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Archive for February, 2017
February 27, 2017 – Website Revamp; Status of Cases; New Players Enter the Scene; A Crisis of Conscience; Donations
With God as my guide and protector, all things are possible. It is my strong and unshakeable faith in Him that removes all fear from my mind….my heart….and my soul as I, Michael, and the Plaintiffs in these cases travel this perilous path. And, it IS fraught with peril.
But, as I've said before, we do this for these reasons:
> To enjoin the IRS' record falsification scheme that has destroyed the lives of millions of innocent Americans by garnishing their wages, issuing liens and levies, and seizing their property.
> To enjoin the Department of Justice (DoJ) from concealing the exculpatory evidence of this crime from Grand and Petit Juries and substituting supposed "certified" documents to indict, prosecute and convict innocent Americans of tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns.
> To enjoin the Federal judges from fraudulently misrepresenting the claims in Plaintiffs' cases, committing multiple felonies by colluding with the DoJ to conceal exculpatory evidence of the underlying felony record falsification scheme, and sentencing innocent Americans to years in prison for crimes they did not, and could not, commit.
> To restore the Rule of Law in America to allow "We the People", for the first time in more than 100 years, to live at the level of freedom and prosperity intended by the Founding Fathers.
I would, again, like to call your attention to the revised text on the "Home" page of this website. It provides a comprehensive overview of the battle we are currently fighting, and I encourage each of you to read it and share the website link on all your social media outlets.
This blog post contains information on the following topics:
A. Website Revamp
B. Status of Cases
C. New Players Enter the Scene
D. 17-00022 Rule 20 Motion for Permissive Joinder
E. A Crisis of Conscience
F. 16-2313 Ellis and McNeil v. Jackson, Cooper, et al.
G. Levy of My Social Security Check
H. Donations
A. Website Revamp
My long-time Web Developer is changing directions in her life, so, I am moving this website, along with my political site (AmericanCitizenParty.us) to a new server. The plan is to complete the data migration by the end of February.
With this move will also come a new look for both sites. I haven't yet settled on new themes, but, I'm thinking along the lines of something brighter, more colorful, and easier to navigate.
At the appropriate time, I also intend to create two new websites, both designed to gain support for some innovative ideas I have to restore America to its founding principles…..and its greatness.
Stay tuned. Exciting times are ahead!
B. Status of Cases
To date, we have filed, or assisted in the filing of, thirteen (13) cases in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and one (1) case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California – Fresno Division . Some are now in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit:
01 14-CV-471 Ellis v. Commissioner, et al. (Dismissed; Appealed; Dismissed; Seeking Funds for Supreme Court)
02 16-5233 McNeil v. Commissioner, et al. (Active; Dismissed in District Court; Dismissed in the U.S. Court of Appeals; Seeking funds for Supreme Court)
03 16-5308 DePolo v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al. (Active; Dismissed in District Court; Assigned Case #16-5308 in U.S. Court of Appeals; Motion for Summary Reversal filed on January 23, 2017)
04 16-5219 Ellis v. Jarvis, et al. (Active; Dismissed in District Court; U.S. Court of Appeals)
05 16-CV-420 Dwaileebe v. Martineau, et al. (Active; Assigned to Judge Christopher R. Cooper; Dismissed December 31, 2016; Notice of Appeal due in March)
06 16-5214 Ellis v. Langer, et al. (Active; Dismissed in District Court; U.S. Court of Appeals)
07 16-CV-1053 Crumpacker v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al. (Active; CounterClaim Filed by USA; Answer and CrossCounterClaim Filed by Crumpacker/Ellis/McNeil; Reassigned to Judge Christopher R. Cooper; Dismissed December 31, 2016; See below for current activity)
08 16-CV-1384 Morris v. McMonagle, et al. (Active; Reassigned to Judge Christopher R. Cooper; Dismissed on December 31, 2016; Morris decided not to appeal)
09 16-CV-1458 McGarvin v. McMonagle, et al. (Active; Reassigned to Judge Christopher R. Cooper; Dismissed on December 31, 2016; Notice of Appeal due in March)
10 16-CV-1768 Podgorny v. McMonagle, et al. (Active; Reassigned to Judge Christopher R. Cooper; Dismissed on December 31, 2016; Notice of Appeal due in March)
11 16-CV-2089 Norma DeOrio v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al. (Active; Filed in District Court for D.C. on October 17, 2016; Reassigned to Judge Christopher R. Cooper; Dismissed on December 31, 2016; Notice of Appeal due in March)
12 16-CV-2313 Ellis & McNeil v Jackson, Cooper, et al. (Active; Filed in District Court for D.C. on November 18, 2016; Reassigned to Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey; See below for current activity)
13 17-CV-00022 Stanley, et al. v. Lynch, et al. (Active; Filed in District Court for D.C. on January 4, 2017; Assigned to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan; Defendants' initial response is due on March 3, 2017)
14 17-CV-00034 Ford v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al. (Active; Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California – Fresno Division on January 10, 2017; Assigned to Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean)
To give you an idea what is involved in filing and advancing these cases through the judicial system, I have prepared an Excel spreadsheet of all activity since August 2015, when I filed my case. Click the links below and take a few moments to grasp the enormous tasks that Michael, I and the other courageous Plaintiffs have accomplished. For your convenience, I have sorted the spreadsheet two ways:
By case number: http://bit.ly/2m0UX5u
By the date the documents were filed: http://bit.ly/2lpixoW
C. New Players Enter the Scene
With Donald Trump's election as President of the United States, we have been promised a return to the "rule of law" in America. "We the People" owe it to ourselves, and our children, to hold him and his administration to that promise.
The new administration has brought a number changes to the Government players involved in this battle.
Gone are:
Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney General
Caroline Ciraolo-Klepper, DoJ, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division
New on the scene are:
Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney General
David A. Hubbert, DoJ, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division – Mr. Hubbert was named Acting Assistant Attorney General in January 2017. He was appointed Tax Division's Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) for Civil Trial Matters in September 2012. As DAAG, Mr. Hubbert oversees the litigation functions and other operations of the six regional Civil Trial Sections, the Court of Federal Claims Section, and the Office of Civil Litigation for the Division. During his tenure with the Tax Division, Mr. Hubbert has been a Trial Attorney in Civil Trial Section- Western Region and the Appellate Section, a Reviewer and an Assistant Chief in Civil Trial Section- Western Region. In August 1999, Mr. Hubbert was appointed Chief of Civil Trial Section- Eastern Region. Mr. Hubbert received a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Arizona and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Megan E. Hoffman-Logsdon, DoJ, Trial Attorney, Tax Division
Mr. Hubbert and Ms. Hoffman-Logsdon have already entered the fray with their February 14, 2017 filing of the "United States' Motion to Dismiss" in 16-2313 Ellis and McNeil v. Jackson, et al, which I discuss below.
D. 17-00022 Rule 20 Motion for Permissive Joinder
Several of you have already joined Case 17-00022 as Co-Plaintiffs, and I'd like to thank you for your courage in doing so. But, we need hundreds and thousands more of you to join, as well. I've made the process as simple as I can make it for you. All you have to do is decide to take action and join the effort to stop the IRS fraud we have uncovered.
Please go to the new page on this website entitled "Rule 20 Motion for 17-00022" to download and complete the documents you will need to join the case and become a Co-Plaintiff. I also provided an example showing how to fill out the Motion for Permissive Joinder.
NOTE: There is no charge to join the lawsuit, nor will you be required to pay a $400.00 filing fee to the Court, like you would be required to do if you filed your own case. The only expenses you will incur are the printing and mailing costs to send the completed documents to the Court and to the Defendants.
Step 1 is to open the page entitled "Rule 20 Motion for 17-00022" and download the document: 00 17-00022 Rule 20 Filing INSTRUCTIONS – FINAL
The instructions contain links to these three (3) documents that you will need to download, complete, print, and mail to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the Defendants, as instructed:
01 Standard Rule 20 Motion for Permissive Joinder
02 McNeil Declaration – IRS' Institutionalized Record Falsification Program
03 Cover letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk, Angela Caesar (EXAMPLE)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Doc 03 is a PDF example of the cover letter to the Clerk. Click the following link to download a Word version that you can easily revise with your own name, address, etc.: http://bit.ly/2jo6dZd
Doc 04 is an EXAMPLE showing how to fill out Doc 01, the Standard Rule 20 Motion for Permissive Joinder.
Once you have downloaded the files, read the instructions entirely before proceeding. Then, follow the instructions carefully to ensure a successful filing.
We want as many Americans as possible to join the case and restore the Rule of Law to our Nation, so, please participate and also spread the word to all of your social media outlets.
As I explained in my previous blog, in 17-CV-00022 Stanley, et al. v. Lynch, et al., we/you are suing John Koskinen, IRS Commissioner, Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney General, and Barack H. Obama, in personal capacity, for 1) falsifying federal records, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1001; 2) misprision of felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §4; 3) conspiracy to defraud the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §371; and, obstruction of the due administration of justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1503.
The first four (4) paragraphs of that case read, as follows:
"Defendant Koskinen is leading, under Defendant Obama's oversight and with Defendant Lynch's full knowledge and protection, a Government record falsification program like none in the history of the United States.
Victims of the program have filed multiple lawsuits complaining that despite IRS concessions it has no actual authority to compel filing of income tax returns, IRS conceals that lack of authority when dealing with those it labels "non-filers" by fabricating layered government records to reflect IRS' pretended preparation of "substitute income tax returns" ("SFRs"). But victims have discovered no such thing exists.
Your Plaintiffs present herein irrefutable Government-supplied proof that Mr. Koskinen's associates are systematically falsifying records to enforce the income tax, that Ms. Lynch and her associates are knowingly using IRS-falsified documents to justify forfeitures and criminal prosecutions, and that she is concealing evidence of the scheme's existence from grand jurors, whose primary function is to protect Americans from crimes committed by our Government.
Moreover, during the past four years under Defendant Obama's oversight, his direct subordinate Lynch has authorized commission of repeated acts of misprision during civil litigation by victims in U.S. Courts, to prevent adjudication of their victims' cases seeking to terminate the IRS program, and she is now attacking those who respectfully seek judicial redress from the scheme."
The opening paragraph of the Rule 20 Motion reads:
"By its plain language, Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure permits permissive joinder of parties in cases when multiple victims' claims arise out of the same events and involve the same legal questions. The Rule encourages the consolidation of lawsuits because it reduces the court's workload and expedites the adjudication of rights. It also seeks to avoid inconsistent judgments for lawsuits resulting from the same injury. Consolidating cases that are based on similar facts, parties or circumstances helps to accomplish all three goals."
E. A Crisis of Conscience
Case 16-1053 Crumpacker v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al is an administrative mess, caused entirely by the District Court. Here is a rundown of the facts:
June 6, 2016 – Original Complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and assigned to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan
August 15, 2016 – DoJ Filed its Answer and Counterclaim (Countersuing Mark Crumpacker, Michael Ellis and me and requesting that the Court enjoin, or stop, us from filing, or assisting in the filing of, any more cases without requesting permission from the Court to do so.)
September 12, 2016 – Crumpacker/Ellis/McNeil filed their Answer and Cross-Counterclaim, responding to the DoJ's Counterclaim and also joining DePolo, Dwaileebe, Morris, McGarvin and Podgorny to the case as Co-Plaintiffs. NOTE: The Answer and Cross-Counterclaim was never entered into the record by the Court Clerk.
September 29, 2016 – DoJ filed a Notice of Related Cases
September 30, 2016 – Ellis filed a Motion for Summary Judgment
October 3, 2016 – The case was reassigned from Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to Judge Christopher R. Cooper
October 7, 2016 – DoJ filed a Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction and Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief Can Be Granted
October 14, 2016 – Ellis filed a Revised Motion for Summary Judgment
October 17, 2016 – Crumpacker filed an Objection to the Consolidation of his case to Judge Cooper and Motion to Recuse Judge Cooper
October 21, 2016 – Judge Cooper issued an ORDER consolidating Crumpacker, Morris, Dwaileebe, McGarvin and Podgorny onto his docket. The Order also DENIED the "Motion to Sua Sponte Sanction DoJ Attorneys" in Dwaileebe v. Martineau, et al. (16-CV-420). Most shocking, however, is the final paragraph in that order in which Judge Cooper states "It is FURTHER ORDERED that the Counterclaim Defendants in Crumpacker, Case No. 16-1053 – Michael Ellis, Robert McNeil, and Mark Crumpacker – shall file either an Answer or a dispositive motion with respect to those counterclaims on or before November 18, 2016, on the Crumpacker docket only." The problem is this. Judge Cooper ordered us to file an answer to the Government's counterclaim by November 18, 2016, but, we had already done so on September 12, 2016. I sent a letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk's office requesting a copy of the Crumpacker docket sheet and, when I received it, our Answer was missing. I then called the Clerk's office to inquire about it and was told that all documents had been transferred from Judge Chutkan's chambers to Judge Cooper's chambers and that's where our "Answer and Cross-Counterclaim" was then. It was then that we realized Judge Cooper was withholding documents to keep them from being entered into the record.
October 21, 2016 – Judge Cooper issued an ORDER denying Crumpacker's Objection to Consolidation and Motion to Recuse
October 23, 2016 – McNeil filed a Notice of Attempted Filing of Rule 60 Motion to Vacate Judgment in 14-471 (Ellis v. Commissioner) based on Judge Amy Berman Jackson's rewriting of Ellis' allegations to justify her dismissal of his case, and her errant "facts" are being repeated by the DoJ as justification for dismissing all cases complaining of the IRS' record falsification scheme.
October 23, 2016 – McNeil filed an Objection to United States' Motion to Dismiss Crumpacker
November 4, 2016 – Co-Plaintiffs filed a Rule 23(f) Petition for Permission to Appeal Denial of Class Certification and Appointment of Counsel
November 4, 2016 – Co-Plaintiffs filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus and Prohibition
December 5, 2016 – Judge Cooper issued an ORDER denying Plaintiffs' Motion to Stay pending the outcome of the Writ of Mandamus
December 31, 2016 – Judge Cooper issued an ORDER finding as moot Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment
December 31, 2016 – Judge Cooper issued an ORDER granting DoJ's Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction. On the same day, Judge Cooper also issued an identical one-sentence "ORDER Granting the DoJ's Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction" in 16-CV-420 Dwaileebe v. Martineau, et al., 16-CV-1384 Morris v. McMonagle, et al., 16-CV-1458 McGarvin v. McMonagle, et al., and 16-CV-1768 Podgorny v. McMonagle, et al.
Now is when things get interesting.
In early January, I contacted each of the Plaintiffs and asked them to email me a copy of their December 31st dismissal order from Judge Cooper so I would have a complete file of all documents. Each of them sent me a 2-sentence Order, but none of them had a Memorandum Opinion attached, explaining the reason(s) for the dismissal. In all other instances, the Plaintiff had received one. Typically, this Memorandum provides case cites and other information supporting the Judge's opinion and forms the basis for an appeal.
Meanwhile, I was curious about the status of 16-CV-2089 Norma DeOrio v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al. This case had been filed on October 17, 2016, but, no government response had been filed in the record. So, on January 10, 2017, I called the Clerk's office for the U.S. District Court in D.C. to inquire about the status of the case and was told that, on December 8, 2016, Ms. DeOrio's case was consolidated with the above-referenced cases and assigned to Judge Christopher Cooper. I was also told the case had been dismissed on December 31, 2016 along with the others. Believing that the dismissal would be in the same form as the others, I then asked if there would be a Memorandum Opinion issued, stating the reason for the dismissal. The Clerk's office transferred my call to Ms. Davis, Judge Cooper's Case Administrator. I asked Ms. Davis if there would be a Memorandum Opinion issued, stating the reason for the dismissal, and her response was "No, that is the only order that will be issued."
On January 18th, I emailed Ms. DeOrio's son and asked him to send me a copy of Norma's dismissal order and was told "she never received it". I immediately called and talked to Judge Cooper's Court Deputy (Ms. Lauren Jenkins) who confirmed that Judge Cooper issued the Order of Dismissal on December 31, 2016. She was not in the office during that time, however, and the Court records she reviewed did not show the date the Order was mailed to Norma. She said it would have been sent First Class mail, however, which does not have a tracking number. I informed her that Ms. DeOrio had not received the Order and asked if she would mail it again. Ms. Jenkins agreed to do so.
On January 27, 2017, Ms. DeOrio's son emailed Norma's copy of Judge Cooper's Order to me. When I opened the document, however, I was shocked to see a five-page "Opinion and Order", signed by Judge Cooper on December 31, 2016, with case cites and a full explanation of the reasons he dismissed the case. I was also shocked to see that, beginning on the first page and continuing to the second, the Opinion and Order listed the names of Plaintiffs Dwaileebe, Morris, Crumpacker, McGarvin, Podgorny, and Norma DeOrio.
Now, the story goes back to 16-1053 Crumpacker v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al.
On January 23, 2017, Judge Cooper issued to the Government an Order to Show Cause, which stated: "Seeing no response to the Defendants' counterclaims, [see Minute Order on 9/8/2016] the Court hereby ORDERS Defendants to show cause in writing by January 30, 2017 why the counterclaims should not be dismissed for want of prosecution. Signed by Judge Christopher R. Cooper on 1/23/2017″ [McNeil NOTE: At this point, Judge Cooper still had not acknowledged our Answer and Cross-Counterclaim filed on September 12, 2016]
January 26, 2017 – Crumpacker filed a Rule 59(e) Motion to Alter Judgment
January 30, 2017 – DoJ Attorney Ryan McMonagle filed a Response to the Show Cause Order issued by Judge Cooper on January 23rd. And, this is where the "crisis of conscience" comes into play. In his response, Mr. McMonagle admitted that, on or about September 22, 2016, the United States had been served with an answer to its counterclaim by the counterclaim defendants. He also admitted that, although the United States had been served with an answer and purported cross-counterclaim, "that pleading does not appear on the Court's docket." In fact, Mr. McMonagle had attached a copy of our Answer and Cross-Counterclaim as Exhibit A to his response to the Show Cause Order. Based on this information, Mr. McMonagle also filed a "Declaration" stating "Because I received by mail a purported 'answer' from the counterclaim defendants, I do not believe I could in good faith represent to the Court that the counterclaim defendants have 'failed to plead or otherwise defend' the United States' counterclaim. Accordingly, the United States has not sought the entry of a default judgment." He then requested that Court extend the deadline for the United States to file a dispositive motion from January 30 to February 28, 2017.
January 31, 2017 – Judge Cooper issued a Minute Order granting the Government leave to file a dispositive motion on its counterclaims by February 28th and also ordered Counterclaim Defendants (us) to file an opposition on or before March 14, 2017.
January 31, 2017 – Judge Cooper issued a Minute Order denying Crumpacker's January 26th Rule 59(e) Motion to Alter Judgment.
Due to the Clerk's failure to file our Answer and Cross-Counterclaim into the record back in September 2016; dismissing six (6) cases without ever considering our Answer; and the multiple false statements he has made in his Orders, Judge Cooper has a huge mess to clean up. And, we decided to help him.
February 16, 2017 – We filed the following documents with the Clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia:
16-1053 Crumpacker v. Ciraolo-Klepper, et al
Motion to Notice and Admonish Clerk's Service Error, Loss of Documents, Etc.
Supplemental Rule 59 Motion
Declaration of Robert A. McNeil
USPS Proof of Service – September 12, 2016, 3:20 p.m.
For Refiling to Correct the Record:
Plaintiffs' Answer to Counterclaim and Cross-Counterclaim
Plaintiffs' Seven (7) Declarations in Support of Cross-Counterclaim (Too voluminous to link)
Plaintiffs' Motion to Certify a Class and for Appointment of Counsel Paid by the Government
McNeil Declaration with Evidence of IRS' Institutionalized Record Falsification Program
Interestingly, however, it is now 10 days past the date of mailing and those documents have not been filed into the record by the Clerk.
We now await the United States' February 28, 2017 pleading, in response to Judge Cooper's Minute Order of January 31st.
F. 16-2313 Ellis and McNeil v. Jackson, Cooper, et al.
The instances of judicial misconduct present in 16-1053 are what spurred Michael and I to file our case 16-CV-2313 Ellis and McNeil v. Jackson, Cooper, et al. in which we are suing Judge Amy Berman Jackson, Judge Christopher R. Cooper, Judge Padmanabhan Srinivasan, DoJ Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General – Tax Division – Caroline Ciraolo-Klepper, and DoJ Trial Attorney Ryan O'Connor McMonagle in their personal capacities, and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and two (2) Unknown-named IRS/DoJ attorneys, in their official capacities, for committing Misprision of Felony (a violation of 18 U.S.C. §4), Conspiracies to Defraud the United States (a violation of 18 U.S.C. §371) and Obstruction of the Due Administration of Justice (a violation of 18 U.S.C. §1503).
That case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on November 18, 2016 and assigned to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.
On February 3, 2017, however, Judge Sullivan issued a Minute Order "referring this case to Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey for full case management, up to but excluding trial pursuant to Local Rule 72.2. This includes, with respect to any potentially dispositive motions, the preparation of a report and recommendation pursuant to Local Civil Rule 72.3.".
As mentioned above, Mr. Hubbert and Ms. Hoffman-Logsdon filed "United States' Motion to Dismiss" in 16-2313 Ellis and McNeil v. Jackson, et al, on February 14, 2017. Upon reading the "Memorandum of Law in Support of United States' Motion to Dismiss", I see no indication that the Department of Justice will give our allegations any more attention than their predecessors. In fact, they continue to misstate our allegations in order to influence the Court to dismiss our case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, invoking the 1867 Anti-Injunction Act as the reason.
For example, on Page 3 of 16, the DoJ writes "This action is the twelfth in a series of similar and related actions filed in thid district since 2012 that seek (1) enjoin the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") from preparing tax returns for individuals who do not file their required federal income tax returns", and "(2) enjoin the Department of Justice (the "DOJ") from using certified copies of non-filers' tax transcripts in subsequent collections and enforcement proceedings, and from defending against cases like the case at bar."
In truth, we complain that IRS never prepares SFRs, but, falsifies its records to make it appear that it does, and that alleged transcripts are not sworn or properly certified and IRS has no authority under 6020(b) to create "income tax returns". Do you see the difference?
Additionally, on page 4 of 16, the DoJ makes the following false presumption: "…..McNeil and Ellis maintain a website devoted to their efforts to coordinate attacks on the IRS' ability to collect corporate and individual income tax." As confirmation that the DoJ is monitoring this website, in Footnote 3, Ms. Hoffman-Logsdon reaches all the way back and pulls this quote from the third paragraph of my January 20, 2015 blog: "I believe…..that, as long as the Corporate and Individual Income Taxes exist, "We the People" will never truly be free."
There are two points to be made here:
1) I, Robert A. McNeil, am the sole owner of the website RAM-v-IRS.com and am wholly responsible for its content. Michael Ellis is not associated with the website in any manner.
2) Except for a short period during the Civil War, prior to 1909 (implementation of the Corporate Income Tax) and 1913 (implementation of the Individual Income Tax), no business or human being was required to fill out an income tax return or pay an income tax. I propose that "We the People" reclaim our economic freedom by bringing pressure on Congress to repeal those laws that took our economic freedom from us and merely return to the two taxing methods written into the Constitution by the Founders, and which still exist today in Article I, Sections 8 and 9 (Indirect Taxes, which must follow the "Rule of Uniformity" and Direct Taxes, which must be apportioned among the States according the census).
Advocating a return to the original, Constitutional taxation methods doesn't make me a "tax protestor", as the DoJ intimates. It makes me a "21st Century American Revolutionary", a title I wear with pride.
In a Minute Order, dated February 15, 2017, Magistrate Judge Harvey ordered the Plaintiffs (Michael and me) to "file an opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss on or before March 8, 2017. Defendants shall file a reply, if any, on or before March 15, 2017. If Plaintiff does not file a timely opposition, the Court may treat the motion as conceded."
Of course, we will file our Opposition to the United States' Motion to Dismiss on or before March 8, 2017.
G. Levy of My Social Security Check
In the fall of 2014 and into the spring of 2015, the price of oil dropped from $100.00 to $50.00 per barrel, and my 40-year oil and gas audit consulting career collapsed, as the industry contracted and my clients cut their expenses to the bone. Almost overnight, my earnings fell to zero, but my living expenses remained the same. After working since age 15, I found myself, at age 66, financially ruined, with no prospect of any significant recovery. Fortunately, I was eligible to begin receiving Social Security and a small pension from a company I worked for in the 1970s and 1980s. So, I applied and began receiving payments a few months later, albeit at a rate 75% less than what I earned as a consultant.
Now, two years later, as a retiree, I have adapted to my current standard of living and am enjoying the freedom to use my time as I choose. I now divide my time between drawing closer to my family, and fighting this battle against the tyranny of the IRS, DoJ, and the Courts. And, I have never felt such satisfaction.
Beginning February 1, 2017, however, the IRS upped the ante and began levying my Social Security check by 15%, or slightly more than $340.00 per month. As you can imagine, this has impacted my personal budget, but, I will adapt and continue living well, with God providing for my basic needs. I only bring this up because it also impacts my ability to pay the expenses associated with these lawsuits, as I explain in the next section.
H. Donations
I would like to thank all of you who have responded to my request for donations to restore the rule of law in America. Since my last blog, I have received donations from supporters in New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Florida, Arkansas, Georgia and Missouri. One supporter in Texas sent a box of five (5) black toner cartridges for my printer, and has pledged to send more, as I need them. I applied $568.57 of the 2017 donations to the 2016 carryover deficit, completely eliminating it, which left $96.43 to be applied to the 2017 expenses incurred to date. Please know that I appreciate you all and thank you very much for your generosity.
Summarizing, for the period January 1 thru February 26, 1017, I received donations of $96.43, but spent $1,566.95, leaving a current deficit of <$1,470.52>.
Here is the link to a PDF version of the Excel spreadsheet detailing the donations and expenditures as of February 26, 2017.
With all the active civil cases in various stages of development, our efforts are ongoing. For Michael and me, this is a labor of love and we do not charge one penny for our assistance, but, time is an irreplaceable asset and our knowledge and experience provides value to the Plaintiffs, and, if they prevail in the Courts, will provide liberty and prosperity to ALL Americans at the level our ancestors enjoyed.
So, I continue to humbly ask each of you to search your heart, and pocketbook, and make a monetary donation to the cause of liberty. No amount is too small or great, and will be appreciated more than you know.
If you are so moved, please contact me here for instructions.
I've said it before and will continue to drive home this point:
It is important for every American to understand that most of the loss of liberty we are experiencing began with laws passed by Congress over the last 100 years, and are being perpetuated today by the very people we elected to represent our interests, but who are failing to do so.
The Internal Revenue Code is so voluminous and complex that few Americans actually know what is in it, or, more importantly, when they are violating a provision of it. This provides the ideal environment for tyranny and oppression to flourish, the examples of which we present in these cases.
"We the People" will never be truly free until both the corporate and individual income taxes are eliminated and the 16th Amendment to the Constitution is repealed. My case, and the others, clear the way for those events to happen.
Should we prevail, it will mean the end of the suffering experienced by millions of so-called "non-filers" at the hands of the IRS. It will also mean the door is open for millions of Americans to participate, without fear of harm, in the coming "21st Century American Revolution", which is a good, old-fashioned tax revolt.
We are the rightful masters of ALL levels of government, and we can put this out-of-control Federal government back into its Constitutional box by simply defunding it and, in the process, creating a smaller, more efficient government built on the solid, everlasting foundation of the Constitution, sound accounting principles, and economic law.
Please continue to educate yourselves about the fraud being committed every day by the IRS, Department of Justice, and the Courts in the enforcement of the income tax, and spread this website to all of your social media outlets.
Do it so you, your family, and future generations of Americans can begin to live at the level of liberty and prosperity the Founding Fathers intended.
Thank you.
In liberty,
Bob McNeil
21st Century American Revolutionary
Founder/President – American Citizen Party
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text: Idaho Dairies Push for Bill to Punish Undercover Activists February 11, 2014 06:30 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Associated Press Email Dairies and other agricultural producers told Idaho state senators to back a bill aiming to prohibit animal activists from spying on their operations after activists documented animal cruelty in 2012 at a big southern Idaho dairy. The Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee on Tuesday considered what proponents called an "agricultural security measure" — and foes say is a heavy-handed and punitive response to groups seeking to expose horrendous abuses. The legislation would put people who surreptitiously film their operations in jail for up to a year and slap them with a $5,000 fine. Bob Naerebout, the Idaho Dairymen's Association president, says his measure would add "teeth and strength" to existing prohibitions on trespassing. Opponents argued the bill would put somebody behind bars merely for snapping a picture of a cow being abused. Source: Associated Press Back to news

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Glenn Morrison - Blue Skies With Linda / Rubberband
Release Label: Coldharbour Recordings Red
Release Code: COLD004
Release Date: March 3rd 2008
Blue Skies With Linda
Canadian producer Glenn Morrison joins the Coldharbour family with this double A-side release. Many eyebrows were raised when the tracklist for Markus Schulz's latest compilation Amsterdam '08 featured two new tracks by Glenn, but after listening to them, they were included for good reason. Blue Skies With Linda received instant support from Tiësto, with regular plays on his Club Life radio show. The track is embraced with such emotion; it is hard not to fall in love with it after only one listen. It has also received lots of support from Above & Beyond, Andy Moor and Kenneth Thomas. Rubberband is similar in composition however slightly more geared towards the clubs. Either way, you will be spoiled for choice here.
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TV Shows Set in Seattle
Grey's Anatomy (2005-present )
Arguably, the most popular network television show on right now is ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Sadly, although this show is set in Seattle, the hospital shown in the series is actually located outside Los Angeles, California and not in Seattle. You might find Seattle Grace Hospital scrubs and other items referencing the series in some of the downtown gift shops--but please don't waste your time looking for Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle!
What you can see are the various spots around Seattle where the show has filmed outdoor scenes for the series (much like the NBC show, ER, has occasionally shot outdoor scenes in ALA's home of Chicago). Melanie McFarland, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer TV critic, was on hand back in September, 2005, to witness scenes being shot for the series on the Bainbridge Island ferry, by series co-executive producer and director (and Bellevue, WA native), Peter Horton, along with series stars Ellen "Meredith Grey" Pompeo and Patrick "Derek 'Dr. McDreamy' Shepherd" Dempsey. McFarland described this afternoon for the September 20, 2005 article, ABC's hit 'Grey's Anatomy' is definitely not a textbook medical show. Steve Shelton contributed photos of the series cast and crew to the article: Patrick Dempsey and Peter Horton, Ellen Pompeo, and Patrick Dempsey.
Frasier (1993-2004)
To emphasize its Seattle setting, the series Frasier included Seattle's iconic Space Needle in its series logo.
Notably, only the episode titled "The 1000th Show" included exterior outdoors shots of Seattle. However, series stars Kelsey "Dr. Frasier Crane" Grammer and Peri "Roz Doyle" Gilpin did shoot a public service announcement in 2002 that talked about the cultural and financial importance of film and video productions being shot in and around Seattle.
More TV Shows
See more TV shows at Wikipedia's page, List of representations of Seattle in popular culture.


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Where Does the Labor Movement Go From Here?
Thousands of people gathered on the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota yesterday to take part in a "March for the Middle Class." As they made their way from the St. Paul Cathedral to the State Capitol, they carried signs defending the rights of working Americans and chanted, "We are one."
The march in Minnesota was just one of hundreds of events that took place around the country. The events marked the forty-third anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who, shortly before his death in 1968, had gone to Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by local sanitation workers. Carrying signs that read, "From Memphis 1968 to Madison 2011," thousands of workers, students, civil rights activists, and supporters gathered at rallies in all 50 states to continue Dr. King's fight and to show their support for workers who have been under attack by conservatives in recent months.
This tremendous outpouring was remarkable not only for the demonstration of nationwide support for working people and their collective bargaining rights, but also for the broad coalition of organizations that came together in this powerful moment of solidarity. But, unless we seize this opportunity to change the way that the labor movement works and the way in which it is perceived, that's all this will be—a moment.
Earning Public Support for Unions
Following months of assaults by Republican governors in states such as Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan, the labor movement is now in a unique position. Despite efforts by conservatives to portray the tens of thousands of pro-union protesters in Madison and elsewhere as violent or greedy, Americans by and large recognized in them the hard-working teachers and firefighters they know in their own communities. And polls now show strong public support for embattled unions in the states.
But we should not misinterpret this information. Americans have not suddenly decided that they love public sector unions. Instead, they have reacted against the overreach of Republican politicians who said they were going to create jobs and deal with real economic problems, but who instead used the economic crisis as an excuse to lash out against political foes.
It is a mistake to see Wisconsin and other state battles as marking a sea change in public opinion about unions. However, these fights have put the labor movement in the spotlight. And, in doing so, they have given us an opportunity to rebuild our relationships with the community. Instead of assuming that we have already won a public stamp of approval, we must use the moment to truly earn this support.
Polls show that Americans have rejected Republican characterizations of unions as the cause of the state budget crises. But this is not enough. If we want to build sustainable support among a majority of Americans, community members need to see us playing a proactive, productive role in solving these crises. That means doing more than changing our rhetoric. It means changing the way we do business.
3 Steps Toward A 21st Century Labor Movement
To go forward from here, we need to do three things: expand the range of issues we take on when we represent employees in the workplace, change the way we relate to the community, and begin to move away from outdated models for labor activism rooted in the era of the industrial economy.
An American Uprising
Wisconsin and beyond: While wealth and power concentrate in the hands of a few, the rights, jobs, and services that everyday Americans depend on are on the line. Across the country, people are rising up to defend them.
As a first step, with regard to representation in workplaces, we need to be making demands that highlight our role as problem solvers. If we only negotiate over things such as pay and benefits, the public will always see unions as special interests. Instead, we must be concerned with advancing service delivery and using collective bargaining to improve the departments in which we work.
This is especially true in the public sector, where unionized workers are often teachers, firefighters, social workers, and others working for the common good. When public unions began organizing in earnest several decades ago, they bargained over issues like the amount of time social workers would be allowed to spend on a given case: over-hurried employees stood up to management to insist that they get the time they needed to help families. Unions are still very much involved in these kinds of issues, but questions of service delivery have often been overshadowed by wage negotiations. We need to re-embrace demands that highlight unions' roles as public interest advocates, bringing a focus on service to the fore of our efforts.
Second, we must change our relationship to those outside the labor movement. The time to reach out to community allies and to develop deep relationships is not in the middle of an emergency campaign or a contract fight. Instead, community outreach should be a part of the ongoing organizing work of every union local. Locals should be developing training programs that teach people about the value that our organizations add to their communities. We should use these programs as a way to educate candidates about our work before they receive labor's endorsement, so that elected officials have a substantive commitment to supporting our efforts. And while we're teaching, we should also be learning, understanding the concerns of other community organizations and developing durable bonds based on mutual interest, not momentary convenience. That way, where there is an emergency, we have real community partnerships that we can turn to for help.
A third way we need to change how we do business is to move beyond outdated models of unionism developed in the age when America's economy was based on manufacturing. When public sector unions began to seriously organize, they looked to the dominant model of industrial unionism then in place. Organizations such as AFSCME brought in representatives from the United Auto Workers (UAW) to lead trainings for emerging union leaders. They formed labor operations based on then-dominant norms. These structures might still be relevant in some manufacturing environments. But most of America's economy has dramatically transformed in the past 40 years, and most union structures have not. As Jim Grossfeld points out in a forthcoming article in the American Prospect, even new auto workers' President Bob King has recognized the need to build a "21st-century UAW" to adapt to changing times.
The Moral Underground
All around you are everyday heroes who refuse to be complicit in the economic mistreatment of other people.
Today, we need to be more decentralized, recognizing that framing issues in national offices doesn't always work. We need to empower local unions to develop their own capacities to proactively engage their communities—allowing them to step forward with research, policy, and coalition-building proposals uniquely suited to their metropolitan regions. That means redirecting resources from the national level into the locals. National officials need to provide the leadership, funding, and support that will allow locals to enter their communities as problem solvers.
In order to move forward and harness the kind of support we saw in yesterday's demonstrations, we cannot merely tell our story differently. We must act differently, earning lasting support from the public by showing, in concrete and local fashion, how much the labor movement serves the public good.
The debate in Wisconsin doesn't just apply to union members and public workers—it applies to every American who cares about our fundamental rights as citizens.
Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein on how Americans across the country are resisting the Shock Doctrine.
Firefighters weren't included in the anti-union bill that sparked the protests in Wisconsin. Lieutenant Mahlon Mitchell on why they're taking to the streets, anyway.


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To have a consistent set of time stamps for logs and development authorization between the Cisco router and the Cisco AXP service module, you must configure the Cisco AXP service module to receive its NTP clock source from the router. To configure the router and service module perform the following steps.
Configure the NTP Master Clock on the Router
Router# configure terminal ntp master
The router uses its own NTP master clock to synchronize with peers when an external NTP source is unavailable.
Note:The following step is optional but recommended.
Set the Clock Synchronization from an External Server
ntp server {hostname/ip-address}[prefer]</code>
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Wharton Music Center (WMC) held its annual Margaret Gillen Memorial Scholarship Vocal Competition on Monday, February 25 at its performance space in Berkeley Heights. The first prize winner from the Senior Division was Catie Hodic. Ms. Hodic sang "With You" from Ghost the Musical and "I Have Nothing". Olivia Torsiello who sang "Breakaway" and "Put Your Records On" placed first in the Junior Division. Runners up from the Senior Division were Elizabeth Hendy who won second place and Oona Quinn and Grace Kenney who both tied for Audience Choice. Junior Division runners up were Aashni Sawhney who won second place and Simran Sawhney who won the Audience Choice award.
All vocal winners received Margaret Gillen Memorial Scholarships made possible by Diane Lynch in memory of her mother. Student vocalists sang songs from various genres of music such as Musical Theatre, Contemporary, Pop, Jazz, R & B, Country, and Opera.
WMC's Musical Theatre Director Angela Beaton and Musical Theater Administrative Coordinator Christopher Wright hosted the event. Award-winning Broadway composer, conductor, and performer Keith Herrmann judged the contestants. Berkeley Height's local bakery Bake You Crazy provided delectable desserts for the reception. The performances made for an entertaining and charming evening.
Wharton Music Center, located at 60 Locust Avenue in Berkeley Heights, provides music, theater, and dance instruction, educational programs, and performances for children, teens, and adults. In addition to instruction in all instruments and voice, WMC offers classes in musical theater, dance, drama, choral music, vocal music, music theory, audio recording, early childhood music, and music for children with special needs. Offering a range of musical genres including classical, rock, jazz, and blues, WMC is one of New Jersey's largest independent non-profit community music centers serving students in Berkeley Heights, Summit, Chatham, New Providence, Long Hill, Warren, Basking Ridge, Short Hills, Millburn, Livingston, Westfield, Scotch Plains, and other surrounding communities.
WMC offers orchestral and ensemble music education for grades 3 through 12 through New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) located at 570 Central Avenue in New Providence. NJYS, one of the foremost youth orchestras in the state, has ten orchestras and ensembles for which auditions are held annually. NJYS's premiere orchestra, Youth Symphony, has performed in internationally-renowned concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York City and Musikverein in Vienna.
For more information, visit www.WhartonMusicCenter.org or www.NJYS.org. Wharton Music Center is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
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Expected November 2011! Another fabulous round of Dr. Seuss fabric from Robert Kaufman! These are new additions to the Celebrate Seuss! and The Cat in the Hat! lines!
A fab panel, spot and dot, collage print, and more!
MUST. HAVE. LOL I will definitely be getting some of this for my sweet NRH grandbabies. Too, too cute. Can't wait until you get it. :)
Thanks, Carolyn....I can't wait to have these, they are perfect additions to the Seuss line! You'll be visiting your NRH grandbabies soooon, happy for you!
Super cute I love it! I need to make a baby quilt with this one.
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Apple® notebook computers are as beautiful as they are powerful, but their finish is far from bulletproof. Even so, many owners choose convenience over protection. MacBook Pro notebooks often travel in a backpack or briefcase, sharing space with an iPhone®, keys, and pens—leaving their pricey cargo vulnerable to scuffs and scratches. Choose convenience and protection—get 2fit. Stylish and practical, the Sonnet 2fit sleeve is a form-fitting cover that provides a durable layer of protection that helps prevent damage to your computer's finish. Each 2fit sleeve is constructed of plush microfiber material, custom-tailored for the specific size of your MacBook Pro. This machine-washable sleeve stretches to provide a snug fit, and it even can function as a heat shield between laptop and lap when not in use as a cover.
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Lady Bisons playing golf in Hawaii
After two rounds the Lady Bisons are 12th in the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational at the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Club in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Lady Bisons have shot 671 as a team with rounds of 338 and 333. The University of Idaho is leading the field with a 598 team score (297, 301).
Katie Pursell is leading the Lady Bisons with a two-round score of 160 (79-81). She is tied for 38th.
Haley Rowdon and Ashlee Catlin are tied for 57th with a 170. Rowdon has rounds of 87 and 83. Catlin has shot 85 in each of her rounds.
Lindsey Beard is 60th with a 171 (87, 84). Mary Leigh Baker is tied for 61st with a 174 (88, 86).


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Asian Organized Crime
Asian organized crime syndicates are behind many serious crimes whose impact is felt on a global level. Their criminal activities are not limited to Asia itself but are carried out in countries all over the world.
Major activities of these criminal gangs include drug trafficking, human smuggling, money laundering, illegal gambling, extortion and kidnapping.
At INTERPOL, we run a project known as AOC (Asian Organized Crime) that works to combat these complex and pervasive crime networks.
The Project offers a strategic overview of the problem and coordinates operations in the field, bringing together multiple countries in joint action.
It also provides a forum in which law enforcement agencies across the entire globe can share intelligence and experience. The Asia-Pacific Expert Group on Organized Crime meets regularly to exchange information on updated crime trends and modus operandi, and to steer joint operations.
Illegal football gambling
Operation Soga is an ongoing tactical operation coordinated by INTERPOL, which aims to identify and dismantle the international criminal networks behind illegal soccer gambling. The operation also has an impact on other crimes such as corruption, money laundering and prostitution as the same networks are connected to all these activities.
In total, the five phases of the operation have made more than 8,400 arrests, seized almost USD 40 million in cash, and closed down some 3,400 illegal gambling dens which handled almost USD 5.7 billion worth of bets.


text: Though hardly a new subject, discussion about the influence of cognitive bias on the evaluation of forensic science evidence has intensified recently. Academics have warned of the dangers of unconscious biases among forensic examiners for years, but their arguments have gained traction in light of some innovative research studies and the momentum for forensic reform brought about by the National Academy of Sciences' 2009 report, "Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward."1 Generally speaking, cognitive bias refers to distortions in perception and judgment that occur in certain situations.2 For example, the perception of a stimulus may be influenced by its surroundings. In Figure 1, although the orange circles are the same size, one appears larger than the other due to the size of the circles around them. Similarly, the shades of gray in Figure 2 are identical, but appear darker or lighter depending on the background. In order to deal with compl


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Thinking and Memory Problems in People With HIV
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Know the risks and potential benefits of clinical studies and talk to your health care provider before participating. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01875588
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : June 12, 2013
Last Update Posted : November 7, 2018
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date
|June 11, 2013
|First Posted Date
|June 12, 2013
|Last Update Posted Date
|November 7, 2018
|Study Start Date
|June 11, 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|December 31, 2021 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures
|To characterize in detail the natural course of HAND in subjects with low CD4 nadir (<200 cells/mm(3)) and prolonged plasma HIV virologic suppression (<50 copies/mL). [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures
|To characterize in detail the natural course of HAND in subjects with low CD4 nadir (< 200 cells/mm(3)) and prolonged plasma HIV virologic suppression (< 50 copies/mL). [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01875588 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures
|Not Provided
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures
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|Current Other Outcome Measures
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|Original Other Outcome Measures
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title
|Thinking and Memory Problems in People With HIV
|Official Title
|Screening and Recruitment for HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND) Studies and an Evaluation of HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders in Virologically Controlled Patients
|Brief Summary
- People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can sometimes develop thinking and memory problems. These problems can vary widely, from few symptoms to severe problems with memory and concentration. It initially was thought that good HIV treatment could prevent almost all HIV-related memory problems. However, even people with low HIV viral loads can have these problems. It may be caused by HIV affecting the brain and spinal fluid. It is not yet clear why HIV causes these problems and why they may be worse in some people than others. Researchers want to study people with HIV and healthy volunteers to see how HIV may affect people with only small amounts of the virus in their blood.
- To study thinking and memory problems in individuals with HIV that is otherwise controlled with medications.
|Detailed Description
The natural history of neurocognitive impairment in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected individuals remains poorly understood. While the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has led to a decreased incidence of the most severe form of HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), HIV-associated dementia, it does not appear to have impacted overall prevalence of HAND. Existing evidence suggests that the central nervous system (CNS) could be an important reservoir for HIV regardless of cumulative time on treatment. This 8 year multi-institute screening protocol will identify approximately 200 HIV-infected individuals and 100 healthy volunteers for enrollment in multiple HAND studies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Subjects will undergo a one-time screening and evaluation assessment, which will include history and physical, blood and urine collection, neuropsychological testing, Client Diagnostic Questionnaire (CDQ), and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Those who meet eligibility criteria will be offered enrollment and co-enrollment into active HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder protocols, including the natural history study presented here. This observational study will characterize the natural course of HAND in subjects with HIV viral loads <50 copies/mm3. Subjects will be followed yearly for 5 years. Visits will include updated exam, blood and urine collection, neuropsychological testing, brain MRI, optional lumbar puncture or drain, and optional ophthalmology exam. The option to have a lumbar drain is only on the first visit and extended to HIV positive individuals only. HIV- negative controls will have the option of doing a positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging during the first visit. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) markers of immune activation, chronic monocyte activation, cytomegalovirus/Epstein- Barr virus (CMV/EBV) infection/reactivation, and neuronal injury will be collected. In addition, HIV viral load and genotype, genetic susceptibility factors and CNS penetration- effectiveness score (CPE) and CSF levels of antiretroviral drugs may be assessed. A repository of cryopreserved biological samples will be developed and used for validation of candidate biomarkers in future studies. Collection and analysis of these data will not only enhance understanding of the CNS as a potential HIV reservoir in virally-controlled individuals but will further define the association among cortical thickness, biomarkers and neurocognitive function in an aging HIV-infected population.
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|Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
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|Publications *
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status
|Estimated Enrollment
|Original Estimated Enrollment
|Estimated Study Completion Date
|December 31, 2022
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|December 31, 2021 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria
All Subjects (HIV-infected and HIV-negative Controls):
While different individual HIV neurocognitive studies have specific selection criteria, especially related to HIV viral load and antiretroviral therapy, inclusion criteria for this overarching protocol will be flexible in order to identify the broadest base of potential enrollees possible. An upper age limit of 61 years old will be used because changes in neurocognitive function occur more commonly in the general population after this age.
HIV-infected Only:
HIV-negative Controls Only:
1.HIV-antibody negative
Screening Study (all participants):
screening. Pregnancy testing will also be performed in enrolled female participants prior to any radiation exposure.
Natural History Study (HIV-infected Only):
In addition to the inclusion criteria for the screening study (see above)
Natural History Study (Healthy Controls Only):
In addition to the exclusion criteria from the screening protocol (see section above):
The study requires exposure to high magnetic fields and irradiation, which could pose a risk to the fetus. Futher, we will be studying growth factors and inflammatory mediators in blood and CSF all of which will be affected by the state of pregnancy and then post partum state. Women who are lactating are excluded because the study may result in transfer of radioactive tracer in breast milk.
Subjects younger than 18 years of age are excluded because the developing brain is not within the scope of this study.
Department of Defense MRI-only Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria:
Due to the nature of the military population, the ALLHANDS DOD protocol has some notable differences in the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Note that only HIV+ participants will come from the DOD.
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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It doesn't take a science degree to help conservationists in your region monitor wildlife and undertake other important duties for ecosystem health. Citizen science, a practice through which members of the public assist scientists' research, is growing in popularity, spawning conferences, school programs, publications and more.
Do you want to learn more about the wildlife in your area and contribute vital knowledge for its protection? Become a citizen naturalist! Here's how:
Make a list of your interests. Are you a birdwatcher who wants to share your discoveries with the world? Do you love to kayak? Do you like getting outside in the winter? Cataloging your interests will help you identify an appropriate opportunity.
Reach out. Contact your local university, conservation nonprofit, cooperative extension or government office to find out what research opportunities are available to the public.
Learn your wildlife. Do you know how to tell the difference between the mating calls of a green frog and those of a bull frog? Before hitting the field, citizen scientists usually receive training on how to identify targeted species.
Start counting. Audubon's Great Backyard Bird Count, National Geographic'sBioBlitz and FrogWatch USA are some popular citizen science surveys that give researchers a better picture of animal populations. The National Wildlife Federation has a more complete list of opportunities here.
Go mobile. New digital technologies have made it easier than ever to track the wildlife around you. Apps like Leafsnap and iNaturalist let you record species sightings on your mobile device.
Analyze. Citizen scientists don't just collect data: they can also help analyze it. Try it from the convenience of the web by taking a few minutes to count creatures on the sea floor or identify recorded whale songs through Zooniverse.
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I'm developing a syscall interception tool for Android as a course's project. While it is relatively simple to intercept calling into the system services (introduced at the end), it is harder to get the syscall return. The reason is, the latest Android emulator is build upon QEMU 0.10.50, meaning it's TCG based. So we cannot use the same way Qebek or TEMU uses to intercept the syscall return. Therefore I looked into the new code to find if I could find a way to solve this problem.
Generally, in my understanding, in the old QEMU, the code translation is done as: Read more »


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Video Streaming Registration and Viewing Control Website
Presupuesto $250-750 USD
This project allows a viewer to register for a live stream event that has time slots with varying viewing security levels (from 0 to 5). After registration and email verification the administrator assigns a viewing security level to the user (this you do not have to code).
An embedded iFrame is used for viewing the YouTube Live stream. Your script will check with our mySQL server (same server that contains registration data) every 60 seconds and enable or disable the stream viewing on a user by user basis by comparing the user's security level to the current stream security level. (You do not need to code the admin tool that sets the stream security level, just the code that reacts to the security level)
I would like this project completed by the end of the weekend.
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Haiku Learning Management System API
Haiku is a learning management system that allows teachers to bring their classroom to the web and the web to their classroom. Features include website design and development, listserve hosting, assignment dropboxes, and more. The Haiku LMS API is an expanding set of interfaces that allows Haiku LMS users and organizations to integrate with and extend Haiku LMS using third party programs. The Haiku LMS REST API allows developers to write programs that can access and modify data within Haiku LMS. The Haiku LMS API allows for a variety of functions, including retrieving user information, class information, and assignment information.


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robert beautiful koudai !
can you please share more information about your small hybrid 8 chawan kama ?
i'd like to build one. sounds cool
hikidashi goro and other firing techniques using combustibles i could gather here in the islands would be wonderful with this 'test' kiln.
we have access to macadamia nut shells as a by product from the industry on the big island of Hawai'i. was thinking this might be cool to fire hawaiian clay with macadamia nut shells.
Thanks for the comment regarding the koudai.
I'm in the process of settling into my new shop as I write so how about I post a few pics once the dust settles?
I checked out your web site and liked the chawan done in Punaoa (sp) clay best! I'd be barkin' up that tree for sure! Ruff, ruff!!


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La Liga: Barcelona 7 Osasuna 0
Lionel Messi became Barcelona's all-time leading scorer when grabbing a hat-trick in a 7-0 demolition of Osasuna at Camp Nou.
The Argentina international was already the club's leading goalscorer in official matches, but reached another milestone on Sunday as he surpassed Paulino Alcantara's mark of 369, which included goals in friendlies.
Barcelona's comfortable win represented the perfect tonic for head coach Gerardo Martino, who witnessed his side produce a masterclass in front of their home support.
The Argentinian has faced criticism after overseeing three defeats in the space of six league games, including a shock 1-0 reverse at relegation-threatened Real Valladolid last weekend.
Barca answered their critics in some style, however, with Alexis Sanchez, Andres Iniesta, Cristian Tello and Pedro also getting their names on the scoresheet, ensuring the Catalans will head into next weekend's Clasico with rivals Real Madrid in confident mood.
After Messi had opened the scoring to move level with Alcantara's record, Alexis doubled the advantage from close range and Iniesta let fly with an unstoppable 25-yarder to make it 3-0 by half-time.
Alcantara's record was then surpassed by Messi's fierce strike from a tight angle shortly after the hour mark and substitute Tello added a fine individual goal before Messi struck again and laid on the seventh for Pedro.
The result leaves Barcelona third, four points adrift of Liga leaders Real ahead of their crucial meeting, while Osasuna stay 15th, just three points clear of the drop zone.
Osasuna started in a positive manner and the hosts were handed a huge reprieve in the 10th minute.
Emiliano Armenteros' initial effort was parried by Victor Valdes and Oriol Riera tapped home the rebound, only for his celebrations to be curtailed by the linesman's offside flag.
Osasuna remained keen to take the game to Barca, but were punished by a fine move from the hosts after 18 minutes.
Xavi's pass into the area released Alexis, who cut the ball back from the byline for Messi to side-foot home.
That goal settled the home side and within four minutes the early cobwebs had been completely brushed off as Alexis gained reward for his lively opening with a goal.
Jordi Alba played a neat one-two with Iniesta before the full-back delivered a teasing ball across goal, with Alexis on hand to apply the finishing touch.
The game was essentially put beyond doubt on 34 minutes when Iniesta unleashed a left-footed effort past Andres Fernandez and into the top right-hand corner from 25 yards.
Barcelona picked up where they left off in the second half and grabbed a fourth after 63 minutes.
Iniesta cleverly worked his way into the area before laying the ball to Messi, who fired across the goalkeeper from the left edge of the six-yard box.
Tello replaced Alexis in the 76th minute and wasted little time in making it 5-0, rounding off a fine run with a curling strike into the far corner.
Messi completed his hat-trick with two minutes of normal time remaining after Daniel Alves had controlled a long ball superbly before passing across the area.
Yet there was still time for another goal as Messi found Pedro, who drilled home to complete the thrashing.


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Though I did not realize it for some time, two of my moral theology professors showed me the past and present of moral theology. The first professor told the class that his job was to teach the generally accepted positions of the church's magisterium, as understood and presented by a majority of moral theologians. He taught us the tradition and how to put it into practice.
The second professor did much the same thing, but with two alterations. The textbook we used was The Law of Christ, by Bernard Häring, C.Ss.R., rather than the traditional handbooks of moral theology. Häring's text was critical to the renewal of moral theology because it concentrated on Scripture and the role of love and shifted the focus to the moral agent, the person making the decision. Also, as students we felt an undercurrent running through this professor's class, the significance of which was highlighted when he later resigned his teaching position. As a confessor, this priest-theologian encountered adults acting as moral agents through the formation of their consciences. It was a development he affirmed, yet he could not reconcile it with what he thought his job was as a presenter of the tradition.
Before and After the Council
These two stories represent two key models in the development of the role of the moral theologian and the laity as moral agents in their own right. The first is the pre-Vatican II role of the faithful dispenser of the church's tradition, through a study of the traditional texts of moral theology and by following generally accepted opinions of leading moral theologians. This dominant image was documented in an essay by James Keenan, S.J., of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and the Rev. Peter Black of the University of Notre Dame entitled "The Evolving Self-Understanding of the Moral Theologian: 1900-2000" (Studia Moralia, 2001). In this model, the moral theologian is a "middle man," one who, standing between the hierarchical magisterium and the laity, mediates the tradition to the laity.
Yet these authors note that sometimes the applications of these principles led to a new understanding of the principles themselves. While the moral theologian's role was to present church teaching, there was a legitimate discussion about what that teaching was and the possibility of a growing "edge," though always in union and harmony with the hierarchical magisterium, particularly the pope. The classic example is the development of the acceptability of surgery to remove part of the Fallopian tube during an ectopic pregnancy. This was eventually understood as directly intending to repair the tube that was in danger of rupturing; the removal of the embryo with the tube was understood as indirect.
My second professor's approach represented a major shift in the understanding and practice of moral theology. It can be described as a shift to the subject, to postmodernity or to experience. Whatever one calls it, the shift implies that one cannot simply repeat the content of the manuals; one cannot simply repeat magisterial teachings; one cannot simply start with principles and directly and clearly derive moral conclusions from them. Father Black and Father Keenan cite the moralist Joseph Fuchs, S.J., in concluding that the shift went from utterances to persons—that is, to both moral theologians and the laity as moral agents.
This is also affirmed in the Second Vatican Council's "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World." First the council, speaking of the norm of human activity, writes: "In accord with the divine plan and will, it [the norm of human activity] should harmonize with the genuine good of the human race, and allow people as individuals and as members of society to pursue their total vocation and fulfill it" (No. 35). Second, in speaking of harmonizing conjugal life with the responsible transmission of life, the council writes: "It [the moral aspect of a procedure] must be determined by objective standards. These [are to be] based on the nature of the human person and his acts" (No. 51). This, combined with the council's overarching affirmation that society, and the church with it, has moved from a static to a dynamic understanding of history, led to new understandings of moral theology and the role of the moral theologian.
Thus, the moral theologian must not simply repeat the words of the tradition of various church teachings, but must understand these teachings in creative fidelity with the church and the times in which he or she lives. The task of the moral theologian also includes communicating the history of the tradition as well as the authority of the hierarchical magisterium.
To that end, the role played by history prior to Vatican II was quite different from its role today. In moral theology (as in Scripture and dogmatic theology) prior to the council, history was used as a source for proof-texting—that is, to prove a position by citing the approved authors, mainly St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. One used a text without paying attention to its historical setting or context. At the council, the shift was to ressourcement, rereading the tradition in light of its times and also the current times. This was not proof-texting; rather, it was a quest to reappropriate the insights of the tradition to one's own situation. Fathers Black and Keenan phrase it as "the historical embodiment of the witness to the truth of Jesus Christ."
An excellent example of this shift in the use of history can be found in John Noonan's Contraception. His book not only rehearsed the history of contraception; more significantly, it documented the development of the teaching, described the various contexts to which it spoke and outlined how the doctrine had been imbedded in concrete situations and responded to particular historical problems and contexts. The teaching developed and must continue to develop. This book remains a model of how to mine the tradition so one can both apprehend it and apply it to respond to the current situation. Indeed, at a lecture Noonan gave after the book was published, he called for speculative moral theologians, active moral agents who would help bring the church into the future.
The role of the moral theologian was more clearly presented after the council as being in service to the whole church, the people of God. And a significant part of that service is the formation of a community that realizes its moral truth from within itself and finds that experience validated through this reappropriation of the tradition. The role of the moral theologian is not so much to tell people what to do as it is to help them to become moral agents by forming their conscience in a pilgrim church that exists within a larger community. Fathers Black and Keenan describe this as teaching the community how to practice the virtue of epikeia, or self-direction, a traditional concept in canon law. As they write, "epikeia provides the moral agent [with] self-direction." The role of the moral theologian is to help develop and promote the moral maturity of the whole community.
Beyond and Within
I would like to highlight two other facets of the role of the moral theologian. The first comes from the Rev. David Tracy in his article "Evil, Suffering, and Hope" (CTSA Proceedings, 1995).
There is an underside to all the talk about history in modern religion and theology. That underside is revealed in the shocking silence in most theologies of historical consciousness and historicity alike on the evil rampant in history, the sufferings of whole peoples, the destruction of nature itself…. [It is] a history without any sense of the radical interruptions of actual history, without a memory of historical suffering, especially the suffering caused by the pervasive systemic unconscious distortions in our history—sexism, racism, classism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, Eurocentrism.
What is significant in Father Tracy's comments is a recognition that moral theologians must see beyond themselves, beyond their education, beyond their experiences. They must be attentive, not just to their personal reality but to the reality of the community, the church and the world. History shows that moral theologians and the church community are not quite as innocent as we might like to think and that we must carefully attend to our history and to what is happening around us. There are movements in this direction: liberation theology, feminist theology, a growing body of work by theologians speaking from various groups that have historically been marginalized both within the church and the world. Clearly it is not possible for all moral theologians to address all these issues or write from all these perspectives. Yet we have to remind ourselves that our vision is limited and contextual. But we must listen, we must be attentive, we must be in solidarity. Our role is to listen and to learn and to incorporate other perspectives into our thinking and writing.
A second important facet in the changing role is something I learned from Ashley E. Shannon, my daughter, a specialist in postcolonial studies, British literature in particular. Commenting on the discomfort of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney at being asked to contribute poems to an anthology of British literature (his passport is green, he noted), she wrote:
Heaney's somewhat facetious take on the issues of postcolonial identity nonetheless clearly reveals one of the great dilemmas of the imperial subject. Is it possible to profit from, perhaps even be materially or philosophically improved by, empire, while still maintaining the individual subjectivity that allows one to choose to identify with one's own national culture? In other words, it is possible for the colonial subject to construct an identity that incorporates elements of the colonizing culture without being accused of complicity with the colonizer? Is hybridity possible? More importantly, is it desirable? If so, how can such an identity be negotiated in a literary text?
How can moral theologians and all the members of the laity be trained within the tradition of the church but still be faithful to themselves, their national culture, their community, indeed to their experience of being a Catholic in a particular country? Postcolonial studies raise the issue of the "double consciousness," of the individual who is a subject of the empire and a subject of his/her own culture. How does one navigate within these two spheres? To which does one give fidelity? To which tradition does one turn in seeking to resolve issues?
Emerging from the pre-Vatican II era into the post-Vatican II tradition is analogous to the experience of identifying formation in postcolonial contexts. As Catholics we have multiple sources of identity, multiple sources of experience, multiple interpretations of traditions, multiple sources of fidelity. We are in the situation described by Seamus Heaney: We have multiple citizenships.
The role of all moral agents is to develop an intellectual hybridity, taking the best from what has been received and forging a synthesis. Simply repeating formulas from a past age, valid though they may be, does not make this tradition intelligible to or vibrant for this postmodern and pluralistic world. We have to bring the tradition with us as we enter unexplored land, creating moral teachings appropriate to our time and culture. We need to be multilingual and multicultural as we blend the best of the past with the concerns and realities of our contemporary life. This will require many virtues: courage, fidelity, discretion, integrity, prudence and creativity. It will also require the use of our creative and synthetic reason.
Our task as members of the adult Catholic community is to walk into this new land and to make the maps that others can use to create a new moral synthesis for our own time and culture.


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