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Iran: The Unthinkable War,
Part II
Iraq, Iran, and "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
by Juan Santos
October 4, 2006
Read Part One
Military sources
told journalist Seymour Hersh that the U.S. has no proof at all that Iran
is developing nuclear arms. Hersh has said that, "The intelligence
services of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and even
Israel, have been unable to come up with any specific evidence of what's
known as a parallel or secret weapons program inside Iran."
One former senior
intelligence official told Hersh flatly, "People in the Pentagon were
asking, 'What's the evidence? We've got a million tentacles out there,
overt and covert, and these guys' (Iran) 'have been working on this for
eighteen years, and we have nothing? We're coming up with jack shit.'"
The International
Atomic Energy Agency recently blasted a US Congressional report on Iranian
weapons as "outrageous and dishonest." It also called the report's
argument that Iran's nuclear energy program is geared toward developing
nuclear weapons "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated."
The IAEA pointed to
five significant errors in the Congressional committee's claim that Iran's
nuclear capabilities are more advanced than either the IAEA or U.S.
intelligence had demonstrated, including a false claim that Iran has
enriched weapons grade uranium.
According to the
London Guardian, the IAEA "said the report was 'incorrect' in its
assessment that Iran had made weapons-grade uranium at a site inspected by
the agency. Instead, the letter said, the facility had produced only small
amounts of uranium, which were below the level necessary for weapons."
In 2004,
IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei
said plainly, "I have seen no nuclear weapons program in
Iran. What I have seen is that Iran is trying to gain access to nuclear
enrichment technology . . . " Nothing has changed in the IAEA assessment.
This dispute is an
instant replay of the clashes between the IAEA and the US over the
question of whether or not Iraq, under Saddam Hussein,
was trying to develop nuclear arms. The claim that Iraq had or was
developing nuclear weapons was the primary excuse for the US invasion and
occupation of Iraq. The US, of course, was lying. There were no such
weapons anywhere to be found.
US Congressmember Ron Paul cautions that,
"Iran has never in modern times invaded her neighbors, yet we worry
obsessively that she may develop a nuclear weapon someday."
Nonetheless, the
Project for a New American Century claims that Iran is "rushing to develop
ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons as a deterrent to American
intervention . . ."
While the PNAC claim
about Iranian intentions has no factual basis, it is also an open
admission that, if Iran were developing a nuclear weapons
capability, it would be for Iran's own self defense in the face of a
pattern of US invasions in the region, including invasions and occupations
of Iraq on its western flank and Afghanistan on its eastern flank.
Iran has an obvious
and legitimate interest in deterring such "intervention."
The insanity of the
Cold War, with its policies of deterrence and Mutually Assured
Destruction, almost starts looking like the good old days.
To get a picture of
the hypocritical extremity, even the absurdity of the US position on Iran,
imagine if you will an equivalent scenario: A Chinese invasion and
military occupation of Mexico to the south of the US, and of Canada to its
China then,
bristling with military might on the US borders, begins, in this imagined
scenario, to issue threats against the US, demanding it rid itself
immediately of nuclear weapons, calling the US a threat to regional
stability in the Americas.
Polls show, then,
that a majority of Chinese agree: if the US, a known international war
criminal and the only power to launch a nuclear attack against another
nation -- ever -- won't unilaterally surrender its nukes and suspend
operations of its nuclear power plants, then US nuclear facilities, all of
them, should be taken out in a Chinese nuclear first strike.
The difference in
the two stories should be obvious: there is an absolutely solid historical
and factual basis for the Chinese charges against the US in this scenario:
there is no factual basis whatsoever for US claims against Iran.
Iran, like Iraq
before it, has no nuclear weapons, and there is zero proof that they are
developing them. In Iran, just like in Iraq, there are only US
"suspicions" - the kind based in lies; lies that have already led to one
devastating war. Lies that serve today as the rationale for launching
Coming up in Part III:
Why They "Hate Us": Bringing "Regime Change" and "Democracy" to Iran
Juan Santos
is a writer and editor in Los Angeles California. His essays from
2006 are collected at:
http://the-fourth-world.blogspot.com/. He can be
reached at:
Other Articles by Juan
Iran: The
Unthinkable War Part One: Pretending You Didn't Know
* The Center
Cannot Hold: The Bush Regime in Crisis
* There is No
War On Terror: Oil, the New Reich and the Coming War on Iran
* Apocalypse
No!: An Indigenist Perspective
Race, Class and the Battle for the South Central Farm with Leslie
* Minutemen
Target Children: Hate Radio and the Attack on Academia Semillas del Pueblo
* Our Lives On
the Line: The Border War Comes Home
Endgame: May 1st and America's New Race War
* The Hidden
Terror of HR4437
* Immigration:
A Nation of Colonists and Race Laws
* The Ghost of
George Wallace: Immigration and White Racism
* Brown
Skin/Yellow Star: Turning the Corner Toward Fascism


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Nick Percat ended up over a second clear of the field as Friday practice concluded at a drying Winton Motor Raceway.
After a day dominated by wet weather, the rain finally stopped ahead of the second 45 minute run.
With a dry line gradually emerging, the circuit was finally good enough for slicks following the resumption from a red flag stoppage with six minutes remaining.
Scott McLaughlin had been fastest at the red flag with a 1:32.86s on the wets before times improved by almost five seconds in a hectic sprint to the flag.
The top spot changed eight times in the final minutes, with Percat's eventual 1:28.11s effort proving 1.1s clear of second best McLaughlin.
Percat's effort continues Brad Jones Racing's strong form at Winton that saw Tim Slade win both races 12 months ago.
David Reynolds ended up third in Practice 2 ahead of Fabian Coulthard, who fired off at Turn 1 moments after going to the top.
Cameron Waters, James Courtney, Michael Caruso, Jamie Whincup, Tim Slade and Lee Holdsworth completed the top 10.
Reigning Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen ended up down the order in 14th - his session including a late touch from James Moffat at Turn 7.
"If he comes in and apologises it's alright. If he doesn't… I don't know what it's about," said van Gisbergen.
Moffat took a different view from the incident.
"I don't think Shane saw me by the way he turned in on me," he said.
"I don't think he did. It was no malice on my behalf.
"He probably doesn't think that, but I think we'll all get a bit of a laugh out of it at the end of the day.
"He gave me a one finger salute after all that, so I don't think he was too happy about it.
"But if I meant to do it, I would have done a proper job and turned him around properly."
Despite the improved conditions, three red flags peppered the second session.
The first was called 15 minutes in when Macauley Jones ran wide onto the slippery Turn 6 exit kerb and rotated his Drillpro Holden into the gravel at the following corner.
Fellow wildcard Shae Davies was the next to come unstuck, finding the Turn 3 gravel aboard his MW Motorsport Nissan at the 30 minute mark.
BJR's Tim Blanchard found trouble following the restart – the CoolDrive Holden requiring a tow after a spin at the exit of Turn 3.

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Unlike new-crop corn futures that appear to have settled into a seasonal slide pattern, new-crop soybeans have seen less downside movement. Still, market analysts feel getting up to 50% of your crop marketed at above $12 per bushel should payoff if a big crop comes in.
November 2014 soybean futures have lingered between just over $12 to about $12.30 the past three weeks. November futures finished Friday at near $12.32, up from below $12.10 the beginning of the week. Heavy rains and flooding in the northern Corn Belt were propping up prices for beans and all grains at week's end.
Also helping soybeans were strong exports reported by USDA. Brugler Marketing and Management notes that estimates for weekly export sales were up to about 100,000 metric tons (MT) for old crop, and 300,000-600,000 MT for new crop.
USDA put the actual sales figures at the top of the old-crop range at 97,900 MT, and below the new crop range of estimates at 285,800 MT, Brugler says, adding that total commitments as a percentage of total exports are currently at 104%, compared to the 101% last year and the five-year average of 101%.
"Expect futures to remain volatile as the market sorts out very tight old-crop supplies," says Bryce Knorr, senior editor of Farm Futures, sister publication to Corn+Soybean Digest. "Big yields could ultimately sink the market later in the growing season, an incentive to keep pricing new-crop above $12 November. Focus on getting 50% of new-crop covered."
Bret Crotts, analyst for Schwieterman Marketing, says no rush to make heavy sales is needed until there is a market movement. "At some point the hammer will drop on the new-crop soybeans, but it hasn't happened yet," Crotts says "After all, we are basing all of our bearishness on a record yield and it is a long way until harvest."
Crotts says there are ideas that a higher soybean acreage estimate will be seen at the end of the month. "But there are also concerns that crop condition ratings have peaked, which seems to be why the November contract can't fall below $12. I can't see being aggressively short until we see a close below $12.
Soybeans were more than 92% planted as of last Monday, just above the 90% average the past 5 years. More than 83% had emerged, compared to a 77% five-year average.


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The LA techno collective is staging its sixth-annual production-oriented showcase to coincide with the annual NAMM music tech conference this month.
This is the sixth year Droid Behavior has organized an event to coincide with NAMM, the annual music technology conference in Anaheim. (See RA's coverage of last year's edition of NAMM to get some idea of what happens there.) While it's not officially affiliated with NAMM, BL__K NOISE takes its inspiration from the sort of technology that's showcased there. As the promoters put it, "Expect a variety of modular synthesizers, drum machines, control voltage and random noise generation" to fill up the evening. They've also promised vinyl cutting demonstrations, and word is a number of the performances will be recorded and cut to lacquer over the course of the night. In terms of performers, Vatican Shadow—Hospital Productions boss Dominick Fernow's military-inspired techno project—gets top billing. He'll be joined by synthesizer master Alessandro Coritini, acclaimed producer and engineer Mark Verbos, sound designer Richard Devine and members of the Trash Audio and Capsule Labs collectives.


text: Moveable figures allow the child to participate - Jonah slips into the mouth of the big fish, and the animal pairs load onto the deck of Noah's Ark. Pieces are stored in pockets on each facing page. This set tells seven stories and includes a printed booklet and 39 pieces.


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On the menu is our ever famous classics namely Fish & Chips,Steak & Ale pie to British contemporaries like our delicious Salmon & Dill fish-cakes. We offer a wide range of burgers, pastas and jacket potatoes to light snacks, not forgetting our fresh daily specials and the hugely popular Sunday roast.
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- My thread on TrekUnited, Graphics 101, has so far covered composition, photo references, body proportions, sketching using stick figures and character reference sheets.
- Started another blog to cover craft and construction projects as well as what I like to think of as men's issues, Igor's Workshop. Kicked it off with a simple idea for a budget Moleskine portfolio.
- Continued my investigation that there is more on DeviantArt than just painting and drawing, I have featured ...
The photography of Chonastock
- Most of my spare time has been taken up with a secret project that could re-boot an old favourite on TrekUnited
- ...However I have been watching Star Trek Specter closely. The more of it I see the more excited I get!
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Preface No.7
The morning after the AWP Associated Writing Programs. Last night went to a reading celebrating Salmon Press at some wretched Bowery bar. The music next door was more compelling. Had a conversation about James Dickey. Even told two Dickey stories to a woman from South Carolina which is how his name is kept alive in the South. Dickey read the poem Falling at Beloit College in the early 1960s when that school did actually then ask good poets to come to the college for short visits. Now they have writers come for longer periods of time and no one remembers their names.
And Beloit College to this day never remembers that Lorine Niedecker from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, one of the great American poets, attended the college. It is all a little embarrassing for them, I suppose. Here was a woman washing hospital floors while writing poetry and corresponding with Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky who both knew she was their equal. All something no college really has the ability to understand or wants to know about and anyway she had to drop out of the college for lack of money.
Back then W.H.Auden came and disgraced himself.
Charles Olson came and gave the Beloit Lectures.
Galway Kinnell came when he was still a modest author of one good poem. He became a "famous" academic poet of still one good poem. He did the illustrations for Pati Hill's`book of poems THE SNOW RABBIT when they had an affair in the early 1960s. She is still the better writer based on her IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS.
Kinnell is now retired, they say, and I suppose still an activist.
How I love that word activist.
And I am sure you do too.
When you hear the word activist you know you are hearing about some sort of crook.
Preface No. 8
It is probably true that there are no interesting living poets under the age of 60 in the United States. I did not place that age limitation on my sweeping judgment because I would not want to include David Slavitt's WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON AND OTHER POEMS however I really think there are no poets in the United States at this moment.
except for...
The last good poet in the United States was Ronald Johnson and he has been dead for ten years.
Find his ARK.
Find his other little books.
His re-write of Paradise Lost, RADI OS and of all things his four cookbooks.
Read the essays by Guy Davenport on Johnson if you don't believe me.
Preface No. 9
But you say: how extreme! You are full of it. What are you talking about?...Okay, I will introduce into evidence one poem by David Huddle.
Just before deciding to do this I had been distracted by reading in "the thoughts" of Gregory Orr in a issue of The American Poetry Review that was given away at the AWP. But to find a poem by Orr is too much of a bother. He is as pathetic now as he was back in the days when he was at Columbia University writing imitations of Mark Strand poems who in turn was imitating God knows who...and of course we all knew that Orr had killed his brother by mistake--- the sensitivity ran like wine and vomit down West End Avenue which by coincidence is where David Huddle lived back then also... but the David Huddle Story is for another time. His poem awaits you and is my evidence for my assertion: there is no poetry in the United States of America in the year 2008:
from the collection GLORY RIVER Poems to be published by Louisiana State University Press in April
That moment in Hair
where the whole cast
gets naked on stage?
Lindsey and I and Jean
and Ellsworth Bahrman
bought tickets, ate grass-
laced brownies and rode
the Broadway Local downtown
to see the show, but we were way
back in the balcony,
I got sleepy, and Lindsey
had to give me an elbow
when it happened. Fact
is, I liked Hair best
the year before, at a party
in Roanoke, Virginia,
when somebody put on the record
(vinyl, of course), and a bunch
of Hollins girls started
to sing along---"I like black boys..."
and do a little footwork
that way you can step into it
when you're twenty years old,
about half-buzzed at a party
and somebody puts on a song
you like. But back to that night
when the lights came up,
and behold, there were the actors
wearing nothing but their bodies---
It was in the fall of 1970, audiences
were getting thinner every week,
and the way I see it now
is that I, David R. Huddle,
your basic twenty-eight-year-old,
moderately stoned, white,
liberal grad student, sat
right at the focal point at the exact
moment when the nation
made its final turn away from love
and generosity and toward greed,
hatred of the poor, bullying
the rest of the world, and pillaging
what's left of paradise. Please
forgive me, all of you lost
Americans. If Instead of nodding off
into a stupor--- I'd just stayed
a little more alert and received
every megabyte, of that vision, I might
have become the single human
being empowered to save
the planet from George W. Bush.
Preface No. 10
I am sure you can hear the knowing smiling applause, even the laughter when David Huddle the poet finishes reading this poem at the University of Vermont, at Bread Loaf and other stops on the usual poetic tour...
This poem is a summation of the state of poetry and indeed of the whole academic world that lives within a similar callow smugness typified by this isolated tenured academic--- You should know there is even a DAVID HUDDLE READER--- who has lived too long among like minded people up there in Vermont and now no longer knows he is living within a poorly understood bad faith, no longer self-aware of anything beyond the immediate smiling applause indicating that they are all they are all oppressed beaten down victims...
Preface No. 11
Is there any evidence out there that I am wrong?


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The RSPCA has developed standards for pig producers that ensure a high level of welfare for the farmed pigs. Pig producers can apply to participate in the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme and participation is granted if the farming system meets the RSPCA's standards. Farmers on Approved farms are allowed to label their produce with the RSPCA logo so that consumers can be assured that the pigs are kept according to the RSPCA's welfare standards. These standards are much higher than those recommended by the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Pigs (http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/5698).
The RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme is not-for-profit. Royalty payments received from companies marketing their products as RSPCA Approved are used to fund the Scheme.
The RSPCA Approves both well-managed extensive outdoor housing systems and enhanced indoor environments. Only farming systems that cater for the behavioural needs of the pigs, as well as their physical needs, can be part of the Approved Farming Scheme. The standards cover the breeding, rearing, handling, transport and slaughter of pigs.
Some of the requirements in the standards for pig housing and production are:
- Intensive confinement systems, such as single stalls and traditional farrowing crates, are not allowed.
- Pigs must be provided with:
- shelter and protection from the weather
- ventilation and light levels that provide for their comfort and health
- sufficient bedding to avoid discomfort
- space to allow exercise, exploration, social behaviour and lying/sleeping, and to avoid aggressive encounters
- adequate clean water and nutritious food
- feeding arrangements that allow them to avoid being bullied by other pigs
- materials to use for foraging
- environmental enrichment, such as rooting areas, wallows and toys; all pigs housed outdoors must have wallows.
- Female pigs must reach a minimum age before they can be mated, and pens used for mating must have enough space and a non-slip floor.
- A maximum stocking density (that is, a maximum number of animals per square metre of floor space or open ground) is set, to avoid overcrowding.
- Handling systems (such as yards, races and pens) must allow easy management, and the pigs must be humanely acclimatised to the methods used to contain them.
- Group size and compatibility of the pigs must be carefully managed to avoid bullying.
- Farrowing sows (that is, sows about to give birth and those with litters of piglets) must have a minimum amount of space, bedding material to allow nest building, and separate areas for feeding and dunging. A protected zone and/or bedding must be provided to protect the piglets from being crushed by the sow.
- Surgical husbandry procedures must be approved by RSPCA, unless they are carried out by a vet as part of urgent treatment.
- Nose-ringing is not allowed.
- A veterinary health plan must be used to record details of health regimes (such as vaccinations) and other health-related events.
- All pigs must be inspected daily for signs of ill health or behaviour problems, and veterinary attention must be provided promptly if it is needed.
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- pigs are not to be transported in the heat of the day
- electric goads are not permitted to encourage pigs to move
- precautions must be taken to avoid aggression between unfamiliar pigs
- noise should be minimised during handling and loading
- drinking water must be available to the pigs up until the time of transport.
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- A number of conditions must be met at the abattoir, during holding, handling and humane slaughter of the pigs. Only abattoirs that have been inspected and approved by an RSPCA pig production assessor may be used.
- Careful records must be kept of management conditions and any health problems, and these records must be made available to the RSPCA. Data reports on production, mortality and general herd condition must be submitted to the RSPCA every two months.
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Lufthansa Technik develops Logo Light Protector
Another smart solution to avoid unscheduled maintenance actions
Lufthansa Technik AG has developed another smart solution to avoid unscheduled maintenance actions. It's called the Logo Light Protector. The light protector avoids damage that can occur while removing a logo light located in the horizontal stabilizer of the Boeing 777. Until now, there has been an inherent risk of damage to the GFRP surface layer of the stabilizer while removing the sealant around the cover of the logo light. The sealant is often cemented on the aircraft surface. In this case, the delamination of the surface requires time-consuming repair at a significant cost.
Lufthansa Technik engineers have solved this problem by developing a metal ring, the Logo Light Protector, installed in and around the logo light cut-out. The sealant is placed between the cover of the logo light and the protector, with no contact to the stabilizer. The stabilizer will also protect the area from erosion.
Beate Rehberg, Project Manager from Lufthansa Technik's Original Equipment Innovation Division, said, "The Logo Light Protector is an excellent example of how Lufthansa Technik is trying to find simple and efficient solutions to the benefit of its customers. Due to the comprehensive experience of our technicians and engineers performing daily MRO inspections, we find potential issues that can occur on in-service aircraft. We also have the design and engineering capabilities to develop smart solutions for these problems."
The first installations of the light protector have been performed on Lufthansa Cargo's Boeing 777 fleet. Lufthansa Technik's Original Equipment Innovation Division is offering the Logo Light Protector to all 777 operators.


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Lip augmentation is a procedure that is undergone to increase the fullness of lips, and can be accomplished through surgical or non-surgical procedures. In the Western world, among the Caucasian population, the full mouth has been associated with beauty most notably from the time Dior chose Kelly LeBrock to be the face of the design house. While women who thinner lips are still beautiful, the trend of having fuller lips has attracted women of all ages and races toward the fuller mouth. Moreover, it has become a practice to erase visible fine lines and wrinkles that form around them, especially in those with thinner lips and especially, with aging.
Lip augmentation began in the early 1900s, where paraffin was injected into the lips, followed by silicone. The former was unsuccessful, where the latter left fears with regards to the silicone in relation to health. In the 1980s bovine collagen, in injectable form was introduced. Although found to provide desired results, they were extremely short-lived, and prior to the filler being injected, an allergy test had to be performed. Today, there are different fillers, like Restylane and Juvederm that are used in non-surgical lip augmentation procedures in many parts of the world.
From the 1990s on, lip augmentation went on to include numerous other substances to reshape thinning lips.
- Collagen: made from bovine hides, requires an allergy test. Results last between 1 and 3 months, as it too gets absorbed by the body.
- Dermalogen: made from the patient's skin, creating a highly concentrated injectable collagen, rendering results that are longer than bovine collagen.
- Augtolegen: a dermal filler, made from the patient's own skin, so there is no allergy, but the material is quickly absorbed by the body, leaving very temporary results.
- Alloderm: made by tissue extracted from cadavers, which is purified for safety. This is then placed into the lips in small rolls to give the desired effects. Alloderm can also be placed into the pink part of the lips, thereby rendering more definition.
- Radiance: This is synthetic and has been used in various medical procedures for years. The results are said to last no less than 3 years and up to 5.
- Gore-Tex implants: also known as EPTFE, Advanta, SoftForm, and UltraSoft. These come in strips and tubes and are surgically implanted by surgeons.
Currently, there have been new techniques developed for a more effective result. For most procedures, topical anesthesia is used in lip augmentation.
Restylane: This substance is a clear gel and is injected into the lips, lasting about 6 months or longer. Juvederm is similar.
Fat Transfer: Usually, but not always, fat is extracted through liposuction from a part of the patient's body, and then injected into the lips, or can be surgically implanted.
Are There Risks or Side Effects?
The majority of patients who have undergone a lip augmentation attest to satisfaction and a repeated treatment. However, it has been found that fat grafting is best to maintain a fuller appearance and softer lip for a semi-permanent result.
The biggest problem with surgical or non-surgical lip augmentation is over-filling. The results can look unattractive and almost comical, being called a trout pout. Moreover, there can be lumpiness in the lips if there have been overaggressive injections to the area.
Side-effects include swelling, bruising, itching or redness in the area of the injections. Sometimes, there has been bleeding, as well. Another problem is uneven lips. There have also been reported problems of implants moving or breaking through the skin's surface.
There are also issues with allergies to local anesthesia used, or some patients who have reacted to the skin tests. In addition to these, there are patients who should not undergo such procedures because of their skin conditions, like cold sores, scarred lips, and infections. Moreover, there are other patients who should avoid these procedures if they have lupus or diabetes, facial nerve disorders, extreme high blood pressure, or herpes simplex.
In the case of fat transfer, while it lasts longer than other procedures, there could be scarring or lumping. Plus, there is an added procedure and wound, where the fat will be extracted.
Gore-tex shows impressive results and great success but it is foreign to the body. Therefore, there is a risk of infection or rejection by the body, but the risk is relatively low.
Whichever solution is chosen, the patient is always at the hands of the surgeon or doctor. Successful lip augmentation requires a high level of skill, where the doctor has used the different procedures and substances in different patients.


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Neville Bill Will Put Sanctuary City Ban on the Ballot
DENVER – A bill introduced today by State Senator Tim Neville (R-Littleton) will place a prohibition against "sanctuary city" policies on the Nov. 6 ballot as a referendum. The measure was designated Senate Bill-220.
"By deliberately obstructing federal immigration law enforcement, sanctuary policies endanger public safety by allowing convicted criminal aliens released from local jails to avoid being taken into custody by federal authorities for an immigration court hearing and possible deportation," Neville said in introducing the bill. "Sanctuary cities are restricting the communication and cooperation between local law enforcement and federal law enforcement agencies, and that must stop."
The scope of Neville's bill is quite narrow; it only prohibits interference in federal immigration law enforcement through ordinances or official policies that restrict communication and cooperation with federal immigration agencies. It does not impose penalties beyond those imposed by the federal government on jurisdictions that violate the law.
"Coloradans expect and deserve to live in communities where the rule of law is enforced and the safety and security of its residents take precedence over partisan political attempts to undermine and weaken them for political gain," Neville added. "SB-220 ensures that we deliver on that promise to our constituents."


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8th Annual URT SALTY CLAUS // Coronado, CA // Dec 24th
Whether you're naughty or nice, the Santa's are coming. Join URT and the amphibiously inclined this Christmas Eve in our annual URT SALTY CLAUS: Santa Costume Surf. Help us turn the frigid pacific red by dressing up in your holiday inspired surf get-up for a truly sandy Christmas experience. From 9:30 to 11:30, on Saturday Dec. 24th, a sea of Santa will pour into the waters of Shipwrecks Beach in Coronado, CA marking the 6th Annual URT SALTY CLAUS. Join us and be merry. We will jolly up your belly with free donuts, coffee & cocoa.
URT! and Emerald City will be providing prizes for the most festively dressed.
Clayton's Diner will be providing refreshment as they have every URT event. Thanks so much guys!!!


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Virtual equality
Meet the women exploiting technology in a bid to sidestep gender bias and take aim at the glass ceiling
Meet the women exploiting technology in a bid to sidestep gender bias and take aim at the glass ceiling
"It's not just about financial empowerment. The emotional empowerment is so much more valuable than the money you can earn"
Umar is the founder of Women's Digital League (WDL), a social enterprise that links women to online micro-tasking jobs. Remote working doesn't get much more remote. The women's tasks range from answering queries sent to global Q&A site Quora, to putting up recipes for Silicon Valley food blog Love With Food from their homes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or the Gilgit-Baltistan region, which borders China.
"I tell my girls it's not just about financial empowerment," adds Umar. "The emotional empowerment is so much more valuable than the money you can earn."
Umar, an entrepreneur and mother of two, is one of a growing gang of women harnessing the power of technology to tackle workplace inequality. Typically the preserve of male geeks, women in the Middle East and South Asia are swelling the ranks of science and technology and launching tech-powered enterprises. Some see technology as a means to get more women into the labour market, others as a weapon against barriers that restrict their lives. But both tactics get women a little further down the road to equality.
Too few women in the region are in work. Women generate just 17 per cent of economic output in India and 18 per cent in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to data from the McKinsey Global Institute. In the US, it is 40 per cent. Gender parity in the labour market could inject $700bn and $600bn into the Indian and MENA economies respectively by 2025.
This female absence is at odds with classroom trends. Unlike the US, more Arab women than men enrol in scientific degrees, but the journey from lecture hall to lab has proved to be a difficult one. In 2011, women accounted for just 1 per cent of science and technology researchers in Saudi Arabia and 19 per cent in Palestine – far below the world average of 30 per cent.
Oft-cited obstacles to progress include cultural norms, the reluctance of men to recruit women, and a region-wide dearth of technology jobs.
For some women, technology is a way to avoid cultural barriers that obstruct entry to the labour force. According to WDL's Umar, working virtually is a way to tap a smart but stagnant talent pool, while pandering to social norms. In Pakistan, less than a quarter of workers are women.
WDL links graduates to freelance jobs, such as data entry or transcribing, for a 10 to 20 per cent fee. The pool of tasks is small – around 10 per month – but demand is high. Some 10,000 women are on its books, many with PhDs. The organisation has also teamed up with the World Bank to train 360 women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in web design and image editing, skills which they then market to Pakistani companies. Around 60 per cent have found jobs, says Umar.
Flexible working lets women contribute economically while making small, acceptable social gains. The women earn between $100 and $800 a month, which can make a world of difference for families subsisting on a father's pension, or pay for a sibling's tuition fees, says Umar. But the real benefit is not monetary.
"Technology gives dignified work to people who studied hard to get an education," she says. "They just need a chance to break through that cycle and work from home."
Some difficulties are particular to developing countries, but others are common the world-over. Among them is a wariness of hiring females that recruiters fear will desert the firm for family.
A group of Egyptian women, all with backgrounds in tech, think they have one fix. In 2015, Doaa ElEraqy and her three co-founders pitched the idea of 'returnships' at an event run by US-funded programme, TechWomen. Like internships, the group wants to set up a platform – called She is Back! – to connect Arab women taking career breaks, with technology firms. Women are offered spots on three-month courses aimed at refreshing their technical skills, and putting them in touch with potential employers.
"She is Back will give those women an edge and the confidence to pursue their careers again," says ElEraqy. The idea has already netted $2,500 seed funding and the group hopes to pilot the idea in Egypt early this year.
Dubai-based Loulou Khazen Baz is also leveraging technology to connect freelancers to jobs they can do from home. Her business, Nabbesh, links its 83,000 members – mostly from the UAE, Egypt and Lebanon – to companies seeking help with web development, data entry and translation tasks. Neither Baz nor WDL's Umar are techies themselves, but they were quick to use technology to power their businesses. In a region beset by unemployment, this aspect of founding a startup is crucial. "The only space where you have a chance to succeed as an entrepreneur especially if you are not from a wealthy background, is to look into technology. It's cheaper to set up than other types of company," says Baz. "The challenge for me is having people to trust on the technology side. If I had the time to learn to code, I would."
Getting more women into coding is vital, given technology's growing role in the global economy and potential to deliver millions of jobs, says Sana Odeh, a computer science professor at New York University and founder of Arab Women in Computing, a network of 1,300 women in 16 countries.
"Technology is absolutely a leveller for women's rights"
"If women are not part of this field and trained enough, or not in senior positions, then women are going to lose out in a big way," she says.
MENA's women need more funding in technology, science and engineering education, such as money for PhDs and scholarships to study abroad where those programmes don't exist in the region, says Odeh. They are also in need of more exposure to tech careers with the Googles and Facebooks of the world.
"The lack of women in computing and technology is not an international pattern," stresses Odeh, who believes global companies could plug their female deficit by doing more to mentor and train Arab female graduates.
For Mary Helmig, director of TechGirls – a coding scheme for girls – the impact of getting more Arab women into tech firms will reverberate across society. "Technology is absolutely a leveller for women's rights," she observes. "There are so many opportunities for employment through technology and how it is being used. It will give women a voice."
"I first got interested in coding at school where we took C++ courses. The results you get from a bunch of codes is amazing," says Rasha Al-Khateeb, who comes from Jordan. "It's a fascinating feeling when you understand this language."
Rasha is one of 27 girls from MENA to take part in the fourth cohort of TechGirls, a US-funded initiative to expose girls aged 15 to 17 to the careers available in technology. Support for teenage girls studying maths and sciences currently tends to funnel them into medicine or research, says Mary Helmig, director of TechGirls. The girls from eight countries – from Algeria to Yemen – take a three-week course in the US, including 50 hours of tech training such as coding and website design. More than 100 have taken part since the programme started in 2012.
TechGirls urges its participants to give back, with some of 2015's graduates volunteering with UNHCR or the Red Cross. They are also required to share their skills, with many setting up computer clubs at their schools.
The girls learn confidence as well as coding. This is partly through travel, exposure to jobs through a work placement and the programme's region-wide approach. "A lot of the confidence comes from meeting other women and knowing they are not the only ones who are this smart and taking on these big subjects," explains Helmig.
For the TechGirls, the programme seems to be working. Rasha has changed her major from medicine to computer science; she now wants to become a software engineer. Others don't even have labels yet for the future employment they are imagining for themselves.
"My dream is to pursue a technology career in healthcare. Even if the job doesn't exist, I'm going to do my best to create it," says an enthusiastic Sonia Zoghlami, from Tunisia. "We need to show women the awesomeness of technology. It's not a 'man's thing'."
Technology is a new weapon in the war against violence that restricts women's lives. After the fatal gang rape of a young woman in Delhi, India, in 2012, ElsaMarie D'Silva set up Safecity, a digital tool that collects reports of sexual violence – from catcalls and stalking, to sexual assault – to map harassment hotspots.
"Non-verbal and verbal violence is equally debilitating. It limits movement and women's potential," says D'Silva.
Inspired by Egypt's HarassMap, women can go online or miss-call Safecity to report an incident, or tweet to #pinthecreep. Technology alone, however, is not enough. After an initial flurry of stories, Safecity found the number of reports began to dwindle. "We found many women didn't realise what they were experiencing was sexual violence. They didn't know how to identify it," D'Silva says.
Safecity started working with neighbourhood NGOs to raise awareness and has held workshops for more than 4,000 people in four cities. Today, it receives around 10 reports a day, mostly from Delhi and Mumbai, with 6,300 reports in total.
Data in hand, Safecity lobbies for practical progress, such as changing behaviour through murals and street plays. By approaching local authorities, it has helped to modify police patrol timings, fix street lighting and unlock public toilets where women were once vulnerable to attack.
"Data is important because you're no longer working on individual cases where it's easy to turn the spotlight on the victim," explains D'Silva. "The beauty of data is that it makes a trend visible and forces action."


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You should enjoy your car shopping experience. Sitting behind the wheel is one of the best feelings you can have, and it stands to reason that the buying process should also be enjoyable. Many people feel that car shopping is stressful, but that doesn't have to be. Keep these tips in mind to have the best shopping experience possible.
If you pay the sticker price, you are basically throwing money at the dealer. Never pay the sticker price for cars. These prices are jacked up on purpose in order to make room for haggling with the customer; therefore, you should take full advantage of talking it down.
Get a third-party mechanic involved in your analysis of the car. If the seller or dealer declines, take your business elsewhere. Good mechanics will be able to see major problems like previous wrecks or water damage.
Don't pay the sticker price on a car. What the dealers list on the sticker is not what they actually think they will get. If you don't think you can properly negotiate, bring along someone who can. Know what the fair selling price is before you go so you have some idea of what you want to pay.
It will take a lot of time during your day to purchase a car. It is a bad idea to be in a rush, because it might cause you to make a poor deal. It is in your best interest to set aside an entire morning or afternoon. If you are pressed for time, you should leave and return the following day.
Get recommendations from people you trust. Do they have a car they love? Do they regret purchasing it? What are they hearing in terms of cars they'd wish to have? If you are interested in purchasing a new vehicle, this article will give you some great advice.
It can be exhausting, as well as exciting, to purchase a new car. Use your computer and the Internet for comparison shopping to save yourself a lot of dollars and time. There are several online sites that consolidate information from various private owners and dealerships so that you can conduct a side-by-side comparison shopping of different vehicles and their amenities and asking price. This will help you to figure out what cars you should actually go out and visit a dealership to test drive.
A good way to figure out what kind of car is ideal for you is by attending an auto show. Auto shows are the best place to directly make vehicle comparisons. You can also talk to people who know a lot about cars. Once you visit an auto show, you should possess more knowledge on the vehicles that interest you.
If you are looking for a car, you should take your buddy along to help you out. This person can assist you in making any emotional decisions. Bring them with you while you take a test drive so you're able to see the negatives from a different perspective.
People cower at the thought of shopping for a car, but it doesn't have to be scary. These few things can make your shopping experience enjoyable. Make sure you put the above tips into action the next time you're out car shopping.