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Saturday, 31. October 2020
The work of VOCAL
- VOCAL has dozens of feeding areas for cats in and around the villages of Elounda and Agios Nikolaos.
- They are replenished EVERY DAY, winter and summer, rain or shine.
- We use over 30kg of cat food EVERY WEEK.
- VOCAL provides treatments to protect against parasites,we monitor for sickness and injury and identify those in need of neutering.
- VOCAL runs a neutering programme throughout the year.Between October 2006 and May 2008 VOCAL has sterilized almost 600 cats. This number continues to grow as our work is ongoing.
- VOCAL rescues and cares for orphaned kittens and sick or injured cats in volunteers' homes.
- VOCAL finds homes for kittens or older cats that cannot cope with a free living life. Some are rehomed on Crete, but many go to new homes in Germany, Switzerland or Holland.
- VOCAL provides advice and support for all aspects of cat ownership, on care and treatment of owned cats, or for people who are supporting free living cats in their neighbourhood.
- VOCAL campaigns for greater understanding and tolerance of cats in the community.
- VOCAL supports local hotels and encourages them to work with us in providing feeding areas for cats and notices for holiday makers.


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What is a sensor?
A sensor is able to detect and measure different types of energy and transform it into a readable output. Here are some example of types of sensors and their measurement:
- Thermal sensor – specific temperature or a range
- Proximity sensor – presence of an object Rotary encoder – position and speed
- Flow sensor – force of fluid flow Pressure sensor - pressure
What is a transducer?
A transducer is a device that converts an input energy type from one to another. In the case of a light bulb, electrical energy is converted into both heat and light outputs. The following are some examples of transducer types:
- Electrochemical: A battery converts chemical into electrical energy
- Electromechanical: A motor converts electrical into mechanical energy
- Thermoelectric: A thermocouple converts heat into electrical energy
What is the difference between a transducer and a sensor?
A transducer simply converts input energy into a different output energy type. However, while a sensor is similar to a transducer by reacting to a change and providing an output electrical signal, it is in a readable format that can be quantified.
What are the benefits of sensors and transducers?
When sensors and transducers are utilised in efficient automated systems, they enable improvements in operational reliability, give greater control over quality through high accuracy, as well as optimising productivity and safety.
What are smart sensors?
As Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) are revolutionising and advancing automated systems. IO-Link is a recognised global networking standard for sensors that allows machines from different manufacturers to communicate with each other. Smart sensors carry out the same measurement applications as regular sensors with additional control through smart capabilities such as self-identification, testing, validation, and learning. They help to provide live data, establish communication between machines and react on their own to diagnose and correct issues to improve efficiencies.

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Syria Web Watchers Fear Internet Blackout
Syria's civil war is playing out not just on the battlefield but also online. Web watchers say the government recently cut off Internet access to apply stronger filters for future use. The WSJ's Tobias Reeuwijk reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... every ... major policy switched on ferry at US President Brock Obama acts that his administration will now supply weapons to the full force this but understanding what's really going on inside the country can sometimes be difficult due to information blackout ... at the Wall Street Journal's Tobias Reback reports that there may be a hidden agenda of the kind of meat and fibre silent ... one year ago the gentleman Siri was around five thousand the nose mounted to the ninety three thousand ... and President Bush are all aside still holds on to power ... now his government may be preparing a new front in the battle ... to stop the flow of free information ... here ... on the internet ... one made seven the proverbial lights went out for all Syrian Edison's ... Matthew Prince is the CEO of CloudFlare one of the Web on a train firms that confirmed the shutdown ... as the routing table that everyone has access to effectively is like a map of the Internet ... we saw in May it was like they were erased from the map that ... traffic coming out of Syria and the domains on outsource network ... is completely seats Sts knew the ... date went by with no internet traffic in or out of Syria ... then a pro government TV station released a statement that claimed ... that terrorists cut the lines ... not ... the government ... CloudFlare Sprint's thinks otherwise likely the Syrian telecommunications Authority ... systematically with drawing the routes aam that wouldn't be a physical copper cable being in love ... with someone speaking commands into or out or to withdraw that ... was this evidence of Syrian censorship ... what proof of princes claim is lacking Syria does have a long history of censorship ... in twenty eleven ... and national net blackout for one day ... into thousandeight fire walling the Arabic with the PDF for almost a year ... in two thousandseven ... shutting down Bespoke for four years ... but Syria's recent censorship in May seems different ... from well-known efforts in China says prints ... they ... do in order to better route passes through ... a narrow shelf points ... and those notes they're doing filtering to look for traffic they were ... to leave should be to be trespassing ... in Syria there was a limited number of no but it wasn't so much that they blocked the traffic they were completely shutting the traffic off entirely ... that means serious normal medicines were the only ones impacted ... government officials lost access to ... unless they have a satellite connections Esperance ... one thing that might be going on ... is that the Syrian government or state telecommunications providers ... like installing filtering much more similar to China ... I'm in that hour so that they can do much more discretionary ... monitoring of the network as its going forward ... if Syria was indeed using the blackout to installing new censorship system it might make it harder in the future for serious medicines to get accurate information about the conflicts still raging in


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100% lead free Pewter Casting- Length 11.6 cm, Weight 9.4 ounces, Number of Pieces 2 (assembly required).
[Note- All ships are sold without base. We recommend 92-801 2 inch hex base and stem for this design.]
Concept design source Wolf Shipyard
Designers: Andrew Connelly, David Briedis, and Behrle Hubbuch
Sculptor: Behrle Hubbuch


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LONDON (Reuters) - "Superbug" strains of gonorrhea which are becoming untreatable accounted for almost one in 10 cases of the sexually transmitted disease in Europe in 2010, more than double the rate of the year before, health officials said on Monday.
The drug-resistant strains are also spreading fast across the continent, officials warned. They were found in 17 European countries in 2010, seven more than in the previous year.
Gonorrhea was the second most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in Europe in 2010, with more than 32,000 infections, data from the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) showed.
Even though chlamydia was the most frequently reported STI, with more than 345,000 cases, the ECDC's director singled out gonorrhea as presenting a "critical situation".
Marc Sprenger said the increase in cases of superbug strains meant there was a risk gonorrhea may become an untreatable disease in the near future.
The proportion of gonorrhea cases with resistance to the antibiotic recommended to treat the disease, cefixime, rose from 4 percent in 2009 to 9 percent in 2010.
The ECDC report follows a warning from the World Health Organisation that virtually untreatable forms of drug-resistant gonorrhea were spreading around the world.
Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection which, if left untreated, can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancies, stillbirths, severe eye infections in babies, and infertility in men and women.
It is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world and is most prevalent in South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
In the United States alone, the number of cases is estimated at about 700,000 a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The emergence of drug-resistant gonorrhea is caused by unregulated access to and overuse of antibiotics, which help fuel genetic mutations within the bacteria.
"Public health experts and clinicians need to be aware of the current critical situation and should be vigilant for treatment failures," Sprenger said in a statement.
Experts say the best way to reduce the risk of even greater resistance developing - beyond the urgent need to develop new drugs - is to rapidly and accurately diagnose the disease and then treat it with combinations of two or more types of antibiotics at the same time.
This technique is used in the treatment of some other infections like tuberculosis in an attempt to make it more difficult for the bacteria to learn how to overcome the drugs.
The ECDC's sexually transmitted infections report covered data and trends on five STIs - syphilis, congenital syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) - in the EU and European Economic Area from 1990 to 2010.
It found diverging trends in sexually transmitted diseases across Europe, with a rapidly increasing trend for chlamydia and slightly decreasing trends for gonorrhea and syphilis.
Genital chlamydia infections are caused by Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria which can irreversibly damage a woman's reproductive organs.
Although the disease is easily treated with antibiotics, infections can remain undiagnosed because many patients - 70 percent of women and 50 percent of men - have no symptoms and so are unaware they are carrying and passing on the infection.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox's Aliens shooter, is still very much on, but won't be arriving this year. When it does hit, there will be a DS version as well though, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford tells Kotaku.
Colonial Marines was first announced in 2006, then slated for a 2008 ship date. Later that was pushed back by retailer listings to mid-2009. But Pitchford said the game won't be coming this year.
He did say that along with working on Borderlands and Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox is also working on two other yet-to-be-announced titles.
And the rumored DS version of Aliens: Colonial Marines? It's real but not being worked on by Gearbox, Pitchford says. It sounds like WayForward Technologies are indeed working on what they have called their spiritual follow-up to Contra 4.


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A Magic Formation Dynamic Theme
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Dynamic Theme
Each PlayStation®3 journey starts with the ever-evolving XrossMediaBar user interface ("XMB™" for short). But each PS3™ journey is like no other, and this dynamic theme perfectly complements the PS3™ experience, so download it today to customise your XMB™ Menu and begin your PS3™ journey.
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3) Scroll to the desired dynamic theme and select "Apply".
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The Cape Tribulation headland is where the Daintree Rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef, these UNESCO World Heritage Sites offer lots to see and do for visitors who love to reconnect with nature and explore further.
Immerse yourself in a real-life Jurassic Park where dinosaur-like birds still roam free. The lush rainforest thrives with wildlife, history and 1200 square kilometers of green wilderness, making it one of the most complex ecosystems in the world. Take me to the Daintree Rainforest.
The terrain is rugged and untouched making it perfect for spotting the elusive cassowary. You can even see fresh water turtles, forest dragons and the Ulysses butterflies.
The custodians of the region, the Kuku Yalanji people have called this area home for over 50,000 years. Today, descendants look after the land and practice traditional hunting and gathering methods. You can take a tour with local Indigenous guides to learn more about the rainforest and the reef and what it means to the traditional owners.
Swing through the Daintree Rainforest canopy on a zipline, kayak along the clear protected waters or join a guided walk to get acquainted with peppermint stick insects and ancient plants and ferns. And then venture further beyond Cape Tribulation in a four-wheel-drive to discover the Bloomfield Falls and beyond.


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Sackboy® is back − and he's brought along new friends!
PlayStation's most imaginative franchise, LittleBigPlanet™, is back with a new cast of playable plush characters in the biggest handcrafted adventure yet!
Three all-new hand-stitched heroes will completely change the way you play…
All the new characters are, like Sackboy, fully customizable and there will be plenty of quirky new costumes to collect in the game so you can express your own individuality.
Speaking of Sackboy - what about him? Well, our favorite knitted knight has been equipped with an all-new climbing ability and loads of brand-new power-ups including the amazing Pumpinator!
In LittleBigPlanet™ 3, explore a world filled with creativity as you explore all corners of the Imagisphere, meet the inhabitants of the mysterious planet Bunkum and face the nefarious Newton.
Discover endless surprises that the LittleBigPlanet™ Community have created and shared for you to enjoy, with new levels and games to play every day. Then if you're feeling inspired, flex your creative muscles with the powerful and intuitive customization tools, to bring your own imagination to life in LittleBigPlanet™ 3.
LittleBigPlanet™ 3 is a perfect showcase for PS4™, featuring innovative support for the DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller, stunning 1080p graphics and the ability to broadcast creations and gameplay clips with a touch of the SHARE button.
With Sackboy® or Sackgirl® and their new friends, the journey is just the start.
4-1 Players
2-4 Network Players
Network Play
Has Downloadable Content
User-Generated Content
Vibration Function
Remote Play
©2014 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. LittleBigPlanet is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Developed by Sumo Digital Ltd


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Around 4000 BC, a great migration began from Southeast
Asia across open ocean to settle the Pacific Islands.
Many researchers conclude that Tonga and Samoa were
settled around 1300 BC and from here colonization
voyages were launched to the Marquesas Islands in
about 200 BC. Over the next several centuries, great
migrations to colonize all the Tahitian islands
and virtually the entire South Pacific took place.
This area of the Pacific ocean is now called the
Polynesian Triangle and includes Hawaii
to the north, Easter Island to the southeast, and
New Zealand to the southwest. As a result of these
migrations, the native Hawaiians and the Maoris
of New Zealand all originate from common ancestors
and speak a similar language collectively known
as Maohi.
The era of European exploration began in the 1500s
when ships without outriggers began
to arrive. In 1521, Magellan spotted the atoll of
Pukapuka in what is now the Tuamotu Atolls and,
in 1595, the Spanish explorer Mendaña visited
Fatu Hiva Island in the Marquesas. More than 170
years later, Captain Samuel Wallis and the H.M.S.
Dolphin was the first to visit the island of
Tahiti during his journey to discover terra australis
incognita, a mythical landmass below the equator
thought to balance the northern hemisphere. Wallis
named the island of Tahiti King George III
Island and claimed it for England. Soon after
and unaware of Wallis arrival, French navigator
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, landed on the opposite
side of Tahiti and claimed it for the King of France.
European fascination with the islands grew as news
spread of both the mutiny of Capt. William Blighs
crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty and of tales
of tropical beauty and the warm nature of the Tahitian
people. Knowledge of Tahiti and the South Pacific
continued to grow as Capt. James Cook brought back
thousands of illustrations of Tahitian flora and
fauna as well as the first map of the islands of
the Pacific. In the 1800s, the arrival of whalers,
British missionaries, and French military expeditions
forever changed the way of life on Tahiti and created
a French-British rivalry for control of the islands.
The Pomare Dynasty ruled Tahiti until 1847 when
Queen Pomare finally accepted French protection
of the islands of Tahiti and Moorea.
In 1880, following the queens death, King
Pomare V was persuaded to cede Tahiti and most of
its dependencies to France. In 1957, all the islands
of Tahiti were reconstituted as the overseas French
territory called French Polynesia. Since 1984, a
statue of autonomy was implemented and, in 1998,
French Polynesia became an overseas country with
greater self-governing powers through their own
Assembly and President. With these powers, the country
is now negotiating international agreements with
foreign states in matters of commerce and investment.
The Tahitians of the modern era maintain their
heritage and traditions of their Maohi ancestors.
Oral history recounts the adventures of gods and
warriors in colorful legends where javelin throwing
was the sport of the gods, surf riding was favored
by the kings, and Aito strongmen competed in outrigger
canoe races and stone lifting as a show of pure
strength. The Tahitian culture is rich in the islands, welcoming visitors from all over the world. Marae
The open-air sanctuaries called Marae were once
the center of power in ancient Polynesia. These
large, sacred, stone structures, akin to temples, hosted
the important events of the times including the
worship of the gods, peace treaties, celebrations
of war, and the launch of voyages to colonize distant
Heiva i Tahiti
In celebration of ancient traditions and competitions,
the annual Heiva festival has been the most important
event in Tahiti for the past 122 years. For visitors,
there is no better place in the world to be during
July than surrounded by this pure display of Polynesian
festivity. Tahitians gather in Papeete from many
islands to display their crafts, compete in ancient
sporting events, and recreate traditional and elaborate
dance performances.
The word tattoo originated in French Polynesia. The legend
of Tohu, the god of tattoo, describes painting all
the oceans fish in beautiful colors and patterns.
In Polynesian culture, tattoos have long been considered
signs of beauty, and in earlier times were ceremoniously
applied when reaching adolescence. Music
and Dance
The beauty, drama, and power of todays Tahitian
dance testify to its resilience in Polynesian culture.
In ancient times, dances were directly linked with
all aspects of life. One would dance for joy, to
welcome a visitor, to pray to a god, to challenge
an enemy, and to seduce a mate. Dance is still accompanied
by traditional musical instruments such as thunderous
drums, conch shells, and harmonic nasal flutes.
Modern Tahitian music is enjoyable as well, with
a sound that often blends Polynesian rhythm and
Western melody. Handcrafts
The skills of the ancestors artistry are
kept sacred and passed on by both the mamas,
the guardians of tradition and the matriarchs of
Tahitian society as well as by skilled craftsmen.
Items include weaving, quilting, wooden sculptures
and bowls, drums, tapa, carvings, and hand-dyed
Centuries before the Europeans concluded that the
earth was round, the great voyagers of Polynesia
had already mastered the Pacific Ocean. Aboard massive,
double-hulled outrigger canoes called tipairua,
they navigated by stars and winds. Today, the canoe
still plays a role in everyday Tahitian life and
is honored in colorful races and festivals throughout
the islands. Flowers
Tropical flowers seem to be everywhere on the islands,
particularly in the hair of Tahitians. Hibiscus
blossoms are worn behind the ear or braided with
palm fronds into floral crowns. The Tiare Tahiti flower, which can only be found in Tahiti, is used in leis for greeting arriving visitors
and returning family. Tradition holds that, if taken,
women and men wear a flower behind their left ear.
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I admit it. I am an Apple guy. My home computer is a 2007 Mac Pro. My last three computers were Apples. I own three versions of the iPod. I use my iPad several times each day. But I do not own an iPhone. At least not yet.
What this all means is that I do not use Internet Explorer. IE has not been available on Macs for probably ten years or more. I do occasionally use it at work, when I am forced to. This also means that there are portions of the B.S.A. website that I cannot access from my home computer since you have to use IE to get to them. For example, advancement recording.
This has always been a pet peeve of mine. Why in this day and age would a such a large organization create a website, or portions of a site, that are useable by only one browser? This makes absolutely no sense to me, unless Microsoft paid them to do it. Hmmmm…
When I heard this past weekend that their is a major fault with Internet Explorer that could allow a hacker to remotely take over a computer I thought of the B.S.A. websites, and had a chuckle. When I heard on the radio this morning that the Homeland Security office is advising people not to use IE I had another chuckle. Thousands of Scouting families could be putting their computers at risk due to a flaw in the Microsoft program.
Granted, from the sounds of it this risk should not apply to the Scouting websites. But could another fault be found that could make using those sites a risk? It seems that IE has had more then it fair share of problems over the years. Once again I ask, why would anyone tie their website to a browser that has had so many problems, and a browser that is not usable to many home computers?
I do not plan to ever buy a Windows based computer for my home which means until the B.S.A. opens their whole website to all browsers I will not be able to access portions of it. If the B.S.A. does not feel that my access to their complete website is important, then so be it. I will continue to chuckle every time I hear about a new security risk about IE.


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Lady E-Hawks Down Storm Lake On Road
STORM?LAKE – It was back on Dec. 14 when the Lady E-Hawks of Emmetsburg came up with a Lakes Conference win, but Coach Anne Feine's ballclub picked up their second win in league play for the season on Friday night.
Emmetsburg put up a defensive gem in the final quarter to earn a 60-43 win over Storm Lake to earn the sweep over the Tornadoes for the season.
Emmetsburg would take the early lead in the contest, jumping out to a nine-point, 20-11 lead at the end of the first quarter. The two teams would play evenly in the second quarter, but the nine-point lead would hold up for the Lady E-Hawks as both teams scored 13 points in the quarter for the 33-24 Emmetsburg lead at the half.
The second half started with a continuation of the play from the second quarter, with the two clubs trading buckets, but Storm Lake would outscore Emmetsburg, 16-14 to cut the lead to 47-40 at the start of the final stanza.
But Emmetsburg was up to the challenge. The Lady E-Hawks put their heads down and played some tough defense, taking away Storm Lake's shots and offensive rebounds. On the other end of the court, the Lady E-Hawks were hitting their shots and getting the rebounds to slowly edge away to a 17-point, 60-43 win over Storm Lake after holding the Tornadoes to three points in the final quarter.
Ashton Connelly would rack up 20 points in the victorious effort, while Alexa Naig added 15 points and Hadley Egland tallied 10 points. Whitney Kibbie would add seven points and Michaela Rehm capped the scoring with six points.


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Interview with a nutritarian: Bonnie
Bonnie suffered from the physical and emotional pain of cystic acne since her teenage years. She tried just about every medication available to relieve the symptoms, but to no avail. Then she made the decision to replace the standard American diet with high-nutrient foods. Today Bonnie's skin is clear, except for some scarring, and she's now a passionate advocate of nutritarian eating! Welcome to Disease Proof, Bonnie.
What was your life like before discovering Dr. Fuhrman's nutritarian eating-style?
I was a typical junk food eater. I was always relatively thin but suffered constantly from cystic acne; the kind that hurt when I talked or moved my jaw. I loved white flour products, processed foods, and my biggest love was cheese. Pizza was my food of choice. I probably ate pizza at least three times a week. Unfortunately, acne was the price I paid for eating the standard American diet.
I'd been seeing dermatologists since I was 16-years-old. I was on countless acne drugs: Benzoyle Peroxide, Tetracycline, Doxycycline, Minocycline, Duac, Erythromycin, Differin, Tazorac, Retin-A, and different birth control pills to stabilize hormones. The next step was to take Accutane, but the side effects scared me so I thought of it as a last resort.
My doctor always told me that diet had absolutely nothing to do with my acne. I felt depressed, and my relationships and self esteem suffered greatly, because I felt I had no control over it. I became obsessed with desperately trying to find a solution. I didn't know what I could do to fix it, and it was so frustrating. I knew in the grand scheme of things it was not a life or death situation, but for a girl in her twenties, it was mortifying. I also dealt with migraine headaches, severe acid reflux, bad allergies (hay fever), asthma, chronic bronchitis, constipation, high cholesterol and borderline high blood pressure.
In 2006 I read Eat To Live and joined Dr. Fuhrman's Member Center. I thought his eating plan made so much sense. It was such a far cry from what I was used to, and for the first five years I had a hard time getting into it. Because I didn't have weight to lose or health problems (so I thought), it was easy to keep going back to my old ways of eating.
In 2011 I started eating nutritatian all the time and didn't deviate. [My motivation was having my son in February 2011.] I stuck with it, and I've been consistently compliant since March 2011. My skin is now completely clear, and I'm on no prescription acne medications!
How do you feel now?
I finally feel in control of my health and my acne. I know what I can do to keep my skin clear and stay healthy. I know that if I eat cheese (the worst!) or sugar and white flour I will break out. Even if I have it just once, I usually end up with a blemish. If I continue eating the standard American diet my skin reverts back to a diseased state.
I also feel so much better! I never have acid reflux or migraines anymore, and my allergies, asthmas and bronchitis have disappeared. I lowered my cholesterol, and I also lost about 20 pounds in the process. [I never even knew I had weight to lose.] At 5'2" I now weigh about 103 lbs. I'm happy to be passing this healthy lifestyle onto my son.
In a nutshell, what has nutritarian eating done for you?
Nutritarian eating has become a passion of mine. I'm not perfect but each day I make small tweaks to keep striving to get better. This lifestyle has helped me feel more in control of my health and less dependent on the corrupt healthcare system in this country. I want nothing to do with Big Pharma or insurance companies. I want to make sure I never have to rely on greedy corporations for my health or the health of my family. This lifestyle has been amazing in terms of how little I am sick and all of the money I no longer spend on the ten different prescriptions I used to be on. I'm hoping to instill the love of this food into my son and my husband.
Congratulations Bonnie on getting your health back and your beautiful smile!
Thanks to Diseaseproof.com.


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Sen. Mike Lee: Saying "No" is Not Enough
In this interview with Peter Robinson, Utah Senator Mike Lee says he doesn't believe Ronald Reagan should be forgotten, but that Conservatives need to look to the future for new, innovative policy prescriptions. "Uncommon Knowledge" is produced by the Hoover Institution.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... he sided with the tea party against the establishment but now he's being hailed as a central figure ... in a new and unifying re form of conservatism ... from Washington DC the junior Senator from Utah Mike Lee ... uncommon Knowledge now ... the the the the the ... I ... likely grew up in Utah received his undergraduate degree from Brigham young University in nineteen ninety four ... and then graduated from the BYU law school in nineteen ninety seven ... Mr. Lee's clerk for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ... served as an assistant us attorney in Salt Lake City ... and practiced law with large firms in both Salt Lake City and Washington DC ... in the tea party year of twenty ten ... Mr. Lee was elected to the United States Senate ... on the Republican ticket ... defeating his Democratic opponent by a margin of almost two to one ... in recent months to quote New York Times columnist crossed out that ... quote ... the junior Senator from Utah has prevented ... from meeting the de fund Obamacare move into basically becoming ... a one stop shop for provocative reform ideas ... these proposals are more interesting and more promising ... than almost anything Republicans campaigned on ... in twenty twelve ... Senator we welcome ... thank you ... the need for conservative reform ... it's hard to believe you said in a speech at the Heritage Foundation late last year ... but by election day twenty sixteen we will be about as far from Reagan's election ... has Reagan's election was from ... the day clothes quo ... it's time to get over Ronald Reagan ... certainly not know for me it's time to move forward with an agenda that meets our needs ... the needs of today the states are always changing ... and when we think about the fact that twenty sixteen will be of now about as far away from Reagan's election as Reagan's Luttrell was from DJ ... preemies is the fact that we have to ... constantly be looking for ways to reach more agenda ... or ... um rematch euro National review after the election Barack Obama he writes the GOP quote ... was consumed by a bitter debate of the legacy of George W Bush conservatives came to regard the fight ... against federal overspending Obamacare and the government ... has nearly the entirety ... of the conservative ... program ... we are elected in twenty ... ten ... does that feel accurate EU that the Republican party ... and this as it was represented here in the Senate and over in the house ... was the party essentially no note Obama ... in many respects yes and with good reason you we always have to be mindful of the need to resist the kind of government we don't want ... that's been something that has ... marked American history from the very beginning you know going all the way back to seventeen seventy three when some American Patriots port the ship in Boston Harbor ... and it cost crates of English tea into the water in symbolic protest ... against the kind of ... national government that did not want a London-based national government that was taxing them too much ... it was reviewing them quite impressed but he was so far from the people that was slow to respond to needs ... you know it it took us fourteen years to get from that moment ... until ... we got to Philadelphia so Boston was where we started protesting against a governor we didn't want in Philadelphia fourteen years later ... I have having ... declared fought for one our independence fourteen years later in Philadelphia ... we embrace the kind of government we did well ... so my point is that we will continue to have our boss moments will always have felt ... an as needs will arrive were to arise where we need to push back against a candidate with a walk ... but we also have to start having our Philadelphia moments too and that's what this concert of reform agenda is all about okay I just I want them turn to the reforms pose now but ... I just wanna make sure that point stands out very clearly so ... it's important element in your thinking I'd take it ... that is to say there are times when saying no is necessary and valuable ... in itself ... you would be one of the conservative reformers as of the gutter ball longer in the first years of of ... was important stand up ... in those first years it's important to do that and and it will continue to be important to do that ... it's not enough ... we have to do more we have to do in addition to protesting at the counter but we don't want when to increase the kind of we do will go ... one more reference your heritage speech that you get with last year you drew a comparison between the present day ... and the late seventies and early ... eighties ... nineteen seventy six the conservative candidate Ronald Reagan tries to rest ... the Republican presidential nomination from the establishment candidate Gerald Ford ... this is the point you make Wigan last four years later ... in nineteen eighty he grasps the nomination and the presidency itself ... Senator Mike Lee quote ... the difference between nineteen seventy six nineteen eighty the heart ... her role in the work ... of translating conservatism is bedrock principles ... into new ... and innovative ... policy before ... that's which are about now ... yes exactly ... you know it in nineteen seventy six the conservative movement in America found ... conservative leader for the ages in row breaking ... but we feel soo we still failed to win ... an election ... in that year ... when we still failed ... to get the Conservative leader for the ages in office in nineteen seventy six ... what really changed between nineteen seventy six in nineteen eighty when we finally got that conservative leader for the ages of like it ... was that we developed an affirmative ... policy agenda a reform agenda and that's what we need now ... It's an artifact is the first to win the argument and then you win the election ... yes unlike the same idea ok ... Senator Mike these reforms ... Sen Lee once again your Heritage Foundation speech quo ... I submit that the great challenge of our generation ... is America's growing crisis of stagnation ... and sclerosis ... crisis that comes down to a shortage ... of opportunities ... so before you for your three forms you define the problem ... and it's ... overwhelmingly in economic problems are you ... sitting there guess ... thats an economic problem and it manifests itself really at every ... level on the economic ladder ... among the pour it shows up as immobility ... these people who very often are trapped in poverty by government policies ... I plan not those who are in poverty but the ... government policies that are trapping them there ... the in the middle class you see a degree of insecurity were people ... whenever they find that they've achieved to go a little bit of additional income if there ever able to get to that was in the first place ... the find that once they have that additional income it's been swallowed up ... buying a ... taxes ... by higher prices brought about by ... the way he inflation smoke resulting from ... our monetary policy and some of the resulting from over regulation ... of Meenal costing ... the American economy to trillion dollars a year and that of course gets past downstream to the consumer ... and that the top of the economic ladder you see it at different kind of ... problem ... also created by government ... in that you've got some ... people were held in place at the top of the economic ladder ... by cronies privilege ... having climbed to the top of the economic ladder themselves they are willing to pull up the ladder ... from behind them making it more difficult for others ... to get to where they've gone ... and some of these the same people are holding placed artificially by the government for coverage of subsidies ... and the kinds of regulations ... that create natural barriers on entry SuperTicket on the cronyism can you ... let me ... try for a couple of examples here ... of Big Agriculture says written into the agriculture bill the cheers of the kind of thing you have a munch or short and it's one manifestation of a quarry in some cases you got should replace the word that keeps the share price is going to score ... yet YouTube cut subsidies sometimes you get price supports ... import restrictions and so forth ... all those things tend to choke out competition ... and they tend to ... pass on higher ... stock prices to consumers ... two Americans were made for first when they have to subsidize the production of first place ... and again when they pay for ... those products that the store that are made with sugar ... I answer yes that's a good example ... okay let's take ... a few of the reforms is to propose Tuesday these are all merely specific reforms or puppies to the tothe another dimension ... you have introduced is a piece of legislation ... um ... the family fairness and opportunity tax reform Act ... the centerpieces which is I understand it is a twenty five hundred dollars tax credit for each child under sixteen ... the credit would reduce what parent so in income taxes dollar for dollar for dollar ... and if that amount drops to zero ... what they owe in payroll taxes ... is that fair guess that an accurate description okay ... so ... in all the vast ... federal tax code one that change ... well it gets rid of two significant problems with their current tax code one is the marriage tax penalty which many Americans are familiar with ... another one is the narrator describes that carries ... marriage tax penalty where ... up couple ... of both drink some income he might ... in many instances end up paying ... a higher tax rate because they're married and filing jointly even if it were not ... but the other problem with the tax code that most Americans are not familiar with ... but the nice be addressed that addressed by this though ... is the parent tax penalty ... he seemed one Americans ... pay into more senior entitlement programs ... up working parents ... do that twice in the pay into it twice ... once when they actually get their paycheck and pay their taxes and again is their incurring ... the very substantial costs ... associated with raising their children ... because we have a pay as you go system ... you know it's really today's children will be tomorrow's workers in tomorrow's workers will be funding ... their retirement benefits of ... tomorrow's retirees ... and so you know of our current twelve buried modest estimate ... conducted by the US Department aquaculture announcement ... a lot of people have ... characterized it as an ... incomplete ... and inadequate ... the costs of about Yield ... three or four thousand hours to raise a child to maturity ... so up of married couple with four children ... aam ... it ends up paying well over a million dollars aam e in child rearing expenses that history ought ... to be for college doesn't take into account in higher education expenses ... also doesn't take into account lost wages and things like that so assuming it's a three hundred thousand or ... a pre trial estimate that one point two million dollars that they incur ... and yet if they are otherwise I can actually situated to another couple that has no children ... other than the first couple is is really paying into the system twice ... because are raising ... those children they're paying roughly the same moment taxes assuming they have the same income ... of the same mortgage the same ... pattern is for is terrible contributions ... that there be a few differences but for the most part ... still have a somewhat similar ... I've tax situation ... it but we need to offset his penalty when it comes to Americans ... are working parents ... because there right now ... paying enforce your untimely programs bikes so that ... families the reasons for kids they're paying payroll taxes that ... go into social security trust fund right now there are also raising the workers ... who will support ... the childless couple in their old age the tech ... got ... now ... here's his push back on and you know Patrick ... Brennan in National review online quote ... who would end up paying more under Senator Lees plan ... single childless relatively affluent people especially those who live in high tax jurisdictions ... because your plan would eliminate the deduction for state and local income taxes ... it's a big tax cut for having children clothes quo ... so ... the argument would be ... that just as ... the Liberals use the tax code for their kind of social engineering ... Michael E ... pro family has a particular vision of ... the American family ... once he is the tax code for his kind of social engineer ... yet that's not fair characterization does not appear argue that the reason why is this is ... just trying to offset a penalty ... that parents ... face today ... this is it still doesn't get rid of the penalty entirely it's just there to ... offset to some extent ... it whether you like it or not ... our senior entitlement programs ... today social Security and Medicare ... are paid for on this this ecosystem ... meaning that tomorrow's ... retirees will be paid for older have these benefits funded ... bike tomorrow's workers ... today's children ... and as long as that remains the case ... we need to adjust our tax code to reflect that reality to make sure that we are not one fairly taxing parents ... gone ... the working families flexibility Act ... and the Transportation empowerment Act was to the flexibility at first ... just briefly what would that act accomplish ... and why does that ... okay so ... a government worker today ... I can have an inch away the flexibility that comes ... from an arrangement whereby if a worker puts in forty hours in the workweek ... but let's say oh ... he's really busy on Monday and Tuesday ... they can take a little but last time ... all over the last less time in the office on Thursday and Friday maybe go home early and spend more time with the kids were ... back on arrangement is not only permissible it's commonplace ... in big government ... workplace ... but our federal labor laws right now make that ... kind arrangement basically impossible in the private sector you you can't have the same ... flex time arrangement in the private sector ... and this is wrong ... if it's good enough for government workers ... it is up to be something that we make available to private sector workers is well this is about ... allowing America's moms and dads to spend more time with their children ... and and and also to ... work in a way that more appropriately reflects the demands of work ... as the demands of work like wax and wane during the course of any one week or month and I'd ... do ... you make that sound ... so transparently ... sensible ... been trying to figure out who are you bumping into here what what are the political interests that would be would oppose that out ... okay so it's ... one of Labor's responsible for the regulations that it never a problem here yes the ANC this is part of a problem with Washington is that Washington has gotten so mired in to the intricate details right on the lives of ... our working men and women ... on the ground level you know people who were not ... working a he in any capacity that makes them have a logical them access to the federal government ... the Congress is still insisting ... on micromanaging the way that they work ... in so it's really just inertia ... is the fact that this is the way we've done things for ... decades so ... we're stuck in this unless or until somebody changes the policy of ... the Transportation empowerment Act again ... briefly what would it do and what does that ... pick the Transportation empowerment Act ... what ... all while state governments ... to ... do more with less money ... relative to the development of their transportation infrastructure ... in a nutshell it would take that the current federal gasoline tax which is eighteen point four cents per gallon ... the lower at three point seven cents per gallon ... good portion of that eighteen point four cents per gallon that would remain in the federal government's hands after this ... past ... fall back three point seven cents per gallon ... would be there for the maintenance of ... the aid of federal highway system the interstate ... highway network ... the rest of that money could then be collected ... by the states and spent by the states ... without the federal regulatory delivered over the difference between in other words is to get a shot at about fifteen cents a gallon gas ... the difference between the eighteen point four cents per gallon in the three point seven cents per gallon what would then be something that could be collected and spent entirely by the states ... without the federal regulatory overlay ... for instance the Davis Bacon wage requirements in all the other federal regulations ... that make all these ... federal transportation projects a lot more difficult time consuming and expensive ... the net result of all this is that we would get more roads ... and more bridges in some cases more transit systems ... developed for less money ... and they could be developed faster and more effectively more efficiently ... this in turn would ultimately lead to an increase in the supply of affordable housing more Americans could live closer to where they work ... because this transportation money would be spent more effectively more efficiently ... all of the bulk of the premise is that the states can spend it better than the fact it's ... got and it should never be going to Washington in the first place ... especially given that what Washington does it ... take the money to Washington ... runs for Washington's filter skims a lot of money off the top and sends it back to the state's what all these conditions attached to ... conditions that make this money ... not go nearly as far as I could go is if you just left in this case to begin with my co sponsors did you get for you know I don't remember atop my head like this but it was a ninety nine today was not ninety nine ... the distance to be quite popular ... among Republicans ... and for reasons that I have yet entirely understand ... it is less than a wildly popular among Democrats ... there is a lot of comfort in this town ... with leaving things in the hands of the federal government ... notwithstanding the fact that we have butchered program after program after program ... and as we have ... concentrated in Washington D C all these programs that really should never ... have been national programs to begin with ... a syndicate ... which time the conservative reform here ... suppose I sees you will ... all right ... on the flex that you yourself said ... it's puzzling to explain why the federal government is in the business of making regulations ... but a deeper re form just ... saying that ... Department lever on is you ought not to be making regulations ... that affect ... workplaces ... the biggest possible to know the words from the conservative point of view it almost sounds as though you are making ... offering reforms that you yourself consider quite modest get ... it ... here is the federal Leviathan ... and here we have Mike Lee ... who in his first two years got a reputation as a tea party ... are ... vehemently anti government ... and when it comes to the legislation reforms likely is actually introducing ... the Roman bought the stake how come ... but if you've got an elephant in you want to eat that often you can't fault the open goal of once again taken a bite out of time one wonders we can do that in no way that still shows or cold callers ... as concerts that doesn't require us to put on pastels and were the difference between conservatives ... and ... people were not conservative ... aam but we need to do a step at a time ... and in these are very digestible pieces of legislation Beery digestible reforms ... that could move forward sometime in the next few years and put ... that gain the support of a majority of of of the members of both houses of Congress ... so that's why it's important to do this ... ill Abraham Lincoln said that ... the most important function of government ... up new was to clear the paths of laudable pursuit to lift ... artificial tweets from the shoulders ... of all ... of a and does provide for ... a fierce store ... it in in the race of life ... and that's really what we're trying to do here here and many of these artificial waits on the shoulders of Americans ... are placed ... on the shoulders of Americans by the federal government ... were looking for ways that we can start removing some of those ways we might appeal to remove all of them and maybe all wants ... we can remove one or two of them here or there ... that's a good start ... see you're also making decisions about your career is in the United States and ... I think I'm putting this due ... to the view all ... of ... the old that used to be the case but the vessels that around here that the old ... choices center estimate as to whether to be ... whether the deal were course ... oh horror show goers ... and ... in office ... just over two years ... you are not railing against the federal government are not just railing against the federal government ... you have said ... I wanna get things done in this chain ... I wanna move legislation SEC right ... yes that's fair to say I like the weather well I would say that dumb ... I reject the premise of the question you have to choose ... up whether or not to um ... you have to choose necessarily between ... BdB ... painting in in in bold strokes that show where you want to go long term ... and painting with smaller more Keystone strokes the show where you want to go right now I think you can do both at the same time I think you can walk and chew gum simultaneously ... and I think this is an approach that an attempt to do that ... you compare Dr ... quoted your speech at the Heritage Foundation the beginning you talk about ... you can turn ... into days reform conservatism ... with a rake in engine ... and here's what occurs to me particularly as we think about twenty sixteen of the Republican candidate running for president ... that ... the Rincon agenda ... by the time he came into office was just ... sweeping ... and ... we've been talking about domestic matters ... he said in place of domestic agenda ... tax cuts will impact legislation ... that launched a quarter of a century ... of economic growth ... the rig in recovery that makes the current recovery looks so weak so tepid ... and ... I grant you your argument that if you're serious about getting things done in United States Congress you gotta take a bite bite bite ... but put all of this together ... and I don't see that ... it's enough so to speak ... for conservatives to run in twenty sixteen years not ... an embrace of new growth and new opportunity for the American economy which ... you is a conservative I know you're embrace of free markets and don't you believe that free markets can get formal for the port ... and the federal government ever can ... so what's missing here you're saying ... you are saying ... this is what I've ... I as one member the United States Senate ... has attempted to offer ... let's keep talking these conservatives need to continue ... to continue the conversations though which are sent to ... yes so the first all this is nowhere near complete writing never intended to suggest that ... no one I propose so far is a complete package of conservative ... reform proposals ... that can deter all the ailments of the federal government ... it is a good start ... and doubt ... what we were still moving forward with a lot more but ... just as importantly what we're trying to do here is to to connect ... on a consistent ... threat of conservative thought ... through all these proposals and the other proposals that will fall so that the others that have not yet been introduced ... I'd to connect them together in to help to what Reagan did ... which is to help ... beat the average voter out there understand why is that conservative principles will be good for them ... why is that conservative principles will help the pour ... and white is that they will help the middle class ... that's what Reagan did so effectively and that's what set in motion the sequence of events that led to that the greatest economic recovery ... on that that we've seen in recent memory ... and that's what we need again today but the common thread is conservative principles ... connecting up the middle class in the port ... and helping them understand how this benefits them ... okay ... so my CME's message to conservatives is not simply ... not that it's all that simple but here are four pieces of legislation more to follow ... this is how it's done ... yet this is the most part can be ... a mummy ask if I made a comment on a few ... divisions among conservatives among the GOP ... that if the ... GOP is ... have a serious chance of ... capturing the Senate moving on to capture the White House ... need to be dealt with ... by the way ... if you don't think these divisions are as deep as the press tends to suggest ... say that to a few ... years one ... Kim straw soul Wall Street Journal this is just last week with his new dividing line in the conservative movement ... between a majority would like to win against President Obama ... and handful would like to win some scalps ... and you know what she's talking about to start but the government shutdown ... and one ... and then the vote ... moving from a simple ... both Mike and I don't know the terms here but ... cloture vote to go to both were at each center had been on the record for raising the debt ceiling ... and Dom you joined Court recently and believe you supported him get some ... comments to press afterwards you were in favor of or approved of ... Senator Cruise his insistence ... on each Senator going on the record ... to raise the debt ceiling ... and it's been suggested in the press that the effect of that ... oh the principal effect was to embarrass ... the minority leader Mitch McConnell who faces a primary challenge in Kentucky and a pretty serious apparently ... Democratic challenger in the general ... and ... his ... of the minority ... deputy minority leader John Cornyn of Texas who Piper wanted ... a Gugle around ... look of what to folks have against John Cornyn of Texas and a Texan I did not turn said John Cornyn has a ninety eight point five ... conservative rating ... soul ... so what about all this constant what one seems ... reading the press on aam California most of time this constant kerfuffle ... in the United States Senate ... among Republicans ... okay so we all know you're going on eighteen questions instead of with the matter and are trading close to the men were probably ... aren't so as to the first point I e I e ... here again reject the premise ... of the question that one must choose between ... on the one hand voting according to one's conscience in ... a in on the other hand of winning elections ... would ... policy leads to put politics ... especially if you're consistent in the reasons for your voting pattern ... the cell ... I don't think that it's Oakwood idea for us as Republicans or as conservatives ... to water down our message ... work to change the way we vote ... not just to make it look like there is less contrast I think what we need is more contrast rather the last we need bold colors not pastels ... I think when we paint with pastels ... the distinction becomes blurry becomes hazy and we lose elections so ... you're the default position the Senate from your point of you Auntie ... of the Center on the one where ... one can fix it looked when we all have those not in the election certificate so we're we're all like to buy our own constituencies ... we all have ... that the right to have our vote count just as ... much as any other members of ... and so none of the stopgap to surrender his or her ... closely held views on how best to cast a particular focus ... and nowhere is that more true than in some of the areas that when you're talking no one knew whether or not we ought to have three ... of ... a cloture vote for example as we have recently in approaching the debt ceiling ... we as Republicans have made a big deal over the fact that Harry Reid has ... eroded ... the the ... but how or ... that the minority party has ... as a result of the filibuster rule in the the cloture procedures that we have ... when we complain about that ... up on the one hand who when that is eroded ... but then we fail to exercise the more we exercise in such a way that ... everyone of us basically votes to proceed to cloture ... everyone of us ... up reasons we were asked to do ... it to just let the Pope go ... aam of ... everyone else who was basically asked to vote ... for cloture ... by giving up the right to demand a separate cloture vote ... I don't agree with that especially given what the deal we made out of the fact that it's been undermined ... especially in the context of a debt ceiling increase where working as to suspend the debt ceiling for ... well over a year this is a lot of money that were talking about ... the American people are concerned about this the American people understand that ... sure perhaps the debt ceiling has to be erased but we need to put in place some kinds of reforms ... Becky will not leave us in a position where we ... will have to just be returning and doing exactly the same thing in another twelve to eighteen months ... we need to start to fix the problem ... rather than just reflexively raising the debt ceiling ... over and over and over again ... so I'll what I saw this coming out I wasn't ... willing ... to vote ... up for cloture on a debt ceiling increase that had absolutely no expanding reform attached to it ... if I wasn't willing to vote yes on cloture I certainly wasn't willing to grant unanimous consent ... to ... the fore go that well that's just the same as voting yes ... for cloture ... okay so that's a matter of principle and consistency ... yes ... and and I and I think that the Newsweek is a hard decision well it was not a hard decision for me all of ... it and especially considering affected just a few months ago a lot of the same ... leaders in Washington ... told us that we need to forgo were cloture vote ... were telling us just a few months ago ... it's the debt ceiling that where we will focus our energy is the debt ceiling where we will really find simple about this notion ... that there is that the tea party that is within the Republican Party's Tea Party vs the snow ... there is always just a loser repo and well ... I think ... we can take it too far ... up ... that there will always be kind of bumped up like a gap ... aam ... there will a plea frequently be a gap between ... the party's base ... and its elected political leaders ... in right now I think that gap that golf is exactly the size and shape of a conservative reform agenda ... that's why we need the concert of reform agenda this can help ... bridge that gap fill that hole ... so that we can move forward ... on on a somewhat United front ... in pursuing this agenda because the entire divide between the establishment and the tea party ... comes down to one question ... how to respond to Barack Obama speech ... Bharti says voted down ... the establishment broadly speaking says well we may have to compromise here and that ... but as long as the sequester responding to Brock Obama should agenda that defied will persist ... that's right that's right it in in in the absence of a strategy in the absence of a unifying conservative reform agenda ... there will be a lot of paper ... that Ford will be filled it'll just be filled with ... a lot of contention within the party that won this really be good for the party ... Trina thought was something is positive thinking can I this is a party and hopeless one elections ... foreign policy two questions two quotations read the bill Kristol editor of the Weekly standard quo ... voting yes on the congressional resolution to use force against the Assad regime in Syria going back a couple months of this ... would be statesman like clothes quo ... Senator Mike Lee explaining why he opposed the congressional resolution to use force in Syria quote ... we cannot ask our men and women in uniform ... to engage in a military conflict that is not present a national security threat ... to the United States ... clothes quo ... and there you have the divide ... between the intervention a so called neoconservatives ... and ... and what ... Mike Lee ... how did you feel presenting a gutsy bet Senator Paul for example who says ... the invasion of Iraq was a ... terrible mistake ... would you go that far ... yet I don't think it's helpful for necessary to go to to to go that far I don't think it's hell for Nasser to go back to past conflicts but what I will say on this conflict ... is if you if you added to the quilt that you just read ... the rest of my analysis he would see that I went on to say that Moreover I you know I understand ... that there ... is a case can be made as to how this ... can end up in impacting American national security ... nonetheless ... we have to have an endgame in mind we have to be presented with ... something in which there isn't any gains as positive for us ... and ... I had ... never been or still have never been presented with ... I can plan relative to Syria ... that would show was so are really positive outcome ... for example we don't know a whole lot about ... what exactly would ... happen who exactly would take charge ... of a post Assad said Syria what a post Assad Syria be more ... or less hostile to the United States that really is an open question a question that was never answered by the administration that's that's wall when the reasons why ... I did not support the president's ... proposed plan to go into Syria ... okay so your point and Syria are your plan generally I think that help it open ... is ... not that you're opposed to the use of American force abroad ... you want to make sure that the administration knows what he's doing in your test would be that I think they can hurt you outline to test ... one is ... the ... whatever worsen air forces abroad to do ... must address the threat to the United States it's so yes we don't simply tried to we don't put our men and women in uniform and danger to do good ... they are there to defend the Republic is the correct yes yes right look we got was a lot of bad guys around the world ... a lot of lot of bad regimes that are doing bad things to put people ... of what we cannot ... op be in a position which were fighting every one of those bad regimes it simply will not work and test number two is ... we need to know ... we need to know the military objectives and how it will ... that's right ... it's right so there's gonna be a direct link to American national security a direct threat to American national security ... and of our plan for getting in and getting out ... that would enhance American national security without subjecting it to ... additional unnecessary threats ... last of these devices like to put you again two quotations the Wall Street Journal editorial page called ... no Republican would go for legislation that stifle economic growth ... promoted illegal immigration and added to the welfare rolls hit the essentially will do just that ... if they fail to pass comprehensive immigration before ... close call yourself voted against comprehensive immigration reform ... in the sand ... columnist Ann Coulter quote ... Democrats haven't won the hearts and minds of the American people to change the people ... the added millions of new Liberal voters to immigration so why are Republicans ... making fools of themselves ... to spot the Democrats three more touchdowns clothes quo ... now ... the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Colter are so inclined to be ... the ... reason is that a difference if nothing else but these are deep differences in the party the pro immigration and ... and ... and and with his anti immigration are secure the border first ... deep is that divide is you experience it as a Senator the EOY I think ... that there is a significant ... disagreement ... about the gang of paid ... immigration reform proposal right ... but I think it's been over simplified via a lot of people who just say when you get to do those people were for immigration reform and those were against it ... first call all say that a lot of ... love a time when people refer to comprehensive immigration reform ... what they really mean is immigration reform that includes ... a virtually certain to fast pathway to citizenship for the eleven million or so people were currently here illegally ... aam been that's often code for that ... when one back what we do with the eleven million ... people who are currently here illegally ... that ought to be a question that we address ... down the road ... there are a few things that nearly every member of Congress in both houses ... and both political parties ... will agree that we need ... we need ... the sub modernization and reform ... our current immigration code is sort of ... stock in the buddy Holly era and I can't quite get out ... of we need to update and modernize our legal immigration system ... and the processes that go along with that system in or order to make ... the whole structure more effective and more efficient ... and and and more responsive to changing economic circumstances ... we also really need to secure our border ... and we need in effectively functioning piece the entry and exit system ... so that we know who's here ... we know when they've arrived in one they've left ... once we have those two things in place not just one thing that there are no they shouldn't be that hard ... and they wouldn't be that far but for the fact that a lot of the people who have gotten behind this ... and it got me this Montrose of comprehensive reform ... for nothing ... or in effect telling us ... analysts are willing to look and an amnesty in there we will get you anything unless you're willing to pass everything we want including Amnesty ... we will achieve reform anything ... that's holding the American people hostage and that's wrong ... there were a lot of reasons why I voted ... against the gang of eight bill ... of one of the many reasons have to do with this all or nothing approach ... and and with the fact that this needs to be undertaken in a step by step ... sequential process where we take ... a coppers those first two objectives first ... and get those provisions intimated ... he implemented and they will be a good position at that point to figure out how best to ... treat the eleven million for here illegally with dignity and compassion and respect for the role fall ... I think that can be dumb but it's got to be done the proper sequence you want the time between on November ... I'd I don't want ... us to get those two tsp steps finished ... up immediately I would I would love to have that done between now and November we could get there ... if those who are ... insisting on amnesty what would simply drop their demand that ... all of that happen up front ... what we have to start in those areas where there is the most broad based bipartisan consensus and I'm telling you ... we got an enormous amount of broad based bipartisan consensus for those first two steps to ... Senator couple of I know you gotta go across to the chamber to cast a vote ... couple final questions ... again this is based on your comparison between ... the Reagan years ... and the press ... the country's change ... to some extent in some ways in some ways deeply ... Daniel Patrick Moynihan ... in the nineteen sixty five report entitled quote the Negro family the case for national action call ... was into this this is an open mind and all those years ago ... the fundamental problem is that of family structure ... the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling ... so long as the situation persists the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself clothes quo ... when Moynihan wrote those words and sixty five the legitimacy rate among African Americans ... was twenty five percent ... today among whites ... over thirty percent ... among Hispanics ... more than fifty percent ... among African Americans ... over seventy ... percent ... you couldn't come up with reform conservatism on issue after issue after issue what ... does it matter if the American family continues to collapse ... this is what a poor record conservatism is all about this is ... that the entire focus of my conservative reform agenda ... is to help strengthen and bolster are or are the twin pillars of our civilization ... of free market economies ... and voluntary institutions of civil society including ... of families including churches synagogues and other voluntary associations ... the bigger government gets ... the more Moscow Pinot flux is the more the muscle of free markets and civil society will ten ... inevitably catastrophe ... and so ... reform conservatism focuses on ... how we can get the federal government to pull back ... especially in those areas where it's causing a lot of the problems weren't making more severe ... a lot of these ... societal problems problems that relate to the family structure and so for the worse ... holding people in poverty where is creating ... onto disincentives for people to work and to get married and to stay married ... if we stop reading those disincentives ... if we get the federal government in the right place ... I think that knows this early smaller but in the right place to from programs ... are you saying that it passed a certain size the federal government tends to crowd out family ... a ... EQT is almost inevitably too crowded ... other things out as it gets bigger and bigger ... sorry I I am saying its nest report to be smaller but that doesn't necessarily mean ... you simultaneously ... shrinking everything in the federal government ... to it too of ... adding people rate ... because there are some things that only the federal government can do ... and there are other things that the federal government perhaps ... ought to allow someone else to do with that someone else is a state or local government ... or volunteer institution of civil society for ... one more petition of where the country's change this is David Brooks in New York Times ... American exceptionalism ... his is what he's reading the quote ... now American attitudes resemble ... European ... attitudes ... and when you look just to young people American exceptionalism is basically ... gone ... fifty percent of Americans over sixty five believe America stands above all others ... as the greatest nation on earth ... only twenty seven percent of Americans ... ages eighteen ... to twenty nine ... O'Keefe ... clothes quo ... the premise ... of everything you say ... in your reform conservatives ... is the belief in the greatness of the country ... fewer and fewer young people should ... I think that's ... fair characterization and I think it shouldn't be terribly surprising to us ... that ... this trend is developing in light of the fact that the federal and has given ... the American people especially young Americans ... a lot of reasons to be cynical ... a lot of reasons to be skeptical about promises that it makes ... sure what will will will take your social security taxes ... will keep them safe ... bet won't this income Congress goes and spends that money somewhere else this morals writing ... in effect and I owe you ... back to itself promising to ... to to fill in the gaps ... what we're wearing it has brought the American people ... of money that they put into what was supposed to be the social security trust fund ... oh we've got the federal government open so when he thinks ... that the Federal but has inevitably created a lot of enemies and a lot of very cynical people ... so that's ... part of why this reform agenda is still necessary ... if we get the federal about doing the things that suppose to do ... and and starting to back away from the things that it doesn't do well ... and that I think we'll see a renewal of American exceptionalism ... last question ... and this this November fifteen Republicans and twenty one Democrats ... Tuesday fifteen Republican in twenty one Democratic seats ... in United States Senate will be up for re-election to capture control of the Center ... for public Republicans need a net gain of six ... your call ... yes I think we've got a better than even chance of getting at least six seats ... the neatly six seats in the U S Senate this November obviously ... that ... we would still got a long time before that happens ... what we've still got about eight months left ... and so it's too early to call but I think our or rather better than even right now ... of capturing that would get a lot of our red state Democrats who are up for re-election we've got a few weather ... and Democratic senators who are retiring ... he in states where oh we appear quite well positioned ... and to be over recaptured see I've I've told a lie that was last with this is the last question you think about the people who might be ... joining me ... when the next Congress is sworn in in January ... he think of Tom caught ... now Congressman ... Tom cotton ... Harvard law school ... two truer tours of duty in Iraq now running for the Senate from Arkansas ... he think of your generation of members of the Senate now ... you Ted Cruz are also to the ... this could just change the United States Senate is not is not for I don't think a couple of decades ... been the place where the action was ... but it could be could it could abate and a lot of the names that you mention Tom cotton is very exciting can it is done ... great work in the house in his background ... and he is of his expertise ... will make him up a very effective senator look forward to working with them ... there are others of others out there and to whom you refer that will be joining us many of them are ... younger Americans the look ... of ... the much like Tom cotton is ... um and ... then SAS in Nebraska somebody that are really excited about it ... younger Americans rank the United States and at night ... frankly expected he will win and to be a great call ... you can find ... absolutely ... likely junior Senator from the state of Utah thank you thank you ... for the Hoover institution in The Wall Street Journal ... on Peter Robinson ... the the the the the ... 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CFO Moves this week include:
|Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
|W. P. Carey Inc.
|Ingredion Incorporated
|Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.
|Prosper Marketplace
|Think Finance, Inc.
|ELAP Services LLC
|Brainshark, Inc
|Zenoss Inc.
|PharMerica Corporation
|Liaison Technologies
|Brightmark Energy, LLC
|Rimini Street, Inc.
|SafeGuard World International
|HBR Consulting LLC
|TCP International Holdings Ltd.
|Natera Inc.
|FireEye, Inc.
|CorMedix Inc.
|Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.
|Regis Corporation
|NMI Holdings, Inc.
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. [New Albany, Ohio] (NYSE: ANF) announced that Joanne Crevoiserat, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer while continuing in her current roles. Ms. Crevoiserat has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Abercrombie & Fitch since May 2014 and a member of the Office of the Chairman since October 2015. Prior to joining Abercrombie & Fitch, she served in a number of senior management roles at Kohl's Inc. including Executive Vice President of Finance and Executive Vice President of Merchandise Planning and Allocation. Prior to her time with Kohl's, Ms. Crevoiserat held senior finance positions with Wal-Mart Stores and May Department Stores, including Chief Financial Officer of the Filene's, Foley's and Famous-Barr brands.
W. P. Carey Inc. [NEW YORK] (NYSE: WPC) announced that ToniAnn Sanzone has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Sanzone has been serving as interim CFO of W. P. Carey Inc. since October of 2016, having served as Chief Accounting Officer since 2015. Ms. Sanzone joined W. P. Carey in April 2013 as Global Corporate Controller, prior to which she served as the Corporate Controller at iStar Financial Inc., where she held various senior accounting positions from 2006 to 2013.
Ingredion Incorporated [WESTCHESTER, Ill.] (NYSE: INGR) announced that Jack Fortnum, CFO and executive vice president, plans to retire on June 30, 2017 after 33 years with the company. Jim Gray, Ingredion vice president corporate finance, will be become executive vice president and CFO effective March 1, when Fortnum will move into a senior advisory role until his retirement. Gray joined Ingredion in 2014 as vice president finance North America. Prior to Ingredion, he spent 12 years at PepsiCo, Inc. in senior finance and strategy positions, including three years as Gatorade division CFO and vice president finance PepsiCo.
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. [DULUTH, Ga.] (NYSE: ABG) announced that Keith Style provided notice of his intention to resign from the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The Company also announced that William Stax, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, was appointed interim Principal Financial Officer while the Company conducts a search for a new Chief Financial Officer.
Prosper Marketplace [SAN FRANCISCO] announced it has appointed Usama Ashraf as Chief Financial Officer. Ashraf has held senior leadership positions at prominent financial services companies, most recently as Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Annaly Capital Management and Corporate Treasurer at USAA. Prior to joining USAA, Ashraf spent 13 years in the Treasury and Corporate M&A departments of CIT Group, most recently serving as Deputy Treasurer. Previously, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup.
Think Finance, Inc. [ADDISON, Texas] announced the appointment of Barney Briggs as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Briggs recently served as CFO for the International Global Consumer Technology Group at Citigroup. He has also held a number of other roles at Citigroup, including as Senior Vice President of the American Airlines AAdvantage co-branded cards business, CFO of Citi's Travel & Business Strategic Unit, and Vice President of Citi's Private Label Oil Planning & Control unit. Briggs has also worked as CFO for Barclays Bank Delaware, as well as for venture backed start-up companies.
ELAP Services LLC [WAYNE, Pa.] announced that it has appointed Mike Burnett as chief financial officer. Mr. Burnett previously served as chief financial officer for PDR. He also was CFO of MediMedia USA. Mr. Burnett also held financial positions at IMS International in the United Kingdom.
Brainshark, Inc. [WALTHAM, Mass.] welcomed Dermot O'Grady as its new chief financial officer. O'Grady replaces former CFO Mike McEachern, a 16-year Brainshark veteran and founding member of the management team Prior to joining Brainshark. O'Grady previously served as CFO at Xkoto, and Convoq.
DataStax [SANTA CLARA, CA] announced the appointment of Robert O'Donovan as chief financial officer. He replaces former chief financial officer Dennis Wolf. O'Donovan joins DataStax from Pivotal, Inc. Prior to Pivotal, O'Donovan was vice president of sales productivity and enablement at Dell/EMC in Sydney, Australia. O'Donovan has held various positions at Dell/EMC in the Asia Pacific/Japan region including senior director of business operations and CFO, and was also CFO at Dell/EMC in the UK and Australia/New Zealand.
Abpro [WOBURN, Massachusetts] announced the appointment of Adam Mostafa as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mostafa was Managing Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking group at Cantor Fitzgerald. Prior to Cantor, Mr. Mostafa was with Needham & Company, CRT Capital Group and Citigroup as a member of their Healthcare Investment Banking groups. Mr. Mostafa spent a number of years at AQR Capital Management.
Zephyr [NEWARK, Calif.] welcomed Robb Ellis as the new chief financial officer. Ellis has spent over 20 years building and leading finance teams in global companies with significant complexity and operating scale.
Zenoss Inc. [AUSTIN, Texas] announced Michael Lovell as the company's new chief financial officer. Lovell was previously CFO at Lifesize. Prior to serving as CFO of Lifesize, Lovell was vice president of finance at Surgient. He also served as CFO and vice president of operations of NewportWorks. Prior to that, he was CFO of Grassroots Enterprise.
PharMerica Corporation [LOUISVILLE, Ky.] (NYSE: PMC) announced the appointment of Robert E. Dries as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From 1996 to 2016, Mr. Dries held several senior positions at Omnicare Inc., most recently serving as Senior Vice President, Financial Operations from 2012 to 2016. Mr. Dries began his career at KPMG.
Liaison Technologies [ATLANTA] announced that Joost Rutten has joined the team as chief financial officer. Rutten was previously the CFO at SAP SuccessFactors. Before taking the helm at SAP SuccessFactors, Rutten spent several years at SAP Ariba in both international and domestic roles. In 2014, he was named global Head of Finance and Division CFO at SAP SuccessFactors. Prior to his work at SAP, Rutten co-founded an independent corporate and capital advisory firm. Before that, he spent two years with AlpInvest Partners, and nearly three years with the Amsterdam-based ABN AMRO Bank NV.
Brightmark Energy, LLC [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the addition of Scott Healy as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial officer. Previously he has had senior level management responsibility for building renewable energy businesses.
Rimini Street, Inc. [LAS VEGAS] announced the appointment of Thomas Sabol as senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO). Sabol replaces the Company's previous CFO, Doug Zorn, who retired at the end of 2016. Prior to his most recent work as a management consultant providing M&A, CFO support and strategic planning assistance to several companies, Sabol served as CFO for Comverse, Inc., now Xura, Inc. He was also responsible for information security, supply chain management and procurement, and supported the successful sale of Comverse's billing business to Amdocs Limited in July 2015. Prior to Comverse, Sabol was the CFO of Hypercom Corporation. Sabol also served as CFO and COO of Plexus Corp. Earlier in his career, Sabol served as vice president and general auditor for Kemper Corporation, and began his career with Coopers & Lybrand.
SafeGuard World International [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the addition of Ryan Schooler as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He replaces former CFO Tony Lloyd. Mr. Schooler most recently served as CFO of Fox Service Company. Previously he held senior executive positions, including CFO of Alchemy Systems, Austin Capital Management, and Jardine Foods.
HBR Consulting LLC [CHICAGO] announced that Kathryn (Kathy) Carr has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Carr brings more than 20 years of financial strategy experience to HBR, including 18 years at Baker McKenzie, an international law firm. At Baker McKenzie, Carr served as a key strategic partner. Most recently, Carr served as senior vice president and finance director at Golin.
TCP International Holdings Ltd. [AURORA, Ohio] (OTC: TCPIF) announced Zachary Guzy as Chief Financial Officer. He has been serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer for the Company since October 3, 2016. Guzy was Global Corporate Controller for the Company from June 2012 until his appointment as Interim CFO in October 2016.
Natera Inc. [SAN CARLOS, Calif.] (NASDAQ: NTRA) announced the appointment of Mike Brophy as Natera's new chief financial officer. Mr. Brophy replaces Herman ("Herm") Rosenman, who joined the Company's board of directors following his three-year tenure as Natera's current CFO, a position he held since January 2014. Mr. Brophy has served as Natera's senior vice president of Finance and Investor Relations since September 2016, and served as the Company's vice president of Corporate Development and Investor Relations since September 2015. Prior to joining Natera, he served as an executive director and as a vice president in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley.
FireEye, Inc. [MILPITAS, CA] (NASDAQ: FEYE) announced that Mike Berry, FireEye chief financial officer since 2015, is leaving FireEye to pursue another opportunity, and Frank Verdecanna, FireEye senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer, has been appointed executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining FireEye in 2012 as the company's vice president of finance, Verdecanna served as chief financial officer of Apptera, and iPass. Verdecanna began his career as a CPA in public accounting with Coopers and Lybrand.
CorMedix Inc. [BEDMINSTER, NJ] (NYSE MKT: CRMD) announced that Robert W. Cook was appointed Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cook most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Bioblast Pharma Ltd. His prior pharma experience includes appointments at Strata Skin Sciences, as well as Immune Pharmaceuticals and its predecessor EpiCept Corporation, including one year as Interim President and CEO of EpiCept. Previously, he served as CFO of Pharmos Corporation. Mr. Cook began his career in financial services at Chase Manhattan and he also held a position as a Vice President in the Healthcare Group at General Electric Capital Commercial Finance.
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. [DEERFIELD, Ill.] (NYSE: FBHS) announced that chief financial officer Lee Wyatt has elected to retire at the end of 2017 when he turns 65. Consistent with the Company's succession planning process, Patrick Hallinan will succeed Wyatt when he steps down at year end. Hallinan recently accepted the position of senior vice president of finance at Fortune Brands to begin the transition. For the past three years, he served as chief financial officer of the plumbing segment. He previously served as vice president of finance at Beam Inc. and as vice president of finance at MasterBrand Cabinets for three years. Hallinan began his career as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Regis Corporation [Minneapolis, MN] The Board of Directors of Regis Corporation appointed Michael C. Pomeroy as Interim Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer. Mr. Pomeroy serves as a Senior Director with Huron Consulting Services LLC. Mr. Pomeroy began his career at GE. He progressed from the Corporate Audit Staff through several finance leadership roles. His last assignment with GE before leaving for Kodak was as the Chief Financial Officer of GE Aircraft Engine Europe. During his tenure at Kodak, Mr. Pomeroy held Chief Financial Officer roles for four out of the five of the company's multi-billion dollar divisions. Mr. Pomeroy's final role with Kodak was co-leading the carve-out of the Medical X-ray business into a stand-alone privately held entity, becoming Chief Financial Officer and a Board Director. Mr. Pomeroy then went on to other private equity Chief Financial Officer and advisory roles, including serving as Chief Financial Officer of Palladium Energy, from 2012-2013 and Advisor, the Carlyle Group, a multinational private equity firm, from 2014-2015. He joined Huron in June 2015. Mr. Pomeroy's Finance leadership experiences included the following industries: Industrial/Manufacturing, Transportation, Aviation, Energy, Healthcare, Consumer Retail, Distribution, and more.
NMI Holdings, Inc. [EMERYVILLE, CA] (NASDAQ: NMIH) announced that Glenn Farrell, executive vice president and chief financial officer, plans to retire on July 31, 2017. Adam Pollitzer, formerly of J.P Morgan Securities LLC, has been named to succeed Mr. Farrell as the company's next executive vice president and chief financial officer effective May 2, 2017. Adam Pollitzer was most recently a managing director in J.P. Morgan's Corporate and Investment Banking division. He served in multiple leadership positions during his 15-year tenure at J.P. Morgan.