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Giving every adult in the United States a $1,000 cash handout per month would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion by 2025, according to anew study on universal basic income.
The report was released in August by the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute. Roosevelt research director Marshall Steinbaum, Michalis Nikiforos at Bard College's Levy Institute, and Gennaro Zezza at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio in Italy co-authored the study.
The study made economic forecasts for three proposals: a full universal basic income in which every adult gets $1,000 a month ($12,000 a year), a partial basic income in which every adult gets $500 a month ($6,000 a year), and a child allowance in which parents get $250 a month ($3,000 a year).
The larger the universal basic income, the greater the benefit to the economy, according to the report.
A $1,000 cash handout to all adults would grow the economy by 12.56 percent after eight years, the study finds. Current Congressional Budget Office estimates put the GDP at $19.8 trillion. The cash handout would therefore increase the GDP by $2.48 trillion. (Vox first did this extrapolation in their coverage of the report, and Steinbaum confirmed the accuracy of the extrapolation to CNBC Make It by email.)
The $250 allowance would grow the GDP by 0.79 percent and a $500-a-month payment would grow the GDP by 6.5 percent.
These estimates are based on a universal basic income paid for by increasing the federal deficit. As part of the study, the researchers also calculated the effect to the economy of paying for the cash handouts by increasing taxes. In that case, there would be no net benefit to the economy, the report finds.
"When paying for the policy by increasing taxes on households rather than paying for the policy with debt, the policy is not expansionary," the report says. "In effect, it is giving to households with one hand what it is taking away with the other. There is no net effect."
The study is based on the Levy Macro-Economic model, which presupposes that the potential of the economy is constrained because household income is low. That opinion, even the authors of the study admit, is debatable. "Other macroeconomic models would disagree," the report says. The idea of a universal basic income has been promoted lately by technology leaders and Silicon Valley billionaires.
Some, like Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, see cash handouts as a solution to the imminent threat of automation to the labor force. Musk has said that universal basic income will be a virtual necessity because robots will put so many low-skilled workers out of a job.
Others, like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, think handouts could give everyone the safety net necessary to think like an entrepreneur. Zuckerberg touts UBI as a way to ensure people are not afraid to take risks to pursue the projects and business ventures they are passionate about.
I think It might be crazy enough to work.
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(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), for purposes of intestate succession by, through, or from a person, an individual is the child of the child's natural parents, regardless of their marital status. The parent and child relationship may be established under chapter 584.
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Two-day Christmas itinerary for families
Discover every event in Brisbane's official Christmas program
Parents are you ready for this? * Cue Space Jam theme song * It's the ultimate Christmas big day out for all. Brisbane's mammoth four-week Christmas program can't be tackled in one day - you're going to have to spread out the fun over multiple days. On that note, we've also written a two-day guide for families that will help you make the most of #Christmasinbrisbane this year, so check that one out too #merrybrismas.
Check-in at the Novotel Brisbane South Bank , a perfect location and just steps away from all of the Christmas action. Here you will find contemporary open plan suites with amazing amenities including a heated swimming pool and gym.
Start the day at South Bank for an early morning wake up swim. The whitest Christmas we'll get in Brisbane is sand at Streets Beach, so let the kids enjoy a dip in the pools and make sand angels on the beach.
Hungry? Our tummies are grumbling. If you didn't find sufficient food at the markets, try nearby Zeus Street Greek, Mister Paganini for crowd-pleasing pizza or pick up a picnic basket from Popolo and lie out on River Quay Green.
At this time of year, South Bank is also in school holiday mode with every gallery, museum and space primed for fun. Pop by the free exhibitions and children's activity centre at QAGOMA, check out what's happening at the State Library, drop into Lost Creatures at the Queensland Museum and finish with a dip at Streets Beach (if you haven't already).
After exploring the cultural sites, from 3-10pm, visit the Christmas Gift Market which takes over the cobbled streets of Stanley Street Plaza (14-23 December). Let the kids explore the markets while you shop for locally made gifts, Christmas treats and ornaments to the sounds of carollers and live music.
Come evening you have a choice: You can stay on the South Bank side of the river or cross a bridge into the CBD. It's time to choose your own adventure, so read on below.
There's something especially romantic about seeing the Christmas Parade go by. The parade starts outside QueensPlaza and winds its way down the Queen Street Mall, turning at Albert St and into King George Square. Running nightly from 13-22 December.
After the parade it should be dark and late enough to see the giant tree lit up and view the Gold Lotto City Hall Lights – a crazy-cool 3D animated projection on the historic walls of Brisbane City Hall from 6 -24 December from 7:30pm to midnight.
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If the little ones are hungry, escape to Jamie's Italian, Bavarian Bier Café or Corbett & Claude for dinner and come back to view the light projections and tree afterwards. December is a busy time in the city, so best make a reservation to be safe.
If you choose to stay at South Bank, you can catch an outdoor movie at River Quay Christmas Cinema or catch the Live Carols every night between 14-23 December. And don't miss the Fireworks Spectacular on the river nightly from 20-23 December.
South Bank itself is a family-friendly area and the restaurants around the precinct reflect this. Stop in for dinner before the cinema at Ginga Sushi Train, Bamboo Basket, and Guzman y Gomez, or time it right and make a booking with river views from 20-23 December at Southbank Beer Garden or any of the River Quay restaurants to get a solid view of the sparkly action.
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Create new memories as a family this festive season by making the most of Brisbane's mammoth free four-week Christmas program across two days. Why two? Because it can't all be done in a day.
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Library consortia in China
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LIBRES Volume 19, Issue 1 (March 2009)
This paper traces the history and development of library consortia in China from 1980 to the present. It also gives examples and descriptions of various types of library consortia in China, including academic, public, special, multi-type library consortia at the regional and national level.
Digital rights management and access to information: a developing country's perspective
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Digital rights management systems (DRMs) together with technological protection measures (TPMs) have become a controversial topic of discussion around copyrighted works, particularly since the controversial Sony BMG case. This paper addresses some of the concerns around TPM-enabled digital rights management systems as they apply to and impact on developing countries. It highlights issues such as digital censorship, international support for digital rights management and the current legislation in South Africa relating to digital rights management. It also discusses types of digital rights management systems and how they affect access to information and knowledge, as well as their impact on the public domain and privacy. The paper provides some recommendations and challenges to librarians and educators in South Africa and for librarians in other developing countries, on how to address digital rights management issues in relation to their obligations and mandates to provide users and learners with unrestricted access to information.
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Communities and organizations spend money on library materials and services as a cost effective way to help community members gain access to the works and ideas of others so as to answer questions, solve problems, learn new things, and explore entertainment opportunities. Since the library is the agency that manages access to the social transcript paid for by the community, it is a widely shared belief that the library, particularly those funded by educational institutions, should be the lead agency in articulating, promoting, and developing the community's information literacy.
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The Valefar boy tricked Ivy Taylor into kissing him, but he took much more than a kiss - he stole her soul and left her within inches of death.
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
For those that wish to look ahead a little further than the next trade I thought I would spend some time with the longer term outlook. Where will we be in the next decade? After all what's the point of making these trades and trying to position yourself for the future if there is no future. That premise seems simple enough.
So let's assume that the Grand Mega Economic Supercycle manages to clean out our excesses and rearranges our landscape without destroying the majority of this earth's inhabitants putting us into some form of neo-ice-age. I think that most readers inherently want this planet to not only survive but to continue to transform itself in a more favorable direction.
This is what Supercycles are known for....HOWEVER....A bear market of Grand Supercycle scale should be of sufficient magnitude to be accompanied by a severe economic recession. The last Grand Supercycle was terminated by the bursting of the South Sea Bubble and Mississippi Bubble in 1720. This was followed by a period of economic stagnation which lasted over 50 years, which is longer than the length of the Great Depression. If the Grand Supercycle theory is correct then the magnitude of the current recession should be of greater magnitude than the Great Depression, and possibly of greater magnitude than the severe economic recession from the 1720s–1770s that terminated the previous Grand Supercycle of the Renaissance.
I wish to challenge this. I want to look at this from the standpoint of the underlying changes in technology and the impact that this can have on how we come out of this in terms of the timeline and in terms of what the "other side" may look like.
Do I think the next five to ten years will be ugly? Yes....but what will be driving force out of this? Of course it will be technology......and it will be an exponential change in areas of nanotechnology...biotechnology....and artificial intelligence that drive us over the next ten years.
We now have billions of computers in the hands of young minds all over the world. When you place that much power in that many hands you are going to find that the explosion of advances and innovation will be astounding during the next decade and beyond. Imagine villages and cities in developing nations with intellects that previously were left to lie fallow without the benefit of attending the finest western universities to contribute the next "great thing". Now we will see what happens when you marry the internet, the cloud, and exloding chip capacity with Ruwanda.
Look at the abysmal failure of our own "higer" educational system to adapt to changing planet. How did we take some of our greatest institutions into the twemty-first century? Well one absolute anchor created from a "wealth in decadence" standpoint was the LEGACY system in these famous institution. Enormous percentages (as high as 50% in some institutions) are filled before any application is made. That's how George W. Bush was able to attend Yale and Harvard.....I wonder who missed that slot.
With the connectivity and computer generating capacity available now we no longer are going to depend on this antiquated educational system for our "next change". That change is already happening and will explode during the next ten years. The "social medias" are where a lot of this will emanate from. In fact the "social media" is being created by "college dropouts". We will be able to marry pockets of innovation through our connectivity to provide the an exponential move to actual development and production. We have countries with enormous populations of engineers and labor that are eager to begin for example the "next generation" of solar panes and wind turbines and fuel cells etc.
The same breakthroughs in speed of change in medicine is occurring with biotechnology. Look at how rapidly the outbreak of swine flu was contained. Literally stopping its spread with the vaccine developed and IMPLEMENTED in just a matter of a few months.
Many aspects of this change are going to provide a threat to the current regimes and political structure of the PTB. They will have to adapt and I am sure they will. You and I as investors must see the future. Near term its going to be ugly but if we get through this the opportunities are going to be enormous. The next Google...the next MSFT...the next Facebook....they will be bought for pennies on the dollar during the next few years. Some kid sitting on the Serengetti may be dreaming the next "big thing" on his computer. We have to get through to the other side first. gl all
The following article must be carefully perused and it fits well with what Joe Red and myself have postulated to usher in QE 3.......its a dooozy of a ride.....gotta have the cash if they push it to that level in two mo.
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Some market analysis with charts:ReplyDelete
What he is saying is that 1249 on S&P would be tested and then short term spike to 1300 followed by take down to 1050 before Bernanke starts QE3 and violent upward from that point for a while and as far as miners the best time to buy around end of July to mid August.ReplyDelete
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It is my understanding that if you believe in DOW theory and that we are overall in a Secular Bear Market, then the market CANNOT trade higher than the high in 2007. Thus, perhaps the high we set this May is it.
When I had my taxes done this April, my accountant told me he is already short the market. I have always found him to be a knowledgeable guy.
I remember when "Bat" posted here ??several months ago?? that he was already all in cash.
Perhaps Inlet might comment. Do you think the high this May is it??
Doc.....just food for thought....setting a "new high" and crushing the bears again would only reinforce "buying the dips" the same could also be accomplished with a strong counter trend rally to the 1340 level.... setting the stage for an unrelenting down move later in the year with periodic countertrend rallies. Either strong rallie can be accomplished with the energy built from the shorts piling on in anticipation of P3 beginning now (which as you imply it may have). The goal is to prevent as few shorts as possible to make money and as few longs.ReplyDelete
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If you look at the cycles and how they are lining up I see little reason for optimism. Short term you have a 1 year cycle bottoming first week of July, 20 week cycle 3rd-4th week of July. So one might conclude that this is positive for the fall as these cycles turn up.
It might be somewhat but don't ignore that soon the PI cycle will be in the final 12.5% of its downleg into early next year (and that should be the hard down portion of the down leg).
Droke has pointed out the 6 year cycle (part of the Kress cycle combo) tops in the Fall (Sept?) and often marks tops in the market. And of course there are other long cycles that come into play in 2012 (10 year, Kitchin) in a negative way.
And we haven't even gotten to the biggies yet. Of course, there will be countrend rallies, but until proven otherwise the trend is down and could be down for a long period. The clock in my vehicle is stuck on 6:46 - is that a sign? hehehe
possible pattern, may not be as clean as seen when Joe did the neckline save of SLW (going much lower if the above scenario pans out) or shorting LDK just before it peaked on the daily (also going lower into Joe's 5-6 range). Not sure if the first bounce will be of that quality. Oh well need to digest the chili cookoff.ReplyDelete
As for Kli's 10 years forwards, even if we get a miraculous low period of 5-6 years of Mad Max meets the Postman ending around 2017-18. It will take some time to rebuild decayed, abandoned or destroyed infrastructure. Without a readily available supply of cheap energy for JIT supply chain the die off will be brutal within 1-3 years afterwards. Takes alot of energy to irrigate those deserts in California. Nearest survinging social/political model to look at when complex systems collapse would be North Korea.
Oh, red it is hard to fathom...many, many starving in N.Korea for years...Kli, I read an article in the New Yorker last month about quantum computers--this kind of advancement give me hope, but unfortunately it looks like my last years may not be Golden! And please comment on the banning of gold/silver otc trades for U.S. How will this affect price?ReplyDelete
Red....hehehe...can't you give me a chance to be positive???? heheheh....I do want to make a point to clarify. With the technology advances coming the shift of growth and power may be multifocal and concentrated within regions that have resources and weather patterns favorable for growth.ReplyDelete
No kidding first time in a while got to read something warm and fuzzy with the morning brew. Leave it to Red to keep things real! I'm with Sis looking for Comment on the banning The Otc gold/silver forex. Whole subject a bit over my head....ReplyDelete
Agreed that advances in technology will be somewhat mind-boggling in the next decade or two (thanks for raining on that parade, Red! :->). But I wouldn't look for the next big thing to come from Africa, so I disagree with that part. There is no hope for that continent, and it will continue to be the garbage dump of the world. Sorry if I sound harsh or politically incorrect, but that's the reality as I see it, with plenty of past history and present-day trends to back that up.ReplyDelete
Replace Rwanda with Mumbai and the Serengeti with Shanghai, and we got something. I expect Asia (China and India, specifically) to play a major role in this area going forward. But the US/Europe aren't going anywhere, and I still expect the West to lead the way.
As for the market, if the above analysis is correct (1249->1300->1050) by August, time put that cash to use with the right opportunities. I'm thinking of shorting the banks and tech, because their Q2 earnings will be terrible. Also looking to pick up some miners if the beatdown continues.
BTW, anyone following RIMM? Could it possibly go to the teens before someone tries to buy it? It seems to be in big trouble in the highly competitive smartphone and tablet market.
Thanks for the above responses.ReplyDelete
I remember reading in Barron's shortly after the March/2009 low, that the S&P would rise to 1250,...and some thought 1300-1350. At that time, those numbers were thought to be impossible to reach.
Well,...we reached those numbers.
We know that QE doesn't really work anymore. Any bang we get out of it is less & less.
I am sure there will be lots of rallies, and the 3rd year of the President's term usually is a good one for the market. But, perhaps the May high is the best it can do.
Perhaps a moth has lightly landed upon that pond in China,...or was it a butterfly?
long time listener, fist time caller. I just wasted 30 minutes trying to post this jibberish on fucking yahoo skf. fuck those fucking assholes.ReplyDelete
europe: get the marshmellows ready
two excellent stories this morning. First, from zerohedge, CDS exposure to greece is a mere $5B
second, and most likely most importantly, on Mish's site linking to the Telegraph, european banks are running out of cash
I assume we are at most weeks away from greece's government collpsing and most likely leaving the EU, printing its own currency, and leaving god knows who in charge of the country, probably the military. The entire EU begins a horrific meltdown at that point. the ECB starts printing euros faster than Ben can print dollars, liquidity is vaporized in a matter of months at most. Show me another likely alternative, I'd love to hear it.
Happy Fathers Day!ReplyDelete
Happy Father's Day to all here! Just surprised no comment on the OTC ban on gold/silver trading...trying to sort out its meaning other than obvious Control...welcome Abbie Hoffmann, good to see you here.ReplyDelete
Happy fathers Day all, and especially Red, this song is for you:ReplyDelete
When it comes to our buddy Red, in vietnamese:
"Ba" - father
"Mẹ or má" - Mother
people in the rural in the north part often address as
"U" - mother
"Thầy" - father
Sometime how children address their parents are passed down from generation to generation in the family; therefore, they would address their parents differently in the family.
To steal a cramer-ism, you have NO IDEA, NONE of how fast technology is moving.ReplyDelete
So many disparate systems are now becoming integrated, distributed and automated. And sorry to knock you red, but distributed systems while carrying weaknesses of their own, are certainly more difficult to destroy or dismantle.
You are not paying attention to the real issue from the current tech boom, and that's what to do with all the people being rendered useless.
I don't disagree things get ugly, but we are in many ways in uncharted waters in human history and machines don't care about cycles, so hopefully you all focus on the ways in which this bust will be different to guarantee your own safety and prosperity.
Case in point - lookee what Apple has done to RIMM, but watch what is about to befall Apple.
Good luck all
Thanks for commenting Fitzy. You hit the nail on the head with the masses being rendered idle through technology, poor governance, misallocation or lack of allocation of capital to keep the social fabric held together. The top tier has engaged in a loot and pillage then setting up the sanctuary points when the SHTF, and then coming back to rule over whoever is left standing after the chaos.ReplyDelete
The distributed systems, mainly the 13 root name servers {not 13 physical but widely distributed for each one} are the inherent weakness of modern technology. Not trivial to take down but not very hard either, EMP pulse (solar flare or nuclear/emp weapons), coordinate hacking attack, or as simple as the governments shutting it down to maintain control. Banking and commerce hacks reaching a crescendo as electronic transactions are all suspect. Most advance items from ipads, the electric cars, and power plant turbines are dependent on a fewer suppliers as capital dries up.
Not to mention a few manmade and natural disasters to put a monkey wrench in the JIT supply chain.
As for Apple like facebook is saturated markets, with the big problem you mentioned before, jobs to buy the annual fad iterations. Recent pumps in IPOs like LinkedIn and Pandora give you an idea how capital is chasing utter crap.
Try and stay safe in the upcoming times.
Fitz, I think it is very clear what to do with all the people rendered useless.....without derivatives to create faux liquidity through the faux housing market industry they have NOTHING. As Red indicated a retrenchment by the power will take place as the dust settles after an appropriate time and concomittent decimation......wash rinse repeat cycle will be complete of course. The surviving laundry will be in place to be worn again. If we don't go "Mad Max" then the other side may be explosive as synergistic technology advancements create an entirely new growth horizon. The countries best positioned to take advantage of these changes will be the investment opps.ReplyDelete
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Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system and because of that its gravitational pull is also very high. Because of its high gravitational force, Jupiter has done many favors to our planet. It helps to keep asteroids away from bombarding to Earth, and protects our planet. One French scientist called Pierre-Simon Laplace found that a comet which was heading towards earth's surface got into Jupiter's gravitational field and got expelled from earth's direction. Like this Jupiter act as a protector of our planet and our lives.
Jupiter is the fifth planet, if we consider the distance from Sun. It is a huge planet which has a mass of about one-thousandth that of the Sun, and 2.5 times the total mass of all other planets in the Solar System. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since ancient times and the Romans named the planet after their god Jupiter. It is the 3rd brightest object in the night sky after the Venus and Moon. Jupiter is composed primarily of gaseous and liquid matter. It's atmosphere is made up of 24% of helium and 75% of hydrogen and the remaining mass consists of other elements. The atmosphere has small amounts of ammonia, methane, water vapor, and silicon-based compounds. There are also traces of carbon, hydrogen sulfide, ethane, neon, phosphine, oxygen, and sulfur. The outermost layer of the atmosphere consists of frozen ammonia in crystalline form. The interior of the planet contains denser materials. It lacks a well-defined solid surface and because of its high speed rotation, shape of the planet is that of an oblate spheroid with a noticeable bulge around the equator. It has a diameter of 142,984 km at its equator and the average density of Jupiter, 1.326 g/cm3. The outer atmosphere of Jupiter is segregated into different bands at different latitudes, which creates turbulence and storms along interacting boundaries of atmospheric layers. In 17th Century, a giant storm was observed on Jupiter surface which is known as the Great Red Spot. There is a faint planetary ring system around Jupiter and also there is a powerful magnetosphere. Jupiter has at least 69 moons and Ganymede is the largest.
Jupiter is very big when compared to Earth but it is less dense. Volume of Jupiter is about 1,321 times Earths, but it mass is only 318 times higher. A "Jupiter mass" is used as a unit to describe masses of objects, like extra solar planets and brown dwarfs. Jupiter has a core which contains mixture of elements, and core is surrounded by a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen with some helium, and there is an outer layer which consists of molecular hydrogen. Detailed information about the core is not known.
The Great Red Spot is a zone of high pressure on Jupiter, which causes an anticyclone storm on the planet. The Great Red Spot region is bigger than The Earth. This storm is stable and a permanent feature of the planet but, it has significantly decreased in size since its discovery.


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Coinbase Wallet, a branch from leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has announced support for Ethereum Classic.
The news was announced by the company in an official blog post stating that the wallet app will update within the next few days.
Coinbase Wallet now supports Ethereum Classic (ETC)!https://t.co/M8VdIMW6u8 pic.twitter.com/9hgspuC5Sj
— Coinbase Wallet (@CoinbaseWallet) November 26, 2018
The announcement states:
"With this asset launch, Coinbase Wallet now supports Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), and all of the 100,000+ ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain."
Furthermore, according to the official post, for existing Coinbase Wallet – "the ETC address will be the same as [the] current Ethereum (ETH) address, so any ETC you have sent to [the] Coinbase Wallet ETH address in the past will now show up after the update."
We reported in June of this year that Coinbase was listing Ethereum Classic, which is a hard fork from Ethereum, on its platform as a tradable asset.
Ethereum Classic is now trading at $4.31 USD which is 2.36% decline in day-on-day trading.


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Are all these Republican candidates complete idiots?
I keep hearing clips and reading stuff that make them sound like they're genuinely utter fools.
Herman Cain on Obama's Libya stance:
What's worse is with Reagan and Dubya under their belts you can see the US voters love that shit.
It's pretty much between Romney and Gingrich now isn't it?
The others have proven too gaffe-prone even by US politics standards it seems.
American Politics is shit.
it probably won't do him that much damage
I mean he's already openly mocked the suggestion that a presidential candidate should have at least something resembling a foreign policy
God knows I hope Cain doesn't get elected, having seen the clip, it's actually nowhere near as bad as people are going to make out.
I mean he's criticising Obama without really knowing the facts (as he admits at the end) but that aside he's basically saying he doesn't know all the facts so can't really give an opinion. I don't really have a huge problem with that - it's far better than some chump venturing a bold opinion on subjects he knows bugger-all about (such as Perry boldly planning to cut money from a department he can't actually remember)
I mean I think it will do Cain damage because "I don't know without the facts" isn't that good a soundbite and he'll be portayed as dithering but this is a million miles from the worst of most stupid thing Cain's done.
But the amazing pause after the question.
It's like he's trying to remember what Libya even is. I think even with the spin you're putting on it the man comes across as lacking the sort of intellect you would like in a leader of any country. You would hope he should be able to at least articulate himself more clearly.
Yeah - I just added something at the bottom. I'd forgotten that bit by the time I reached the end of the clip.
Don't get me wrong - I agree he's not someone you'd want as the leader of a country and he does spend five minutes making a very basic point. I'm just saying it's not as bad the Perry clip and that, given the choice between an idiot who thinks he knows everything and an idiot who admits their areas of weakness I'd take the latter every time. I'd obviously rather someone got put forward who wasn't an idiot but, as you say in your original post, there doesn't seem to be anyone who doesn't seem to be an idiot running for the nomination.
I guess the one thing with Cain is there's no hope in Hell he'd beat Obama.
Is the Perry clip the one where he says he'll get rid of three departments or something
and then only names two of them and gets confused?
That's the one.
Which is much worse 'cos Cain's just saying he doesn't really know much about the subject and so can't answer the question. Perry's saying he doesn't know much about the government departments but he's already decided which ones he'll cut. That's far more terrifying.
I dunno, you could argue that Cain has the best chance to beat Obama
He could potentially split the black vote and white republicans would still vote for him (begrudgingly). Its unlikely but not impossible.
As long as Obama campaigns on "I Killed Bin Laden" he should be fine though
Yeah - but watch the video then imagine Cain v Obama in tv debates
He'll get slaughtered.
PS obviously the bit at the start where he had check which country Libya was was bad.
But the rest of it not so much so.
was this the guy who said
for every woman who says i harassed them there are thousands who said i didn't?
and speaks about himself in the third person all the time?
and is clearly subnormal mentally?
Public transport LOL
He didn't really say that, did he? Surely not?
it makes...too much sense
Who are you and what have you done with the real CG?TheoGB this'd this
It's cos it's an incumbent
Like 2 have lost in 92 years. Even if Obama's ratings have dipped (though his fundraising figures are absolutely incredible) you have to take a guy on who's been one of the most famous people in the world for four years and you're a nobody.
All the strong Republican candidates, Christie etc are saving themselves for a clean shot next time round
Incumbents who have lost since WW2 I think
Ford, Carter, Bush Snr. And Ford never won an election to start with. So yeah it's pretty rare.
they are just mavericks
- DaveMK this'd this
What, no _james?
I'm pretty sure this is the kind of impression Hermain Cain wants to give though.
He's said many times throughout the campaign that he's just an entrepreneur, and that he wouldn't pretend that he has all the answers. His White House would be run like a business where the CEO has a whole host of advisors who are experts in their particular departments, and he would defer to their judgement. It's not his job to know everything in advance, basically, but that when he has to make a decision he's going to be competent to make the right one based on the advice he receives.
It's a bold tactic, which is partly why he became a bit of a darling for a while, but it looks like Gingrich is making a late surge now after the sexual harassment allegations - and purely based on being the last one standing who isn't Ron Paul I suppose.


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Watch Token & Emoney Spazz Out During TeamBackPack's Bar Fight Rap Battle
During their annual Mission Underground festival and conference in New York this past summer, our friends at TeamBackPack filmed several episodes of Bar Fight, their dynamic rap battle series.
Today (November 21), the latest entry in the highly-entertaining series was released, featuring Sonoma spitter Emoney and Salem rapper Token, and, well, damn!
Over instrumentals by producers Jimmy Dukes and AC3 Beats, both emcees completely spazz out, speeding up and slowing down their respective flows with ease.
While both acts were impressive, we'll tip our cap to Token and give him the W. Ultimately, though, when two emcees deliver high-octane bars for nine straight minutes, it's hard to declare either a loser.
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March Madness Links to Climate Change?
RICHMOND, Va. - March Madness has a conservation group trying to better the betting odds for teams with wildlife mascots. A new report from the National Wildlife Federation details how wildlife mascots are being affected by climate change.
According to the report, sea-level rise, extreme droughts and storms, warming temperatures, and the timing of snowpack melting can all change habitats.
National Wildlife Federation senior scientist Dr. Doug Inkley, a lead author of the "Mascot Madness" report, said the Virginia Commonwealth University mascot, the ram, is a prime example of a species facing challenges.
"It could be 'game over' for many of the wildlife mascots," he said, "unless we reduce our carbon pollution that's causing climate change, and unless we develop new clean energy sources."
Tigers, lions, alligators, bears, wolverines and falcons also are featured in the report.
Inkley said while they had some fun putting the research together and talking about basketball, it's a serious topic.
"It is a big opponent, a big challenge, this climate change," he said. "We need to reduce our carbon emissions and we need to develop clean energy sources: wind power, solar power."
NWF is hoping to connect with the millions of people who tune in to watch playoff basketball games, especially those who do so at work.
The online company "Retail Me Not" released a survey showing almost three in 10 people plan to watch March Madness games at their place of employment.
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We have an application in mobile PDA hand held device. It has a form with more than 1 input controls and two buttons (BACK and NEXT). The expected workflow of the application would be that the User when enters some value in the text box for an item and click on ENTER keyboard button of the device, it should navigate to the next item for which User would enter the value in the text box for another item. On click of ENTER, it should navigate to another item and so on...
But what's happening currently is that ENTER keyboard button even though is pressed, it's not navigating to another item. That is once the value is entered in the textbox, the auto tab feature should focus to the NEXT button and when the ENTER keyboard button is pressed, it means that it is clicking on the NEXT button. But it's not happening.
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Electro-Smog and the Shift of Ages
By Hwaa Irfan
In the main, this was originally written on 11 July 2002. Since then accumulative reports have identified cell phones as a dangerous source of microwaves.
With the advent of industrialization, the ecosystem first became subjected to environmental pollution. Subsequently, the clean technological revolution saw a decrease in chemical pollution to the environment. Ironically, however, invisible electric pollution is on the rise and has created a new environmental worry – electro-smog. Electro-smog, however, is not as escapable as other forms of environmental pollution.
It is artificially generated electric and magnetic fields that can penetrate anything. Furthermore, electromagentic waves, most commonly pervasive as microwaves, can escape visible detection and cannot be avoided. If a person has contaminated water they can use a filter. However, as of yet, there are no filters for electro-smog.
"And the heavens we raised it high with power, and most surely We are the makers of things ample" (Az-Zariat 51:47).
" When the heaven has it's covering removed. And when the hell is kindled up, And when the garden is brought nigh, Every soul shall know what it has prepared" (At-Takwir 81:11-14).
In this context, kindling could be acquainted with the warming-up that occurs through the energy of microwave. It has long been established that long-term exposure to microwaves causes tumors. However, these concerns are becoming more prevalent and urgent as consumer exposure to microwaves increases. Microwaves were a new concept to most people when the first microwave ovens hit the marketplace. However, in the 21st century microwaves are used in everything from the lowest TV broadcasting at 50MHz to the several hundred gigahertz of automotive radars.
The problem with microwaves is the receptivity of the body to these waves. The human skull is less resistant to EMF than electricity and the human body being mostly water, is susceptible because water has a high absorption level when it comes to microwave. The microwave oven uses short waves of EMF that travel at the speed of light. Creating molecular friction on an alternating current, microwaves heat-up food and tear apart surrounding molecules. Dr. Lita Lee of Hawaii reported:
"Microwaving baby formulas converts certain transmino acids into their synthetic isomers. Synthetic isomers, whether cisamino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, converts to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic [poisonous to the nervous system] and nephrotoxic [poisonous to the kidneys]."
In fact, microwaving so extremely changes the molecules in substances that they become other substances altogether. In a case where an Oklahoman nurse heated blood in a microwave for a blood transfusion, microwaving changed the blood and killed the patient. This change takes place because molecules and cells hit by EMF reverse polarity at 1-100bn times a second. This processes is so successful at weakening cell walls that it is used in gene altering technology. The cell becomes easy prey after being exposed to microwaves and thus the natural repair mechanisms are suppressed and instead of utilizing water and carbon dioxide for cell respiration they use hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide.
It has also recently been proven that microwaves penetrate exposed biological tissue. Absorbed microwaves, in fact, convert to heat within biological tissue raising continued concern about human exposure to Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) at 900MHz (emic, p.1-4).
Recently, physicist Tsuyoshi Hondou of the Tohoku University in Japan explored the issue of microwaves on the commuter-packed trains of Japan. He had noticed the large number of commuters use mobiles at the same time in a confined area, the train. On the basis of structure, materials used in the structures of a train and the distribution of microwaves throughout the train he made some investigations. Taking into consideration reflection and the accumulative effect of radio waves Hondou found that the electromagnetic frequency (EMF) had exceeded the safety guidelines of the International Committee for non-Ionizing Radiation.
Last year (2001), concerns were laid-out in the Options Brief of the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) to the European Parliaments Directorate General for Research. Pertaining to microwaves the concern included: adolescent use of mobiles, military and police radars and farms and populations sited near GSM installations. Scientists argued that since there is no evolutionary immunity against electro-smog, humans are being affected severely by their exposure to EMFs. Furthermore, WHO has been aiming to globalize exposure standards by persuading countries with strict limits such as China and Russia to relax those standards in favor of the higher Western levels. Once this is in place, it will be easier to implement the U.S Federal Communications order to cellular companies to equip all new cell phones with Global Positioning Satellite tracking devices that can pinpoint a user's location within 300ft anywhere on the planet.
However, harmful EMF effects on individuals are not the only concern of environmental NGOs. Many scientists are saying that the increase in EMF waves on earth could actually change the earth, as we know it. The earth's EMF grid as indicated on the Muslim map of Piri Re'is 1513 is created by the flow of molten iron inside the earth's core. The pattern of earth's rotation normally aligns with earth's axis hence forming the magnetic South and North Pole. Occasionally, this magnetic dipole moves or disappears altogether leaving a complicated magnetic field with many poles. Sometimes that movement is actually a polaric flip. Current evidence shows that we might be in line for such a flip.
Scientist Gauthier Hulot of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris using data from the Orsted satellite found that a magnetic area beneath the southern tip of South Africa points towards the center of the earth. This is opposite to the rest of the earth that points towards the Southern Hemisphere. Another such area has also been found near the North Pole. Both areas account for the decrease in the earth's magnetic field by 10%. Calculations from recent observations indicate that the North Pole is about to depart from the Canadian territorial waters where it has been for the last 400 years on a path bound for Russia. This will take approximately 50 years to occur. Throughout the 20th century the magnetic north pole has been moving at 10km per year, but within the last 10 years it has accelerated to 40km. At the same time the earth is passing through a Photon Belt and the earth's rotation is slowing while the earth's frequency is increasing.
"The first sign (out of the signs of the appearance of the Dajjal) would be the appearance of the sun from the West," warned Rasulullah (SAW0 (Muslim, 40 #7025). The last reversal occurred over 780,000 years ago according to geological records.
Furthermore, the earth's frequency has been 7.8 cycles per second for years. Military global communications developed on this frequency. However, recent reports show the current frequency at 11 cycles as indicated in the data from Norwegian and Russian researchers. Greg Braden predicts that when the earth stops rotating the resonant frequency will be 13 cycles – zero point magnetic field before rotating in the opposite direction. The effect could be devastating to humanity if humans become isolated from the Schumann Resonance's EMF that resonates close to the rhythms of the human brain.
"I think there is clearly something powerful about the human energy field and it's interaction with the energy in the world – electromagnetic, biochemical, and the energy we get from other people and plants and animals" stated Dr. June Murray of the Saston Center, U.S.
It has been noted that solar and geomagnetic activity as in weather systems affect changes in blood pressure and blood composition [2011 has been noted for a significant increase in such activity which increased after the noted 11-11-11. Changes in human behavior occur during high or low solar activity and geomagnetic storms that have become increasingly frequent. Solar and lunar effects have also been seen to influence patterns of civil behavior. [It is worth noting the obvious especially if the belief is that we are in control of all our faculties 100% as much as we have allowed ourselves to believe. Contrary to popular myth, we are in the throes of a Shift, but that Shift does not mean an Apocalypse, but a renewal that seeks to bring everything back into line with the Laws of Nature, laws which serve as God's tool towards purging our miscreations so that a renewal can take place. We are already witnessing this in terms of the growing sense of people's power, and nature's role in the cleansing of the abused Earth and the life it supports].
It is not a matter of belief, it is happening in the face of those who hold fast to the miscreations that have shaped our self concept, our economic and socio-political system to the extent that those realities are no longer sustainable at a time when everything including the Earth says unequivocally that it is Time for Change, and that despite our fears we are capable of achieving once we let go of those fears… it's scary isn't it, but if we are honest, the future is only what we project it to be! If we keep projecting we become short sighted to what is present and what possibilities the present holds, and if we are not available to the present, we are not available to those possibilities in the present, ourselves, others and that which is within our control. Yet we sit and dream, sit and project, sit and only focus on a concept of the future when it is the present that makes tomorrow. Have we not been doing this for too long, wasting our lives to reach a point in our history that everything we have projected is dissipating before our very eyes – much precious time has passed this way living in the past, the future, without our full participation in the present? So much so that far too many people in the under-developed and the developing world are busy wishing their way into that which has dissipated, believing that the multi-leveled global crises is but a phase. Why desire after that which has failed miserably instead of using now to 'Occupy' our hearts, our minds, our souls and the Earth that sustains a biodiversity that we are withering away on a human, spiritual and environmental level? It does not have to be like that – a little faith in life can withstand the distance, and enjoy the journey called life better than we have done so far! God's Hand is guiding us towards a point that we can be the change we want to be as a higher form of globalization is doing what the lower form of globalization is not equipped to do. The rest is up to us!
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Graham, Sarah. "Satellites Spy Changes to Earth's Magnetic Field."
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Jones, Nicola. "Anomalies Hint at Magnetic Pole Flip." 04/24/02.
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Sample, Ian. "Cellphone Radiation Trapped in Train Carriages." 05/04/02.
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Hay-scented fern spore production following clearcuttingAuthor(s): Kathy A. Penrod; Larry H. McCormick
Date: 1997
Source: In: Pallardy, Stephen G.; Cecich, Robert A.; Garrett, H. Gene; Johnson, Paul S., eds. Proceedings of the 11th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-188. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station: 401
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DescriptionHay-scented fern is a common forest understory weed native to the Appalachian region. It interferes with oak and other hardwood seedling growth and often leads to regeneration failures. Harvesting is know to increase rates of vegetative expansion, spore germination, and possibly spore production of hay-scented fern. To examine the latter effect, a progressive series of five annual clearcuts was made in each year from 1990 to 1994 in a mixed oak stand in central Pennsylvania. Four populations of hay-scented fern in each clearcut and in an uncut control stand were sampled in August 1994. The number of fronds per square meter increased four-fold in the first two growing seasons following clearcutting then decreased to about twice the density of the uncut control stand following five growing seasons. Percentage of fertile fronds declined the first growing season as new fronds emerged then increased continuously each growing season as new fronds matured. Spore production per frond increased four-fold and estimated population spore production increased twelve-fold by the fifth growing season following clearcutting. Spore production increases of this magnitude can lead to large increases in the soil sporebank of hay-scented fern.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
Alexander Hamilton
Been reading a few of the founding documents. I read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights every once in a while. Not because I am some kind of super patriot, who reads the document to instill in myself a sense of awe and wonder at the greatness of the founders. That is silliness, the founders were people, not gods, they were not perfect, and it shows in the documents they wrote. I don't read it because I am some scholar trying to glean some new thought out of them. Anyone who can read anything new into the document that hasn't already been read, thought through, and discussed ad nauseum, is simply reading into it his or her own prejudices and inclinations. I read it to learn. To find out what the men who wrote the document wanted to give us, and what they wanted to keep from us.
I cannot think the documents upon which our nations government was founded are perfect, close, but not perfect. Ben Franklin, at the close of the constitutional convention famously said there were several parts of the constitution that he did not agree with. He did go on to say that it was as close to perfect as they were capable of creating. Patrick Henry had issues with the Bill of Rights, the entire bill of rights. His arguments, as I recall them, were simple. Any time a government gives a right, it means that that right is controlled by that government, and can be changed, altered as that government sees fit.
Ask any of the Japanese who were around during WWII who lived on the west coast how they felt about what happened to their freedoms, and their rights. Ask an American Indian, or the descendant of slaves where their rights were when they needed them. Look at the FISA legislation. Look at the NSA's warrantless wiretap program. All of these point to Patrick Henry having a valid point, in each and every case, government interference took what one would think of as a basic fundamental human freedom, and squashed it for it's own purposes.
Friday's Great American Links, focusing on the second amendment;
The records of the federal convention 2; august 23rd 1787
John Randolph to St. George Tucker; September 11th, 1789
House Committee report; July 28th 1789
The congressional register; August 17th, 1789
The constitution, and the Bill of Rights are a contract between the Government and the people, and many of the Amendments have gone under interpretive changes over time. No Amendment to the constitution is looked upon now the same way it was when the document was first written, simply because the people who are interpreting it, whether in 1835 or today, or any time in between, live in different times and under different circumstances that those who wrote the document, and as a consequence the words mean subtly different things to different generations.
The above links show, using the 2nd amendment as an example, that what some think of as an individual right was thought of, by many at the time, as the government's right to have a regular militia, with it's small arms provided by the people themselves.
Things change, do they not? Not how the 2nd Amendment is looked at now, is it?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Much more on this subject over the next few articles. G'night America.


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Now We Are Dead
She can't prove he did it, but she might die trying
- Format
- Paperback
- Category
- Fiction
- Publisher
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- Publish Date
- November 2017
Revenge is a dangerous thing… Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace – that's why they demoted her and quashed his sentence. Now he's back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Wallace has to be responsible, but if Detective Sergeant Steel goes anywhere near him, his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won't listen to her, not after what happened last time. According to them, she's got more than enough ongoing cases to keep her busy. Perhaps she could try solving a few instead of harassing an innocent man? Steel knows Wallace is guilty. And the longer he gets away with it, the more women will suffer. The question is: how much is she willing to sacrifice to stop him?
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The linguistic construction of "straight white boys"
on Tumblr and Twitter as social critique
Kendra Calhoun
In this talk I analyze how people on the social media platforms Tumblr and Twitter linguistically construct the "straight white boy" (SWB) as a distinctly undesirable white persona. Through text-based description and voicing of SWBs, social media users make critical commentary about social privilege based on race, gender, sexuality, class and other characteristics, and how the behavior of people who embody positions of privilege are perceived by and affect others. The SWB persona challenges ideologies that frame whiteness as unremarkable and characteristics associated with whiteness as necessarily socially desirable.
Tonogenesis in Northeastern Tibeto-Burman
Nathaniel A. Sims
Tonogenesis is a topic of perennial interest in Sino-Tibetan linguistics. The phonetic origins of the tones of the many languages in the family, such as Tibetan (Huang 1995), Burmese (Nishi 1999), and Chinese (Sagart 1999) are relatively well understood. However, the phonetic origins of tone in many subgroups remains an open question. There has been a paucity of work describing the origins of tone in the so-called 'Qiangic' subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. Using evidence from Written Tibetan (7th century-present) and Old Burmese (12-16th centuries), I give an account of tonogenesis in three tonal subgroups: Rma and Prinmi, two modern subgroups, along with Tangut, a mediaeval Tibeto-Burman language (11th – 16th centuries) that is no longer spoken but well documented, including tone. Historically smooth syllables (i.e. open or with resonant codas) yielded high tones (1), whereas checked syllables (i.e. with obstruent codas) induced low-rising tones (2).
(1) 'hundred'
Rma tʂhi55
Prinmi ʂi55
Tangut .jir 2.72 < *rja
Written Tibetan བརྒྱ་ bgrya < *p-rja
Old Burmese ရာ ryɑ̄
(2) 'eight'
Rma tʂhe³³
Prinmi ʂuɛ¹³
Tangut .jar 1.82 < *rjat
Written Tibetan བརྒྱད་ brgyad < *p-rjat
Old Burmese ဟေတ် rhyat (cf. Nishi 1999: 47)
While some have suggested that tone may have emerged in these groups through contact with Chinese alone, with no phonetic basis (Evans 2001), this study finds that tonogenesis in these groups parallels the processes typically found in other East Asian language groups (Haudricourt 1954).
Edgy prosody: Boundaries and pitch accent in Japanese
Karen Tsai
Constriction gestures at phrase boundaries are longer, larger and slower. Previous work on stress languages suggests that lexical prominence interacts with the scope of these effects, i.e., the stretch of speech affected. This Electromagnetic Articulography study uses kinematic data to examine the amount and scope of temporal phrase-final effects as a function of lexical pitch accent position in Japanese.


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Genesis 3:16 (NKJV) To the woman He (God) said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children.
Have you ever noticed at birth every child who enters the world does so by pushing against its mother to forge an independent identity. Growth always takes place against something, and spiritual growth is no different. It takes place in a world opposed to God, and it happens among people who are apathetic, indifferent, and sometimes belligerent. Those who follow God are always going against culture. This was true in the days of the patriarchs; it was true in the first century; it is true today; and it will remain true until Christ returns to rule the earth. Do you feel at times you are going against a force of some kind?
Before Jesus' return to heaven, he spoke to his disciples. He didn't motivate them with tales of adventure and excitement. He didn't send them off with a pep talk about positive thinking. Nor did he promise them early retirement in a warm and fuzzy community. He sent them off with this ominous warning, "Look, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves" (Matthew 10:16). Jesus protected them from future doubt, disappointment, and despair by preparing them for what was to come. And he did so by teaching them truth and warning them about persecution.
The words written to the Hebrew Christians so long ago, still bring guidance and comfort for Christians today:
Don't ever forget those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail. When all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew you had better things waiting for you in eternity. Do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord, no matter what happens. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised (Hebrews 10:32-36).
If anyone reading today's message and you are experiencing a time of great struggle. I am writing to you today, not to worry it's worth the struggle, and you will be alright with God on your side. Have a marvelous day.
For His Glory,
Pastor James Baker, Jr.


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Bhopal: Amid the raging controversy over film "Padmavati", an education officer in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district has issued a circular banning a song from the period drama from being played at cultural programmes in schools.
However, the district collector today ordered for withdrawal of the circular with immediate effect and said a show cause notice was being served to the officer concerned to explain his action.
In the circular issued yesterday, Dewas district education officer (DEO) Rajiv Suryavanshi directed the principals and head masters of all government and private schools to stop using the film's song, titled 'Ghoomar', during cultural programmes in their respective institutions.
"Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena has submitted a request letter in the honour of Maa Padmavati. It was requested that Hindu sentiments should not be offended by playing 'Ghoomar' song in the cultural programmes being organised in schools.
So, do not use 'Ghoomar' song in the cultural programmes in schools," reads the circular.
However, Dewas Collector Asheesh Singh said he has asked the education officer to withdraw the circular with immediate effect.
"I came to know about the circular this morning. Only the state government can issue such circulars. The DEO is not entitled to pass such an order. I have directed the DEO to immediately withdraw this order," Singh said.
He said the DEO is also being served a show cause notice to explain his action, within three days.
The 'Ghoomar' song, featuring actor Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor, was released by the makers of the film recently.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan earlier opposed the screening of the film "Padmavati" and also instituted an award in the name of the Rajput queen.
Chouhan yesterday announced that the life saga of the queen would be made a part of the state school curriculum from next year so that students learn "correct history".
"Padmavati", featuring Padukone, Kapoor and Ranveer Singh in the lead roles, has been facing the wrath of various Rajput groups and political leaders, who have accused filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali of distorting history.
Historians are divided on whether Padmini actually existed. She finds mention in the 16th century epic poem "Padmavat".
Earlier scheduled to arrive in cinema halls on December 1, the release date of the film has been postponed by the makers till further notice.


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The deputy interior minister has said that "drought is not a crisis but a phenomenon in need of proper management."
Esmaeel Najjar, addressing the coordination meeting of the Crisis Management Council in South Khorasan Province, said there are successful instances of drought management in some provinces that can set a good example for tackling such problems, IRNA reported.
He emphasized that the most critical issue in disaster management is earthquakes. "How to immunize the country against this natural disaster is an issue on the agenda of the council," he said.
Najjar noted that it is quite impossible to predict earthquakes and said in order to prevent huge damage in the event of an earthquake, the solidity and strength of the constructions must be a priority.
"Unfortunately this is largely neglected in Iran", he stressed.
About 70% of buildings in Tehran are less than 35 years old. Normally the longevity of a construction is 100 to 150 years but in Tehran, due to poor supervision and control over construction, buildings are destroyed or reconstructed every 20 years.
Wrong Reports
Another important factor in disaster management such as in earthquakes, is to precisely evaluate the damage and loss. "In the past there have been cases of wrong reports, by provincial officials, on the loss or damages caused by an earthquake, wherein a small earthquake has been reported as a large-scale crisis," Najjar noted.
He said the budget allocation to the council has "major deficiencies" and added that although the intention is there "to shrink the bloated bureaucracy since many years," in practice this has not happened yet and a huge income of the national budget goes to its upkeep.


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