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First and foremost, Croatia is stunning. From the rugged interior, to its gorgeous National Parks, especially Plitvice Lakes, to the world famous Dalmatian Coast, Croatia has it all including amazing food - very Italian-like. It's a little subcontinent all by itself.
When I was a kid, I remember watching famous basketball players like Drazen Petrovic come to the US to play in the NBA and I remember watching Goran Ivanisevic win Wimbledon and bring a nation to ecstasy in national pride. I remember thinking; there is a place I want to visit - and I didn't even know anything else about it.
Well, now I've visited three times and have been all over the country and it's true, the people are very prideful and rightfully so. They are so welcoming and warm to guests. I have always felt so welcome in Croatia from the capital of Zagreb to the famous old towns of Dubrovnik and Split.
I was in Split in 2004; which is a magical town in and of itself. I will never forget meeting a local woman in a coffee shop who simply struck up a conversation with me because I clearly wasn't Croatian and she was curious about me.
She asked me many questions and was truly fascinated about how and why I was traveling to Croatia to see the country and learn about the people and the culture and see for myself what I had seen on TV since I was a child. She said she wished she could do that and she was afraid to go away from her parents' home and do anything against their wishes.
I told her that she has to make herself happy before she can make anyone else happy and we just chatted about travel, life and anything really for about an hour or so. We exchanged emails, smiled, and that was it.
A few months later I got an email and she told me that my conversation with her had inspired her to move out of her parents house, get a new job and she even went traveling in Europe for a few months. I was elated that she let me know and will never forget that woman.
I know this is a personal story but that's what I think of when I think of Croatia - aside from the obvious beautiful scenery and gorgeous coastline and islands. I think about a people that are so in love with the world and with other people that they take such an interest in you and apply it to their lives. I always say that Croatia is two-way tourism. You visit Croatia and the Croatian people visit you! I cannot wait to go back to Croatia; it's been too long!
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I'm constantly challenging my christian friends with these evil bible quotes, they always tell me the same thing, why do you quote only from old testament? Is this common with christians? Its almost like they admit old testament is bullshit but new testament is fine. Can you people help me with evil quotes from new testament or is it somewhat less crazy compared to old?


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Had Richard Sherman's four-game suspension been upheld last week, the Seattle Seahawks cornerback would be watching Sunday's playoff matchup against the Washington Redskins from his couch.
Sherman's suspension was overturned after an arbiter ruled the collection procedure was compromised by a leaky specimen cup. When Redskins linebacker Lorenzo Alexander was asked Friday if Sherman should be on the field this weekend, teammate Kedric Golston leaned over from his locker and interjected himself into the conversation.
"He's a cheater," Golston told USA Today before walking away.
Following Golston's hit-and-run, Alexander gave a response that, while more measured, told you where he stood on the matter.
"It is what it is," Alexander said. "I don't know what his total case and background of it is, or about the paperwork he did. He was doing Adderall, Ritalin, the same thing that (Redskins cornerback) Cedric (Griffin) was doing, I believe. I know there's a (testing) procedure you have to do, and even then, they can still hit you for it. It is what it is."
Griffin served a four-game PED suspension that concluded Sunday.
The Redskins would be far better off this weekend if Sherman were missing in action. The second-year pro has emerged as one of the game's best young corners, and with Brandon Browner back from his own PED suspension, Robert Griffin III will be throwing into a dangerous Seahawks secondary playing at full strength.
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Does Bernie Sanders Support Legalizing All Drugs?
Is Bernie Sanders on board with legalizing not just marijuana but other drugs like cocaine and heroin?
"We need to have an understanding that prohibition against alcohol did not work in the 1920s, and prohibition against marijuana and other drugs is not working today," he said on Friday. "So it has to be rethought in a very, very fundamental way."
Decrying the "insanity of this so-called war on drugs," the independent senator from Vermont said that "if we're serous about understanding a failed and collapsing criminal justice system, ending the war on drugs is an important part of it."
He made the comments during a live discussion broadcast on his Facebook page:
Generally decrying the failure of the "war on drugs" is not an uncommon refrain for major politicians these days, but Sanders's specific reference to the failure of "prohibition" of drugs beyond cannabis suggests that he might be in favor of allowing the use and regulated production of more currently illegal substances.
And it isn't the first time that the senator, who became the first major presidential candidate to endorse marijuana legalization during his 2016 bid, has appeared to call for the end of prohibition of non-cannabis drugs.
In a 1972 letter, he seemed to endorse broader legalization, writing:
"There are entirely too many laws that regulate human behavior. Let us abolish all laws which attempt to impose a particular brand of morality or 'right' on people. Let's abolish all laws dealing with…drugs…"
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who campaigned on a drug policy reform platform and after the election moved to drop pending marijuana cases, was also part of the Facebook discussion with Sanders.
Earlier this year, Sanders launched a petition saying that the "criminal justice system is not the answer to drug abuse," but it did not explicitly call for drug legalization.
More recently, he signed on as a cosponsor of Senate legislation to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and withhold federal funding from states with discriminatory cannabis enforcement.
Bernie Sanders Backs Bill To Punish States With Bad Marijuana Laws
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Kentucky GOP Congressman Touts 'High Hemp IQ' Of His Constituents
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) says that he proved his political advisors wrong when he decided to champion hemp legalization.
When he served as Kentucky's Agriculture Commissioner before joining Congress and first contemplated "making hemp a reality," he was told that people would conflate the crop with marijuana and he'd face a backlash, Comer said during an interview that aired this week.
"They said the people of Kentucky will never know the difference. They'll think you're talking about marijuana and you're done," he said during the Kentucky Educational Television appearance. "You can't be a Republican and do this."
"But people in Kentucky are smarter than some people give us credit for, and the people in Kentucky knew the history of hemp," he said, noting that his own grandparents cultivated the crop.
"We have a high hemp IQ in Kentucky, and people across America are now learning the difference between hemp and marijuana."
One of the areas that Comer said he hopes to see expanded is the use of hemp fibers to create products such as furniture and car parts. He mentioned one example of a Kentucky company that's creating hardwood flooring out of hemp, and House Agriculture Committee Chair Collin Peterson (D-MN) is going to tour that facility with him soon.
Shortly before becoming the panel's chair, Peterson said he was considering growing hemp on his own farm.
Most of the existing hemp facilities in Kentucky are producing CBD oil, which Comer said he also takes to treat minor pain.
While hemp and its derivatives were federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill, businesses are still awaiting guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And that regulatory uncertainty has led some financial institutions to deny credit lines to hemp companies.
To that end, Comer said he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are working closely to resolve the problem. That includes pushing for the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which would protect banks that service state-legal cannabis businesses from being penalized by federal financial regulators.
"We teamed up with the marijuana people in the states," Comer said.
Watch Comer's hemp comments, starting around 5:30 into the video below:
"They've legalized marijuana. They're selling marijuana. They're not allowed to deposit the cash. They're not allowed to take credit card transactions at those marijuana stores," he said. "We have worked with them to try to create a system where you can have financial transparency, and that bill is making its way through Congress now."
The SAFE Banking Act was approved by the House Financial Services Committee in March. And on Tuesday, the Senate Banking Committee took advocates by surprise after it announced that it would hold a hearing on marijuana banking issues next week, with just days left before the August recess.
Separately, the Senate Agriculture Committee will meet to discuss hemp production two days later.
McConnell has been an especially vocal advocate for hemp and CBD. For example, he led the head of USDA on a tour of a Kentucky hemp facility that produces CBD oil earlier this month.
Comer also claimed in the new interview that large pharmaceutical companies feel threatened by hemp-derived CBD as more consumers gravitate toward it as a "natural supplement" that could be a substitute for prescription painkillers.
"Now what you are having up here in Washington as we speak, the big drug companies are like, 'Wow, people are buying this CBD oil and not buying our drug,'" the congressman said. "So they're demanding that the FDA regulate it."
He and McConnell are working to "keep the FDA off the backs of people," Comer said.
While former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stressed that creating a regulatory pathway that allows for the lawful marketing of CBD as a food item or dietary supplement would take years without congressional action, the agency recently said that it is speeding up the rulemaking process and will issue a progress report by early fall.
USDA similarly recognized the intense interest from lawmakers and stakeholders in developing regulations for the crop, and it plans to issue an interim final rule for the crop in August.
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Psychedelics Decriminalization Moves Forward In Cities Around The U.S.
Activists in Berkeley, California and Port Townsend, Washington took steps this week to get psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelics decriminalized, following in the footsteps of successful similar efforts in Denver and Oakland.
In Berkeley, a decriminalization resolution advanced in a City Council committee on Wednesday, and organizers in Port Townsend spoke about their proposal at a county public health board meeting on Thursday, with plans to formally present it to the City and County Council.
The Berkeley measure would prohibit city departments and law enforcement from using any funds to enforce laws against possession, propagation and consumption of psychedelics by individuals 21 or older. Members of the City Council Public Safety committee unanimously voted to send the resolution to the body's Public Health Committee for further consideration.
If that panel approves the measure, the full Council will schedule a hearing and vote on final passage. Decriminalize Nature, the group behind this resolution as well as the successful passage of neighboring Oakland's psychedelics decriminalization effort last month, said they hope the Council will act on the measure by early November.
Separately, activists in Port Townsend announced that they delivered a speech about their psychedelics decriminalization proposal during a meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Health.
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Today we gave our speech to the Port Townsend County Board of Public Health! We are overwhelmed by the support of our community. Our group of supporters filled up half the audience. We are currently making plans to speak with the county health officer to talk about next steps in presenting in front of city and county council. Much gratitude 🙏 free the plants 🌱✨💖 #freetheplants #plantmedicine #mushrooms #ayahuasca #peyote #heal #pnw #porttownsend #endwarondrugs
Beyond prohibiting the use of government funds to criminalize adults for using and possessing the substances, the local Washington resolution also calls on the city administrator to "instruct the City's state and federal lobbyists to work in support of decriminalizing all Entheogenic Plants and plant-based compounds that are listed on the Federal Controlled Substances Schedule 1."
"We are overwhelmed by the support of our community. Our group of supporters filled up half the audience," the Port Townsend Psychedelic Society said in an Instagram post. "We are currently making plans to speak with the county health officer to talk about next steps in presenting in front of city and county council."
Alex Williams, who is leading the decriminalization effort in Berkeley, told Marijuana Moment that Wednesday's Council committee meeting there "went better than I had anticipated" and that he feels "there is an excellent chance of the resolution passing."
Watch the Berkeley Public Safety Committee discuss psychedelics, starting at about 42:00:
While Williams said two members of the committee seemed to be under the impression that the resolution is singularly geared toward recreational use and meant to "capitalize on a new market," Decriminalize Nature plans to address those misconceptions, emphasizing that the measure would not provide for commercial manufacturing or sales and that "this process is very important to allowing safe, equitable access to marginalized communities."
"It is essential that entheogenic substances be treats as sacred spiritual practices and healers," he added.
The resolution defines entheogenic substances as "plants and natural sources such as mushrooms, cacti, iboga containing plants and/or extracted combinations of plants similar to ayahuasca; and limited to those containing the following types of compounds: indoleamines, tryptamines, phenethylamines."
Two Councilmembers, Rigel Robinson and Cheryl Davila, are sponsoring the measure.
"You can imagine a day where, years from now, doctors working with patients with serious depression or veterans dealing with PTSD could actually offer them a more realistic and comprehensive suite of potential treatments, which may include some of these plants as the research over the last several decades has indicated," Robinson said at the meeting.
While Berkeley might seem like an obvious target for psychedelics reform given the city's decades-long close association with counterculture, the movement to remove criminal penalties is gaining steam nationally. Decriminalize Nature is maintaining a map of jurisdictions throughout the country where activists have expressed interest in pursuing a similar model.
Time to update the outreach board! Close to 100 locations have reached out now, some already speaking with their City Councilmembers. Great job everyone! #DecriminalizeNature #yourcity #DNUSA pic.twitter.com/D7lbCpdi3c
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Also this week, a resident spoke at a Columbia, Missouri City Council meeting, asking the body to consider a resolution to decriminalize psychedelics. At least one councilmember expressed interest in following through, and he called the therapeutic potential of the natural substances "very promising."
Individuals from nearly 100 cities have reached out to the organization for assistance advancing their own decriminalization efforts.
Voters in Denver kicked things off by approving the nation's first-ever ballot measure to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in May.
Activists are currently pursuing efforts to place psilocybin-focused measures on statewide ballots in California and Oregon for next year.
More Than 100 Marijuana Businesses Urge Congress To Include Social Equity In Legalization
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Top Democratic Party Leader Flops With Attempted Joke About Trump Smoking Hemp
The chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) apparently thinks that hemp gets you high—and that getting high makes you dumb.
In an attempted dig at President Donald Trump, who said last week that farmers struggling amid a trade war were "over the hump," DNC Chair Tom Perez said he thought the president "was smoking some hemp when he said they were over the hump."
"If you smoke some hemp, I guess that would stimulate certain farm economies here," he added during his remarks at a press conference in Wisconsin.
Watch Perez's hemp comment at about 6:45 into the video below:
Because hemp contains only trace amounts of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, it wouldn't get you high, as Perez implied. But legalization advocates say it's especially problematic that a party leader is treating marijuana as a laughing matter in the first place.
"I would need to be smoking something a hell of a lot stronger than hemp to find Tom Perez's weak attempt at a marijuana joke funny," Erik Altieri, executive director of NORML, told Marijuana Moment.
"At a time when over 600,000 overwhelmingly black and brown Americans are still being arrested every year for simple possession, our failed and racist prohibition is no laughing matter," he said. "While we have made great progress in winning elected officials nationwide to our cause, Perez illustrated that we have a lot of work left to do when it comes educating them about the issue and still a bit of a road to go down before we can stop dealing with dad jokes and bad weed puns."
Don Murphy, director of federal policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, echoed that point.
"We need more leadership and action at the federal level, not more stupid jokes, puns and inaccurate comments about hemp's ability to get you high," he told Marijuana Moment. "Luckily that is something that many of his party's presidential candidates understand," he said. "Sadly, Mr. Perez does not."
Perez's position on cannabis policy isn't quite clear, as he's remained largely silent on the issue. In contrast, many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning on broad marijuana reform proposals.
The DNC chair made his attempted hemp quip during a press availability in Milwaukee, where he is meeting donors and coordinating preparation for next year's Democratic National Convention.
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Yes I know I've been silent for too long. The newspapers are full of elephants in the room from attempted murders in upstate New York to our own local TV program Wonderland and now this secret meeting at the buffoon's headquarters. But I've got some hungry mouths to feed and writing is not my day job. I'd like to say I wish it was but it would mean procrastinating in front of a blank screen for most of the day which isn't something I relish.
Anyhow, for the moment, can someone enlighten us about the above notice? It is intriguing to say the least. European Aguda calls a meeting which it is only hosting but not convening or endorsing or something like that. The venue is the Joe's headquarters in order to prevent unnecessary publicity. Joe of course being chair of the UK Aguda. On the agenda are issues like shechita, cemeteries, shortage of places at educational institutions (is the 'rabbi' invited? he should be able to assist) Reform Jewry and the chareidi press, you know the press that hasn't so far reported about the meeting. And yet we're not allowed to know about it. Not that anyone cares but that's another matter.
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Reactor data hint at existence of fourth neutrinoA nuclear reactor experiment in China is providing new hints that a fourth type of neutrino, one more than the standard model of physics allows, may exist.
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BOOK REVIEW: The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack
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Lighting the universeScientists rethink what the first stars were like and how they formed.
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Messages from MercuryThe latest data from a NASA spacecraft give compositional clues and reveal craters that could hold frozen water
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(Rolling Stone) -- Prince gave fair warning last night somewhere between his second and third encores. "Don't make me hurt you – you know how many hits I have?" he asked the crowd packed into La Zona Rosa in Austin as SXSW drew to a close.
Enough that he didn't get to them all. Not even close, in fact, though he performed for two hours and 40 minutes, returning to the stage time and again for six or seven encores in all. At a festival where special guests and counterintuitive collaborations are the currency of much-coveted buzz, Prince relied on himself – and on a band that was tighter than a Marine Corps top sheet.
As much jam session for the NPG as it was a concert, Prince sang, danced, played a little piano and was generous in spotlighting his backing musicians, who included 11 horn players, two guitarists, a bass player, a drummer, a percussionist and a host of vocalists. The only thing Prince didn't do was play guitar, but then "Purple Rain" didn't include the outro guitar solo, either.
He was probably just too busy directing the show, as if sampling and savoring each ingredient and adjusting to taste. The songs rarely seemed to start or stop, only to shift and flow in new directions as "Shhh" became "Musicology," which transformed into "Extra Lovable," with bursts of brass tumbling over Prince's vocals. The band did the same thing without him during instrumental sections, sliding from tight, funky soul laced with horns into an impressionistic jazz-tinted section that featured a horn solo, followed by a ripping guitar break.
They stretched out on "Purple Rain," and Prince urged the crowd to sing wordless vocals in place of the guitar solo, and reflected on his career choice. "I love being a musician," he said. "It feels like a servant. A servant for you."
That song ended a 50-minute main set that began with the horn players taking the stage by parading through the crowd like a New Orleans second line, and also included a ringing burst of synths and horns on "1999." For the string of encores, Prince pulled out covers of songs by Curtis Mayfield, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, and soul and funk workouts "like we do in Minneapolis." He dipped into Morris Day and the Time's catalog with "Jungle Love," played Sheila E.'s hit "The Glamorous Life" (which Prince wrote) and unearthed his own rarity, "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)," singing anguished lyrics accompanied by piano on a darkened stage.
Finally, as the clock ticked toward 3 a.m., Prince wrapped up, even as diehards called for one more song.
A Tribe Called Quest opened the show with a set of songs that included "Can I Kick It," "Bonita Applebum" and "Award Tour." The show, dubbed "The Next Big Thing," was presented by Samsung, which gave away 200 tickets to people who used the company's tablet-like Galaxy cell phone to complete an 11-item scavenger hunt around Austin.


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An SEC roundtable on market stability, which is taking place in Washington Tuesday, has already generated a very rare joint letter by the major stock exchanges that proposes creating a "kill switch" in an effort to control runaway algorithms, among other issues.
The exchanges are recognizing that there is a big hole in their risk management system: the presence of single-stock circuit breakers and "clearly erroneous" trading rules that allow the exchanges to bust bad trades did not prevent the kind of runaway algorithm generated by Knight Capital on August 1. (Read more: Hendelman: 'Flash' Trading & Restoring Trust)


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Austin: What to Eat at the SouthBites Food Truck Court at SXSW
Who knew there were any empty lots left in downtown Austin? Over 15 food trucks have taken over the property at the corner of Rainey and Driskill Streets for SXSW. This pop-up food truck court, christened "SouthBites," was curated by Austin star chef Paul Qui. It offers a selection of Austin favorites mixed with out-of-town trucks from as far away as Ohio. There's an eclectic food selection—everything from Vietnamese cuisine to Senegalese food, waffles and ice cream. The perimeter of the lot is lined with trucks with several long tables shaded by a huge tent. You can keep your buzz going by visiting the full bar stocked with beer kegs and liquor.
During the Interactive portion of SXSW, the SouthBites area felt luxurious after shoving through the crowds at parties and events. There was plenty of seating and short lines. After the music portion started, the crowds visibly shifted from tech nerds to indie rock scenesters. The food court is now a madhouse, especially during peak meal times, with up to 45 minute waits for food after placing an order. Word must have spread about the fabulous and affordable food selection.
See our favorite bites from SouthBites in the slideshow!
SouthBites is at open to the public March 8 - 16, 2013 from 11:30am - 2:30am at the corner of Rainey Street and Driskill Street.
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Although Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) ships with a command line firewall script – ufw (Uncomplicated FireWall) – for configuring IPTables (netfilter), the firewall application built into the Linux kernel, it does not come with a graphical firewall client for use by those not comfortable with managing IPTables from the command line. So in order to configure IPTables using a graphical interface, you will have to install one yourself.
Luckily, the graphical interface to ufw, Gufw, is in the main repository, and you can install it from a shell terminal, via Synaptic, or via the new Ubuntu Software Center. For this tutorial, let's install it from Ubuntu Software Center.
From the menu click on Applications > Ubuntu Software Center, and type in 'gufw' in the search bar. You may type in 'firewall' if you want to see all the other (graphical) firewall clients available. The screenshot below shows the results of my search. Select Gufw and click on the arrow at the end of the line.
On this next screen shown below, click on the Install button. After authenticating, it will only take about a minute for the installation to complete.
Install Gufw
An entry for Gufw will be placed in the menu tree at System > Administration > Firewall configuration. By default, Gufw is not enabled as shown in the screenshot below. To enable it, click on the check box next to Enabled.
Gufw – disabled
Gufw enabled
The default firewall policy is to deny all connections to the PC on which Gufw is guarding. Outbound connections are permitted. If you need to, you may modify the default policy by clicking on the 'Add' button. Gufw has several preconfigured services and programs that you may select from, or you may just create one.
For each program or service, you may choose to Allow, Deny, Reject, or rate Limit it. Denying a connection will silently drop it while rejecting a connection will drop it and send a message back to the source address. For obvious reasons, it is better to Deny rather than Reject (Note: There is more to this than my simple explanation here, but in the spirit of ufw, I have chosen to keep the explanation uncomplicated).
Several services – FTP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, IPP, VNC, NFS, ssh, Telnet, and Netbios-ssn – are already preconfigured.
Some programs – Amule, Deluge, Nicotine, Transmission, KTorrent, qBittorent – preconfigured programs.
The 'Simple' configuration tab allows you to set very basic policies. For example. you may Allow, Deny, Reject, or rate Limit a TCP or UDP connection by port number or port range.
On the 'Advanced' configuration tab, you can set more specific policies as shown below.
This is a screenshot of the main window showing example policies added from the last two screenshots above.
Compared to other graphical firewall clients, Gufw is very simple to use. However, it offers fewer "advanced" configuration options, and it is not minimized to the system tray when you close the application window. If you need a firewall client with more configuration bells and whistles, you should try Firestarter or KMyFirewall. Both are available in Ubuntu's repository.


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From the nearly universally accepted right of women to have access to effective hormonal birth control, to issues of law and justice the republican party now holds positions that would place their sainted Ronald Reagan in the shrinking and soon to be extinct liberal wing of the GOP.
They love to bat around the term RINO or Republican in Name Only, to describe the liberal wing as those not orthodox enough to be allowed the label of republican any more. However if you look at the republican party of Reagan, Nixon and Eisenhower, its this new breed of so called republicans who are misappropriating the brand. They are the detractors, the corrupters and the fakers.
Its the Arlen Specters, the Susan Collins and the Lisa Murkowskis who still espouse the somewhat sane centre right policies who are the real and true republicans.
There may be some fanatics at the republican base, but the fast majority of the US Red and Blue alike is sane, and its a world where topics like Birth Control have been closed and put in the archive for posterity, but now like Eric Cartman renacting the civil war, the new breed wants go to back and fight wars long since over.
Ask yourself, no matter how you feel about Reagan, would he be welcome in a party with Paul Ryan as the figurehead?


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You know how HP said it uncovered $5 billion worth of allegedly fraudulent revenue at Autonomy?
One thing HP has accused Autonomy of doing is booking software-as-a-service contracts as software licensing deals.
Autonomy has denied all allegations and the Department of Justice is now investigating. While we wait for information on that, the world is trying to figure out what this alleged "fraud" is really all about.
How would the mechanics of this type of accounting work?
A former Autonomy salesperson named Virginia Briody says she's seen it happen, firsthand.
She alleges that, prior to HP's acquisition, Autonomy executives massaged a SaaS deal into a big software licensing deal so they could recognize revenue up front, and show more growth than what the deal really was, a monthly agreement spanning four years. She says she has evidence - emails and documents.
Equally interesting is that a day after HP accused Autonomy of cooking the books, it used the testimony of Autonomy's former vice president of finance in court to defend Autonomy's accounting practices in this deal.
Her tale is pretty interesting.
But, before we get too far into it, readers should know that Briody is not an unbiased witness. She's been in a legal battle with HP over compensation since April 2012. She says HP owes her nearly $200,000.
Also, representatives of both HP and of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch challenge much of what Briody has to say. They deny wrongdoing with this deal and say she's upset that the most recent ruling in her legal battle with HP went against her (linked).
With those caveats in mind, let's get to Briody's story.
It all started when Briody was working as a salesperson for another software company, CA.
She had closed a four-year $1.22 million hosting/software-as-a-service deal with a customer, Pioneer Investments, and was paid her full commission, over $100,000, she says.
Autonomy bought the software unit from CA on June 9, 2010, and Briody became an employee of Autonomy and Autonomy inherited the Pioneer contract.
But there was an issue. Autonomy didn't acquire all the pieces called for in the original contract, Briody says. It didn't have a partnership with the hosting facility and it didn't gain from CA a critical piece of compliance software the customer needed, she says. Autonomy needed to find substitutions or Pioneer would cancel the contract, Briody says.
So in the fall of 2010, she signed a new deal with Pioneer and walked away with a four-year, $1.859 million contract of which Autonomy execs considered $1.8 million as new revenue, she says.
According to Briody, the new deal was the same as the old one in that the customer would not install any software and agreed to make ongoing payments (see email embedded below).
That's when things got weird, she describes.
She says Autonomy execs wanted to change the terms from a mostly hosting deal to a mostly software license deal.
Why would Autonomy execs want to do this?
Briody says a software licensing contract would allow Autonomy to recognize most of the deal's revenue up front. The accounting, legal and finance departments created the contract, she said, and "I did not have a choice, Autonomy made me do the contract this way," she told Business Insider.
Briody knows Autonomy executives were working on a way to recognize more of the $1.9 million because she obtained emails from them and used them as evidence in her wage claim suit with the New Hampshire Department of Labor.
Here is one of them, from Matt Stephan, in Autonomy's finance department:
From: Matt Stephan [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:56 PM To: Mike Sullivan Cc: Steve Chamberlain - Autonomy; 'James Crumbacher' Subject: Pioneer Importance: High
Mike - need your help. As it currently stands, this deal has two problems which make recognizing licence revenue upfront very problematic.
First is the payment terms which extend over the whole term of the licence, suggesting it's a 3 year service we're providing and not a software licence. Second is the fact that we're combining the licence and hosted fees into a single number and then calling out in the contract a high hosting fee of $1.50/GB/mo for exceeding the 22TB. When calculating a carve out, we would need to start with this contracted rate and could only lower it to our VS OE with a compelling argument about why the $1.50 doesn't apply.
I appreciate the customer's demands are driving the current structure but to get rev rec on the licence we need to get the following:
1) Substantial payment upfront and following payments not dragging out over whole term
2) Separate monthly hosting fees
Give me a shout if you need more info.
Ultimately Autonomy execs revised the contract to spell out over $1 million of software licenses sold, Briody says, showing us another email (embedded below).
To make the deal with Pioneer really look like a software deal, Briody says Autonomy even sent the customer "product code keys" which are used to unlock software. Briody says this confused the customer, since the customer wasn't installing any software. Briody showed us an email from the customer asking about the keys. (Again, representatives from HP and former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch say that the customer asked for and bought the software.)
Eventually, Briody says she re-did the deal as her Autonomy bosses asked.
Then, she says, they fired her.
Briody filed a wage claim with the Department of Labor in April, 2012. The DOL found in her favor in July 2012, and said she was due $196,000 including full commission on the second Pioneer contract and damages. In August 2012, HP, which by then owned Autonomy, appealed the ruling. This time, the court ruled in HP's favor. (Here's a link to DOL document.)
Importantly, Briody's actual legal claim against HP has nothing to do with whether or not Autonomy committed fraud on this deal. Her claim is that HP, because it owns Autonomy, owes her a commission on the second deal (even though CA had already paid her a commission for the first deal) based on her employment contract with Autonomy and conversations made to her by her supervisors.
HP says that the only reason Autonomy had to redo the deal was that Briody didn't get the customer, Pioneer, the deal it wanted in the first place, and that Pioneer had to ask for it to be redone. To this, Briody says that the deal was fine until Autonomy acquired it from CA, but didn't also buy from CA all the software and services that was part of it.
At this point, it's a he-said/she-said legal mess - with HP getting the latest result from the courts and another appeal in the works.
The whole saga is, interesting, however, in that it is a look at how, as Briody alleges, Autonomy might have structured a SaaS deal to look more like a licensing deal primarily by
…writing a contract that denotes a large portion of the fees as a software license
…shipping the license keys even if they will not be used
... invoicing the customer for a big chunk of money up front (much to the surprise of this customer, Briody contends)
…and structuring monthly payment terms on a single invoice (see email embedded below).
We asked HP for comment and HP politely declined. A source close to the company told us that "this transaction was not one that surfaced during the investigation" by HP into Autonomy's accounting.
A spokesperson for Autonomy's founder and former CEO Mike Lynch said that Lynch was not involved in the deal. Since this contract was over $100,000, it was reviewed by an auditor and the "revenue would have been recognized in accordance with IFRS, as applied by the auditor," the spokesperson said.
This is the same response that Lynch has made to HP's accusations.
As we previously reported, in addition to HP's accusations about hosting deals, HP has also accused Autonomy execs of improper accounting on hardware sales and in how it handled accounts related to its reseller channel.
Here is the email that shows how executives discussed restructuring the Pioneer hosting contract into a software licensing deal (click to enlarge image):
Here is a second email that shows how Autonomy execs structured monthly payment terms.
Here is a link to the original DOL document finding in Briody's favor that summarizes how the customer's contract was negotiated.


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Join us for the screening of "A Plastic Ocean."
"A PLASTIC OCEAN begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect."
Waterfront Partnership and Chesapeake Bay Foundation present the second year of a winter environmental documentary film series, "Docs from the Docks."