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I had the fortune this past weekend of being at a rather splendid event, two actually.
The first was the incredibly joyous wedding of a dear old friend who is taking a great leap into a new chapter of her life. All of us make enormous changes when we marry, of course, but this shift was a global, life-style, instant-parenting, career-moving right hand turn. Everything was a tough choice except the guy. He is perfect and when faced with that, she took him and everything he came with in a great vertiginous whirlwind. It was raucous and dizzying and breathtaking.
The second splendid event was a quieter one. The wedding was in a city where I also have an unusual friend. Not that she is unusual, but rather it's the friendship that is. Esti and I have only met face to face twice in a decade and really rarely even email, but despite the paucity of our interactions, I am seriously smitten with this lady. She's fearless, funny, talented and enormously kind. What a pleasure then to be able to snag a few delicious hours tucked into a coffee shop catching up and hooting and cackling at our lives.
I first met Esti when I was living in San Francisco and trying to forge a new path for myself. I wasn't sure where to live, how to work and really, who I wanted to be. I don't think I'd ever imagined I'd be where I am now, wife, mother, and business owner. Sitting with her brought back to me the long trail I'd traveled between now and the last time I saw her, nearly ten years before. You expect change to happen all at once, or I did. I imagined an epiphany and then a sea change and presto- new life. Instead, as it has always been, small turns until one day you wake up and, well, you've woken up. At what felt like the darkest hour, I bought myself a birthday present, expensive for what I could afford. It was a pendant by Jeanine Payer, who makes these exquisite pieces inscribed with tiny sayings. Mine said- 'one does not discover new lands without consenting to leave sight of the shore'. I wore is constantly and it became my mantra as I bobbed along stormy seas. Until one day I wasn't anymore. Without noticing, I had arrived on my new shore by moving the tiniest bit every day.
So two splendids- a joyous celebration of a life suddenly and alchemically altered and a savory revisiting of a life slowly and almost imperceptibly blossoming.


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December 26, 2010
Length: 40:10 (36.9 MB)
We are called to offer humble guidance to believers who have gone astray and to show them the same forgiveness that we ourselves have received.
December 19, 2010
Length: 35:24 (32.5 MB)
The primary responsibility for evangelizing children lies with the parents. Therefore, parents should do everything in their power to ensure their children are exposed to the gospel. This means attending church regularly, praying and Bible reading at home, discussing your own faith, and teaching the supremacy of the Lord and His word.
December 12, 2010
Length: 35:45 (32.8 MB)
Life contains a fundamental and inescapable choice: to give-up or to keep going. It is contrary to having faith in Jesus Christ to have a being of discouragement. We have to approach God's calling with optimism and determination.
December 05, 2010
Length: 35:21 (32.5 MB)
If we are concerned about our status compared to other believers, a change has to take place in our thinking. Jesus tells us we are to have a simple child like faith and humility. For God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
November 28, 2010
Length: 37:12 (34.2 MB)
As Christians, we have dual citizenship: in heaven, and in society. As Peter says, "Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among man." Yet we must also remember to give to God what is God's.
November 21, 2010
Length: 33:47 (31 MB)
Present your concerns and requests to God with Thanksgiving! If we first make peace with God through Jesus, we will then know the peace of God. And the God of Peace will be with us as we pray and fellowship with Him.
November 14, 2010
Length: 48:21 (44.4 MB)
Pastor Enterline reminds us that our confidence comes from our relationship with God and not who we are in the flesh. Knowing this will lead us to rejoice in the Lord.
November 07, 2010
Length: 39:31 (36.3 MB)
Jesus explains to His disciples that faith (in God and in His Son) is the essential element in all good works done for the kingdom. Our faith does not need to be perfect, but the object of our faith is omnipotent.
October 31, 2010
Length: 36:26 (33.4 MB)
When Moses encountered God, his face reflected God's glory, but when Jesus was transfigured, it was His own glory that shown. After we have been touched by that glory on the mountain, we must remember there are people in desperate need in the valley.
October 24, 2010
Length: 52:20 (47.9 MB)
Pastor Cymbala presents a moving sermon on the power of prayer in this video taped message from the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

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Sharing Humor, Beauty and Art
Girl drops a dummy head on the sidewalk and it's switched for a real head
When beach goers help this young lady out of the sand they get a hilarious surprise.
A Psychological Phenomenon called "The Backfire Effect" Causes a Person to Become More Convinced They Are Right When You Use Facts and Figures to Convince Them They Are Wrong
Originally set out as a shelter, these goats decide to use this piece of tin to practice their balancing skills.
Kitty wants to play and Kitty has found an interesting
and annoying way to wake up her caregiver.
I'm really enjoying my lasso classes, even though I got roped into it.
What do you call a ghost's mother and father? Transparents!
Why don't people live in toadstools? Cause there isn't mushroom.
What's a metaphor? For cows to graze on.
What did one ocean say to the other ocean?...Nothing they just waved
If you want to know how many bees Noah had… check the Ark Hives
Years ago Blues Traveler did a song called ''The Hook''. For some reason, it seems more relevant today.
Musical satire, from musician and comedian Tim Minchin
Marijuana was first severely restricted as a recreational and medicinal drug in the U.S. by the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. The law did not prohibit marijuana use but imposed such a heavy tax that legal sale and use became nearly impossible.
In October of 1937, Samuel Caldwell was the first U.S. citizen arrested under the Marijuana Tax Act for selling marijuana without paying the newly mandated tax. He was fined $1,000 and sentenced to four years of hard labor in Leavenworth.
A humorous comedy routine expresses her opinion of why there are more male comedians than female comedians, and also what it's like trying to get back into the dating scene as an older woman.
Even this comedian who voted for Hillary Clinton agrees that she's not a very likable person and in that respect she feels sorry for her.
An organization is like a tree full of monkeys.
Some are climbing up. Some are climbing down.
The monkeys on the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.
The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but a bunch of a**holes.
Remembering a sitcom called Married... With Children with a few of Al Bundy's best insults
One of the more creative intros from the Drew Carey comedy show
The early Church declared that alcohol was an inherently good gift of God to be used and enjoyed. While individuals might choose not to drink, to despise alcohol was heresy.
Helping you choose the perfect valentine's gift for your lover.
A single woman's guide to getting through Valentine's Day.
What's the difference between the government and the mafia?
The Mafia is organized
The only thing worse than screwing up really badly, is screwing up really badly in front of a camera.
Sharp eyed viewers might recognize this new rubbery plant discovery as a silicone toy marketed to adult males. Apparently the Chinese are somewhat humorously naïve when it comes to this type of toy.
Currently less than 7% of the people surveyed think Congress is doing a good job. This is by far the lowest approval rate since they started taking surveys.
For the first time in their lives two dozen recently rescued ducks get their first taste of life in a pond.
Incoming; all felines to battle stations - engage at the mail slot.
Little Susie, a six year old , complained:"Mother, I've got a stomach ache."
"That's because our stomach is empty", the mother replied. "You would feel better if you had something in it."
That afternoon her daddy came complaining that he had a severe headache all day.
Susie perked up: " That's because it's empty", she said. "You'd feel better if you had something in it."
Humorous parody of our overly sensitive world where a club gets into trouble for offering half-price averages to various ethnic groups.
Humorous parody of the real world nuclear arms race using Nerf weapons. Panic ensues when one of the kids on the block gets a nuclear Nerf weapon.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas!
Having grown up around woodstoves and firewood this ''artist'' feels like the ability to select only the best firewood is in his blood and so he founded The Smoke and Flame firewood company.
Can we agree that there is a lot wrong with the world - but let's not get into the specifics, because if we did, most likely we would disagree.
....Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity, and intoxicating to the mind, and then turn full-bodied with age until they go all sour and vinegary and give you a headache. - Male Author Unknown
....Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd want to have dinner with. - Female Author Unknown
Comedian says she's been noticing that there are some pretty hot homeless men in LA - either that or they're hipsters.
Comedian Joanna gave up bartending to be a yoga instructor because she couldn't stand to be around alcoholics
The microscopic parasite Toxoplasma gondii has an interesting effect when it infects rats and mice - it makes them become unafraid of cats. This is pretty helpful to the Toxoplasma, which can only sexually reproduce if its host is eaten by a cat.


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- There is 1 private school in Isle Of Wight County, VA, serving 733 students.
- Minority enrollment is 7% of the student body, and the student:teacher ratio is 10:1.
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- PO Box 105
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Grades: PK-12 | 733 students
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Express By Holiday Inn Glasgow City Center - TheatrelandThe Express Inn by Holiday Inn Theatreland is located 20 kilometers from the Glasgow International Airport. This magnificent hotel is ideally situated in the heart of the city within the Theatreland District. Glasgow boasts a wide variety of shops, from high street stores to the fabulous Buchanan Galleries. The hotel is also convenient to the exclusive, Princes Square and Italian Center and they are all within easy walking distance. The hotel is a perfect starting point for visiting the Highlands, Trossachs and other major towns and cities.
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Council honors letter-perfect service
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At the July 11 meeting of the Henrico Business Council, Virgil Hazelett gave his annual "state of the county" address, and Angela Harper and Troy Bell were honored for service to the county and to the Henrico Business Council. Harper, who retires from her post as deputy county manager July 31, was recognized for her 41 years of service, while Bell was recognized as the outgoing chair of the Henrico Business Council Cabinet. Both received a framed letter 'H' in Henrico County colors of green and orange, against a background of the county map. Bell, director of marketing and air services development for the Capital Region Airport Commission, passed the gavel to Jim Wilson, attorney for the Wilson Law Group.
West End apartment fire injures 1
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SEPT. 25, 10:30 A.M. – A West End apartment fire injured one person Sunday afternoon.
The fire broke out in the third floor of the Chase Gayton apartment complex in the 10 block of Chase Gayton Drive, near the intersection of Gaskins Road and Quioccasin Road, at about 1:20 p.m. Sept. 24. > Read more.
Crime Stoppers' Crime of the Week: Sept. 25, 2017
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Crime stoppers needs your help to solve a double homicide that occurred in the City of Richmond in June of this year.
On Wednesday, June 7, at approximately 9:53 p.m., Richmond police officers responded to several calls for random gunfire in the 3600 block of Decatur Street. They arrived and found the victims, two males, Christian Singleton and Ketron Wells. The victims were outside on the ground lying near each other. Both victims had received fatal gunshot wounds. > Read more.
Richmond Astronomical Society to present night sky astronomy at Libbie Mill, Varina libraries
Citizen Staff Reports 09/25/2017 EducationGeneral NewsGovernment
The Richmond Astronomical Society and Libbie Mill Library will host a presentation about the night sky and its astronomy Sept. 28, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Attendees will enjoy amazing views of the moon and other celestial objects with high-quality telescopes operated by members of the Richmond Astronomical Society. Guests will be able to see craters and seas on the surface of the moon with clarity and detail. > Read more.
Henrico home sales continue on strong pace
Citizen Staff Reports 09/22/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
The number of homes sold in Henrico County in August rose 10 percent when compared to the same month last year, according to data compiled by Long & Foster. The average sale price of those homes – $239,975 – also rose, by about 4 percent when compared to the same average sale price in August 2016.
Henrico's jump in the number of homes sold was the largest in the Richmond region, though average sales prices in Chesterfield (8 percent increase) and Richmond (12 percent) jumped by higher amounts when compared to last August sales. > Read more.
Thoracic surgeon is first to perform 100 robot-assisted lobectomies in Central Virginia
Citizen Staff Reports 09/22/2017 General NewsHealth
Graham M. Bundy, a thoracic surgeon with HCA Virginia Physicians' Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates, is the first such surgeon in Central Virginia to perform 100 minimally-invasive Da Vinci robot-assisted lobectomies (a surgical procedure to remove a lobe of the lung). The procedure is used to treat multiple types of conditions but is most often used to treat lung cancer. > Read more.
Thoracic surgeon is first to perform 100 robot-assisted lobectomies in Central Virginia
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Childhood Obesity: Perspective from a School Nurse (video interview)
By My Family Plate at January 12, 2011 | 1:10 pm | 1 Comments
Nurse Kimberly interviews Linda Neumann, a registered nurse at a local St. Louis school, about the childhood obesity epidemic. Ms. Neumann has been a nurse for almost 35 years, and isn't afraid to "tell it like it is". This is an eye-opening interview that really illustrates the severity of childhood obesity. It is evident from this interview that Ms. Nuemann not more...
Picky Eater? Here's Help!
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We are looking forward to our Isaiah Saucillo memorial slosh-ball game on July 22 at lake skinner. It will be a great time for a great cause. Please come out and support the Saucillo family and the amazing life of Isaiah.
The annual general meeting will be August 9th and the location will be released shortly. If anyone is interested in getting involved in the direction of the club or just wants to help with it development plan please attend this meeting. We will have nomination form posted and distributed shortly. We really need more of our club members to get involved with coaching and administrative duties…Get involved….
We have started our 4th year of summer 7's for all ages and genders. Please see the applicable page for detailed information on particular age groups and times.
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Partnered With Michelle's Place.
Our First Annual Golf Tournament was a a HUGE success and we'll be cutting a check to support Michelle's Place, our local Breast Cancer Resource Center. However we'd love to see that donation be even higher so please find it in your heart to help us save lives right here in our own Valley.
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America's criminal-justice system really is criminal: Miami-Dade prison guards who allegedly laughed as they scalded a man to death in a hot shower won't face criminal charges.
Via Radley Balko's links, Jerry Ianneli's report in the Miami New Times:
On June 23, 2012, Darren Rainey, a schizophrenic man serving time for cocaine possession, was thrown into a prison shower at the Dade Correctional Institution. The water was turned up to 180 degrees — hot enough to steep tea or cook ramen noodles.
As his punishment, four corrections officers — John Fan Fan, Cornelius Thompson, Ronald Clarke, and Edwina Williams — kept Rainey in that shower for two full hours. Rainey was heard screaming, "Please take me out! I can't take it anymore!" and kicking the shower door. Inmates said prison guards laughed at Rainey and shouted, "Is it hot enough?"
Rainey died inside that shower. He was found crumpled on the floor. When his body was pulled out, nurses said burns covered 90 percent of his body. A nurse said his body temperature was too high to register with a thermometer. And his skin fell off at the touch.
But in an unconscionable decision, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office announced Friday that the four guards who oversaw what amounted to a medieval-era boiling will not be charged with a crime.
"The shower was itself neither dangerous nor unsafe,'' the report says. "The evidence does not show that Rainey's well-being was grossly disregarded by the correctional staff.''
Rundle's office announced the results of its investigation in a Friday-afternoon news dump, the kind that public officials typically use to bury unflattering news or information. Rundle's office would clearly like this case to vanish over the weekend — but the facts are so inhumanely grotesque that the decision should haunt the office for eternity.
Rundle took over as Miami-Dade's top prosecutor in the 1990s after Janet Reno left to join the Bill Clinton administration. Rundle has remained the state attorney since then. In that time, she has never charged a Miami police officer for an on-duty shooting.
It's important to note that all Rundle had to do to show she cared was to charge the prison guards with a crime. It's up to a jury to assess guilt. Despite the fact that a man died in a shower and that multiple witnesses said they saw burns on his body and heard screaming, Rundle didn't think there was enough evidence to bring criminal charges. . .
Trump's DOJ to Assert State Secrets Privilege in Salim v. Mitchell
An interesting development is reported in Lawfare by Robert Loeb and Emma Kohse:
It looks like the DOJ is going to invoke the state secrets privilege after all in the latest CIA torture suit brought by former detainees, marking the first time that the Trump administration will use this powerful legal tool. But in an interesting variation on the typical post-9/11 state secrets cases, this time it is the defendants rather than the plaintiffs who seek to introduce information that the government alleges may harm national security. In a response filed Wednesday to the defendants' motion to compel depositions of "two purported CIA witnesses," the DOJ indicated its intention to assert the privilege in opposition to this motion and one other motion to compel the testimony of a CIA witness. The DOJ states that to either confirm or deny the three alleged witnesses' roles in the detention and interrogation program "would itself disclose classified information." The formal claim of privilege, which will be filed by March 8, must come from the head of the department that has control over the matter—likely CIA director Mike Pompeo.
The defendants in this case are former CIA contractors James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen, whose role in designing the now-infamous enhanced interrogation program used in black site CIA prisons overseas was detailed in the declassified Executive Summary of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program (SSCI Report). In 2015, the ACLU brought suit under the Alien Tort Statute against Mitchell and Jessen on behalf of Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and Gul Rahman (who died in CIA custody), alleging that the two contractors are "directly liable" for acts of torture, non-consensual human experimentation, and war crimes perpetrated against the three men during their time in custody. (For a more complete picture, see our earlier case coverage here and here.)
Under the state secrets doctrine, the U.S. government can seek to exclude evidence from any civil trial by asserting that legal proceedings on the topic risk disclosing sensitive information and pose a threat to national security. Judges may attempt to verify the legitimacy of such assertions through in camera proceedings, but many defer to the executive branch's judgment on what constitutes a national security secret. Though the exclusion of evidence on national security grounds does not necessarily mandate outright dismissal, in practice, claims focused on sensitive topics like counterterrorism or surveillance frequently don't survive the invocation of state secrets.
Notably, prior challenges to the legality of CIA interrogation techniques have been thrown out after the government asserted its state secrets privilege, even when the United States was not itself a defendant in the case. This time, the DOJ did not seek to dismiss the case in its initial stages, likely in recognition of the sheer volume of relevant information already in the public domain: In addition to the SSCI Report, other CIA documents on the interrogation and rendition program were released in response to a FOIA suit brought by the ACLU in 2016. Instead, the government joined the suit as an interested party to protect classified information, opposing many of Mitchell and Jessen's attempts to access additional CIA documents and depose CIA personnel.
Mitchell calls the SSRI Report "misleading," and claims that he needs additional classified information to prepare a defense. If the court agrees that the excluded information is essential to trying the case, it's possible that the state secrets privilege could prove fatal to the suit. However, that outcome seems unlikely at this point, particularly in light of the fact that the DOJ is not asking for dismissal.
The Obama administration's forbearance on asserting the state secrets privilege in Salim v. Mitchell has been the subject of much discussion. After President Bush had been roundly criticized for what some called abuse of the privilege, President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder instituted new policy to limit its use in litigation, but critics saw more of the same until this case.
Even before Donald Trump took office, some speculated that his administration might change the legal strategy by invoking the state secrets privilege either to avoid releasing requested information in discovery, or to avoid the litigation altogether. This first use by the Trump administration appears to be relatively narrow, and may represent nothing more than a response to the specific depositions requested by Mitchell and Jessen. In other words, the Obama (or Clinton) administration may have responded identically to these specific motions to compel testimony, using privilege to prevent the release of critical national security information.
Still, it's worth underscoring that . . .
Trump's tough-guy talk on torture risks real lives
Jane Mayer writes in the New Yorker:
In an interview with his biographer Michael D'Antonio, Donald Trump explained that although he received a medical deferment rather than serving in the war in Vietnam, "I always felt that I was in the military." This was, as D'Antonio reported in "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success," because he spent his high-school years at a military-themed boarding school, not far from West Point.
Last Saturday, President Trump trumpeted his military expertise during a visit to the C.I.A.'s headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, where he praised his nominee to direct the C.I.A., Michael Pompeo, for being first in his class at West Point. Then he digressed, noting, "I know a lot about West Point. . . . Trust me, I'm, like, a smart person."
One difference between serving in the military and being a pretend soldier at the New York Military Academy, where Trump proudly led mock drills in snappy faux military uniforms, is that, in the real thing, officers are drilled not just in marching formations but also in the laws of war. These include the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture, which impose absolute, unconditional bans on torture and other forms of cruel and inhumane treatment of enemy combatants, categorizing such conduct, under any and all circumstances, as a war crime.
In an interview with ABC's David Muir, made available on Wednesday, Trump gave a cursory nod to those laws. Asked if he wanted U.S. forces to use waterboarding, the President said that he would listen to his advisers, but that he wanted to do everything "within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally" to "fight fire with fire." He told Muir, "I have spoken, as recently as twenty-four hours ago, with people at the highest level of intelligence, and I asked them the question: Does it work? Does torture work? And the answer was yes, absolutely." He added, with emphasis, "Do I feel it works? Absolutely I feel it works."
The interview came on the same day that several news organizations published a draft executive order that, if signed, would command the Trump Administration to review the possibility of reintroducing C.I.A.-run "black site" detention campsfor terror suspects and the use of brutal interrogation techniques. These practices were used during the early years of the War on Terror, but were shut down after the Supreme Court declared them subject to prosecution. At the daily White House press briefing on Wednesday, Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, described the draft as "not a White House document." Still, it was circulating through high levels of the government, and President Trump's sentiments were clear.
As any military expert could tell Trump, torture only increases the danger that soldiers face. It produces false intelligence, increases the risk that captured soldiers will themselves be tortured, and undermines discipline and moral authority. This is a lesson that George Washington knew well. As a general in the Revolutionary War, he vowed that, unlike the British, who tortured their captives, this new country would distinguish itself by its humanity toward enemy combatants. Washington's order proved not just moral but also practical. As David Hackett Fischer wrote in "Washington's Crossing," his Pulitzer Prize-winning history, Washington's superior treatment of enemy captives fomented desertion among British and Hessian soldiers, and bolstered the American soldiers' morale.
Washington's enlightened orders formed the backbone of U.S. military policy until the War on Terror. America didn't always live up to these ideals, but it nonetheless valued them, and enshrined them in law. The original copies of the Geneva Conventions are kept in a safe at the State Department, signed by, among others, Winston Churchill, whose bust Trump reportedly has chosen to give a place of honor in his Oval Office.
The horrifying consequences of abandoning the high road are catalogued in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's 2014 report on the C.I.A.'s use of torture during the Bush era. Daniel J. Jones, the congressional staff member who was the lead author of the Senate report, told me that, should Trump choose to read it, he would see that "it clearly details how the C.I.A. internally came to the conclusion that their interrogation program was ineffective—and that the C.I.A. should not be operating detention sites."
As Trump readily admits, he doesn't feel he has time to read anything lengthy, which would seem to preclude his absorption of the five-hundred-page declassified summary of the Senate report, not to mention the six-thousand-seven-hundred-page classified original. It doesn't help, either, that the Obama Administration, in deference to the wishes of the C.I.A., declined to hold anyone in the intelligence community accountable for the Bush-era torture program. Obama instead chose to, as he put it, "turn the page." Unfortunately, that has made it all too easy for a new Administration to look to the old playbook. These missteps, Jones said, "are just dumbfounding."
Luckily, if Trump were to sign the draft executive order, the decision on whether to return to the brutal detention and interrogation techniques that former Vice-President Cheney called "the dark side" would not be made by the President alone. . .
Torture does not work. In addition, it's cruel and inhumane, illegal, immoral, unethical, and degrading to the torturer who is also harmed and shamed, developing a defensive numbness for life or PTSD. What sensible person would want to bring torture back?
Grasping for truth and dignity in Tunisia
When a government goes bad, it can go really bad. Azadeh Moaveni reports in the New Yorker:
In 1988, when Hamida Ajengui was a teen-ager, she decided to stop getting her hair blown out and to cover it with a head scarf instead. Her parents, observant Muslims, were as accepting of her head scarf as they had been of her uncovered head. To be religious in Tunisia, after all, was as mainstream as speaking French—and it was often during their teens that girls decided it was time to put on the hijab. But when Ajengui showed up at school, the principal said that she couldn't attend while covered. Surely, she thought, the country's new President, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had taken power in 1987, must have been unaware of this injustice: even though the government had historically suppressed religion, Ben Ali had promised more freedoms. Ajengui gathered a group of girlfriends and boarded a tram to visit the Presidential palace, in Carthage, to tell him. They were stopped by the police and turned back. When they tried to make the journey again, they were arrested.
The experience sealed Ajengui's resolve to wear her veil. She dropped out of school, focussing instead on religious classes and charity work. She often brought grocery money to the wives of political prisoners jailed for their Islamist beliefs. This led to more arrests, and then to torture and years of intermittent imprisonment. In detention, police would hang Ajengui upside down, naked, for hours. During interrogations, they threatened to sodomize her with a baton and once stripped her of her clothing in front of twenty men. Another time, she was locked in a room with a drunk man, who threw her against the wall and groped her. On her wedding day, security agents swarmed the reception hall, filling the space with officers instead of guests. They confiscated the musicians' instruments, blocked her mother from attending, and ripped the head scarves off her female relatives' heads. "My wedding was like a funeral," Ajengui said.
For nearly sixty years, until the 2011 uprising that unseated President Ben Ali, the Tunisian government made torture and intimidation a systematic part of its rule. A police state that was also stridently secular, modelled after the French aversion to religiosity in public life, the dictatorship largely targeted Islamists or religious activists. Ajengui, who is now forty-seven, was one of eleven women and men who two weekends ago described the abuse that they had suffered, during the second hearing of the state's Truth and Dignity Commission, which is the centerpiece of a transitional-justice law passed by the democratic government that emerged after the revolution. Broadcast live on prime-time television and widely watched, the hearings have been timed to coincide with the anniversary of the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruit seller whose self-immolation sparked the Jasmine Revolution, which spread to become the Arab Spring. The proceedings, unprecedented in the Arab world for their scope, are tasked with examining a wide variety of crimes, from extrajudicial killings to torture to corruption, and intended as a public reckoning that will help both state institutions and society recover.
They are also a refutation of Tunisia's reputation as an Arab success story, which owes less to any significant progress than to the country having avoided civil war or a descent into even nastier autocracy and chaos. This bright view, garlanded with a Nobel Peace Prize that went to a coalition of Tunisian civil-society groups, in 2015, has mostly fallen away. As George Packer reported in March, a spate of terror attacks that took place months before the Nobel Prize was announced virtually ended European tourism and weakened the country's long-ailing economy. Acts of violence by Tunisians abroad have changed the country's image further. Earlier this December, a twenty-four-year-old Tunisian man named Anis Amri allegedly drove a truck through an outdoor Christmas market in Berlin, killing twelve people. Tunisia has also sent the highest numbers of recruits, both men and women, to fight with the Islamic State, and the prospect of fighters returning home from Syria has left Tunisians vulnerable to the notion that the old regime was better at providing security than the new. Following two political assassinations in 2013, a political party that includes former regime officials won parliamentary elections, putting a number of politicians associated with past abuses back in power.
Outside the conference center where the hearings were being held, an ambulance waited on standby in case any of the participants fainted from the stress of testifying. Inside, young women dressed in soft linen and fluorescent lace hijabs sat with men wearing velvet pinstriped blazers and fake leather jackets. When Ajengui described being threatened with the baton de violeur, or steel baton, a woman broke down and rushed out of the room, the clacking of her heels breaking the room's silence. Sodomy as a form of torture has featured in other victims' testimony, as well. Tunisia is unique today for being governed by a sizable number of new politicians who are torture survivors, now members of the Islamist Ennahdha Party, and who find themselves serving alongside colleagues who, by virtue of having served under the old regime, were complicit in their abuse. When secular politicians nod together at an Ennahdha lawmaker across the room and whisper "Fanta bottle," they are making a joke about sodomy. Last year, artists organised an installation in downtown Tunis called "The National Museum of the State Security System." The exhibit included a row of glass soda bottles, symbolic of those upon which detainees had been forced to sit.
Sihem Bensedrine, the president of the Truth and Dignity Commission, is a former opposition journalist and human-rights activist who spent time in prison, in 2001. Bensedrine, who is sixty-six, is small-boned and wears demure suits and pearls, but her character is direct and sometimes fiery (in political circles her nickname is the Lioness). She has faced intense criticism, much of it personal, for her leadership, and she has been accused of everything from being overly fond of limousines to being a prostitute. A replica of one of Picasso's paintings from his surrealist period—a woman with a splintered face—hangs on a wall in her office near a framed verse from the Koran. On the morning of the second day of hearings, she was scrambling to prepare an additional person to give testimony. One of the women who had been scheduled to speak, a mother of two teen-agers, had just dropped out. "I'm sorry I can't come tonight," she told Bensedrine over the phone. "I am destroying my children."
"We told them from the beginning they have the right to change their mind," Bensedrine said, shrugging. "They've pushed the trauma down somewhere so deep, and we can't force them to pull it out if they are not ready."
Anyone can submit charges of torture or corruption to the commission. Of the 62,326 charges received so far, the commission has studied around eleven thousand. . .
The US is a prison nation and it imposes solitary confinement a lot
For a quick orientation, read the Wikipedia article on incarceration in the United States. Martin Garbus reviews a book in the NY Review of Books:
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, and Sarah Shourd, with an afterword by Juan E. Méndez
New Press, 226 pp., $25.95
If you look inside a solitary confinement cell such as the ones I have visited in New York's Sing Sing prison, you'll see a gray-walled, eight-by-eight-foot room with a concrete slab bed; it's underground, more like a tomb than a cell. The light is always on. Usually there aren't any windows, but there is a toilet (no toilet seat or paper) and a shower.
The solitary cell is home to a single prisoner, twenty-three or twenty-four hours a day; the extreme isolation and sensory deprivation imposed by the cell can last for days, months, years, or decades on end. Someone who visits a solitary cell might not notice the feces or the urine that leaks from the cells above, down the walls into a puddle on the floor. He or she would not be shown prisoners mutilating themselves or fighting guards or one another to the death, or men in their underwear, or naked, shackled by their hands to the bottom of bunks, deprived of books, paper, radio, pens, or pencils. I have represented a range of defendants in constitutional and criminal cases during the last fifty years, and my clients who have spent time in solitary consistently testify to having witnessed, or been subjected to, these abuses.
They describe being shackled to their bunks by their feet and hands, and moved from place to place like animals. They report being fed slop and also left without food in a state of extreme hunger. They tell me that hooded guards, armed with tasers and bats, in body armor and riot gear, extract prisoners from their cells and leave them lying on the floor, beaten, bruised, and unexamined by doctors. Once you see—and smell—a solitary cell, you will never forget it.
I first saw a solitary cell at Sing Sing in 1963, when I went to visit Fred Wood, an inmate there. (Mr. Wood, who had the odd distinction of being the next-to-last man executed by New York State, laughed as he sat down in the electric chair and said, "You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on wood.") Since then, I have had many occasions to visit clients and talk with inmates in solitary cells in federal and state facilities throughout the country. Each of the many solitary cells I saw was an abomination.
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement is a collection of seventeen essays by men and women who have been held in solitary confinement in American federal and state prisons. They were collected by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, Sarah Shourd, and Solitary Watch, a national organization that opposes solitary confinement. For readers who have no sense of the nature of the punishment that is exacted in their name, this collection offers an unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement.
America's prisons hold 2,193,000 people. That is more than the number of people who live in Manhattan. It is also more than the total number of prisoners in either Russia or China, the countries with the second- and third-highest prison populations. The United States shares with North Korea the distinction of having the world's highest incarceration rate. With 5 percent of the world's population, America houses 25 percent of the world's prisoners.
Approximately 400,000 people in our prison population move in and out of solitary, and many of America's over two million prisoners know they can be put in solitary even if they are jailed for the most minor offenses. Between 80,000 and 120,000 men and women are held in solitary confinement every day. Every federal and state prison has solitary cells. More than 100,000 American children inhabit prisons in which solitary is considered a standard management practice. Men, women, and children can be put there for years on end, solely at the whim of a prison guard. There is no legal process that gets them there and no legal process that can prevent them from being put there.
"Cruel" and "unusual" are likely two of the first words most inmates—and most readers—would use to describe solitary confinement. But no United States court has ever held that solitary confinement violates the Eighth Amendment and its proscription against cruel and unusual punishment. It seems that few American judges have ever been inside a solitary confinement cell.
Hell Is a Very Small Place provides a harrowing guided tour of some of the country's solitary units. The essays in the collection were written by inmates, some of whom have been confined for months to decades in solitary, as well as by one lawyer, two professors and legal activists, and two psychiatrists, including Stuart Grassian, a former Harvard Medical School professor who writes about the psychiatric effects of solitary confinement. Together these essays are both a condemnation of our prison system and an indictment of America. It is difficult to read this book without feeling shame.
The first American experiment in solitary confinement sprang from utopian ideals. In their introduction, Casella and Ridgeway observe that there are many historical accounts of people confined alone in towers and dungeons, and that, before the nineteenth century, many different societies used solitary as a way to torture and punish miscreants. But, they argue persuasively, "solitary confinement as a self-conscious, organized, and widespread prison practice" is a uniquely American creation.
The "penitentiary system" was introduced in the late eighteenth century in Philadelphia and was intended by its Protestant founders to quietly house "penitents" for as long as necessary in solitary so that they could have ample time to read the Bible, reflect, and change. Proud penitentiary supporters invited and encouraged important visitors from abroad to observe them; Casella and Ridgeway describe the appalled findings of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, and Charles Dickens, who were among those who came to visit.
In their 1833 treatise on US penitentiaries, Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote that, from the very beginning, the whole system had gone horribly, murderously wrong:
The convicts had been submitted to complete isolation; but this absolute solitude, if nothing interrupts it, is beyond the strength of man; it destroys the criminal without intermission and without pity; it does not reform, it kills.
Charles Dickens visited the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania in 1842, and the editors call him "one of the earliest—and still one of the most eloquent—critics of solitary confinement." He described the penitents there as men "buried alive." . . .
Newly-Released Documents Confirm Bureau of Prisons Visit to CIA Torture Site in Afghanistan
Alex Emmons reports in The Intercept:
One of the many alarming facts that came to light with the release of the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report in 2014 was that the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons had sent a "delegation of several officers" to Afghanistan to conduct an assessment an infamous CIA detention site and concluded the CIA "did not mistreat the detainees."
Senate investigators found that the bureau officers visited a detention site codenamed Cobalt north of Kabul in November 2002. That site — also known as the Salt Pit — has become infamous for the brutal torture inflicted on detainees there, including rectal exams conducted with "excessive force." According to Senate investigators, the CIA's own employees described the facility as "a dungeon," where detainees "cowered" as interrogators opened the door and "looked like a dog that had been kenneled."
In April, the ACLU filed suit to obtain documents related to the visit, which the Bureau of Prisons initially claimed did not exist.
The bureau has now turned over several emails mentioning the visit — along with a written declaration by a senior Bureau of Prisons lawyer explaining the attempted cover-up. That declaration states that the officers were tasked orally, so that there was no record of their travel, and that the CIA forbade the two officers from producing records of or about the visit.
In a newly released 2011 email, one of the officers tells a supervisor that "we were not even allowed to speak with a supervisor about what was going on."
The declaration says that due to the lack of records, searches for documents based on keywords like "CIA, Afghanistan, and COBALT," initially turned up no documents. After the ACLU filed suit, the bureau conducted a more thorough search, identifying the individuals who traveled to Afghanistan, and searching their communications.
The declaration confirms that two Bureau of Prisons officers traveled to "an international location," in November 2002 to provide "basic correctional practices training" to the CIA. . .
Later in the report:
While BOP officers toured the facility, interrogators tortured detainee Gul Rahman to death. A CIA team dragged Rahman out of his cell, beat him, immersed him in cold water, and put him in an isolation cell, where he died of hypothermia overnight.
According to the Senate report, the Bureau of Prison officers remarked that "there is nothing like this in the Federal Bureau of Prisons," but nonetheless concluded that the prison was "sanitary," and "not inhumane."
CIA medical doctors helped significantly in the torture
M. Gregg Bloche reports in the NY Times:
President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday expressed reservations about the use of torture. But he did not disavow the practice, or his promise to bring it back. And if he does, C.I.A. doctors may be America's last defense against a return to savagery. But they'll need to break sharply with what they did the last time around.
Buried in a trove of documents released last summer is the revelation that C.I.A. physicians played a central role in designing the agency's post-Sept. 11 torture program. The documents, declassified in response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, show in chilling detail how C.I.A. medicine lost its moral moorings. It's long been known that doctors attended torture as monitors. What's new is their role as its engineers.
The documents include previously redacted language from a directive by the C.I.A.'s Office of Medical Services telling physicians at clandestine interrogation sites to flout medical ethics by lying to detainees and collaborating in abuse. This language also reveals that doctors helped to design a waterboarding method more brutal than what even lawyers for the George W. Bush administration allowed.
The directive counsels that clinical care "not undermine the anxiety and dislocation that the various interrogation techniques are designed to foster." It instructs physicians not to "appear overly attentive" and to confound patients' expectations via deceit. Recommended tactics include doing clinical exams while pretending to be guards, changing medication schedules to disrupt detainees' sense of time and hiding drugs in food.
It also outlines protocols for prolonged shackling in painful positions that would permit development of skin lesions and edema (swelling because of leakage of fluid from blood vessels) up to the knees. Sleep-deprivation protocols call for a balance between breaking detainees' resistance and preserving their capacity to provide information.
If forced wakefulness "is intended to be one element in the process of demonstrating helplessness in an unpleasant environment," the directive counsels, two-hour "naps" between days of sleeplessness are "sufficient."
Previously redacted language also discloses the origin of the degrading practice of "rectal hydration," first reported by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2014: The medical service advised that "individuals refusing adequate liquids" be given fluids forcibly, through a "rectal tube."
Other language shows that C.I.A. physicians collaborated in waterboarding more terrifying and dangerous than what government lawyers permitted. The Justice Department allowed interrogators to simulate drowning for up to 40 seconds by using a wet cloth to block air flow through the nose and mouth. But according to the directive, the medical service determined that a good air seal "was not easily achieved by the wet cloth." So it instead went along with pouring "up to several liters of water" onto captives' faces.
"The resulting occlusion," the directive said, "was primarily from water filling the nasopharynx, breathholding, and much less frequently the oropharynx being filled — rather than the 'sealing' effect of the saturated cloth." The drowning experience, in other words, wasn't simulated; it was real.
That C.I.A. interrogators actually employed this method is consistent with videotapes of waterboarding sessions. A 2004 review of these since-destroyed videos found that instead of using the wet-cloth technique, interrogators "continuously applied large volumes of water." The review, by the C.I.A.'s inspector general, noted that this "differed" from what the Justice Department had authorized. The agency's method, a psychologist-interrogator told the inspector general, was "more poignant and convincing."
The medical service instructed physicians to manage waterboarding's dangers by combining the practice with sleep deprivation and shackling of detainees in stressful positions; this, the service advised, could "prolong the period of moderate use of the waterboard by reducing the intensity of its early use."
The service conceded in the recently released text that the abuse its doctors helped to plan put detainees at deadly risk. Inhalation of water, spasm of the larynx, hypothermia and lung and limb infections are among the hazards physicians were told to watch for.
The role of physicians included assessing the comparative efficacy of abusive methods. The medical service judged extended sleep deprivation "most effective" because of its "demonstrably cumulative" contribution toward "demonstrating helplessness in an unpleasant environment." But it concluded that confinement in tiny boxes worked poorly since this offered "a respite from interrogation," and it expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of waterboarding.
Some of the agency's doctors challenged the torture program's efficacy and questioned why the psychologists who created it served in conflicting roles as both its managers and evaluators. There were objections, as well, to the ethics of putting behavioral science to such brutal use. But the program's advocates prevailed, and the medical service instructed its physicians accordingly. There have been no public indications that any refused to go along.
Unlike the contractor-psychologists who created the torture program and have faced public excoriation, the C.I.A. physicians who helped design it remain anonymous. . .
And the Obama administration established that torturing prisoners carries no penalty. Those who torture people at the government's orders received decorations and promotions but no punishment or accountability
The belated discovery that physicians were directly involved in torturing prisoners and in devising ways to make the torture worse is exactly why there should have been a serious investigation rather than a cover-up, and the findings should have been shared with the public.


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Spurred by the possible closing of the San Francisco Chronicle, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has asked the US Justice Department to "take a broader view" of media competition in the bay area as it considers possible mergers and acquisitions that might save the ailing paper. Full story is here.
As the Chroncle's website reports:
In the carefully worded letter, Pelosi urged the Justice Department to take a broader view of media competition in the Bay Area. Rather than seeing The Chronicle's main competitors as other newspapers, she urged the department to consider television and Internet media sources and online advertising outlets as competitors as part of any future antitrust review.
Interestingly, one "competitor" is glaringly missing: radio. If it were included, it would be an admission that the current explosion of media all but obliterates the concept of limited channels that is one of the main arguments for reviving the fairness doctrine. If the competitive media environment is so open that anti-trust considerations should be loosened, surely it's open enough to obviate the need for content rules on AM radio.
But no, the hypocrisy of Pelosi is clear, and to be fair, newspapers have been something of a sacred cow for over a hundred years. But how about some consistency, Nancy?


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Believe it or not, Facebook recently surpassed YouTube in video views in the US. Video on Facebook is huge – although the Facebook algorithm is constantly changing, as of the time of this article, Facebook prefers to place video in your feed rather than a plain text post.
Facebook is perpetually changing. And lately they've been changing to help businesses talk to their customers.
They offer powerful tools to help your ads and boosted posts hit your target audience, controlling metrics like age, occupation, location, even their interests.
What I want to talk about today are the pros and cons of uploading your video content directly to Facebook compared to linking from another site, like YouTube… there is a difference.
One of the exciting new features that they've added is that videos uploaded directly to Facebook autoplay with out sound in the feed. So when someone is scrolling through their feed and your video post comes up, it automatically starts playing. This is huge for getting customers to want to engage with your content.
On the flip side, videos posted that are linked to YouTube, don't do that. You just see a thumbnail and you have to click it in order to play it. That's a lot of work… a person just can't be expected click all the time, that's how you get carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Height: 6'2″
Weight: 198
Class: Junior
2018 draft eligible
This kid was impressive to watch! He is everything I would want in a shutdown corner on my defense. He does need the safety blanket of a safety playing behind him. It's rare for me to be wowed by a corner, but I just couldn't get enough of watching him play. A throwback mentality of "in your face" style of play. Won the Jack Tatum Award (Best CB) and was elected to the All-ACC First Team.
What I Like
He is able to dominate WRs and make it look easy at times. Put him on an island and let him go! That's a major boost to any defense. When you can remove a team's top WR and game plan for the rest of the offense you're striking gold. Taking over for Jalen Ramsey who was drafted by Jacksonville last season, he took advantage and proved to be one of the nation's best defenders. He has an excellent understanding of where the ball is, and he can close quickly to make plays. If he does get turned around, he can quickly recover and stays in the play. I really liked seeing him use his hands to feel where the WR is going, which let him keep his head up. Keeping your head up allows you to see what's going on and that's a boost to your awareness. When I played, this was one way I could feel where the WR was moving, and between that and looking at the QB, I was able to figure out where the ball might be going. It's the same for him; only he is a much better athlete than I was. If he is lined up close to the sideline he has the smarts to let the WR get outside against the sideline and use the sideline to his advantage. This shortens the field and gives the defense an advantage. Instead of having to defend the outside of the field, he is only covering inside, and he will use his jumps to make a play on anything coming over the top.
Another aspect of his game I like is how he uses his height and can bait a QB into a fade route, and then leap and take the ball out of the air like you would expect from a WR. Being 6'2″ and able to jump and be in control is not something to take for granted. Did I mention he led the nation last season in interceptions? No? Well, he took eight possessions away last year.
While playing in a zone, he also maintains great awareness of where he needs to be, and what options the WR has around him. This allows him to tease QBs into thinking they have a window open, but instead Travarus McFadden is there to make a play. Brilliant knowledge on the roles of both defense, and where the offensive players are moving, make him elite. Capable of playing cover 2, 3 and 4, he would be able to play on any defensive call.
Speed is one of my most coveted traits for a CB. Showing well in this department will allow him recovery when and if he jumps a route, and lets him become a playmaker on the field. When you add in his technique, you're getting a complete player.
He occasionally took awful angles on an RB, but he also made some good plays. When he's on the move and attacking he can bring an RB down behind the line. If he's stuck in traffic, he has an issue at times closing for a tackle. This will be one area I will be focusing on in the 2017 season.
I expect him to continue to dominate WRs this season. From bump and run to playing off-coverage, he can be a weapon for the defense. His tackling should continue to get better, and if he plays like he did in 2016, he will be in the top tier of DBs for the NFL Draft. It's early in my look at 2018, but for now, he is cemented as a top 10 DB. My rankings will grow and change during the season as I watch more players. Check back often here.
Fantasy impact
Cornerbacks are just not a major position in fantasy. That's another topic for another day. I prefer slot type cornerbacks as they tend to be around the ball a little more. The elite corners don't get thrown at enough. Points come from tackles, pass deflections and interceptions, so the more passes that come your way, the more opportunity you'll have to get points. When you are a shutdown corner, you will not get as many chances to get those points. Fantasy is just not as kind to corners. This kid was fun to watch, and he will bring the heat into the NFL.
You can find me on twitter @DFF_JohnIDP where I enjoy discussing IDP.
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Jose Henrique Borghi is the founder of the Mullen Lowe agency. Borghi is the co-CEO of the advertising agency. He is known for his creativity and the innovative approach that he takes when developing advertisements. The Mammals of Parmalat campaign featured children who were dressed in stuffed animal costumes singing catchy jingles. He was behind the Sazon advertisement that led to the creation of the "It is the love song" by Zeze Di Carmago and Luciano. He was drawn to advertising when he saw an array of commercial advertisements that were nominated at the Cannes festival. Borghi's sister had invited him to see the performance at the Castro Neves Theater.
Borghi was born in PresidentePrudente. He graduated with a degree in Advertising from PUC-Campinas. He started his career at Ogilvy in 1989. Jose Henrique Borghi went on to work at other top agencies such as DDB, Talent, and FCB. He eventually decided to open his agency and partnered with Erh Ray to establish BorghiErh. They started without any outside investment or help from anybody. Their efforts paid off when Lowe & Partners bought the company in 2006.
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Online payment company is worth $9 billion with funding round
Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010
The brothers who co-founded online payments service Stripe Inc. have become Ireland's youngest billionaires after a $150 million funding round valued the business at $9 billion.
Patrick and John Collison own about 29 percent of the business, based on an analysis of filings by private stock market Equidate. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index net worth calculation splits the founder ownership pool equally between the two, giving them each a $1.1 billion stake.
Tim Drinan, a Stripe spokesman, declined to comment on the founders' ownership stakes.
The startup's surging valuation is based on its latest funding round disclosed Nov. 25, putting Patrick, 28, and his younger brother John among the likes of Snap Inc. co-founder Evan Spiegel and Uber Inc.'s Travis Kalanick in amassing a ten-figure fortune from a unicorn, a closely held startup valued at $1 billion or more.
Ireland's youngest billionaires are decades younger than established moguls such as telecoms tycoon Denis O'Brien, 58, or financier Dermot Desmond, 66.
Stripe provides software that lets businesses accept payments online, from sources including credit cards and bitcoin as well as mobile services such as Android Pay and Apple Pay. It also provides tools to help with data security, fraud prevention, accounting and billing.
Founded in 2010 offering mobile payments tools for developers, Stripe's first clients were small U.S. technology companies. It's since become a competitor to digital payments giant PayPal Holdings Inc., with clients that include Facebook Inc., Target Corp. and Macy's Inc.
The latest funding round represented the sale of about 1.6 percent of the company and has made the business twice as valuable as Square Inc., a mobile payments firm that went public a year ago and trades at almost three times revenue. The value of the brothers' stakes is reduced by 15 percent in the analysis to account for the small stake sold and typical discounts that shares in similar startups attract on the secondary market.
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Registering for free school meals is easy and confidential and it could save up to £400 a year.
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The elevation of Butte La Rose is 23 feet. Butte La Rose appears on the Butte La Rose U.S. Geological Survey Map. St. Martin Parish is in the Central Time Zone (UTC -6 hours).
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1½ cups whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon freshly-grated ginger
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cinnamon stick
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
5 large egg yolks
¼ cup dark brown sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons Grand Marnier, rum or brandy (optional)
¾ cup canned pumpkin
1. Make an ice bath by putting some ice and a little water in a large bowl and nest a smaller metal bowl (one that will hold at least 2 quarts) inside it. Set a mesh strainer over the top.
2. In a medium saucepan mix the milk, cream, granulated sugar, ginger, ground cinnamon, cinnamon stick, nutmeg, and salt.
3. Warm the mixture until hot and the edges begin to bubble and foam.
4. Whisk the egg yolks in a separate bowl and gradually whisk in about half of the warm spiced milk mixture, stirring constantly.
5. Scrape the warmed yolks back in to the saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom with a heatproof spatula, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. If using an instant-read thermometer, it should read between 160º-170ºF (71º-76ºC).
6. Immediately pour the mixture through the strainer into the bowl nested in the ice bath. Mix in the brown sugar, add the cinnamon stick back in, then stir until cool, then chill thoroughly, preferably overnight.
7. Whisk in the vanilla, liquor (if using), and pumpkin. Press the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer, then freeze in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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