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The repeal (or near-repeal) of the estate tax is by no means the largest part of the Republicans' tax plans, but it is at the philosophical core of their anti-tax efforts. Understanding how and why Republicans insistently lie about the estate tax provides a window into their longstanding effort to reward the wealthy simply for being wealthy and to punish everyone else for not being virtuous enough to be rich.
Untroubled by evidence and unencumbered by logic, the Republicans have been telling tall tales about the estate tax literally for decades. Shamefully, many Democrats have bought into those lies, with the result that the estate tax is now a husk of what it should be. Rather than full repeal, I suspect that the current political mess will leave an even smaller and less effective estate tax in place, thus allowing Republicans to continue to campaign against it -- and to continue to use it to raise funds from wealthy donors.
No matter whether my prediction turns out to be true, perhaps the most interesting and depressing aspect of the Republicans' anti-estate tax howling is that it shows how completely they are willing to put ideology before reality. And they have been doing so for decades, long before Donald Trump's garish reality show allowed other Republicans to pretend to occupy a somewhat higher ground.
After briefly summarizing how the estate tax works, I will use Senator Chuck Grassley's recent arguments (and I use that term loosely) against the estate tax to illustrate the rank dishonesty and elitism of the Republicans' anti-tax crusade.
The estate tax is conceptually simple. Upon a person's death, the executor pays various costs (funeral, administrative fees, and so on) from the estate and then distributes the decedent's tax-free charitable contributions. An "exemption amount" that is also tax-free is then deducted from the remaining estate. Only then is a forty percent tax levied on the remainder.
Consider an example: The surviving spouse of a couple dies in 2017 and leaves behind a $20 million estate, and after paying various expenses and making designated contributions to the spouses' colleges and other charitable organizations, $14 million remains. Currently, the couple is allowed a nearly $11 million exemption, so there is only three million dollars to which the estate tax applies, which at 40 percent results in a $1.2 million estate tax bill on a total estate of $20 million, for an effective rate of six percent of a twenty million dollar estate.
Unfortunately, even fairly good newspaper reporters make bone-headed errors when describing the estate tax. For example, in an otherwise fine article in The Washington Post this week, the reporter wrote: "The estate tax, often described by Republicans as the 'death tax,' is levied only on the very rich, passing on assets of more than $5.5 million for individuals and $11 million for married couples. The current tax on estates is 40 percent of an individual’s wealth at death."
No, the estate tax is most definitely not 40 percent of an individual's wealth at death. The reporters' previous sentence itself shows that that cannot possibly be true. Even if this is merely sloppy editing or a misguided effort to shorten a description that might make readers' eyes glaze over, the result is to vastly overstate the extent of estate tax liability.
And then there is the Republicans' "death tax" rhetoric, which The Post's reporter at least had the decency to put in scare quotes. It has been extensively and repeatedly documented that the Republicans hired a public-relations firm in the 1990's to test various negative labels for the estate tax, and the one that the focus groups hated the most was "death tax." Thus was born a political hobbyhorse.
Yet a recent article in The New York Times, under the heading "Will the death tax remain?" -- while acknowledging that "Republicans refer to [the estate tax] as the death tax" -- informs us that "[t]he Senate bill applies the death tax to fewer people." Maybe the same reporter would have written something like this during last year's primaries: "Senator Ted Cruz, who Donald Trump calls 'Lyin' Ted,' is unhappy with Trump's slurs against Lyin' Ted's family."
In any case, if Republicans truly thought that the problem with the estate tax is that it is collected after death, then there would be a simple answer: Collect it during life. That is called a wealth tax, and I would strongly prefer it to the estate tax. But of course, the "death tax" label is merely a distraction, because Republicans' real objection is to taxing wealth at all.
Economists have been studying wealth taxes, and in particular the estate tax, for decades. Even those who worry about "distorting" people's behavior through taxation (as if there is some pure baseline against which such supposed distortions could be measured) have concluded that the estate tax has the smallest likelihood of causing people to change what they would otherwise have done. The prospect of having one's estate subject to a tax, it turns out, simply does not discourage people who can do so from accumulating wealth.
If Republicans wanted to be consistent, this means that they should prefer the estate tax over other taxes. Indeed, they would increase the estate tax and use that to reduce other taxes in the name of "pareto-efficiency." Instead, Republicans' top priority is to get rid of the most pareto-efficient tax available. Why am I not surprised?
All of which brings us back to Iowa's Senator Grassley, who was rightly mocked for making some revealingly stupid comments intended to justify repealing the estate tax: "I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies."
Others have made plenty of hay about Grassley's idiotic comments, which really do make "the case for class war," as The Post's Alyssa Rosenberg put it. Grassley essentially said that people who are not rich enough to have a taxable estate are irresponsible wastrels who lack the moral fiber to stop themselves from spending the twelve million dollars that would have put them into the estate tax's iron grip.
"My point regarding the estate tax, which has been taken out of context, is that the government shouldn’t seize the fruits of someone’s lifetime of labor after they die. The question is one of basic fairness, and working to create a tax code that doesn’t penalize frugality, saving and investment. That’s as true for family farmers who have to break up their operations to pay the IRS following the death of a loved one as it is for parents saving for their children’s college education or working families investing and saving for their retirement."
Grassley sees it as a matter of "basic fairness" that we cannot use the estate tax to "seize the fruits of someone's lifetime of labor after they die." Why not? The person who receives it did not do anything to create the fruit. The dead person did. We tax wages (even the wages of the poorest of the working poor), and we tax sales and plenty of other tax bases, but "basic fairness" says that we cannot take a fraction of what a dead person leaves behind?
"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fullness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural. There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."
Even if Grassley believes that all taxation is unfair -- an argument that other Republicans have made, by the way -- he offers nothing to tell us why the estate tax is especially bad, compared to the alternatives. Maybe, just maybe, it could be that Grassley cares more about rich people's delicate sensibilities and their belief that their wealth is evidence that they are simply better than everyone else, both economically and morally.
But more importantly, Grassley insists on repeating multiple falsehoods. He would have us believe that the typical estate tax bill is paid by an estate that was built up by a "lifetime of labor," but that is almost never true. Most estates on which estate tax is due were inherited in the first place, and the recipient merely died without having frittered away the estate.
Aha, maybe they are more moral than the rest of us! But that would merely mean that these estates should not be taxed because someone earlier in the line of succession managed to assemble an estate that has passed down through multiple generations. The current generation's estate is not the fruit of their labor at all.
It is important to remember that Grassley is an old hand in the Senate, having served since 1981. He is no Ted Cruz or Mike Lee or Rand Paul, who claim to represent a new breed of true conservatives. Grassley is the personification of the Republican establishment, and he is just as dishonest and ultimately elitist as the worst of them.
In a recent column, I joined the chorus of commentators who have noted that the Republicans' anti-reality approach to governing is not a new problem that was somehow caused by Trump's influence on the party. Republicans have become ever more unhinged over the years, to the point where they now simply attack neutral arbiters like the Joint Committee on Taxation rather than accept unwelcome truths.
Again, however, this has been going on for decades, and the estate tax non-debate is perhaps the most longstanding example of Republicans' stubborn insistence on ignoring both evidence and logic. They start from their conclusion and work backward: "Taxing wealth is unacceptable, because ... um ... it breaks up family farms! Yeah, that's the ticket."
Is it any surprise that they are so good at saying that tax cuts pay for themselves, or that cutting corporate taxes will increase wages, or that their tax bill will lead to increased economic growth? They are used to saying that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. Look at how far willful ignorance has taken them.
One thing that might help is to have a catch alternative to the 'death tax'. A political action group I was associated with came up with the alternative of the 'dynasty tax'.
If increasing income taxes on businesses might result in increases in prices for a business' products/services, might a decrease in such taxes result in decreases in such prices? In the latter situation, competition might suggest lower prices. In other words, businesses factor in taxes in pricing, n'est par?
Good post, but I would argue the Estate Tax is not a wealth tax, but a transfer tax. It is imposed when a set of assets is transferred at death. This is the reason why the tax is Pareto efficient. Since its imposition does not affect the transferor and does not impact the transferee since he/she has not had access to the assets it has the least impact on economic activity, and hence is largely neutral, which is what conservatives have said they want in a tax regime.
Of course the fact that there is a difference between what conservatives say they want and what they do is not news.
Shag, my high school level of economics says that while you're right on the face of it that lower taxes should result in lower prices, it's not that simple. Decreasing business taxes will increase the supply curve, but not 100% efficiently. Businesses tend to increase supply with some of the savings, but they also do pesky things like return some of the savings to the shareholders as dividends.
If governments taxed their citizens and then burned the money (as some Republicans seem to believe) this would be the end of the story. However, there is also a demand effect to lowering taxes in that the government now has to reduce spending to make up for the reduced revenue. This results in a reduced demand curve. The government effect is likely to be stronger, since governments do tend to spend 100% of what they take in, or give that money to people who do.
Overall, an increased supply curve combined with a decreased demand curve will result in lower prices, but not necessarily more quantity (in this case, overall economic output) or higher long-term profitability for the businesses.
PBS Newshour had a feature on Kansas yesterday examining its cuts in business taxes and the impact over several years on Kansas' financial situation, ending up with tax increases to address basic governmental needs that had been cut because of revenue losses from the Brownback tax cuts. Economic is complex. Business competition comes into play on pricing changes. Kansas had to make cuts in its various support programs to offset the revenue losses from tax cuts. These cuts over several years were quite deep. There were infrastructure, health, education, etc, cuts in programs until finally Kansas legislature realized the tax cuts were not growing revenues and raised taxes. That state experiment is important. While businesses in Kansas benefitted from business tax cuts, that did not result in increased revenues. In addition to this state experiment, the evidence at the federal level level with increasing tax revenues resulting from cutting taxes is also weak. So after several years of the situation in Kansas, are Kansas businesses better off because of the tax cuts? Both Brownback and federal level tax cuts have as a goal starving the beast, to make government smaller. What federal programs will have to be cut to make up for lost tax revenues? Yes, economics is complex. But the Trump/GOP tax "plan" is rolling the dice at a time when the international situation is in chaos, not to mention the political chaos in America. How will business in America fare if the tax "plan" does not pay for itself? Keep in mind that long needed infrastructure has yet to be addressed by the Trump Administration and the Republican controlled Congress. And then the Baby-Boomers! The Bush/Cheney Great Recession of 2007/8 is well within memory, exploding the Dow 30,000 mantra. But is that mantra back? Business profits are high. Unemployment is low. Interest rates are still low but are expected to rise, impacting the housing market. Also, the housing market would be impacted by the tax "plan" with the loss of certain deductions. Add to this the impact of the tax "plan" on health. There haven't been hearings with expert testimony on so many issues impacted by the tax "plan." It's political Hari-Kari.


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“Their (Parks and Alab players) contract with Mandaluyong expires on December 8,” wrote Dy in an exclusive online interview.
The well-known sports agent also added that Parks and co. will fulfill their contractual obligations first with Mandaluyong before returning to Alab where the team will make its title retention bid in the coming ABL season.
It wasn’t clear yet though if Parks’ contract with the El Tigre will be extended.
Mandaluyong is coming off back-to-back losses in the MPBL Datu Cup, but Parks and the rest of the El Tigre have remained in contention for a playoff berth carrying a 6-3 win-loss record.

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Why bother having a new year resolution if we know that we will break it anyway… Resolution is a promise to our self and it will be easy to break it because there are no consequences what so ever. But I strongly believe that new year resolution is still good for us, at least it will give a sense of direction where to go or what to do.
That is all my resolution this year…. will I break it..? probably yes, but to make it fun.. I will add consequences in this resolution.. if I fail two out of three above, in any given month.. I will treat a girl a nice dinner… :).
So it always win win situation… if I can do all the resolution in a month… its good for me.. if not… a girl will be lucky hopefully I will be lucky too. :).
So there are my resolutions.. what is yours…?

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"SLA indicator" ~ EXC. (I shortened EXCEEDED to EXC in order to safe space in the column).
These filters seem to be highly unreliable. For example, the filter ("SLA indicator" ~ MET or "SLA indicator" ~ EXC) yields far not all issues of the project, while ("SLA indicator" !~ MET and "SLA indicator" !~ EXC) always returns exactly 0 issues of the same project.
Of the issues which clearly show MET, some are returned by "SLA indicator ~ MET", some are not. And they are almost identical regarding SLAs, I cannot see any difference between them.
We have also trouble with other filters: the JQL function slaOverdueIssues() for example also returns issues which have not breached any SLAs but are currently in a state which is defined as "paused".
We are using version 4.6.8. Have there been any significant bugfixes until 4.13.3 (current version) regarding filtering?
When you search issues using custom fields in issue navigator, it returns results in JIRA's Lucene index. SLA Indicator and almost all fields indexes their values upon issue changes. So, SLA Indicator may indicate "MET", but after a couple hours, it should indicate as "EXC" (assuming SLA value exceeded) but it won't index the new result unless issue has changes.
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So version 4.8.0 would fix the filter inconsistencies? I will try next week and see if it helps. Things get urgent now, I have no time to test yet another plugin. As long as it is possible to filter for issues with exceeded/overdue and issues with only met SLAs, I will be fine. My customers need this for reporting.


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2 To whom it tends, blest be thy holy name!
8 On chiselled forms and graven pavements gleam!
12 Upon the cherished, holy book!
14 The patriarch peasant kneels with all his family round!
16 Within a temple not upreared by hands!
24 Enlightened by the morning rays.
36 Of mortal ken the closing veil.
44 Of love and awe composed, "the Lord omnipotent reigneth."
Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL., 1840, pp. 378-380.


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You may recall from my bolero inspiration post that I had to change my original knitting plans as my shoulder hasn’t been allowing me to knit stranded projects. So I designed something I really wanted in my wardrobe: a little green bolero.
You’ll see it’s very simple! As I explained in the bolero inspiration post, I started off knitting this with two strands of DK-weight yarn to achieve bulky weight and used a moss stitch pattern, but close to the end I decided it was going to be too big. And thus re-started, nixed the moss stitch and kept it a single strand of yarn.
There’s really not much to say about this knit, other than it’s a great basic! Originally I was thinking about adding some felt appliqué, and then later just ordered a brooch to wear with it, but it didn’t arrive in time so I went without any adornment. It’s colorful enough, I think that suits it just fine!
The set-in sleeves were knit from the top down, and the body was knit in the round to the armholes. The scooped shaping on the front was achieved by casting on the number of stitches I wanted for the back plus much less for each front, and gradually increasing up to the full number of stitches I wanted for the bust to have a few inches of negative ease (since this is obviously not meant to close). There was no side shaping. I didn’t write a pattern but I have notes on most of what I did on my Ravelry project page.
I’m so glad I frogged the first almost-finished version of this and knit it again. I don’t do that a lot, but when I really want something to be just right, it’s worth it. Why invest so many hours knitting something, only to have it live in the back of the closet?
I think it’s the perfect outfit to show off this snappy little bolero!
Boleros are perfect when you just need a light knit or want to cover up a little bit. Sure, I won’t actually get to wear this for a few more months due to winter, but a girl can dream, right??
I sure think of this as a victory. I might need another one or two in different colors, too!
It’s beautiful!! That green is stunning. Can’t wait to see the new haircut, too!
Absolutely perfect 🙂 and there are some gorgeous knits on the flickr group, too!
Thanks! And aren’t there a ton of beautiful projects in the Flickr group?? Very inspiring!
So cute! Can’t wait to see your new haircut!
I love everything about this – the shape, the stitch and the colour – it looks lovely. Your styling is spot on – the blouse is a great contrast to the lovely bright green. A drastic haircut? Looking forward to seeing your hair and your other projects.
Man that turned out great! What brand of yarn is that? What a beautiful shade!
Thanks! It’s Wollmeise DK, a German hand-dyed yarn.
Very cute! I love boleros (or shrugs as I sometimes call them) for wearing around the house if I’m a bit chilly. The short sleeves and cropped sort of cut-away waist means I don’t drag my lovely knitwear through the onions I’m chopping! I have several of them. But now you make me want one in green!
This is a perfect little bolero for pairing with dresses and skirts! You’ve styled this whole outfit wonderfully! Also, your pictures are amazing! Did Mel take them? If so, let her know how great a job she did with the lighting and exposure!
Truly, it’s hard to actually get up the gumption to knit it all again but I’m so glad I did!
I need to photograph my headband asap! How sad is it that I just got my hair cut and um, STILL haven’t done anything with it?! lol I can’t wait to see your new hair!!!
Just beautiful, I’m GREEN with envy over here.
Wow…I love it! The colour is awesome!
Lovely little bolero! That colour suits you so well and combined with your blouse makes the outfit so fresh.
I looked at the flickr pool and WOW, so many talented knitters. I would take any of those knits in my closet in a blink!
I agree Cherise, there’s so many beautiful knits in the pool!
It’s lovely! And so cheerful!
This is the most perfect little bolero, and I think I have just the right yarn to shamelessly copy you! So I’m very happy that you shared your project notes with us!
Would it be alright for me to use one of the pictures in this post on my blog? I will of course credit you as creator and link it to this post. (I’ll be talking about knitting inspiration).
I love this color! You’re killin’ it in this look!
What a wonderful shade of green! I also adore your whole ensemble here!
The green is just absolutely delicious, and it looks like it will be such a useful wardrobe addition.
Thanks Kerry, I think it will be too! I’d like to do a long sleeved version sometime too, to make it transition into winter.
This is lovely. I am really impressed that you made up your pattern, that is really skillful.
Egads! Look at that nifty little bolero; it looks amazing! I absolutely adore that shade of green too; it just pops. 🙂 Great job on it!
Also, I can’t wait to see your new haircut. I bet you will look fabulous! (Then again, you always seem to.) I love the styling and thank you for sharing the project notes!
It is a thing of complete and total verdant beauty!!! Fabulous shape, length, and colour. A green that punchy also seems like such a great note to help try and usher springs’s early return in with. Awesome job, dear Tasha! You and your new bolero look fantastic!
So cute, I love the color, this green is fantastic !!!!!
Would you ever consider releasing this as a pattern? Because if you did I would buy it!!!


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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.
And you know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
We live in a culture where all too often we want to see the replay before we even see the play. How often whilst watching a sporting event on TV will someone in the room yell “show us the darn replay!” . . . even having just witnessed the play. I suppose this comes from some deep-seated obsession with knowledge.
Jesus never promises us the certainty of complete knowledge; ‘merely’ the prospects of revelation. And revelation not in the form of syllogistic and systematic philosophical propositions but revelation as the unfolding of the Divine Will in himself. In other words, Revelation as an on-going process of discovering, choosing, and following God’s will at every moment in life.
Every great journey begins with a tiny step . . . and often enough that tiny step is all that we are given to see. So when Jesus offers himself as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, don’t expect to see the whole way, know the whole truth, or live the perfect life; but hopefully enough of the way to keep walking, and enough of the way to keep believing, and enough of life to keep living . . . sharing that Life with others.
—Fr. Charles Rodrigues, S.J., Associate Novice Director at the Jesuit Novitiate of St. Alberto Hurtado, St. Paul, MN. For more information on Jesuit vocations, click here.
Lord, strengthen our resolve to follow when the way is hazy and our footsteps are not secure. Strengthen our understanding and acceptance that revelation is a process of discovering, choosing, and following you wherever we are in our day, in our life. And should we struggle with taking that first step, assure us that we need but move forward one step at a time in response to your call.


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What is the worth of a woman? What is the contribution of a homemaker to society and its development? A woman contribution to her family is out of love, and she deserves appreciation for all that she does. But what really is the value of unpaid work?
Radhika Maira Tabrez shares some effective measures we can take to keep ourselves from becoming worthless warriors.
One day, a man comes home from work, only to find his house looking like it’s been hit by a tornado. Clothes and toys strewn all over the place. Dirty dishes in the sink; even dirtier kids playing in the garden. No sign of dinner on the table. He walks in to his bedroom, and sees his wife sitting leisurely and sipping wine.
“What the hell is going on?” he fumes.
Unless one has been living in a cave for the last few months, which is another way of saying that they have no social media presence whatsoever, they are bound to have come across this joke. What’s above is pretty much the gist of it, and I know, it probably gets a chuckle or two out of everyone who reads it. But look closely and you’ll see the big problem with it.
According to a recent study by Oxfam, presented at the World Economic Forum, almost $10 trillion worth of unpaid work is done by women across the globe, which is almost 43 times the annual turnover of the world’s biggest company, Apple. In India alone, the unpaid work done by women in their households is worth 3.1 percent of the country’s GDP. Now, this news too, just like the joke above, might get a momentary reaction from the ones who hear it, perhaps some furrowed eyebrows or a consolatory head shake, but nothing more.
Women’s contribution to their households and families is given as much thought, as the trees that provide us oxygen. Everyone agrees they are important, in theory, but does nothing to respect or preserve their presence. Could the problem be that when it comes to speaking up against such inconsiderate treatment, women are just as mute as those trees?
I recently wrote a story about a young woman, Farzana Siddiqui, who has spent her entire life trying to hold up and heal her broken family, in whatever way she could; by sacrificing whatever she could. And yet her family never learns to respect her for her contributions. In fact, only starts to take her for granted. In due course, she comes to realize that it is partly because she never really asserted her rights as the major contributor to her family. She never spoke up, and hence eventually, everyone stopped respecting her voice.
But this is quite a conundrum. Because if you know women who do learn to speak up, eventually, you also know of the backlash they receive from their families and society at large. They are called names, disparaged, and often, even ostracized.
Look around at any family you know, even yours, for that matter, and you’d find that it is almost always a woman at the center of it all, holding it all together. Take her out of the picture and the whole thing falls apart like a house of cards. And yet, how many of those women are respected for all that they do, and all that they give up, to do it.
The society we live in is designed to perpetuate this system. In our country, for example, it’s the woman who has to give up her home and her life when she marries a man. Often enough she foregoes her education and career, to build a home and family from a scratch. A man who contributes financially to his family works but a few hours a day, but a homemaker’s working hours are endless. So are her job profile, her roles and responsibilities. The only thing that’s limited and scarce in her life is appreciation for it all.
Paraphrasing here what the famous Indian social scientist, developmental feminist, author and poet Kamla Bhasin said once in an interview – men bring home the dough, but it is of no use until a woman turns it into bread. Hence we must value a woman for the time and energy she puts in converting the dough into bread. But where is their compensation? Their appreciation?
It’s a legacy of a patriarchal culture – a woman relegated to a corner in the kitchen of a home. Raising children who carry someone else’s name. Because she has been raised to believe she doesn’t have either of that of her own- a house or a name. It’s either her father’s or her husband’s.
Another video that went viral a few months ago was that of an executive holding fake interviews for a position which required almost impossible time, energy and mental contributions; in return of zero monetary compensation. Almost everyone whom he interviews for the job refuses saying it is beyond unreasonable; after which he goes on to inform them that what he has just defined is the role of typical mother in any household. The video ends with all interviewees getting emotional and teary eyed. Do such meaningless platitudes serve any purpose, other than a momentary and often superficial surge of emotions in a viewer that doesn’t bring about any real change in their behavior?
So what will bring a change in the behavior? Well to expect the answer to come from the menfolk would probably be akin to what happened in Davos recently. The leaders and key change makers of the world landed there for a Climate Change Conference in a never before seen bevy of private jets. In one word, paradoxical.
But I pose this question to my sorority at large. Just like Farzana Siddiqui, I think it is time we acknowledge that our acquiescence is just as much a part of the problem as the oppression. I’m not asking for anything radical like mass-movements, or total suspension of the current family structures and protocols. Radical solutions don’t always do the job. Slow and steady, but firm measures do.
All I’m asking for is simply this.
Can the boys we raise be different from the men we have endured? If we’ve suffered in the hands of unappreciative men, and yet our sons grow up to be incapable of acknowledging the value and contribution of women in their life, are we not an accessory to that crime?
The next time we find our boys bossing over their sister or a female friend, let’s not overlook. Let’s intervene. Let’s teach them respect and appreciation, from when they are young and moldable. Let’s teach them to be respectful of our – their mothers’ – choices, our space and our liberties as an individual, so that tomorrow he affords the same to the other women he meets in his life?
Let’s not just read this piece, nod our head in agreement, heave a cold sigh and get back to finishing cooking or laundry, like a warrior who must keep fighting even though she knows the world would never recognize her worth.
Radhika Maira Tabrez is the author of ‘In The Light Of Darkness’ – her debut novel, for which she won the Muse India – Satish Verma Young Writer Award (2016). In 2017 she was one of the winners of the Rising Stars India Award, presented by We Are The City to women who are trailblazers in their respective fields. In March 2018 she became the first Indian ever to speak at a TEDx event in Bangladesh. In November 2018 she was adjudged one of the ‘100 Most Inspiring Authors’ in India, by Indian Awaz.


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Sometimes, I don’t understand the rage people show on social media accounts for people they don’t know. The MadvilleTimes.com is a blog run by a former high school teacher who was fired for verbally abusing a student. To date, no one in South Dakota has spoken out against Cory Heidelberger or his commenters. In fact, he is often quoted in the local press as if he is legitimate. Heidelberger called this boy’s mother a “fake Senate candidate” from the beginning. He posted the boy on his blog and when the boy goes to college, they will search his social media footprint and find this horrible example of human indignity portrayed by the Madville Times owner and followers. I’ve blacked out this boy’s face and name.
absolutely sad. She is most definitely worse than just an ordinary scammer. Kids and GIs, cant get any lower than using them to raise money for yourself.
Incredible!! That’s all I can say.
For once I agree with you Mr. Thompson. You can’t get any lower then that.
Ironic that she wants to go to the Philippines I suppose.
Perhaps someone should alert the F.B.I., although I assume the U.S. is able to extradite from the Phillipines.
Interesting how Benda, Bollen and now Bosworth all have these ties to the Phillipines…Maybe someone should take some time for a hard look at PHS as well as the campaign. Of course, if she promises to never come back, might be worth a donation.
$2000 for a plane ticket? Round trip I’ll assume.
How about $1000 for a one-way ticket?
“My mom is totally out of her mind. I’m tired of having no home while watching other kids go to their nice warm homes.
http://heartsafire.us/ there are many entities like this that fly Dr’s to the locations where they are needed at zero cost to the Dr. What on earth is she going to do………show up and say “I’m here?” She needs to have proper documents and be associated/affiliated with an entity or best I can see it is a vacation.
She and her hubby are grifters and now they are teaching the second generation. It’s really pathetic.
I have a niece that is a doctor and you don’t see her wanting to leave her husband and three kids to go to the Philippines. She is also a person that when she was in medical school spent summers doing medical missionary work in different countries. She spent time in Siberia, and a couple other countries. She also had to raise money for her expenses, nothing was furnished. She did get help from the church she and her family attended, and did other fund raising things in order to go.
Maybe she’s not going. $2,000 is the refund cost of the two raffle ticket holders who have stepped forward. Or maybe she needs the money for a retainer fee.
Yeah, she’s getting sued by everyone. I bet its for the lawyer.
I just don’t get her. If you want to run a non-profit do that, if you want to be a con-artist do that, but don’t do it while running for public office, with young kids.
Sadly you are probably right Bree.
What I want to know is why she doesn’t just go to work and make the hubby get a job. She’s a doctor for gosh sakes, surely she has the ability to pull down a 6 figure income and Chad could get a job as a greeter at Walmart.
Bree: exactly what I was thinking. Nothing else about this bunch is what it seems or is supposed to be, so why would this be any different?
They seem to be expert at making money disappear-wonder why they can’t do the same for themselves without shilling for handouts.
Probably can’t get hired due to whatever’s in those Medicaid records the state is refusing to release without legal reason to that records depository in Florida.
Almost speechless. I can handle or laugh off about everything else but not when kids are involved. Beside myself right now.
I am shocked! Shocked I say! That DWC has no mention of this! Shocked!
Kristi Noem’s grandma and children have been victims, too.
From this it is obvious that Prescott cares more about his family than his father does. Chad (who will no doubt be reading this), I told you before that I was disappointed in the man you had become. That isn’t really true. I am ASHAMED of the man you have become. Just get a frickin’ job and teach your sons what it means to be men and support a family.
Annette Bosworth makes Michele Bachmann look very sane.
How is it that young X has a ticket and his mother doesn’t? If mom doesn’t get a donation does that mean X goes alone?
I have nothing against helping the less fortunate anywhere in the world. But maybe she should have sent the medicine (if there really is any) and used the money spent on X ticket to pay her employees or the scammed raffle victims. X can give up his 14th birthday instead of his 13th birthday after his parents take care of their obligations right here.
Are fraudulent raffles the new fund-raising scam of the GOP? Sue Wallis, Rep. from WY, pulled the same scam.
She’s not a Republican. She’s probably not a liberal Democrat either. Whatever she does she does for attention – whether it’s putting on a Che shirt or waving guns and Bibles around.
I dunno Jenny. It’s awfully hard to make our MN girl Bachmann to look sane. Bosworth is definitely giving Bachmann a run for her money. Do you think these 2 Bs and Palin all play from the same book?
This pitch isn’t a new tactic for Annette and Chad. In May, they used their son Walker’s birthday to raise $1000 for clean water in Haiti. I eagerly await PHS’s release of its 2013 budget and expenses to show how it spent those donations.
Maybe she needs the money to buy a seat for cardboard Mike Rounds to accompany her.
The FBI has sure been busy this Fall investigating conservative family value politicians in SD and now in MN’s notorious ultra-conservative district of Bachmann. Bosworth needs to take advice from Bachmann and drop out of politics to concentrate on her scandals.
Not her kids. Not her kids. No.
Thanks for the link, Jenny.
It seems to me that more Republicans are investigated than Democrats, but that’s not based on anything other than my hunch. The problem they have is that each investigation of a hard right, bible-banger lays bare a high level of hypocrisy that Democrat don’t face.
It makes me wonder if those politicians are really religious folk, or are their professions of faith mere political expedience? Sure doesn’t look good for them.
Those of you who support politicians based, at least in part, on their religion; How do you decide to trust that they’re being honest about their faith?
I would love if everyone would stop judging others.this site literally makes me sick. You have NO idea the people she has helped and the hell she has gone through. Yes this trip IS legite…she was ASKED to go ANd yes the supplies are ready to go but bc of your BS the people in the Phillipines are suffering and the funding went away. YOU all should be ashamed of yourselves…but you know what… just keep on judging. That will get you far. Sense the sarcasm.
Just what have the Phillipine people done to deserve this?
I have seen a lot of lows in American politics, but this is a new low.
Bosworth has demonstrated time and again she cannot be trusted with other peoples money.
It might be very legit trip. And I’m sure she has gone through some stuff (we all have). But the normal American wouldn’t be running for Senate and having their kids beg for money to do this. All while having issues with your non-profit locally.
IF you want to run a non-profit, go be a doctor and save the world do that, but she isn’t, her non-profit doesn’t pay people, ran a scam of a raffle, and now she claims to need money to go to the Phillipines. She financed a personal trip to Alaska with her family while she was claiming to live in an RV. Her financial records show she has spent thousands of personal funds on her campaign.
There is a saying, get your house in order before you start claiming to be able to fix other houses. Well get your personal house in order before trying to run a non-profit, and get your non-profit in order before you try to sell me on being a Senator.
And I feel for all that are suffering but I don’t think it’s a result of this blog that they’re suffering. And how do you know it’s legit and why isn’t the group organizing paying the doctors’ airfares? Typically it’s the expertise they’re in need of, not a seat on an airplane.
Nonjudgmental.. the funding went away? Excellent. Notice the lack of sympathy. I will reserve my sympathy for the people she has scammed out of money.
Nonjudgemental (AKA Chad Haber?), The point here is not about the blog, it is that people don’t trust Annette Bosworth anymore. At one time, I believed all of those things you wrote about her, but not anymore. And it is amazing how many former friends and patients have contacted me saying the same thing: THEY DON’T TRUST HER, EITHER (or you, if this, indeed, was written by who I think it was written by). No fault of this blog. Frankly (sorry Cory), not a lot of people have their opinions swayed by blogs.
How do we know this trip is legit? I have seen no other publicity about the trip. Bosworth’s website says nothing about it. Potential donors have only the brief word of an exploited child on how the money will be used. Responsible citizens have every right to ask questions about how their donations will be used before writing a check, especially given the questionable financial behavior Bosworth has demonstrated with her raffles and her payroll. One must use judgment to manage one’s money.
Nonjudgmental citizens and their money are soon parted.
Aren’t legitimate charities registered w/ entities such as the BBB or if domiciled in SD, w/ the SOS?
Mark, Preventive Health Strategies is registered with the SOS as a non-profit. Its officers are president Chad Haber, secretary John Williams, treasurer Shawn Poe, and VP Michael St. Villian (spelled elsewhere Vilien). The latter’s address is listed as PHS’s Tea P.O. box, even though St. Vilien lives in Haiti.
PHS is also registered with the IRS as a 501(c)3.
Okay. I think she’s legit on going to the Philippines to help. She did it in Haiti. But the political twist is she thinks it will add value to her candidacy.
Okay. It doesn’t always have to make sense. This is crazytown. Think of it as a political version of Münchausen syndrome by proxy.
Rick, a legitimate non-profit would have its poop in a group on publicity. Its president and/or executive director would be out lining up media, organizing events, sending out letters to regular donors, doing something more than one amateurish online pitch to raise awareness and make things happen.
And why would she have to pick up her own plane ticket? And why does a 13 year old have to be exploited to get money for it?
I didn’t see if it shows how much is being contributed but is there a new total?
This fundraising plea would be much more effective if the video had some music playing in the background.
Dale, we can get some transparency from PHS’s 990 forms. But PHS doesn’t give much more accurate detail on its 2011 form than it does on Bosworth’s financial disclosure form. We can’t even be sure they are doing their papers correctly. Our best option is for people to ask her and her husband questions, demand public answers, and compare those answers to make sure they remain consistent. We also need to contact the people they work with overseas to see how they use their money.
Dave Baumeister, Do you have any idea if Chad Haber actually built the clinic and school in Haiti (on land given them by Haitians) with $$$ his father gave him right before he died in Feb 2013? During Denton Habers funeral, Chad said his dad told him that he (Chad) was to buy a one way ticket to Haiti and stay there until the clinic and school were built. This was their “Vision”. Chad posted the whole thing online. It was Gods will. I’m just wondering if God changed his mind or if there is actually a clinic and school on land PHS owns in Haiti?
Therein lies a problem. Trying to track down leads, documents, and public records in Haiti is crazy. The country is a shambles. Bribery and corruption are the normal course of business. Discussions with local sources turn quickly to quid pro quo for information (jobs, immigration help, etc.). It would take serious bank to independently investigate the status of PHS’s actual holdings and projects in Haiti.
At this point, I don’t know if anything I was ever told was accurate, legitimate or truthful. At one time I had seen plans for the school. Land had supposedly been given to them, but I tend to doubt the veracity of that. I was told they had to raise about 1% of the cost of 20 acres of ocean-front land for what they made sound like a government kick-back, but I always positioned that as “closing costs.” But Chad never seemed interested when I wanted to get the word out to raise the funds. If all was legit, it would have been an easy sell. That was the first time (last March) when I started to wonder about what was going on. It was just about a month later that he told me about the Senate run, and I never heard the word “Haiti” again.
Did anyone notice that there was an ANONYMOUS $15,000 donation made to X Haber’s crowdrise fundraiser??? That’s $13,000 more than the goal, and I’m pretty sure it was after the trip… What’s up with that?
There’s a blogging on a website that says there was an anonymous $15,000.00 donation to young Mr. Haber.
There is a lot of French math all over the internet. I am new to these bloggings but old enough to know that just because it says something on a piece of paper doesn’t mean it is true. I submit to you Mr. Nelson’s score cards as an example. Also, Obamacare as example 2. Further, Mr. Heidepriem’s goofy claims as example 3.
^^^grudznick – If you could send me a link to that blog post, I’d really appreciate it!

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Fresh diced tomatoes, mozzarella, and seasoned croutons make a nice summer meal in this recipe for Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella Salad.
With the impending arrival of Little Tot, I took a brief hiatus from writing. My nesting phase consisted of cooking anything and everything I could think of that would freeze well. My thinking was I would be so drained from all those midnight feedings and sleepless nights that I wouldn’t have the coherence or the stamina to cook. The husband and I bought a used deep freezer off Craiglist. I felt like I was preparing for the Apocalypse as I prepared five pots of soup in one weekend and stockpiled various cuts of poultry that were on sale at the grocery store.
Little Tot arrived at two-thirty in the afternoon on August 10 weighing in at a very healthy 9 pounds 3 ounces! My biggest fear is that he will grow up to be a picky eater. However, given that he arrived weighing as much as a small toddler, he appears to enjoy eating and will hopefully keep an open mind when his Mommy asks him to try something new.
While the bulk of my cooking lately has consisted of reheating a previously frozen entrée, I did find time to make this delicious tomato, basil, and mozzarella salad. If you are a tomato lover, this is definitely worth a try. There is such variety textures and flavors going on here.
Start by heating the oven to 350 degrees to toast your croutons. Stale bread works best for this. I like to use some type of crusty bread like French bread or sourdough. Cut the bread up into cubes, then spread them in a single even layer on a baking sheet.
In a small bowl, combine one teaspoon of kosher salt and Italian seasoning. Drizzle the cubed bread with two tablespoons of olive oil. Sprinkle with kosher salt and Italian seasoning. Toast in the oven for 5-10 minutes until the croutons are golden brown and slightly crunchy. Allow them to cool.
In the meantime, combine cherry tomatoes and ciliegine in a large salad bowl. Ciliegine is just a fancy name for fresh mini mozzarella balls preserved in water. I usually find them with the other specialty cheeses in the grocery store. Chop the fresh basil leaves and add them to the tomatoes and mozzarella.
Whisk together 1/2 cup olive oil, one teaspoon salt, two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper. Drizzle the dressing over the top of the salad and stir. Add the croutons. Serve immediately.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread bread cubes out on a baking sheet. Drizzle with two tablespoons of olive oil.
Sprinkle with one teaspoon of salt and the Italian seasoning. Toss to coat. Bake for 5-10 minutes until croutons are slightly golden and crispy. Allow the croutons to cool.
Meanwhile, combine the remaining olive oil, salt, vinegar, and black pepper.
In a separate bowl, combine tomatoes, ciliegine, and basil.
Pour dressing over salad. Toss to combine.
Congratulations to your an your husband on this beautiful new addition to your family. He is absolutely gorgeous.
Oh my goodness! what a cutie pie!!! Big congrats to you, my friend.
Congratulations! I’m sooo happy for you! One month, already? What a joy!
I read this post to my husband too. We just might take a lesson from you and buy a freezer. What a great idea!
I would definitely consider looking at Craiglist first. We only paid $50 for ours and it’s way more freezer than we need right now, but I am already making plans to fill it up.


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Nesin Art Village (NAV) is an innovative art program that was launched in 2015 by the alternative education initiative developed at Nesin Mathematics Village (NMV). NMV is located at Şirince-İzmir and was established in 2007. NAV aims to maintain an approach that focuses on criticality and independent production processes. It wants to offer a learning environment for young people from around Turkey, through workshops and seminars to be carried out by artists, academicians, writers and curators.
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In this episode, PokeTwon heads to a big meetup with the bay area community and a number of pokemon go influencers! Enjoy!
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text: Beautiful level entry Batchelor Heights rancher with a large, bright 1 bedroom inlaw suite with separate laundry. Hardwood flooring, and tile throughout the home. 3 bedrooms on the main floor with 2 full bathrooms, open floor plan with vaulted ceilings in the living room, beautiful river and valley views from the living space. Partially finished rec room in the basement allowing the main floor more living space. Heat pump (central a/c), central vac, roughed in for security, solar film on windows, lots of pot lights throughout, stainless steel appliances, 2 car garage, storage shed and hunter douglas window coverings with lifetime warranty. All appliances included (2 X fridge, 2 X stove, 2 X dishwasher, 2 X washer & dryer), extra flooring for basement suite included. Suite previously rented for $1,100 per month. RV parking or room for 3rd car in driveway. Low maintenance yard with beautiful flower bed in front. Call for your appointment, some notice appreciated.


text: It’s been 2 years since Benny Rodrigues’ last release on Be As One and since then, the young Dutch producer has pushed forward his career, both in the studio and in the dj booth. Having remixed people like Josh Wink, DJ Pierre, Justice, Spirit Catcher to name just some and released on Ovum, Poker Flat, Figure, Klockworks, with a busy dj schedule in clubs as Berghain or Rex, at his young age Benny is clearly a well respected artist. Benny Rodrigues’ interpretation of acid house takes the form of “I Like Acid", and surely it sounds classic! Acid synth madness like in the old days but with an updated touch to rock the floors in 2011. “Choice” hypnotic appeal will not get unnoticed on the floor, once again a track that finds its strenght in the basic structure of its arrangement, effective drums patterns with a “freakish” top line that carry the track into peak time. Steve Rachmad remixes as “Sterac” are always a treat, and here the Techno legend doesn’t fail to impress once again with his take on Benny’s “I Like Acid". Snares, hi-hats, rides and bass, all arranged to build up to a melodic and emotional breakthru, dancefloor bliss for the Detroit techno heads. To close this amazing package, Germany’s own Mike Dehnert brings his trademark sound to be as one in the form of his remix of I Like Acid. A tune that finds its perfect habitat in dark, smokey and sweaty rooms with massive sound systems.


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Be true to who and what you are.
Be true to yourself, do not hold back the real you within. The person you are that you hide from the world in fear of not being accepted or being the odd man out. If you put on a mask in order to fit in or to be liked then all you’re doing is living a lie. Appearing to be what you’re not is the most ineffective means of being happy. Withholding your true feelings out of fear or not expressing your true opinion is but a quick way to both low self-esteem and unhappiness.
There will always be those that don’t like you no matter what you say or do. I ask, does it matter if they like you or not if they wont like you for who you really are? The people who like the real you are the only true friends you have. those who seem to like you because you put on a mask or because you pretend to agree are not friends at all. Plus it is nothing but a disservice to them if you are not being the real you and so is falsely agreeing with them .
There is no pride in being the social actor and yes man/woman. Be proud of who and what you are, for you are a unique and special individual. You have purpose and you are an important part of this world we live in. Every one of us are unique and we are all special in the fact we are part of the great experience called life. Worry not so much about the opinion of others for the only opinions about you that matter is your own.
Focus on your good points and learn to overcome the shortcomings you can and accept those you can’t. Forgive yourself for the mistakes you make and avoid repeating the same ones over again. Learn to love yourself as well as others, For we all are human and we all make mistakes.


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Home Around The Web Babies Need Their Moms. But Moms Need Paid Leave.
Erica Komisar is a social worker and psychoanalyst who believes young children are faring worse than they were even 30 years ago. In her practice, “I was seeing an increase in children with mental disorders, being diagnosed earlier and medicated at an early age.” After 13 years spent researching neuroscience, attachment theory, and psychoanalysis, Komisar linked this increase to a social devaluing of mothering and an inability for many women to be present to their children in the first three years of life.
Such a diagnosis, Komisar says, has cheered social conservatives—until she gets to her policy solution: at least one year of federally mandated paid maternity leave, with part-time and flexible options for two more years. “All mothers and babies should have the right to be together in the first year.” In other words, babies need mothers, but mothers—especially single and working-class ones—need tangible, societal, and fiscal support in order to nurture their babies during such a crucial time.
Komisar spoke with CT editor at large Katelyn Beaty about these and other themes found in her book, Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, as well as what Christian communities offer to the conversation.
Why is it the case that a child’s well-being apparently comes down to his or her secure attachment with the mother and not the father or other caregivers?
Mothers and fathers nurture differently for the most part, and the research backed that up. Mothers and fathers can be equal in many ways, in intelligence, in pay, in the kinds of jobs they do, but the truth is that we’re different biologically.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Gorgeous, action-packed and full of heart.
Velvet Buzzsaw could have been great if it leaned way harder into horror or the super-weird.
The Movie is great, but the DVD comes with no extras.
A fun little romp, but should you own it for yourself?
It’s Marvel at their absolute best.
Big, dumb and decently fun.
Sometimes it’s good to be bad.
Don’t you dare touch that packet of Whispers.


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St. Margaret of Scotland was born in 1045 to royal parents – a Hungarian princess and an exiled king of England. When she and her mother fled to Scotland to escape a persecuting king, she met and married the Scottish king, Malcolm III. Her husband was devoted to her and chose to change his way of life to fit her religious devotion and kind nature. Together, they had eight children that they brought up in the light of Christ. She was always generous, kind and loving, not only to her family but to the people of Scotland. She found the time to raise her family, serve others, and follow God’s will for her life.
Margaret of Scotland is a beautiful example of a busy Catholic mom. She was able to do what we are all trying to do – balance God, family and others. And in her sainthood, she brought God to the people around her, just like we all try to do.


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Since, Mr Omar Omdullah no longer resided in the premise, the Petitioners had no right to continue living there as it belonged to the new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and they are illegal occupants who are to be evicted under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971, said the Court.
In an engrossing chain of events, the Delhi High Court [Payal Abdullah & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors.] dismissed the writ petition filed by the wife of Mr Omar Abdullah, Ms Payal Abdullah and her two sons, enjoying ‘Z’ and ‘Z+’ security respectively, against the Central Government’s order to vacate their current resident premises for the new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir. Delivering the judgment, Justice Indermeet Kaur declared the Petitioners as illegal occupants and directed them to evict the said premise.
The Court took note of the communicated dated 04.06.2016 wherein Mr Omar Abdullah clearly informed the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Development that he no longer occupied the premises and the State of Jammu and Kashmir was free to take whatever steps as it deemed fit. It was observed that the Petitioners had no independent claim or right over the property and they were deriving their entitlement through the official position of Mr Omar Abdullah. Vide a subsequent O.M. No.12035/8/93-Pol. II (Pt.) dated 27.12.2000 issued by Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment, Directorate of Estates, it has been declared that no Government accommodation will be allotted to any private person on any security considerations except to SPG protectees.Since, Mr Omar Omdullah no longer resided in the premise, the Petitioners had no right to continue living there as it belonged to the new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and they are illegal occupants who are to be evicted under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971.
The Petitioners had demanded that they be given the same amount of security that Central Protectees such as Mr. K.P.S Gill, Mr. M. S. Bitta and Mr. Subramaniam Swamy enjoyed. Distinguishing between Central and State protectees, the Court reiterated that the Petitioners were State protectees who were given the ‘Z’ and ‘Z+’ status by the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
“‘Z’ and ‘Z+’ security have been granted to the petitioners by the State of the Jammu and Kashmir because they are the wife and children of Mr. Omar Abdullah respectively. This fact that they are ‘Z’ and ‘Z+’ protectees has also been stated in the affidavit of the Additional Resident Commissioner of the State of Jammu and Kashmir; the Central Government i.e. Delhi Police would only look after their interest and ensure their security and for the limited purpose the colloquial term ‘Central Protectees’ has been used in the letter dated 19.10.2013 (heavily relied upon by the petitioners). This is clearly only for the reason that Delhi Police would be providing the security cover to the petitioners in coordination and cooperation with the Ministry of Home Affairs (respondent No.3). This argument of the petitioners that they are Central protectees is thus clearly a misunderstood argument.” Justice Indermeet Kaur said.
After careful consideration of the parties, the Court declared the petition to be without any merit and consequently dismissed it.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Your offer will be much more credible.
You can review financing options so you can choose a payment plan tailored to your budget.
You can select the best loan package without being under pressure. There are many options to choose from in today's market.
You will enjoy peace of mind knowing that the process is underway.
If you would like, we can provide you with the names of several loan officers that we have worked with in the past. It is not our intention to tell you with whom to get your loan. The names we will give you are those of people with whom we have had successful transactions.
We cannot recommend any one lender - the names that we will provide you with are individuals who have shown the ability to "get the job done" in the past. Every loan is different, because each borrower comes to this process with a different set of circumstances.
It may be in your best interests to speak to different lenders to determine who has the best product to meet your needs.
Typically, when you apply for a mortgage, you will need to furnish information regarding your income, expenses, and obligations. As each mortgage company has different requirements, it is best to ask what documentation you will need to provide.


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This document chronicles a pilot in 2017. Please visit rad.npr.org for updated information.
This proposal outlines a draft specification for a custom ID3 tag, referred to below as a Remote Audio Data (RAD) tag. The RAD tag can be encoded with listening event metadata to allow clients to report valuable listening data to podcast content producers and sponsors.
NPR tested this concept in 2017 within the NPR One app, both Android and iOS. The spec below is intended to be a baseline, with a formal implementation dependent upon industry feedback.
If you would like to ask questions or offer feedback to NPR on RAD, please use this form.
In the spring of 2017, NPR tested the RAD method of adding a custom ID3 tag to selected audio files to encode supplemental listening event metadata for podcast episodes.
For the scope of our pilot, NPR tested approximately 20 mp4 episodes of How I Built This and TED Radio Hour. The ID3 tags were encoded by hand and NPR One served as the test client. A server was set up to receive the listening events, which were then available for downloaded by Splunk, our tool for custom listening analytics. Due to the limited sample size, capturing conclusive listening data for these episodes was out of scope for this initial pilot.
This pilot was intended to provide a proof of concept for the technical implementation of the RAD method, to determine both the required level of effort, as well as the accuracy of the captured data. To measure the accuracy, we analyzed the RAD reported events against the reported listening data that we receive from NPR One.
Comparing the RAD event data against baseline NPR One data did include certain complexities; the pilot used mp4 files because that is the majority of listening within NPR One for these podcasts, however there was a subset of mp3 and HLS listening that we could not include.
Podcast completion rates from the RAD events aligned with NPR One events.
Sponsorship funnels (the drop off from ad break 1 to ad break 2, and so on) and advertisement completion rates behaved as expected.
For testing purposes, a custom Remote Audio Data (RAD) tag was created and JSON containing the specified metadata was encoded directly into the custom tag within the ID3 tag. The NPR One client was programmed to parse the metadata when the encoded audio file was downloaded, and an observer was implemented to watch for listening events and then construct a URL to send the event data to a remote server for tracking purposes. The server logs were then made available via download for reporting and analysis. Note: RAD tags do not affect audio playback for clients who do not implement an observer for listening events.
The top-level object in the encoded JSON includes podcast and episode IDs, as well as the tracking URL that should receive event notifications from the client.
“eventTime” matches the timestamp format for cue points set by client-implemented observer.
“adStart” and “adEnd” event labels should repeat as needed within the "events" array to represent the number of sponsorship spots featured within the episode.
The current client implementation framework observes the current audio session, parses the tags encoded into the currently playing podcast audio file, and implements an event listener to compare the current playback position to the event times parsed from the encoded media file.
The eventTime for events with this label should always equal "00:00:00.000". This event indicates that a podcast has been downloaded by the client, but does not confirm the episode has been played.
The eventTime for event with this label should always be set to "00:00:05.000". This event confirms that the episode has started to play.
The eventTime matches the start time for the piece of sponsorship with the "adId" indicated in the event object.
Multiple adStart events may included in the "events" array to match the number of sponsorship pieces included in this episode.
The eventTime for "adEnd" corresponds to the end time for the piece of sponsorship with the "adId" indicated in the event object.
Multiple adEnd events may included in the "events" array to match the number of sponsorship pieces included in this episode.
The eventTime for events with this label should be equal to 98% of the duration of this episode.
When the client detects a match between current playback position and an "eventTime", it makes a GET request to the provided tracking URL, appending the metadata for that event as parameters to the base "trackingUrl". The remote web server that receives this GET request should log the constructed URLs for future reporting and analysis.
The encoded audio file, which provides the JSON metadata in the RAD tag that includes the base tracking URL, the podcast and episode IDs, and an array of event objects.
The client application, which supplies the application ID for the “application” param.
The platform, which supplies the device-specific advertising ID for the “sessionStart” param, for example, the UUID on Apple devices.
The iOS media player supports the parsing of custom fields in the ID3 tags by default, so no extra effort is needed on the part of the client to locate and parse the metadata encoded into a tag within the file.
[moov] [trak] [udta] [meta] [ilst] [----] [data] "RAD"
NPR One uses the ExoPlayer 2’s MetadataUtil class to parse the metadata from this tag, but the specifics of this implementation will vary based on platform.
The RAD pilot used NPR One as its test client, which is essentially a streaming application. Publishers or implementers of RAD clients should be aware of the lifecycle of cellular radio hardware, particularly for non-streaming applications. From a sleeping state, a network request will wake the radio subsystems (an energy-expensive operation), make the request, then the radio will enter an idle state for a platform specific amount of time (typically around 90 seconds). If no further connections are made in that 90 seconds, the radio will power down back to the sleeping state. If a new request is made at the 91st second, the full energy cost of re-waking the radio must be paid, effectively leading to significant battery drain if repeated.
With these factors in mind, publishers should be careful not to include a significant amount of unimportant events and non-streaming based applications should consider caching the events to memory/disk and batching the send of event data.
What software did we use to write to the ID3 tags?
We used TagScanner to write to the ID3 tags for the pilot.
If a user manually seeks forward, do we send the events he/she has passed but hasn't actually listened to?
For the NPR pilot, yes. All prior events up to the elapsed time were sent (including all ad breaks). This was based on scope/time to implement the prototype. This could be modified in future implementations.
If a user rewinds to a location in a podcast that is before an event after having passed and hit that event, do we send the event again?
If that is within the same listening event/session, no.
If they were to listen to the episode again would we send the event again?
Yes, if it is a separate listening event/session.
Can RAD work with dynamic ad/sponsorship insertion?
Yes. Ad vendors and/or publishers should be aware of the lengths of these dynamic spots and that a system will require them to keep track of the running time codes, updating the RAD tags accordingly.


text: Stephen started Piotte Enterprises in his home office in 1989 primarily as an income tax preparation business. Through an 8 year tour with The National Guard and he continued to prepare income taxes and offer financial advice incidental to tax preparation. In 2012 Piotte Enterprises partnered with H&R Block as a franchisee relationship and Constellation Financial & Wealth Management Services took its first steps away from income tax preparation in order to focus on the growing needs of our wealth management clients. During 2017 Piotte Enterprises, Inc. sold the tax portion of its business and now focuses completely on helping our clients to achieve their financial goals through wealth management. He continues to prepare incomes taxes through H&R Block for returning clients only.


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This week the show topic is organizing WCA competitions. Maybe you don’t have any competitions in your area or you’ve always wanted to help set up one.
I have Alex on the podcast who has organized 2 events so far. We discuss the funnest parts, the first steps you need to take, and other helpful details.
The CubingUSA guide is a helpful tool.
My YouTube Channel is CornerCutter.


text: "This book will help you pry the truth out from the imagery. It will help you ask the right questions and it will make you think about what you want t do with the answers, which are rarely simply 'right' or 'wrong.' It will point you to other reliable sources of information. More than anything, What's a Parent to Do? will make you healthily skeptical without being cynical. Though sanctimony is commonplace in higher education, genuine piety is there too, if you know how to look for it."


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The first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament have been crazy! We’ve seen a #16 seed beat a #1 in UMBC, Loyola Chicago has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, #1 seed Xavier fell to Florida State, Michigan won on an incredible buzzer beater, Nevada overcame a 22 point second half deficit to Cincinnati for the third biggest comeback in NCAA Tournament history, and so much more. Chad and the panel break down all of the action, discuss the significance of it, and preview the upcoming Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games.
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The Pol Roger Lodge at Imbibe Live 2018!
Home / The Pol Roger Lodge at Imbibe Live 2018!
On the 2nd – 3rd of July, we took the Pol Roger Lodge to London Olympia for Imbibe Live 2018! The Lodge provided an oasis of calm at Imbibe; fairy lights twinkled under canvas and guests were welcomed in to take a seat, listen to live music and to try wines and spirits from across the Portfolio.
One particular highlight was the Survivors’ Breakfast on Tuesday morning. Attendees were invited into the lodge for a comparative tasting of Pol Roger Brut Vintage 1999 and 2009 served en magnum, as well as a restorative bacon sandwich!


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Imagine a world without trees. Picture a world with no plants nor grass, barren and bare. Total emptiness.
We are free to make decisions, to choose, to prioritize. Each act has its consequences and these are often unknown. If we all try to do small great things, with respect and conscious of our actions, we might help with the regeneration of our world.
I believe in conscious action and this is why I choose with care and prioritize when deciding which materials to go for, taking into account their traceability, the impact on the environment, the social responsability in choosing these rather than other materials and my respect for the well-being of any animals involved or disturbed by this purchase.
The beauty of a finished object is as important as its physical make-up. The key is to study the ultimate function of each piece of furniture so as to detect strengths and weaknesses and thereby give maximum attention to the latter.
Pieces of furniture designed with time and dedication. Made to last and last. Made out of quality natural materials, chosen with care with each project in mind. The joints are thought out carefully so as to ensure that its daily use strengthens, rather than weakens, its funcionality.
With my heart beating and my mind working things out, my hands help to shape an imagined concept. Hands are magic, powerful, able to materialize what one’s mind hopes for. Hands can make something long before a machine is able to manufacture a similar design: the personal touch.
Each detail defines the character of the piece and makes it special. I admire each knot, each crack or split in the wood, each imperfection on the surface is a potential point to work on and to embellish enhancing its unique natural beauty.
Each tiny movement, each alteration in the shape or colour of wood, these are like little calls of attention to help us realize that it exists, that it is alive and that it feels the changes in temperature and surroundings just as we do. I care for wood as it deserves to be cared for and I respect the space it needs to move, adapt and transform itself as time goes by.
Love is the essence which unites us, that connects us with the world and our immediate surroundings. It is what makes us feel alive. This is what happens to objects that have been made with love, the piece comes alive, and from this new life a unique story is born that will last forever.
LOOK FOR YOUR PERFECT MATCH. CREATE YOUR STORY.


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Every year, Prof. Bradley Mitchell of Ivy Tech Community College in Valparaiso, Indiana, challenges his classes to do a service learning project to take learning outside of the classroom and help those in need. This year, in conjunction with Prof. Mitchell's continued work with individuals with developmental disabilities, he is challenging his students to get as many people involved in donating a small amount to help make big gains!
As with every year's service learning project, Prof Mitchell is putting himself on the line to help motivate / drive students to success. This year, all donations (up to $5000) will be matched by Prof Mitchell and provided to help individuals with Autism the ability to better integrate and achieve their goals.


text: Bobby Riley is a third-generation oilman and with nearly 40 years of experience in the independent oil and gas sector. Bobby is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Riley Exploration Permian, LLC. and was co-founder and served as CEO & Chairman of Riley Exploration Group, Inc from 2007-2012. He has served as managing partner of a privately held E&P company, Tuleta Energy Partners, LLC from 2002-2007 until it was acquired by publicly traded Activa Resources, Inc. From 1997-2002, he worked as a drilling consultant. Prior to that, Bobby was President of an oil and gas services company specializing in well design and reservoir data acquisition that was active in Nigeria, Venezuela, and Norway. Bobby holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting and Finance from the University of Oklahoma and has completed the Advanced Drilling Operations and Well Control Program and Murchison Drilling School.


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Good for families on a tight budget. Bad for research development and innovation of alternative forms of energy that we’ll eventually need.
I remember 15 years ago when experts talked about how rising fuel prices hurt businesses as costs increased for transportation, heating, etc. So why can’t the reverse be a benefit to the economy?
Cheap gas is one of the greatest economy boosters we can have. It lowers the cost of other goods by making transportation cheaper, it encourages extra travel and tourism, and it increases consumer confidence and willingness to spend in the economy.
Cheap gas = more driving, with associated air quality and other impacts on the earth. We need to care for the earth and manage our resources wisely.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


text: Kyiv Music School (Київська музична школа; Kyivska muzychna shkola). The first professional music school in Kyiv. It was founded in 1768 by the Kyiv City Council on the basis of the city’s musicians' guild to prepare musicians for the city orchestra. Besides music, students were taught mathematics, history, geography, and languages. In 1831 the school and orchestra were joined to form the Kyiv City Kapelle, which gave concerts, accompanied theatrical performances, and played at official receptions. The kapelle and school were closed in 1852.