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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the federal government will do what it takes to keep the Australian economy humming, as the Reserve Bank appears likely to cut the official interest rate.
RBA Governor Philip Lowe says the central bank will consider cutting the rate at its board meeting in two weeks, in hopes of reducing unemployment and buoying inflation.
"A lower cash rate would support employment growth and bring forward the time when inflation is consistent with the target," Dr Lowe said in a speech to the Economic Society of Australia on Tuesday.
Unemployment edged up to 5.2 per cent in April, while inflation was zero in the March quarter and 1.3 per cent over the previous 12 months.
That's below the RBA's target of between two and three per cent on average.
The cash rate has been at a record low of 1.5 per cent since August 2016.
Asked what government policies could help the central bank hit its unemployment and inflation targets, Dr Lowe said an easing of monetary policy could be useful, as could more infrastructure spending.
"I would be advising all governments, not just the federal government but state governments, to make sure that they are investing in infrastructure that creates jobs and increases supply capacity."
Fresh from a meeting with Treasury secretary Philip Gaetjens on Tuesday on the back of the coalition's election victory, Mr Frydenberg said it remains clear the Australian economy is facing headwinds.
The rising trade tensions between China and the US continue to pose a challenge, along with local floods, droughts and the slowdown of Australia's housing market.
But heading into the coalition's third term, Mr Frydenberg is confident the economy's fundamentals remain sound.
The government's promised tax relief will help keep it that way, he stressed, along with $100 billion worth of road and rail spending over the next decade and the creation of new apprenticeships.
"Infrastructure spending is absolutely critical," the treasurer told reporters in Canberra.
"We will take all the action that is needed to ensure the Australian economy remains strong."
Key Morrison government adviser Arthur Sinodinos believes the economy will rebound with the coalition in power, pointing to a huge jump on the stock market on Monday.
"The fact the government has been returned has reflected in the stock market already, which I think gained about $33 billion in market capitalisation yesterday," Senator Sinodinos told Sky News on Tuesday.
"The return to government has actually increased business confidence, and I think that's going to be good for business investment."
The NSW Liberal senator said he expected the economy would get some stimulus when income tax cuts flow through, hopefully pushing up the weakening consumption growth predictions.
Internationally, he said Australia has to increase efforts to get other countries to stick to the international trade system.
"(We should) encourage the US in particular to more fully embrace the rules-based order, because that's the best guarantee we've got of heading off some of those global headwinds," he said.


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The Committee for Community and Diversity (CCD) is a Presidential college-wide committee created as an outgrowth of the Diversity Task Force's work in 1999. The CCD is a non-policy making committee that includes students, staff, faculty, administration, and the Office of Access and Services for Individuals with Disabilities. The committee's purpose is to improve the academic, professional and social climate at Teachers College (TC). It is doing so by implementing the recommendations of the 1999 Diversity Task Force; supporting and encouraging community activities and development; and sponsoring the Vice President's Grant Fund to support financially diversity/community related projects and student research.
The Grant Fund provides funding for two different diversity and/or community grants: The Vice President's Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant (DCI) and The Vice President's Grant for Student Research in Diversity (SRD). Together these two grants provide much needed funding to encourage groups and individuals to become active leaders and participants in the creation of a meaningful and positive shared experience for all members of the TC community. Each year, the Committee for Community and Diversity is pleased to announce the recipients of awards sponsored by The Vice President's Community and Diversity Grant Fund: the DCI Grant in the fall and the SRD Grant in the spring.
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DSL Reports' Karl Bode writes: "While Magic Jack's cheap VoIP dongle generally works rather well, our forums are occasionally littered with complaints about the company's business practices, be it it for little things like a website hit counter that used to artificially inflate their trial participant count (since fixed), or misleading marketing practices (like saying today is the last day of a free trial promotion, every single day). Our users generally overlook these problems for one reason: the service is dirt cheap, and works."
Bode continues: "Back in 2008, gadget and culture blog Boing Boing ran a rather simple post highlighting some of Magic Jack's more dubious practices, including their bogus free trial user counter, their use of behavioral ad technology, and their inclusion of arbitration language in their terms of service. Magic Jack didn't like the post very much apparently, because they wound up suing Boing Boing for defamation. Unfortunately for Magic Jack, all of Boing Boing's claims were true, and Magic Jack has been forced to pay the website $50,000:
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Police officers cannot refuse to be interviewed during investigations of possible officer-involved serious injury or death, the B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled.
In an unanimous decision on Monday, the top court ruled the duty of a police officer to cooperate with the Independent Investigations Office is "mandatory, not qualified." The IIO investigates all police-related injuries in B.C. where someone suffers serious harm or death.
The appeal stems from an incident in Vancouver on Nov. 10, 2016, when police shot and killed a man at the scene of a robbery.
The Vancouver Police Department asked the IIO for a pre-interview disclosure, which the watchdog denied.
The officers declined to be interviewed, prompting the IIO to successfully ask the B.C. Supreme Court to force the officers to do so. No charges came as a result of the watchdog's investigation.
In his decision, Justice David Harris wrote that police have a "duty to cooperate fully" with the IIO.
"Nothing in the wording of the statute supports the inference that police officers can withhold their cooperation with the investigation, if they disagree with the terms on which it is being conducted," he noted.


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Weather-weary nation asks: Why such a nasty winter
WASHINGTON – Cold and snow keep battering the Midwest and East, and even Atlanta was temporarily paralyzed. California has been bone dry. Alaska set heat records.
The wild winter somehow became even more wicked Thursday morning when the national average temperature plunged to a brutal 11 degrees — the lowest temperature of a season of extremes.
A weather-weary nation asks a simple question: Why?
The answer is the jet stream, the river of air that dictates our weather. Normally the jet stream stays in Canada or the northern U.S., going west to east in a somewhat straight line. But this winter it has plunged south, creating high pressure ridges and low pressure troughs and taking cold polar air south and east and leaving warm, dry weather to the west.
"We are having an unusual jet stream that's giving us crazy cold weather in the East and the ridiculously resilient ridge as it's called in California," said Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters.
Q: Why is the jet stream doing this?
A: There are three different forces probably at work here, but scientists still need to do more research, said Derek Arndt, of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. One is just the random natural variability of daily weather. Another is a mid-length weather feature called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation — think of it as a cousin of El Nino — that warms the northern Pacific and helps push the jet stream south. And finally, a new and controversial theory is that a warmer Arctic region and shrinking summer sea ice from man-made global warming has shifted jet stream patterns, making it wavier and bringing more unpredictable weather.
Q: Is it unusual for the weather pattern to last this long?
A: It doesn't happen often, but it's not that unusual either, said Bruce Terry, of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md.
Q: So how cold was Thursday?
A: The national average temperature of 11 degrees is the coldest of this winter and will likely be the coldest of the season, according to calculations by Weather Bell Analytics meteorologist Ryan Maue. It was computed from temperatures at 7 a.m. EST in the Lower 48 states.
The lowest was minus 34 in Montana and several areas were minus 20, according to the National Weather Service.
Q: Has this been a record winter?
A: No. Given the unusual heat in the West and the cold in the East, they almost balance each other, Masters and Arndt said. So when the final monthly statistics come out, January in the U.S. won't be near record cold.
"When you compare it to the 20th century, it was still cold, but not dramatically cold," Arndt said.
Q: Was this just a U.S. thing?
A: No. Parts of South America and Australia have had much warmer than normal weather. Parts of Europe have been cold and stormy, others record warm. For much of January, Greenland was 8 degrees warmer than normal.
Q: When will it end?
A: Soon enough. In Northern California, heavy rains are coming. A predicted eastern winter snowstorm this weekend is looking less mighty than it did a few days ago. It's not soon enough for the meteorologists who predict it.
"I'm sick of it," said the weather service's Terry.


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The publication is the first comprehensive study of Baruchello's relationship with the moving image from the sixties on. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Gianfranco Baruchello: Cold Cinema. Film, video e opere 1960-1999, held at La Triennale di Milano in 2014 and 2015, the book opens with a densely packed montage of Baruchello's own notes, images, and documents, presented by means of a medium dear to the artist, photocopies. An essay by Alessandro Rabottini takes us through the rooms of the exhibition at La Triennale di Milano, while a conversation between Baruchello and Massimiliano Gioni highlights some key aspects of his ideas about cinema. Carla Subrizi's text winds its way through his entire production of films and videos, whereas an essay by Philippe-Alain Michaud examines some of the historical roots of Verifica incerta (1964-65). The heart of the publication catalogues the artist's complete oeuvre, with a synopsis by Carla Subrizi of every single filmic work, a history of their screenings reconstructed by Daniela Zanoletti, and a selection of stills. The book ends with a critical anthology of texts that Baruchello has written during the course of his career. This section, which is edited by Carla Subrizi, is accompanied by an ample bibliography.


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At USAID, we feel fortunate to work on an incredible Mission to achieve results for the poorest and most vulnerable around the world and to be transparent in the process. We are propelled by the belief that transparent aid is effective aid and the necessity of delivering "clear, compelling and measurable results." The importance of making governmental and aid data open is underscored by the President's Executive Order to make open and machine readable the new default for government information.
The GeoCenter, in the Office of Science and Technology, takes this commitment to heart when evaluating projects, such as our collaboration with the Development Credit Authority for the Agency's first-ever crowdsourcing event to open and map loan guarantee data. Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving process whereby tasks are outsourced to a network of people known as "the crowd." Without the staff or resources to pinpoint the geographic location of thousands of loan records on our own, we turned to a crowd of volunteers to help. The resulting maps, data, and methodology are available on the USAID website. While the crowdsourcing event clearly succeeded in creating an open data set and maps about where USAID is promoting economic growth, we wanted to know more. Did we catalyze a public discussion about USAID? Is our data really usable? Does the public really care about accessing our data?
We've recently compared conversations about the event on Twitter to web page visits and found that we did catalyze discussion and that the public is eager to engage with USAID's data: see our analysis here (PDF). Our web page is in the top 3 percent of the most viewed web pages on the entire USAID.gov site. On average, our viewers spend almost four times as long viewing our page than any other. Almost 3,500 tweets from 80 countries demonstrate global enthusiasm for open data. The reverberations of this enthusiasm positively impacted the dialogue around aid transparency: the International Aid Transparency Initiative expanded their data schema to account for loan guarantees and the event was recognized in the Publish What you Fund's Aid Transparency Report Card for 2012 (PDF).
These impacts are the results of public participation in USAID's programs and the public's desire for open government data. We're thankful for the outpouring of support that the event received: private companies donated time to develop online tools so volunteers could donate their time to process the data, which is now one of the most popular features of the USAID web site.


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Clinton – Patterson – Epstein: The Art of the Book Deal
By Vivian Lee
The new political thriller, The President Is Missing, co-written by James Patterson and former President Bill Clinton, has debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list for fiction in both the print/hardcover and e-book categories. Reviewed in the New York Times Book Review section for June 24, 2018, the novel is touted as "ambitious and wildly readable," a story of "a president who ditches his handlers and goes rogue from the White House, convinced he is the only one who can foil a huge cyberterror plot."
While the book "unspools smoothly," it reportedly gets a bit bogged down at the end, with "a few too many unsubtle messages about the current state of our politics." Nonetheless, the reviewer admires the novel, in its realistic depiction of "the selfless and often nameless people who work in government" who are willing even to lose their lives "because they are compelled to serve their nation," in its exploration of the thin line between loyalty/duty and resentment/temptation, and in its shining of "a spotlight on the deep commitment of America's adversaries to tear us apart and weaken our standing in the world."
Touted as an "Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller," the book already has nearly 700 amazon reviews, although its official release date was June 4. According to amazon, James Patterson "holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 375 million copies worldwide." He has written 202 books to date and contributed to many philanthropic causes, receiving the National Book Foundation's 2015 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
Were you wondering about this instant bestseller that seemingly appeared out of nowhere to take the reading world by storm? Not mere happenstance, the book resulted from a political deal between pseudo-author James Patterson (who writes 202 books?) and ageing lothario Bill Clinton, in the service of big bucks and Hillary's 2016 bid for the presidency. The President Is Missing is tribute to the selfless and often nameless people who work in the publishing industry, compelled to serve the interests of the media stars who bring in the profits. [1]
Patterson not only writes novels, but also non-fiction, such as his 2016 book, Filthy Rich, another New York Times bestseller – "the shocking true story of Jeffrey Epstein," the billionaire socialite, sometime scientist, and registered sex offender. Although Patterson gets author's credit, he collaborated with investigative reporters John Connolly and Tim Malloy, who were responsible for much of the research and writing.
Until recently, Epstein has flown mostly below the radar (and I do mean flown), coming into view from time to time and recently exposed, partly, by Patterson's semi-pornographic bio. Filthy Rich details the downfall of Epstein, relatively speaking, who was arrested after a complaint in 2005 and incarcerated in 2008, serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence.
Jeffrey Epstein – Filthy Rich
Born in Brooklyn, Epstein is now a billionaire and major donor to the Democratic Party, with residences in Palm Beach, New York City ("reputedly the largest private residence in Manhattan"), New Mexico, Paris, and the island of Little Saint James in the US Virgin Islands, which he owns. Although Epstein worked on Wall Street, eventually founding his own financial management firm, no one has quite been able to explain the source of his purported vast wealth. [2] This funded a lavish lifestyle and allowed him to dole out piles of C-notes to underage girls solicited to give him erotic "massages," as detailed in graphic fashion by Patterson in Filthy Rich.
Sexual encounters occurred at Epstein's residences and on his Boeing 727, dubbed the "Lolita Express," which was outfitted with a bed for "orgies" with his guests and groups of young girls. Flight logs released in 2015-2016 list such luminaries as Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Naomi Campbell, Woody Allen, Alan Dershowitz, and Bill Clinton. The ex-president took 26 trips on the Lolita Express, notably an excursion to Africa in 2002 to tour AIDS projects, and Epstein credits himself as "part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative." Yet Patterson's Filthy Rich has little to say about Clinton, summing up the relationship as follows:
"Bill Clinton got the use of a jet out of Epstein – a trip to Africa. But he and Epstein weren't bosom buddies." [3]
Although Clinton was an obvious star of the show, and his role should have been investigated, The President Is Missing from Patterson's 2016 book about Epstein.
Epstein's pals include heads of state, entrepreneurs, academics and research scientists, celebrities, and numerous beautiful women, notably Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell (né Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch). Robert Maxwell, head of the Mirror Group Newspapers, was alleged to be a Mossad agent by Seymour Hersh in his 1991 book on Israel's nuclear program, The Samson Option. Maxwell denied the charge and sued Hersh for libel, but he died in November 1991, and the suit died with him. Hersh countersued and eventually received an apology and a settlement.[4]
This has led to the speculation that Ghislaine Maxwell has Mossad connections as well. She was instrumental in procuring young girls for Epstein, in a constant supply for his use, her own use, and for loans to others. According to the testimony of several of the girls involved, they not only serviced Epstein and Maxwell but also their associates, including Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, and other powerful players. The girls were asked to bring back reports on their liaisons, which were sometimes filmed with hidden cameras. [5] These look like high-end blackmail operations, with Epstein and Maxwell skimming sex off the top for their own sick pleasure. [6]
Virginia Roberts, now married and using the name Virginia Giuffre, filed an affidavit in 2015 claiming that Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her in 1999 at age 15 while she had a summer job at Mar-a-Lago. Giuffre spent four years as Epstein's "sex slave" and was also pimped out to Prince Andrew and Dershowitz (although both have strenuously denied the charges). Giuffre claims that she never slept with Bill Clinton but met him twice at Little Saint James, and was sure "Bill must have known about Jeffrey's girls." At the very least, Clinton knew what Epstein was up to. [7]
Justice Not Served
Things started to slide in 2005, when the parent of a 14-year-old contacted the Palm Beach Police, saying she believed her stepdaughter had been molested by a wealthy man. The girl had shown up at school with $300 in her purse, and soon she was describing Epstein's mansion at 358 El Brillo Way and the "massage" she had given him. Palm Beach detectives began to investigate and turned up more girls involved both as participants and solicitors. The girls were interviewed, and a search of the premises netted "sex toys," erotic art, and nude photos of underage victims, as well as secret cameras.
Police Chief Michael Reiter and Detectives Joseph Recarey and Michael Dawson began to build a case, culminating in Recarey's probable-cause affidavit in 2006. This found sufficient cause to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor as well as lewd and lascivious molestation, both second degree felonies. These would have put him behind bars for years if convicted. However, things went south when the case was handed off to Palm Beach state attorney Barry Krischer, who had a different plan for Epstein. Instead of having him arrested, he convened a grand jury.
The fix was clearly in, as the Palm Beach Police were not informed of the time and date of the grand jury meeting, and witnesses including the victims were not notified regarding their testimony. Recarey eventually learned that Krischer's office had made an offer to Epstein and his attorneys, Guy Fronstin and Alan Dershowitz. Despite all the evidence amassed, the offer was for one count of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, regarding only a single victim (although 47 were eventually identified), and a sentence of five years probation. This was due to the efforts of Dershowitz, who had proceeded to attack and smear the victims.
The many interesting details that followed cannot be recounted here (you can read Filthy Rich), but the outcome was a plea deal in 2007, an NPA ("non-prosecution agreement"). By this time, Epstein's legal team also included Ken Starr, Roy Black, and Jay Lefkowitz. The NPA allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two state felony charges, for solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. He would register as a level 3 sex offender but not be prosecuted for felony offenses involving the sexual abuse of underage girls. The victims were allowed to sue him in civil court, but any potential co-conspirators were immune from prosecution.
In 2008, Epstein pled guilty to the charges proposed. He received a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time (of which he served 13 months), with six days off per week for "work release" (requiring him only to spend his nights in jail), and 12 months of house arrest (but allowing him to fly to his various residences). In what has been termed "a slap on the wrist," he did his stint in the Palm Beach County Central Detention Center, not far from his home on El Brillo. Epstein enjoyed a single cell, in his own wing, with his own security guard, and unlimited visitors. According to the sheriff, "He was astonished that he had to go to prison at all." [8]
The Art of the Book Deal
None of Epstein's victims was consulted before the NPA was drafted, and this gave rise to a complex series of lawsuits, followed by numbers of settlements. In 2008, victims' rights attorney Bradley Edwards filed a suit citing the Crime Victims' Rights Act, stipulating that victims of federal crimes have the right to be heard in court and not to be precluded from court proceedings. This is winding through the courts, and new allegations have appeared, keeping the case in view, at least intermittently. This caused a problem for some of Epstein's associates, including Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
By early 2015, Roger Stone, Ken Silverstein, and others began to ask whether the Epstein affair might drag in Bill Clinton, creating a liability for Hillary in her bid for the presidency. Enter James Patterson, who was working on Filthy Rich with his investigative reporters. By the end of 2015, detective John Connolly announced that he was ready to turn over his manuscript to Patterson, so that the book could appear before the 2016 election. Why the rush, unless Patterson was working with the Clintons to establish a narrative – a narrative in which The President Is Missing from the Epstein saga? In return, Patterson got a lucrative book deal with co-author Bill Clinton, elevating his literary status considerably (his 202 books notwithstanding). However, this move did not help Hillary achieve her objective.
News of Bill's 26 trips on the Lolita Express came out in May 2016, and in early November, just days before the election, highly-placed sources within the NYPD reported that both Bill and Hillary had frequented Little Saint James ("Orgy Island"), citing the contents of Anthony Weiner's laptop. Forget James Comey and Hillary's email server… The evidence from Weiner's laptop, "enough evidence to put Hillary and her crew away for life," was likely responsible for Donald Trump's victory. [9] The details have not been released, although rumors abound on the internet, and photos have appeared allegedly showing tunnels and underground rooms on Little Saint James with disturbing images of children.
Not that Trump gets a pass. Although he is said to have barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago over Ghislaine Maxwell's solicitation of young girls at his club, he was formerly an associate of the two and even an admirer of Epstein:
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life." [10]
A woman using the pseudonym Katie Johnson has accused Trump and Epstein of raping her in 1994 when she was 13 years old, saying she realized only years later that one of her attackers was Donald Trump, after seeing him on "The Apprentice." She filed suit in April 2016, but the suit was dismissed due to filing errors (the address given was a foreclosed home that had been vacant since the death of the owner). The suit was filed a second time but dropped on November 4 just before the election; no supporting evidence has appeared. The claims of Ms. Johnson have been deemed not credible by the Daily Mail, that most trustworthy of sources.
Meanwhile, Epstein is again in the news. In April, a fire allegedly broke out on Little Saint James. The lawsuit filed by Bradley Edwards against Epstein was scheduled to go to trial in March in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, but it has been further delayed by an appeal from Epstein's attorneys. In May, the FBI released nine groups of files on Epstein, many of which are heavily redacted. One of the memos includes the sentence, "Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon." Some are speculating that the information he provided may explain the extreme leniency of his sentence. Former Palm Beach detective Joseph Recarey died in May, "after a brief illness," at age 50. Recarey, mentioned above, was one of the lead investigators in the case against Epstein. "No other information about the cause of death was released."
The case has been summarized in a recent Daily Beast article, and protesters have disrupted a Patterson-Clinton book tour event and a Trump rally voicing concerns over the Epstein connection. The story continues to unfold, with no end yet in sight, while Epstein presumably pursues his sybaritic lifestyle – and enjoys his freedom.
Vivian Lee is the nom de plume of a tenured professor at an east coast university.
[1] According to a 2016 piece on Patterson in The New Yorker, "most often he farms out the word processing to co-authors, who receive detailed outlines and send back work that ranges in quality from vibrant schlock to hectic dreck."
[2] Vicky Ward, "The Talented Mr. Epstein," Vanity Fair, March 2003. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303. Landon Thomas Jr., "Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery," New York Magazine, October 28, 2002. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/
[3] James Patterson, et al., Filthy Rich, 270.
[4] Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option (New York: Random House, 1991), 312 ff. Hersh also asserted the charge at a news conference in London in October 1991 following the book's publication.
[5] Adam Withnall, "FBI Has Videos of Underage Sex with Epstein and 'Powerful friends' – Virginia Roberts Claims," Independent, February 9, 2015. https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/fbi-has-videos-of-underage-sex-with-epstein-and-powerful-friends-virginia-roberts-claims-30976109.html
[6] According to her 2015 affidavit, "Epstein required me to describe the sexual events that I had with these men presumably so that he could potentially blackmail them," Giuffre said, adding, "I am still very fearful of these men today." Virginia Roberts Affidavit, section 58, p. 13. https://www.scribd.com/doc/267173868/Virginia-Roberts-Affidavit
[7] "When I was with him, Epstein had sex with underage girls on a daily basis. His interest in this kind of sex was obvious to the people around him. The activities were so obvious and bold that anyone spending any significant time at one of Epstein's residences would have clearly been aware of what was going on." Virginia Roberts Affidavit, section 17, pp. 5-6. https://www.scribd.com/doc/267173868/Virginia-Roberts-Affidavit
[8] Patterson, et al., Filthy Rich, 82-85, 161-189, 199-200.
[9] Vivian Lee, "President Donald Trump: The Art of the Deal." Memory Hole Blog, November 10, 2016. http://memoryholeblog.org/2016/11/10/president-donald-trump-the-art-of-the-deal/
[10] Landon Thomas Jr., "Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery," New York Magazine, October 28, 2002. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/


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Not Cinderella's Type (2018)
Indy Zimmerman's life is far from perfect. With a step mom who seems to make it her goal in life to make indy's life horrible, step sister's who want nothing to do with her, and a boy who ruined her life suddenly wanting to be a part of it, life is already more than difficult. throw high school, relationships and tragity in the mix and things couldn't be worse. When the most popular boy at school, Bryant Bailey, kills her cat, Indy wants nothing to to with him, but he seems set on being a part of her life, and after all attempts of getting rid of him fail, she decides to give him a chance. He might not be her type but Indy quickly learns first impressions can be wrong.
Views: 653
Genre: Romance
Director: Brian Brough
Actors: Charla Cochran, JJ Neward, Paris Warner, Scott Christopher, Tanner Gillman, Warren Belle
Country: USA
Duration: N/A
Quality: WEB
Release: 2018
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FBI agents are at the Charlotte, North Carolina, home of Paula Broadwell, the woman who had an affair with then-CIA Director David Petraeus, said FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch.
Lynch declined to say what the FBI is doing at the house. Petraeus resigned as CIA Director last Friday, citing an extramarital affair as the reason.
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Maybe they were invited for a picnic.
Worse then Bradley!
I guess cuz she broads well, the fbi agents need to conduct an investigation. as long as it isn't a conduct as in sesame street's "underage conduct" or catching a buddy's tab as in colombia like the secret service agents...they'll be okay...
duh! look at her namesake broads do well...whatta hussie!
dressed like a cheap french hore?they call dat the red carpet look and they put dem 360 cameras onyah t'give dat spin around shot...
Please its all BS thjis goes on regularly in Government
That's what happens when the little head does the thinking over the big head,problems always follow!!And this Petraeus does he know by now to keep the family business( military,CIA) at the job ,quit acting like an old wash woman to impress this bimbo,ya got screwed more ways than one buddy and you've still haven't settled with your wife!!Good luck after her you're definitly toast!!


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February 27th, 2013
Was Benedict XVI the right man for the job?
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
Rome (CNN) - Thirty-five years before a German intellectual named Joseph Ratzinger ascended the throne of St. Peter and took the name Benedict XVI, a very different intellectual named Laurence Peter coined a rule which he named after himself: the Peter Principle.
Put simply, the Peter Principle says that people who are good at their jobs get promoted, and if they're good at their new jobs, they keep getting promoted - until they get to a job they're not good at, where they stay.
As the troubled papacy of Benedict XVI limps to a close, it appears very possible that the rule describes Ratzinger's eight years at the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Call it the Throne of Peter Principle.
"He was just the wrong man for the wrong time, which is nothing to do with him as a person," said Christopher M. Bellitto, author of the book "101 Questions and Answers on Popes and the Papacy."
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"He was not a manager. He was a lousy administrator," said Bellitto, chair of the history department at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. "Sometimes someone is a great mayor and a lousy governor and I think that's probably what happened with Benedict."
The Vatican was battered by one highly public crisis after another while Benedict was pope.
The sexual abuse scandal that first flared in the United States when John Paul II was pope caught flame under Benedict, burning across the country and into Europe.
Just this month, two top American cardinals, Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Timothy Dolan of New York, were called on to give legal testimony over lawsuits related to abuse of children, and the leader of Scotland's Catholic Church, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, resigned after allegations he had acted improperly toward four men studying for the priesthood decades ago.
The sexual abuse crisis wasn't the only problem Benedict faced.
His own butler leaked private papers from his apartment and gave them to a journalist. The Vatican Bank has tried - and failed - to achieve international standards to prevent money laundering.
Pope Benedict welcomed back into the fold Richard Williamson, an excommunicated bishop who, it turned out, doubted the scale of the Holocaust. The Vatican was forced to admit it hadn't known of the bishop's views on Auschwitz before the lifting of the ban - although an interview where Williamson outlined them was posted on YouTube.
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Just a year and a half after Benedict became pope, he infuriated many Muslims by quoting a medieval Byzantine emperor who said: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
The Vatican was quick to say that it was the emperor's view that Islam was evil, not the pope's, but the gaffe is emblematic of the problem with Benedict, Bellitto said.
"This was a tone-deaf papacy. This has not been a savvy papacy," he said.
The Rev. Thomas Reese, author of "Inside the Vatican," said Benedict's greatest strength was that he was an intellectual and a teacher - but that was also his greatest weakness.
"The last two conclaves, what they did was they elected the smartest man in the room," he said: John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
"Both were intellectuals, both were scholars, academics," Reese said.
"Maybe it's time to not elect the smartest man in the room, but to elect someone smart who will listen to all the other smart people in the room, and not just in the room but in the church - someone who brings people together, who builds a team," Reese said.
But Benedict has his defenders.
Thomas Peters, a Catholic activist who blogs at AmericanPapist, said there are powerful forces at work when cardinals gather to elect a pontiff.
"We believe the Holy Spirit guides the choice of the pope," he said.
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And he argued that the idea of a Vatican in disarray under Benedict XVI was false.
"I think there's a meme out that the church is a dysfunctional bureaucracy," he said, then rejected it: "It does make the trains run out time."
Benedict has appointed able administrators who are making the Vatican machinery function more swiftly, Peters said, describing an "American renaissance of administrator cardinals and archbishops."
Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who has known Joseph Ratzinger for more than three decades, said the job of being pope is an enormous one.
"You must know circumstances that are moving at the speed of light. It is necessary to have a very clear mind, a good capacity to govern the church. There are about 5,000 bishops, half a million priests, 1.2 billion Catholics," he said.
Barragan participated in the conclave that elected Benedict, and the man was up to the job, said the cardinal.
"He has a clear mind, he is man of faith, a loving man," Barragan said. "Benedict was the right man. He was."
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uring the second half of the 1930's, the United States Government embarked on unique project, a public relations campaign to keep the American people informed about the New Deal and the necessity of its programs. Under the direction of the Resettlement Administration, the Government first sponsored radio and photography campaigns, which produced some of the most famous work of artists including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Some of the photographs that Evans took went into the critically acclaimed book that he worked with James Agee to produce, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. In 1935, the Resettlement Administration decided to produce films as a method of getting its message to a wider segment of the public. The films produced under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration represent the only peacetime production by the United States Government of films intended for commercial release and public viewing ever. They also heralded a new direction for American documentary filmmaking because of the sophistication with which they were made. These films were known as the Films of Merit, and the first of them were directed by Pare Lorentz.
The Resettlement Administration was founded on May 1, 1935 as part of the second phase of the New Deal. Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, the Under-Secretary of Agriculture, was appointed as its administrator. The goal of the Resettlement Administration was the relocation of impoverished farm families and poor city families. It also focused on the prevention of unprofitable farming techniques and improper land use, as well as the preservation of natural resources. Finally, it was responsible for the creation of three "Greenbelt" communities, suburban housing developments outside of Washington D.C., Cincinnati, and Milwaukee, intended to provide improved living conditions for city dwellers. Like many other New Deal agencies, it was founded on the belief that a control of social conditions would produce better lives for American citizens.
The Resettlement Administration chose Pare Lorentz to be its film consultant. In Lorentz, the RA found a perfect match to its purposes. Lorentz was a passionate patriot and a staunch supporter of Roosevelt and the New Deal. He believed that the American people had a right to expect the American government to provide them with information. And he also believed that the government should take advantage of the film medium to present the public with more truthful information than he felt they were receiving from the commercial media.
Lorentz came to the project with the first film already conceptualized. Dr. Tugwell originally envisioned that the Resettlement Administration would produce a series of eighteen films, the first of which he suggested should deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority. The TVA had been created in May of 1933 and was charged with building dams and establishing flood control, projects that dovetailed with the Resettlement Administration's commitment to environmental conservation. But Lorentz wanted to make a film about the Dust Bowl, an idea that he had unsuccessfully pitched to the Hollywood studios a year earlier. Lorentz was able to convince Tugwell to make this film, which became The Plow That Broke the Plains. But Lorentz' second film for the RA would explore Tugwell's idea. The River, which many film critics argued was an even greater artistic success than The Plow That Broke the Plains told that story of the great rivers of the American continent and the work of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The success of these projects led Roosevelt to establish the United States Film Service in 1938 under Lorentz' direction. The USFS was active until 1940, when Congress cut off its funding. In that time, the USFS produced Ecce Homo! (1939), a film about unemployment, and The Fight for Life (1940), a film which dealt with public health services. Both projects were overseen by Lorentz.
Lorentz' somewhat revolutionary use of the documentary format inspired other groups in the 1930's as to the usefulness the film media in transmitting social and political messages. In 1939 the American Institute of Planners commissioned a film to be released at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The result was The City, a film about the historic importance of rural, small town life in America, the evils of the city dwelling that had developed as America industrialized and the possibility of reclaiming the "good life" through suburban housing initiatives.
Pare Lorentz did not direct The City. It was directed by Willard Van Dyke, one of the cameramen on The River. The concept and much of the script was developed by Lorentz, and the same poetic style that he employed in the narratives of The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River can be found in The City.
This project takes its title from a line section VII of Lorentz' script for The Plow That Broke the Plains. To Lorentz, "the golden harvest" was an image that represented the land of plenty that America was before the Depression and the plenty that she might again produce if use of her land was brought back into the balance that had existed earlier in her history. But it is also symbolic of the ideas inherent in Lorentz' own work, ideas that sprang from his sincere belief in the promise of America. In the face of the great hardship that the United States was experiencing, Lorentz and others like him looked back with a traditional fascination at America's pastoral qualities for answers to the questions that plagued an ever more modern nation. The images that he employed in his films, the lone cowboy, waving fields of grass, the merging of the tributaries into the great Mississippi River, the simplicity of small town New England life, all spoke to simpler, golden past.
Lorentz' worked expressed a belief that in turning away from the negative aspects of the present and looking back to the more successful past, America would be able to reclaim the best aspects of that past and bring themselves out of the malaise into which they were floundering. Lorentz used the films that he made for the U.S. Government to spread this message to the American movie-going public.
The scripts that Lorentz wrote for these films are closer to poetry than to film narration. They played on tradition American poetic forms, and have often been compared to the work of Walt Whitman. The script of The River was even nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. Lorentz combined poetry with powerful visuals and moving music to create a new medium, one complex enough to accomplish the somewhat contradictory task of both praising and chastening the country that he so loved. He must be considered then not only a filmmaker, but also a poet.
As a part of the 1930's Project, this site offers a short biography of Lorentz and his role in the creation of the Films of Merit. It examines individually the two movies, The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River, which set the standard not simply for the rest of the Films of Merit but for American documentary films in general, as well as a third film The City, with which Lorentz was involved. An analysis of these three films, including Real Video segments of each, illustrates one type of response to the Great Depression, a response that is part of the ongoing American search for a usable past.
Other sites in the AS@UVA 1930's Project which relate to this site and which should be of interest include:


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I. Love. Emma. Stone. My nose is glued to the screen whenever Emma Stone is promoting a film & has countless red carpet premieres to attend. She's not only an iconic fashion chameleon, but her all-around girl-next-door goofball vibes makes me feel like we really could be best friends. I'm obsessed with her sense of style & will almost always vote her best dressed, no matter the competition. So, when it came to seeking out what she's been up to, I was super excited that she was Marie Claire's September cover star. Emma's currently promoting her new film, Battle of the Sexes, all about tennis-legend Billie Jean King in 1973 & co-starring Steve Carrell, Emma's Crazy, Stupid Love on-screen dad, who plays her rival, Bobby Riggs.
The interview for Marie Claire is conducted by funny lady Sarah Silverman, who has a girl crush on Emma that reads quite equal to mine, where Emma discusses the power each of our voices have in times of controversy & political uprising, but also the challenges that the Oscar-winning actress (for of course, La La Land) faced when becoming Billie Jean King for the new film.
The photo shoot (led by Greg Kadel) includes Emma wearing some gorgeous pieces from Dior, Chanel, Valentino, Bulgari, to name a few!
Battle of the Sexes premieres on September 22nd, just in time to kick of awards season & you can be sure that I'll be on the lookout for Emma's highly anticipated press tour fashion!
Are you going to see Emma Stone's new film? Do you like the styling of her Marie Claire cover shoot? Which stars do you love to see on magazines? Happy Styling!


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New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma was suspended without pay for the entire 2012 season by the NFL, one of four players punished Wednesday for participating in the team's cash-for-hits bounty system.
Defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove, now with the Green Bay Packers, was suspended for the first half of this season; Saints defensive end Will Smith was barred for the opening four games; and linebacker Scott Fujita, now with the Cleveland Browns, will miss the first three games. All of the suspensions are without pay.
All four players have three days to appeal NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's ruling.
An NFL investigation determined that the Saints had a bounty system from 2009-11 that offered thousands of dollars to players for big hits that knocked opponents out of games. In March, Goodell suspended Saints head coach Sean Payton for all of next season, and levied other penalties against the club.
But no players were punished until Wednesday. Originally, the league said that 22 to 27 defensive players were involved in the illegal scheme, which was orchestrated by then-Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and started in the season New Orleans won its only Super Bowl championship.
Targeted opponents included quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, Brett Favre and Kurt Warner. "Knockouts" were worth $1,500 and "cart-offs" $1,000, with payments doubled or tripled for the playoffs.
"In assessing player discipline, I focused on players who were in leadership positions at the Saints; contributed a particularly large sum of money toward the program; specifically contributed to a bounty on an opposing player; demonstrated a clear intent to participate in a program that potentially injured opposing players; sought rewards for doing so; and/or obstructed the 2010 investigation," Goodell said in a statement.
According to the league, Saints defensive captain Vilma offered $10,000 in cash to any player who knocked then-Cardinals QB Warner out of a playoff game at the end of the 2009 season, and the same amount for knocking then-Vikings QB Favre out of that season's NFC championship game. The Saints were flagged for roughing Favre twice in that game, and the league later said they should have received another penalty for a brutal high-low hit from Remi Ayodele and Bobby McCray that hurt Favre's ankle. He was able to finish the game, but the Saints won in overtime en route to the NFL title.
According to the NFL, Fujita "pledged a significant amount of money to the prohibited pay-for-performance/bounty pool during the 2009 NFL Playoffs when he played for the Saints."
The NFL said that "multiple independent sources" said Smith "pledged significant sums to the program pool."
In March, Goodell made Payton the first head coach suspended by the league for any reason, accused of trying to cover up the system of extra cash payouts. Goodell also indefinitely banned Williams, who was hired in January to run the St. Louis Rams' defense.
Fujita, Hargrove, and Smith are allowed to participate in offseason activity, including preseason games, before their suspensions take effect. Vilma, though, is suspended immediately and will be reinstated after the coming season's Super Bowl - which, coincidentally, will be played in New Orleans.