.
- Schedule V drugs have the lowest potential for abuse relative to Schedule IV CDS, have a currently accepted medical use, and have a limited risk of physical or psychological dependence relative to Schedule IV CDS. Schedule V drugs include medicines that contain very small amounts of specified narcotic drugs.
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Here's a timeless question: Readers Kate and Tom ask how to approach a Retro Renovation of their 1960s kitchen — which was updated by previous owners in another decade's style — but, with an eye toward being thrifty and toward resale some day. What is your advice? Note: I'll let readers comment for a while, then, I will follow up with my thoughts and what I learn from you!
Update: My followup story with my ideas is here.
Kate and Tom write (edited from two emails for flow):
This truly is a great resource! I'm pondering ways to re-vintage our 1960s house, which we bought a couple years ago from a couple who had done painstaking renovations of their own (not the original owners) in the 1990s. The house has their flesh-toned fingerprints all over it, and he was a master woodworker, so it's a very professional 1990s vibe that we have to contend.
We have both lived in older homes that looked more true to their era, and we long for that midcentury look which seems to match the house's soul. Here is a photo of the kitchen. We just added paint color but dislike hardware, granite, backsplash.
I'm still just in the visioning stages of trying to picture some remodeling, and need some input about our granite countertops/stainless steel/wood cabinets (cherry? oak) with their wrought iron pulls….Worried about resale value, and expenses just to create an aesthetic when what we've got functions well and is "up to date."
What are your thoughts? How can we accentuate more of that 1960s vibe in a way that won't detract from potential resale value?
–Kate and Tom in Minneapolis
Readers, what do you think?
How should Kate and Tom approach a Retro Renovation — also with an eye toward resale and unnecessary expenditures?


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The records of the University of Nebraska at Omaha Faculty Senate (1967-2007) include minutes, agendas, publications, committee handbooks, faculty salary reports, annual reports, attendance records, bylaws, budget information, correspondence, grievances, policies, topics for consideration, election information, resolutions, retreat information, schedules, membership information, and other miscellaneous information. Also included are the records of myriad Faculty Senate committees and subcommittees, with their attendant minutes, agendas, reports, correspondence, and other documentation.
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How to update your PHP scripts to a new FlowPaper version
This tutorial guides you through the steps you need to take if you want to update your existing FlowPaper installation to a new version
Step 1 - Download the appropriate version
Download the appropriate FlowPaper version from the commercial download area and extract the contents of the zip file into any directory. Open the "php" folder in your file manager. The directory should look something like this:
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Step 2 - Replace your existing PHP files
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PK-386 Rice is known as non-basmati rice Varity and its fragrance is same as per the basmati rice which is cultivated in Punjab. This rice is cheaper as compare to Basmati Rice variety. This variety we have been exporting to Middle East and African markets.
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Official Selection Submission
Open to all feature film including documentary, drama and new film mediums. Please see the terms and conditions for further information.
Submissions are now open for the 2024 festival.
A host of activities are on offer throughout the festival, including a wide and diverse range of Australian and French feature screenings on the big screen or at Film Set venues.
From Australian independent features to family flicks and overseas co-productions, CinefestOZ Film Festival brings the best of new cinema to our audiences.
Filmmakers willing to have their film a part of Australia's premiere destination festival, can submit their Australian or Australian co-production film for consideration to screen as an Official Selection.
CinefestOZ is now also taking submissions for music videos, mini-series, web and online series and TV pilots in this category, alongside VR/AR and feature length films and documentaries.
IndigifestOZ is our special platform for celebrating our deadly creative Indigenous film makers.
Our festival proudly supports all the work of the Indigenous Screen Community and we seek to make a real contribution by championing Indigenous creative work to a wide Australian audience.
For a film to be recognised under the IndigifestOZ banner, it must have a minimum of a writer and director who identify as Indigenous. (Full details of the conditions for films to be eligible under the IndigifestOZ banner are defined in our terms and conditions.)
Other Australian films that feature Indigenous themes, Indigenous cast and creatives, but do not meet the IndigifestOZ criteria are very welcome and encouraged to submit for exhibition in other CinefestOZ categories.
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Chief marketing officers have indicated major industry challenges when it comes to adapting and serving local audiences with timely, localized content and campaigns, and too few are investing in the necessary tools, teams and processes needed to deliver tailored quality creative.
According to a joint study from CMO Council and HH Global, a meager 33 percent of respondents said that their companies were advanced or doing well in adapting brand content for different markets, partners and geographies.
Thirty-four percent of respondents, however, said they were at least improving, and just 20 percent are satisfied with their creative delivery process and marketing supply chain effectiveness.
The report, titled "The Age of the Adaptive Marketer," polled 150 senior marketing executives from global industries that demand an omnichannel presence in Q2.
"At a time when the customer has higher expectations than ever for relevance and personalization of content and brand interaction, marketing organizations will need to step up their game when it comes to brand content adaptation to address geographic, cultural, customer and other differences," said Donovan Neale-May, executive director of the CMO Council. "Past research has shown that adaptation of marketing strategies and content can be a major enabler of sales and brand success. Yet most companies have a long way to go in order to get it right."
Executives who were surveyed also indicated the top five process challenges they face:
- Shortening turnaround times
- Ensuring quality and uniformity with brand guidelines
- End-to-end workflow management
- Delivering creative on time and measuring the creative appeal
- Impact of content
"The findings—that marketers are struggling with finding efficient ways to adapt creative content for local markets at scale—expose a gap in the market that is quantitatively consistent with our qualitative experiences," said Robert MacMillan, group CEO at HH Global. "We have seen marketers trying to expand into new regional markets with localized content, but, as demonstrated in the research, they have neither the time nor processes and tools to execute at scale."
The study also found that brands are not taking the necessary steps to advance their capacity to adapt and modify branded content.
- 18 percent have completed a formal assessment of their creative delivery process and marketing supply chain effectiveness
- 24 percent say they have begun one
- 20 percent use online approval and proofing systems to accelerate modifications
- 49 percent of respondents say they spend less than 5 percent of their marketing budget for creative adaptation and cross-cultural localization
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BIRNS® 4123 Doubly-Safe Chamber Light-LED™
The BIRNS Doubly-Safe Chamber Light™, BIRNS Model 4123, combines powerful LED technology with BIRNS exclusive design features—for the ultimate in safety and performance in brilliant 5200K lighting for PVHO applications. BIRNS' proprietary Doubly-Safe dual helium release method makes the entire front of the light its own helium release valve—with a back-up spring in the front lens mount along with its additional stainless steel release mechanism to safely and quickly remove any gas that might otherwise get trapped during compression. LED technology keeps the lamp running cool, and the unique system is low profile, lightweight and has a 50,000 hour rated lamp life—while meeting and/or exceeding applicable DNV, Lloyd's, and UL requirements.
The versatile BIRNS Doubly Safe Chamber Light-LED™ is designed specifically to provide a variety of lens-colors, for tailored illumination inside pressurized HeO2-atmosphere PVHO chambers, from submersibles, diving bells and personnel transfer capsules, to decompression, recompression and hyperbaric chambers.
The BIRNS Doubly Safe Chamber Light-LED comes complete with choice of lamp and lens, and cable assembly CEF3S16-x a flexible female rubber molded neoprene connector power cable assembly ("-x" is the length in feet). It can be tailored to any length or configuration needed and is standard for BIRNS 120V and 240V lights that draw <15A, and utilizes either the 63A-003 stainless locking sleeve or the 63A-001 Delrin locking sleeve.
To operate the BIRNS Doubly-Safe Chamber Light, specify a CEF3S16-x Power Cable Assembly ("-x" is the length in feet) to any length or configuration. Optional cable locking sleeves are available in plastic (63A-004) or 316 SS (63A-003).
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President Trump: "I am Determined to Protect our Election System, which is now Under Coordinated Assault and Siege"
President Donald Trump in his December 2, 2020 speech said "I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege":
"This may be the most important speech I've ever made. I want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long November 3rd elections. We used to have what was called, election day. Now we have election days, weeks, and months, and lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time, especially when you have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege, the right to vote. As President, I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the Constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege." (President Donald Trump: (00:00) to President Donald Trump: (00:54)) [https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-on-election-fraud-claims-transcript-december-2]
Important Note:
The publisher of the Catholic Monitor has made a pledge to say the
Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary everyday for a Rosary Lepanto-like
victory for President Trump. He asks all CM readers to make this pledge.
"THE HOLY ROSARY, MOST POWERFUL WEAPON AGAINST THE ENEMY OF GOD AND MAN... Saint Pius V ordered the faithful to recite the Rosary to impetrate victory from God in the epic battle of the Christian Armada against the Turk in the waters of Lepanto: still today, at noon each day, the bells ring in our cities to recall [the victory of] October 7, 1571... Let us pray for the United States of America; let us pray for our President; let us pray for his victory, that the Lord God of Hosts – Dominus Deus Sabaoth –will grant that he may know how to place himself under God's protection." - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God's Will and to do it.
Pray an Our Father now for President Donald Trump, the legal teams including Sidney Powell and justice in the United States of America.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Note: Please put your family, the United States of America, President Donald Trump and the Trump legal team as the intentions in the following Prayer of Command:
Prayer of Command
A Prayer for Deliverance Of President Donald Trump from Enemies
Based on A Psalm of David.
Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with President Donald Trump;
fight against those who fight against him!
Take hold of shield and buckler,
and rise for his help!
Draw the spear and javelin
against his pursuers!
Say to his soul,
"I am your deliverance!"
Let them be put to shame and dishonor
who seek after his life!
Let them be turned back and confounded
who devise evil against him!
Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them on!
Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
For without cause they hid their net for him;
without cause they dug a pit[a] for his life.
Let ruin come upon them unawares!
And let the net which they hid ensnare them;
let them fall therein to ruin!
Then his soul shall rejoice in the Lord,
exulting in his deliverance.
All his bones shall say,
"O Lord, who is like thee,
thou who delivers the weak
from those who are too strong for him,
the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"
Malicious witnesses rise up;
they accuse him of things that he knows not.
They requite him evil for good.
But at his stumbling they gathered in glee,
they gathered together against him;
cripples whom he knew not
slandered him without ceasing;
they impiously mocked more and more,[c]
gnashing at him with their teeth.
How long, O Lord, wilt thou look on?
Rescue him from the ravages
from the lions!
Then I will thank thee in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise thee.
Let not those rejoice over him
who are wrongfully his foes,
and let not those wink the eye
who hate him without cause.
For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land
they conceive words of deceit.
They open wide their mouths against him;
they say, "Aha, Aha!
our eyes have seen it!"
Thou hast seen, O Lord; be not silent!
O Lord, be not far from him!
Bestir thyself, and awake for his right,
for his cause, my God and my Lord!
Vindicate him, O Lord, my God, according to thy righteousness;
and let them not rejoice over him!
Let them not say to themselves,
"Aha, we have our heart's desire!"
Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."
Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether
who rejoice at his calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against him!
Let those who desire his vindication
shout for joy and be glad,
and say evermore,
"Great is the Lord,
who delights in the welfare of his servant!"
Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness
and of thy praise all the day long.
– Bishop Rene Henry Gracida
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Paul smiled at the boy whom he had known only a few short weeks, but whom he already loved as a son. "Was Our Lord afraid of danger?" he asked mildly. "Did He run away from suffering?"
"Then why should we - His followers?'
"But that different! Jesus was the Son of God - the Messias! While you and Barnabas..."
"We're only men?"
Paul put his hand on Timothy's shoulder. "But doesn't the Holy Spirit dwell within us, Timothy? The Holy Spirit whom the Father sent from Heaven to strengthen and console us in our trouble?"
Timothy was silent. And abruptly Paul began to speak about Jesus Christ. What was life for, if not to spend in loving and serving Him. What was there without Him but emptiness? An emptiness that made for misery and boredom, that made even the slightest pain something to be avoided, and death the worst of all loses.
"To work for the Lord, and to die for Him? That is the most glorious thing that can happen to a person! Timothy! Don't you understand?"
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It's Hickory-Grove City Round 3, and this time it's for the District 10 Class 3A championship.
Hickory has won both matchups of Mercer County foes this season, 41-21 on Sept. 11 and 28-7 on Oct. 7.
Quarterback Michael Henwood was brilliant for Hickory (7-0) in both matchups, throwing for a combined 576 yards.
Grove City (4-3), meanwhile, is coming in with a ton of confidence, having blanked previously unbeaten Fort LeBoeuf in the semifinal round, 30-0.
In that game, the Eagles' ground game was terrific, led by Curtis Hovis, who rushed for 216 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
HIckory, the top seed, is coming off a 51-0 drubbing of Slippery Rock.
In that game, Henwood rushed for 194 yards and two touchdowns and threw for another 180 and a score, while Clay Wiesen had 151 yards and two touchdowns.
The winner will face the Bedford-Central winner next week in the PIAA quarterfinals.
Here's a look at how the teams match up.
Hickory Offense (40.3 ppg.)
Henwood has put together a truly special season. The senior signal-caller has completed 64 percent of his passes for 1,698 yards, 18 touchdowns and nine interceptions. On the ground, he averages 11.4 yards per carry, rushing for 727 yards and 11 touchdowns.
The offensive line has been excellent and the playmakers at Henwood's disposal have been equally impressive.
Ramarion Whitehead has been his go-to receiver, with 44 receptions for 859 yards and seven touchdowns. Rocco Iacino (18-33-3) and Matt Cannone (16-245-6) are also big-play threats.
In addition to Henwood, Wiesen has racked up 527 yards and four touchdowns on the ground.
Grove City Offense (23.1 ppg.)
Grove City has a talented quarterback of its own in Logan Breese. In fact, Breese and Henwood both went over 3,000 career passing yards earlier this season. For 2020, Breese has completed 60 percent of his passes for 839 yards and eight touchdowns.
Anthony Pereira is his No. 1 receiver with 33 receptions for 528 yards and six scores. Also watch out for Gavin Lutz (23-202-1).
On the ground, Hovis is coming off the monster game against LeBoeuf. For the season, he has rushed for 708 yards and six scores.
Hickory Defense (11.3 ppg.)
The Hornet defense has been superb, and it's anchored by Iacino and Jackson Pryts, who both have 88 tackles, Iacinio with 10 for loss and three sacks and Pryts with 11 stops behind the line of scrimmage. Also anchoring the unit are Dalton Beatty (64 tackles, 4 sacks), Cannone (3 interceptions) and Henwood (2 interceptions).
Grove City Defense (19.1 ppg.)
The Grove City defense is coming off its best performance of the season, anchored by talented senior Zach Martin. For the season, Martin leads the team with 88 tackles, including a whopping 21 behind the line of scrimmage. Hovis and Cole Hammerman lead with four sacks each, while Hovis also has 48 tackles and Zach Rodgers a pair of interceptions.
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Action in Distress (AID) Foundation
"Towards the Resoration of Human Dignity"
About UsAction in Distress (AID) Foundation is a Nigeria-based independent, non-governmental, nonprofit Organization. We are officially registered with the Nigeria Corporate Affairs Commission with Certificate Number RC673771. Inspired by Fr. Joseph Wresinski of the International ATD Fourth World Movement and Mother Teresa of Calcutta and founded in 2006, the Organization was formally "Friends of the Fourth World". We are committed to serving the world's poorest, particularly women and young people.
A World in which everyone's voice, including the vulnerable, is heard and respected. We are committed to offering safe, respectful space for young people and vulnerable women to recognize their goals, dreams and desires and live by their highest potentials. As we empower women and young people, we strengthen families and transform communities.
Our Mission
Action in Distress (AID) Foundation is a Nigeria-based nonprofit that was founded in 2006 to meet the critical needs of women and young people in Nigeria. We are dedicated to creating comprehensive long-term solutions that provide our target audience with real opportunities for genuine personal development and credible alternatives to violence, crime and delinquency while seeking to address the underlying conditions conducive to self-destructive life styles. Action in Distress (AID) Foundation seeks to establish partnerships and alliances to promote the rights of individuals, families, groups and communities. Our primary targets are women and Young people.
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Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation is a peer-reviewed, semiannual (May and November), open access journal, which covers original scientific manuscripts, published by UCTEA Chamber of Surveying and Cadastre Engineers, Turkey. In parallel with the scientific and technological developments, Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation publishes researches and studies about geomatic engineering and related interdisciplinary sciences.
The journal was first published in 1965 under the name of "Harita ve Kadastro Mühendisliği Dergisi", and then named as "hkm Jeodezi, Jeoinformasyon ve Arazi Yönetimi Dergisi" from 2003 to 2011. In 2012, the journal was called as "Jeodezi ve Jeoinformasyon Dergisi", and it has been published until today.
For the Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation, the manuscript submission is now available from https://dergipark.org.tr/hkmojjd. The publication language of the manuscript is in Turkish or English. The Journal makes the similarity check to all submitted manuscripts for avoiding plagiarism. The plagiarism check percentage should not exceed 25%.
The Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation, which aims to reach both scientists and professional engineers with the original scientific studies, has been indexed in ULAKBIM TR DIZIN since 2019.
We would like to inform our readers and authors.
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Limited edition James Bond illustrations by Barnett Plotkin
A selection of limited edition James Bond giclee prints created by Barnett Plotkin are available to order at www.jamesbondillustrations.com.
Originally created between 1979 and 1981, these 007 illustrations graced the covers of the US Jove paperback editions of the following Ian Fleming novels:
- Casino Royale
- Live and Let Die
- Moonraker
- Diamonds are Forever
- From Russia with Love
- Doctor No
- Goldfinger
- For Your Eyes Only
These illustrations were then reintroduced into the world of James Bond last year when they were reproduced as stamps (along with several other popular styles of 007 covers) by The Royal Mail of England and Wales in Honor of Fleming's centenary.
Born and raised in Valley Stream, New York, Barnett Plotkin went on to study at Pratt Institute in New York City, graduating in 1952 with a major in illustration and two years post-graduate study in figure painting. He has worked in the field of commercial illustration for the past 50 years; this has included medical illustration.
Experimentation with varied media and styles has often inspired some of his most eclectic and satisfying work, without the constrictions associated with the commericail field. Among his many clients have been Wrangler Jeans, Citibank, Prudential, IBM, Swingline, Hunts Foods, US Steel, P. Lorillard, Medical Economics, The Franklin Library, and Bantam, Jove, Fawcett., Harlequin and NAL paperbacks.
Barnett Plotkin is a life member of the Society of Illustrators and the 1984 past chairman of their internationally-acclaimed Annual Show. His work was included in "The Art and Culture of the American Labor Movement," which opened in 1983 in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, and traveled throughout the major capitals of Western Europe for several years. The artwork was originally inspired for a division of Wrangler Jeans and was most recently seen in a group show at the Smithtown Arts Council, Smithtown, New York and at a retrospective at the Society of Illustrators, New York City. It was described by the NY Times as "the embodiment of power without the need for words." Newsday wrote, "appealing in its very overtness." Many of his portraits, landscapes, and drawings are in private collections.
In 1997, Barnett Plotkin was honored by Nassau County, New York along with William Baldwin and Susan Isaacs as their favorite artists, actors and writers of the year.
He has been a member of the US Air Force Art Program since 1968, and his work has been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York, The Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., The Pentagon, Andrews Air Force Base, and Dayton Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
In September 1999, The Society of Illustrators elected him Chairman of Government Services, with the Air Force Art Program being the major contributor.
Plotkin's illustrations for Casino Royale, From Russia with Love, Doctor No, Goldfinger and For Your Eyes Only are available to order as 20″ x 30″ unframed prints. Each is a limited edition of 250 and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Cost is $395.00 per print (plus shipping and handling).
Keep your eyes on the CommanderBond.net main page for all the latest literary 007 coverage.


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Mumbai, March 20 (PTI): The rupee on Wednesday recovered by 13 paise to close at 68.83 against the US dollar amid sustained buying by foreign investors in domestic equity markets and lower crude prices.
However, the local currency remained cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve policy decision Wednesday.
Brokers said foreign fund inflows in the debt and equity markets helped the rupee recover. However, the dollar's strength overseas capped the gain, they added.
At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex), the domestic currency opened lower at 69.11 a dollar and gained to touch the day's high of 68.72. It finally settled at 68.83 per dollar, up 13 paise over its previous close.
The rupee on Tuesday had slipped by 43 paise to close at 68.96 against the dollar.
On a net basis, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) bought shares worth a net of INR 1,771.61 crore on Wednesday, while Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) were net sellers to the tune of INR 1,323.17 crore, provisional data available with BSE showed.
The dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, surged 0.07 per cent to 96.44, ahead of the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.
Meanwhile, brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading at USD 67.39 per barrel, lower by 0.33 per cent.
On the equity front, the 30-share Sensex continued its winning run for the eighth consecutive session Wednesday.
The 30-share index closed at 38,386.75, registering a rise of 23.28 points, or 0.06 per cent. However, the 50-share Nifty ended 11.35 points, or 0.10 per cent, lower at 11,521.05.
Meanwhile, Financial Benchmark India Private Ltd (FBIL) set the reference rate for the rupee/dollar at 68.8604 and for rupee/euro at 78.1446. The reference rate for rupee/British pound was fixed at 91.2846 and for rupee/100 Japanese yen at 61.72.


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Well, that was not ideal! The good thing, though, is that our friends from Oxford set the bar so low for disappointment earlier in the day that a 49-34 loss that wasn't really that close doesn't feel all that bad! Thanks, Hugh!
Mississippi State started slow against the Tech triple option tonight, and despite a miraculous finish to the first half, they simply weren't able to slow down the ground game as Georgia Tech rolled up 452 yards rushing. The dive play KILLED MSU, and I simple felt hopeless (as I'm sure Benardrick did on the field) watching as they ran it over, and over, and over, and over: each time working just as well as the last. And that slow, methodical driving was only interrupted by big plays by GT QB Justin Thomas who was just one of two Tech players with three touchdowns on the night. Enough wallowing in this misery, here's three things we learned tonight and then I'm out to go yell at my neighbor kids for shooting too many fireworks.
Three things we learned
1. So, that triple option... As I typed this up, Georgia Tech just ran the dive for another eight-yard gain. Seriously, what an impressive thing to witness when it's working at full capacity. Unfortunately we were watching it happen against us, but still, the triple option was impressive tonight. Mississippi State seemed to have things figured out -- relative at least to how they defended the option for the first quarter -- but in the second half, Paul Johnson did what he did best. Tech shifted to a simple dive play, and MSU absolutely could not stop it, as Tech ran obliterated State's defense in the second half, eventually pulling away. The Yellow Jackets finished with -- let me pause here for emphasis -- FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY TWO YARDS RUSHING. Yes, you read that correctly. That was the name of the game as MSU simply couldn't stop them and couldn't keep up the pace on offense themselves. Well done, GT.
2. So long, Josh Robinson earlier today we found out that tonight's game would be Josh Robinson's last in a maroon and white uniform, and I'm more than sad to see him go. He was a huge part of State's success this season, and he will leave big (bowling) shoes to fill in 2015. Even with this being his last game, unfortunately MSU never worked him into the gameplan, as he finished his final collegiate game with 75 yards rushing and no touchdowns. Nevertheless, thank you Josh for everything.
3. MSU's offense has a bright future in 2015 It became apparently at a certain point in the second half that MSU was not going to win. Tech was two touchdowns up, and the way they were working on offense, State was never going to stop them when they eventually got the ball back. That meant that the rest of the game for State was all about putting up some more yards to cap things off, and they were able to do so, scoring 14 points in the final quarter to close the final gap to 15. MSU actually out-gained GT 605-577, but they turned the ball over twice in the early going that wound up proving costly.
There were some positives to take away on offense, starting with Fred Ross. Ross has a really, really good game, highlighted by this hail mary catch as time expired before halftime:
He would finish with 102 yards receiving and the touchdown. Bear Wilson and Joe Morrow (who had a really good game) joined him with 100+ yards on the night as the Bulldogs passed for 453 yards total. The best part about all those numbers is that all three of those guys and Dak will be back next year. Yes, MSU will have to fill some gaps up front, but the bulk of the specialty players will return next year, providing for a LOT of optimism going into next fall for us State fans.
Look, this obviously isn't how you want to cap off a great season. MSU stumbled down the finish after a 9-0 start, but overall, this was a really, really great year. There is a lot of young talent returning, and with the right defensive coordinator hire, this team could push to be at the top of the polls again next year. We've had a taste of it and now we want more. Thanks to Dan, Dak, all the seniors, and the entire team for a fun 2014 campaign.
Hail State.


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I hit up some climbing last weekend with Pete and Crystal pre-polo. We went to Cathole in Meriden and after I quickly ran up Saturday night special and Millions of dead dogs, I gave pete my gear. He laced up Golden book, Crystal followed, and then we set up mindbender. (here's a picture of some random dude at the crux of mindbender). Mindbender is a tough route. The top has this short out-jutting roof that's mildly intimidating – especially since the corner is reasonably exposed. The holds are solid and I'm sure there's a way to do it really smoothly, though my attempt was very sloppy.
I guess you can lead it, as is evidenced by that guy in that photo. I think it'd be fun to learn the moves a bit more and give leading it a shot. I think I'd want to get a bit more comfortable with the climb first though.
Anyway, This upcoming weekend should be decent. Tonight I'm meeting up with some pals in Rhode Island for an Astronomy night. We're going to the Frosty Drew Observatory. I suspect great times. Saturday there might be a pool party (pool party?!?!) and Sunday some calm before next week's work storm.


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On the Significance of the Denial of LGBT Rights
LGBT people are constantly discriminated against all over the world, whether that be within the society of a certain place or whether that be the denial of certain rights and services from a government. Despite last year's legalization of same-gender marriage, we still have a lot to accomplish.
Dear Next President,
At the end of the year 1950, homosexuals in America were considered a security risk because their identity was deemed a mental illness. On June 26, 2015 Americans received the right to marry who they wish regardless of their sexual orientation. This is what progress looks like, but it is not where it stops. Despite this country's progress in the last 66 years with LGBT rights, there are still many deeply rooted societal issues preventing the acceptance of LGBT people into American society.
As a nearly seventeen year old transgender and bisexual student and citizen of the United States, I have seen, been affected by, and experienced discrimination against myself, and against my fellow LGBT students and teenagers. It is no secret that people are denied service in restaurants, denied the ability to adopt a child, and denied their jobs because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. I will not keep it a secret that I have feared for my safety when I enter a gender specific public bathroom because I did not know how I would be perceived by the people inside. I will not pretend that I do not wait to call someone a friend and trust them until I know that they will accept and respect my identity.
I will also not hide that it is the duty of this country to provide freedom to all - all - of its people, to make sure all people receive the same protections and privileges from the government as everyone else. Mr. or Mrs. President, I am writing to you not to beg for my rights or my family's rights or my friend's rights or my neighbor's rights, but to ask for an increased urgency on the rights and freedoms of the American LGBT community. From my own perspective, it appears that our federal government has lacked the motivation to pass social protections for LGBT individuals as many states still continue to deny LGBT people services and make daily living a struggle by legally discriminating against them.
There is no reason for there to be a hesitation in giving LGBT people the same rights as other people. There is no justified reason for preventing LGBT people from participating in the same social activities as their straight and cisgender (someone who identifies with the gender they were given at birth) counterparts. Adopting a child or finding a job or getting a place to live shouldn't be more difficult than they already are, and there's no reason to make them more challenging for specific groups of people.
American people have a voice in our government and a say on what happens in their own lives; it is why this country was founded. LGBT people have a voice too, and though our government does not take away our ability to voice our opinions and experiences, and to ask for equal protections and rights, it does diminish our ability to be heard. We are denied the ability to change our gender on our birth certificate, or have people refusing to let us adopt children when, according to AdoptUSKids.org, there are over 100,000 children ready to be adopted. We are not only neglected by our government and denied rights which other people have, but people who agree that LGBT people do not deserve these rights have their views validated by a high authority, and that puts the LGBT community in danger.
LGBT rights and protections do not need to be given out all at once, as it might cause a lack of care for each right and allow there to be loopholes for people to fall through and continue to discriminate. Not to mention, also, that it is a huge step forward for society, and it may be too quick of a step for everyone to adjust to properly. With this, though, LGBT rights and protections should still be verified at a constant rate. We should not have to wait a long time to receive our human rights. Why can't transgender people use the bathroom that matches their gender? Why can't LGBT couples adopt? As aforementioned, there should be no hesitation in giving LGBT people their rights. There's no reason for it.
Many people in the United States, including politicians, believe that LGBT people should not have the right to marry - despite its legality - or adopt or join military services or even keep their jobs or get one in the first place. It is believed by some people that homosexuality is a mental illness, and the same can be thought of transgender people. LGBT people are seen as other, unnatural, as "it" or as attention seekers. Many deeply religious people see LGBT people as sinners. These people specifically have had an effect on the rise of Religious Restoration Acts in certain states which protect the people's right to practice their religion, and many have given people the right to deny LGBT people service based on religious beliefs.
I want to propose a hypothetical situation for you, Mr. or Mrs. President: imagine if you yourself were LGBT. Imagine that you went to a pizza shop in Indiana with your same-gender partner, the employee noticed that you were in a homosexual relationship, and because of this decided not to serve you a simple slice of pizza. It's just pizza, and yet you are denied this simple service because of the beliefs that the server has on your sexual orientation, which is unrelated to eating pizza. This is a simple example, but how would you feel? What would be going through your head if you had the intention of getting pizza, but instead left with a new story to add to your list of discriminatory experiences?
LGBT people are not all regularly denied pizza, but we are regularly faced with the reality of prejudice. Many people - to add on to the previously mentioned beliefs - want to assume that LGBT people have more rights than they really do. According to a 2013 poll by YouGov, almost 70% of people believe it to be illegal to fire someone for being LGBT despite the fact that it is, in fact, legal. This perhaps may be a reason why America is taking so long to give us our basic civil and human rights. People, including government officials, believe the LGBT people have these rights already.
It is evident that we are actively trying to give LGBT people their deserved rights and protections. Though sometimes it feels like it is only the LGBT people speaking out against the lack of a right or protection, rather than how the government is working on a bill or law preventing some of the discrimination against LGBT people.
These protections are working their way into our society at a dangerously slow pace. LGBT people continuously are at risk for harassment, suicide, and homelessness. We are still unable to adopt, use the right bathrooms, and be ourselves in public. This denial or lack of rights validates the ideas many people possess which are against LGBT people. This validation endangers LGBT individuals as these people become more likely to want to express their thoughts publicly. Perhaps in order to further protect people from LGBT-based discrimination, we can pass more laws and protections for LGBT people and influence people to show us the most basic respects.
We need to progress further in LGBT rights in this country, and progress quicker. Recent progress such as the acceptance of transgender people in the military, and the Department of Defense laying out the responsibilities of military servants and transgender members - contrary to deeming it a mental or physical defect - is a great example of what LGBT rights and protections should look like. If we can layout what workplace discrimination looks like and outlaw it, or engender an understanding of the transgender identity in lawmakers, we can give protections to transgender people using gender specific public bathrooms. We can accomplish so much needed progress for the LGBT community through education and close examination.
Many people like to make assumptions about what it's like to be LGBT in a time when you can never tell who will accept you or be discriminatory. However, as an LGBT person myself, I can attest to many experiences and realities which many people in the LGBT community face daily. Almost any LGBT person can tell you an instance when they have heard or read something that a person has said that is discriminatory. It's a problem that this is such a common prejudice and such an accepted belief. Why should I, or any LGBT person have to feel lesser or inferior to straight and cisgender people because of who we are and of something we cannot control?
I will not beg for my rights, but I will do everything I can, Mr. or Mrs. President, to convince you and the rest of the United States government that LGBT issues are real issues, and that "gay rights are human rights." And so I leave you with many ideas to think about, and to consider how they affect so much of the country. I ask you to reflect on how putting off LGBT rights may affect the country. What will happen if we continue to validate the prejudiced views against gay and transgender citizens? How will they affect me? How will they affect you?
Sincerely and respectfully,
Jack B.K.


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Art museums often mount high-resolution images from their collections with reliable metadata and downloading rights on their websites. Sometimes these images do not appear in other places because they are in databases or because of naming differences.
If you know the name of the museum, start there. If not, often searching the country and "art museum" will bring up a core list.
Among the best are:
Several countries host combined collection of the art work from their country.
Historic ("monuments of art") Collections