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Last night, after a long hiatus, Louis C.K.'s beloved comedy Louie returned with back-to-back episodes. In the second, "Model," the following scenario plays out. A lonely, isolated rich person approaches a younger, poorer person for a sexual assignation. We're talking about an older man and younger woman here. The rich person obviously sees something we don't in the poorer person, who is just at their worst here—awkward and unkempt. They have sex. Things go awry. The episode is hailed as genius. Louis C.K. is welcomed back to television with open arms.
But look at the plot again. With the exception of the violent end to the episode of Louie (he accidentally clocks his sex partner in the face), doesn't this plot bear a striking resemblance to the controversial Season 2 episode of Girls, "One Man's Trash"? Patrick Wilson played a brownstone-dwelling man who was recently separated from his wife and is attracted to and briefly captivated by Hannah. The outcry in response to that episode was striking. With the cruel but expected Internet commentary ("Patrick Wilson is so hot he would never do Lena Dunham") echoed by more respected, critical voices. Slate critic Daniel Engber wrote,
In sum, the episode felt like a finger poked in my guys-on-Girls eyeball, or a double-dog dare for me to ask, How can a girl like that get a guy like this? Am I small-minded if I'm stuck on how this fantasy is too much of a fantasy and remembering what Patrick Wilson's real-life partner looks like?
Louie's assignation with the stunningly gorgeous model played by Yvonne Strahovski was met with zero public outcry. And, as far as critical commentary is concerned, the best I can find is the A.V. Club's baffling ode to fantasy women that kicks off their review of "Model." (That same writer, to be fair, loved "One Man's Trash.") The answer here is fairly obvious. It was even pointed out in that problematic Slate review. We're conditioned to recognize and readily accept the Louis/Yvonne dynamic. "Viewers have, for generations, imagined that Al could get Peggy and Homer could get Marge and Jim Belushi could snag Courtney Thorne-Smith." Or, to modernize the reference, that Ed O'Neill could get Sofia Vergara.
In all these instances, as well as the scenarios at play on both Girls and Louie, the presumption is that if physical attraction is not on the table (and I, for one, would never argue that C.K. and Dunham lack physical allure), then something else must be at play. Dunham made this same argument when reacting to the "One Man's Trash" controversy:
Can you not imagine a world in which a girl who's sexually down for anything and oddly gregarious pulls a guy out of his shell for two days? They're not getting married. They're spending two days [having sex], which is something that people do.
I could definitely see someone trying to argue that C.K.'s character is more charming/endearing than Dunham's character and could therefore, understandably, be seen as more desirable. Your mileage may vary on Hannah Horvath, but you can't deny that she's not at her best when Patrick Wilson's character finds her digging through his trash. But she's no less desirable than Louie in this episode, who, in an ill-fitting security guard's coat, is all stammers and pratfalls and failed stand-up routines.
Why is Dunham's attempt to paint a loving but self-skewering portrait met with jeers and rejection? Why is Louie allowed to lie to his partners, fail over and over, and blow up the trope that being a great dad means you can never lose patience? Can you imagine Hannah getting away with this?
Both of these talented writers/comedians challenge you, almost dare you, to sympathize with their characters. The comedy that you get from both Louie and Girls comes from stretching yourself to understand these messy, emotionally tumultuous people. Hannah is still something of a child; Louie is, without question, a man-child. Why is one so much harder to understand? There are certainly other differences besides gender that divide these two shows. Hannah is ostensibly poor, but she comes from a world of privilege. That can be off-putting to some. The tone of C.K.'s show is more fantasy surreality, where Girls is grounded in realism. And, of course, there's the question of Dunham's ever "problematic" nudity. When it comes to body image, Lena challenges you to accept her body and Louie invites you to mock his.
But, ultimately, Louis can make light of his body because of gender. It's a different sexual game entirely for not stick-thin men than it is for women. You need only look at the complete lack of controversy around the Louie premiere to see that. Knowing C.K.'s admiration for Dunham, I can't imagine the clear parallels between "Model" and "One Man's Trash" are accidental and I'm not the first person to point them out. Both Matt Zoller Seitz on Vulture and Willa Paskin on Slate drew similar parallels. Both also accurately predicted the lack of backlash coming C.K.'s way.(Even if the events of "Model" are somewhat based on a true story.) Neither Hannah nor Louie should be "called out" for being out of their league. The conventional rules of attraction that television and film have imprinted on us truly don't often translate to the real world. But the fact that one was called out and the other wasn't is regrettable and says more about us than it does about them.
Links to articles by Matt Zoller-Seitz and Willa Paskin were added after the article was originally published.


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Danbury man takes plea deal in 2006 death
His public defender, Rory Chapdelaine, and prosecutors have worked out a deal where he will get 33 years in prison for stabbing Cruz, a seamstress, in August 2006.
"A murder would require an intent to take a life," Chapdelaine said. "There's a psychiatric history in this case."
According to police, a week before the killing Estrada was threatening suicide and murder in Newtown, where he had been living with friends who had taken him in because he had been living out of his car.
"He was going to kill himself with a knife and 'take someone out with him,'" Newtown police said in an August 2006 crisis intervention report.
Estrada, a former electrical assembly worker, was taking medication for back pain and for depression, according to authorities.
Chapdelaine said that a few days before the killing Estrada was taken to Danbury Hospital, where he told a psychiatrist he wanted to kill himself and others. He was not admitted to the hospital, she said.
Hospital officials were unavailable Friday afternoon, and Chapdelaine declined to discuss Estrada's psychiatric problems.
State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky had no comment.
As a result of Estrada's plea bargain, which he accepted Sept. 26 in Superior Court, he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter, risk of injury to a minor and carrying a dangerous weapon. He will receive a 20-year sentence on the manslaughter charge, 10 years for risk of injury and three years on the weapons charge.
Estrada's sentencing is set for Dec. 5.

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Church Plants That Bear Fruit
A 50-year-old man travels regularly alone for days through the rugged, sweltering jungle mountains near the Sepik River tributaries in Papua New Guinea. His name is Suduwama and he is a church leader among the Bisorio people. Suduwama has a vision to tell the story of the Lord Jesus Christ to those who live in remote mountain regions and to disciple younger believers. His journey is the future of the Church.
The Bisorio were once exclusively tribal animists who had no knowledge of God's love or the Bible's message of hope. But in the early 1980s, missionaries moved into a Bisorio village along the Yokopas River. These missionaries worked patiently. They learned the language, studied the culture, and established relationships with Bisorio men, women, and children. They explored the culture deeply, learning how the Bisorio people perceived reality. And only then did they begin to minister.
Beginning in Genesis, the missionaries told God's story, laying foundations for understanding. As the narrative of the Bible unfolded, a community of Christ-followers formed in the village that was unusually strong, and the missionaries took note of this. Using the same, slow method, these missionaries planted other churches in neighboring Bisorio communities, with each new church plant proving to be as strong as the previous. Individuals, families, and neighborhoods were transformed as the Bible's story powerfully displaced the Bisorio's old animistic worldview.
Those missionaries are gone now. They are no longer needed in the region. Suduwama is but one of many Bisorio who have taken their place, enlarging the Church by spreading the word of Jesus Christ. This is what happens when church plants take root and bear fruit.
The methods followed by those missionaries are the very methods that WRG was created to promote. Those missionaries are George and Harriet Walker, cofounders of WRG.


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Then the Sunset.....
I have said this so many times already - but we do get the best sunsets here in Scarborough. After the heavy storm we had the other day - we had the most perfect sunset!
The tide was out and the reflection on the water, and in the puddles made by the heavy rain were so spectacular.
I never get tired of taking pics of this magnificence
And Lucky and Girl, exhausted by the stress of the thunder and lightning, shared a basket to relax and recover from it all!
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Europa Granted 2 Year Extension to PEDL 143
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has been granted a two year extension to the PEDL 143 License in the Weald Basin, Surrey, UK, by the Oil & Gas Authority.
This will enable Europa to drill the conventional Holmwood prospect between late 2016 and the first half of 2017, according to the company. The Holmwood prospect has estimated gross mean unrisked prospective resources of 5.6 million barrels of oil in Portlandian and Corallian sandstones and a P90 – P10 range of resources of between 1 and 11 million barrels of oil.
PEDL 143 is located in an area of the Weald Basin where 30 million barrels have been produced to date from 14 oil and gas fields. Planning permission is in place for a deviated exploration well to be drilled at Holmwood which will penetrate similar stratigraphy to Horse Hill, targeting oil in Upper and Lower Kimmeridge Limestones in addition to Corallian and Portlandian sandstones.
"The license extension was necessary to drill the 5.6 million barrels of oil Holmwood prospect in late 2016/H1 2017," said Europa CEO Hugh Mackay in a company statement.
"We are looking forward to drilling this conventional prospect which we rate as having a one in three chance of success, as we focus on further growing our UK onshore production, which is on track to more than double to in excess of 250 bopd in H2 2016 when the Wressle discovery comes on stream."
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- BLOG: Can Europa Get a Farm-In Partner at FEL 3/13? (Jul 26)
- Europa Oil & Gas Completes Shale Petroleum UK Acquisition (Aug 15)
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I dabbed some clear polish on my nails where I wanted the studs to go and stuck on the gold studs one by one. Then I painted quick dry topcoat nail polish over everything to make sure the studs stay on. Without the topcoat, I'm pretty sure the studs wouldn't last a day with me. With the topcoat, they lasted about a week, which is pretty good for me!
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KISS – FM and Radio – One salutes the late great Arthur Ashe, Jr on this date, Wednesday, July 10th, 2013, which marks what would have been Arthur's 70th Birthday. The Richmond native, whose story is well known around the sports world as he beat the streets of RVA to go on to legendary achievements in the world of professional tennis.
While a student at UCLA, Arthur Ashe, Jr., became the first African-American player named to the prestigious Davis Cup Tennis team representing the United States. Ashe also went on to win three Grand Slam titles in his career, including the U. S. Open and Wimbledon. His statue continues to stand tall along Historic Monument Avenue here in the Capital City.
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post started by Breaking the Spine to showcase books we are patiently awaiting.
My WoW for the week:
For three years, Miranda Grey-Solomon has kept her role as Vampire Queen of the South separate from her Grammy-winning music career. But now, her dual lives are starting to collide, threatening everything Miranda and David, her Prime, have worked for.
The entire Signet Council has descended upon Austin for its ten-year summit, bringing with it Prime James Hart of the Northeast, a sworn enemy come to take his revenge on those who defied him. But Miranda and David receive an unexpected offer of help from David's sire, an ancient and powerful vampire with knowledge that may be their salvation-or their doom.
Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Ace (March 27, 2012)
Language: English


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FCC Auction 66 for Advanced Wireless Service Underway
Bidding got underway last week in the opening round in FCC Auction 66 for Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) licenses in the 1.7 and 2.1 GHz bands.
The list of "Top 10 Bidders by Net Provisionally Winning Bids" showed T-Mobile License LLC, Dolan Family Holdings LLC, SpectrumCo LLC, Cricket License (Reauction) Inc., and MetroPCS AWS LLC as the top five bidders. The T-Mobile PWBs totaling over $1.1 billion would give it 31 licenses reaching 399,233,443 people. The next three bidders PWBs totaled over $200 million each, with the MetroPCS bids coming in at just over $178 million.
Follow what some commentators have called the biggest FCC spectrum auction since cellular on the FCC Auction 66 Web site. The Web site has complete information on the auction, including current auction results.
For a short, easy-to-read summary of the AWS rules for the service and the auction, including links to other FCC documents on AWS, see the Small Entity Compliance Guide -- Advanced Wireless Services Spectrum (AWS-1 Auction) released last week.


text: It is birthday season at Casa Shim and we also have quite a few friends who share April birthdays. Here is a simple birthday package for a sweet little three-year old. Kraft paper always creates the perfect base for a package. Add a simple and colorful Happy Birthday label along with three stripes of washi tape and you are good to go!


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NIM07084 - Class 1 NICs: Payments made under employment legislation - Insolvency of employer - Payments made out of the National Insurance Fund - What is and is not earnings for NICs purposes
As explained in NIM07082, the Secretary of State for Tradeand Industry can make certain specified payments out of the National Insurance Fund. Butnot all of those payments are earnings within the definition in section 3(1) of the SocialSecurity Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.
In order to decide whether a certain payment should or should not be included in the grossamount of earnings, it is necessary to establish precisely what payments are being made.The following table shows what payments are liable to NICs and which ones are not.
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- medical suspension payment
- maternity suspension payment
protective award Yes
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NIM07052 | | Payment in lieu of notice or for failure to give such notice | Depends on whether payment contractual or not. If it is, include in gross pay; if not, it is not liable for NICs | NIM02520 | | Holiday pay | Yes | NIM02200 | | Basic award of compensation for unfair dismissal | No | NIM02510 for general guidance on compensation | | Reimbursement of the whole or part of any fee paid by an apprentice or articled clerk | No | NIM05020 |
See NIM02010 for general information about themeaning of earnings.


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NCID is a centre developed by Tan Tock Seng hospital to contain Infectious Diseases in this facility and also to treat patients in this facility. The facility is build beside the existing Tan Tock Seng Hospital. It will serve to give more specialised and intensive attention to the patients admitted in the facility.


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The WITF Travel Club is planning another unique travel opportunity abroad. On this trip travelers will step into days gone by in vibrant Old Havana. This section of the city is bursting with a variety of color and textures and is alive with the soul of Cuba. Founded in 1519 by the Spanish, this remarkable section of Havana was the largest port in the Caribbean for centuries and has been named a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's known for its well-preserved historic architecture. Stroll along its alleyways and pass an array of buildings that include private homes, arcades, boutique hotels and government buildings all adorned with elaborate carvings, wrought-iron and colorful paint. As you explore Old Havana, discover its friendly people that fill its lively plazas. They are the heartbeat of the city and a big part of what makes it so special.
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Meet James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 19th-century joker and world-renowned Shakespearean scholar who lived on the outskirts of Brighton.
There in his 'rustic wigwam' (a series of conjoined sheds), he obsessively curated a huge hoard of Shakespearean rarities.
Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, artist Marc Rees has devised a unique promenade performance through Roedale Allotments, close to the site of this eccentric recluse's former home.
Marc's Brighton Festival show offers you the chance to explore sheds and hideaways, discover an assortment of Shakespearean characters reborn in knitted form and gather a wealth of horticultural tips along the way.
You'll also meet the Allotmenteers and other community participants, Marc promises.
"It's just extraordinary really," Marc says. "I first came across him in an article in The Guardian. He was this fascinating character who lived in these conjoined sheds in the early-19th century. We do know a bit about him. He was one of the world's greatest Shakespeare scholars, and he had lots of rare papers and manuscripts on Shakespeare but was also pivotal in saving and preserving where Shakespeare was born in Stratford. In honour of Shakespeare, he even clad his conjoined sheds in mock Tudor style.
"I was just drawn to him and thought it would be fantastic to do something about him. I went to where his sheds where, but what I came across was this beautiful valley full of sheds. I thought it would be great to work with all the allotment holders to celebrate the story. I approached them, and they were intrigued and were wanting to know more. The idea was born that I would work with them. They are not performers. They are not participating. The idea is that it is a trail. Part of the trail goes between these 12 sheds, and I have found a way of working with certain of Shakespeare's characters who are reborn in knitted form.
"Framing it is this character Halliwell-Phillipps who is being portrayed by a Spanish dancer. He is extraordinary. I wanted to explore this character physically, but he won't speak. But we will also have the original person (Charles Nicholl) who wrote The Guardian article, Shakespeare's Scholar Tramp.
"It is all very specific. You get bused from Brighton. We don't want masses of people. We want to respect the allotments, and it will go ahead whatever the weather. Hopefully it will be lovely weather in May. But really we want people to come prepared. They should bring wellies and raincoat and sun cream!
"I will be your guide. We are working with a youth group that will represent the fairies form A Midsummer Night's Dream, and at certain points on the trail, there will be interventions…"
The trail is open on Brighton Festival weekends, Saturday and Sunday May 7 and 8, 14 and 15 and 21 and 22, 10.30am and 2.30pm. Meeting point: Old Steine bus stop S (opposite Royal Albion Hotel) for your journey to Roedale Valley Allotments.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps will be portrayed Guillermo Weickert Molina.
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text: 0 comments 0 shares on Facebook 0 tweets on Twitter 0 shares on Linkedin Radio Marine, amateur and CB radio Amateur licensing The amateur service is designed primarily to facilitate hobby radiocommunications and for technical experimentation and operates on specified frequency bands. Amateur radio operators communicate using transmission modes including, but not limited to, Morse code, telephony and data. Anyone can listen to the amateur bands using a receiver, but to transmit, operator qualifications and a licence issued by the ACMA are required. Existing arrangements for the way amateur radio qualifications are conferred are due to expire in early 2019. As a result, the ACMA is reviewing new approaches to amateur radio qualification arrangements and has released a public consultation paper. Comments on the approaches described in the paper are sought by COB 2 July 2018. Amateur Licence Examinations and Certifications An amateur apparatus licence is issued to authorise a station that: is operated for the purposes of self-training in radiocommunications; intercommunication using radiocommunications; and technical investigation into radiocommunications by persons who do so solely with a personal aim, and who have no pecuniary interest in the outcome of the operations of the station; is operated on amateur frequencies or amateur frequency bands; and may participate in the amateur-satellite service. Persons wishing to obtain an Amateur Certificate of Proficiency, need to pass an appropriate approved examination. An agreement is in place between the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) and the ACMA for the provision of amateur examinations. The WIA has responsibility for providing examinations and overseeing persons or organisations assessing examination candidates. The WIA issues all new Amateur Certificates of Proficiency. Candidates who successfully pass an amateur examination may apply to the WIA for the issue of a Certificate of Proficiency, appropriate to the level of examination. Details of the administrative arrangements for examinations and issuing Certificates of Proficiency are set out in the WIA Business Rules for the management of Amateur Examinations, Certificates of Proficiency and Associated Administrative Service - Word (325 kb) or PDF (669 kb). More information about examinations may be obtained from the WIA at www.wia.org.au. Examination formats and grades of proficiency Re-examination of qualified operators Appeals and dispute settlement Recognition for prior learning (RPL) Minimum age Replacement certificates Cancellation of certificates Reciprocal arrangements Further information Examination formats and grades of proficiency There are three grades of Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency. These are: Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (Advanced) (AOCP(A)); Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (Standard) (AOCP(S)); and Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (Foundation) (AOCP(F)). The WIA issues Amateur Certificates of Proficiency. The holder of a Certificate of Proficiency is then entitled to apply to the ACMA for an amateur licence. Table 1 details each type of Certificate of Proficiency and its various subject requirements. Table 1 - Certificate of Proficiency Types and Requirements Examination Subject Requirement for each Grade of Certificate AOCP(A) AOCP(S) AOCP(F) Amateur Theory Yes - Advanced Theory paper Yes - Standard Theory paper Yes - combined Foundation Theory / Foundation Regulations paper Regulations Yes - Advanced / Standard Regulations paper Yes - Advanced / Standard Regulations paper Practical Yes Yes Yes See below for further information about the syllabus for each certificate type. More information may also be found on the WIA website www.wia.org.au Examination formats and syllabi AOCP(A) The AOCP(A) syllabus and related examination reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required to safely assemble and operate an amateur station at the highest level without interference to other users and services. The AOCP(A) comprises a 50 question multiple choice examination in Theory, a 30 question multiple choice examination in Regulations and a Practical assessment. AOCP(S) The AOCP(S) syllabus and related examination reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required to safely assemble and operate an amateur station at an intermediate level without interference to other users and services. The AOCP(S) comprises a 50 question multiple choice examination in Theory, a 30 question multiple choice examination in Regulations and a Practical assessment. AOCP(F) The AOCP(F) syllabus and related examination reflects the minimum level of knowledge, skills and experiences required to safely assemble and operate an amateur station at an entry level, without interference to other users and services. The AOCP(F) comprises a 25 question multiple choice combined Theory/Regulations examination and a practical assessment. Re-examination of qualified operators The ACMA may re-examine a qualified operator if, at any time, it has reasonable grounds for believing that person will probably be unable to achieve satisfactory results in an applicable examination. The ACMA may give to the operator a written request that the operator submit himself or herself to an examination, or a further examination. The request must set out: particulars of the examination in question; and the time and place of the examination in question; and whether the operator has refused or failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a request under the relevant section of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 (the Act). The examination or further examination referred to above will be conducted by the ACMA. Appeals and dispute settlement Where the WIA and a candidate are unable to resolve a dispute in connection with the results of an amateur examination, the WIA will refer the matter to the ACMA. The ACMA may direct the WIA to take whatever action the ACMA considers appropriate. The WIA should be contacted for more information on the appeals process. Recognition for prior learning (RPL) Under certain circumstances, the WIA may grant exemption(s) from one or more subjects in an amateur operator examination if a person holds equivalent, or higher, qualifications covering the appropriate portion of the relevant amateur syllabus. RPL is dependant upon a number of factors, including the type of qualification and the time it was conferred. The WIA will not issue a Certificate of Proficiency on the basis of RPL, unless the candidate has passed at least one part of an approved examination, and ordinarily two parts, namely the practical assessment and the regulations qualification. Examination candidates should contact the WIA for more information on RPL. Minimum age There are no minimum age limits for Amateur Certificates of Proficiency. Australian Amateur Certificates of Proficiency will be issued by the WIA, on application, to any person who demonstrates, at examination, that he or she possesses the necessary knowledge and skills. Replacement certificates If an Amateur Certificate of Proficiency is lost, defaced, destroyed, or a change of name has occurred, the certificate holder may obtain a replacement by making a written application to the WIA. More information on replacement certificates may be found on the WIA website www.wia.org.au. The ACMA will issue replacement certificates for those originally issued prior to 2 February 2009, including certificates for the following proficiencies: Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (AOCP); Amateur Operator's Limited Certificate of Proficiency (AOLCP); Novice Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (NAOCP); and Novice Limited Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (NLAOCP). The Amateur licence information paper details Certificates of Proficiency requirements for amateur licensing options. Cancellation of certificates Under subsection 124(1) of the Act, ACMA may, by written notice given to a qualified operator, cancel an amateur operator's Certificate of Proficiency. The notice must include the reason for the cancellation. Subsection 124(3) of the Act specifies the matters to which the ACMA must have regard in deciding to cancel a certificate. Cancellations of Amateur Certificates of Proficiency are reviewable under Part 5.6 of the Act. Reciprocal arrangements Reciprocal licensing arrangements between countries result from comparative assessments of each country's qualifications and licences, and include the establishment of a formal reciprocal licensing agreement. Table A lists the countries with which Australia has reciprocal licensing arrangements and details the overseas qualifications/licences and their Australian equivalents. Arrangements for participation in European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications (CEPT) Australia's AOCP, AOLCP and AOCP(A) qualifications are recognised under CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-02 which makes it possible for participating administrations to issue amateur qualifications that are mutually recognised. This is underpinned by a common qualification arrangement known as the Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate (HAREC). This benefits Australian amateurs because, by the establishment of the T/R 61-02 agreement with CEPT, other participating countries recognise Australian amateur qualifications, without the need for Australia to establish and maintain bilateral reciprocal licensing arrangements. From October 2005 until March 2008, while the Advanced examination syllabus was being approved by CEPT, the Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (Advanced) did not have HAREC endorsement. Replacement certificates with the HAREC endorsement may be obtained from the ACMA or the WIA (depending on the original issue date). Australia's amateur licence (amateur advanced station) is recognised under CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-01. Amateurs holding that licence may operate in participating CEPT countries during short visits without having to obtain a licence from those countries. Operating conditions are those of the country visited and not those applicable to the amateur licence (amateur advanced station). Amateur licences (amateur advanced station) issued from 4 June 2008 include an Advisory Note in English, French and German that indicates that the licence accords with the CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-01. Amateurs holding licences without that Advisory Note may apply for a replacement licence. Other equivalent overseas qualifications Some overseas qualifications or licences have been recognised by the ACMA as being equivalent to an Australian qualification or licence. Table B lists those countries from which equivalent qualifications or licences have been recognised and details the overseas qualifications/licences and their Australian equivalents. Circumstances where no equivalent overseas qualifications exist Australia has implemented licensing arrangements that accommodate overseas amateurs visiting Australia who do not hold a qualification or licence recognised by Australia. It is a matter for individual countries to decide whether an Australian amateur qualification is acceptable for the purpose of operating in that country. Licences, if they are issued, may be issued with conditions. Further information Further information about amateur licences may be found in the documents entitled Amateur operating procedures and Amateur licence information paper. If you have any additional queries relating to examinations and certification, please contact the WIA: Wireless Institute of Australia PO Box 2042 Bayswater VIC 3153 Certificate of proficiency and callsign arrangements On 28 January 2009, the ACMA contracted the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) to issue amateur certificates of proficiency and manage amateur callsigns, in addition to the provision of amateur examinations. The WIA provides these services to the amateur community as the ACMA's authorised delegate. The WIA also issues callsign recommendations to amateurs wishing to be issued an amateur licence. This includes amateurs who wish to vary their licences (where there is a change in callsign). Details of the administrative arrangements for examinations and issuing Certificates of Proficiency are set out in the WIA Business Rules for the management of Amateur Examinations, Certificates of Proficiency and Associated Administrative Service - PDF (669 kb). Further information may be obtained from the WIA via their website www.wia.org.au. Additional information The following pages provide additional information relating to amateur licensing: Amateur aparatus licences - Provides a summary of most matters pertaining to amateur licensing in Australia. Amateur examinations and certification - Provides a summary of how to become a qualified operator for the purposes of being issued an amateur transmitter licence. Examination and certification services are provided by the WIA, a delegate of the ACMA. Links to the relevant syllabi may also be found on this page. Amateur callsigns - The provision of amateur callsigns is managed by the WIA, a delegate of the ACMA. Further information relating to callsigns can be found on the WIA website. Operating procedures - Provides a summary of amateur operating practices, including some conditions relevant to the operation of amateur stations in Australia. Links to the legislation governing the operation of amateur stations in Australia may be found on this page. Overseas amateurs visiting Australia - Provides a summary of the licensing arrangements pertaining to overseas visitors, including a class licence that authorises operation for up to three months, subject to the conditions of the licence. Last updated: 07 June 2018


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That's what I'm tempted to post to our local freecycle group. I'm not looking for a heart for myself, but for our "tin-person" moderators. Let me explain. Over the past few weeks, there have been a series of arson fires in a nearby town–including one that cost 8 or 9 families everything but their lives and the clothes on their backs. Several people posted to the county freecycle group to solicit donations to help these people out. To which one of our moderators posted:
ADMIN: Donations for victims of [town name] Fires
Several members have made posts asking for donations for the victims
of the [town name] fires. While we have sympathy for those affected
by the fires, we must remind members that Freecycle(TM) is not a
charity organization. This is not the appropriate venue for
coordinating a relief effort.
Information posts are not allowed on this group, but may be submitted
to our chat site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/%5Bgroup name]
Thank you for your cooperation,
The Moderator Team
Yes, I know freecycle isn't a place for a relief effort. However, it is a grassroots movement. Therefore, it should be very much tied into local events, especially tragedies. But, let's take a look at the freecycle mission statement.
Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.
Let me break down these posts seeking help for these fire-impacted families as I see it:
- gifting movement: yes definitely encourages gifting
- reduces waste: no
- saves precious resources: yes/perhaps I would argue that it does by easing the burden on the Red Cross, etc.
- eases the burden on our landfills: no
- enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community: most definitely yes
I'll admit, that doesn't result in a resounding yes towards meeting the mission, but it's far from a responding no either. I can respect the moderators wanting to keep the groun on-topic and keep the "junk" messages to a minimum. But, chastising people for seeking to help a group of families which just lost all their earthly possessions is just cold and heartless.


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Charming the world with its luxury goods and opulent jewelry, the Swarovski Cinderella Crystal Collection includes accessories, fashion jewelry and figurines. Each piece pays tribute to the blonde haired icon from her notorious glass slipper to her widely recognized blue ball gown. While the figurines in this Disney crystal collection are more straightforward with their princess appeal, the jewelry within this lineup are inspired by nature.
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Mississippi GOP Chairman Joe Nosef appeared ready to take extreme steps to ensure that party loyalists are sent as delegates to the Republican National Convention instead of those who support the candidate who actually won the state.
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who won the state by 11 points, was likely to be represented by delegates in favor of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has only won a single state.
A text message sent by Nosef to the Trump campaign warned that any effort to promote Trump delegates at the upcoming caucus would result in possible arrest by the state Highway Patrol.
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"We will never apologize for making sure we have a professional, safe environment for our Republican Party events, and more importantly our people deserve it. This year more than ever our people have expressed concerns about their safety, and as always we will maintain order," Nosef told Breitbart in a response to the leaking of his text, which you can read below:
The bottom line is I told you this can happen one of two ways either we work together and include people that we trust and also happen to be Trump and Cruz supporters or we just put whoever we want to on there have a big fight and end up in the contest committee in Cleveland. And like I told you I can promise my cousin and anybody else if they even so much as raise their voice they're going to be outside in the parking lot and they won't be back in and no I won't be removing them somebody with a gun and a badge will be. — Text from Chairman Nosef to Trump campaign staffer Mitch Tyner
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Nosef's intent seemed to be to define any introduction of new people at any caucuses as a potential safety threat to the existing establishment. His threat would therefore seem to have extended to supporters of Sen. Ted Cruz as well.
Mississippi is home to former governor and Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, who ran the 1976 campaign that selected establishment moderate Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan.
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You don't have to be much of a student of history to remember how well that worked out for Republicans and the nation.
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Ceremony is a questionably experimental album by Spooky Tooth from 1967. It attempts to employ found-object sounds to create something more unique and surreal, along with the theme of a Church service. On paper, everything seems like it'd work and sounds extremely interesting. In practice, and due to the limitations at the time, however, it really doesn't come together very well.
Underneath all the breathing sounds, poles being banged on, and strange low-fi attempts at synth - there is a solid, albeit rather plain, album to experience. It isn't bad, somewhat enjoyable at times. But, my god, what could've been relatively good is put through the grinder by sounds that lay almost completely on-top of the music. Worse yet, none of these tones seem to follow any sort of structure, rhyme, or reason. You can very much tell the idea was there but the execution was not.
There are exceptions, however, which do show me why there is somewhat of a cult-following with this album. Songs like Jubilation (titled 'Credo' on some releases) do show promise, though I can tell you right now that even that song falls into a uncomfortable (and somewhat hilarious) awkwardness. While the song shows some real use of the medium at first, and the music behind it becomes very good - the song gets almost stupid half-way through when someone thought it'd be wonderful to have some people going 'bo-bo-bobo' continuously over the mix. Why? Was there some insecurities as to the music being played here?


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good morning. i know it's not quite halloween but halloween is one of those holidays that ALWAYS sneaks up on me. there really is so much to do before the spooky night, costumes, class parties, goodie bags, carnivals, etc. & it just plain sneaks up on me.
so, i've made it a tradition to start halloween cards & goodie bags in september. it was with this thought in mind, that i decided to create halloween cards for this post. knowing that the Glitz lines were not halloween lines, i turned to my fun save the date stamps from and the Distressing 1 stamps to begin my cards. i love these stamps, love that you can use them to distress a page/card or CREATE a background paper for a page/card, they are truly so much fun & so easy to use.
oct 31 card
i created the background paper using the distressing 1 stamps & some orange cardstock.
i created the ghost using the distressed couture blocks paper, stitched all around the ghost & added some black frosting for eyes. i then added teeny black alphas and the number 31 stamped using the save the date stamps.
love these vintage love journaling stickers for layering & adding fun embellishments
happy halloween card
i wanted the focal of this card to be this fun owl rub from the vintage wings rub ons. he is so cute & reminds me of all things that come out at night :)
i rubbed him onto white heavy-weight cardstock & then carefully cut him out & layered him on top of kraft cardstock with some mounting tape.
i stamped a backround using the save the date stamps & some black cardstock
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I know you usually receive this masterpiece before Christmas, but this holiday season has been hectic. Cash and I have been busy nursing our parents back to good health for the later half of December. Even though they got flu shots this year, they still developed a nasty case of the flu and then had ear infections and a sinus infection. They have had this croupy, yucky cough that makes them sound as if they are hacking up their lungs. We had to separate them because the two of them together and coughing made our house shake. Their voices also sound funny, as if they've been smoking multiple packs of cigarettes. We're so glad their sickness can't spread to us. They are finally feeling better!
|Look how beautiful I am in the glowing light of the holidays. :)
|Cash likes to nap in his cheese house. See how it complements his eyes.
The other exciting news about our mom is that she accepted a full-time position as a faculty lecturer in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky in August. She teaches four writing, public speaking and digital media classes each semester and has about 100 students total, ranging from "I want to clone this student because she/he is perfect" to "Reading your paper makes my eyes hurt." Her students now call her Dr. DeVito, and many of them have started addressing her as "Dr. D."
|Check out the cool UK gear and supplies they gave our mom on her first official day!
Our dad completed a summer internship at two dentist offices in Kentucky and learned a lot about how to run a successful practice.
He continues to see a variety of patients during his clinic schedule…a few wonderful patients, some OK patients and a number of insane patients who can't understand which end of the toothbrush to use. We were able to see many family members during 2014.
Grandpa Sam visited us for more than two weeks in June. He stayed so long that Cash and I thought our parents had adopted him (like they did us) and this would be his forever home.
|Yummy in the tummy!
|It might be hard to tell, but that's Grandpa Sam at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum in Versailes, KY
|Isn't cousin Ava the cutest? I wonder if she's as loud and has as much energy as cousin Adley?
During October, we finally had the chance to meet our human cousins, Judson and Adley. They drove up with Uncle Jason and Aunt Kristen and visited for several days. To say the kids LOVED us would be an understatement. Adley walked around the house mildly yelling, "Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!" for five straight days.
|As soon as they returned home from an adventure, Adley was wanting out of her cat seat to see the "KITTY!"
|Our parents took them to a fall festival at a local pumpkin patch where there also was a petting zoo and a hay fort!
Uncle Dave checked Judson's and Adley's teeth. They are doing a great job brushing and flossing! Check out those cool Halloween PJs.
Even though our mom officially graduated in August, UT doesn't have a summer graduation ceremony, so she participated in the December commencement ceremony. She had to wear a long gown and a funny-looking cap, and then her adviser had to place a hood over her head, so she spent all this time earning her degree and all she gets is a funny looking outfit?!
Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Amos drove up from Florida to see her in this costume, and then our mom got the biggest surprise of her life. She was at the hotel in Knoxville getting ready for the ceremony when suddenly there was a knock at the door, and guess who it was??? Judson, Uncle Jason and Aunt Kristen were outside!
|Judson was a great addition to graduation weekend. Our parents missed Adley, but she had lots of fun playing with JuJu, Papa and cousin Lukey-man back in Florida.
It was a busy year, but our Christmas was nice and quiet with our parents making a homemade meal of seafood pasta and roasted asparagus.
Cash wanted to see the new movie "The Interview" that deals with two Americans trying to assassinate the evil dictator of North Korea, but our parents didn't want him getting any ideas. Sometimes, I wish I could send Cash to North Korea. I have a strong feeling he wouldn't return. ☺ We hope you enjoyed a memorable holiday season, and we wish you the best in 2015!
Happy New Year, Sammie, Cash, and Drs. Allyson (Beutke) and David DeVito
P.S. I love waking up early on Saturdays to watch Tim Tebow on ESPN's College Gameday show. He does such a great job reading the teleprompter. I also think UF made the right decision in letting Coach Muschamp go since he clearly wasn't a champ. Maybe the new coach will work out. The third time is the charm, right? Go Gators! Go Vols! Go Cats!


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hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. thought i'd share a few from ours. mary and i got to spend it together for the first time in a few years. they made the treck down to texas and we got to spend an extra long weekend cooking, laughing, eating, drinking and just hanging out.
hopefully we'll be back on here regularly. here'd to starting off early on some new years goals!


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It's been almost a year since Kathryn Bigelow made history winning the best director Oscar and in that time she directed a pilot — Miraculous Year — for HBO that did not get picked up, put together a deal for studio picture — Triple Frontier — starring Tom Hanks that will film in the spring of 2011, and is actively pitching another indie film to be written by Mark Boal who wrote The Hurt Locker.
She's not a big public speaker and has never been known to talk about gender issues, or women or what it means to have been the first woman to win the best director Oscar, but she know she has clout.
And she rolled that clout out this week just as everyone is finalizing their Oscar nomination ballots. She introduced two private screenings of Winter's Bone in LA this week that included star Jennifer Lawrence and director Debra Granik.
Here's what she said to the Wrap in support of the film:
I just think it's a masterful film that deserves exposure – and if I can do anything to help it out, I'm happy to do it.
I was fascinated to meet her (Debra Granik), because the film is so perfectly crafted. The performances are extraordinary, Jennifer Lawrence is a star turn. And it's got this prescient knowing, this confidence you feel watching a film that's haunting and provocative.
It's just a magnificent film.
Way to use your power in support of women directors.
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YOU are always supposed to leave the audience wanting more. Jonathan Church and Alan Finch will do precisely that when they relinquish their posts next year after 11 remarkable seasons.
Their recent sets of predecessors at the venue left under a cloud, with the very future of the theatre at stake. Mr Church and Mr Finch seem certain to go out on a high – and you can't help but admire their sense of timing. Audience figures were in virtual freefall when they took over at the end of an era which had alienated so many.
Obscure co-productions and bizarre stagings had shifted the CFT away from the city's centre-stage.
Mr Finch and Mr Church were always diplomatic about the previous regime, but there was no doubting the theatre was in a mess.
Fast-forward a decade, and the theatre's fortunes couldn't be more different.
Having quickly doubled their summer audiences, Mr Finch and Mr Church took a look at the building itself and determined, as its 50th anniversary approached, it was uncomfortably past its sell-by date and tryingly inadequate for their fast-rising artistic ambitions.
In response, the duo secured £22m to fund a near total overhaul of the venue.
To make sure it didn't lose momentum, they erected a temporary tent for the summer season before last.
When the theatre reopened – a perfect combination of the new and the vastly-more comfortable – the audiences flocked, making 2014 the venue's best ever and the perfect platform for 2015.
For the first time this year, on the opening day of booking, the venue took more than a million pounds.
Now, as they contemplate their own personal futures, they leave behind them a superb tale of success.
They have made the theatre accessible and welcoming once again, they have shown the surest of instincts and they have more than restored the CFT's standing. They have restored its future.
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The Role of Functional Form in Estimating the Effect of a Cash-Only Food Stamp Program
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Mother suffers two heart attacks, one stroke since Nickfotoworks' owner went missing
It has been nothing but heartache and pain for the family and friends of popular photographer Niketa Thomas ever since he went missing last October.
His family and friends are begging for closure. To date, there has been no substantial leads into his disappearance.
According to Niketa's brother, Everton Thomas, the family has been longing for news regarding the photographer's whereabouts.
So distraught is Niketa's mother, that she has reportedly suffered two heart attacks and a stroke.
"My mother I don't know how she lived. She has been admitted to hospital twice. It is as a direct result of Nik's disappearance. They were very close," Thomas explained.
"She was admitted for heart failure, twice, and stroke. Nik and her were very close. It's been a really really rough time," he added.
Thomas is of the view that the police have been tight-lipped regarding the state of investigations into the matter, driving him to carry out tasks similar to that of a private investigator.
"Sometimes, the response is very heartrending. Most times when you ask questions, people say that they have been told not to venture there," he said.
Still, the family remains hopeful that Thomas will someday return home safe and sound.
Niketa's co-workers have sought to continue his legacy by carrying on the name of the business, 'Nickfotoworks'.
Jermaine Jackson, a photographer at Nickfotoworks, lamented the co-founder's disappearance. He refused to let the foundation he built fade into nothingness.
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"We still do shoots and bookings for parties, and all these things. His little bother, Glenroy, is the one that is doing the photo work right now," Jackson added.
Attempts made to reach the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Missing Person Monitoring Unit for an update proved futile.
Niketa Thomas and his cousin, Dwight Brown, have been missing since October 5 last year.
Police statistics indicate more than 16,730 persons have gone missing since January 2010, of which 1,681 have not been found.


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In 1983, South Coast Savings and Loan Association, a new institution, applied to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB or Board) for the approval necessary to obtain account insurance from the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). [n.1] Under FHLBB regulations, approval of new institutions was to be withheld if their "financial policies or management" were found to be "unsafe" for any of various reasons, including "character of the management." 12 CFR § 571.6(b) (1986). Accordingly, when FHLBB approved South Coast for FSLIC insurance in March 1984, it imposed a number of requirements, including the condition that South Coast "provide for employment of a qualified full time executive managing officer, subject to approval by the Principal Supervisory Agent"--FHLBB's term for the president of the regional Home Loan Bank when operating in his oversight capacity on behalf of FHLBB. Resolution No. 84-164, ¶10(p) (Mar. 29, 1984). The Board's resolution also required that, for a period of three years, any change in South Coast's chief management position be approved by FHLBB. Ibid.
Shortly after obtaining FHLBB's conditional approval, South Coast was succeeded in interest by Pioneer Savings and Loan Association, another new institution. Pioneer named respondent Pelletier as its managing officer, subject to FHLBB consent, which Pioneer sought in mid May 1985. Only a few weeks earlier, however, on April 23, 1985, FHLBB had declared insolvent Beverly Hills Savings and Loan Association, where respondent had at one time held a senior executive position. An inquiry by FSLIC pointed to potential misconduct by high level management of the failed institution, which ultimately became the subject of a FSLIC lawsuit against several Beverly Hills officers, including respondent.
The FSLIC suit had not yet been filed at the time Pioneer sought the Board's consent to hire respondent; but FSLIC's pending investigation into Beverly Hills' collapse caused petitioner Behrens, the FHLBB "Supervisory Agent" then responsible for monitoring Pioneer's operations, to write Pioneer on May 8, 1986, withholding approval and advising that respondent be replaced. On receipt of the letter Pioneer asked respondent to resign and, when he refused, fired him.
Three years later, in 1989, respondent brought suit in federal court, naming petitioner as defendant in a complaint that included Bivens damages claims for two alleged constitutional wrongs. See Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). Respondent charged, first, that petitioner's action in writing a letter that had effectively discharged him from his post-at Pioneer, in summary fashion and without notice or opportunity to be heard, violated his right to procedural due process. Second, he claimed that he had been deprived of substantive due process by petitioner's alleged interference with his "clearly established and Constitutionally protected property and liberty rights . . . to specific employment and to pursue his profession free from undue governmental interference." First Amended Complaint ¶38, reprinted in App. 7, 16. The complaint alleged that petitioner's letter, along with other, continuing efforts to harm his reputation, had cost respondent not only his position at Pioneer, but also his livelihood within the savings and loan industry. The complaint also contained other claims--against petitioner and against the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (petitioner's immediate employer), FHLBB, and the United States; none of these is relevant to the present appeal.
Petitioner filed a motion to dismiss or, in the alternative, for summary judgment. With regard to the Bivens claims, he asserted a statute of limitations defense and claimed qualified immunity from suit on the ground that his actions, taken in a governmental capacity, "d[id] not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 (1982). The District Court ruled in favor of petitioner on the statute of limitations ground and therefore dismissed the procedural due process Bivens claim, and the substantive due process Bivens claim to the extent it related to petitioner's letter and respondent's loss of employment at Pioneer. It refused, however, to dismiss respondent's suit "to the extent [it was] based on other alleged subsequent acts of defendan[t] preventing and continuing to prevent [respondent] from securing employment." Pelletier v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, No. CV 89-969 (CD Cal., Oct. 5, 1989), reprinted in App. 27-28. The court also denied petitioner's summary judgment motion, without prejudice, on the ground that it was premature given the lack of discovery.
Petitioner immediately appealed the District Court's implicit denial of his qualified immunity defense regarding the remaining Bivens claim. The Court of Appeals entertained the appeal, notwithstanding its interlocutory nature, holding that "a denial of qualified immunity is an appealable `final' order under the test set forth in Cohen v. Beneficial Indust. Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949) . . . , regardless of whether that denial takes the form of a refusal to grant a defendant's motion to dismiss or a denial of summary judgment." Pelletier v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, 968 F. 2d 865, 870 (CA9 1992). It said in dictum, however, that a defendant claiming qualified immunity could not "take advantage of the several opportunities for immediate appeal afforded him by bringing repeated pretrial appeals," and that "[o]ne such interlocutory appeal is all that a government official is entitled to and all that we will entertain." Id., at 870-871. On the merits of the appeal, the court rejected the argument that petitioner enjoyed qualified immunity because he had not violated any "clearly established right." It said that the question whether respondent had a constitutionally protected property interest in his Pioneer employment (subject, as it was, to regulatory approval) was not properly before the court, since the claims relating specifically to his discharge had been dismissed as time barred. Id., at 871-872. (The Court of Appeals noted in dictum, however, id., at 869, n. 6, that the District Court had applied an unduly short limitations period.) With respect to the claimed deprivation of post-Pioneer employment, the court held that the "nebulous theories of conspiracy" set out in respondent's complaint-- although "insufficient to survive a motion for summary judgment"--made out a proper Bivens claim. 968 F. 2d, at 872-873.
Upon remand, the District Court reversed its earlier statute of limitations ruling in light of the Court of Appeals' dictum, and reinstated the claims relating to employment at Pioneer. After discovery, petitioner moved for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds, contending that his actions had not violated any "clearly established" right of respondent regarding his employment at Pioneer or elsewhere. The District Court denied the motion with the unadorned statement that "[m]aterial issues of fact remain as to defendant Behrens on the Bivens claim." Pelletier v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, No. CV 89-0969 (CD Cal., Sept. 6, 1994), reprinted in App. to Pet. for Cert. 5a. Petitioner filed a notice of appeal, which, on respondent's motion, the District Court certified as frivolous. In an unpublished order, the Ninth Circuit dismissed the appeal "for lack of jurisdiction." Pelletier v. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, No. 94-56507 (CA9 Nov. 17, 1994), reprinted in App. to Pet. for Cert. 1a. We granted certiorari, 514 U. S. ___ (1995).
Section 1291 of Title 28, U. S. C., gives courts of appeals jurisdiction over "all final decisions" of district courts, except those for which appeal is to be had to this Court. The requirement of finality precludes consideration of decisions that are subject to revision, and even of "fully consummated decisions [that] are but steps towards final judgment in which they will merge." Cohen, supra, at 546. It does not, however, bar review of all prejudgment orders. In Cohen, we described a "small class" of district court decisions that, though short of final judgment, are immediately appealable because they "finally determine claims of right separable from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated." Ibid. See also Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority v. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., 506 U.S. 139, 142-145, (1993) (citing Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463, 468 (1978)). The issue in the present case is the extent to which orders denying governmental officers' assertions of qualified immunity come within the Cohen category of appealable decisions.
As set forth in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982), the qualified immunity defense "shield[s] [government agents] from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known," id., at 818 (citing Procunier v. Navarette, 434 U.S. 555, 565 (1978)). Harlow adopted this criterion of "objective legal reasonableness," rather than good faith, precisely in order to "permit the defeat of insubstantial claims without resort to trial." 457 U. S., at 819, 813. Unsurprisingly, then, we later found the immunity to be "an entitlement not to stand trial or face the other burdens of litigation, conditioned on the resolution of the essentially legal [immunity] question." Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U. S., at 526. And, as with district court rejection of claims to other such entitlements distinct from the merits, see, e.g., Puerto Rico Aqueduct, supra, at 145-146, (Eleventh Amendment immunity); Abney v. United States, 431 U.S. 651, 662 (1977) (right not to be subjected to double jeopardy), we held that "a district court's denial of a claim of qualified immunity, to the extent that it turns on an issue of law, is an appealable `final decision' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291 notwithstanding the absence of a final judgment." Mitchell, supra, at 530. See also Johnson v. Jones, 515 U. S. ___, ___%___ (1995) (slip op., at 6-7).
While Mitchell did not say that a defendant could appeal from denial of a qualified immunity defense more than once, [n.2] it clearly contemplated that he could raise the defense at successive stages:
"Unless the plaintiff's allegations state a claim of violation of clearly established law, a defendant pleading qualified immunity is entitled to dismissal before the commencement of discovery. Even if the plaintiff's complaint adequately alleges the commission of acts that violated clearly established law, the defendant is entitled to summary judgment if discovery fails to uncover evidence sufficient to create a genuine issue as to whether the defendant in fact committed those acts." 472 U. S., at 526 (citation omitted).
Thus, Mitchell clearly establishes that an order rejecting the defense of qualified immunity at either the dismissal stage or the summary judgment stage is a "final" judgment subject to immediate appeal. Since an unsuccessful appeal from a denial of dismissal cannot possibly render the later denial of a motion for summary judgment any less "final," it follows that petitioner's appeal falls within §1291 and dismissal was improper.
Indeed, it is easier to argue that the denial of summary judgment--the order sought to be appealed here--is the more "final" of the two orders. That is the reasoning the First Circuit adopted in holding that denial of a motion to dismiss on absolute immunity grounds was not "final" where the defendant had stated that, if unsuccessful, he would later seek summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds: "Since the district court has not yet determined whether [the defendant] has qualified immunity, and that he will have to stand trial, its decision is not an appealable collateral order." Kaiter v. Boxford, 836 F. 2d 704, 707 (CA1 1988). The problem with this approach, however, is that it would logically bar any appeal at the motion to dismiss stage where there is a possibility of presenting an immunity defense on summary judgment; that possibility would cause the motion to dismiss decision to be not "final" as to the defendant's right not to stand trial. The First Circuit sought to avoid this difficulty by saying that the defendant could render the motion to dismiss denial final by waiving his right to appeal the summary judgment denial. See id., at 708. But quite obviously, eliminating the ability to appeal the second order does not eliminate the possibility that the second order will vindicate the defendant's right not to stand trial, and therefore does not eliminate the supposed reason for declaring the first order nonfinal.
The source of the First Circuit's confusion was its mistaken conception of the scope of protection afforded by qualified immunity. Harlow and Mitchell make clear that the defense is meant to give government officials a right, not merely to avoid "standing trial," but also to avoid the burdens of "such pretrial matters as discovery . . . , as `[i]nquiries of this kind can be peculiarly disruptive of effective government.' " Mitchell, supra, at 526 (emphasis added) (quoting from Harlow, supra, at 817). Whether or not a later summary judgment motion is granted, denial of a motion to dismiss is conclusive as to this right. We would have thought that these and other statements from Mitchell and Harlow had settled the point, questioned by Justice Breyer, see post at __, (slip op., at 4-5), that this right is important enough to support an immediate appeal. If it were not, however, the consequence would be, not that only one pretrial appeal could be had in a given case, as Justice Breyer proposes, but rather, that there could be no immediate appeal from denial of a motion to dismiss but only from denial of summary judgment. That conclusion is foreclosed by Mitchell, which unmistakably envisioned immediate appeal of "[t]he denial of a defendant's motion for dismissal or summary judgment on the ground of qualified immunity." 472 U. S., at 527.
The Court of Appeals in the present case, in the first of its two decisions, rested its "one appeal" pronouncement upon the proposition that resolving the question of entitlement to qualified immunity "should not require more than one judiciously timed appeal." Pelletier, 968 F. 2d, at 871. It did not explain how this proposition pertains to the question of finality, but we suppose it could be argued that a category of appeals thought to be needless or superfluous does not raise a claim of right "too important to be denied review," as our Cohen finality jurisprudence requires, see 337 U. S., at 546. In any event, the proposition is not sound. That one appeal on the immunity issue may not be enough is illustrated by the history of respondent's claims for loss of employment at Pioneer in the present case. Because these claims had initially been dismissed as time barred, the Court of Appeals refused to decide (and thus evidently regarded as an open question) whether one who holds his job subject to regulatory approval can assert a constitutionally cognizable expectation of continued employment. See Pelletier, supra, at 871-872. Thus, the question whether petitioner was entitled to immunity on these claims was not presented to any court until petitioner's summary judgment motion--and, by operation of the Ninth Circuit's one appeal rule, has never been addressed by an appellate court.
That is assuredly an unusual set of circumstances, but even in a case proceeding in a more normal fashion resolution of the immunity question may "require more than one judiciously timed appeal," because the legally relevant factors bearing upon the Harlow question will be different on summary judgment than on an earlier motion to dismiss. At that earlier stage, it is the defendant's conduct as alleged in the complaint that is scrutinized for "objective legal reasonableness." On summary judgment, however, the plaintiff can no longer rest on the pleadings, see Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 56, and the court looks to the evidence before it (in the light most favorable to the plaintiff) when conducting the Harlow inquiry. It is no more true that the defendant who has unsuccessfully appealed denial of a motion to dismiss has no need to appeal denial of a motion for summary judgment, than it is that the defendant who has unsuccessfully made a motion to dismiss has no need to make a motion for summary judgment. [n.3]
The Court of Appeals expressed concern that a second appeal would tend to have the illegitimate purpose of delaying the proceedings. See 968 F. 2d, at 870-871. Undeniably, the availability of a second appeal affords an opportunity for abuse, but we have no reason to believe that abuse has often occurred. To the contrary, successive pretrial assertions of immunity seem to be a rare occurrence. [n.4] Moreover, if and when abuse does occur, as we observed in the analogous context of interlocutory appeals on the issue of double jeopardy, "it is well within the supervisory powers of the courts of appeals to establish summary procedures and calendars to weed out frivolous claims." Abney, 431 U. S., at 662, n. 8. In the present case, for example, the District Court appropriately certified petitioner's immunity appeal as "frivolous" in light of the Court of Appeals' (unfortunately erroneous) one appeal precedent. This practice, which has been embraced by several Circuits, enables the district court to retain jurisdiction pending summary disposition of the appeal, and thereby minimizes disruption of the ongoing proceedings. See, e.g., Chuman v. Wright, 960 F. 2d 104, 105 (CA9 1992); Yates v. Cleveland, 941 F. 2d 444, 448-449 (CA6 1991); Stewart v. Donges, 915 F. 2d 572, 576-577 (CA10 1990); Apostol v. Gallion, 870 F. 2d 1335, 1339 (CA7 1989). In any event, the question before us here--whether there is jurisdiction over the appeal, as opposed to whether the appeal is frivolous--must be determined by focusing upon the category of order appealed from, rather than upon the strength of the grounds for reversing the order. "Appeal rights cannot depend on the facts of a particular case." Carroll v. United States, 354 U.S. 394, 405 (1957). See also Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc., 511 U. S. ___, ___ 1996 (1994) (slip op., at 4). As we have said, an order denying qualified immunity, to the extent it turns on an "issue of law," Mitchell, 472 U. S., at 530, is immediately appealable.
Our rejection of the one interlocutory appeal rule does not dispose of this case. Respondent proposes two other reasons why appeal of denial of the summary judgment motion is not available. First, he argues that no appeal is available where, even if the District Court's qualified immunity ruling is reversed, the defendant will be required to endure discovery and trial on matters separate from the claims against which immunity was asserted. Respondent reasons that a ruling which does not reach all the claims does not "conclusively determin[e] the defendant's claim of right not to stand trial," id., at 527, and thus the order denying immunity cannot be said to be "final" within the meaning of Cohen.
It is far from clear that, given the procedural posture of the present case, respondent would be entitled to the benefit of the proposition for which he argues; but we will address the proposition on its merits. The Courts of Appeals have almost unanimously rejected it, [n.5] and so do we. The Harlow right to immunity is a right to immunity from certain claims, not from litigation in general; when immunity with respect to those claims has been finally denied, appeal must be available, and cannot be foreclosed by the mere addition of other claims to the suit. Making appealability depend upon such a factor, particular to the case at hand, would violate the principle discussed above, that appealability determinations are made for classes of decisions, not individual orders in specific cases. Apart from these objections in principle, the practical effect of respondent's proposal would be intolerable. If the district court rules erroneously, the qualified immunity right not to be subjected to pretrial proceedings will be eliminated, so long as the plaintiff has alleged (with or without evidence to back it up) violation of one "clearly established" right; and both that and the further right not to be subjected to trial itself will be eliminated, so long as the complaint seeks injunctive relief (for which no "clearly established" right need be alleged).
Second, respondent asserts that appeal of denial of the summary judgment motion is not available because the denial rested on the ground that "[m]aterial issues of fact remain." This, he contends, renders the denial unappealable under last Term's decision in Johnson v. Jones, 515 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 7-10). That is a misreading of the case. Every denial of summary judgment ultimately rests upon a determination that there are controverted issues of material fact, see Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 56, and Johnson surely does not mean that every denial of summary judgment is nonappealable. Johnson held, simply, that determinations of evidentiary sufficiency at summary judgment are not immediately appealable merely because they happen to arise in a qualified immunity case; if what is at issue in the sufficiency determination is nothing more than whether the evidence could support a finding that particular conduct occurred, the question decided is not truly "separable" from the plaintiff's claim, and hence there is no "final decision" under Cohen and Mitchell. See 515 U. S., ate (slip op., at 7-10). Johnson reaffirmed that summary judgment determinations are appealable when they resolve a dispute concerning an "abstract issu[e] of law" relating to qualified immunity, id., at ___ (slip op., at 12)--typically, the issue whether the federal right allegedly infringed was "clearly established," see, e.g., Mitchell, supra, at 530-535; Davis v. Scherer, 468 U.S. 183, 190-193 (1984).
Here the District Court's denial of petitioner's summary judgment motion necessarily determined that certain conduct attributed to petitioner (which was controverted) constituted a violation of clearly established law. Johnson permits petitioner to claim on appeal that all of the conduct which the District Court deemed sufficiently supported for purposes of summary judgment met the Harlow standard of "objective legal reasonableness." This argument was presented by petitioner in the trial court, and there is no apparent impediment to its being raised on appeal. And while the District Court, in denying petitioner's summary judgment motion, did not identify the particular charged conduct that it deemed adequately supported, Johnson recognizes that under such circumstances "a court of appeals may have to undertake a cumbersome review of the record to determine what facts the district court, in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, likely assumed." Johnson, supra, at ___ (slip op., at 14). That is the task now facing the Court of Appeals in this case.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed, and the case is remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
1 FHLBB, FSLIC and the regulatory scheme described in this opinion no longer exist, having been eliminated by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, 103 Stat. 183.
2 Interestingly, however, Mitchell itself dealt with the second of two interlocutory appeals on immunity claims. See 472 U. S., at 515-519. Neither the Court of Appeals nor this Court assigned any significance to the successive aspect of the second appeal.
3 Justice Breyer suggests that the second of two pretrial qualified immunity appeals does not come within Cohen's class of immediately appealable final orders because it is insufficiently "separable" from the claim raised on the first appeal, see post, at __ (slip op., at 3-4). But the Cohen "separability" component asks whether the question to be resolved on appeal is "conceptually distinct from the merits of the plaintiff's claim." Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 527 (1985). The appropriate comparison, then, is between the decision sought to be reviewed and the claim underlying the action itself--not between the decision and any previous appeal, as Justice Breyer suggests. And again, Mitchell clearly states that a denial of qualified immunity, whether on a motion for dismissal or summary judgment, is an "appealable `final decision.' " Id., at 530.
4 We are aware of only five reported cases--Mitchell itself, Nelson v. Silverman, 999 F. 2d 417 (CA9 1993), Abel v. Miller, 904 F. 2d 394 (CA7 1990), Francis v. Coughlin, 891 F. 2d 43 (CA2 1989), and the present case--in which courts of appeals have been twice asked to review successive pretrial assertions of immunity. See Abel, supra, at 396 ("Paucity of precedent [on successive interlocutory appeals] must reflect the forbearance of public officials rather than lack of opportunity"); Kaiter v. Boxford, 836 F. 2d 704, 706 (CA1 1988) ("[I]n every case we have found which permitted interlocutory review of an immunity ruling, the defendant's entire claim to immunity was raised in a single proceeding").
5 See, e.g., McLaurin v. Morton, 48 F. 3d 944, 949 (CA6 1995); Green v. Brantley, 941 F. 2d 1146, 1148-1151 (CA11 1991) (en banc); Di Martini v. Ferrin, 889 F. 2d 922, 924-925 (CA9 1989), cert. denied, 501 U.S. 1204 (1991); Young v. Lynch, 846 F. 2d 960, 961-963 (CA4 1988); DeVargas v. Mason & Hanger Silas Mason Co., 844 F. 2d 714, 717-718 (CA10 1988); Musso v. Hourigan, 836 F. 2d 736, 742, n. 1 (CA2 1988); Scott v. Lacy, 811 F. 2d 1153, 1153-1154(CA7), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 965 (1987); De Abadia v. Izquierdo Mora, 792 F. 2d 1187, 1188-1190 (CA1 1986); Tubbesing v. Arnold, 742 F. 2d 401, 403-404 (CA8 1984). Only the Third Circuit holds otherwise. See Prisco v. United States Dept. of Justice, 851 F. 2d 93, 95-96, cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1089 (1989).


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It measures 9" by 12" and the little pinwheels are 2 inches square.
Apr 3, 2009
Pinwheels in Miniature
It measures 9" by 12" and the little pinwheels are 2 inches square.
Labels: miniature quilt, quilting
19 comments:
- Sew Many Ways... said...
This is the cutest little thing. I just love all your minis. In the picture, I noticed the sewing table for your machine has hexagons on it...is that just decoration or do they serve a purpose. I love hexagons for english paper piecing so that just caught my eye. Too cute!
- April 3, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- alda said...
aaaarh!! how pretty !!! Love your little thing and your wall with all the delicious quilts!!!!
- April 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM
- IZAS said...
Hi annette!:
your small quilt wall is very very very nice....ohhhh, I want something like this at my home!!!!
Ihave been very busy, it was my birthday and twins' birthday too! They're 4 years old!!!
What about your daughter?
Kisses and hugs1:
- April 4, 2009 at 1:38 AM
- Jackie said...
Your wall of small quilts is fantastic! You are right that this little quilt makes a great addition to it... sooooo cute!
- April 4, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- Stephanie said...
I just love your miniature wall. Cute and a terrific idea.
- April 4, 2009 at 6:33 AM
- Colleen said...
Very nice. Love the colors.
- April 4, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Purple and Paisley said...
oh, your mini quilt wall is to die for! how wonderful! ☺
- April 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- Karen said...
I love minis and this one is adorable;) Sweet, sweet, sweet;)
- April 4, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- Kaaren said...
I love minis although I've never made one. They fascinate me because I don't think I'd be able to handle such tiny pieces of fabric...never mind sew them together. Your mini wall is like an art gallery. beautiful!
- April 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM
- tami said...
That is so adorable. I love miniatures. Your wall of small quilts look great.
- April 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love the little pinwheels, and I really love your mini quilt wall! What a great idea, and such a neat look.
- April 4, 2009 at 7:51 PM
- Kim said...
Hey there Sunshine Yellow! The mini quilt collection is just beautiful! I really like the display you have made of your quilts.
- April 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Nanette Merrill and daughters said...
Love the wall of little quilts. THe pinwheels are darling.
- April 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Béa said...
What a great idea ! Love your wall of adorable minis.
- April 7, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Wendy said...
Sometimes we need to do a small project to get that craving out of the way. I love your little quilt wall.
- April 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- Hanne said...
Lovely quilts and a very cute way to display them!
I hope you have had a very good and Happy Easter!
- April 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Suzie said...
I love your wall full with little quilts!!!It is so lovely! I can see you are as addicted as I am! Great!
- April 14, 2009 at 2:31 AM
- Sølvi's blog said...
What a good idea to make a whole wall full of mini-quilts! Lovely. And your noah's Ark is beautiful
- April 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM
- kjquilts said...
Love your little quilts wall! I have just recently started a collection of little quilts and have hung them all together. Good job on your Noah's Ark quilt!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM


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So you know when I said I hadn't taken as many photos as last year in my last post, well looks like I still had a huge heap to share! At heart I'm a people watcher and I'm used to photographing events so clearly couldn't help myself and took lots of people shots. Just look at all that wonderful colour and pattern. Photowalks are so good for the soul, spending the afternoon with like minded people and seeing the city from a different angle.
Blogtacular Photowalk West - behind the camera
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Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz's pro-Israel image is being tarnished – make that blackened – by a firmly based report that she is the number one obstacle to a bi-partisan Congressional initiative to threaten new sanctions on Iran, effectively scuttling the recent interim agreement secured by President Barack Obama and the rest of the P5+1 club.
Her spoiler role, reported Wednesday by the Washington Free Beacon, starkly differs from her wild support in August 2012 for the "hardest-hitting sanctions in history" against Iran thanks to Congress having made "clear to the world [that] we are resolute in using all tools at our disposal to halt Iran's nefarious nuclear ambitions."
Those "nefarious ambitions" apparently have transformed in less than 18 months into the development of enriched uranium for medical research and other do-good humanitarian efforts that are a disguise for a nuclear warhead headed for Israel, if not Washington.
President Obama has threatened he will veto any Congressional bill to impose harsher sanctions on Iran and put a hole in his "engagement" with the Ayatollahs. Nevertheless, leading Democrats such as New York Sen. Charles Schumer and New Jersey's Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker don't buy it, and they support the proposed bill that shows Iran it cannot get away with murder literally.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland also was on the sanction bandwagon but backed off in the past two weeks. Why?
All fingers point to Wasserman Schultz, the Free Beacon reported, and the reactions back home in her strongly Jewish South Florida district are far from favorable.
"Every minute she is publicly silent, or working against bipartisan efforts to pressure Iran, is a minute she is siding with the Mullahs over the American people who overwhelmingly want mounting pressure," one Democratic Congressman told the Washington newspaper.
"Debbie has been busy at home telling her constituents she is doing all she can to stop Iran, but in reality it appears she is busy behind the scenes working to scuttle bipartisan action to put increased sanctions pressure on Iran."
It quoted a South Florida Jewish community leader as saying that her constituents have serious problems with her new soft-on-Iran position.
She has a Congressional ally with Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, who also opposed the bi-partisan effort, but she will have a lot of explaining to do at a meeting this week called by Jewish leaders in her South Florida district.
Wasserman Schultz's spokeswoman did not reply to the Free Beacon's request for a comment on the report.
The first sign of her currying favor with President Obama and closing her eyes to Iranian's Islamic wish to annihilate Israel came on November 25, after the interim agreement was reached.
"I commend President Obama, Secretary Kerry, Under Secretary Sherman and their team for the tremendous amount of work they put into these negotiations," she said in a press release. "This agreement provides a framework to stop the development of a nuclear weapon in Iran while we work to negotiate a broad, comprehensive deal to permanently dismantle their nuclear weapons capability."
After having bragged in 2012 that the Congressional sanctions caused Iran "a daily loss of $133 million and 1.2 million barrels of oil… [and] that we will not accept a nuclear Iran, and that we are prepared to use all options at our disposal to keep the world free from this Iranian threat." she has swallowed the Obama "let's trust Iran" policy hook, line and sinker.
Wasserman Schultz is ignoring official Iranian statements that make it clear it signed the agreement to buy time.
For example, the interim agreement would prohibit Iran from adding more centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facilities.
So how did Iran follow up? Well, at least it is honest, to wit:
"We have two types of second-generation centrifuges. We also have future generations [of centrifuges] which are going through their tests," Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said less than two weeks ago.
Also last December, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry assured the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the Arak reactor in Iran that is designed to use plutonium, which could be used to construct a bomb, is "frozen stone cold, where it is" and "we're actually going to have the plans for the site delivered to us."
Salehi announced a week later that Iran's heavy water installations Arak will continue its work with full power.
If Wasserman Schultz still believes that Iran has turned over a new leaf and no longer has "nefarious ambitions," all she has to do is look at Lebanon and Syria.
Hezbollah, now up its neck in Syria and working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is smuggling anti-ship missiles from Syria piece by piece after previous attempts to smuggle them into Lebanon were ruined by Israeli intelligence, followed up by Israeli aerial strikes on the weapons.
So Iran really does not need a nuclear bomb if it can simply use Hezbollah to blow Israel off the map.
Wasserman Schultz may be the woman who saves President Obama from having to veto the sanctions bill, which already has the support of 50 senators, twice as many as when the bill was introduced last month, and one short of a majority.
The bill is aimed at putting teeth into the interim agreement by declaring that Iran must abide by it rather than simply biding time until a final agreement is reached, if that ever happens.
If not, then new sanctions would go into place.
It appears that the only thing that might change Wassermann Schultz's new go-soft-on Iran position is a severe backlash from her constituents, who are more worried about the Iranian nuclear threat against Israel – and the United States – than she is.