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Monday, 5 November 2018
Sajid Javid’s Tweet Horrifies Sadiq Khan (Part One)

by Hugh Fitzgerald

London mayor Sadiq Khan has attacked Home Secretary Sajid Javid for “playing to the far right narrative” with a tweet he sent following the sentencing of a grooming gang in Huddersfield. Mr Javid tweeted after a gang of 20 men were sentenced on October 19; “These sick Asian paedophiles are finally facing justice. I want to commend the bravery of the victims. For too long, they were ignored. Not on my watch. There will be no no-go areas.”

Sadiq Khan severely criticised the Home Secretary’s comments, consigning him to the outer darkness by comparing his tweet’s language to that used by Donald Trump. He told LBC: “It’s quite clear now that there are Conservative politicians who think the way to succeed in the Conservative Party is by playing to the far-right narrative. There was no need, in my opinion, to insert the words ‘Asian’ in that tweet, or ”no-go areas.’ The sort of people who use the phrase ‘no-go areas’ are Donald Trump – he used it in the context of London and even Boris Johnson rebutted him when he said that – and also the EDL and far-right groups.”

First, the phrase “no-go areas” has been used not just by Donald Trump and others (all of course right-wing, far-right, alt-right) whom Sadiq Khan despises, but by many local leaders, police officials, scholars, and writers in Europe to describe the situation in their own cities and towns.

In France, for example, as Soeren Kern wrote in 2015:

Fabrice Balanche, a well-known French Islam scholar who teaches at the University of Lyon, recently told Radio Télévision Suisse: “You have territories in France such as Roubaix, such as northern Marseille, where police will not step foot, where the authority of state is completely absent, where mini Islamic states have been formed.”

French writer and political journalist Éric Zemmour recently told BFM TV: “There are places in France today, especially in the suburbs, where it is not really in France. Salafi Islamists are Islamizing some neighborhoods and some suburbs. In these neighborhoods, it’s not France, it’s an Islamic republic.” In a separate interview, Zemmour — whose latest book is entitled, “The French Suicide” — says multiculturalism and the reign of politically correct speech is destroying the country.

French politician Franck Guiot wrote that parts of Évry, a township in the southern suburbs of Paris, are no-go zones where police forces cannot go for fear of being attacked. He said that politicians seeking to maintain “social peace” were prohibiting the police from using their weapons to defend themselves.

The Socialist mayor of Amiens, Gilles Demailly, has referred to the Fafet-Brossolette district of the city as a “no-go zone” where “you can no longer order a pizza or get a doctor to come to the house.” Europe 1, one of the leading broadcasters in France, has referred to Marseille as a “no-go zone” after the government was forced to deploy riot police, known as CRS, to confront warring Muslim gangs in the city. The French Interior Ministry said it was trying to “reconquer” 184 square kilometers (71 square miles) of Marseille that have come under the control of Muslim gangs.

The French newspaper Le Figaro has referred to downtown Perpignan as a “veritable no-go zone” where “aggression, antisocial behavior, drug trafficking, Muslim communalism, racial tensions and tribal violence” are forcing non-Muslims to move out. Le Figaro also reported that the Les Izards district of Toulouse was a no-go zone, where Arab drug trafficking gangs rule the streets in a climate of fear.

Sadiq Khan may want to  consult, on the subject of “no-go zones” in France, two reports:

A 120-page research paper entitled “No-Go Zones in the French Republic: Myth or Reality?” documented dozens of French neighborhoods “where police and gendarmerie cannot enforce the Republican order or even enter without risking confrontation, projectiles, or even fatal shootings.”

In October 2011, a 2,200-page report, “Banlieues de la République” (Suburbs of the Republic) found that Seine-Saint-Denis and other Parisian suburbs are becoming “separate Islamic societies” cut off from the French state and where Islamic Sharia law is rapidly displacing French civil law. Since 2011, hundreds  more much areas, where the representatives of the French state — police, firemen — hesitate to enter, have been identified.

France is not the only European country with No-Go Zones, but it is the country where no-go zones have been subject to the most study. Parts of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Berlin, Malmö and Stockholm are places where the police seem to have lost control. The Hungarian government has released a report.

Sadiq Khan insists there was “no need” for Sajid Javid to mention “no-go zones.” But Javid was trying to present a picture of where these grooming gangs flourish, often out of sight of the police, who are hesitant to enter such areas.

Is anything Sajid Javid said untrue? Were not all 20 of the men who were convicted in Huddersfield “Asians” — a word which has been used for decades in the U.K. to avoid identifying people forthrightly as British Pakistanis, though everyone knows what the word is meant to convey: Muslims of Pakistani origin. Sadiq Khan thinks identifying the  groomers in this way is unacceptable, though he fails to explain why. Why is it wrong to identify the religion and ethnicity shared by all of these groomers in Huddersfield? Can he imagine why it might be useful for the public — and parents of daughters — to know?

Nor were these “Asian” groomers limited to Huddersfield. In the most publicized of such cases, dozens of other groomers have been tried and convicted for the sexual exploitation, and repeated rape, of 1,510 English girls in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. Still other “Asian” — that is, British-Pakistani — men have been tried and convicted for the same offenses in more than two dozen British cities. Their preferred victims were girls aged 12 to 14. The modus operandi was for the men to wait outside schools and care homes, sometimes in taxis (for many were taxi drivers), to engage these young girls in conversation, to show an interest in these vulnerable girls — often from poor and dysfunctional families — that few, of none,  had done before, and then to inveigle them into sexual relationships. Then they would be taken to houses where they were first plied with alcohol and drugs, and then sexually abused, repeatedly, by groups of men, passed around like party favors to still other men.

First published in Jihad Watch.

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President Trump may have used the term 'no go areas,' but probably not in reference to a place in the United States. 'No go area(s) is frequently used in the American media to refer to very dangerous Muslim neighborhoods in European countries. I have never heard or seen it used in reference to such a place in this country, which isn't same thing as saying there are no ghettos of one sort or another here.

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New Jersey Appellate Division Upholds $525K Verdict for a Customer Service Representative Who Was Sexually Harassed by Her Supervisor

The successes of other employees in sexual harassment litigation can serve many positive purposes. For one thing, they can serve as encouragement that hopefully will embolden others to come forward and stop suffering from harassment in silence. For another thing, the rulings that the courts make can provide valuable knowledge for those who come afterward. As an example, one recent case from Newark reminds New Jersey workers that you do not need proof that you suffered some extreme or debilitating emotional injury in order to succeed in establishing that you suffered from severe or pervasive harassment. The focal point is the harasser’s actions, rather than how they affected you. For the knowledge you need for your case, retain the services of a skilled New Jersey sexual harassment attorney to represent you.The case involved M.V., a customer service representative. M.V.’s case of sexual harassment is, unfortunately, an all-too-common set of facts. M.V. started her job in 2008 at the Newark office of a national producer of corrugated boxes. Not long after M.V. started work, her supervisor began sexually harassing her.

The harassment M.V. received was similar to the sorts of things too many employees have to endure. First came the supervisor’s comments about his sexual relationship with his girlfriend, with whom he’d recently split. Then came the supervisor’s comments about how he loved Latina women (like M.V.), how the ex-girlfriend thought he had “nice thighs,” how the girlfriend wanted him to have a threesome, and so forth. He also asked M.V. out to eat and placed his hand over her hand in an unwanted way. In addition, the supervisor stared at M.V.’s body inappropriately and often demanded that M.V. not speak to other men at the workplace.

In 2011, the employer fired M.V. Eleven months later, M.V. filed a sexual harassment lawsuit under the Law Against Discrimination. At the end of the trial, the jury ruled in favor of the employee, awarding her $300,000 for economic loss and $225,000 for emotional distress. The employee also received an award of $402,000 in attorneys’ fees and $20,000 in costs.

The employer appealed the verdict and award but lost. The appeals court’s decision made some very important points for anyone who has suffered from workplace sexual harassment and is considering taking legal action. The court explained that the facts in M.V.’s case demonstrated that a series of incidents can, when taken together as a group, be enough to meet the “severe or pervasive” harassment standard that the law requires, even if the individual incidents would not, taken separately, be enough to constitute severe or pervasive harassment.

Additionally, the court opinion highlighted the fact that, when it comes to assessing whether or not conduct is impermissible sexual harassment, the key is the harasser’s actions, rather than the impact on the victim. New Jersey law does not require that sexual harassment inflict “serious psychological harm” on the victim in order to meet the severe or pervasive standard. You don’t have to prove that you left work crying every day. You don’t have to have proof that you missed work, began seeing a specialist, or started taking psychological medication because of the harassment. The focus is on the harasser’s wrongful conduct.

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Dell Announces Launch of AirCarbon Products

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  • Dell is first to offer a computer made with certified closed-loop recycled plastics with the launch of the OptiPlex 3030 All-in-OneDell is first to receive third-party certification from UL Environment for its closed-loop plastic recycling initiative
Closed-loop Recycling Dell today announced new sustainability initiatives designed to increase the ways that its IT solutions make lasting contributions to the planet. Dell is the first in the IT industry to introduce carbon-negative packaging, through a partnership with Newlight Technologies, inventor and manufacturer of AirCarbon. Dell also is the first to use UL-Environment certified closed-loop recycled plastics in the manufacturing of computers, in partnership with Wistron GreenTech, a global original design manufacturer and one of Dell’s official environmental partners. The independent, third-party verification of a closed-loop plastics process establishes the first industry standard for closed-loop and supports a circular economy for IT.

Earlier today, at Fortune Brainstorm Green, Dell CEO Michael Dell said today’s announcement is the next milestone in Dell’s 2020 Legacy of Good plan, which includes 21 ambitious sustainability and social goals Dell is committed to reaching by 2020. The overarching goal is to ensure that the good that comes from Dell’s technology will be ten times what it takes to create and use it.“We have a long-standing commitment to conduct our business responsibly,” said Mr. Dell. “Air Carbon packaging and closed-loop recycled plastics are terrific innovations and big steps forward as we work with our customers and partners toward our 2020 goals.”

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Dell’s new packaging is based on carbon-negative AirCarbon material from bio-tech start-up, Newlight Technologies. While almost all plastics today are developed from fossil fuels, AirCarbon by Newlight Technologies is a plastic material made from air and greenhouse gases that would otherwise become part of the air. This process sequesters more carbon than it produces, pulling carbon from the air and generating a net positive impact on the environment. AirCarbon has been independently verified by Trucost in cooperation with NSF Sustainability as a carbon-negative material on a cradle-to-grave basis.

The AirCarbon-based packaging will launch this fall beginning with the packaging sleeves around new Dell Latitude series notebooks. Dell is piloting AirCarbon packaging in the United States, and plans to extend it globally for use in both packaging and products. Previous Dell packaging innovation includes bamboo and wheat straw that helped eliminate 20 million pounds of packaging and saved 18 million dollars. The new AirCarbon packaging, greener and less expensive to manufacture than oil-based plastic packaging, brings Dell another step closer to achieving its goal of using 100 percent sustainable packaging by 2020.

“Dell is using greenhouse gases that would otherwise become part of the air we breathe to replace materials traditionally made by oil, ” said Mark Herrema, CEO, Newlight Technologies. “We commend Dell for being the first in the IT industry to introduce packaging that reverses the impact of climate change. Introducing greener packaging at a lower cost per unit than traditional oil-based plastics is good for the environment and Dell’s bottom line.”

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Dell’s new closed-loop supply chain developed in partnership with Wistron GreenTech will turn plastics from recycled electronics back into new systems, helping drive a circular economy for IT. Dell will be the first company in the IT industry to use UL-Environment certified closed-loop recycled plastic in a computer with the launch of the Dell OptiPlex 3030 All-in-One desktop, which will be commercially available in June. By reusing plastics already in circulation, Dell is cutting down on e-waste, saving resources and reducing carbon emissions by 11 percent compared with virgin plastics. Dell already offers free consumer recycling in 78 countries.

“Dell and Wistron’s incorporation of closed loop post-consumer recycled plastics in the OptiPlex AIO line of computers is a significant step towards industry leadership in reducing e-waste,” said Lisa Meier, vice president and general manager of UL Environment. “The content validation by UL Environment adds credibility and peace of mind for the purchasers and end users of Dell’s products, and highlights the company’s overall commitment to environmental stewardship.”

Dell also is the first to secure third-party certification from UL Environment for manufacturing with closed-loop recycled plastics. This first UL Environment certification of its kind verifies that Dell has exceeded the standard of a minimum of 10 percent of closed-loop post-consumer recycled plastics in the chassis enclosure of all Dell OptiPlex 3030 All-in-Ones globally. Dell plans to use this closed-loop approach as a blueprint for reusing metals and other materials and to accelerate Dell’s goal of using 50 million pounds of recycled-content plastic and other sustainable materials in its products by 2020.

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Bats eavesdrop on feasting neighbours to find food
By listening to fellow bats, which make a specific call when they have found food, a bat can extend its field of “vision” tenfold

Mercury may be sole survivor of planetary pile-up
Our solar system may have started out with several planets packed closer to the sun than Mercury, much like the planets we see around other stars

Cubical robots train for world football championships
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Radical therapies that could beat my brain tumour
One day, former doctor Stuart Farrimond‘s brain cancer will return to kill him. Here he assesses the inventive new treatments that might save his life

Jupiter’s eroding core may already be just a husk
The lump of ice and rock at the planet’s centre is dissolving like salt in water, and the latest calculations say it’s happening twice as fast as we thought

Drug trials begin as Ebola plays hide-and-seek
Ebola drug trials are getting under way in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone – but the fluctuating epidemic may make it hard to find enough participants

Bright black hole may have blasted early Earth life
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Cooking Watson-style: Supercomputer turns to recipes
Not content with winning quiz shows, IBM’s Watson supercomputer is now injecting a little creativity into your kitchen. Niall Firth pulls on his apron

Brave new world-hunters spot exoplanets on the cheap
You don’t need a multi-million-dollar budget to find alien worlds – off-the-shelf scopes rigged together can spot our cosmic neighbours too

The time illusion: How your brain creates now
Time is not out there – “now” is a strange trick of the mind. The good news is that with training you can live in the moment for longer

How conservation drives villagers to kill animals
Anger at government conservation schemes can cause a backlash from local communities that threatens to undermine the future of the world’s charismatic beasts

New antibiotic could work for 30 years – if used right
An antibiotic discovered using a method that coaxes “unculturable” bacteria to grow in the lab could have a longer lifespan than current drugs

Cancer copies how healthy cells move to invade organs
To spread around the body, cancer cells take cues from wound-healing cells and white blood cells. We now know how

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US Judge Clears Way for Alabama County's Bankruptcy

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Alabama's Jefferson County can go ahead with its $4.23 billion bankruptcy case, the biggest ever by an American municipality, a federal judge ruled.

Overcoming arguments by creditors that the county was ineligible for bankruptcy because it had the wrong type of debt, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett issued a ruling late Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama, saying the complex case can go ahead. "This is good news for the county," said David Carrington, president of the Jefferson County Commission that last year authorized the landmark bankruptcy filing.

It was unclear whether Bennett's ruling will spur workout negotiations between the county and creditors, but Carrington said the two sides will next face off at court hearings in April over the size of payments due creditors from the county's sewer system.

Home to Birmingham, a business hub and Alabama's biggest city, Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 9 after a tentative agreement with creditors unwound. The county's finances had been savaged by massive sewer-system debt, political corruption and the loss of a vital local jobs tax.

Creditors such as JPMorgan Chase argued that Jefferson County was ineligible for a bankruptcy filing because the county had no bond debt as required by state law. Like most Alabama counties, Jefferson County only had warrants, a form of debt popular in the state since the 1930s that does not require direct voter approval.

Cases brought by other U.S. municipalities, such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, have been thrown out by other federal judges in recent months.

In a short, written ruling rejecting the creditors' arguments, Bennett said that Jefferson County "is insolvent, desires to affect a plan of adjustment of its debts and has negotiated in good faith."

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Journey of Creativity features accomplished rural artists

Northwest artists and artisans are joining in a celebration of creativity this summer.

Plan to eat out or pack a picnic, friends and family into a car and discover some of the many talents and treasures concealed along the quiet byways of rural Saskatchewan as you head out on a picturesque drive down country roads, past lush forests, glimmering lakes and streams, refreshing coulees, imposing canyons and rolling parkland for the annual Northern Horizons Journey of Creativity.

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This experience is for art lovers, explorers and adventurers and is a great way to spend a summer day or weekend.

Aug. 4 and 5, studio workshops hosted by artists and craftspeople of the area surrounding Glaslyn, Medstead, Belbutte and Glenbush will open their doors to the public to share their diverse and interesting creative talents.

This is a self-drive tour so you may travel in any direction and visit any or all of the studios. Horizon signs will be posted to help mark the trail along with the help of the printable map and brochure that you can find at You can also find the group on Facebook at Northern Horizons - Journey of Creativity. Or you can pick up a brochure complete with a map, directions and commentary on individual artists available from various businesses, art galleries and information centers in the area.

Visitors are encouraged to visit all the artists, so a passport is offered again this year. At the first site you visit, pick up a passport and have the artists at each site mark it. A draw will be made for all those who visit all the sites during the two tour days. The prize this year a $100 gift certificate to be spent at one or more of the Northern Horizons Journey members’ sites.

In Glaslyn, featured guest artist, Lucille Scott, will be displaying intricate paintings that she does on feathers and other natural surfaces. Mark Seabrook of MSSeabrook Photography, who is an award-winning photographer and has had work published in Country Guide and Photo Life Magazine will also display his work. Lorraine Beardsworth who paints and draws in a variety of media, will have work on display.

In Medstead is Aaron Johnson of Boreal Rustics. His work consists of rustic furniture, picture frames and other creations made from logs and wood often artistically decorated with antlers and other found objects.

Southwest of Medstead is the gallery-style home of an accomplished artist, Dorothy Schmidt, at Shady Lane Studio. The studio features original oil paintings depicting the Saskatchewan landscape she enjoys painting.

South of Glenbush visit another artist, Lavonne Dyck at Portraits and More, who displays her softly and realistically drawn portraits in graphite or coloured pencil, photography and beautiful rugs woven on a large floor loom.

In the same area is Barb Janzen at Buffalo Charlie, formerly Lost Horse Lake Soap Company, where natural handmade soap products made from buffalo tallow and herbs are sold. She also makes jewelry and mosaics.

Debbie Dzialo at Ukrainian Creations offers a collection of Ukrainian crafts. She is also an accomplished cook and will serve a meal after 11 a.m. or visitors can purchase homemade pyrohy, holubtsi or baking to take home.

Just off Highway 3 between Cater and Belbutte you will find Kristen Stuart at Hat Creek Ranch Rustic Furniture with a variety of rustic furniture and décor pieces in a style that is a mix of farmhouse, old world, ranch house and northern cabin.

If you are unable to get out on the tour during the two days when special displays are set up for the public, many of the artists would be happy to have you visit at another time by appointment.

This is what previous travellers on the journey have had to say:

“I’m enjoying every minute of it.”

“This is more than a tour, it’s an event!”

“Wow! What wonderful talent we have in rural Saskatchewan.”

“We think we have to go far away to find talent but it’s right here.”

“What a great idea for spending a weekend.”

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Trump’s ‘I’m Not a Politician’ Line Is a Sham

Donald Trump greets supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 9. The author argues that Trump's claim not to be a real politician is a sham. His populism is the flimflam, finger-pointing and impossible promises of traditional assembly-line politics, stripped down to its bare parts. Rick Wilking/reuters

This article first appeared on the Foundation for Economic Education site.

At a CNN-hosted town hall debate, Donald Trump said that the U.S. government’s core focus should be on security (times three!), health care, and education.

In spite of this vague, rambling answer and much other blathering in support of big government, the real estate mogul has a large, intense following, which includes people on the right, the left and even some paleo-conservatives and libertarians.

In some ways, it’s understandable: If the normal process of politics revolts you in any way, the dream of anti-candidate Trump is sweet. The approval rating for the presidency in general is around 30 percent, according to Gallup. For Congress, it’s a stingy 8 percent. People—or at least the people Gallup calls—do not seem terribly impressed by their elected officials.

Nor should they be. Powerful men and women spy, meddle, steal and go to war, whether the people want them to or not, and then pat them on the head and coo euphemisms when people get upset with the results.

Into this travesty strolls Donald Trump, with a terrible, shallow campaign, brilliant in its bombastic vagueness. Populism, it’s been a while. You’re looking tanned, rested, but disturbingly familiar.

When Trump boasts about being against the Iraq War, or disses Dick Cheney, or says that being called a politician is insulting, it’s all too easy to like him. It would be so nice to believe he is not one of them, but one of us. Sure, he’s a billionaire on his third wife, with numerous failed business ventures, a love of eminent domain and his own brand of “luxury” steaks, but he feels our loathing of the political class.

Yet it is infuriating that this is the year, and this is the man who has stolen the heart of the people fed up with D.C. Not someone with principles (such as one against, oh, gleefully saying literally anything to be elected), not someone notably different from the elites he professes to loathe—merely a man who knows how to blab with the purest, most bald-faced confidence ever seen on a national stage.

In one way, Trump’s presidential run is about an outsider group revolting against the status quo, the way that fringey, quixotic campaigns like Pat Buchanan, Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul’s were. And some libertarians and paleo-cons have jumped on the Trump float, but it is clearly not their parade. The cause of Trump is not small government or social democracy or even Catholic populism.

It is Charlie Sheen–esque nationalism. It is strident whining confused for truth-telling. It is nonsense mercantilist ideas, bullying as public policy, and the worst anti-immigrant scapegoating in decades. However, there are no ideas here: It’s merely a billionaire playing that he’s angry about Mexicans and rallying swarms to his meaningless sort of “patriotism.”

Whether Trump was inevitable, or whether he simply speaks to the truly mediocre 2016 candidates is uncertain. But boy is it frustrating that the man who wants to raze D.C. is the one who wants to erect a statue of himself in its place. He tells it like it is, he knows politicians don’t work for the people! But he’s going to wave his hands and make a Mexico wall and 18th century trade policy appear by incantation.

Back in September, The New Yorker wrote that “Trump…is playing the game of anti-politics.” We should be so lucky. Trump is merely politics distilled down to the size of one angry rich guy.

On the campaign trail, would-be officials swear they can do anything and everything (and in the first 100 days, no less). Trump is bolder, brasher and even more divorced from reality. But he’s still essentially that. The waking reality of the presumptive GOP nominee—who disses Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton and both party establishments—is that he is, heart and soul, a consummate politician.

His critique of the political class is not that they meddle too heavily in the lives of individuals, but that they haven’t done enough. If they had, wouldn’t we have a 50-foot wall on the southern border? Wouldn’t all those manufacturing jobs come back from China?

For Trump and his supporters, the problem with Washington is not the inherent disaster of a massive bureaucracy with no consequences for failure and a surplus of corrupting power. No, it’s lack of strident, Trump-like spirit: a lack of will.

In spite of his twitches toward a less militaristic foreign policy—in between suggesting the United States rip up the Geneva Conventions, bomb the hell out of Syria, and seize Iraq’s oil—there is nothing really consistent about Trump. He may or may not be worse in practice than the status quo, but there is no reason to suspect that he is the savior of anything except his own ego.

Indeed, his view that the government is incompetent due to bad managers sounds more like progressive technocracy than anything conservative. But somehow his screaming fans have gotten their signals crossed or, more grimly, they are as uninterested in small government as he is.

Hating D.C. is fun, but it doesn’t magically translate to supporting liberty. And populism is a not principle—it has no policies, feasible or otherwise. It is raw emotion. It is preaching. It is the flimflam, finger-pointing and impossible promises of traditional assembly-line politics, just stripped down to bare parts.

Trump is the schoolyard version of everything Marco Rubio or Bill Kristol advocates. He isn’t flattering anyone’s intelligence with his policy acumen. He doesn’t think we’re terribly smart, but he also thinks those fancy pants D.C. elites are not as smart as they pretend.

He’s right about all of that. It’s not as if politics is noble or deserves better than Trump. It is Trump.

The Donald is not some demon summoned from another dimension to destroy America. He probably isn’t a new Hitler or Mussolini. He is a part of us, a glitzy, gilded reflection of the dark soul of politics: the lies, the self-promotion and the delusion. Take a good, long look.

Lucy Steigerwald is a contributing editor to Antiwar.com and a contributor to Playboy.


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Ongoing Dollar weakness helps commodities extend gains

Minor gains in S&P this am coinciding with bounce in Europe while NKY finished down 3+%, and US Dollar pullback accelerating with EURUSD hitting 1.15 and Precious Metals still surging.  Starting to see lots of long spec positions in the metals along with Yen, and US Dollar index hitting prior lows likely means most of the Metals move for now has played its course, but still could see Materials, Energy gains into early May until we see meaningful dollar reversal-   Trend has arguably turned worse in the near-term for S&P given last week's break, playing catchup with the NASDAQ, while NDX down to key support and overall minor negative trend should prove minimal before gains back to new highs occur-   Key for S&P FUTS lies near 2071 on the upside to exceed, while 2060 being PIVOT and 2045 initially on downside important-  Bottom line,  expect we could see weakness early this week, but would use any pullback to buy dips as broader trend remains fine, and just a stalling out near former highs-  -  Early gainers this am out of DO and SYY both of which surprised to the upside-  This week's Weekly Technical Perspective highlights the Semis within Technology and a few stocks to consider buying given the recent weakness that look appealing-

Minor bounce today hasn't regained 2071 which will be important, and for now the pulllback late last week still takes precedent early on

Gold breakout showing some follow-through on Dollar weakness as prices have hit the highest levels since early 2015-   While extended, its necessary to await some evidence of stalling out or reversal before selling longs ( I own GLD, IAU, SLV)

Speculative longs in Gold reaching levels not seen in the last few years, so most seem to be in this trade already and gains likely will prove muted in the upcoming week, though for now, additional rise above 1310 would target 1328-30 area which likely should be used for profit-taking-  Specs have risen substantially in the Metals along with USDJPY which has stabilized


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Yasuko Azuma

Childhood memories of growing up in Japan, prior training and careers as a fashion designer in her native country and as a dancer in New York all provide Yasuko Azuma with inspiration for her elegantly feminine and intricately detailed 18k gold precious jewelry collection.

“I’m very nostalgic about my childhood, growing up in Japan and playing in my grandmother’s garden,” explains Yasuko. “I can recreate in my mind, the botanicals, the rocks, the hanging lanterns and the way in which the branches seemed to billow and flow.” Today Yasuko interprets these images into highly wearable and ultimately pretty pieces of jewelry. “I prefer not to follow trends but to create styles that are enduring, versatile and collectible. I also believe in jewelry that is more subdued with unexpected surprises and details rather than bold diamond statement looks.” Yasuko’s collection focuses on earthly delights, each of which is hand carved and hand finished with her pierced work. The changing of seasons is also a driving force in her collection. She describes her “diamond dust” texture as “trying to capture the moment on an icy cold day in winter when the motion in the air sparkles when it freezes.” Yasuko replicates this feeling with light hammering which creates a glimmer of matte and shine. The essence of her designs shows through in their subtly. The Yasuko Azuma collection attracts a broad range of women without ever being overly designed. “The pieces never outshine my customers but rather enhance their diverse and inherent beauty.”

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Merrick Garland Says He’s Still Available

BETHESDA, MARYLAND (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that he would like to help the Senate Judiciary Committee “in any way I can,” Judge Merrick Garland announced on Monday that he is “still available” to be confirmed as a United States Supreme Court Justice.

“I haven’t heard from anyone on the Judiciary Committee,” Garland said. “But I just want to let them know that I’ve let bygones be bygones if they’d like to confirm me now.”

The judge said that he was “not surprised” that no one from the White House has called about his availability for the Supreme Court job. “I’ve been reading that Woodward book,” he said. “It sounds like things can get pretty hectic over there.”

Garland noted that, when he was first nominated to the Supreme Court, no Republican senator agreed to meet with him, but added, “Maybe they can find some time in their schedules now.”

“After what they’ve been going through for the past couple of days, the Republicans might want to give old Merrick another look,” he said. “I’m clean as a whistle.”

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The Dangerous Data Hack That You Won’t Even Notice

By focusing only on hackers’ efforts to extort money or mess with our political process, we may have been missing what is potentially an even scarier possibility.

A recent wave of cyberattacks—from WannaCry and Equifax to the alleged Russian influence on the US election—has demonstrated how hackers can wreak havoc on our largest institutions. But by focusing only on hackers’ efforts to extort money or mess with our political process, we may have been missing what is potentially an even scarier possibility: data manipulation.

Imagine that a major Big Food company gets hacked. But this time, instead of leaking the company’s proprietary information to the public or freezing its systems with ransomware, the hackers subtly manipulate the data on which the company relies. Expiration dates on milk cartons get scrambled so that some are thrown away early while others make drinkers sick, despite appearing within their use-by date. Figures are tweaked slightly on pending invoices to vendors, altering the company’s balance sheets by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Small changes are made to food-safety tests so that a dangerous product that was failing suddenly looks like it is passing regulation tests.

Would the company even notice such changes happening? Could it still have the confidence that its backups were uncompromised? How could its investors accurately assess the company’s value when all of its financials might suddenly be based on faulty information? And how might its customers and suppliers respond?

Now apply this thought experiment to banks, medical institutions, and government organizations. It’s pretty scary.

Unlike “information-gathering” hacks (where data is stolen because it is valuable) or “hold hostage” attacks (when data is imprisoned until someone pays to release it), “manipulation hacks” are hard to detect: They result when individuals (or bots) illegally change vital information below the threshold of attention.

Take the recent Equifax breach as an example. A software engineer set up a fake website claiming to help customers—and even Equifax linked to the fake site. The site’s contents made clear it was not real (the purpose was to expose how easy it was to “phish”), but Equifax fell for cybersecurity’s equivalent of fake news, and it took 200,000 clicks before the company noticed.

In the most extreme cases, such hacks could have deadly consequences. A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on the risks of data breaches in health systems, noting that a hacker could in theory change a single data point, such as the level of potassium in a patient’s blood, leading caregivers to provide incorrect and potentially lethal treatments. Given that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the US, there is plenty of reason to worry.

More broadly, data manipulation breeds uncertainty. When a hacker’s goal is to leak stolen information or hold data for ransom, their success depends on their ability to prove the information they hold is real. But with data manipulation, the goal is to call the underlying information into question. And uncertainty is its own weapon. Ten years ago, an announcement by the banking group BNP set the 2007 financial crisis in motion because they said they didn’t know what securities linked to subprime mortgages were worth. In today’s data-driven markets, the consequences of uncertainty for the financial industry might be far greater.

Admittedly, data-manipulation hacks are not as easily monetizable as ransomware, nor do they produce as much buzz as the public release of sensitive data. But that doesn’t mean they can’t have serious financial repercussions. When hackers took over the Associated Press’s Twitter account in 2013, a few fake tweets about a terrorist attack caused the stock market to take a nosedive. A future attack could call the quarterly earnings of a publicly traded company into question, and benefit from the postponement of that company’s earnings call.

There are also deep-seated political implications to data manipulation. The data on the servers of state election boards are an obvious target; in at least one US county in 2016, a hacker manipulated the voter data, though the issue was corrected before the election actually occurred.

Because of the opportunity that data manipulation provides, we need to take simple steps now before this kind of hack becomes more common. First, we need to design systems that are carefully watching for manipulation: Hard or offline backups are essential, and data holders should develop systems to regularly compare live versions of their data to their backups. (According to Osterman Research, most companies don’t do this continuously, and some don’t do it at all.)

We also need better database oversight, such as systems designed to identify precisely when data has been manipulated. For example, in the art industry, collectors use provenance documents to verify who has owned an artwork and how it has changed over time. Perhaps a similar system to verify the provenance of data could help us tell when a data manipulation hack has occurred.

But there’s is a small silver lining: One of the easiest ways for organizations to defend against hackers is to beat them at their own game. When infiltrators can’t tell what data is real, they won’t know what actually might be of value. Emmanuel Macron’s French presidential campaign, for instance, purportedly distracted hackers with fake data, which limited the effectiveness of campaign hacks as a result.

Perhaps this really is an instance where fire(wall) can be fought with fire(wall).


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How To Throw The ULTIMATE Vision Board Party for 2019!

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“It’s surreal to think about how 1 year ago, I was just in the Philippines, in a small local coffee shop, creating my very first vision board. And now, we’re all here! And we get to do it together!!”

That was how I started speaking. I had to stop several times to just take it all in. Imagine being surrounded by women who knows what they want and who are willing to go after it, women who are taking responsibility for designing the future that they want and being the author of their life. Ohh wait, I didn’t have to imagine!

I had the time of my life last week, January 6th, during #womenwithvision2019! I’m so grateful and humbled to be able to share this part of myself with other people. What I once thought was SUPER woowoo, what I once was so scared of showing to others and almost tucked under the bed, I then shared and talked about in a room full of people wanting to create the same thing.

And I’m grateful I’m grateful I’m grateful.

One of the girls said,

“I was just talking to my friend about how I wish we were able to document the milestones and moments that changed our lives forever. And we realized that this is one of those for you. Congratulations.” 😭

Really, when you just own who you are, when you share yourself genuinely and unapologetically, when you take steps of courage and faith, you will attract the right people who will share the journey with you and it’s going to be the most beautiful thing.

And after hours and hours of working on the video, trying to capture the event in less than 2 minutes, here’s how I want to remember it..

I don’t think I’ve ever put so much of myself on working on a project. As much as I’d love to be one of those people who say they put all of their heart into everything they do, I don’t think I’ve experienced that before this. I received Women with Vision as an opportunity and as a gift and I wanted to make sure I’d give my best to it. (At the same time, it’s taught me a lot about surrender! Gee)

My vision board literally changed my life and I’m so excited to see how their vision boards are going to manifest in their lives too!

Ive talked about how I daydreamed this event to life, and today I say..

Keep wondering what would it feel like. Keep imagining. Keep daydreaming. Think it into existence. Speak it into existence. Ask for it. Expect it. Believe it with every fiber of your whole entire being and give it no other choice but to come to pass.

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This was my first time public speaking and for what I was gonna say, I knew I wanted to focus more on telling stories. People connect more with stories than facts they can easily find from google or other Vision Board resources. (There’s a post coming on how I prepared for my first speech, too!) However, I knew that most of the girls haven’t created their vision boards before and I wanted to have something that would be a guide or more so a reminder for them. I put together these two PDFs and printed it (we also sent out a welcome email with them as attachments!)

Get the FREE Vision Board PDF here!

What To Put On Your 2019 Vision Board (7 Life Areas) - The 7 Life Areas method is what Tony Robbins uses for Date with Destiny when he lets his attendees create their own life boards. Those boards are more on words instead of photos but I still loved how he divided several life areas in a different way than most people. This really got me thinking what matters first and to actually consider other sides of life and not just the usual (goals, destinations, bucketlists, etc) and so I wanted the girls to use this one!

⚡ Tips on Creating an Inspiring and Effective Vision Board - Most of the tips on here, I learnt from experience while creating my first vision board. Some from my visualization exercises that taught me what I connected to most, and others I learned recently as I compiled photos for my new board!

Related posts: (links are in ‘open in a new tab’)

Here’s our Spotify Playlist!

I wanted to make this post not only to tell my story but to be a resource for those who want to throw their vision board parties too! So I thought I’d share some insight on how we prepared for this one!

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  • magazines (LOTS of them) - I never thought I’d be so THIRSTY for magazines! Haha! I never left coffee shops and public places without a bunch of the free magazines. I also got more from strangers who didnt want them anymore (can you imagine? Hahaha jk!) and then my friends Ariel and Sarah donated a bunch of good ones too! LITERAL ANGELS.

    We didn’t want the girls bringing anything but we emailed them that it was an option to bring printouts of images from pinterest! Especially because magazines, although so much fun, aren’t always specific to what we want!

  • Foam board - For my first vision board I just used regular 8x11 bristol boards and put them together on my 12x14 frame. This time I got the Elmers foam board and cut it in half (about 15x9!) (Well, my dad did. But you get the point! Haha) I asked the girls what they thought of the size and they said it was just perfect! I also didn’t want to use bristol boards or just plain papers because I wanted something that would be ready to go up on their walls and won’t need any framing! (Although my friend Myrhalyn did and ITS PRETTY BTW.) (so much parentheses on this point))

  • Scissors - ESSENTIAL. Another thing that each person should have one of her own! I got a set of 5 scissors of different sizes from the dollar store and I’ve been a fan since then. Michaels who? AHHAHA JK I love Michaels!

  • Glue, glue sticks, and tape - I knew from experience that double sided tape makes a lot of mess. Haha! I learned my lesson when I got weird looks from that first coffee shop when I was making my 2018 board so this time, I opted for glue and glue sticks. Haha! I still brought a few tapes as well just in case anyone preferred it but they were all happy to use glue. Talk about bravery and no commitment issues. AAHHAHAH WHAT!

  • Markers - totally optional! I was thinking of getting a box per table but only got 4 boxes and put the pens in the materials table in case anyone needed or wanted them! And by the end, I’m so glad because many girls used it to write their names, catch phrases or you know, the dollar sign. Get that money, girly!

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  • The 2019 Balloons from Balloon Source! Ahhh. OK. Storytime! When my friend Glenny and I first met up to plan this thing, I was heart broken when she told me so many “NOs” about what we couldn’t do either from lack of budget or just space. Imagine having such a dreamy pinterest board for the party and being so excited for it then having your heart crushed. Haha! But I reached out to sponsors and Balloon Source was my first choice for balloons! I’m so glad they said yes!! When they put it behind the materials table, I got goosebumps because that’s exactly how I wanted the material tables to be from my Pinterest Board! You can see in the recap video how I danced. HAHAHA I WAS SUPER HAPPY. The day couldve ended that moment and I would be just as happy. Haha!

  • DREAM without fear board that I got as a Christmas gift! I literally grabbed everything in our house that makes sense for the event. That includes my sister’s lamp and Eiffel Tower too. Haha!

  • GET IT GIRL on a light board, my favorite catch-phrase ever ever, of course had got to be part of the event! I believe it’s such a big part of my brand now. Yee!

  • LOA books! The Secret was my introduction to the Law of Attraction 2 years ago and I wanted to acknowledge that by using it as a decor for the event. I also mentioned it when I talked about the importance of having vision!

  • Other Vision Boards for inspiration.

    • Ive brought my 2018 board and looked at it several times during the day. I’m so grateful for my board. It literally changed my life and there I was, sharing what used to only be mine with those who are willing to listen. And watching them create theirs took me back to when I was first creating my board. Ahh. We’ve come a long way.

    • My bestie Ariel brought his two vision boards too! We hang it up and it’s made the venue even more inspiring! Need me more people with vision boards. Haha!

    • For our sponsors, I wanted to create one that would not only make sense for the event, but also have a personal touch to it. The idea of creating a “vision board” for Lexus of Edmonton West and Sarasota Homes came to me and I was over the moon. I really enjoyed looking up pictures of Lexus up on Pinterest and then Sarasota provided us pictures of their actual homes! It took me a while to realise that those are actual homes just near where I live. Gotta up my manifestation game! Haha! The rest of the photos (they gave us so many!!) were put in the tables of the attendees for some #dreamhome inspo for their board especially because most of the magazines we got were health magazines!

  • The venue was so dreamy in itself. I remember being at the Art of Cake for the first time for an entrepreneur group meetup several months ago and I was smitten from day one. So when I was “dreaming up” a vision board party, naturally, it was the first that came to mind. And I’m so glad they wanted to do this with us! Ahhh. Also, we didn’t need to have much decor because the place spoke for itself. They had nice chandeliers, white tables, chic/vintage furniture, the brick walls, the couches. Gosh, I could go on and on about it! But having a place that’s already so beautiful took the pressure off me. I knew it was gonna be such a beautiful event!

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And most importantly, you need people. I’m such a big fan of working alone and this thing has stretched me so far but in the best way possible. I’m excited to write about what Ive learnt but I don’t wanna finish this post without acknowledging these people who’ve brought dreams to life.

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  • YEGBOSSBABES - I remember my first yegbossbabes event with Katrina.. I always tell this story, but let me tell it again!! Haha! I looked at Kirsten, one of the co-founders and Glenny. They both had the YEGBOSSBABES lanyard. I wondered, what would it be like to wear one of those? To work with them? Your girl is a daydreamer! But daydreaming has never failed me. Because there I was, hosting my first event with YEGBOSSBABES! Everything that led me here, especially that day I first met Glenny, how it all came together leaves me speechless.

    • And Glenny! What a woman. Making my Art of Cake dreams come true and hooking us up with Gloria! My babe introduced me for my first speaking event as her “sister” and made me cry even more at the end of the day with her handwritten letter. I’m SO gonna sue!!!!!!! SEE YOU IN COURT

    • My fellow ambassadors Jamie and Jocelyn. I was able to stay present during the day and just enjoy the moment because they made sure everything else is taken care of! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS. But my yegbossbabes family really shows me the art of collaboration and just the magic we’re able to create when we show up for each other wholeheartedly. I’m so grateful.

  • My family. I’m going to cry, I already did. They were my support system that day and weeks leading up to January 6th. From cutting the boards, driving me around buying supplies, collecting magazines.. And they made sure I was intact and ready to show up when my knees were literally shaking. My sister!!!! My favorite sister!! (She’s my only sister but hahaha!) I was almost ugly sobbing out of nervousness and overwhelm but then she started dancing and singing our favorite worship song Won’t Stop Now by Elevation Worship. I felt God just breathe confidence and his calm in me just by dancing. She also prayed for me! I love my family so much and I’m so grateful that I got to spend that day with them. My mom adjusted her work schedule and my dad left for work the day after. Ahhh

  • My brother did such an amazing job filming and taking photos during the event. Yup, he did both! I’m already so lucky for him being so funny but I’m blessed beyond words because of his support and effort during my first event! A few hours in, he was telling me about how his arm hurt and wondered how I was able to do it during my events! Hahahaha! Oops. I blame the lens.

  • And then my friends. Seeing my friends made such a difference because although Ive dreamt up public speaking before and Ive done lots of speaking over my Insta stories and camera, it’s different when you think that you’ll be speaking in front of strangers. But seeing them arrive one by one, the familiar faces, it’s like, hey, I’m just telling my story to my friends! It’s okay! I’m totes safe!! because they were there, everyone else felt like a friend too.

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Soaring higher-education costs prompt NJ schools to find innovative ways to help ease financial burden

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When Rowan University announced Wednesday that it would allow students who spend three years at specific community colleges to pay $25,000 all told for a bachelor’s degree, it brought home just how radically higher education in New Jersey is changing.

But the Rowan announcement is simply the latest effort to try to deal with the crushing costs of college in New Jersey and to accommodate nontraditional students, many of whom work, have families, and may have to help with aging parents -- or spouses or siblings who have lost jobs.

“Life has a way of intervening and causing disruption to schedules,” said Tobey Oxholm, executive vice president for administration and strategic advancement at Rowan.

To deal with these changes, administrators at colleges across the state (and across the country) are asking similar questions.

“How do we build bridges between two-year and four-year institutions?” said Craig Westman, associate chancellor for enrollment management at Rutgers University-Camden (RUC).

And though these partnerships can take a number of different forms, according to Jake Farbman, of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges, three broad models exist: articulation agreements, special partnerships, and degree completion programs.

One thing needs to be made clear, however. These hybrid programs in no way skimp on educational quality. In fact, Mark McCormick, vice president for academic and student affairs at Middlesex Community College, indicates that four of the last five students to win “student of the year” in a fast-track business of nursing B.S. partnership between the college and Felician University have all been Middlesex grads.

Partnerships between two- and four-year colleges appear to be win-win for both the schools and the students involved.

Students can save money and stay closer to home by earning an associate’s degree at a community college before transferring to a four-year university. Colleges can boost enrollment without having to pay for new buildings and dorms. And some universities, like Rowan, Kean University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Felician University, are even awarding degrees to students who take university classes taught at their partner community colleges.

These models are viewed as so successful that at the end of the month, Passaic and Union county colleges are petitioning a state higher education advisory board for permission to launch their own four-year degree programs.

As noted, the cost of college has become a crisis. Student loans have surpassed credit cards as America’s number one source of debt, and the average New Jersey university student graduates owing almost $30,000.

That’s not surprising, given the numbers. The most expensive private institution in New Jersey, Stevens Institute of Technology, charges $47,000 for one year of undergraduate tuition and fees. In-state undergraduate tuition and fees at Rutgers University and Stockton University, for example, average $13,000 -- bringing the cost of a four-year bachelor’s degree to more than $50,000.

“The traditional model is, ‘Suck it up and deal with it,’” Oxholm explained. “That was good for a time in society when everything was fairly predictable but now one-size-fits-all doesn’t really address the needs of the people seeking the education.”

The new partnerships between four-year schools and county colleges are providing an answer, and they offer more than a glimpse of in higher education in New Jersey and the rest of the country.

Consider this scenario: Instead of enrolling at a state school for four years, a student pays an average of $4,600 per year in full-time tuition and fees to attend a two-year community college in her home county. During the student's second term he or she consults with an advisor from their four-year school of choice (at the community college) and taps into the university library system and buys discounted tickets for sporting events.

Here’s the kicker: At the end of two years -- if the student makes the grade -- he or she will be admitted into the university, possibly paying reduced tuition as they turn the associate degree into a bachelor’s -- possibly saving tens of thousands of dollars.

Consider one more number: Thirty-nine percent of students who graduated from a four-year program in New Jersey last year had taken at least one community college course.

Articulation agreements

New Jersey legislators put the state on a progressive trajectory back in 2007 when they passed the “Lampitt Law” that modified convention articulation agreements. Typically, an articulation, or “transfer,” agreement exists between two- and four-year colleges (usually fairly close to one another). It guarantees that the four-year-college accepts the credits earned at partner two-year institutions. Sometimes, the admissions process is waived for students who meet certain requirements.

The Lampitt Law, however, requires all public state schools to matriculate as a junior any accepted associate’s degree holder from the state’s 19 county colleges. A student who earned an associate degree in hospitality and tourism at Bergen Community College can start her junior year at any in-state baccalaureate program that accepts her.

Matriculation is not pro forma, though. The four-year school retains the right to review all applicants before accepting them, to ensure they can handle the coursework.

Special partnerships

But transfer agreements are just the beginning. A majority of the state’s public two- and four-year schools have begun to enter into so-called special partnerships, as have some of New Jersey’s private institutions like Fairleigh Dickinson, Felician, and Drew University.

What makes these partnerships “special” is that they’re typically between two specific schools and they often involve a specific major or course of study. To be clear, many standard articulation agreements simply ensure that a four-year school will accept the transfer credits of a two-year institution.

Some partnerships even cross state lines. Widener University, in Chester, PA, entered into a special partnership with Camden County College when it guaranteed admission to its B.S. in business management to CCC students who met criteria for grades (no grade lower than C) and GPA (no lower than 2.0)

Two years ago, CCC made a “groundbreaking” deal with Rutgers-Camden. It allows a CCC student to automatically transfer to RUC after receiving an associate degree; a first-year student from South Jersey who doesn’t get initially accepted to Rutgers-Camden can automatically transfer in for junior year as long as the student associate degree with a 2.0 GPA or above from CCC.

Both Middlesex and Mercer county colleges offer a large number of special partnerships, thanks in part to their central locations. Middlesex, for example, has a deal in place with Kean that affects nursing students. Because Middlesex offers nursing courses beyond the associate degree nursing students can transfer 88 credits (an associate degree require 60), leaving them just 37 credits short of a 125-credit B.S. degree from Kean.

Rowan, in Gloucester County, is taking its special partnerships to another level. Acknowledging that it has spare capacity in its 300- and 400-level classes, the school has actually renamed Gloucester County College and Burlington County College as Rowan College at Gloucester County (RCGC) and Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC). Still, only about 20 percent of community college students will directly participate in the Rowan program and the schools ostensibly remain independent.

Rowan also offers students an option common with special partnerships called “reverse transfers.” Students who drop out after starting at Rowan University as freshmen can apply their accumulated credits to an associate degree from Rowan College.

Degree completion

With Wednesday’s announcement, Rowan introduced a new-for-New Jersey variation on a partnership called a degree completion program.

Degree completions bring the baccalaureate degree to students where they are. Starting this fall, Rowan University will offer a “3+1” program that lets Rowan College students pay just $25,000 all told for a bachelor’s degree by spending junior year on the community college campus while taking the coursework – taught by university faculty -- needed for the degree. They’ll pay county college tuition for three years instead of two.

Further, starting next week, the university will offer a Bachelor of General Studies at RCBC in Mount Laurel. And beginning this term, RU’s nursing program is located on the RCGC campus, and not on the Glassboro campus. In the fall of 2017, RU faculty will begin teaching engineering and computer science degree completion programs on the Mt. Laurel campus. The university offers a 15 percent discount on these “off-site” courses, as well as those taken online.

Advocates say degree completions prevent duplication of programming, tailors undergraduate -- and sometimes graduate -- degrees to the needs of the local employer base, and help universities expand their reach without spending too much money on infrastructure.

“The more students we have the more classrooms, beds, and space we have to have. Building buildings is really expensive,” said Oxholm.

Universities with little physical room to grow particularly value these opportunities. Most of the time, they use community college classrooms that would normally remain empty at night. Sometimes they pay rent, sometimes they pay a percentage of tuition, Some 120 Rutgers-Camden students currently take classes at CCC’s main Blackwood campus, where the president said, “We have free parking and about 300 acres to grow.”

Farther north, Kean has jumped across several counties to establish Kean Ocean, a four-year degree-granting program administered in a new building at Ocean County College whose construction costs were split evenly between the two institutions. Not only does Kean Ocean provide what its administrators say is the most affordable four-year college education in South Jersey, it also establishes the only bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in a county where the closest two universities lie far away from the community college in Tom’s River. Plus, it allows Kean, located in Union, to spread out.

“We’re very landlocked,” says Stephen Kubow, acting associate vice president of Kean. “They have land and parking and it’s allowed us to increase enrollments without taxing our physical space.”

What’s more, Kubow estimates Kean Ocean generates an annual $5 million to 7 million for the university above cost, and, true to the statewide model, its students are performing better at their transfer schools than the other students.

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Bestival adds The Big Moon, The Xcerts, Spring King, Superfood and more to 2018 line-up

As part of their House of Vans collaboration

Bestival has added a host of new acts to their 2018 line-up, thanks to an all-new collaboration with House of Vans.

Vans will mark their first foray into the festival circuit with a “new den of creativity” at Bestival, hosting the likes of Kurupt FM, The Big Moon, Spring King, The Xcerts, Superfood and more.

“Just when we thought we couldn’t get any more of the best new up-and-coming bands and DJs in the world at Bestival, we’ve only gone and teamed up with Vans for their first ever festival appearance,” organiser Rob da Bank said. “The House of Vans is a brilliant new venue designed collaboratively between us and them and boasts a killer line-up booked by yours truly and Vans including Besti faves Kurupt FM alongside a UK festival exclusive from YOTA plus the likes of Jimothy Lacoste, The Xcerts and Superfood. Vantastic!”

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Pearl City
Holiday Oscar
Lauran Hibberd

The new venue will also boast a screen printing workshop space, where you can rework bum bags, hats and more. There’ll also be a mobile braid bar, with free braiding throughout the day, skate film screenings, merchandise giveaways and a bunch of live art installations.

The Rob da Bank-curated festival returns to Dorset’s Lulworth Estate for the second year running in 2018, with the festival promising to put on “the most colourful show on Earth”. Bestival 2018 will take place from August 2-5, with tickets on sale now.

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Manchester quartet return with club tour

Nine Black Alps have announced plans to play a UK club tour next month.

The Manchester four-piece will be roadtesting a host of new songs for eight shows, kicking off in Norwich on May 5.

The dates are:

Norwich Arts Centre (May 5)

Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (May 6)

Exeter Cavern (May 7)

Wrexham Central Station (May 10)

Leicester Charlotte (May 12)

Wolverhampton Little Civic (May 14)

Leeds Cockpit (May 17)

Stockton On Tees Ku Bar (May 18)

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The band have been working with Oasis and Jet producer Dave Sardy in Los Angeles on the follow up to 2005’s ‘Everything Is’, due out later this year.


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Dear Viktoria,

What a great idea that you want to come to Vienna. Vienna is a big city with a lot of attractions. First, you can stay at a hotel near the centre but I can‘t recommend the hotel in the Hirschengasse, because it isn’t hygienic and the food isn’t good.

In Vienna, public transport is very important so you can go everywhere without a car.

It’s very important to go to the St. Stephan’s Cathedral. When you go up you have a very good view, because it’s the highest cathedral in Austria. “Schönbrunn“ is also a beautiful place to visit

When you’re there you should go to the zoo and into the castle.I can recommend the “Haus des Meeres“, because there are a lot of different fish. When you want to go shopping you should go to the “Mariahilfer Straße“, because there are a lot of shops, but Vienna is very expensive. I can’t recommend the musical „Tanz der Vampire“, because it’s very boring but you can go to the cinema and watch a movie.

Dear Elena,

I have heard you want to go to Vienna next week. I was there last week. Vienna is a wonderful city with many tourist attractions. For example, the St.Stephen’s Cathedral, the museum “Time Travel“ and there are many other museums, too.

I can recommend to go to the St.Stephan’s Chathedral it is really impressive there and you can go upstairs to the top of the tower. One day we visited a huge museum, it was extremely interesting to hear so much information about the past. In the evening we went to the Ronacher and watched the musical “Tanz der Vampire“, the story was really exciting and the music was amazing. In the cinema we watched the film “Wunder“, the film was a little bit sad, but nice to watch.

We stayed at the hostel in the „Hirschengasse“, I can not recommend this hostel, because our rooms were not really hygienic and the food was not delicious.
It was a great week and a nice change and the weather was okay.


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We are pleased to confirm we have got our full quota of work experience students for 2018.  We are therefore unable to consider any work experience students until 2019.

Norbar welcomes any request from you to apply for a work experience placement. We are able to offer up to a one week work experience placement. The aim of our work experience placements is to offer you a broad understanding of what Engineering is about and will give you the opportunity to spend a small amount of time in most areas of the business to appreciate the broad engineering processes involved in our company.You will get to experience what working life is all about.

Your request for work experience should be made in writing enclosing an up to date CV and/or an online application form (see current opportunities), which should be returned to the address below or emailed to

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You will be interviewed by a member of the Human Resources department.This interview should last no longer than 30 minutes.

After a successful interview we will endeavour to get back to you as quickly as possible to confirm whether we are able to accommodate your request.Please note that a placement will only be confirmed providing we have the necessary resource available for the entire duration of the placement.

A standard one weeks’ work experience structure runs from Monday to Friday, working 9.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Thursday with a 30 minute break for lunch and 9.00am to 12 noon on Friday.Time will be spent in Calibration, Electronics Production, Product Realisation, Special Products, Customer Relations/Sales, Quality Control, Multipliers/CNC, Multipliers Gearbox and Assembly. We will consider requests to alter our standard schedule should you wish to concentrate on a particular area of Engineering.

At the end of the placement, you will receive detailed reports from each of the departments which you have spent time in including a list of learning outcomes and departmental comments.

I completed my work experience at Norbar Torque Tools this year and it was one of the best placements available in Manufacturing Engineering. I got to see what the manufacturing world is like within a successful company. I saw both the engineering and business sides of the company, with time spent in design, assembly, manufacturing and customer relations.  I also had the opportunity to meet a lot of friendly people who gave me advice on my future career.

If you are interested in pursuing a career in manufacturing engineering, then I believe that this is the right company for your work experience placement.

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Yankees manager Joe Girardi talks about infielder Starlin Castro's hamstring injury, which put him back on the disabled list, Saturday, July 22, 2017. Pete Caldera/

SEATTLE – Starlin Castro is headed back to the 10-day disabled list, with a recurrence of a right hamstring strain – an injury the Yankees’ second baseman thought he was past.

“It’s frustrating. He’s frustrated,’’ manager Joe Girardi said after an MRI on Saturday confirmed the strain, which “might be in a different spot’’ than Castro’s previous strain.

Named to the AL All-Star team, Castro was on the DL from June 27-July 14 and did not play in the All-Star Game.

Infielder/outfielder Tyler Wade was being summoned back from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Ronald Torreyes started at second base on Saturday night.

Though Castro had been moving deliberately at times on the field, trying to protect against re-injury, he said he expected to start on Saturday night.

"I prepared in my mind to play...I thought I was going to be in the lineup,'' Castro said of the improvement he felt, despite lingering soreness. "It's kind of a little bit frustrating'' because Castro still hadn't been examined by a physician.

But when the Yankees' training staff noticed blood in the muscle, an MRI was ordered.

Castro was treated with ice after feeling tightness in Wednesday ‘s game at Minnesota and he started both Thursday and Friday against the Mariners, going 1-for-4 in Friday’s 5-1 win.''

“He argued that he was fine, he could play, and he’s still arguing that he’s fine and he can play,’’ Girardi said. “But our concern is if he really tears it, then you have a real problem. So we’re hoping it won’t be long, we’ll get him back.

“His strength is good (in the leg), but there’s a problem.’’

For now, Girardi plans to platoon Torreyes and Wade at second base unless one player’s performance declares himself as the regular starter.

Smith over Cessa

Late on Saturday night, the Yankees announced that left-hander Caleb Smith would make his first career big-league start in Sunday's series finale at Seattle, replacing Luis Cessa.

The right-handed Cessa had been scheduled to make his fifth start of the year, but he’s 0-3 with a 6.23 ERA in his first four starts and has a tenuous hold on the rotation spot vacated by Michael Pineda, who underwent Tommy John elbow surgery last week.

Earlier on Saturday, Girardi said Smith is stretched out enough to throw 100 pitches if needed. Adam Warren and Chad Green will remain bullpen options going forward and Girardi doesn’t even view them as long relievers.


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Expanded Norwegian Government

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Olaug Vervik Bollestad, Siv Jensen, Erna Solberg og Trine Skei Grande. Credit: Hans Kristian Thorbjørnsen

Prime Minister Erna Solberg expanded her Coalition Government Tuesday, to include the Christian Democratic Party along with coalition partners The Progressive Party and The Liberal Party.

All four parties are now headed by women: Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Conservative Party) Minister of Finance Siv Jensen (Progressive Party), Minister of Culture and Equality Trine Skei Grande (Liberal Party) and Minister of Agriculture Olaug Vervik Bollestad (Christian Democratic Party).

"I am very happy to form a non-socialist majority government, for the first time since 1985. The fact that that four women are now heading the coaltion is an expression of the strong position of women in Norwegian society, and that female leadership today comes as natural as male leadership once did. Women leaders take on all challenges, but I do believe female representation makes a difference in politics, with emphasis on equal rights and the situation for families", says Prime Minister Erna Solberg.