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This is a dinner and stage show.
The dinner is an excellent local buffet. Each segment of the show is designed to highlight some aspect of Barbadian and Caribbean culture.
This is a very popular night out for visitors to Barbados.
Reservations are highly recommended.
Costs are as follows:
Dinner and Show
Adults: Bds $195.00
Teens (13-18): Bds $150.00
Children (3-12): Bds $90.00
Show only
Adults: Bds $115.00
Teens (13-18): Bds $80.00
Children (3-12): Bds $60.00
Time: Doors: 6.15 pm; Dinner: 7:15 pm; Show: 8:15 pm
Admission: See above
Venue: The Plantation, St. Lawrence Main Road, Christ Church
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] The director Tamra Davis pays tribute to his friend in this documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His conceptual art was fashion a successful black artist who constantly faced racism and misconceptions. Insider interviews and archival footage. You can watch Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
Rating: 5 by 1020 users./
Runtime: 88 minutes
Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Schafrazi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn O'Brien, Maripol, Kai Eric, Nicholas Taylor, Erika Belle, David Bowes, Peter Brant, Kevin Bray and Diego Cortez.
88-minute film (full movie) directed by Tamra Davis.
The original audio of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2010.
Screenplay written by Lois Vossen and Eric Martin.
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This film was produced and / or financed by LM Media, Arthouse Films, Curiously Bright Entertainment and Fortissimo Films.
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Google on Wednesday gave its users a first-ever view of its data centers, with a virtual visit of its server farms around the world from the US heartland to Finland.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Having as main character to Gabrielle Chan (see full cast), this film directed by Anmol Mishra was premiered in theaters in 2013. The feature film "Romancing Sydney" was produced in Australia. You can watch Romancing Sydney online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2013.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
Gabrielle Chan, Connor Dowling, Peter Hayes, Anmol Mishra, Susanne Richter and Brendon Wong.
Romantic, Comedy.
100-minute film (full movie) directed by Anmol Mishra.
The original audio of Romancing Sydney has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in Australia.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2013.
Screenplay written by Anmol Mishra.
Anmol Mishra.
Anmol Mishra.
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Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, to me it is rather astonishing the extent to which we are discussing this historic immigration bill and how little our focus has been on the real impact of it, what immigration means, how to make it better, how to serve the national interests to do the kinds of things the American people want us to do. We really talked about a lot of hot-button issues, but we have not focused on the substance of what we are doing, how many people the country can absorb legally every year. We do 1 million legally every year. How many more can we assimilate effectively and have reasonable expectations that they would find good work in America, to be able to have them find work but not put Americans out of work, and what kinds of skill sets do we need most? Will our system of enforcement work? And there are many other questions like that.
So I would say that to some degree we have missed that discussion. We are told that today--now we are going on 11 o'clock--we will see a magic amendment, the amendment that fixes everything, that we can just relax and go home and take a good nap because we have an amendment that is going to fix all of the problems in the legislation. Well, that is odd because we were told when the bill was announced that it was the toughest legislation ever, that it fixed everything, it did not need any improvement, we are all OK with it, you all just pass it, and if you raise questions about it--as I did--then you are not a good fellow, you are not being nice if you point out problems.
Apparently, now the sponsors of the bill have realized that they have a lot of problems, that as the bill has been examined and actually read--the thousand pages of it here, it has been read and studied--more and more and more problems have been found with it.
We have had a great deal of discussion about the border. The border security issue is a very important issue, but it is one of the issues in establishing a good lawful immigration system that serve the national interests. It's just one of the issues. It was nothing like the bill's sponsors promised. It would not have accomplished the job.
Those of us who were asking the tough questions--people tried to dismiss the concerns. They finally had to deal with the issue that it did not do what they promised. It was a big problem. So now they have accepted an amendment, it appears, that would change the legislation quite a bit--at least with regard to the border. That was talked about a lot because it always symbolizes whether we are serious about enforcement.
It was so weak in the legislation. When the bill first started, they proposed spending $6.5 billion on border security. Then, as it went through committee and complaints arose, they went up to $8.3 billion--about a 30-percent increase. Then the bill hit the floor and the American people began to find out how weak it was, and our phones started ringing--almost in a panic, it seems.
A group has met in secret. They have announced the Corker-Hoeven agreement to spend $38 billion, to add 20,000 agents. It is all fixed. Vote for the bill. Now you have no excuse. You have to vote for the bill. But if you are holding a bucket of water and it has a bunch of holes in it and you close one of the holes, all of the water is still going to run out of the bucket.
There are other problems with the legislation. There was just one problem that was so dramatic and so plainly contrary to the promises the sponsors had made for their bill that it was really devastating. Now, in total retreat and capitulation, they have talked about adding 20,000 agents and spending $38 billion on the border.
We do not want to hear you guys complain anymore. Now you just hush and pass our bill. Do not talk about what else is in it. Do not talk about the policy issues that are raised by the legal flow of immigration we have. You just pass the bill now because we answered the border security problem.
Well, this is not the way it is going to be. We should be able to do dramatic things and effective things at the border with $38 billion, but, as I will point out in a little bit, we are not sure at all that is going to happen in an effective, smart way, especially when it has come up in this
fashion and especially since we have passed laws repeatedly that mainly require certain things to happen and then they never happen, such as fencing.
We said the last time we passed a bill that we had to build 700 miles of double-layer fencing. Well, that was in 2008, I believe. Today we have 36 miles of double-layer fencing and about 300 miles of pedestrian fencing. So now they say they have their 700 miles. Well, it remains to be seen if that will ever happen, No. 1, but, No. 2, it is not double-layer, as we passed in law previously. That never happened. It is just a single-layered fence, which is much easier to penetrate. A double-layered fencing system with a vehicular ability to move between the fences is very, very effective. It has proven effective before. That is why it was put in the bill--not because someone wanted to sound tough but because it will work.
Things that really work tend to be blocked in the Senate. Things that would actually make the system transform from illegality to legality have always been blocked, in my experience, since I have been in the Senate. It is amazing to me in that regard.
We have not seen the amendment. We were told we would have it last night at 6 o'clock. We were on track to have a series of amendment votes, some important amendments to be voted on. We were getting ready to do that. All of a sudden, it was announced that an agreement had been reached and a new amendment had been offered. This amendment was going to fix the border. It was going to spend more money than ever. Nobody now had a right to complain about the immigration bill before us, S. 744. We had it fixed. The series of amendments we thought we had--no votes were cast on them.
Actually, the night before, a tentative agreement had been reached to vote on as many as 16 amendments. That would have been a nice start to begin the discussion, allow people to point out that there is a weakness in the bill and propose a solution to fix it. That is the way legislation is supposed to go. You bring forth an amendment and you say: This bill lacks this. This provision in the bill is wrong. I have a fix for it. This is my offer. This is my amendment.
That is the way good legislation should be processed in the Senate. That was all stopped.
So we waited--6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock. I think it was 10:30 when we departed and still there appeared no magic amendment that is going to fix every problem with the legislation. No magic amendment. Here we are at 11 o'clock and we still have not seen it. Frankly, I would like to read it. I am going to read it. We read this one. It did not do what the sponsors said. They had good talking points. I could have voted for the talking points. I liked what they said, basically, in the talking points, but it was not in the bill. That is the problem.
I have been a Federal prosecutor for many years. It is the law that gets enforced, not some Senator's talking point. That is worthless. It is what is in the bill. It requires and directs agents to do this and that. It requires judges to do this and that. It requires law enforcement officers to do this and that. So what counts is what is in that bill.
With regard to this new amendment, I would like to ask a couple of things to Senators HOEVEN and CORKER. Does your amendment put enforcement before the legality? Does it put enforcement before amnesty?
Is this before the first legalization is allowed to occur, or is the amnesty still first? They told us initially they were going to have enforcement first. By a 4-to-1 margin the American people have said they are prepared to treat with compassion the people who have entered the country illegally, have been here for a long time and done, otherwise, the right things. We are prepared to be compassionate and deal with them--but we don't trust Washington. We want to see you do the enforcement before you give this legal status.
This is common sense. There is nothing wrong with that. The American people aren't mean spirited when they say that. They have seen this game before. They have seen how it has been played before. They don't have confidence in us. I can cite example after example after example of laws, rules, promises made, and never carried out.
That is why we have such a massive, illegal flow into America and how we have accumulated 11 million people, many of them wonderful people. This isn't the way we want the system to work. I think that is the question, why do we have amnesty first again.
Senator Grassley, our ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, has repeatedly said: I was here in 1986, and I voted for the amnesty in 1986. I thought it was going to work, and it was a mistake. We should have seen it was not going to work. We had the amnesty first. We had promised to do all kinds of enforcement in the future, and that never happened. This is why we are at this spot again today. That is the history of it.
What about the fencing that is promised in the bill? Does the amendment require any fence to be built before the amnesty is granted? I want to know that when we see your amendment. Do we have any confidence that we will ever see the fence built any more than we saw it when we passed laws previously to build fences that never occurred?
Does your amendment require a biometric exit system as required by current law? Under current law the Congress of the United States has required that the executive branch create an entry-exit visa system that is biometric. It basically means you use your fingerprints. Your fingerprints are read so you can't bring in a document and say I am John Doe and not be John Doe. When you come into the country, your fingerprints are recorded. When you go out of the country, your fingerprints are recorded. You clock out like many companies do in the workplace. You put your card in and your time is accounted for. We know when you came, when you left, did you overstay, or did you depart as required by law.
Current law says we will do that. You will be fingerprinted when you enter, and that is done. You are fingerprinted when you enter the country, but what has never been done is the exit system when you depart the country. Every kind of excuse has been made for that, but the truth is there is no excuse for not doing that.
Does this amendment fix that problem? The experts tell us, and the Congressional Budget Office reported a few days ago, that we are going to see an increase in visa overstays under this bill and the trends we are facing. There are several reasons for this. One big one is the legal flow of workers into our country; guest workers who come to take jobs, work for certain periods of time, will double. CBO predicts you are going to have an increase of the number of people who overstay their visas.
Since we have no ability to clock people when they depart, it becomes unenforceable. I think they are exactly right about that. Right now the entry visa system is responsible for 40 percent of illegal entries into the United States. Visa overstays account for approximately 40 percent of the current illegal population.
I think we can expect, with the large increase in guest worker programs--well over 50 percent in the future responsible for illegal entries into the country.
Does this amendment fix that, Senator Hoeven and Senator Corker? This is half of the problem, more than half of the problem, frankly, if this bill passes. I don't believe it is likely to do so.
Current law says there shall be a biometric entry-exit at all air, sea, and land ports. What does this bill say? The toughest bill ever, they say. Does that make it stronger? Does it fix the weakness in the current system? No. It says you have to have an electronic system--much weaker than biometric. It says you have to have it only at air and sea ports but not at land ports.
This bill is plainly weaker than current law.
I will ask this to the amendment sponsors: Does it actually have a mechanism to require those who receive the amnesty to pay back Federal, State, and local taxes? Is that part of the deal? That is what has been touted, we have been told repeatedly. They are going to pay back taxes. Let me say, it is not going to happen under this legislation. There is no way this is even going to create an attempt by the IRS to go back and try to investigate persons to see who owes more taxes.
That is a talking point. Talking points aren't law. Talking points aren't reality. They are political weapons used to advance the agenda of those who have special interests.
I would ask this question: Does your amendment require those who receive amnesty to learn English? They say our bill requires people to learn English, but it doesn't, as you can plainly tell if you read the legislation. Illegal immigrants will immediately receive legal status under this bill. After they have been here for ten years or, for some, only five years, they can adjust to legal permanent resident status. At the end of 10 years in RPI status, if you speak English, then you can adjust to LPR status. If you are not speaking English and you are in a course, then they have to give you permanent legal status. You don't have to pass the course. All you have to do in your 9th year, the 10th month, is sign up for an English course somewhere, and get your legal status under the bill. Would that loophole be fixed?
Does the amendment, my colleagues, prohibit people with multiple DUIs from receiving amnesty? Do you do anything about that loophole?
Does your amendment require that anyone applying for amnesty actually be interviewed? This is one of the big shocking weaknesses in the legislation.
When a person is transformed from a person in illegal status to an RPI status, the legal status, which happens in a few months, what do we do to make sure that person isn't a known criminal? That person could be a terrorist. What do we do about that? Normally, one of the most valuable things that can be done in these processes is to interview the person.
It appears quite plainly this bill--the bill certainly
does not require interviews. It is almost certain that DHS will not undertake them voluntarily either, having seen how Homeland Security is handling the DACA program. There are reports that USCIS is not interviewing those applicants face to face. This is a big weakness in the system. It is almost guaranteed that nobody is going to be interviewed face to face and actually examined to see if the paperwork they are submitting has any validity at all. Many times that meeting can identify a weakness in the paperwork and lead to further investigation. If you don't have interviews and you otherwise aren't smart about how you administer it, large numbers of people can get status they don't deserve through utilizing fake documents. We can expect that to happen, and it should not happen.
We are being generous under this bill with regard to the people who would be given legal status, but only those who qualify should get it. People who don't qualify should not get it, or we are perpetuating illegality again indefinitely into the future.
Does the amendment prohibit those who have domestic violence convictions from receiving the legal status? Not so in the bill today.
Does the amendment ensure those who do not receive amnesty would actually be deported in the future? A lot of people will not qualify. They should not have amnesty. We come to find out they have been convicted of a felony, drug dealing, assault with intent to murder, robbery. Should they be given amnesty? No, we say, they shouldn't be given amnesty. Well, do they get to stay here if they are identified, found, and arrested for some other crime? Shouldn't they be deported? We need to be sure the persons who do not qualify are going to be deported.
I have an amendment that is a serious amendment that would help move us from this present failed system, to one that could actually work, to deal with interior enforcement and deportation in a proper manner.
I have a letter that came in from June 19, 2013, addressed to Senators CORKER and HOEVEN from the National Immigration Customs Enforcement Council of the American Federation of Government Employees, signed by Mr. Chris Crane, their very able, competent president. This is what Mr. Crane said, writing on behalf of the 7,600 agents and officers:
According to the National Journal, you are working on an amendment with members of the Gang of Eight to ``help pass a bill.'' I am concerned that your amendment as outlined in the article not only provides immediate legalization before enforcement, but also appears to completely neglect interior enforcement. S. 744 drastically reduces the ability of ICE officers to do their jobs while providing legal status to convicted criminals, including gang members, drunk drivers, and sex offenders.
I can assure you these are not the types of ``reforms'' sought by the American public, in fact, these are not reforms at all but, instead provisions written by special interest groups concerned only with their own political agendas and future financial gains.
This is a man who heads the law officers association, who has had his officers blocked from enforcing the law by political directives from the supervisor. It is a plain fact. They have negated the ability of the law of America to be enforced.
He continues:
Any plan is doomed to fail that does not empower ICE agents to enforce the laws enacted by Congress--and that does not put an end to the unlawful abuse of prosecutorial discretion by political appointees.
There is some history to this. The ICE officers are in an uproar. The morale of the ICE officers was ranked near the absolute bottom of 170-something government agencies. They are out there risking their lives dealing with criminals and people in violation of the law. What did they hear from their political supervisors? Don't enforce the law. Don't follow through on what you are required to do by congressional action. They have actually filed a lawsuit against their supervisors because they are being told by the supervisors not to do what they took an oath to do, which is to enforce the law.
Mr. Crane states:
Yet, instead of cracking down on the Administration's abuse of power, S. 744 places unprecedented new restrictions on interior enforcement--making the current situation much worse and much more hazardous. It is as if S. 744 were explicitly written to handcuff law enforcement officers--binding their hands while giving virtually unchecked authority to executive branch officials to prevent future removals, including removals of criminal aliens.
These are the people doing the job every day. They were never talked to. They asked to meet with the Gang of 8. No, they didn't want to hear from them. The Gang of 8 wanted to hear from their special friends. They wanted to hear from the special business groups who wanted cheap labor. They wanted to hear from big labor. They wanted to hear from La Raza. They wanted to hear from special interest groups, and they heard from them--the chamber of commerce and ag industrial groups. That is who met with them. That is who wrote the bill--those special interests along with the American Immigration Lawyers Association. I assure you they have put into this bill, in place after place after place, where now they can file cases, appeals, and create disorder within the normal operating system of immigration.
Mr. Crane goes on to say:
Absent drastic improvements to the interior enforcement provisions, there is no doubt that S. 744 will undermine the constitutional rule of law, guarantee future illegal immigration, and place the public at risk.
That is a dramatic statement, and I am not seeing it anywhere close to being refuted. As to the question, does it guarantee future illegal immigration, look, the Congressional Budget Office did the report for us. They are nonpartisan. They serve all of us. We have a Democratic Senate majority and Mr. Elmendorf was picked by them, but he is a fair man. He said we would only see a 25-percent reduction in the number of illegal entries into America if this bill is passed.
Our colleagues promised it was going to end the illegality; that it was going to be the toughest bill ever. The Congressional Budget Office this week said this legislation will reduce illegality only by 25 percent. That is just not acceptable. That is not acceptable. We have been told so much different, and Mr. Chris Crane says the same thing. He goes on to say this:
S. 744 not only fails to contain needed interior enforcement provisions, but weakens interior enforcement. This is because powerful special interests involved in crafting the bill's language are opposed to interior enforcement--a fact ICE officers are all too familiar with. The political agendas of these groups place the public safety and security of our Nation at risk.
I believe he is accurate. I know he cares about what he is doing. Mr. Crane is a very impressive young leader--a marine. He loves his country. He believes this bill is bad for America and he has had the courage to state that and his association has backed him up on it. They are all in it together, I guess. He goes on to say this, in addressing the sponsors of the amendment:
As respected political leaders, I am asking you both to work with me and others in Congress and law enforcement in ensuring that this bill puts the safety of America before powerful special interests.
I think that is a very important letter. It cannot be that our colleagues can promote a piece of legislation as being the most effective improvement in history when our own officers who are out there trying to enforce the law say it makes it worse. It is very disappointing.
I wanted to kind of tease my colleagues a little bit about this amendment that we are still waiting to see. It hasn't appeared yet. We thought we were going to have it at 6 o'clock last night, then 7, then 8, then 9, then 10, then 10:30, and now it is 11:20 the next morning and we still haven't seen it. Presumably it must be OK, though, because it is going to fix everything we need to be concerned about.
Senator Schumer, in the markup in the Judiciary Committee, in talking about enforcement, said this. This was all about Mr. Cornyn, our able Senator from Texas, who offered an amendment in the markup in the Judiciary Committee to enhance enforcement at the border and do a lot of different things he thought were important and add 5,000 new Border Patrol agents. So what did our colleagues who had written the bill--the Gang of 8--who said they were going to stick together and fight off any amendment that had any significance to it--and they all rallied and fought off the Cornyn amendment, too--what did they say about Senator Cornyn's steps to make the legal system work better and to add some new agents to the border? Being a Texas Senator, he is familiar with those issues. Senator Schumer said this:
Just on the border alone, Senator McCain and I had an amendment a few months ago that spent--a few years ago, rather, that spent about $600 to $800 million on the border and effectiveness rate went up from 68 to 82. We spent much more than that, as much as $6.5 billion.
In other words, they spend in this bill, they say, $6.5 billion, as I mentioned earlier.
This is what he goes on to say:
The border will effectively be closed, we believe, with these expenditures, in the way they will be done.
If he is going to spend a total of $6.5 billion in this bill and effectively close the border, how is it he is now supporting an amendment that would add 20,000 agents to the border? Because the bill is in trouble and they are in panic mode, I would suggest.
A little later, in the same markup, referring to the Border Patrol agents, he said this:
Their numbers have gone way, way up and most people think they're an adequate number.
Why, that was just May 9, a little over 1 month ago. He said they were an
adequate number; that we don't need any more Border Patrol agents, and they attacked Senator Cornyn for having the temerity to suggest we needed 5,000 more. Now, when the bill is in trouble and they are in panic mode, they are coming in with an amendment--though we haven't seen it yet--they claim will add 20,000 Border Patrol agents.
Back in the markup on May 9, Senator Schumer said this:
Look, our goal is to make the border much more secure and we do. We do dramatically.
If it does all that, why do we need a new amendment? The point I am making, what I am saying is the talking points of the bill sponsors have been positive, positive, positive throughout. They say the things people want to hear. The question is, does our legislation do what people want done? That is the question.
Back then he said we are doing all you want, the border is effectively closed, we don't need any more agents.
Senator Flake, in talking about Senator Cruz from Texas, who offered an amendment in the Judiciary Committee markup on the border, and ably did so, said this:
We add in our legislation 3,500 new customs agents. That's at a cost of about $6 billion--3,500. What we're talking about here is tripling border patrol. It's currently at about 21,000. Take it to 60,000. So 40,000 new agents. We're talking about $30, $40 billion to do that. ..... and I know it's sincere--a desire to--to put more resources on the border, but we have fiscal restraints here.
So he opposed it, one of the Gang of 8 Members.
At the markup, Senator Schumer said:
And so, to simply for us to dictate, when we are not the experts, to quadruple border patrol, is, in my opinion, something, you know, that you might accuse me of: throwing money at a problem without really knowing what its effect would be.
He goes on to say on the floor, in talking about this bill on June 11, just a week or so ago, before the Corker amendment had ever been dreamed of:
Make no mistake our border will be secured as a result of this bill. We appropriate $6.5 billion upfront in this bill to bolster our security efforts. That is in addition to the annual appropriations made for each year of border security.
That must not have been accurate. He said the bill had taken care of it; that they have an adequate amount in the bill as it is, and now this would add 20,000 more Border Patrol agents. Again, the point is, we get positive spin no matter what the circumstances are because they are out to sell this bill. They are out to promote their creation, and they have lost sight of what it actually does. They have truly lost sight, in my opinion, of the fundamental responsibility of important legislation, which is not to achieve a political end but to achieve a better America, to serve the national interest.
I am going to continue to ask: Does this bill serve the interest of the people of the United States of America? Not economically and not legally, in my opinion.
Now this is Senator McCain, on June 18, just the other day:
But those who think we need more people--we do need more people to facilitate movement across our ports of entry.
He says it is too slow; that we want more people to come in quicker. Continuing to quote Senator McCain:
But we have 21,000 border patrol. Today there are, on the Arizona-Mexico, there are people sitting in vehicles in 120-degree heat. What we need is not more people, because we've gone--in 1986 we had 4,000 border patrol to 21,000, but what we need is the technology that has been developed in the intervening years.
So he says what we need is not more people, and what he means is we don't need more Border Patrol agents, that we need some more technology. That is what they said last time when they undermined the fence. Some may remember the phrase they used then was that we are going to create a ``virtual fence.'' We are going to create a high-tech fence. We don't need to build those old fences. That is not good. We are going to take care of it with technology. So we spent, as Senator McCain said on the floor, I think it was $980 million on a virtual fence at our borders that utterly failed. We got nothing for it. What else didn't we get? We didn't get the fence. We wasted $1 billion on a failed technology and didn't build the fence that was promised.
This is why the American people are not confident that anything politicians tell them, about immigration particularly, will ever happen, and the American people are right. Time and again, politicians have promised, promised, promised and never delivered, delivered, delivered. That is just a fact. I think this bill and these statements say a lot.
With regard to Senator Cornyn's amendment that would add 5,000 agents and do some other things, this is what Senator Schumer said back in the committee in May, just this last month:
And what we have learned, and it was hit home to me when Senator Flake and Senator McCain took me to the Arizona portion of the border, it's vast. We have more people on the border patrol. What's the number? 21,000. I think it was triple what it was 5 years ago. But you can't have--yeah, if you want to have the whole Federal budget, you guys figure out how you're going to spend and get that money, the whole Federal budget on just the border patrol? You could probably have 100 percent operational control.
So he was saying then don't question our bill. This does all we need. We don't have the money to spend more on it. Now, apparently, he is trumpeting the great bipartisan agreement that would add 20,000 more Border Patrol people.
Maybe we need more Border Patrol agents and we need to use technology and we need to use fences wisely, but what we need is a Secretary of Homeland Security who knows what they are doing, who is committed to ending the illegality and using every resource we have wisely to confront this illegality and ending it.
If we had that the last 4 years, we would have had far more reduction in illegality on the border than we have seen, and we would be in a much better position to go to the American people and say let's talk about amnesty now because we have proven we have made real progress. But they have never wanted to do that. They have been listening to the voices out there and the political interests and the special interests, and they have not done it.
Now we have 11 million people here. What is their solution? Surrender to the illegality. Just give up. We will just give amnesty to everybody here and we will pass a law and we promise it will fix things and we do not really worry whether it does or not. I can tell you it will not, it will not fix it.
There are a lot of things that are noteworthy. I would like to talk about them as we go forward on this legislation. One of them I think is interesting, and I am just going to raise it because it is an issue we need to confront. We hear it a lot. People are talking like this out there. Bill O'Reilly's talking points memo is consistently a high-grade memo that has valuable insights that I think Americans would do well to listen to on a regular basis. He is a very insightful individual.
In regard to what he said last night, I got a transcript of it. I think it shows some of the misconceptions about the legislation that we simply have to correct. It is not sufficient to pass this legislation based on talking points, on spin from the sponsors of the bill. We have to say: OK, does it really do that? How does it do it? Can it be made better? Are there weaknesses?
This is what Bill O'Reilly said last night:
Senator Rubio told me on the phone today that it would be at least 13 years--13--before people in the country illegally right now could gain full legal working status and even longer to achieve citizenship.
We will talk about that. He goes on to say:
"Talking Points'' support immigration reform even though I well understand the new law will be somewhat chaotic and it will be a magnet for even more people to come here illegally, which is why we need stepped up security.
Let's go back to that first statement. It said there ``would be at least 13 years before people in the country illegally right now could gain full legal working status.'' Not so. Not so at all. Not even close. Within a few months everyone who applies for the RPI status, the provisional status, will be given a Social Security card and the right to go to work and be lawful in the country and they cannot be deported unless they commit a serious crime. It is virtually immediately, not 13 years.
It says ``even longer to achieve citizenship.'' That is not accurate either. This is how the citizenship and green card status works, the permanent legal status: Within months, everybody who qualifies under the 11 million will be given RPI, provisional status, virtually immediately. They will be able to take any job in America, move anywhere they want to in America, displace workers in America, and compete for jobs wherever. That is what will happen under the bill.
For about 2.5 million who were people who came here as teenagers, the so-called DREAMers, they get citizenship in 5 years. They will have citizenship in 5 years. That is 2.5 million. Certain agricultural workers, those individuals who are illegally here, become permanent legal residents. They get their legal right to work immediately. But in 5 years they get permanent legal status, and the other 8 to 10 million illegal immigrants would be eligible for green cards or legal permanent residence in 10 years, not 13.
There is an immediate amnesty that precedes all this. Legal status and the right to work is immediate. It is not 13 years. A large number of persons will be able to have citizenship within 5 years--25 percent, maybe, will be getting that.
I think our people who are commenting about this need to get away from the spin of the sponsors and spin of those who are vested in trying to pass the bill and get down to what the bill actually says. That is very important.
The sponsors of the bill, Senator Schumer and others, claim the bill is paid for, and they have all the money needed to fund the legislation. They claim this Congressional Budget Office report that came out the other day backs them up. But it does not. It does not back them up.
I am ranking member on the Budget Committee, and we need to talk about that in some detail because it is a very important matter. CBO does not back that up. The CBO report showed this bill reducing deficits in the next decade, according to the sponsors of the bill, but in fact CBO plainly states on page 12 of the report that the legislation will increase on-budget deficits over that time--increase deficits of the on-budget accounts.
Why? Because the newly legalized immigrants will be paying some payroll taxes--they will be paying the payroll taxes, Social Security, FICA, Medicare taxes that are withheld from workers' pay--but they are not drawing Social Security benefits at this time because most of them are younger than that and they are not yet past 65.
So that creates a surplus flow, right? Of the $459 billion in new taxes and fees, only about half of that comes from the income taxes these workers are going to pay. Why? Because most of the workers are low-income workers. Over half of the people who are here illegally do not have a high school diploma and they are not making real high wages. You have to earn a pretty sizable wage before you pay any income tax, although you do pay your Social Security, Medicare withholding--the payroll tax.
How do they then say they have money created to pay for all this stuff? They count the money from the payroll taxes, OK? That makes sense, you think, at first glance. But that, by rights, though, belongs to the Social Security trust fund. That is not money available for the government to spend on trips to Africa or some summit somewhere or for Solyndras. That is Social Security money. Using this money to offset other spending is an accounting trick that was used to pass ObamaCare, and it is not right.
Let's go back over that again. The on-budget account--income tax coming in from the legalization because some people who are legalized are going to pay more income tax--but there are a lot of expenses out there too. The earned-income tax credit is a direct payment, not a tax deduction but a direct welfare means-tested payment to poorer workers. That is a big cost. And there are other costs.
So the CBO said income taxes that are paid will be less than the cost of the immigration; therefore, adding $14 billion to the on-budget debt of America. But the sponsors of the bill want to claim their legislation pays for itself. They say: But they are going to be paying Social Security and Medicare taxes; therefore, we want to count that money and that will prove that we paid for the bill.
Really? Aren't the individuals who are now given a Social Security number, allowed to work and pay the payroll taxes--aren't those taxes supposed to be put into a trust fund for their Social Security and Medicare benefits when they do get to be 65? Absolutely. Any surplus money that goes into Social Security and Medicare is not free money given to the U.S. Treasury to spend to pay for border control agents. That money is loaned by the trust funds. They get a Treasury bill in exchange for it. The U.S. Government pays them interest on the money that the Social Security loaned to them. It is their money. It is the trust fund's money.
A lot of people try to deny that, but there actually is one. There are debt instruments showing the transfer of this money, and interest payments are paid by the U.S. Treasury. So you can't count the money that people pay into Social Security as being money that can be used to spend on other programs of the government. That is an important issue.
Mr. Elmendorf, the Director of CBO, the night before the President's health care bill passed--I prevailed upon him to write a letter to explain that. He wrote a letter and said you can't simultaneously--what had happened in ObamaCare was they cut Medicare costs and increased Medicare payroll taxes and used that money to fund his new health care program. They claimed that it strengthened Medicare and at the same time provided money to fund ObamaCare. Mr. Elmendorf used a sentence that I thought was very powerful. I think I can recall it.
He said: You can't simultaneously use the money to strengthen Medicare and pay for a new program. He used the phrase ``double count,'' the kind of things people in business go to jail for. He said that is double counting the money.
This is exactly what has happened here. The money that goes to people's Social Security and Medicare trust fund accounts is not enough now to pay for the amount of money the individual will claim when they become 65 and start retiring and using health care and Social Security checks every month. There is not enough now. You certainly can't claim that this is going to strengthen these programs and provide money for the government to use outside of these programs. According to CBO, that is precisely what this immigration bill does with respect to Social Security. I feel strongly about that.
Mr. President, I see no one else here. I yield the floor at this time and reserve the remainder of my time.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
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So what are protons, neutrons, and electrons? Well let's find out. All of these are located in atoms. In the middle of an atom is a nucleus. This nucleus houses the protons and neutrons. The electrons circle the nucleus from the magnetic force of the protons. That's right magnetic force. The proton has a positive charge attracting the negatively charged electrons. Neutrons have no charge. Opposite charges attract to each other while the same type of charge repel each other. But let's say a proton closely paired with an electron then a doublet forms and this has no charge but if a proton or electron was to pair with a neutron then based on what paired will give a new charge to the neutron meaning it turns in to a proton or electron. Free neutrons have a 50% chance of decaying in to a proton and electron. As a whole an atom has no charge because each atom has an equal amount of protons and electrons. The proton's and electron's charges cancel each other out leaving an atom with neutral charge.
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An atom and the Solar system have similar structures. Just like planets revolve around the sun in orbits, electrons revolve around the nucleus. Protons in the nucleus act like the sun attracting the electrons and keeping them in orbit. This model was only able to show to simple atoms such as hydrogen. More complex atoms can be explained by the Quantum theory.
Ernest Rutherford and Neils Bohr
Ernest Rutherford discovered the neutrons in the atoms. When he shot an electrical current though golden foil the current bounced strait back at him. Then he had the theory that there was something solid in the atoms. When he found it he called it the nucleus. Neils Bohr studied the nucleus and he found the neutron. He found some extra weight in the atom so he searched the nucleus and found the neutron.
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Atom: A very small component that make up everything
Electrical current: A path of electricity
Electron: A negatively charged particle in an atom.
Neutron: A particle with no charge in an atom
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- 2. MATTER Cooper, Chris New York Dorling Kindersley 1992
- 3. The Nature of Matter, Mcgraw-Hill companies 2002
- 4. "Rutherford, Ernest." Compton's by Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Joshua Adam Terando, 27, of Morris, Illinois, died from injuries received while on active duty November 10, 2005, in Iraq.
Sgt. Terando was born July 3, 1978, in Spring Valley to Gerald R. and Linda S. Smith Terando.
He was raised in Spring Valley and moved to Morris in 1990 where he graduated from Morris Community High School in 1996.
He was employed as a welder 1996-1998 and enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served 1998-2001. From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of Boilermakers Union Local 1 in Chicago and worked as a boilermaker apprentice. He returned to the Army in June 2005 and was deployed to Iraq in August. He served as sergeant, 1st Battalion, 110th Infantry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division (MECH).
His service duty included HHC (Headquarters Company) 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, HHC 3rd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, HHC 1st Battalion, 110th Infantry and 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division.
He was a member of the American Legion Post 294.
Survivors are his father and stepmother, Gerald "Jerry" and Genevieve "Jeannie" Terando; his mother, Linda S. Terando; one sister, Amanda Terando , two stepbrothers, Allen (Sandy) Borchert and Anthony Mazza, one stepsister, Karen White, a special friend, Nikki Roth, his maternal grandparents, Alvin and Lois Smith, and aunts, uncles and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents and aunts and uncles.
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Mindfulness, Music Appreciation and Empathy
"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the [Bach's] B Minor Mass?" — Michael Torke, composer
Sometimes people will ask me whether or not listening to music counts as mindfulness practice. I'd say sure,* you can do pretty much anything with an intention to be mindful, but what makes a session of mindful music appreciation unique and distinct from a mindful breathing practice?
Music is a language of energy, a "vibe" of emotions and joy. It speaks to our core desires and feelings. It spans language barriers and political borders, making it a powerful means through which humans (and yes, animals, too**) can connect.
As with any form of communication we have the option to listen with our whole being, to open up our hearts and minds to what is being shared, or we can listen to music in the background, skip around songs on our headphones, try to make the music fit into what we are already involved in. While these latter options can sometimes come in handy in the energetic ebb and flow of daily life, a session of mindful music appreciation would encourage the former.
Art, Insight and Empathy
Like any great art, music touches the qualities of our experience that are otherwise beyond words. Wisdom, insight, love, fear and joy can all be communicated through subtle textures and vibrations of the musical palette. Appreciating music can be about more than just aesthetic pleasure — listening can be an act of empathy.
In a recent interview with Origin Magazine, Karen Armstrong, who is author of Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life and founder of the Charter for Compassion, offers some insight into her personal experience with music:
"I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers. I particularly like chamber music. Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not my pain." (2)
Music can also be a mirror to help us better understand our own inner-world of thoughts, emotions and feelings. Vague inner-textures can find clarity of shape, catharsis and release through the teaching that is always available in musical art — listening can be healing.
All of this means that musical artists — composers, musicians and producers — must always be deciding what kind of energy they want to put into the world when creating a piece. Mostly, I imagine, that decision occurs beneath the surface of thought, in the realm of texture, vibe, energy and mindful attention itself — creating can be a mindfulness practice, too.
There is an emerging field of music therapy which is beginning to document the psychological and physical effects of listening to music. Research suggests the effects of deep listening to specific kinds of music to be fundamentally good for our bodies, minds and spirits (3).
To support and encourage a more mindful relationship with music, I've put together some suggestions for how to approach a session of mindful music appreciation. These are some guidelines I use for myself, but are of course, just suggestions. Most importantly, I've found, is to set aside any possible distractions and just commit to being with the music, as much as if you were on a date with a very dear friend.
Suggestions for Mindful Music Appreciation Practice
(You can download a PDF of this practice, here. Read through completely before pressing play.)
— Clear your schedule for the length of the time it takes to listen to the piece of music.
— Find a comfortable place where you feel able to fully commit your attention to the music. Set the space as your own private concert hall. Consider the lighting, air circulation (important!), fire exits, aromas and cleanliness.
— Turn off your phone, close the extra windows on your computer, let anyone else in your living space know that you are engaged for the period of time you've chosen.
— Consider if your body has been sufficiently nourished, so you might not get hungry or thirsty in the middle of the piece. For longer sessions, consider a small snack or supportive beverage to help regulate your energy.
— Sit or lay down in a comfortable posture — one that helps you remain attentive and alert, but one where you also do not need to strain or exert too much energy.
— Once you feel settled, take a moment to contemplate all that went into the making of the music — the training, composing, performing, recording and sharing of it. It is quite a special opportunity to be able to listen to musical art in this way. Allow any thoughts and images associated with this contemplation rise and fall through your awareness.
— Take a few deep breaths and relax into the sensations of your body breathing. Rest with your breath for a minute or two.
— Press play and bring your attention to the sensations of sound and feeling as the piece begins.
— If while listening to the music, your attention does wander, just gently remind yourself to return to the sounds and sensations of the music.
— If listening to the music stirs your emotions or thoughts, you can include those inner experiences as an extension of the music and appreciation practice.
— As the piece comes to a close, thank yourself for taking the time to listen. As it is customary at any musical performance to thank the musicians and composer for their efforts, even in privacy, find some way to do this which feels meaningful to you (bowing, applause and cheering, even in solitude, are quite acceptable.)
— Take a few minutes to digest the experience. You can do this by doing a breathing meditation or just relaxing. You can also write or journal about the experience if you'd like.
*As a mindfulness coach, I always recommend daily breathing meditation as a core practice, and to use other exercises as a supplement.
** Mr. Christopher is a big fan of jazz.
(1) http://www.quotes-museum.com/author/Michael_Torke
(2) Origin Magazine, Issue 13, p. 83
(3) http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2006/pr-brainwave-053106.html
Images of Perseverance: Ursula's Life-long Dream
I recently caught the story of Ursula Populoh, a fibers-enthusiast who has begun an undergraduate course in Fiber Arts at the age of 70 at The Maryland Institute College of Art,
Mrs. Populoh grew up in Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War, and after emigrating to America, she focused on running a business and raising a family, not having the opportunity to pursue secondary education until recently. From an interview in Juxtapositions:
"We walked by a studio, and I saw a dress form," she explained. "I started to cry, because I wanted so badly to be here.."
It took a long walk in the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain for a friend to issue the final encouragement which convinced Ursula to pursue her dream.
"I remember so clearly when we walked up this steep hill, and she said, 'Well, go.' And I looked at her as if she would have lost her marbles. I said, 'I cannot go to college, I am 70.' And she said, 'So? You have the time.'"
Ursula's commitment to her dream is an inspiring reminder that life does not progress in neat or predictable packages. Despite what others might want us to say or feel, richness comes when our individual path diverges from that of others.
"The exchange of thoughts of the perspective I have compared to my classmates in their 20s is really interesting. Because, when we talked about feminism, I can tell them what Germany was like when I was 20…When I told them when I was a child-no TV, no anything-they cannot even imagine being without social media. I think that's really, really interesting.".
You can read the full article about Ursula here, and watch a lovely video of her below.
The Slow Web – A More Mindful Internet
Jack Cheng, a Shanghai-born, U.S.-based writer, has recently published an article on 'The Slow Web,' a movement aimed at cultivating a more mindful relationship with the Internet and digital technologies.
"..Timeliness. Rhythm. Moderation. These things dovetail into what I consider the biggest difference between 'Slow Web' and 'Fast Web'. Fast Web is about information. Slow Web is about knowledge. Information passes through you; knowledge dissolves into you."
One of the outcomes of a regular mindfulness practice is the ability to more easily absorb distinct pieces of information. The way we use our tools — for both learning and labor — reflects our aspirations and supports a specific way of being in the world. Increased concentration means knowing our limits and using all our senses to skillfully string together moments of awareness.
"Fast Web is destination-based. Slow Web is interaction based."
I aim to run Living with Mindfulness in a Slow Web fashion: publishing material after several rounds of proof-reading, posting the most relevant articles only after I've read them thoroughly, and not spending too much time worrying about how many times a web page has been viewed.
I'd recommend reading Jack's article, and, if you'd like to, please leave any thoughts about how you practice mindfulness on the Internet in the comments below.
Beauty-ful "Mindful Drawings" by Paula Kuitenbrouwer
Paula Kuitenbrouwer keeps a lovely online portfolio and shop of "Mindful Drawings." Most masterful artists would likely have developed a refined quality of mindfulness, but Paula's work breathes from a deep and clearly-articulated intention to work from a place of mindfulness.
"I carefully prepare my drawing session by laying out all the tools. I think long about what I want, and I pay attention to the composition. I also do research, because I like to know what I am drawing. When I draw a bird, I study that bird in real as well as with the helps of books. When I draw a flower, I have it seen in nature or it is right before me on my table. I read about the flower, and I like to study and know its Latin name. The same counts for bugs: I do not draw any bug I haven't seen or studied."
More examples on the Mindful Drawing website
Oprah on Her Mornings
"I meditate. I don't look at my mobile device. The greatest days are where I take the time to be silent." – Oprah Winfrey
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A Year of Living Without
Zen Habits author Leo Babauta has embarked on a "Year of Living Without" Project. It's an experiment to fine-tune his lifestyle in order to "Make Room for Life"
This approach is in line with how I view a lot of my own Mindful Living practices, and people who know me well might share that I'll often undertake these kinds of projects as well; sometimes out of curiosity, sometimes out of necessity.
For Leo, July was no coffee month and he claims he" had absolutely no difficulty in giving up coffee, not the first day, not the first week, not at all.."
Next month, Leo will not be sitting down for more than 30 minutes at a time, a big move for anyone whose work requires them to be connected to the internet.
Read more on Leo's blog.
Mindfulness & 'Internet Brain'
Last week blogger Andrew Price shared his story of turning to meditation to help overcome "Internet Brain," which he described as "..jumping from one diverting link to another, and sampling little snippets of text and imagery for as long as they hold your increasingly attenuated attention… [a]ny task that requires the sustained and focused application of your brain has become impossible."
Anyone who has sat down on social media for any significant length of time could likely relate to this experience. It's not a fun to emerge from a session of internetting (for yourself or an employer), with a fuzzy brain, and wondering if you accomplished anything at all.
So how does mindfulness relate?
Mindfulness meditation helps us become familiar with the inner urges which would make us jump from one thing to the next, be it a webpage, a candybar, or tv show. It helps us to keep our values and intentions in mind while we open ourselves to information in the world around us.
When meditating regularly, my work life is much easier. I can take a break in the middle of a larger project to look up a critical piece of information or check for an important email and then catch myself immediately if I start to get sidetracked. I found that I can work consistently and productively for longer periods of time—and this means that I have more free time as well.
In her film Connected, director Tiffany Schlain explores the idea of being and feeling "connected" in the age of the internet. What she shares about her personal experience, studies in brain chemistry, and attempting to 'de-tox' from technology once-a-week, is a wonderful exploration in mindful living in the age of "Internet Brain"
If you're interested in learning mindfulness practice, send me an email at [email protected] to discuss one-on-one or group coaching, in-person or, ironically, through the internet.
Huffington Post: Why Companies are Turning to Yoga and Meditation to Boost the Bottom Line
"I may be weird, but I'm also in charge of the company.'
– Mark Bertolinin, CEO of Aetna, Mindfulness-at-work Advocate.
A recent article by Peter S. Goodman tracks some of the corporate wellness programs that utilize "Mindfulness," "Meditation" or more broadly branded programs like Chade Meng-Tan's "Search Inside Yourself" to promote employee well-being.
"Approximately one-fourth of all major American employers now deliver some version of stress reduction.."
"Aetna determined that workers in its most stress-prone positions were racking up medical bills that exceeded those of other employees by an average of $2,000 a year. Last year, Aetna reduced its health care costs by 7 percent — a savings the CEO pegs in part to limiting stress through meditation and yoga."
"I have so many action items on my plate at all times that I can't ever get my brain clear," Kubly says. "This is a chance to just clear out. If you're doing what is right for yourself, then you're doing what is right for your organization. You get clarity, and that helps you make better decisions."
And the article goes on to explore the link between well-being, profit, long-term & short-term costs and 'conscious capitalism.'
"A business enterprise can be far more than a bunch of numbers that create a bottom line and return profit to shareholders," Linton says. "Businesses have an opportunity, just like people, to say, 'What are we here for?' My goal is to align the self-actualization of the business with the self-actualization of the people who actually work here."
"The popularity of the wellness initiatives amounts to a recruiting tool, say the company's human resources people. Such programs also help explain why 91 percent of Promega's employees stick around from one year to the next, according to the company, minimizing disruptions and holding down training costs."
Mindfulness is becoming super-popular in corporate circles, but the basic practice is still the same:
"If at any point during our meditation you feel yourself losing focus, like you feel the workday creeping back in, the breath is always available," Lyle says. "The breath can anchor us into the moment."
If you'd like to read the full article from the Huffington Post here.


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