https://twitter.com/jessenewell/status/1062451820969238533
I am firing this back up. Hopefully, this thread doesn't get taken down because KC Star's official KU football beat writer is on the case.
EDIT UPDATE: Plane is headed west to Colorado. Alert the plane is headed west to Colorado. https://twitter.com/JayhawkSlant/status/1062459642066939907
This Tuesday we will decide if we want to restructure our city government with question A. The nut of the issue is the City Manager/elected Mayor role.
If you weren't aware, Portland has a City Manager. This position is a non-elected position that is overseen by our legislature. City Council hires them and can fire them at will. The City Manager acts as the executive and directs the day-to-day operational function of the city bureaucracy in-line with policy and laws that city council sets.
Our elected mayor is our representative to other municipalities and leads/structures the legislature and committees. They have a lot of influence and basically act as the direct line to the City Manager from city council. This is a strategic vision position that advises the day-to-day operational decision making done by the city manager.
Some proponents of Question A want to eliminate the City Manager position and have an Elected Mayor become the executive decision maker. Other proponents want to remove the elected Mayor position and return the decision to City Council.
To oppose Question A would leave the city charter (worth a skim, it's shortish) as is - Elected Mayor/City Manger structure.
I will post my viewpoint down in the discussion, but I'm hoping the post text reads as unbiased and informational incase you are trying to come to your own decision. Here are two articles (one is an editorial, I couldn't find a pro-elected mayor scholarly source) that outline opposing viewpoints:
I'm interested in a discussion on this topic. I have developed a viewpoint, but I'm curious what other's viewpoints are.
The Walton Family Foundation has poured millions into a conservative "school choice" strategy that champions for-profit charter schools and vouchers. While the country is focused on Georgia's runoff, here are two local runoffs where even small donations could help impact the outcome:
Little Rock AR On December 1st, Little Rock Arkansas will hold a runoff election for two nonpartisan School Board positions. Two candidates, Tommy Branch Jr. and FranSha' Anderson, are backed by Arkansas Learns, a PAC largely funded by Walton Family Foundation money. Their challengers, Evelyn Hemphill Callaway and Vicki Hatter respectively, are endorsed by Little Rock Education Association, a union of Little Rock School District employees.
You can spread the word to friends and family in the Little Rock area, and if you're able you can donate to Vicki at https://www.vickihatter.com/donate and to Evelyn at https://donate.fundhero.io/hemphillcallawaylrsdzone3 - even small donations really add up in municipal races!
New Orleans LA New Orleans' school district is already 100% charter, thanks in no small part to Walton Family Foundation funding. 5 seats will go to a runoff on December 5th, with the following anti-charter candidates: Chanel Payne, Antoinette Williams, Erica Martinez, and Kayonna Armstrong. You can donate on all of their websites, and Kayonna may have remote phone banking opportunities. Again, every small donation can really help in municipal elections.
Let it be enacted, that to serve the growing need to the city of Xi-Batan, that one wizard of exceptional ability with practical magics be employed by the city per 3,000 residents, plus ten percent of the required number of wizards to allow for vacations and days off.
The duties of these wizards shall include but not be limited to, the diffusal of fire outbreaks, flood control. Protection against plague, pestilence, etc. the direction of emergency efforts in the case of disaster. Maintenance of city foundations and walls. And in general the well-being of the people of Xi-Batan.
Retained wizards shall be compensated for their services with free room and board held to the standard of a visiting diplomat, and be given an allowance equivalent to the value of ten yearling horses per lunar cycle. Should this value be redeemed on the purchase of actual yearlings, it shall only use .5 the value of the yearling from the wizards stipend. Yearlings cannot be resold except back to the city of Xi-Batan for the same price, limit three per wizard. Renews at the natural or no fault death of the horse.
Retained wizards with apprentices shall be counted as half a wizard more per apprentice on the condition the apprentice can be vetted by two other wizards they are not affiliated with to ensure potency and competency. Apprentices compensation for their service shall be between them and their master.
Should a Retained wizard desire, the city of Xi-Batan shall sell a plot of land at zero profit for the use of constructing a wizard tower. Construction of the tower is also to be a zero profit business. At the end of employment with the city, ownership of the tower reverts to the city and the value of the tower being supplied to the wizard, at zero profit.
Retained wizards shall be supplied with appropriately sized robes, in a color and style to be determined by a committee made of the first four wizards to be retained. Henceforth, it shall require the consensus of two thirds of retained wizards to change the color or style of their uniform robes. Not to be changed more than once in a two year period. Pointed hats and shoes keeping in theme with the robes are optional.
Retained wizards are allowed one familiar animal to be housed and fed by the city at no extra fee to the city. If one is a horse, two such animals are allowed. If all are horses, three are allowed. Additional animals must be paid for by the owning wizard.
This is an automatic summary, original reduced by 72%.
> Cities and towns in Maine that want to provide their own broadband service just helped defeat a proposed law that would have made it impossible to build taxpayer-funded networks.
> Municipal officials and one ISP that has partnered with a city for a municipal project objected to the bill in a hearing on Tuesday.
> The proposed Maine law would have prohibited municipalities from using tax dollars to subsidize broadband service and imposed various other restrictions that would make it more difficult for cities and towns to build their own networks.
> The Maine bill was based on model legislation written by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which has pushed for restrictions on municipal broadband nationwide.
> About 20 states have laws imposing some limits on municipal broadband, despite a recent Federal Communications Commission effort to eliminate such restrictions.
> The FCC in February 2015 voted to block laws in North Carolina and Tennessee that prevent municipal broadband providers from expanding outside their territories, but the states sued and won a court ruling that reinstated the restrictions.
Summary Source | FAQ | Theory | Feedback | Top five keywords: network^#1 broadband^#2 bill^#3 own^#4 build^#5
Post found in /r/WayOfTheBern, /r/technology, /r/StillSandersForPres, /r/democrats and [/r/TheColorIsOrange](http://np.reddit.com/r/TheColorI
... keep reading on reddit ➡Commercial ISP's seek to "monetize" subscribers at zero operational cost. Where does community data fit into that plan? Do commercial ISPs cache local data sets? Do they have programs in place today that seek such data? Is there civic engagement to mine and identify the highly local data that residents, business owners and farm production need most often?
Will commercial ISPs interface with relevant County, State and Federal databases to make data available in local caches, improving the civic value of the Fiber Infrastructure? Will they publish web sites on their own resources to point to these data resources? Will they call out to community leaders to engage and provide new data into local data coffers?
No, because Commercial ISP Charters seek profit at the lowest cost. Community engagement, when done at all, is simply RISK MANAGEMENT.
This is a vital, massive difference in the charter of Municipal Fiber vs a Commercial ISP.
Only Municipal ISPs can address these highly local issues and opportunities. Municipal ISPs should store, cache and make available vital local data, improving education, productivity, business development and so on.
Municipal ISPs can be given blueprints for engagement, using existing data sources and providing data-to-information roadmaps to help inform and improve community services.
Imagine this. What would such blueprints look like? What data sources can have this type of impact?
Mayor Naheed Nenshi has issues with Doug Griffiths, the Municipal Affairs Minister. The two never did see eye to eye politically, but this past Wednesday the animosity got turned up a notch. Griffiths not only took his time during a radio show interview to note that the province isn’t seriously considering Calgary’s negotiating brief, he called the mayor a political peacock.
Nenshi noted that the province went over the 53 page brief, denied most of it outright and left in two or three items considered negotiable. That is not a city charter or anything close. The items refused and left in were not disclosed by the mayor.
Griffiths has not been shy in touting the unwillingness of the province to grant either Edmonton or Calgary ways to increase revenue via fees or taxes. Nenshi noted that these types of measures were to be discussed in a big city charter tailored for the two largest municipalities in Alberta.
Nenshi is not the first mayor to try and gain more financial power for local government. Alberta’s provincial government keeps a tight rein on its cities, large and small. Other provinces have worked out special deals with larger metro areas, allowing them greater responsibility and freedom for their civil governments. Some lucky cities on that list include Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver.
Alison Redford, the current Premier, promised to make similar deals with Calgary and Edmonton. The framework for this change is due to be finished by the time the election rolls around this fall. But Griffiths isn’t totally on board, even refusing to call them city charters, but rather defining the measures as civic charters.
Municipal affairs spokesperson Cameron Traynor sees the city, or civic charter, for Edmonton and Calgary as a positive step. It would allow the two largest cities in the province to work together on important issues such as infrastructure and services. Nenshi is still optimistic that the deal will be out before the fall, perhaps as early as May. He is awaiting a meeting with the premier, but no date has been confirmed as of yet.
Nenshi and Griffiths have also clashed over a regional plan for Calgary addressing growth and the sharing of water. A mediator was called in by Griffiths to get surrounding counties to agree to the plan which will cover areas between Strathmore and Banff. Nenshi prefers the legislative approach, having the province force rural districts, which have previously refused, to adopt the plan.
http://www.calgar
... keep reading on reddit ➡I have been looking up US towns and cities over xmas (and been playing Geoguessr) but in my curiousity to look further, I've seen a lot of places are a "city" despite having tiny populations. Ekwok, AK (pop: 111), Buxton, ND (348), Harrisville, MI (493) were ones I found, for example.
How come Ekwok and Chicago are both "cities"? How does something with a couple of hundred people and barely a building to speak of get designated a "city"? Does it vary state-to-state? Can anywhere be a city if they decide to be? Can you be a city of 10 people? Shed any light you like, I'm keen to find out more!
INTRODUCTION
This post will be another in a series of posts about the Philippines and Indonesia. The first post was How Indonesia and the Philippines Define and Organize Ethnicity. This post is more geopolitical and economic-focused.
The purpose of this post is to examine how the Indonesian elite, political and economic, see the Philippines, and the impact of Indonesia's new capital on the Philippines. Here is a map with the location of the new capital, and a post explaining why Indonesia is moving its capital, Indonesia’s New Capital: New Nusantarian Era?
https://preview.redd.it/u4o02ppmcra81.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=651be73320b081d5b605e442e9cc646a73b8e362
There are four main points of this post are:
- The Indonesian state sees Filipinos as kindred spirits, largely because Indonesia and the Philippines are large suppliers of overseas migrant labor. In addition, it views Filipinos through Indonesia's ethnic-cultural framework.
- Based on the total number of civil servants assigned to the new capital, the final population of the new capital will be much larger than the projection circulating in the media. This means the impact will be much larger than anticipated for Indonesia and the Philippines.
- The Philippines is militarily significant for Indonesia because it was the main invasion route used by the Japanese to invade the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War. Security presence in the Celebes-Sulu area will be increased sharply once the capital has been moved.
- The Philippines is a major export and investment destination for Indonesian companies. The hope is the new capital will spur the creation of a north-south economic corridor that stretches from Beijing/Seoul to East Java/Central Java. The Philippines will benefit not just from closer ties with Indonesia, but also increased economic and trade flowing from North Asia through this corridor.
Since the fall of Suharto in 1998, there has been an intensification of Indonesian activity in the Indonesian provinces adjacent to the Philippines. As explained in [Indonesia’s New Capital: New Nusantarian Era?](https://www.reddit.com/r/IntlScholars/comments/
... keep reading on reddit ➡I thought about this after I happened to come across an interesting article in the Baltimore Sun published in 1994 about an effort to incorporate Columbia: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-10-05-1994278199-story.html.
Would be interested to see what residents think about this, and what the advantages and disadvantages would be if Columbia were incorporated versus remaining the same.
I’m currently waiting for my terrible internet to start working again and I am seething at my provider (Spectrum). Looking to gauge other peoples experience with them.
"Just rec'd an email from Councilor Gary Rosen about this issue coming up for a public hearing. The city has been considering getting its own broadband service up and running. If you've had it with Spectrum, this is your chance to speak up:
"Upcoming Public Hearing on Charter's Cable License Renewal, Quality & COST of Service
"On Monday, November 8 at 5:30 PM on the third floor of City Hall, the Worcester City Council's Public Service and Transportation Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss the quality and COST to subscribers of Spectrum's TV and internet service and whether the city should once again renew Charter's contract.
"The committee members, Chairperson Gary Rosen, Vice Chairperson Donna M Colorio and Councilor Sarai Rivera, seek testimony from the public on these two key items on the agenda:
"* Communication of the City Manager transmitting informational communication relative to the cable license renewal process.
# 9.13A CM October 19, 2021
* Order of Councilor Gary Rosen - In light of Charter/Spectrum's sweeping rate increases that will hike the cost of TV packages, internet service, equipment, and fees, request City Council's Standing Committee on Public Service and Transportation hold one or more public hearings to: 1) survey customer satisfaction with this provider; 2) review the fairness of their rates for TV, internet and telephone service; 3) review the city's cable franchise agreement with this company and determine what future changes need to be made to lower costs and improve service; 4) determine whether our three PEG (Public, Educational, Government) Access channels are receiving the financial and other support they are entitled to through our franchise agreement and if, in a future contract, they can be located on channels in the “Basic Tier”; and 5) discuss the feasibility of inviting other companies to provide service to the city. # 10c CC September 24, 2019.
"Please forward this email to your contacts, neighborhood groups, etc. and post on social media. Before the city renews its contract with Spectrum, the public must be heard."
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/12/31/mayor-bronson-wants-change-city-charter-make-municipal-clerk-an-elected-position/
This way, all Save Anchorage Coalition has to do is eke out the one race for Municipal Clerk.
When Republicans lose at the ballot box, the partisan Clerk will just throw out (cough, reject for "irregularities") enough ballots to effect a wingnut win.
The slow motion coup of '22 is just getting rolling. Dave Bronson and his limp dick SAC can't win a majority of votes cast. Their only path to power is suppression and intimidation of the will of the people.
New York state and New York City are cases in point: There, Democrats command a supermajority and they wield their power in authoritarian ways because that is the nature of their politics, as evidenced by economically stifling pandemic lockdowns, unconstitutional vaccine mandates, and now, a new executive order from Gov. Kathy Hochul that declared a ‘state of emergency’ over the COVID-19 omicron variant even though there has been no sign of it in the state yet.
And here’s another way Democrats wield permanent power: By changing the rules of the electoral process in order to ensure victory, as the Big Apple is poised to do.
New York City Marxists are preparing to pass legislation that will enable more than 800,000 people who are living in the city but who are not citizens to vote in local elections, as reported by Conservative Brief and other outlets:
The “Our City, Our Vote” legislation would allow migrants who hold green cards, those who maintain a legal work status in the United States, and DACA recipients to be granted special voter registration forms to vote in local elections.
“The legislation calls for training poll workers and community education campaigns to ensure every voter receives the correct ballot,” The New York Times added.
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez told the newspaper the legislation is very good for Democrats because they can advance their political talking points claim that “voting rights are being attacked.”
“It’s important for the Democratic Party to look at New York City and see that when voting rights are being attacked, we are expanding voter participation,” he said.
Conservative Brief noted further that Republicans around the country are launching legal battles against Democrat-led legislation granting non-citizens voting rights, which essentially cancel out the votes of citizens:
In October, the Republican National Committee announced it would sue Montpelier and Winooski, Vermont, for altering their town charters to accommodate municipal voting by noncitizens.
“Democrats are trying to dismantle the integrity of our elections. In addition to attacking widely supported safeguards like voter ID, Democrats also want foreign citizens to vote in American elections,” said Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
“Republicans are fighting back on this far-left assault against election integrity — unlike radical Democrats, we believe that our elections should be decided solely by American citizens. This is a
... keep reading on reddit ➡Update on this reddit post a few days ago: Halifax Councillor wants Halifax to get in the fight against Quebec's Bill 21
While the amount is small, shockingly council voted to not give an outside charity 50k and to ask other municipalities to do the same. Maybe they thought those optics would be bad when some local charities are given squat. That said, Mancini, Mason, Cleary, Stoddard, and Blackburn voted yes to spending money outside the city charter (something these people quoted in the same meeting to NOT fund other idea......).
ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN
This thread will be used for discussion around the election. Results when official will also be posted here. You are still welcome to share link posts and articles, but try to keep text based discussion organized here. Also please remember politics can be divisive and while you may feel your candidate is the best and the other candidate is the literal devil incarnate please be respectful of all members. Keep your language civil, keep this thread SFW, and follow Rule Zero : Be Kind.
Who are the Mayoral Candidates?
Who Are the City Council Candidates?
| Office | Candidates | (I) = Incumbet | (E) = Elected | (U) = Unopposed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Large | Michael Flaherty (I) (E) | Julia Mejia (I) (E) | Ruthzee Louijeune (E) | Erin Murphy (E) | ||||
| District 1 | Lydia Edwards (I) (E) (U) | |||||||
| District 2 | Edward Flynn (I) (E) (U) | |||||||
| District 3 | Frank Baker (I) (E) | |||||||
| District 4 | Brian Worrell (E) | |||||||
| District 5 | Ricardo Arroyo (I) (E) | |||||||
| District 6 | Kendra Hicks (E) | |||||||
| District 7 | Tania Anderson (E) | |||||||
| District 8 | Kenzie Bok (I) (E) (U) | |||||||
| District 9 | Liz Breadon (I) (E) |
What are the ballot questions?
- [YES] - Shall this city approve the charter amendment proposed by the city council? The proposed amendment to the Boston City Charter would change the City of Boston’s budget process. Full changes listed [here].(https://www.boston.gov/news/city-boston-municipal-election-ballot-questions)
- A "yes" vote supports granting the city council the authority to amend a budget proposed by the mayor and to override the mayor's budgetary amendments or vetoes and establishing an office of participatory budgeting by 2024.
A "no" vote opposes this measure granting the city council the authority to amend a budget proposed by the mayor and to override the mayor's budgetary amendments or vetoes and establishing an office of participatory budgeting by 2024.
- [NO] - Should a high voltage, electrical substation be built at 400 Condor St
Read Chapter 1 Here
Previous Chapter Here
I can't believe we've hit thirty chapters! This also breaks 100,000 words posted. Thanks for all my fans who have put up with me so far, and I hope you like this Very Special Episode.
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“About three degrees east of north? That’s a huge help, thank you! Yep.. Have a great one.”
Sammi ended the call and looked over to Samuel. He wasn’t using the haptic gloves or headset, instead sitting at the desk in the center of the planetarium and clacking away at his keyboard.
“How sure were they?” Samuel looked up and their eyes met, fingers poised on the keyboard.
“Not super sure, but go ahead and add it.”
On the globe filling the display on the dome above, a dot appeared in southern Alaska and a line traced three degrees east of polar north, joining two dozen other lines. The Sams had spent the last day of Silia's deadline calling high schools, university astronomy clubs, and anybody else they could think of who lived in what was once western Canada and the northwestern United States. The Painter Observatory mailing list had been a huge help for this. For each call, they really only had two questions:
Did you see the meteor a couple of months back?
If you did, where on the horizon did it go?
Each data point got a dot at the caller’s location, then a line extending along the path where they saw it land. The more certain they were, the narrower the line. With just three data points, they should have been able to triangulate the exact location of the shuttle. If the data was perfect.
Instead, they had a spider web surrounding an area in northern Alaska that encompassed almost the entire Brooks range. Still, the web was tightening. The smaller the web got, the better their guesses on who to contact that might have seen something. Time for another call.
The employee at the small airport just south of the Brooks range sounded gruff at first, but Sammi was able to get him talking without too much trouble.
“Oh, yeah, that thing! Came in pretty much right over us. Wasn’t no meteor like I’ve ever seen, though. Left a pretty dark smoke trail. It came down up in the mountains some ways north, best as I could tell. We were going to take some snowcats up there and see if we could find it, but then…”
“Then what?” Sammi couldn’t hide the eagerness i
... keep reading on reddit ➡You may remember that three years ago, I made this headcanon regarding a nationalized American rail network under the Progressive Party. Since then, I've revised it greatly to make it a bit more realistic.
One thing that doesn't change is that the 2ACW is still averted (I'm mainly going off the Kaiserredux mod here) after George Norris won the 1936 election and righted the boat.
Anywho, let's begin:
Prelude
With Huey Long and Jack Reed satisfied by a relief bill and William H. Murray, leader of the Old Democratic Party, arrested, President Norris turned to other matters. Chief among them was reviewing the United States Army, namely the debate over doctrine; ultimately, Leslie McNair's reforms involving massed artillery strikes was chosen.
Among Norris' priorities, however, was completely restructuring American society. He termed his reforms "capitalism with socialist characteristics", a fancy way of saying "social democracy". His biggest achievement was abolishing the archaic Electoral College, with all future presidential elections decided by the popular vote. But what usually gets lost among his achievements is the reorganization of the entire government.
One of the lesser examples was renaming the various departments to "administrations". For example, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) was renamed the "United States Justice Administration" (USJA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was renamed the "United States Agricultural Administration" (USAA, not to be confused with the United Services Automobile Association), and the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) was renamed the "United States Transit Administration" (USTA).
Formation of the United States Transit Administration
The formation of the USTA coincided with the nationalization of almost all forms of transportation in the United States. Each sub-administration was as follows:
- United States Highway Administration (USHA), responsible for the highway system
- United States Bus Administration (USBA), responsible for all bus services, both city and long-distance
- United States Mass Transit Administration (USMTA), responsible for all streetcar and subway operations
- United States Shipping Administration (USSA), responsible for all trucking and maritime trade, both ocean and river; this included nationalizing United States Lines and Matson, and all
Hi everyone. I would like to share this piece that I made. It might just help first time homebuyers.
First published here.
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The TL;DR:
When buying properties on the secondary market or those properties not owned by reputable real estate developers, you first have to make sure that the seller is 110% legit before you even give a centavo. Due diligence is the process of finding out if the seller is 110% legit. This should be obvious, but to some, it isn’t. This is what motivated me to write this piece. ----
The Story
There were two funny events that happened this week concerning due diligence, that I'd like to share with you.
On the first event, our brokerage was on the buying side. The seller of the property insisted that our buyer provide first a down payment BEFORE we could conduct a due diligence.
For the second event, our brokerage was on the selling side. This time, the buying party wanted our seller to basically do the due diligence on himself; submit the Certified True Copies of the Title and Tax Declaration to them (buyer’s party).
Now, before I tell you the mistakes in the above mentioned events, please understand that different brokerages have different policies concerning due diligence so, I would like to explicitly inform you that the views and opinions contained herein are my own.
Alright. Now that we have that cleared up, here’s the mistake or red flag in the first event:
When buying properties on the secondary market (secondary market are those for sale properties that are no longer owned by developers) you should never, in any instance, transfer money or pay a reservation fee or down payment if you have not yet verified the authenticity of the ownership of the seller.
In simple terms: you do not part with your hard earned money if you have not made sure that the full name of the seller is the same one written in the Title and that the Title presented to you is similar to the the copies held by the condo/subdivision administrator and Land Registration Authority/Registry of Deeds.
Explain-To-Me-Like-Im-Five? Don’t give money to that wo/man if you’re not 110% sure that s/he is the owner of the property.
There are scammers who could produce a fake Title and have you fooled! This is the reason why you need to know basics of due diligence so you would not be victimized.
For the second event, the mistake was aski
... keep reading on reddit ➡This is your 15-minute Tuesday report in 3934 words.
##Azerbaijan pulls "Elizabeth Holmes", gets caught using logos without permission while pushing a narrative at UN, gets thwarted by Armenian delegation
A UN conference is being held between December 13-17. Azerbaijan ignored its own problems and attempted to discredit Armenia, Artsakh, and Armenian diasporan organizations.
Azerbaijan attempted to portray Armenian organizations as terrorism sponsors, and to present the efforts towards Artsakh's right to self-determination as "separatism" and "terrorism".
Without permission from the UN Office on Drugs & Crime, Azerbaijan used its logo on the materials to give the impression that UNODC is a co-organizer of the Azeri event.
Armenian delegation, headed by General prosecutor Arthur Davtyan, took steps to counter the Azeri propaganda. They contacted UNODC, and the latter demanded Azerbaijan remove the logos.
Armenian speakers blasted Azerbaijani propaganda against famous Armenian organizations. They spoke about Azerbaijan's violation of international laws and the 2020 aggression. They also publicly reminded Azerbaijan about the World Court ruling that requires Azerbaijan to end racial hatred.
>A very limited number of foreigners physically participated in the meeting, who left the hall immediately after the speech of the Armenian delegation.
https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1070774.html
##Russia claims it has drones better than Bayraktar
Deputy Premier Borisov: the devices developed in Russia have superior technical characteristics. We have the opportunity to play in this market. Unfortunately, we entered the market a little late.
Historically, it's been dominated by Israeli, American, and Chinese producers who have been active in the past 5-6 years. Russia has an opportunity to enter the market. The latest expo was in Dubai, where we presented our models. //
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1070739.html
##will the Parliamentary Security Committee ever have a deputy chief?
Kocharyan-ARF alliance nominated HD MP Ghazinyan 14 times but did not do so last week, leaving the door open for the ruling party to nominate the deputy, said the Committee chief QP Andranik K. However, the ruling party did not nominate a candidate and will give the opposition another opportunity to fill that seat next week.
HD alliance said they aren't legally required to officially re-nominate Ghazinyan because his nomination is "
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Background:
Lisa Maria Szasz was born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 16, 1962 to Paul Alex Szasz, Sr. and Maria (aka Marion) Calci Szasz. Paul Sr. and Maria had at least one other child (Paul Alex Szasz, Jr.) and divorced in or around September 1975 but remarried in or around February 1976 before ultimately divorcing a second time in or around June 1977.
Few details are available about Lisa's early life however it is known that she married Daniel P. Ozmun in or around 1980 and had two children with him (a son, Ryan, and a daughter, Raina) before they divorced in or around late 1988 after 7 years of marriage. Lisa may also have had a relationship and/or marriage with Kevin K. Lazzaro however it is unknown whether they had any children together.
*** Please note: the below details are in no way intended to malign Lisa's reputation and are merely offered as insight into the possible struggles and stressors she was facing prior to her disappearance. ***
According to publicly available court records, Lisa was a defendant in several criminal cases, presumably stemming from her possible struggle with drug addiction, in the five years leading up to her disappearance. To wit: Lisa was convicted of breaking and entering in Summit County, Ohio Common Pleas Court on or about August 30, 1995 and received 1-year suspended jail sentence and 3 years of probation; she was also ordered to make restitution, continue treatment with Summa Health Center, submit to random urinalysis/testing, abstain from alcohol and illegal substances, seek and obtain full-time employment, and have no contact with her Co-Defendant, Larry E. Porter of Cleveland, Ohio. In or around September of that year, Lisa was convicted of passing bad checks in Stow (Ohio) Municipal Court and was ordered to pay restitution and further sentenced to 6 months to 1 year of probation.
Lisa was convicted of drug possession in Cuyahoga County, Ohio Common Pleas Court on or about May 13, 1998 and was sentenced to 4 additional years of community control but, for reasons unknown, stopped reporting to her probation officer by October 7, 1999 and a capias warrant was issued for her arrest on or about February 18, 2000. Two weeks before the capias warrant was issued, Lisa was charged with first degree child endangerment on or about February 4, 2000 and she pled not guilty plea to that charge when she was arraigned in Ashtabula County Common Pleas Co
... keep reading on reddit ➡Your 14-minute Monday report in 3427 words.
##Armenia's lawyer discusses the recent ruling by World Court
Yeghishe Kirakosyan: the ruling was a victory for Armenia. It confirms the existence of hate speech coming from Azeri state officials and institutes towards ethnic Armenians. The court has obliged Azerbaijan to take measures to prevent it. This Armenophobic hate speech can create an environment of physical danger for Armenian individuals. [cough couch secession for salvation couch]
The next important part was about the protection of Armenian cultural heritage. The court required Azerbaijan to fulfill its obligations under the convention on racial discrimination. Azerbaijan must prevent and punish instances of vandalism against Armenian churches, cemeteries, monuments, etc.
These are all requirements. The court informs about its ruling to the UN Security Council, which has the authority to oversee and ensure the implementation of the requirements. //
##... this was just the beginning
Armenian lawyers are preparing for the second stage of the World Court lawsuit, which will take a year. "[It will] be more detailed and clear from the legal point of view of Armenia's claims and allegations, backed by a solid evidence base," said lawyer Kirakosyan.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1070607.html https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1070626.html http://arka.am/en/news/politics/armenian_lawyers_preparing_for_second_stage_of_lawsuit_against_azerbaijan_at_icj/
##European Court for Human Rights has ordered Azerbaijan to pay €30,000 to Badalyan for moral damage
Arthur Badalyan got lost and found himself in captivity in 2009. His whereabouts were unknown for over a year.
Lawyer & LHK chief Edmon Manukyan: Azerbaijan did not appeal the ruling so this goes into effect.
The ruling was read on July 22. Azerbaijan failed to provide convincing evidence that the mental health issues, which Arthur Badalyan developed immediately after being released, were not a result of the living conditions during the captivity in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan violated the convention against torture and cruel treatment. //
More: https://factor.am/452718.html https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1058829.html
##Ruben Mehrabyan, a political analyst and member of pro-West "For the Republic" party:
Azerbaijan continues with the policy of border
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> Charter Communications has sued the local government in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, in order to stop a new ordinance that gives Google Fiber easier access to utility poles.
> Charter's complaint in US District Court in Louisville on Friday is similar to one filed earlier by AT&T. Like AT&T before it, Charter wants to stop Louisville Metro's One Touch Make Ready ordinance that lets new entrants like Google Fiber make all of the necessary wire adjustments on utility poles instead of having to wait for incumbent providers to send work crews to move their own wires.
> Charter is providing service under the terms of a franchise agreement with Louisville that expired in 2010 and says Louisville has refused to rewrite the deal to make it less burdensome.
> While One Touch Make Ready could bring Google Fiber to customers sooner, Charter argues that its own subscribers could lose service if Google Fiber installers mess up.
> Google Fiber doesn't have to provide advance notice before moving Charter's wires unless Google Fiber believes the work would likely cause a customer outage, Charter said.
> Charter asked the court to declare the One Touch Make Ready ordinance invalid and to force Louisville to treat Charter, AT&T, and Google Fiber the same in franchise requirements.
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