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Ringing in the ears and hearing loss affect one out of every five Americans including teenagers. Wearing earplugs at concerts and turning down earbud volumes can help reduce your risk.

Tinnitus Overview

Reviewed: May 7, 2014

Tinnitus is a medical term for the illusion of sound, often described as ringing in the ears, where there is none. For some it sounds like whooshing, roaring, hissing, clicking or buzzing. Tinnitus is not a disease. It is usually a symptom of any number of broader hearing problems.

The two types of tinnitus are:

  • subjective (only you can hear the sounds)
  • objective (noises others can hear, less common type)

Severe tinnitus can make hearing, working and sleeping difficult.

Scientists have yet to agree upon the exact way the brain's neural circuits (networks of brain cells) create the perception of sound where it doesn't exist.

Tinnitus Symptoms

The noises may sound like ringing, roaring, buzzing, whistling, clicking, whooshing, or humming. It may be soft or loud and in one or both ears.

Tinnitus Causes

It is not known exactly what causes tinnitus. Health conditions that might be the cause of tinnitus include:

  • Hearing loss in older people
  • Exposure to loud noises
  • Ear and sinus infections
  • Heart or blood vessel problems
  • Meniere's disease
  • Brain tumors
  • Hormonal changes in women
  • Thyroid problems
  • Certain medicines

Tinnitus Diagnosis

See your healthcare provider if you think you have tinnitus. Your health care provider will need to know all of your medical conditions and the medications you are taking. He or she will check to see if anything is blocking ear canal.

Your health care provider might perform the following tests to understand and diagnose the cause of your symptoms:

  • audiology/audiometry tests for hearing loss
  • CT scan
  • MRI
  • angiography

Living With Tinnitus

It can be difficult and stressful coping with tinnitus. People with tinnitus often find it hard to focus on tasks and sleeping is often disrupted. You might find some strategies to make the noise less noticeable, to help you relax, or to fall asleep at night, which can lessen the impact of tinnitus on your life.

While stress is not considered a cause of tinnitus, it may worsen it. Finding ways to relax is an important part of learning to live with tinnitus.

Besides stress, caffeinated and alcoholic beverages and cigarette smoking may trigger or worsen symptoms.

To mask tinnitus noises, particularly at night, you might play other noises such as low-level music, fans, humidifiers, white noise machines, or other machines that make noise.

Keep earplugs with you to mask loud sounds and to protect your hearing from further damage. If possible, avoid loud places and sounds.

Tinnitus Treatments

Sometimes a simple fix like the removal of earwax can make the symptoms go away.

Medications including antidepressants and antianxiety drugs have been used to relieve anxiety and disruption of mood, and to help patients sleep. These medications require a prescription from your health care provider and are not always effective.

Hearing aids help to control outside noises and to make tinnitus less noticeable.

Sound generators, both wearable and tabletop, mask tinnitus by playing soft, pleasant sounds.

A tinnitus masker worn like a hearing aid helps some people. It delivers low-level sound directly into the ear to cover or disguise the ear noise that is bothering you.

Tinnitus Other Treatments

Cochlear implants bypass damaged portions of the ear and send electrical signals to the auditory nerve. This treatment is sometimes used in people with severe hearing loss. It brings in outside sounds, masking tinnitus and stimulating change in neural circuits.

While there are many medications marketed to be helpful in relieving symptoms of tinnitus, none has been proven to be safe and effective in clinical trials.

Tinnitus Prognosis

Unfortunately, for some people there is no easily treated underlying condition that can make the tinnitus go away. For these people, learning to cope and ignore the sounds are the only answer.


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Choosing the right sales training programs for your business

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One of the biggest mistakes a company can make when choosing a sales training program or provider is to look outwards before they look inwards. Let’s go back a few steps and explain what we mean by that.

Imagine you are going to a new hairdresser for the first time. Do you walk into the salon and tell them to “go for it” without explaining what type of haircut you want? Or do you take some time to reflect on the style you’re after and do your best to convey your expectations?

Unless you’ve happened to walk into an amazing salon – with mind-reading staff – then you probably won’t get the hairstyle you want without first explaining your wishes.

The same principle can be applied to choosing a sales training provider. In order to find the right fit, you need to be clear about your own goals. You have to look inwards – and reflect on what’s important to you – before you can look outwards.

Read more: Understanding different kinds of sales courses and training

A specific solution requires specific training

Think of it this way: there’s no point in hoping a sales training provider will have all of the answers if you don’t know which questions you want to ask. If you don’t come to them with specific problems, they probably won’t be able to deliver specific solutions.

Of course, a good provider will steer the conversation towards your goals and do their best to understand your business – but do you really want to leave this up to chance? As with hairdressers, not all providers have your best interests at heart.

To pick a provider that’s right for you business, it’s a good idea to make a checklist of your expectations. Write down everything you are looking for and refer to this throughout your search.

What if you're not sure what you want?

That’s okay – this in itself can be a goal. Your goal could be to “find a provider that can help me better understand my sales training needs”. As long as you know that you need help in this area, you can communicate this expectation and find a provider who is well equipped to offer solutions.

Once you have established your requirements, the next step is to set a budget and a time frame. Would you like to form a long-term partnership with a provider, or do you just need a one-off course? How much money are you willing to spend for the right fit? The answers to these questions will help you narrow down your options.

Next, create a shortlist of 2-3 providers and dig a little deeper. When you request a quote, ask them to provide case studies or testimonials as well, so you can get a feel for how they work and what they’ve delivered in the past. If possible, ask to see their client list too. The more information you can find out about their track record, the better.

This may seem like a lot of work – and you haven’t even started training yet! – but a little research goes a long way. Sales training is a two-way street; you will get out what you put in. Be wary of any providers that try to tell you otherwise (there’s no such thing as a magic bullet for sales training success).

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Hoshyar Zebari said that the new ambassador will arrive in Baghdad in the near future to submit his credentials, but he will not be residing in Iraq.

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Stepping it up a notch, this JP160 has all the amazing, speed-freak features that suit John's playing, with the addition of a double locking tremolo. Featuring JP Signature build, upgraded Sterling appointments, and fiery sounding pickups, this guitar is great for anyone who wants an instrument that excels, without costing a fortune.

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Designed and built to John's specifications, this great looking guitar features a mahogany body, formed into double cutaway shape with a forearm scoop. The neck is a roasted hard maple with a 25.5" scale length. It's capped by a rosewood fingerboard with a 16" radius.

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The 24 frets on this guitar are medium jumbo profile, giving it the utmost playability. The fretboard also sports Custom JP inlays, with a special, larger inlay between the nut and first fret. This JP160 also features a Lo Pro double locking tremolo and diecast tuning machines. For added style, John Petrucci's signature adorns the peak of the headstock.

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To match the intensity and fury with which John plays in Dream Theater, Sterling by Music Man had to outfit this guitar with the right pickups and electronics. They placed humbuckers at the neck and bridge, designed to handle powerful gain and blistering treble. The JP160 also has a push/push volume control knob for a 12 dB boost to really stand out in a particularly heavy mix.

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I'm often asked why I wanted to be a counselor.  In college, I started as an English Literature major.  However, while I do enjoy a good book, I realized I wasn't necessarily passionate enough about literature for it to be central to my career path.  A creative writing professor wanted me to switch to Creative Writing and an Art professor was trying to talk me into going the route of visual art. Through this whole process, what I realized is I have been drawn to to literature, writing, and art because of a love for story and design.  I love books that have rich character development, I love the idea of authoring, and I love using imagination to picture possibilities and design.  What better than the practice of psychology to combine all three of these?  We are all in a story with chapters behind us and ahead of us.  We all have the ability to author things in our lives, and with the help of our imaginations we can dream up what may be possible to stir up hope and move towards it.  So, as a junior, I switched my major to psychology.  The switch was one of the best decisions of my life.

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This step-by-step guide to enrolling in Texas’s 529 college savings plans makes it easier for Texas parents and grandparents to open a 529 plan.

1. Choose a 529 Plan

Texas has two 529 plans, the Texas College Savings Plan (direct-sold) and the Lonestar 529 Plan (advisor-sold). Families can invest in any state’s 529 plan, not just Texas’s 529 plans, so they may wish to shop around for 529 plans with the lowest fees and best performance.

The Texas 529 plans have among the lowest fees of all direct-sold 529 plans.

However, there are no state income tax breaks on contributions to the Texas 529 plan, since Texas does not have a personal state income tax.

2. Determine the Type of 529 Plan Account

There are two main types of 529 plan accounts: individual accounts and custodial accounts.

Most families will open an individual account with a parent as the account owner and a child as the beneficiary. Everybody can contribute to a parent-owned 529 plan account, including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives.

Typically, only one parent can be the account owner. If the child’s parents are divorced, it is best for the parent with whom the child lives the most – the parent who will be responsible for filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) – to be the account owner. If this parent has remarried, it is best for the account owner to be the child’s biological parent, not the stepparent.

If money from a custodial bank or brokerage account, such as an UTMA or UGMA account, is used to fund a 529 plan, then the 529 plan should be set up as a custodial 529 plan. With a custodial 529 plan account, the child is both the account owner and the beneficiary. Since the child is a minor, a custodian will manage the account on behalf of the child until the child reaches the age of majority. Note that the beneficiary of a custodial 529 plan account cannot be changed.

529 plans that are owned by a dependent student or the student’s parent are treated more favorably by financial aid formulas.

3. Complete the 529 Plan Application

To open a 529 plan account, visit the 529 plan’s web site to get a PDF account application or to apply online. Printed account applications can be submitted by mail.

Most 529 plan account applications will require the following information:

  • Name of the account owner
  • Name of the beneficiary
  • Personal information about the account owner and beneficiary, including their mailing address, telephone number, email address, date of birth and Social Security Numbers (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN).

The 529 plan account application may also ask for the name and personal information of a successor account owner, in case the original account owner dies.

The 529 plan account application may also ask you to pick an initial set of investment portfolios.

If the application form is confusing, call the 529 plan’s toll-free number to ask questions. The toll-free number for the Texas 529 plans is 1-800-445-4723. You can also ask questions by sending email to the plan, but do not include account numbers, passwords or other personal information in the email message. You should look at the FAQ on the plan’s web site, since this provides answers to the most common questions.

4. Fund the 529 Plan

There are several ways of depositing money into a 529 plan. These include mailing a paper check to the 529 plan and transferring the money electronically from your bank account.

All 529 plans allow you to set up automatic contributions from your bank account. You will need to specify the contribution amount and the contribution frequency (e.g., biweekly, monthly, quarterly, annually). The 529 plan will also need the bank routing number and account number for your account and a voided copy of a preprinted check or preprinted deposit slip.

Some 529 plans, including the Texas 529 plan, can set up automatic contributions through payroll deduction from participating employers.

Other options include a rollover from another 529 plan, money from a Coverdell education savings account or money from the redemption of a qualified U.S. Savings Bond.

The minimum initial deposit is $25. Subsequent contributions, including automatic contributions, must be at least $25. The minimum payroll deduction amount is $15 per pay period.

There are no annual contribution limits for a 529 plan, but you can give up to $15,000 ($30,000 as a couple) each year without incurring gift taxes or using up part of your lifetime gift tax exclusion. 529 plans provide 5-year gift tax averaging, so you can give up to 5 times as much money ($75,000 or $150,000 as a couple) in a single year and have it treated as though it were given over a 5-year period.

Texas 529 plans have a cumulative contribution limit of $370,000. After a 529 plan account reaches this balance, it can still earn interest and appreciate in value, but no additional contributions will be accepted. Most people do not reach this limit.

Many people start off with a small, automatic monthly contribution and increase the amount after a few months. If your goal is to save about a third of the future cost of a public college education, start saving $250 per month from birth. If you can’t handle that big a contribution, start off with what you can afford.

5. Choose Investments for the 529 Plan

After the 529 plan has been opened and some funds have been deposited into the 529 plan, it’s time to choose investments for the 529 plan. The number of investment options is limited, making it easier to choose.

Most people invest in an age-based portfolio, which starts off with an aggressive mix of investments (e.g., mostly stocks) and gradually shifts to a less risky mix of investments as the child approaches college age.

The Texas College Savings Plan has two age-based portfolios. One invests in actively managed funds and one invests in passive index funds.

The Texas College Savings Plan also offers seven static portfolios, including two single-fund portfolios, four multi-fund portfolios, and a money market portfolio. The single-fund portfolios include an inflation-protected bond fund, a fixed-income fund and a money market portfolio.

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          The coronary slow flow phenomenon is an angiographic finding characterized by delayed distal vessel opacification in the absence of significant epicardial coronary disease. Case-control and observational studies of patients with this phenomenon were conducted to determine the associated clinical features and prognosis. Patients with coronary slow flow (n = 47) differed from controls (n = 47), more often being current smokers (32 vs. 9%; p < 0.01) and presenting with rest pain requiring urgent admission (74 vs. 21%; p < 0.001), usually to the coronary care unit (66 vs. 17%; p < 0.01). During a median 21-month follow-up of 64 slow flow patients, 84% had recurrent chest pain. Based upon these findings and those of previous investigators, it is speculated that coronary slow flow is a new disease entity characterized by acute but recurrent perturbations of microvascular function.

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          Slow flow of dye in epicardial coronary arteries is not an infrequent finding in patients during routine coronary angiography. Whether this pattern of flow can be reversed by nitroglycerin or dipyridamole and whether this angiographic finding is associated with histopathological abnormalities is unknown. We hypothesized that this abnormality could be associated with small vessel disease of the heart, since the epicardial arteries are usually widely patent. Thus, out of the patients undergoing heart catheterization at our institution during the past 5 years, 10 (7%) presented with chest pain, normal epicardial coronary arteries, and abnormal coronary progression of dye. Rest electrocardiogram (ECG), exercise test, echocardiographic examination, and left ventricular angiogram were normal. Coronary angiography showed slow flow of dye on a total of 20 main coronary vessels, that was not reversed by intracoronary nitroglycerin administration. Six of them underwent dipyridamole intravenous infusion that normalized dye run-off in all affected vessels, for a total of 9 main coronary vessels. Histopathological examination (light and electron microscope) of left ventricular endomyocardial biopsies showed thickening of vessel walls with luminal size reduction, mitochondrial abnormalities, and glycogen content reduction. Normal and pathological zones often coexisted in the same specimen. Thus. In some patients with slow coronary flow and patent coronary arteries, functional obstruction of microvessels seems to be implicated, as it is relieved by dipyridamole infusion. Patchy histopathological abnormalities suggestive of small vessel disease are also detectable and could contribute to increase flow resistance.
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Ever since you were a kid the one thing your mom told you over and over again was ‘Be more organised!’ But bad habits die hard! Your disorganised lifestyle has spread faster and stronger and now you lead possibly the most chaotic cluttered life ever! Nothing is ever in order, you’re never on time, and nothing’s where you left it! Here are 10 signs you lead an unorganised lifestyle:

1. There are at least thirty to forty folders present on your desktop at all points of time. And you have no idea what file is in which folder!

2. Your CD/DVD collection is so freaking confusing because almost every CD/DVD case has the wrong disc in it.

3. No matter how many times you try to get it in order, your wardrobe always ends up looking like a mad bull has rummaged through it!

4. Keys, charger, bills and remote - if you had a buck for every time you misplaced these 4 things you’d be a billionaire by now!

5. Your sleeping hours are so bizarre that you can’t remember the last time you made it on time to office!

6. There are days when you forget to throw the trash bag for almost a week and it’s only when the stink gets toxic you realise it!

7. Whatever long term commitments you start; be it going to the gym or learning to play the guitar, you end up missing it so many times, you just give up after a while!

8. You have lost your favourite stuff, books and even your mobile phone thanks to your habit of leaving it wherever!

9. If your maid doesn’t show up for one day, your room turns into some kind of prehistoric dust dungeon!

10. Half-written articles, half-watched movies, half-completed work - your disorderly life is a story of half-done things!

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For some of you, being rude or confrontational is probably the hardest thing in the world. You make a conscious effort to be extra nice to the people around you but it doesn’t always work out for you the way it should. In today’s world, being too polite comes with a fair share of downsides. Here’s a list of 10 daily struggles excessively polite people face on a day to day basis.

1. You have lost track of the number of times you end up doing somebody else’s work for them because you’re just too damn polite to say ‘Deal with your own shit!’

2. Several ‘friends’ have unsettled debts with you because they completely ignore paying your money back and you feel it’s rude to remind them that they owe you money.

3. People often take advantage of your soft-spoken nature and take credit for your ideas and hard work.

4. Whenever you wait in line for something, it lasts for ages because the people behind you cut ahead in line and you’re too nice to take them by the collar and send them back.

5. You never give bad reviews at restaurants even if the food tastes like a cement. You feel that criticizing the food or the restaurant would be impolite.

6. When douche-bags shamelessly take your seat in airplanes and ask “if you mind” relocating to their seat all the way in the back, you feel like throwing them off the flight but ultimately shift to the shitty seat out of politeness.

7. When strangers make long ass boring conversations with you that last forever, instead of telling them to shut the hell up, you keep smiling and nodding your head indefinitely.

8. Half the stuff you own ends up getting borrowed but never returned by the people around you because you don’t want to feel like a jerk for demanding your stuff back.

9. Your roommates always end up making you do all the tedious things around the house while all they do is laze around.

10. You always end up paying for the people you hang out with!

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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are joining activist Malala Yousafzai in a video chat about the challenges girls face in accessing education amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The couple’s conversation with the 23-year-old education campaigner will be released on the Malala Fund’s YouTube channel and website on Sunday, to mark the International Day of the Girl.

The video chat covers how the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on young women’s access to education. Research by the Malala Fund has suggested that 20 million secondary-school aged girls may never return to the classroom after the health crisis is over.

Yousafzai, who survived a shot in the head after being targeted for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan, went on to become the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2014. She graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University in June.

Meghan, now based in California with Harry to seek financial independence from the British monarchy, has campaigned on education for girls for some time. She has spoken about gender equality at forums including the UN Women Conference in 2015.

In 2011 the United Nations declared Oct. 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child to promote girls’ rights and address the challenges girls face around the world.


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WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that a new economic relief bill is unlikely before the election, suggesting that Democrats are unwilling to give President Donald Trump a victory.

“I’d say at this point getting something done before the election and executing on that would be difficult, just given where we are,” Mnuchin said during an event hosted by the Milken Institute’s Global Conference.

Asked whether Democrats are unwilling to make a deal because they don’t want to give Trump a win three weeks before the election, Mnuchin replied: “I think that definitely is part of the reality. That’s definitely an issue.”

“But the president is very focused on when he wins we will need to do more. So that’s part of the reason to continue to work on this,” the treasury secretary added. “The clock will not stop.”

Mnuchin made his comments after an hourlong conversation he had Wednesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. The two have been negotiating for a couple of weeks despite the long-shot prospects for success. Trump on Wednesday called for a deal in a Twitter post, urging negotiators to “Go big or go home!!!”

Mnuchin on Friday made Pelosi a $1.8 trillion offer that she rejected as inadequate in many respects, including the administration not agreeing to specifics on a national coronavirus testing strategy.

“It’s like you’re bleeding and they keep putting Band-Aids on it but they’re not addressing the problem,” Pelosi told House Democratic leaders in a meeting Wednesday, referring to the administration’s refusal to embrace a national strategic testing plan. Her comments were confirmed by a person familiar with them who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the meeting was private.

Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, said on Twitter that Pelosi and Mnuchin had a “productive” conversation and would speak again Thursday.

Trump on Wednesday blamed Democrats for the logjam, telling the New York Economic Club: “I’d like to see the Democrats loosen up a little bit.”

He said that concern about the rising national debt is “very much on my mind,” but that the issue would be taken care of because of faster economic growth, a claim that economists from both major political parties have questioned. The U.S. federal deficit has broken records because of the government’s efforts in response to the coronavirus and is expected to breach $3 trillion for this year after reaching $1 trillion last year.

Mnuchin and Pelosi have agreed on some areas, including a new round of $1,200 stimulus checks, but have remained far apart on funding for state and local aid, child care and unemployment insurance, and continue to argue over specific language in some areas. Democrats also oppose liability protections the administration wants in any deal.

Mnuchin criticized Pelosi’s focus on a comprehensive deal, saying should act immediately to help specific sectors, such as airlines that have begun mass furloughs after federal aid expired at the end of September. Pelosi and Mnuchin briefly discussed a stand-alone airline-aid bill last week, but Pelosi then rejected that idea amid a backlash from some unions and Democrats questioning why only airlines should get help.

“From our perspective we could have immediate help to many different parts of the economy now,” Mnuchin said.

“I don’t agree with the speaker’s approach of ‘we have to do all or nothing.’ We’re continuing to negotiate a comprehensive bill but we want to put money into the economy now,” Mnuchin said.

Over the weekend Mnuchin called on Congress to redirect about $130 billion in unused funding from the Paycheck Protection Program intended for small businesses while negotiations continue on a broader relief effort.

Pelosi has rejected such piecemeal efforts. She defended her approach in an interview on CNN on Tuesday night, telling host Wolf Blitzer that he didn’t know what he was talking about when he pressed her on why she wouldn’t agree to Mnuchin’s $1.8 trillion offer.

Senate Republicans oppose the Mnuchin offer, saying it is too costly, and they convened a conference call with Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows over the weekend to make their opposition clear. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., intends to try to advance a narrow $500 billion bill next week on the Senate floor, where it’s likely to encounter Democratic opposition. He tried the same thing last month.

Trump has made erratic moves and demands that appear to have strengthened Pelosi’s negotiating position, including saying last week that he wants to spend more money than Democrats have approved. Days earlier he called off talks, only to backtrack on that almost immediately. The House last month passed a $2.2 trillion bill that Senate Republicans have not brought up for a vote.

The White House and Congress enacted several laws earlier this year in an effort to address the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, approving close to $3 trillion in new spending. Those laws provided a temporary boost in unemployment benefits, aid for small businesses, a round of up-to-$1,200 stimulus checks, aid for the airline industry, and a range of other programs.

Some of these programs have expired in recent months, though, and there are numerous signs that the economy is straining. The airline industry and other sectors have recent laid off thousands of additional workers, and many Americans remain behind on their utility bills, mortgage payments, and rent. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said there could be severe complications in the economic recovery if Congress doesn’t approve more assistance.


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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Sunday expressed serious concerns about Georgia’s new election system but declined to order the state to abandon its touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November election.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by voting integrity activists that challenges the election system the state bought last year from Dominion Voting Systems for more than $100 million. The activists argued that the system places an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote because voters cannot be confident their vote is accurately counted.

State officials argued that Georgia has significantly updated and secured its election infrastructure in recent years, and that the new machines have been thoroughly tested and that security measures will prevent problems. They also said last-minute changes would be extremely costly and difficult to implement in time.

In-person early voting begins Monday and Election Day is just over three weeks away.

The new election system uses touchscreen voting machines — known as ballot-marking devices or BMDs — to print a paper ballot with a barcode that is read by a scanner. The activists’ challenge “presents serious system security vulnerability and operational issues that may place Plaintiffs and other voters at risk of deprivation of their fundamental right to cast an effective vote that is accurately counted,” U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg wrote in a 147-page order issued Sunday night.

“The Court’s Order has delved deep into the true risks posed by the new BMD voting system as well as its manner of implementation,” Totenberg wrote. “These risks are neither hypothetical nor remote under the current circumstances.”

The activists have shown that equipment and voter registration database problems during pilot elections last year and this year’s June primary and August runoff elections “caused severe breakdowns at the polls, severely burdening voters’ exercise of the franchise.”

But the judge noted that U.S. Supreme Court precedent recognizes states’ “authority and power to regulate their elections and the voting process itself” and acknowledged that the high court has repeatedly said in recent months that lower courts must use great restraint in ordering any substantial changes so close to an election.

“Implementation of such a sudden systemic change under these circumstances cannot but cause voter confusion and some real measure of electoral disruption,” she wrote.

For those reasons, Totenberg wrote, she must deny the activists’ request for an immediate replacement of the new voting system with one that uses hand-marked paper ballots. But she wared that “the vital issues identified in this case will not disappear or be appropriately addressed without focused State attention, resources, ongoing serious evaluation by independent cybersecurity experts, and open-mindedness.”

“We are deeply disappointed that Georgia voters will be voting in this important election on unreliable touchscreen machines that produce results that cannot be audited,” Marilyn Marks, executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance, a plaintiff in the suit, said in an email.

The secretary of state’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.


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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) —

Rwanda’s prosecution on Monday said it intends to hold a joint trial of Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” together with 16 prisoners alleged to be rebel fighters.

Rusesabagina, 66, is a founder of the Rwanda Movement for Democratic Change, a coalition of opposition groups, which has an armed wing known as the National Liberation Front. The government accuses the rebel group of killing Rwandans in the country’s north.

In court last month, Rusesabagina a dmitted his ties to the rebels but said the group was never meant to kill Rwandans.

Rwandan authorities said the rebel fighters to stand trial with Rusesabagina include two former spokesmen, now in detention in Kigali.

“Prosecution intends to submit a joint indictment of these 16 defendants together with Paul Rusesabagina. A full list of 16 fighters will be provided,” Prosecutor General Aimable Havugiyaremye told a press conference in the capital, Kigali.

Rusesabagina has been charged with 13 offenses that also include financing terrorism, complicity in murder, recruiting child soldiers, and forming a rebel group. He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison if he is convicted. He has been denied bail pending the trial, the date of which has not yet been set.

Rusesabagina’s family and supporters have described the upcoming trial as a sham, calling on the Rwandan leadership to first explain the circumstances under which Rusesabagina was brought to the country. His family says that he was pressured to say that he had ties with the rebels.

“Rusesabagina is a Belgian citizen who was kidnapped and brought to Rwanda illegally. Before anything else happens in his trial, he should be allowed to talk to his independent lawyers that have been hired for him, not the lawyers the government has enforced on him,” Rusesabagina’s daughter Carine Kanimba told The Associated Press on Monday.

Rusesabagina cannot speak freely while in Rwandan custody, said Kanimba, speaking on the phone from Belgium.

President Paul Kagame has indicated that Rusesabagina may have been tricked into boarding a private plane in Dubai that took him to Rwanda.

Human Rights Watch has asserted that Rusesabagina had been “forcibly disappeared,” saying that the lack of lawful extradition proceedings suggests that Rwandan authorities don’t believe their evidence would stand up to independent scrutiny.

Rusesabagina has not lived in Rwanda since 1996 and has U.S. permanent residence as well as Belgian citizenship and has been a prominent critic of the Kagame government.

Rusesabagina had asked to be released on bail, citing poor health that has caused him to be taken to a hospital three times since he first appeared in handcuffs in Rwanda on Aug. 31. He looked frail during his court appearances.

Rusesabagina is reported to have saved more than 1,000 lives during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. For his efforts, he was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.

But Rusesabagina has faced growing criticism from Rwandan authorities in the years since he began alleging that human rights are being committed by Kagame’s government.


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Inspiring a Future of Humanitarians

What’s the key to inspiring the next generation of humanitarians?  That's the question I ask myself when spending time with my 5 year old niece and 8 year old nephew.

Aside from the buffered picture our elders paint for us, childhood often means having little understanding of what the outside world is really like.

BOSTON MAMAS: Hey Internet, Keep Being Awesome

A friend's Facebook post recently reminded me that I've been missing something very basic: blog reading. Also, commenting on blog posts. And I want to get back to it, and share with you what on the internet compels me to read, share, and click (and, er, sometimes purchase). Why? Because my mom nailed it when she said to me yesterday, "Hey, you can find a lot on the internet!" So, I bring you a new post series: Hey Internet, Keep Being Awesome. Happy reading!

24/7 MOMS: Raising a Charitable Child

I am lucky.  Every day I get to work with people who spend a considerable amount of their time trying to better their community. When I was asked recently about my thoughts on raising a charitable child, I immediately though about the families I have seen using my site and the many ways busy parents can take the lessons I have learned and teach them to their children.

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Traditionally, the holiday season is the busiest time of year at Second Chance Toys. We are projecting to serve more than 20,000 children before the end of December. With the help of your friends, family, and colleagues, we are confident that you’ll be able to collect at least 50 gently used plastic toys in order to serve disadvantaged children in the key metro areas this holiday season.

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Johnson & Johnson Care to Recycle™: How The Smallest Room Can Make A Big Difference

But even the most avid recyclers can overlook things.  In fact, we recently learned that there is one room in the house where many of us forget to recycle.  It’s probably the smallest room in your house and it’s the room where most of our personal care products are used…the bathroom.


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2014 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In Algebraic Logic Halmos devised polyadic algebras, an algebraic version of first-order logic differing from the better known cylindric algebras of Alfred Tarski and his students. An elementary version of polyadic algebra is described in monadic Boolean algebra. This book addresses some of the problems of mathematical logic and the theory of polyadic Boolean algebras in particular. It is intended to be an efficient way of treating algebraic logic in a unified manner.


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Points To Consider When Building Your Small Bathroom With A Floor Plan

You may want to turn your guest room into a room with a small private bathroom. In this case, you may have seen some small bathroom plans.

Of course, to make a private bathroom, you need to make some changes to the architectural structure of your existing home. By reading this article you can get the best information about Pullman apartments level designs.

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If the bathroom you want to add to your living room is already behind one of your living room walls, all you need to do is drill a door-sized hole in the living room wall. Ultimately, this will be the door between your guest room and your private bathroom.

Structural changes like this require a small bathroom floor plan.

Purpose of a small floor plan for the bathroom

Your floor plan will give you a clue about the space in your small bathroom.

Since the bathroom you will be building, remodeling or remodeling will be small, you need to make sure that the items and fixtures you use in that small bathroom are the right sizes for the bathroom itself.

The bathroom doesn't take up as much space as the bath. Therefore, using a shower in your bathroom instead of a bathtub is ideal for small bathrooms.

You will find that using a wall-mounted sink also saves a lot of space.

You may also prefer sliding doors between your living room and your bathroom. This saves space that would normally be "open doors".

If you are adding a small bathroom outside the house, you need to make sure where your taps are. You also need to know where your lights can be installed.


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This article will not just talk about the optimisation of a part of your site, but your whole website. After you finalise the selection of the right SEO keywords for your site, you have to decide on the following matters before you start your content writing plan: the purpose of your site, what is it about and how committed you are on your website. Once they are determined, the work begins.

For search engine optimisation, you’ll need the following SEO tips to optimise your whole site:

1. Make the website about one thing.

Pick one main topic that is most essential to your message. The best SEO agency in Singapore considered this as a critical step, so make sure to do a keyword research first before choosing a topic.

2. Link to internal pages on your site.

The various system of content management do the linking to internal pages automatically, but if this automation does not apply to yours, you should do it manually. Link your most important internal pages directly from your homepage and cross-linking them with one another.

3. Mention keywords where they matter most.

Keep in mind to include your chosen main topic in the domain name, site title, description, keywords, tagline, page titles, blog categories, and page content.

In case you’re like an SEO company that uses WordPress, you can make these changes by going in the General Settings area.

4. Use a permalink structure that includes keywords.

You’ll observe that there are several sites out there that still use irrelevant permalink structures like those with numbers to name pages. Avoid doing this. It doesn’t look good and it is bad for search engine optimisation.

Experts recommend the URL structure or the format that includes text, especially your chosen keywords.

5. Use keywords in your images.

Start with the file name or re-title it to reflect your main topics, for example, SEO tips.jpg rather than abc123.jpg. The point of this advice is to include words that reflect the topic of your site in the title of the image, description, and alt attributes.

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Recording output from a Slingbox

Now that I’ve figured out how to convert an HDMI signal to component and, thus, allow my Slingbox M1 to work, I started wondering if it was possible to record the Slingbox output. Turns out it’s pretty easy.

First, you need a JAVA app called kmttg by Kevin Moye. It was originally written to facilitate TivoToGo transfers, but it can also be used to capture Slingbox video output directly on your local network. There isn’t a simple installer, but it’s not too difficult to install. After you download the file (I downloaded, unzip it and copy the contents to a directory on your hard drive somewhere. (Do not put it in your programs directory, however.) You probably already have JAVA installed on your computer, but you also need PERL. It’s a quick download, if you don’t already have it. There are some good instructions on how to set things up and download links on this page.

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The trickiest part is probably figuring out the Admin password and network port. The Admin password is hidden, but if you login into your Slingbox web page and then browse to this URL, the information can be found. Look for something that looks like “adminPassword”:”z367gd9481l6v2c”. The network port involves you digging around in one of the Slingbox players, but it should be 5301,  5201 or 5001. See the example in the screenshot to the left. Mine was port 5201.

The video will be saved in a .ts file which is a MPEG2 file format used for DVDs or in a .mkv file. You can use a utility like Handbreak to convert into another format, but I use Avidemux so I can also do a little bit of editing. (Note: I also re-encode to  Mpeg4 AVC (x264). I captured using kmttg’s 640×480 video resolution setting, but to get a proper aspect ratio, I (oddly) had set a filter in Avidemux to resize to 854 x 480.)

One thing to note is that you can’t be watching Slingbox and recording at the same time. It’s one or the other. This makes it a little tricky and you’ll probably want to record on your DVR first and then record a playback using kmttg later. Here are the steps:

  1. Determine how many minutes you want to record. (You can’t see what’s being recorded, so you need to know ahead of time how long to record.)
  2. Run the Slingbox client, but don’t start playing the show just yet.
  3. Run kmttg, but don’t click the Start button yet.
  4. In the Slingbox client, start playing your source.
  5. Quickly exit the Slingbox client. When it’s fully closed, click Start in kmttg.
  6. Set a timer on your phone for a minute or so before the desired minutes you want to record.
  7. Watch the elapsed time indicator in kmttg and click Stop when you’ve reached the targeted recording minutes.

It’s a little problematic if your recorded show begins right at the start. You may want to set your DVR to start recording a few minutes early to give you more time. You’ll usually end up having to trim the beginning and end anyways.

The resulting video is pretty good. The process is kinda too cumbersome to be doing on a regular basis, but for those few “keepers” it’s well worth it.

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Google AdSense To Publishers: AdSense Impressions From URLs Not Yet Crawled

Jan 16, 2018 • 7:48 am | comments (8) by twitter | Filed Under Google AdSense

We've been covering the significant drop in Google AdSense earnings from some publishers for over a month now. We posted yesterday that Google says this is due to a change in how they buy on the Google Display Network and now "Google will not automatically monetize sites or pages that the AdSense bot can’t crawl."

One publisher said on WebmasterWorld that Google told him that they "detected that your AdX /Adsense account is sending a significant number of ad requests from URLs that are not crawled." He then posted the full Google response which reads:

Thanks for reaching out to our team. My name is xxxx. I'm happy to help you. :)

As part of Google’s efforts to increase brand safety for advertisers, AdWords and DoubleClick Bid Manager have adopted more restrictive bidding on ad requests coming from URLs that are uncrawled. This is necessary to avoid the risk of ads running on sensitive content.

We detected that your AdX /Adsense account is sending a significant number of ad requests from URLs that are not crawled. Below are some of the possible reasons why a URL might not be crawled:

You may be using complex parameters or encoded strings in your URLs that are unique for each visit, instead of sending us the canonical URL, which is easier to crawl. Your URL may represent newly available content which had not been crawled before you sent ad requests. This is transient as your URL will be crawled shortly after your first ad request. You may be sending an incorrect URL to us because you are manually sending an incorrectly formatted URL in your ad request. You may be sending the URL of an iframe with an ad instead of the URL of the content page that hosts the iframe. (This typically applies to larger publishers). You may have limits on how often they can be crawled (crawler rejects our crawl requests). To avoid a potential revenue impact from this change, please consider the following best practices for ensuring URLs can be properly crawled:

AdSense Publishers, see:

About the AdSense crawler How to fix AdSense crawler errors Display ads on login-protected pages Give access to our crawler in your robots.txt file DFP and AdX Publishers, see Crawler Access.

Here are two additional tools that can help identify what adjustments you need to make.

The Fetch is a Google tool that enables you to test how Google crawls or renders a URL on your site. You can use Fetch as Google to see whether Googlebot can access a page on your site, how it renders the page, and whether any page resources (such as images or scripts) are blocked to Googlebot. This tool simulates a crawl and render execution as done in Google's normal crawling and rendering process, and is useful for debugging crawl issues on your site. robots.txt Tester - The robots.txt Tester tool shows you whether your robots.txt file blocks Google web crawlers from specific URLs on your site. For example, you can use this tool to test whether the Googlebot-Image crawler can crawl the URL of an image you wish to block from Google Image Search.

I hope this information helps clarify. After reviewing the information, let me know if you have a follow up question.

Honestly, that all reads very weird to me and doesn't seem like a nicely worded email - but what do I know.

The folks don't really like Google's response and want Google to fix the issues on their end. Most publishers are saying they are not blocking crawler access and something is wrong on Google's end, not the publishers end.

Google should be reaching out the publishers impacted by this but thus far, their communication around this has been horrible - in fact, so bad, I suspect a class action lawsuit brewing.

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Google: No Changes With Search Algorithm Or Infrastructure

May 15, 2019 • 8:54 am | comments (45) by twitter | Filed Under Google Search Algorithm Updates

Last Friday I reported about a potential Google search ranking updates and then SEJ reported that I was wrong and it was an infrastructure update. Well, we both were wrong according to Google - Google said there were no recent changes around algorithm changes or infrastructure changes.

Google told me yesterday there was no core ranking update and no infrastructure updates recently. Of course, Google said other things change all the time but said nothing major changes recently.

Google also told us that the new GoogleBot has been around for the past few months and thus any changes you may have seen related to rankings or infrastructure are not related to the new GoogleBot. Oh and those indexing bugs are also unrelated they said.

So I was wrong - happens - but hey - I am glad I got Google to say anything about this. It helps.

But what were those blips people were talking about? Hard to say, maybe it was specific to a smaller update that Google doesn't want to talk about?

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Old flies and new tactics

Viking Lars | Saturday, 22 June 2019

I’m sorry - I’m going to be talking a little bit about old flies again. This time a spey fly. Not as old as the “really” old ones. This one appears in Pryce-Tannat’s book, “How To Dress Salmon Flies” from 1914, where many of the older spey-patterns are from the first half of the 19th century. I’m not sure exactly how old The Gold Sylph is, but it’s pre-1914.

The Danish salmon waters are quite heavily fished (less now as most of the bog-salmon kill quotas are closed), but still, the salmon see a lot of flies and other hardware during a season. And if there’s one tactic I believe in, when nothing is working, it’s not only doing something different than whatever you’re doing (which is not working), but it’s also doing something that all the others aren’t doing either.

If the local wisdom is to fish a deep as possible, go lighter, if local wisdom is to fish as slow as possible, fish faster. I local wisdom dictates orange flies, go black - etc. That’s one possibility.

Instead of going home and spending the evening trying to come up with a new pattern (which can be very satisfying - especially if you get salmon on it the next day), try looking back. Back in time - hindsight is always 20/20, and flyfishers have *always* been coming up with new patterns. And there’s plenty of inspirations to be had. You can tie the old patterns, or convert them to modern hairwings, or simply use them for new inspiration for colour combinations.

I’ve been practising tying mallard spey-wings - simply because I find the exquisitely beautiful, and because I love the old patterns. I came across this, slightly unusual spey-fly called The Gold Sylph. The colour scheme spoke to me, so I tied up a batch, which not only served as practice, but also gave me a handful of great fishing flies. Flies I can guarantee that no Danish salmon has ever seen.

I’ve haven’t had the opportunity to fish the flies yet (due to back injury), but I will later this season, and I can’t wait. I’m sure the flies will be effective, and just thinking about hooking a salmon on a +100 year old pattern would be a great experience.

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As the fight over immigration policy intensifies, President Trump and Republican allies in California paint a frightening picture of what they say could happen without stricter controls on the southern border — with members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 pouring into the U.S. to commit crimes.

“Crippling loopholes in our laws have enabled MS-13 gang members and other criminals to infiltrate our communities,” Trump tweeted in May. Last week, he said Democrats “don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13.”

Proponents of a border crackdown point to a report that one of the nation’s most prominent Democrats — Sen. Kamala Harris of California — published in 2014 when she was state attorney general. It described MS-13 as “the largest and most violent transnational gang currently operating in California.”

Few crime experts dispute that MS-13 is among the nation’s most vicious street gangs. But many of them say law enforcement crackdowns and federal racketeering indictments have reduced its threat in recent years.

Still, their presence is increasing in some parts of of California — even as it decreases in others. Law enforcement officials said MS-13’s numbers are hard to determine because it is not a hierarchical organization. The gang is made up of separate cliques with familial ties to Central America and often deals in drug and human trafficking, said John Bennett, special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco field office.

“MS-13 does have a presence here,” Bennett said. “And we take that very seriously, because they prey on their own communities. There are turf wars with Sureños and Norteños, but what is particularly concerning with MS-13 is the magnitude of violence that we see out of them.”

But MS-13’s threat in Los Angeles, where the gang was born three decades ago, “is probably the lowest it has ever been,” said Jorja Leap, a professor of social welfare at UCLA who has studied MS-13 and other gangs in California’s largest city.

Constantly citing the danger of MS-13, as Trump is doing, could backfire, Leap said. Having a U.S. president broadcasting its brutality and power is likely to help MS-13 in recruiting, she said.

“What Trump is doing in promoting them is dangerous in so many ways,” Leap said. “Along with being erroneous, he is giving them oxygen. Donald Trump is acting as a one-man publicity band for MS-13.”

MS-13 is the commonly used name for La Mara Salvatrucha, a gang that was formed in Southern California in the 1980s and made up mostly of immigrants from Central America, primarily El Salvador. The number 13 represents its affiliation with the Sureño Mexican street gang, but many members simply use “MS” and claim no allegiance with other organizations.

Many members of the gang are covered in tattoos, including on their faces, making them particularly fearsome looking. Their trail of terror is worse.

In April 2017, four teens were found hacked to death on Long Island, N.Y., part of a wave of more than a dozen killings in the area attributed to MS-13. One of San Francisco’s most notorious crimes was committed by an MS-13 member, Edwin Ramos, who killed a father and two of his sons as they drove through the Excelsior neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon in June 2008. Authorities said Ramos mistook one of the sons for a member of a rival gang.

“To get into MS-13, it’s generally beat-downs, killing of rival gang members or going after law enforcement,” said the FBI’s Bennett. “That is the initiation. We are very concerned there is violence in these communities, but there is violence toward law enforcement as well.”

Trump has seized on that imagery and history to argue that the nation’s immigration policy is enabling MS-13 gang members to flood into the country. Trump mentioned the gang four times in his State of the Union address in January and three times during a rally in Minnesota last week, when he blamed “Democrats’ open-border policies” for a wave of gang violence.

Although research on MS-13 varies, there is little evidence that young gang members are coming over the border in large numbers. A 2017 report to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the interim chief of customs and border protection, Carla Provost, found that 0.02 percent of the 260,000 unaccompanied children who had crossed the southern border over the previous six years were suspected of being affiliated with MS-13.

“The national story that’s being told is grossly inaccurate,” said David Kennedy, a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College in Manhattan and director of the National Network for Safe Communities, a think tank dedicated to helping cities reduce violence. “I don’t think anyone dealing with gang violence would consider MS-13 to be a pressing national issue.”

Regardless, other Republicans have picked up on Trump’s theme, often when they criticize sanctuary laws that limit local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with federal immigration officials. GOP-led campaigns have helped persuade 12 California counties and 45 cities, mostly in conservative areas of Southern California and the Central Valley, to oppose California’s sanctuary state law.

In his election night speech to supporters after securing the No. 2 spot in the gubernatorial primary and advancing to the fall election, Republican businessman John Cox invoked MS-13 as he signaled how he’ll go after Democratic opponent Gavin Newsom in the fall.

“Gavin, you did that. You’re the one that’s protecting MS-13,” Cox said. “You’re the one that’s making our communities less safe.”

During a recent appearance on Fox News, Cox said he opposes sanctuary laws “because of how it provides a pathway for MS-13 gang members to live in the state.”

He added, “Nobody wants to live next to MS-13 gang members,” and asked rhetorically, “Have you heard the stories about what they do to young girls? ... They’re basically terrorists, and they’re living in our communities.”

A spokesman for Cox’s campaign said he was relying on news reports about the gang’s worst crimes. He was also referring to the 2014 report from then-Attorney General Harris on transnational criminal enterprises in California.

The wide-ranging report, which covered criminal enterprises ranging from Eastern European computer-hacking rings to Mexican drug cartels, said MS-13 “is the largest and most violent transnational gang currently operating in California and has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a transnational criminal.”

In the years since then, authorities say, MS-13 has begun to expand in some parts of California and in other pockets around the country. But its influence can vary, even in the space of a few miles.

In Fresno, a city racked by gang violence, police Lt. David Ramsey said MS-13’s “presence is nonexistent.” But the story is different 34 miles away in in the Fresno County city of Mendota.

In February, city and school officials there wrote to Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford (Kings County), that “outside of the Los Angeles area, ground zero for MS-13 in California is your district.” They cited several brutal MS-13-related crimes and “an active recruitment campaign in the middle and high schools.” They asked for funding for five additional police officers, saying the city’s force is no “match for this violence.”

Mendota’s mayor, city manager and police chief, who all signed the letter, did not respond to requests for interviews.

Kennedy, the John Jay College professor, said he worries that the heated political rhetoric around the gang may be doing more harm than good for places like Mendota.

Sanctuary city policies were designed to encourage immigrant communities to cooperate with local law enforcement without having to fear that they or their family members will be deported. But Kennedy said some immigrants won’t come forward if they are witnesses or victims of crime if they think they are being falsely labeled as gang members.

“The more alienated a community is from the police and the authorities, and the community around them, the more vulnerable they become to the few truly predatory amongst them,” Kennedy said.

Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer, and Joe Garofoli is The Chronicle’s senior political writer. Email: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com, jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky, @joegarofoli

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