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THE SECRET GOVERNMENT ~ Bill Moyers
13 July 2005
"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States
as our Fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful
masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution,
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
-- Abraham Lincoln
1) THE SECRET GOVERNMENT - Bill Moyers
- - WantToKnow.info ~ The Secret Government
- - Films that Make a Difference
2) SolarFest and Peace Action
Editor's Notes:
This issue highlights the powerful 1987-PBS TV program called, "The Secret Government: The Constitution In Crisis." Unfortunately, this segment had to be removed from Frank Dorrel's film compilation: "What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy: The War Against the Third World." However, this film is very valuable, and timely anyway. Item 1 provides the transcript of the Moyers PBS program, and links to additional film and other resources. The Secret Government documents the history of US foreign policy since WW II, and the devastation to democracy, especially since Harry S. Truman signed into Law the 1947 National Security Act. With the nuclear bomb and other weapons of mass destruction developed, a secret government was created with no oversight, with secret agencies that could decide to supercede citizens' rights and corrode a Constitution based on fear justifying means. Yet building awareness and posting information on the Secret Government keeps it from hiding in the shadows, but never before has such an atrocious agenda play havoc on the lives of people in the US and around our world.
Item 2 covers this weekend's
. Flyby News will be there and have
DVDs of Frank Dorrel's film compilation on US Foreign Policy and David Ray Griffin's presentation, exposing 9/11 cover-up, available.
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Please join Flyby News, make a commitment to at least 2012,
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government
owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance
between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task
of the statesmanship of the day."
Theodore Roosevelt
(April 19, 1906)
1) THE SECRET GOVERNMENT - Bill Moyers
- - WantToKnow.info ~ The Secret Government
- - Films that Make a Difference
The following is a transcript of a 1987 PBS TV program, narrated by Bill Moyers:
THE SECRET GOVERNMENT The Constitution In Crisis
Bill Moyers: "The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidents have turned to them when they can't win the support of the Congress or the people, creating that unsupervised power so feared by the framers of our Constitution. Just imagine that William Casey's dream came true. Suppose the enterprise grew into a super-secret, self-financing, self-perpetuating organization. Suppose they decided on their own to assassinate Gorbachev or the leader of white South Africa. Could a President control them and what if he became the enterprise's public enemy Number One? Who would know? Who would say no?"
"The history of our secret government."
"World War II was over. Europe lay devastated. The United States emerged as the most powerful nation on earth. But from the rubble rose a strange new world, a peace that was not peace and a war that was not war. We saw it emerging when the Soviets occupied Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun."
Winston Churchill: "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe."
Moyers: "The Russians had been our ally against the Nazis, an expedient alliance for the sake of war. Now they were our enemy. To fight them we turned to some of the very men who had inflicted on humanity the horrors of Hitler's madness. We hired Nazis' as American spies. We struck a secret bargain with the devil."
Erhard Dabringhaus: "One that I know real well is Klaus Barbie. He was wanted by the French as their number one war criminal and somehow we employed a man like that as a very secretive informant."
Moyers: "Erhard Dabringhaus was employed in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps and assigned to work with Nazi informants spying on the Russians. One of them was Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon', who had tortured and murdered thousands of Jews and resistance fighters. The Americans did not turn Barbie over to the French when they finished with him. They helped him escape to Bolivia. Other top Nazis were smuggled into the United States to cooperate in the war against the new enemy." "So began the morality of the Cold War. Anything goes. The struggle required a mentality of permanent war, a perpetual state of emergency. It had met a vast new apparatus of power that radically transformed our government. Its foundations were laid when President Truman signed into law the National Security Act of 1947."
Admiral Gene La Rocque: "Now that National Security Act of 1947 changed dramatically the direction of this great nation. It established the framework for a national security state."
Moyers: "Admiral Gene La Rocque rose through the ranks from Ensign to become a Strategic Planner for the Pentagon and now heads the Center of Defense Information, a public interest group."
Admiral Gene La Rocque: "The National Security Act of '47 gave us the National Security Council. Never have we had a National Security Council so concerned about the nation's security that we're always looking for threats and looking how to orchestrate our society to oppose those threats. National Security was invented, almost, in 1947, and now it has become the prime mover of everything we do as measured against something we invented in 1947. The National Security Act also gave us the Central Intelligence Agency."
Moyers: "This is the house the Cold War built the CIA. The core of the new secret government. Its chief legitimate duty was to gather foreign intelligence for America's new role as a world power. Soon it was taking on covert operations, abroad and at home. As its mission expanded, the CIA recruited adventuresome young men like Notre Dame's "All American", Ralph McGehee."
Ralph McGehee: "I look back to the individual that I was when I joined the agency. I was a dedicated Cold Warrior who felt the agency was out there fighting for liberty, justice and democracy and religion around the world. And I believed wholeheartedly in this. I just felt proud every day that I went to work because I was out at the vanguard of the battle against the international evil empire international Communist evil empire."
Moyers: "Iran, 1953: the CIA mounted its first major covert operation to overthrow a foreign government. The target was the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq. He held power legitimately, through his country's parliamentary process and he was popular. Washington had once looked to him as the man to prevent a Communist takeover. But that was before Mosaddeq decided that the Iranian state, not British companies, ought to own and control the oil within Iran's own borders. When he nationalized the British run oil fields, Washington saw red." "The Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and his brother Alan, Director of the CIA, decided with Eisenhower's approval, to overthrow Mosaddeq and reinstate the Shah of Iran. The mobs paid by the CIA, and the police and soldiers bribed by the CIA, drove Mosaddeq from office."
Newscaster: "Crown Prince Abdullah greets the Shah as he lands at Baghdad airport after a 7-hour flight from Rome."
Moyers: The King of Kings was back in control and more pliable than Mosaddeq. American oil companies took over almost half of Iran's production. U.S. arms merchants moved in with $18 billion of weapons sales over the next 20 years. But there were losers."
Kenneth Love (former New York Times reporter): "Nearly everybody in Iran of any importance has had a brother, or a mother, or a sister, or a son, or a father, tortured, jailed, deprived of property without due process. I mean an absolutely buccaneering dictatorship in our name that we supported. SAVAK was created by the CIA!"
Bill Moyers: "SAVAK, the Shah's Secret Police, tortured and murdered thousands of his opponents. General Richard Secord and Albert Hakim, whom we met earlier, were among those who helped supply the Shah's insatiable appetite for the technology of control. But the weapons and flattery heaped by America on the Shah blinded us to the growing opposition of his own people. They rose up in 1979 against him. "Death to the Shah!" they shouted. "Death to the American Satan."
Kenneth Love: "Khomeni, is a direct consequence and the hostage crisis is a direct consequence, and the resurgence of the Shi'a is a direct consequence of the CIA's overthrow of Mosaddeq in 1953."
Moyers: "Guatemala 1954. Flushed with success America's Secret Government decided another troublesome leader must go. This time it was Jacobo Arbenz, the democratically elected president of Guatemala. Philip Rettinger was recruited from the Marines to join the CIA team."
Colonel Philip Roettinger (Ret.) U.S. Marine Corps: "It was explained to me that it was very important for the security of the United States that we were going to prevent a Soviet beach-head in this hemisphere, which we have heard about very recently of course, and that the Guatemalan government was Communist and we had to do something about it."
Moyers: "President Arbenz had admired Franklin D. Roosevelt and his government voted often with the American position at the United Nations. But in trying to bring a new deal to Guatemala, Arbenz committed two sins in the eyes of the Eisenhower administration. First, when he opened the system to all political parties he recognized the Communists too."
Roettinger: "Well, of course there was not even a hint of Communism in his government. He had no Communists in his Cabinet. He did permit the existence of a very small Communist party."
Moyers: "Arbenz also embarked on a massive land reform program. Less than 3 per cent of the land owners held more than 70 per cent of the land. So Arbenz nationalized more than 1 ½ million acres, including land owned by his own family and turned it over to peasants. Much of that land belonged to the United Fruit Company, the giant American firm that was intent on keeping Guatemala, quite literally, a Banana Republic. United Fruit appealed to its close friends in Washington, including the Dulles brothers, who said that Arbenz was openly playing the Communist game. He had to go."
Roettinger: "This was sudden death for him. There was no chance of him winning this fight because of the fact that he had done this to the United Fruit Company. Plus the fact, that he was overthrowing the hegemony of the United States over this area. And this was dangerous, it not be tolerated. We couldn't tolerate that."
Moyers: "From Honduras, the same country that today is the Contra staging base, the CIA launched a small band of mercenaries against Guatemala. They were easily turned back. So with its own planes and pilots the CIA then bombed the capital. Arbenz fled and was immediately replaced by an American puppet, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas."
Roettinger: "He overturned all of the reformist activities of President Arbenz. He gave the land back to the United Fruit Company that had been confiscated. He took land from the peasants and gave it back to the land owners."
Bill Moyers: "The CIA had called its covert action against Guatemala, Operation Success. Military dictators ruled the country for the next 30 years. The United States provided them with weapons and trained their officers. The Communists we saved them from would have been hard pressed to do it better. Peasants were slaughtered. Political opponents were tortured. Suspected insurgents were shot, stabbed, burned alive or strangled. There were so many deaths at one point that coroners complained they couldn't keep up with the work load. Operation Success."
Rettinger: "What we did has caused a succession of repressive military dictatorships in that country and has been responsible for the deaths over 100,000 of their citizens."
Moyers: "Success breeds success, sometimes with dreary repetition. Mario Sandoval Alarcon began his career in the CIA's adventure in Guatemala. Today he's known as the Godfather of the Death Squads. In 1981, after lobbying Ronald Reagan's advisors for military aid to Guatemala, Sandoval Alarcon danced at the Inaugural Ball."
Moyers: "Richard Bissell, another veteran of the Guatemalan coup, went on to become the CIA's Chief of Covert Operations. I looked him up several years ago for a CBS documentary. Cuba, 1961, seven years after Operation Success in Guatemala, Bissell was planning another CIA covert operation."
Newscaster: "The assault has begun on the dictatorship of Fidel Castro."
Moyers: "On April 17, 1961, Cuban exiles trained by the CIA at a base in friendly Guatemala landed on the southern coast of Cuba, at the Bay of Pigs. The U.S. had promised air support, but President Kennedy cancelled it. The invaders left defenseless, surrendered. Seven months after the disastrous invasion, Kennedy delivered a major foreign policy address."
President John F. Kennedy: "We cannot, as a free nation, compete with our adversaries in tactics of terror, assassination, false promises, counterfeit mobs and crisis."
Moyers: "The President was not telling the truth. Even as he spoke, his administration was planning a new covert war on Cuba. It would include some of the dirty tricks the President said we were above. The Secret Government was prepared for anything."
Moyers interview with Richard Bissel: "At one time, the CIA organized a small department known as Executive Action, which was a permanent assassination capability."
Bissel: "Well, it wasn't just an assassination capability it was a capability to discredit or get rid of people, but it could have included assassination."
Moyers: "And it did. There were at least eight documented attempts to kill Castro. He says there were two dozen. And there was even one effort to put LSD in his cigars. To help us get rid of the Cuban leader, our Secret Government turned to the Mafia just as we once made use of Nazis. The gangsters included the Las Vegas Mafioso John Roselli, the Don of Chicago, Sam Giancana, and the Boss of Tampa, Santo Traficante."
Moyers: "If I read you correctly you are saying it is the involvement in the Mafia that disturbed you and not the need or decision to assassinate a foreign leader."
Bissel: "Correct."
Moyers: "It is a chilling thought made more chilling by the assassination of John Kennedy. The accusations linger. In some minds, the suspicions persist of a dark unsolved conspiracy behind his murder. You can dismiss them, as many of us do. But knowing now what our Secret Government planned for Castro, the possibility remains. Once we decide that anything goes, anything can come home to haunt us."
"Vietnam, 1968: American soldiers are fighting and dying in the jungles of Southeast Asia. But the Vietnam War didn't start this way. It started secretly off the books like so many of these ventures that have ended disastrously. The CIA got there early, soon after the Vietnamese won their independence from the French in 1954. Eisenhower warned that the nations of Southeast Asia would fall like dominoes if the Communists, led by Ho Chi Min, took over all Vietnam. To hold the line, we installed in Saigon, a puppet regime under Ngo Dinh Diem. American-trained commandoes were used to sabotage bus and rail lines and contaminate North Vietnam's oil supply."
"President Kennedy sent the Green Berets to Vietnam and turned to full scale counter-insurgency. He had once said that Vietnam was the ultimate test of our will to stem the tide of world communism. By the time of his death, there were 15,000 Americans there. They were called "Advisors." The secret war was leading only to deeper involvement and more deception."
President Lyndon Johnson: "It is my duty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States, to take action and reply."
Moyers: "This President was not telling the truth either. The action at the Gulf of Tonkin was not unprovoked. South Vietnam had been conducting secret raids in the area against the North and the American destroyer, ordered into the battle zone, had advanced warning it could be attacked. But Johnson seized the incident to stampede Congress into passing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. He then used it as a blank check for the massive build up of American forces."
"April, 1965: Two battalions of Marines land in South Vietnam. The first of more than 2 ½ million Americans to fight there with no Congressional declaration of war. The dirty little war that began in secret, is reaching full roar. Free-fire zones, defoliation, the massacre at My Lai, napalm, and the CIA's Operation Phoenix to round up, torture and kill suspected Viet Cong."
Ralph McGehee: "We were murdering these people, incinerating them."
Moyers: "Ralph McGehee was there for the CIA and helped set up South Vietnam's secret police."
McGehee (Notre Dame "All American"): "My efforts had resulted in the deaths of many people and I just for me it was a period when I guess I was I considered myself nearly insane I just couldn't reconcile what I had been and what I was at the time becoming."
Moyers: "Many of the secret warriors in Southeast Asia had no such doubts or regrets. Some of the team that later joined the Iran-Contra enterprise, helped to run the secret war in Laos. As General Richard Secord later put it, "Laos belonged to the CIA." Looking back, it is stunning how easily the Cold War enticed us into surrendering popular control of government to the National Security State. We've never come closer to bestowing absolute authority on the President. Setting up White House groups that secretly decide to fight dirty little wars, is a direct assumption of the war powers expressly forbidden by the Constitution."
"Not since December, 1941, has Congress declared war. Since then, we've had a police action in Korea, advisors in Vietnam, covert operations in Central America, peacekeeping in Lebanon and low intensity conflicts going on right now from Angola to Cambodia. We've turned the war powers of the United States over to, well we are never really sure who, or what they're doing, or what it costs, or who is paying for it. The one thing that we are sure of is that this largely secret global war carried on with less and less accountability to democratic institutions, has become a way of life. And now we are faced with a question brand new in our history. Can we have the permanent warfare state and democracy too?"
Congressional hearings: "A shellfish toxin
Moyers: "In 1975 as the war in Vietnam came to an end, Congress took its first public look at the Secret Government. Senator Frank Church chaired the Select Committee to study government operations. The hearings opened the books on a string of lethal activities. From the use of electric pistols and poison pellets, to Mafia connections and drug experiments. And they gave us a detailed account of assassination plots against foreign leaders and the overthrowing of sovereign governments. We learned, for example, how the Nixon administration had waged a covert war against the government of Chile's president, Salvador Allende who was ultimately overthrown by a military coup and assassinated."
Senator Church: "Like Caesar peering into the colonies from distant Rome, Nixon said the choice of government by the Chileans was unacceptable to the President of the United States. The attitude in the White House seemed to be if in the wake of Vietnam, I can no longer send in the Marines, then, I will send in the CIA."
Moyers: "This remains for me the heart of the matter. The men who wrote our Constitution, our basic book of rules, were concerned that power be held accountable. No party of government and no person in government, not even the President, was to pick or choose among the laws to be obeyed. But how does one branch of government blow the whistle on another? Or how do the people cry foul when their liberties are imperiled, if public officials can break the rules, lie to us about it, and then wave the wand of national security to silence us?" "Can it happen again? You bet it can. The apparatus of secret power remains intact in a huge White House staff operating in the sanctuary of presidential privilege. George Bush has already told the National Security Council to take more responsibility for foreign policy which can of course be exercised beyond public scrutiny. And a lot of people in Washington are calling for more secrecy, not less, including more covert actions. This is a system easily corrupted as the public grows indifferent again, and the press is seduced or distracted. So one day, sadly, we are likely to discover once again that while freedom does have enemies in the world it can also be undermined here at home, in the dark, by those posing as its friends. I'm Bill Moyers. Good night."
For another source for posted transcript, and to
view this program
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THE SECRET GOVERNMENT: The Constitution In Crisis
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- - WantToKnow.info ~ The Secret Government
For another powerful, highly revealing documentary on the manipulations of the secret government produced by BBC, see
(view free at link provided).
The intrepid BBC team clearly shows how the War on Terror is largely a fabrication. For those interested in very detailed information on the composition of the shadow or secret government from a less well-known source, I recommend the thorough summary at:
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- - Films that Make a Difference
What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy: The War Against the Third World."
a film compilation by Frank Dorrel:
The Moyers segment was removed, but later in an appropriate place, those minutes are replaced with an interview of Philip Agee, former CIA Case Officer. Philip Agee spent 13 years as a case officer in the CIA, resigning in 1969. His book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" was first published in 1975 and has been translated into 27 languages. It was a best seller worldwide. His autobiography "On The Run" was published in 1987.
In this speech given in 1991 after the first Gulf War, Agee analyzes why the U.S. invaded Iraq. He also describes "the war against the third world" as being fought for the natural resources, the labor and the markets of these third world countries the United States has invaded either overtly or covertly since the end of World War II.
For transcript of speech by Philip Agee:
For the FN resource make sure you check out:
Films that Make a Difference!
2) SolarFest and Peace Action
On July 16-17, NHPA, along with 25 other activist groups, will participate in the 11th annual SolarFest in Tinmouth VT. SolarFest is a two day music and renewable energy festival that is powered 100% by renewable energy (solar, wind, biodiesel). SolarFest combines Music (acts such as Dar Williams, the Duks), Workshops (such as On-the-Grid Solar, Green Living), a Kids Korner, and of course the above mentioned Activist Alley (groups such as NHPA, Veterans for Peace, the New England Coalition, Plymouth Area Energy Initiative, and Flyby News.
As a part of the organizing committee, I am most excited by the connecting of the dots between renewable energy and the issues of peace, justice, economic equity, human rights and the environment. This is truly an opportunity to share ideas and visions of the possibility of a better and more just world.
Please come to this amazing festival. Weekend passes are only $20 and there is plenty of room on the festival grounds (Forget-Me-Not-Farm) for camping (free for tent camping). Check out
for a complete listing of acts and workshops and for directions and camping information.
I would love to see my old NHPA friends at this festival. What a lovely way to spend a July weekend!!
[via list serve for NH Peace Action]
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YouthSpark Profiles highlight young people in Asia Pacific who are dedicated to changing the world through technology, and inspiring others along the way.
Name: Patraporn Leelaprachakul
Country: Thailand
Occupation: Information and Communication Engineering Student of Chulalongkorn University
Ever since the age of 14, Patraporn Leelaprachakul has been interested in computer programming. This passion was further fuelled by her participation in Microsoft's Imagine Cup in 2012. She was later selected to become a Microsoft Student Partner and also participated in the Microsoft Academy for College Hires (MACH) programme, designed to help promising students accelerate their careers and become future leaders in the technology industry.
Through these engagement and learning experiences, Patraporn realised the many positive impacts that technology can provide people. This encouraged her to further contribute to society through her knowledge and passion of programming. One such example was her participation in developing an Augmented Reality (AR) application for wheelchair users called Wheel-Go-Round, which won a gold medal in the Mekong Business Challenge 2013/14.
What made you join YouthSpark?
I have always loved the idea of contributing to society, and I always do my best to work towards that goal. YouthSpark was an opportunity that allowed me to put my words into action by putting my skills and experience to use in helping others.
What was your YouthSpark project about and what was your role in it?
My YouthSpark project was called Wheel-Go-Round, and I was a developer on the team that made it. It guides wheelchair users to find places that are wheelchair-friendly and easily accessible.
What was the most challenging problem for the project and how did you tackle it?
One of our concerns when developing Wheel-Go-Round was whether our users would be able to read complex maps. After all, it takes a while to orient yourself to even the most basic of maps, so our focus shifted to making it more convenient for our users. In developing the navigation app, we made use of augmented reality (AR) to provide wheelchair users with updated information on specific places or facilities that are easily accessible and wheelchair-friendly. The user simply has to select their destination and once activated, the app will suggest the most accessible path available. It's simple and easy to use.
Can you tell us about your experience learning to code?
Since my father had always been interested in information technology, I was exposed to IT at a very young age. I started programming at the age of 14 with Q Basic at my school.
I also became proficient at programming languages such as HTML and PHP by the time I was 16. During that period, I had begun thinking about studying computer programming at university. So, for a start, I joined the computer club at my school to polish my skills further.
Subsequently, when I was a freshman in 2012, I took part in my first Microsoft Imagine Cup. However, at the time, I didn't know anything about C# programming. In order to complete the project, I did a lot of self-studying and eventually finished the assignment properly.
That whole experience left quite an impression on me, and until now, I try to take part in any programme that Microsoft is hosting, including getting involved with the Microsoft Student Partner and Intern to MACH programmes.
What are your future plans after university?
Ever since I've joined the MACH programme, I was really impressed by what the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) industry has to offer in terms of career opportunities. If given a chance, I would love to have the opportunity to work for Microsoft, for it has helped me become who I am today.
Eventually, I aim to pursue a master's degree in the STEM field, be it software engineering or a related discipline. By improving my skills in programming, I hope to be able to manage an entire software project one day.
Are there any tips you would like to give people who are interested in programming?
There is no fixed method to start learning, so I recommend that they always go wherever their inspiration leads them. Most importantly, they should always continue to challenge themselves—to go on improving even after they have achieved their goals.
I aspire to ... use my knowledge, experience and passion to keep contributing to society.

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In his first year on the job, head coach Keith Byrd led the Montgomery College men's basketball team to its first Maryland Junior College Conference title since 1992. Even though they lost the following week in the region's title game, the Raptors' resurgence did not go unnoticed.
Byrd, an alumnus who played under legendary Montgomery College coach Steve Hobson in the late 1990s, was named MDJUCO Coach of the Year.
After a tumultuous 2014-2015 season in which the Raptors won just three games and ended the season with six active players, MC was picked to finish last in Maryland.
Instead, they went on to finish second and win the conference tournament. The rapid transformation cannot be understated, as MC won 23 games, posted an 11-3 record in conference play, and completed upsets of heavily favored Harford and Baltimore City on the way to the tournament title.
However, Byrd admits his most rewarding milestone may be his team's overall grade point average of 3.0.
"Quite often, student-athletes who commit to academic excellence are often times committed to team excellence, and I wholeheartedly believe there's a correlation between the two," said the Montgomery County native who graduated from Paint Branch High School and grew up in Takoma Park.
Montgomery College is an institution that has a proven record of academic excellence, so it makes it easy to be an ambassador for the resources and opportunities MC offers," he says.


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In his analysis of the numbers,David Cox, editorial page editor of the Paducah Sun (subscription required), noted today that not only does Kentucky have one of the highest percentages of unfunded employee retirement obligations in the nation, but that even a strong economic recovery isn't likely to solve the problem.
The problem: For every dollar Kentucky has obligated itself to pay retired state employees for pensions and health insurance, the commonwealth has set aside only 58 cents. Only Illinois (51 cents) and West Virginia (56 cents) are in worse shape.
How we got here: Kentucky's low ranking is "due in part to the state's high ration of state employees to population," Cox writes.
There are now 38 state employees for every 1,000 workers in the commonwealth.
Unacceptable excuses: Bureaucrats like to use "the recession excuse." Yet, as Cox notes, while the stock market decline diminished the value of pension funds, "the stock market has rebounded while the unfunded pension liability has continued to grow."
Besides, as Pew Center director Susan K. Urahn noted, "the states dug themselves a big hole before the recession ever hit." The recession simply made "a serious problem even worse," Urahn said.
Kentucky's pension system's unfunded liability has reached $34 billion, according to Lowell Reese, editor and publisher of Kentucky Roll Call and an expert on the state pension system,
The way out?: Cox suggests the commonwealth could start the long trek back toward being able to match their obligations by "scaling back on promises to new employees."


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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Coconut Lime Sour Bars
I am sharing the recipe from the Barn House bake contest. I won first place! Woo Hoo!
Coconut Lime Sour Bars
2 C flour
4 T sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 stick plus 2 1/2 T butter
Mash together (dry, but holds together). Pour into 13x9 baking dish. Press into pan as evenly as possible. Bake at 350 degrees for minutes.
4 eggs
1 C chopped almonds
3 C coconut flakes
1 1/2 C brown sugar
Mix and spread over hot baked crust. Bake 30 more minutes.
4 T lime juice (2 limes)
1 1/2 C powder sugar
2 tsp lime zest
glaze while HOT. Work quickly.
I usually add a little bit more lime juice to thin the glaze a bit.
5 comments:
- Shelby said...
Sound yummy - congrats of 1st place! They probably aren't on my diet I AM starting tommorow! What about moving to a new home?
- August 3, 2008 at 9:16 PM
- Courtney said...
I am so excited to try this recipe!! I have been checking your sparrow blog, not this one!!
WOOHOO!! I love your blog. I am so glad that you have started. hope you can do a better job at keeping up then me!! Love ya!!
- August 14, 2008 at 9:38 PM
- Brook said...
I am going to try these!! YUM!! You have to post some stuff from your move. I should not talk though, since I only update my blog every few months! Did you do a sale this weekend?
- August 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM
- Briley said...
ok I need a new post these coconut lime sour bars haunt me in the night! haha
- August 28, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- Shelby said...
Happy Birthday to YOU!!! We love you - hope you have a wonderful birthday. Maybe you could take some pictures of it and give us a new post!
- August 30, 2008 at 8:37 AM


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Andrew Bush graduated from Yale University with an MFA in Photography in 1982 and has been pursuing the Vector Portraits series since he moved to Los Angeles in 1989. Captured on the expansive roadways of Los Angeles and across the West, the work speaks to a democratic American ideal—not just that of the open road, but the personal vehicular space sacred to Angelenos who spend so much time ensconced en route. Bush's photographs allow access into those private moments, defying the fleeting nature of car culture. The viewer holds the privileged role of voyeur, observing and surveilling the oftentimes unaware subjects.
The Vector Portraits series has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden, Germany). Bush's work is held in prominent public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The George Eastman House (Rochester, New York) and The Victoria & Albert Museum (London). In 2008, Yale University Press published his monograph Drive, which includes an interview by Jeff L. Rosenheim, the Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Andrew Bush currently lives and works in Los Angeles.


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HSBC, the British banking and financial services company, has launched a review of its global media account.
The incumbent on the account is GroupM's Mindshare. The agency saw a number of wins in 2017, including Sanofi's sizeable global media account.
ID Comms, the U.K.-based media consulting company, will be running the pitch.
"As part of our commitment to the ongoing development of HSBC's media and marketing arrangements, we periodically evaluate all marketing service suppliers to ensure we maintain the best working relationships to support our strategic goals," says HSBC's U.S. Head of Media Relations Rob Sherman.
Ad Age Datacenter estimates 2016 worldwide measured-media spending for HSBC at about $150 million. That includes U.S. measured-media spending of about $28.5 million that year, according to Kantar Media. However, some estimates place HSBC's media spending much higher, at around $500 million.


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US Coalition Calls For Insurance Industry Reform
Marc Jones
Reinsurance Magazine
August 9, 2005
A coalition of 134 national and regional insurance companies and agencies, banks and trade associations have asked Congress to enact optional federal insurance-charter legislation in an effort to push for reform in the insurance industry.
"Consumers, and the insurers and insurance agents that serve them, need a modern insurance regulatory system that provides greater product choice and portability," the Optional Federal Charter Coalition (OFCC) said in an open letter to Congress.
The letter also noted that establishing an optional federal charter would not supplant state regulation or premium taxation. The new system would allow insurers and agents to choose between state and federal regulation, similar to the dual-banking system that has been in place for more than 140 years.
"The burden of having to comply with rules from 56 separate insurance regulators is too inefficient for companies, agents and consumers to manage, especially those whose interests are national in scope," the letter continued. "Individual state regulators cannot speak to our national or global interests with the same scope and effectiveness as a strong, federal entity, such as the Department of the Treasury or the Federal Reserve."
The need for modernization, the OFCC noted, is necessary to compete successfully in today's market. To operate or deliver a product to market, insurers face many obstacles, such as inconsistent regulations, barriers to innovation, and conflicting agent and education requirements.
"We have been working with the state regulators to develop model laws and uniform product standards, but despite decades of effort and good intentions, they have been unable to provide an efficient, uniform regulatory structure," the coalition said. "An op-tional federal charter preserves states' rights, while allowing insurance regulation to move into the 21st century."
The OFCC represents the largest and most diverse group pushing for a modernised insurance regulatory system. Corporate supporters represent every branch of the insurance and banking industry. Trade group members include Agents for Change, the American Bankers Association, the American Bankers Insurance Association, the American Council of Life Insurers, the American Insurance Association, the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the Financial Services Forum and the Financial Services Roundtable.
The terrorism-insurance system in the US is failing to provide businesses with adequate financial protection, leaving the nation vulnerable to economic disruption if there is a major terrorist attack, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
The report, by the RAND Centre for Terrorist Risk Management Policy, says the terrorism-insurance system is not robust enough to respond to a rapidly evolving terrorist threat against US businesses.
"America's economy does not have adequate financial protection from terrorist attacks," said Peter Chalk, a RAND terrorism expert and lead author of the report. "Protecting businesses against the economic impact of a terrorist attack should be part of a robust homeland security effort." Other report authors include Bruce Hoffman, Robert Reville and Anna-Britt Kasupski of RAND.
The study points out that terrorism insurance does not cover losses caused by attacks from domestic terrorist groups. Also, most insurance polices now exclude coverage for attacks involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.
The study found that many businesses are not buying the terrorism insurance that became available after the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, thus increasing the potential economic damage that would be caused by a new terrorist strike on the US.
The report recommends that Congress consider proposals to increase the number of businesses buying terrorism insurance by lowering its price. It says this could be done without increasing the costs to taxpayers by changing the terms of federal reinsurance.
Congress should also consider:
- expanding and improving the financial protections offered by the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), instead of allowing the law to expire as scheduled in December;
- requiring that terrorism insurance cover acts by domestic groups and attacks involving CBRN (researchers acknowledged that the latter's challenge may be most appropriately covered through a direct government insurance programme); and
- creating a national board that can assess the performance of TRIA or its successor.
The September 11 attacks caused substantial losses for the insurance industry, with current estimates topping $32bn in payments. As a result, insurance companies began ex-cluding terrorism coverage from policies shortly after the attacks.
In response, Congress enacted TRIA in 2002, which requires insurers to offer commercial terrorism policies and provides federal aid as a safeguard to cover losses on the scale of September 11. The move was seen as a step to give insurance companies time to assess their exposure to terrorism losses, and to consider how to price and underwrite terrorism insurance policies.
Post-TRIA trials
Comparing the continuing threat of terrorist attacks to the insurance coverage provided under TRIA, researchers conclude more needs to be done to extend financial safeguards against terrorist attacks. Since TRIA expires at the end of 2005, the current terrorism insurance system will be dissolved unless Congress extends or revises provisions of law.
The RAND study notes that a number of trends in terrorism have increased the risk to the private sector since September 11. These include an increased focus on "soft" business and commercial targets, both as a result of heightened security at government and military facilities and due to the degradation of al-Qaeda's operational capacity to execute long-range strategic strikes.
In addition, the report points out that al-Qaeda has shown increased interest in launching attacks designed to cause mass disruption and economic harm, magnifying the importance of private-sector targets.
One scenario with the potential for devastating uninsured losses highlighted in the report was an attack with a so-called "dirty-bomb" - an explosive device that disperses radioactive material.
Rather prophetically, the RAND report warned that the US still faces a potent threat from al-Qaeda, despite significant efforts made since the 2001 terrorist attacks to disrupt and weaken the group.


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Zoos seems to become more common today. It's not difficult to find a zoo in any city. However, do we really need zoos? In my perspective, I believe that zoos a necessary for both human and animals. The reasons are that zoos can protect endangered species, educate children about nature and help people relax.
Zoos protect wild animal from the danger of nature life. Since the development of human has taken away the lands used to be home of animals, it's difficult for them to find a safe and seperated place to live. The food condition outside also shrinks. Lots of animals died because of famine. Therefore, if we take them to the zoo and take care of them, these animals don't have to worry about the catastrophic world in nature. Although zoos may not the most perfect home, at least they keep those animals in safe.
Zoos actually have a big role in education. Zoo can teach children that we should love and protect animal. When I was a little girl ten years ago, my parents often took me to the zoo. They told me about the names of different kinds of animals. They showed me how poor these animals were. Those things have a positive influence on my personality. In addition, zoos can also give children more knowledge of natural life through the habits of animals they see in the zoos. Indeed, zoo is a very helpful tool to educate children.
Zoos are also perfect places for people to visit and relax. There's a scientific stating that playing with animals can help us get rid of stress. Whenever I am depressed or down in the dumps, I often go the zoos and play with monkeys. They are so cute, and the most important thing is playing with them help me forget all difficulties which brought me down. I also meet lots of people come to the zoos to relax after their hard day at work or school.
For those reasons, I assert that zoos are needed not only for people but also for animals.


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TVVP Jobs Recruitment Notification 2018.Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (TVVP) inviting applications for the positions of Multiple Vacancies.Interested and Eligible candidates can apply for the positions.
Last Date for Submission of Application is on May 24th, 2018..
Post and Vacancies :
Total Number of vacancies: 21 Posts
Civil Assistant Surgeon (Anesthesia): 01 Post
Civil Assistant Surgeon (General): 01 Post
Civil Assistant Surgeon (Pulmonary Medicine): 02 Posts
Staff Nurse: 06 Posts
Lab Technician: 01 Post
Radiology Technician: 01 Post
Ventilator Technician: 01 Post
Nursing Orderly: 08 Posts
Job Location : Hyderabad
Education Qualifications:
Applicants should have completed MD/DM/Diploma/Medical Laboratory/Intermediate/SSC along with first aid certificate.
Selection Process:
The mode of selection will be based on the written exam/Interview.
Selected candidates will get monthly pay Rs. 1, 00, 000/- for Civil Assistant Surgeon (Anesthesia), Rs. 80, 000/- for Civil Assistant Surgeons, Rs. 20, 000/- for Staff Nurse posts, Rs. 12, 000/- for Nursing posts and Rs. 15, 000/- for LT, Radiology & Ventilator Technician posts
Application Process:
Aspirants have to send the duly filled application form along with the essential documents to the below address.
Telangana Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, Badi Chowdi, Kachiguda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500095
Important Dates:
Start Date to Submit Online Application : 10th May 2018
Last Date to Online Application : 24th May 2018


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First of all we would like to thank everyone who took the time to leave a complimentary comment on the last set of images. If you left an e-mail you will receive a selected image for your trouble. Since the response was sooo good we thought we would submit an encore set of pics. These will be sent in two parts: Outside and Inside. The outside were taken at a nude beach,a carwash, and a swimming pool. The Inside shots were taken at a University library, Shekoyote's bed, her office, and the commuter train to her office. She is a blessing in my life and when she is laying in the sun I look at her and think of her as my very own little solar cell storing up energy. And for those who voiced your concerns about her skin, the lines are allowed to fade each winter. They sleep until the spring-time sun releases them to bloom once more. Thank you again.
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About Karcher
Reasons to choose the Karcher brand: innovative; competent; reliable.
Data and facts for the financial year 2017
Kärcher looks back on another successful financial year. The family company has once again succeeded in ending the year with a record turnover, creating numerous jobs and increasing its market share worldwide. With 2.33billion euros, the world's leading supplier of cleaning technology.At the end of 2016, the company had a total of 11,862 employees in 65 countries.
Apart from focusing on customers' needs – over 50 ,000 service points worldwide ensure continuity of supply – innovation was once again one of the most important growth factors: 90 % of Kärcher products are not more than five years old.
In 2016, Kärcher once again supported many charitable, social and cultural organisations in numerous countries and actively focused on environmental protection – the partnership with the SOS children's villages and membership in the UN Global Compact Network are just two examples. Kärcher also contributed to the preservation of prized monuments with its technology and expertise: Kärcher teams cleaned both the Indionesian National Monument "MONAS" in Jakarta and the world's first artificial ice rink at the Königssee in Germany.
Following extensive cleaning tests at World Heritage Sites in Germany, Aachen Cathedral was chosen to be cleaned by Kärcher as part of a joint pilot project with the German Commission for UNESCO.
We are working on new solutions – full steam ahead. Today as we always have.
Alfred Kärcher – inventor and entrepreneur
Alfred Kärcher, like Robert Bosch, Gottlieb Daimler and Graf Zeppelin, was one of the inventors and entrepreneurs that Württemberg produced in such great number since the beginning of the industrial era. With the utmost commitment, he dedicated himself to bringing his ideas to fruition. In 1924, the then 23-year-old completed his studies at the Technical University of Stuttgart and worked first of all at his father's agency, which he developed into an engineer's office. In 1935 he founded his own company in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart so that he could produce and market his own products in the field of heating technology. Alfred Kärcher designed and built the "Kärcher salt bath furnace", among other products, for tempering steel and light metal in industry according to his own patent.
In 1939, the family-owned company relocated to Winnenden, where it still has its headquarters. By this time the company was also producing heating devices for aircraft engines and cabin heating systems. Following the Second World War, the company turned its attention to products for urgent, everyday use: round stoves, small cookers, handcarts and trailers for tractors.
Move into cleaning technology
Alfred Kärcher made his breakthrough into the cleaning technology industry in 1950 with the development of the first European hot water high-pressure cleaner (the DS 350 steam jet). The design of the water heater proved to be so pioneering that it still forms the basis of all burners today.
Like so many, Alfred Kärcher did not live to see the global success of his innovation. When he died on 17 September 1959 at the age of 58, his wife Irene took over the management of the company and steered its fortunes for three decades. Today their children Johannes Kärcher and Susanne Zimmermann von Siefart are in charge of the family-owned company in its second generation.
In 1962, Kärcher founded its first foreign subsidiary in France, followed by Austria and Switzerland. Internationalisation continued apace. In 1975, Kärcher opened a factory in Brazil; 10 years later, the company had founded 16 sales companies in North America, Africa, Australia and elsewhere. By 2012, Kärcher was represented by subsidiaries in 57 countries and generating 85% of its sales abroad. With 40,000 customer service points in over 190 countries, Kärcher provides comprehensive support to its customers all over the world.
Growth through innovation
After a phase of diversification, Kärcher turned its attention to high-pressure cleaning in 1974. During this period, the colour of the machines was changed from blue to the now world-famous Kärcher yellow. In 1980, the company expanded its product range to cover basic cleaning requirements, initially in the areas of transport and buildings. Step by step, the range was expanded with the addition of wet and dry vacuum cleaners, sweeper vacuums and scrubber driers, vehicle washing bays, steam cleaners, cleaning agents and drinking water and wastewater treatment systems.
Among the milestones in Kärcher's history was the introduction in 1984 of the HD 555 profi, the first portable high-pressure cleaner, and the subsequent expansion into the consumer market. In 1993, this range was expanded to include indoor products and Kärcher has since added steam cleaners and vacuum cleaners for private households to its range. The RoboCleaner RC 3000 was launched in 2003 as the world's first fully automatic robotic vacuum cleaner. In 2007, Kärcher moved into the completely new sector of gardening, which includes pumps for watering, water removal and service water supply in households, as well as an extensive range of accessories.
In 1986, Kärcher launched its pioneering roller brush technology for scrubber driers in the professional range. Thanks to the development of a new rotary nozzle (dirt blaster) in 1995, the cleaning effect of the high-pressure cleaner was almost doubled. The dust intake of commercial wet and dry vacuum cleaners was continuously improved, and in 2007 the innovative Tact filter cleaning system was launched. New procedures were also developed in the course of worldwide cleaning projects: the 284 travertine columns on St Peter's Square in Rome were restored using a specially developed spray process over a total area of 25,000 m². Since 2009, Kärcher has been selling ultra-high pressure cleaners, which, at up to 2,500 bar pressure, not only clean but restore facades and strip concrete. In the same year, a multipurpose municipal sweeper was released onto the market and new target groups were gained with the launch of water dispensers.
Kärcher becomes a global market leader
Innovation has been and continues to be the most important growth factor. In 2011 alone, Kärcher launched over 100 new products. The global market leader in cleaning technology will continue to be characterised by its ingenuity, top performance and innovative problem solving.
Top performance for cleanliness and value retention
Our vision
When it comes to quality and technology, we are the leading provider of cleaning systems, cleaning products and services for leisure, households, trade and industry worldwide. Our customers benefit enormously from using our effective, efficient and environmentally friendly cleaning products. We make a noticeable difference in the lives of our customers by providing effective, efficient solutions for everyday cleaning and watering tasks all over the world. We have highly satisfied and enthusiastic customers!
Our corporate mission statement
Customer focus
We foster open dialogue with our customers based on partnership. Our products and services offer ideal solutions which have real benefits for customers. Our customers' cleaning problems can be solved quickly and flexibly.
Qualified and motivated employees who take pleasure in their work are an important success factor for Kärcher.
Working together
Trust, loyalty, transparency, fairness, reliability and respect characterise Kärcher's relationships with others, both inside and outside the company. Through teamwork and by actively exchanging information, we make the most of all of the experience and expertise our company has to offer in order to achieve our goals.
Our product range
We offer cleaning systems, cleaning products and services for leisure, home, trade and industry with outstanding value for money.
Market position
Kärcher is a global company and sees itself as a benchmark. We want to occupy a leading position in market share, innovation, quality and image, and we aim to be global market leaders in all areas of our business.
As leading innovators, we set standards in technology, service and design aimed at providing maximum benefit to our customers and meeting our customers' needs. Our innovations impress and inspire our customers.
All over the world, the Kärcher brand is synonymous with top performance, innovation and quality. We want to continuously strengthen our brand.
Production and procurement
Our suppliers are part of our value chain. Together with them, we work continuously to optimise production intensity and process design. We ensure competitiveness in quality and costs through our responsiveness, speed and flexibility.
Corporate social responsibility
Kärcher stands by its responsibility to society: we respect the values and standards, human rights, and legal and social systems of all countries in the spirit of good citizenship.
Use of resources
We design our products, services and processes to be environmentally compatible. Wherever we are active, we take environmental requirements into account and, in doing so, use all of the available resources responsibly.
Growth, finance and success
We increase our profitability and financial resources through profitable growth, thereby safeguarding the future and long-term development of our company. Our priority is to maintain our financial independence and decision-making autonomy. Moreover, organic growth takes precedence over acquisition.
Family-owned company
Our partners identify closely with the company. Kärcher is still a family-owned company.


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In one short clip captured by a fan and posted online, Colbert's Hunger Games-inspired character, whom he used to dispense with the various failed presidential candidates over the past several months, can be seen taking the microphone on the RNC stage ...
In what was evidently meant to look like an unsanctioned hijacking of the Republican National Convention stage, Stephen Colbert filmed a sketch over the weekend that is set to air during the Late Show's live post-convention coverage this week. In one short clip captured by a fan and posted online, Colbert's Hunger Games-inspired character, whom he used to dispense with the various failed presidential candidates over the past several months, can be seen taking the microphone on the RNC stage before the convention officially kicks off Monday evening.Speaking of Trump, Colbert says, "He has formed an alliance with Indiana Governor Mike Pence.†Then, after appeared to fall asleep at the podium, he adds, "Sorry, I blacked out there for a moment.â€Â "So it is my honor to hereby launch and begin the 2016 Republican National Hungry For Power Games!†A security guard can then be seen ushering Colbert off the stage as if he is trespassing. "I know I'm not supposed to be up here,†the host says, "but let's be honest, neither is Donald Trump.â€Delivered in the GOP's own backyard, it was the type of biting line we haven't seen much of from him since The Colbert Report. The way in which the guard quickly lets Colbert go and the assembled staffers applaud indicates that he was not in any real trouble, as it will likely appear when the sketch airs on CBS. In another clip from the floor of the convention hall, Colbert can be seen conferring with one of his writers before going on stage to deliver the bit. Colbert's "Hungry for Power Games†character, based on Stanley Tucci's Caesar Flickerman from the Hunger Games film series, has delivered humorous send-offs to "fallen tributes†like Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, giving the Late Show its most consistent recurring political sketch, though one that may have almost run its course now that only two candidates remain. By flying to Cleveland to film the new piece ahead of his week of live shows from New York, Colbert is demonstrating just how important these two convention weeks are for his ratings, which have been mostly pacing ahead of Jimmy Kimmel Live but remain far behind The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Two weeks of non-stop political news can only help give Colbert a bump. The rest of the political late-night television field is taking just as much advantage of the conventions. Trevor Noah and his team will take The Daily Show on the road to Cleveland this week and Philadelphia the following week. Seth Meyers will air his Late Night show live at 12:35 a.m. each night after the speeches are made. And both Samantha Bee and Bill Maher are adding additional episodes to their weekly schedules to wring more material out of the events. But it is Colbert who just might have the most to gain. During an interview with CBS This Morning last week, Colbert revealed that his old friend Jon Stewart will be appearing on the Late Show multiple times throughout the conventions, beginning on Monday night. The host and CBS have been quiet about what role Stewart will play, but Colbert hinted that viewers could also see a return of his beloved right-wing "Stephen Colbert†character from The Colbert Report. Back in December, Stewart used the Late Show to promote a 9/11 first responders bill — while also wearing a Donald Trump costume to ensure he got the attention he needed. Thursday night, Colbert has possible Democratic vice presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren giving her live reaction to Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech. After rising in the ranks to become the definitive voice of political comedy on Comedy Central's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert lost much of his edge when left his Bill O'Reilly-inspired character behind and embraced his true self. It was an attempt to reach a larger audience that has resulted in an objectively less funny show and ultimately left a gaping hole in the political satire arena that has been only partially filled by figures like John Oliver and Larry Wilmore, along with Noah, Bee, Meyers and the rest. The political circus that is about to capture the nation's attention are Colbert's chance to prove he still has what it takes. Let's hope he seizes it. Â
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MP David Davies has suggested that we should be carrying out dental checks on refugees to ensure that they are young enough to deserve our help.
In his own words
These don't look like "children" to me. I hope British hospitality is not being abused. https://t.co/1CKwsPnfaS
— David Davies MP (@DavidTCDavies) October 17, 2016
Think about that for a second.
On the surface, the idea of trying to confirm the ages of refugees entering the country as children makes sense. If someone is 25 then it is inappropriate to be enrolling them in schools or arranging foster care for them. There's no argument there, it's certainly inappropriate to treat adults as children and it's also certainly appropriate to attempt to ensure that that's not what we're doing.
The problem is that phrasing the objection as "British hospitality … being abused" promotes the idea that entering the UK as a refugee is in some way abusive and that being a child is the only excuse for doing so.
If we are to maintain any pretence of behaving ethically, then we must approach every situation with the intention of making it better, or at the very least not making it worse.
With the refugee issue, this entails the starting assumption that it would be best if we could help as many people as we possibly can.
Now, it may be that David Davies shares this assumption and is only concerned that we might be treating adult refugees as if they were children and that he doesn't actually have a problem with the UK taking in our fair share of refugees. I don't know enough about him to say, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
However, even if we give him the benefit of the doubt, it is absolutely clear that many of the people who are getting angry about this issue are in fact not willing to even attempt to improve the suffering caused by the refugee crisis.
If they were approaching the situation with the goal of making things better then their objections, if they had any, would be along the lines of "we should check how old they are to make sure they all get the appropriate assistance". Or even, "of course we should help but we don't have the resources". They don't.
I'm just going to paraphrase the main reason I've seen because I have no desire to give more oxygen to the ghastly people who think like this – "all refugees are violent criminals".
Come on.
We know this isn't true. It is true that refugees have committed crimes. It's also true that refugees have committed violent crimes in Calais. It's just as true that there were 37 violent crimes in Wolverhampton city centre during August 2016. We don't know whether all of the people responsible for these crimes have been arrested. We also don't know how many people who live in Wolverhampton might commit crimes in the future.
If you support keeping people trapped in refugee camps rather than being allowed in to claim asylum on the basis that we don't know whether some of them might be criminals, but you don't support building a wall around Wolverhampton for the same reason, then you need to provide a convincing explanation of the difference.
If it's simply that people in Wolverhampton are British and refugees are not then you are making the claim that "Britishness" is a quality which makes a moral difference.
That is, you are claiming that it's OK to ignore another person's suffering unless they happen to be British.
There's a word for that, I think you know what it is.
The gutter press have a lot to answer for in this. Every day they spread another horror story about foreigners and, funnily enough, the people who read this every day end up believing it. I blame the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, and the current re-normalisation of racism, for the problems faced by every single refugee that we could help but are refusing to. They are deliberately spreading their hate in order to persuade the average person that every refugee is a personal threat.
They are approaching a humanitarian crisis with nothing but utter contempt for the people who most need our help.
The fact that so many people seem to be going along with this is absolutely disgusting.


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2014/09/22 - Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) released a new tax reform proposal today. Generally we are very supportive of the kinds of ideas put forth by the likes of Messrs. Lee and Rubio (with one glaring exception), so we are pleased to see that they have made tax reform a priority for the upcoming 114th Congress. First, however, Americans must act decisively to dislodge Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader and break Washington gridlock and get solid policy initiatives moving forward.
As we review the outline there is one area where we have concerns that the Rubio-Lee plan goes too far, and one area where we are disappointed that it does not go far enough.
First, where it doesn't go far enough: Lee and Rubio propose reducing our highest-in-the-world 35% corporate tax rate, but we ask, why not eliminate corporate taxes altogether?
Businesses create national income, consumer value, and jobs for workers. Corporate resources are a pool of wealth / value / job creation capital; when governments confiscate this capital, they curtail the creation of incomes, jobs, vale and wealth.
All income should be taxed, at the same rate structure regardless of its source or nature (wages, dividends, interest, capital gains), in the hands of individuals as it is removed from these pools of income.
The elimination should be executed over an extended period, perhaps a ten-year phase out reducing the rate by 3.5% per year until the rate is zero, at which point the applicable provisions would sunset. The tax must be phased out over an extended period, otherwise the rapid increase in economic activity, jobs, and income could create some excessive strains on various markets - commodities, housing, etc.
Second, where perhaps it goes too far: the child tax credit. Effectively, paying people to have babies. If you fret about government involvement in people's personal lives, isn't this ground zero?
There are many people who ought not to have children but do, and government assistance in various forms is one of the contributing motivators. It's not the lone factor, it may not even be the pivotal factor, but it's in the mix.
This is one of the saddest paradoxes in our society: how do we help children living in poverty, without motivating impoverished adults to have even more impoverished children.
Liberals will never admit that their policies are the cause of the problem rather than the solution. You can expect vitriol and demagoguery when you oppose these socialists and their disastrous ideas, the problem of a posterity of poverty perpetuated by progressives.
The best way to help people, of both middle and lower incomes, is to provide opportunities. Help them out of poverty rather than help them survive poverty. We need to focus on policies that create opportunities, like eliminating business income tax. And then let people make their own choices without tilting the playing field one way or the other. We need to obey the law of supply and demand.
We applaud the efforts of Lee and Rubio. We will wait and see what their finished product looks like.
2014/09/10 - The attack by Ray Rice was horrific and senseless. The attacks on Ray Rice are also senseless. Horrific, no; but senseless, yes.
For those of you who don't know, Ray Rice is a professional football player. A good player, in a marquee position, who regularly influences the outcomes of his games. Even casual fans would have heard of him. Then, this spring, Rice slugged his fiancée (now his wife), Janay Palmer, in an elevator, knocked her out, and dragged her limp body into the hall. Recently released video has appalled anyone who has seen it.
Naturally there is a firestorm of controversy. Various parties have vilified Rice for his actions, as well as the National Football League and its commissioner Roger Goodell for slow and soft discipline. Included in this vicious vigilante is National Organization for Women President Terry O'Neil, who said "The NFL has lost its way. It doesn't have a Ray Rice problem; it has a violence against women problem".
It may make people like O'Neill feel better to unleash vitriol at various targets but what does that low-grade bloodlust solve? Some call for a lifetime suspension for Rice, but, why? If they take away Mr. Rice's livelihood, they also take away Mrs. Rice's means of support. That would – deservedly perhaps – ruin his life, but it would also ruin hers. Mrs. Rice would now be twice the victim. And the Rice family and their posterity would be assigned to poverty in perpetuity. Can't we do better?
Of course O'Neill is wrong. This is not a Ray Rice problem, nor a Roger Goodell problem, nor an NFL problem. It is a societal problem. O'Neill of all people should understand that, instead of trolling the NFL for some cheap headlines.
The NFL has hundreds of twenty-somethings dumped on its doorstep every year. Most are fine gentlemen, but, alas, some are troubled souls. Seems obvious now that Ray Rice is one of them. These problem people were not created by the NFL. They were created by breakdowns in our society. That is most certainly not the NFL's fault.
Focusing energy on trying to get the NFL "to clean up its act" is entirely misguided. Even if it was the NFL's fault and the NFL did "clean up its act" – a weak premise at best - not only would that not even be a drop in the bucket to eliminate violence against women, it would probably be counter-productive, because it would reduce the crime's visibility and a make resolution of the broader problem less likely.
Far too much is being made of this lone episode, and far too little of the 6,000 other domestic violence attacks that occur in America each day. O'Neill should be ashamed for focusing on Goodell and demanding his dismissal. Is that the most wise and judicious way to leverage this situation? Similarly, we see no constructive benefit to gratuitously piling on Ray Rice. Yes, what he did was mean, but the cheap shots people are taking at him are a waste. But instead of seeking to influence positive change in the midst of these deplorable circumstances, we can thank NOW for going ugly.
At Chalprem we always prefer to be proactive rather than reactive. We prefer to deal with the disease rather than symptoms. What should be done with Ray Rice? Try this for a template for this and future instances:
Domestic violence is one of the main causes of societal breakdown. The NFL was not looking for this problem, but this problem found the NFL. It is not the NFL's fault, but it has become the NFL's problem. So now we ask, will the NFL man up and join the effort to overcome domestic violence?
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Every three years, Denver Public Health and the Department of Public Health and Environment conduct a community health assessment to measure progress toward improving Denver's Health. The city's most recent community health assessment, the 2014 Health of Denver Report was released in February 2015. To produce this report, the team:
- Conducted an environmental scan to determine best practices used to develop our report.
- Brought together nearly 100 representatives of city agencies, health organizations and community-based organizations to provide insight on Denver's most pressing health issues.
- Accessed more than 20 different data sources to present reliable information.
- Sought community examples to share the important work happening to improve the health of everyone in Denver's community.
The 2014 Health of Denver Report presents three themes about Denver's health: equity, prevention and the importance of place. Emphasis is placed on promoting factors that can be changed to positively influence health outcomes, specifically: access to care, personal behaviors, and social, environmental and economic conditions.
How to access Denver's Community Health Assessment
The 2014 Health of Denver Report was published by Be Healthy Denver, a joint initiative between Denver Public Health and Denver Environmental Health that imagines a community where all residents are healthy, regardless of their race, ethnicity, income level, or neighborhood in which they live. Visit BeHealthyDenver.org to access:
- The 2014 Health of Denver Report
- An executive summary of the report (En Español)
- Downloadable data from the report (figures, graphs and data tables) for use in community presentations and grant applications
- A list of Be Healthy Denver partners
Information about Denver's Community Health Improvement Plan is also available on BeHealthyDenver.org.


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CCG allocations revealed: The winners and losers
New funding allocations which favour areas of extreme deprivation will see some clinical commissioning groups receive cash growth of up to 15 per cent next year, with others receiving increases of less than 5 per cent.
'Alarming' figures show thousands still waiting too long for wheelchairs
Thousands of disabled children who need a wheelchair are still being forced to wait more than four months from the time of their referral to the equipment being delivered, an exclusive HSJ analysis of official data has revealed.
Hospital trust taking over community contract after specialist drops out
A hospital trust has been granted an interim, £36m contract to run community services in London for two years, after the incumbent provider said it would not bid for a renewed contract.
GP quality - London: CQC ratings confirm challenge in East London
HSJ's analysis of Care Quality Commissioning ratings of GP surgeries shows that east London is underperforming against the rest of the capital.
Joint chief appointed to run five CCGs
A collective of clinical commissioning groups in south London has appointed Sarah Blow as their new accountable officer.
London CCGs to share accountable officer
Commissioning chiefs in south west London are proposing to share an accountable officer in a bid to streamline decision-making and cut costs.
Exclusive: London STP considers cutting number of acute sites to three
The draft sustainability and transformation plan for southwest London reveals that leaders are considering cutting the number of acute sites in the patch from five to four or three.
London CCGs award urgent primary care contract
Six south west London clinical commissioning groups have awarded an integrated urgent care contract - combining NHS 111 and out of hours services across several boroughs - to South London Doctors Urgent Care (SLDUC).
London trust investigating three patient deaths
PATIENT SAFETY: Three patient deaths following serious incidents are being investigated at a south London trust.
Exclusive: GP groups cover most of England but 'lack ambition and priorities'
Four fifths of clinical commissioning groups have at least one large scale GP provider group in their area, according to information collected by HSJ.
South West London refused entry to 'success regime'
South West London NHS organisations have asked to join the 'success regime', the national programme of directive support for struggling health economies, but have been turned down.
London's devolution demands revealed
Proposals to redesign London's £93bn public services through wide ranging devolution from central government have been agreed by borough leaders and the city's mayor.
Jeremy Hunt opposes accidentally leaked hospital reconfiguration proposal
STRUCTURE: A proposal to replace two district general hospitals with a single facility was revealed after consultants hired to investigate the move were overheard discussing it in a conference call on a train.
CCG drops opposition to mental health trust's FT application
STRUCTURE: Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group has given its support to South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust's drive for foundation status. It initially opposed the bid on the grounds that the trust's financial planning was unsound.
Mental health trust preferred for £160m revamp
MENTAL HEALTH: New inpatient accommodation in Tooting and Kingston is the public's preferred option for a £160m revamp of mental health services in South London.
New strategy for south west London reconfiguration
Six clinical commissioning groups in South West London have formally dismantled their Better Services Better Value programme designed to reconfigure acute services. However, they admit service change is still required.
Tribunal of GP accused of stealing £100,000
A doctor accused of taking £100,000 from an out-of-hours GP service and being 125 miles away from sick patients while he was supposed to be on duty will be grilled by a new panel when his tribunal resumes on Wednesday.


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Your child's name is incorporated into the beautiful artwork on every page of this engaging story that teaches them about colours.
- Your child's name appears on the cover
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- Hand-drawn illustrations on every page
- Available in soft or hard cover
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A World of Colour is a beautifully illustrated children's story about a chameleon who lives in a boring black and white world. With the help of your child, the chameleon discovers first primary colours, and then the secondary colours that can be made by mixing them together. This book is a great introduction to how colours work, as well as a fun story to read again and again!
Your child's own name will not only appear on the cover of this personalised colour book, but also on the title page and in every illustration throughout the content, making it a delight to read! You can also add your own special message to the title page.
How to Personalise
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Corey Haim's mother says her son was an open book with her, and while she claims someone did abuse Corey ... she knows it wasn't Charlie Sheen.
Tomorrow, Corey Haim's mom, Judy, talks allegations that her son was sexually assaulted by Charlie Sheen & points the finger at someone else pic.twitter.com/ZfcXkXLaWB— Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) November 9, 2017
Judy Haim spoke to Dr. Oz and told him her son never hid anything from her ... so she would have known about any instances of sexual assault. She's not buying the report claiming 19-year-old Sheen molested or raped a 13-year-old Corey on a movie set in the '80s.
Judy does accuse someone other than Sheen of abusing Corey, but Oz isn't revealing the name.
As we told you, Sheen's ex-fiancee, Brett Rossi, wasn't convinced of Charlie's innocence -- but mama Haim says she's setting the record straight.


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Peaches and Cream – A Homemade Soap Recipe That's Easy As 1, 2, 3
For the novice, a homemade soap recipe made successfully would be the main motivation for more projects in the future. It has to be easy to do, and simple. When I started out, I took into consideration some matters first – like if it's simple to make, I or other family members are not allergic to it, and if it fits my "hobby" budget. I tried to search for the easiest soap making instructions. I…Read More


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Sighs, we left him at the AirPort and well at 2pm he called that he was at his stop over.
Sighs, I so miss him big time. I don't wont him gone, I wont him right here with me … but I know that he has to go back to pack up his stuff and get things set so he have move up here fully, but still 2 weeks to two months is still going to be hard in its own way.
I did try to sleep once I got home from seeing him off, but as yet I've not really managed any real sleep what so ever, got rest, but no actual sleep – sighs. I hope I am able to get some sleep, but at the moment its not looking like its going to happen as I hoped it would, but like all things time tells what it will.
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A quieter "burst"
By: traceyf
Category: Photos, Uncategorized
There is nothing more annoying than forcing yourself in bed at 1800 hours to try and sleep for your 0330 hour alarm. This gets even more annoying when you are awoken suddenly after finally managing t drift into semisleep by the sound of a 12 gauge discharged inches from your brain. The heart attack that ensues until you can compute what just actually happened doesn't illicit a wonderful and euphoric feeling either. Fuck . It was May 24 weekend and every tool there was in the county had an assortment pack of pyroglphics. Why do these things always end up in the hands of some teenager with no concept of the world around them? I won't get into detail, but the "show" lasted from 2330 hours to 0230 hours" and even though the police were called, the show went on and on. Sleep was not even an option at this point, trying to drift for an hour thinking that another cracker might send you back into tachycardia. If you light fireworks, please be considerate of those on shifts around you. It may be the weekend to you, but its business as usual for many of us. Excuse me Mrs Victoria if I celebrate yoiur birthday in a quieter manner. I know I am a week late, but hey the yahoos are still lighting their fireworks nightly.
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Sorry about your sleep, but your photos are simply AMAZING! WOW! 🙂
We used to live in the neighborhood where the city sets off its annual July 4th fireworks. It was nice to see the show from the living room without having to deal with traffic, but the pre-show and post-show weeks were filled with asshats setting off strings of fireworks on the street even though fireworks are illegal in Maine.
Then we bought a house and moved to a neighborhood not far from the semipro baseball field. These schmucks have four or five large fireworks shows a year although the stadium is surrounded by residential neighborhoods (with lots of kids). Can't tell you how utterly frightful it is to suddenly hear major explosives around 9:30 at night especially when the weather is just getting to pleasant (or necessary) open-window stage. They do not notify neighborhoods when these shows are planned.
I don't understand the appeal of loud noises like that. But I do have some sense of how horrible it must be to live in Iraq these days.


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The design of an urban retreat within an industrial building in Georgetown, DC provides an opportunity to experience water in the built environment. The location of the building between two bodies of water—the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Potomac River—creates an opportunity to connect water and the visitors. Management of the water to ensure responsible resource use was researched and accommodated in the design. Water is further used to shape the space and the moods created by the volumes, materials and finishes. The final project provides a luxurious shower and locker room, a series of pools, and a tea room, open to the sky, across three levels.
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|Wholy Living Recipe
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These make up quickly for a great freezer meal or snack! Loved them at our March Event! NO LEFTOVERS!
1. Using either the Bosch Food Processor or the either Meat Grinder, process into a bowl
3 carrots 1/2 head cauliflower
1 head broccoli 2 cloves garlic
2 potatoes 3 stalks celery
2 slices whole grain bread 1 onion
2. Add: 2 eggs 1 t pink salt ½ t pepper
3. Scoop a tablespoon of the mixture and form a small nugget. Coat with bread crumbs or bean flour.
4. Pan-fry with small drizzle of coconut oil over medium high heat until both sides are golden brown, about 10 minutes OR Bake on a silicone mat at 400 for 25 minutes, flipping after the first 15 minutes.
5. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce or on a home made bun.
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Time to Make Your 2011 HSA Contribution
I started preparing my taxes for the 2011 tax year, and just dropped my $6150 family HSA contribution for 2011 in the mail. Yes, even though it's March of 2012, I can still contribute for 2011 tax year up until April 15th, 2012 (April 17th actually this year). It must be in the bank custodians' hands by that date, postmarked dates don't count. You also must have had a HDHP health insurance plan in place by Nov 30th, 2011 and plan to hold onto the plan for 12 consecutive months.
I look forward this one of only a few tax deductions I get each year to lower my tax bill. I thought my readers needed a little reminder of the coming deadline to get your contribution in before it's too late. Be sure you mark clearly on the check that it is for a PRIOR year 2011 contribution.
So, here's a recap of the allowable maximum HSA contributions for 2011:
Individual = up to $3050 for 2011
Family of 2 or more = up to $6150 for 2011
Over age 55 = Extra $1000 per person allowed on top of the above amounts**
**If two people over age 55 then TWO HSA accounts must be set up in each name with at least $1000 going into each of them. The other $6150 can be split up how you like.
I will receive a 5498 tax form sometime in May or June showing my prior tax year contribution that will also be sent to the IRS to match up with my 2011 tax return. I will verify the deposit was allocated correctly to the prior tax year.
By the way, 2012 HSA contribution limits go up to $3100 and $6250 respectively. And yes, you can start contributing for 2012 now. For past years' limits, visit our HSASavers page.