In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control – Heat Street

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Want to understand what is wrong with the American left these days? WatchChelsea Handler rant on her Netflix show.

The progessive comicslatest painfully unfunny monologue was a full four minute rant ripping into Ivanka Trump, the President and even her own father, while neglecting to make a single coherent political point.

Like so many othersleft-leaning mainstream media pundits, newscasters, celebrities and comediansHandler uses vile language, puerile toilet humor, crass incest innuendo and utter disrespect not only toward the President and his daughter, but toward her own family. Yet her edginess is more desperate than most celebrity Resistance liberals.

This type of insulting language by progressives is so strikingly common nowadays that it no longer has any shock value. Once you strip away the facile attempt to be cool, edgy or hip by using insults and four-letter words all youre actually left with is an angry woman being crass, crude and downright disgusting.

Lets not pretend thatsneering diatribes by Handler and her ilk are anything new.Progressivism has dominated the media and driven popular culture ever since the 1960s.But the abuse has increased in its shrillness and shocking tone since Donald Trump became President.

What may have begun as questioning the status quo and the establishment has now descended into an all-out assault on civility, decency and morality. Anyone with a conservative viewpoint is considered a deserving target of the Lefts attack dogs.

Liberal celebrities now vent fury with smug, self-righteous glee on national TV, on newer venues like Netflix and Amazon, and in the old print media. In place of sophisticated political satire or any attempt at arguing ideas in an informed manner, the cultural apparatchiks of the media/entertainment complex have instead adopted the put-down tactics of 14 year old bullies.

They use lame insults and f-bombs to both amuse their fan base and to shut down any attempt at rational debate.

Some examples:

When in 2008 Sandra Bernhard expressed hope that Sarah Palin was gang raped in NYC by my black brothers. The Washington Post called itthe lefts favorite wordedgy! Now such sentiments are increasing in number and frequency.

Its not as if these celebrity interventions are effective. Doomed Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff enjoyed support from Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, George Takei and, of course, Handler. He still lost the Georgia House race. Ossoff even pathetically confessed to MSNBC s Nicole Wallace: Celebrities across the country? Thats not what animates people in Georgia.

Furthermore, these guilt-ridden pop-cultural progressive influencers of Western culture obscure the fact that they are part of an obscenely wealthy elite by directing envy and class rage away from themselves and onto anyone seen as promoting conservative values or beliefs.

Those who are untouched by the average persons reality preach to their audience that walls are wrong, before driving home to their gated communities or guarded mansions. Yet they believe that crass comments and personal insults make them down with the people.

Perhaps theyre hoping that if there is a real revolution, the starving masses will burn down their Beverly Hills and Hamptons homes last!

I keep hoping their followers will grow up and see the light; that Handler and Colbert and the others will check their own moral compass, mislaid by all that vile abuse, before prioritizing helping the poor, fighting injustice and making the world a better place.

But it seems that sneering cruel sarcastic variants of President Obamas 2008 comment that midwest voters cling to guns or religion are now the default setting in the battle of ideas.

Im not sure how we as a society deal with this kind of visceral hatred. But with every Handler rant and every Colbert crudity another brick drops from the wall that holds the center together. When that wall collapses no amount of sneering opinion pieces, foul-mouthed rants or abusive put-downs will be able to fix things.

The final irony is that the mega-rich wanna-be revolutionaries of the cultural-media class love to preach the virtues of positive discrimination but they might soon find out societal chaos is an equal opportunity destroyer of peoples lives.

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How liberal minds closed on immigration, raising kids as authoritarians and other notable commentary – New York Post

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From the left: How Liberal Minds Closed on Immigration

The Atlantics Peter Beinart says liberals views on immigration were far more hardline just a decade ago. He points out that liberals publicly questioned immigration in ways that would shock many progressives today. A big reason for the change, according to Beinart, was political: Between 2008 and 2016, Democrats became more and more confident that the countrys growing Latino population gave the party an electoral edge. He also stresses the necessity of encouraging cohesion between immigrants and native-born citizens. Promoting assimilation need not mean expecting immigrants to abandon their culture. But it does mean breaking down the barriers that segregate them from the native-born. And it means celebrating Americas diversity less, and its unity more.

Paleocon: Raising a Generation of Authoritarians

According to The American Conservatives Pratik Chougule, Americas increasingly suffocating helicopter-parenting is teaching future generations the wrong lessons about American values. Whether or not an authoritarian scenario unfolds in the United States could depend on childrearing trends. Indeed, social scientists have long argued that the origins of authoritarian societies can be discerned in childhood pathologies, he writes. He points to last years election: Those who believe that is more important for children to be respectful rather than independent; obedient over self-reliant; well-behaved more than considerate; and well-mannered versus curious, were more than two and a half times as likely to support [Donald] Trump than those with the opposite preferences.

From the campaign trail: Lessons From Georgias Special

Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall admits that, for Democrats, Jon Ossoffs special-election loss in Georgia to Karen Handel is a big disappointment. But its not cause for a total rethinking of his partys electoral strategy. After all, it is one of a string of special elections in which Democrats have dramatically over-performed in Republican districts. And even though Dems didnt win any of those, if you apply the trend to the full House of Representatives, not just GOP safe seats, it suggests Democrats are quite likely to take the House next year. His takeaway: Even though Republicans have lost substantial ground and are operating in a tough environment theyve nevertheless been able to mobilize money and partisan affiliation to hold on in tight races. That cant be ignored. Its also very significant.

From the right: Putin Proves We Cant Abandon Syria

Russias threats in response to the downing of a Syrian aircraft shows why America cant leave, Paul Mirengoff writes at Power Line: Putin intends to help Assad and Iran dominate post-ISIS Syria. Mirengoff faults President Barack Obama for not standing up to previous Russian intimidation tactics. President Trump should not let Vladimir Putin tell him where the US can and cannot fly. He should not let Putin, on behalf of his friends in Iran, shut the US out of the end-game against ISIS and the post-ISIS jockeying for control. Even if Trump decides against a full-on ground invasion, he certainly should be willing to protect through air power the ground forces friendly to our interests.

Culture critic: Deafening Silence on Warmbiers Torture

Otto Warmbier, the American college student imprisoned and tortured by North Korea who died this week after being returned to his parents in a coma, was active in his campus Jewish community. Yet Jewish groups, the Anti-Defamation League chief among them, were all but silent on Warmbiers ordeal. Asks Tablets Liel Liebovitz: Why? Liebovitz points out that Warmbier had aroused not sympathy but angry attacks from the social-justice left: When the young college student was arrested last year, the regressive lefts flagships, from Salon to the blessedly defunct Nightly Show, gleefully mocked Warmbier, arguing that white privilege was the real reason for his predicament. Such bigotry is toxic to all Americans, but its particularly hazardous to Jews, whose suffering is too often explained away these days as an acceptable byproduct of excessive power and influence. All of which makes Jewish groups silence on Warmbiers murder shameful. Compiled by Brendan Clarey & Seth Mandel

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Liberal mosque in Berlin draws criticism – Deutsche Welle

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Sunnis, Shiites, Alevis, members of the LGTBQ community - all are welcome at the Friday prayer service at the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in Berlin. The organization, which holds its services inside the St. Johannis Church in the area of Moabit, has sparked criticism since a DW report on its founder, women's rights activist Seyran Ates, who established the institution despite fierce resistance.

Reports about the liberal mosque found their way into several newspapers in the Muslim world. The pro-government Turkish newspaper Sabah called it "absurd" that services took place inside a church. Another newspaper, Yeniakit, labeled Ates a Kurdish supporter of the controversial cleric Fethullah Gulen. And Daily Pakistan criticized the fact that women took part in prayer services unveiled.

'No conception of religion'

Men and uncovered women praying together, and presided over by a female imam on top of it? For some in the Muslim world, that's simply going too far. "They're creating a new religion, that's not Islamic," commented one DW user. "These people are not following the religion of our prophet. They have no conception of the religion. What idiocy," commented another.

DW Arabic's report garnered more than 1.7 million clicks by Monday afternoon.

"Our article drew quite an impassioned response," said Tarek Anegay, who works in DW Arabic's social media department.

Many users were outraged by what they saw as a contradiction of Islamic doctrine.

DW Arabic expected such reactions. "When it comes to anything that concerns the traditional, conservative code of Islam, people tend to act very sensitively and suspiciously," said Anegay.

A Western conspiracy

A key debate raging within the Muslim community concerns the lack of equality between men and women, along with the appropriateness of women not covering their heads during prayer. The concept of a female imam remains a special taboo, Anegay said. Many Muslims look at such attempts to liberalize their religion and see a conspiracy concocted by the West against Islam.

"The high number of Muslims frightens Europe, and for that reason the Europeans are attempting to market a new form of Islam that conforms to life in Europe," wrote Manhal al-Ahmad on DW's Arabic Facebook page. "I believe that they won't achieve their goal. In the end they will give up and eventually come to understand that this fight against this religion was wrong."

The impression still exists in Muslim countries that the West wants to impose its lifestyle on the Muslim world, according to Rainer Sollich, head of DW Arabic's online department. "Those who oppose all reformist ideas within Islam are also taking advantage of this agenda," he said. "It's a very populist agenda. It works, because many people in the Muslim world are jumping on it and many genuinely feel that way."

Emotional discussion

The tone of the commentary is at its core very emotional and aggressive, said social media editor Anegay. Editors often have to intervene, even having to remove verbal abuse, threats and defamation. "We counted more than 15,000 comments, but we had to delete a lot of them," Anegay said.

Seyran Ates is the woman behind the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque

In Rainer Sollich's view, many in the Muslim world in general don't take into consideration reforms or any critical examination of their faith. But there is a growing realization of the changes that are needed. "Today may seem strange to us, but perhaps it won't be so unusual in a few years," one user commented. "A Christian woman in the West is allowed to be a pastor. Why do people not have the right to be what they want to be?" another said.

Egypt's highest Islamic authority responds

On Monday, Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah, the Egyptian government body that weighs in on religious or legal matters that divide Muslim believers, responded to the controversy, as reported by Egyptian news outlet Al-Shabab. "In prayer, gender segregation cannot be lifted," the office declared. The proximity between men and women in the mosque is not allowed, as it clearly violates Sharia, or Islamic law, according to the office.

"Such controversies are part of our reporting," said Anegay. "We understand that many Arab users aren't going to like them. But everyone has the right to interpret their faith the way they see fit, as long as they take into account the rights and dignity of other people. The people saw the report and felt attacked, but they didn't take the time to question themselves." Anegay thinks back to a famous line from an Islamic philosopher: The road to faith goes through questions.

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Ricky Gervais Strikes Again: Liberal Elite Are ‘Not the Enemy’ – NewsBusters (press release) (blog)

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Globe editorial: Liberal improvements to access to information are less than advertised – The Globe and Mail

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Cynicism toward politicians doesnt grow in a vacuum.

Flip-flopping on commitments, hedging on ethical questions, doing one thing while packaging it as its opposite each chips away at the edifice of public trust.

Openness and accountability help, and thats why credit is due to the Trudeau government for unveiling at last the first major overhaul of federal access-to-information law in 34 years.

Credit has been earned but so has criticism. This legislation is one more case where Liberal government actions have not lived up to Liberal campaign promises.

Canadians were promised radical government transparency, but this is not that. Instead, its a facsimile of bold action, one preserving opacity where it best serves an incumbent government.

There is a substantial gulf between the information a given government is prepared to reveal and all the information to which the public should be entitled. Despite lofty claims of pledges fulfilled, this bill does not bridge it.

Take, for example, the Liberal election promise to amend the Access to Information Act so that it applies to the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers. Has it been lived up to?

This week, Treasury Board President Scott Brison tried to claim it had, saying we are extending the Access to Information Act to ministers offices and to the Prime Ministers Office for the first time ever, through proactive disclosure.

That briskly elides the fact that, beyond expenses, mandate letters and certain contracts and briefing materials, much of the information housed in the PMO and ministers offices will remain outside the access-to-information ambit.

Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault has called ministers offices a black hole for access. After this legislation passes, it will still be. Perhaps that shouldnt come as a surprise.

This is a government, after all, that last week refused to reveal what top staffers in Mr. Trudeaus PMO earn all that is known is that the salary scale ranges from $150,000 to $350,000.

More egregiously, the new act omits all mention of a key recommendation from Ms. Legault, open-government advocates and a Parliamentary committee, all of whom have called for a public-interest override provision in granting exceptions to disclosure.

It also contains unnecessarily muddy language about bad faith requests and allows departments and agencies to deny them; this has all the trappings of a loophole.

That said, the bill has many positive aspects.

It confers broader powers to the Information Commissioner, including the ability to compel the release of information without time-consuming and costly recourse to the federal courts, which has become a familiar tactic.

There are also provisions requiring MPs to be more forthcoming about their expenses.

Mr. Brison indicated the proposed changes announced this week are a first step; that further reforms could follow as part of the legislative reviews that must take place every five years.

Heres the problem: Mr. Trudeaus government is well into its second year and has had ample time to hear the experts out. In fact, it need only read Ms. Legaults last two annual reports for a road-map of what to fix and how to fix it.

Her most recent report, tabled on June 8, is a chronicle of obfuscation, bureaucratic chicanery and defensive litigation.

The public has the right to know, or so goes the saying; but many of those who run the federal police, army, prisons and diplomatic apparatus apparently didnt get the memo.

In 2015-16, fewer than 20 per cent of access requests were dealt with within 30 days, and in cases where they were granted, the information requested was rarely released in full. For requests to the RCMP, full disclosure happened in fewer than 10 per cent of cases.

Ms. Legault noted an increase in the volume of requests and warned decisive action is needed to guard against going down a slippery slope of declining performance.

The report recommends extending coverage of the act, establishing a duty to document, slashing delays, narrowing exemptions, and beefing up oversight.

Yes, the new legislation is an improvement on the status quo. But it is also a disappointment.

Lest anyone forget, Mr. Trudeaus first private-members bill as leader of the then-opposition Liberals was the 2014 Transparency Act.

It did not pass, but served to contrast Mr. Trudeau with the congenitally secretive Harper Conservatives.

Three years later, his government is showing itself to be different, yet not so different.

Politicians who make a practice of over-promising on the campaign trail and under-delivering in power do so at their peril.

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Air Force leaders continue to emphasize air and space priorities on Capitol Hill – Air Force Link

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein briefed congressional leaders on the Senates Defense Appropriations Committee on the future of air and space power during testimony on Capitol Hill June 21.

The leaders highlighted that efforts to restore readiness and increase the lethality of the force were foremost in their minds. Wilson said any objective evaluation of todays Air Force reached two conclusions: The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of it and adversaries are modernizing and innovating faster putting Americans technological advantage at risk.

"The fiscal year 2017 budget began to arrest the decline, and restore the readiness of the force, so this fiscal 2018 budget starts us, I hope, on the road to recovery, she said. Air Force in Demand

Looking forward, Wilson and Goldfein do not envision the demand for air and space power diminishing in the coming decade.

Today, the Air Force is manned with 660,000 active, Guard, Reserve and civilian Airmen, a 30 percent decline since Operation Desert Storm 26 years ago.

"If I'd been talking to the Air Force in 1991, I'd [have] been looking at an Air Force of over 8,600 aircraft, 134 fighter squadrons from which we deployed 34, Goldfein said. Today, the grand total of your United States Air Force, active, Guard, Reserve, is 55 squadrons total. This is a much smaller force that's engaged in the same level of activity as we were in 1991."

The Air Force leaders said while the fiscal 2018 budget request focuses on restoring readiness and increasing lethality, future budgets must focus on modernization and continued readiness recovery.

Restoring readiness

The two testified that maintaining superiority starts with people.

"For Airmen, it's nothing short of a moral obligation to ensure that we establish air superiority quickly whenever and wherever it's required," Goldfein said.

The fiscal 2018 budget will bring the active duty force from 321,000 to 325,100 while also adding 800 Reservists, 600 Guardsmen, and 3,000 civilians, bringing the total force to approximately 669,000. The increased manpower will focus primarily on increasing remotely piloted aircraft crews, maintainers and pilot training capacity by adding two additional F-16 training squadrons and maximizing flying hours to the highest executable levels.

Wilson said next to people, the most obvious readiness need is munitions. In the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Air Force has delivered approximately 56,000 direct-attack munitions, more than it used in all of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The fiscal 2018 budget funds maximum factory production of the most critical munitions. Modernization

The fiscal 2018 budget focuses on the Air Forces top three modernization programs:

Purchasing 46 F-35A Lightning II fighters and modernizing other fighters; Buying 15 KC-46 Pegasus tankers; Funding the B-21 Raider bomber development

The proposed budget also supports the continuation and modernization of the nuclear triad with funds dedicated to both air- and ground-based capabilities.

Our nuclear enterprise is getting old and we must begin modernizing now to ensure a credible deterrent, Wilson said.

"Standing side-by-side with the United States Navy, we're responsible for two of the three legs of the nuclear triad, Goldfein said. "On our worst day as a nation, our job is to make sure that we have the commander in chief where he needs to be, when he needs to be there, and through nuclear command and control - which we're responsible for - that he stays connected to a ready force to be able to defend this nation and deter adversaries as we also assure our partners."

Space

The Air Force has been the leading military service responsible since 1954. Over the last several years, the service has been developing concepts for space control, changing the way it trains its space force and integrating space operations into the joint fight.

"This budget proposal has a 20 percent increase for space, that means situational awareness -- the ability to not just catalog what's up there, which we would do in a benign environment, but to have a near-real-time understanding of what is going on in space, who is moving and where they're moving to," said Wilson.

The proposed budget increases space funding, including a 27 percent increase in research, development, testing and evaluation for space systems, and a 12 percent increase for space procurement.

On June 16, 2017, Wilson announced the establishment of the new headquarters space directorate. This directorate will be led by the deputy chief of staff for space operations, who will be the advocate for space operations and requirements to meet the demands of a warfighting domain.

"Weve provided GPS for the world. Weve transformed not only the way we fight but the way all of you probably navigate around the city, Wilson added. We must expect that war, of any kind, will extend into space in any future conflict, and we have to change the way we think and prepare for that eventuality.

Innovation for the future

Research, development, testing and evaluation are critically important for the Air Force, Wilson and Goldfein said.

To prevail against rapidly innovating adversaries, the Air Force must accelerate procurement. The service will take advantage of authorities provided in the fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization Act to help field operational capabilities faster than ever before, Wilson said.

The request for funding for long-term research in air dominance increased significantly in the fiscal 2018 budget. The Air Force will seek to increase basic and applied research in areas where it must maintain the competitive advantage over adversaries. This includes hypersonic vehicles, directed-energy, unmanned and autonomous systems and nanotechnology.

Budget stability

Its going to take approximately eight years to be able to get to full spectrum readiness with stable budgets, Goldfein said. The Air Force will be unable to execute the defense strategic guidance under sequester.

If the Budget Control Act limit is not fixed and we have to go through sequester, that will be equivalent to a $15 billion cut, Wilson said. The Air Force is too small for what the nation expects of us now; sequestration would make the situation worse, she said.

According to Wilson and Goldfein, by supporting the budget request, Congress can provide fiscal predictability to the Air Force so it can continue to own the high ground, defend the homeland and project power in conjunction with allies.

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Report: House Panel May Delay Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution as Republicans Eye Higher Defense Spending – ExecutiveGov

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The House Budget Committee may delay the release of its fiscal 2018 budget proposal until the last week of June or after the July 4threcess as Republicans seek to boost defense spending above the White Houses proposed $54 billion increase in defense funds, The Hill reported Monday.

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma), a member of the House Budget Committee, said he forecasts that the budget resolution will be higher than the administrations budget request.

The Trump administration proposed to cut nondefense discretionary spending by $54 billion in order to fund increases to the defense budget for fiscal 2018.

House Freedom Caucus members consider supporting increases to the defense budget by another $37 billion and higher nondefense spending levels without proposing additional budget reductions elsewhere.

Conservatives are willing to entertain the idea of voting for higher spending levels on discretionary spending if we can get the right kind of reconciliation instructions, said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a member of the Freedom Caucus.

The Hill reported such reconciliation instructions would call for congressional panels to attain certain budget cuts.

House Republicans are expected to negotiate a strategy for the budget resolution on its upcoming meeting Wednesday, the report added.

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NJ State Council on the Arts To Hold Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Meeting On July 25 – New Jersey Stage

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(TRENTON, NJ) --The New Jersey State Council on the Arts will convene its Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Meeting onTuesday, July 25thin the New Jersey State Museum Auditorium from 10:00am to 12:00pm. The meeting will include the election of Council officers and voting on the grants for Fiscal Year 2018. All are invited to attend a reception in the Museum's Riverview Court Gallery immediately following the conclusion of the meeting. Special thanks to the New Jersey State Museum for generously co-hosting the reception. The meeting and reception are free and open to the public.

Those unable to attend the meeting may call the Council office at(609) 292-6130after1:30 PMonJuly 25thto learn the results of the meeting. All grant awards will be posted on the Council's website,www.artscouncil.nj.govby3:00pm.

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts is committed to making all of its programs available to all people. For accessibility services please call(609) 984-7023(NJ Relay711) or emailDonald.Ehman@sos.nj.govtwo weeks prior to the event.

The New Jersey State Museum Auditorium is located at 205 West State Street in Trenton, New Jersey.

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, created in 1966, is a division of the NJ Department of State. The Council was established to encourage and foster public interest in the arts; enlarge public and private resources devoted to the arts; promote freedom of expression in the arts; and facilitate the inclusion of art in every public building in New Jersey. The Council receives direct appropriations from the State of New Jersey through a dedicated, renewable Hotel/Motel Occupancy fee, as well as competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. To learn more about the Council, please visitwww.artscouncil.nj.gov.

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Pivot Points in Focus: Sealand Natural Resources Inc (SLNR) – Nelson Research

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One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous days trading intersect. On the following day, trades above the pivot point indicate an ongoing bullish trend, while any trading below the pivot point means a bearish trend. Pivot point analysis can be used alongside finding support and resistance levels, like trend line analysis. In pivot point analysis, the first support and resistance levels are found by using the width of the trading space between the pivot point and either the high or low prices of the previous trading day. Secondary support and resistance levels are found using the full space between the high and low prices of the previous trading day.Pivot points are oft-used indicators for trading futures, commodities, and stocks. They are static, remaining at the same price level throughout the day. Five pivot point levels are generated by using data from the previous days trading range.

These are composed of a pivot point and two higher pivot point resistances called R1 and R2 and also two lower pivot point supports called as S1 and S2. Sealand Natural Resources Inc (SLNR)s Pivot Point is 0.3. Its 1st Resistance Point is 0.3 and its 2nd Resistance Point is 0.3. The 1st Support Point is 0.3 while its 2nd Support Point is 0.3.

Barchart Opinions show investors what a variety of popular trading systems are suggesting. These Opinions take up to 2 years worth of historical data and runs the prices through thirteen technical indicators. After each calculation, a buy, sell or hold value for each study is assigned, depending on where the price is in reference to the interpretation of the study. Todays opinion, the overall signal based on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of all 13 studies, for Sealand Natural Resources Inc (SLNR) is 8% Buy.

Sealand Natural Resources Inc (SLNR)s Raw Stochastic, which shows (on a range of 0%-100%) where the price closed in relation to its price range over the last nine days is 0.00%. Their Stochastic %K, which indicates (on a range of 0%-100%) where the price closed in relation to its price range over the last nine days with a 3-period exponential moving average applied is 26.67%. Finally, their Stochastic %D, the indicator that shows (on a range of 0%-100%) where the price closed in relation to its price range over the last nine days with a 3-period exponential moving average applied, is 26.67%.

Known also as statistical volatility, Historical Volatility is the realized volatility of a financial instrument over a specified period of time. The measure is calculated by finding the average deviation from the average price of a commodity during a specified time period.

Standard deviation is the most common, though not only, way to calculate historical volatility. Sealand Natural Resources Inc (SLNR)s 9-Day Historical Volatility is 625.77%, its 14-Day Historical Volatility is 632.78%, and looking back further, its 20-Day Historical Volatility is 662.51%.

Sealand Natural Resources Inc (SLNR)s TrendSpotter Opinion, the signal from Trendspotter, a Barchart trend analysis system that uses wave theory, market momentum & volatility in an attempt to find a general trend, is Hold.

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Red Utopia: help fund a new art book documenting communist iconography across the globe – The Calvert Journal

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Red Utopia is an art book in the making, documenting communist parties and their iconography over the past 100 years in India, Italy, Nepal, Portugal and Russia. The project is currently gathering funds on Kickstarter and will be jointly published by Nazraeli Press and Ipso Facto.

Jan Banning, the photographer and artist behind the work, describes Red Utopia as a non-propagandistic search for what is left of communism, 100 years after the Russian Revolution.The book will contain photos of communist party office interiors as well as environmental portraits of officials and activists, and is plannedfor publication in October 2017, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

Elisabeth Biondi, the independent curator and former Visuals Editor at The New Yorker, described the photo series as terrific and even better than Bureaucratics, Bannings critically acclaimed photo book that brought him worldwide recognition.

To find out more about the project and how to get involved, click here to visit the crowdfunding page.

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"The House on Coco Road" Remembers A Short-Lived Afrocentric Utopia – Willamette Week

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When American filmmaker Damani Baker talks about the power of meeting his "first black president," he isn't talking about Obama. He means Maurice Bishop, who led a bloodless coup on the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and, for a hot minute in the early '80s, worked to turn it into an Afrocentric socialist paradise.

In The House on Coco Road, Baker sets out to recall his brief and largely idyllic experience on the island. In 1983, Baker's mom Fannie Haughton abruptly uprooted her young family from Oakland to seek a better life in Bishop's vision for a new society. But the documentary ends up painting a far broader picture of the woman who brought them there and her role in the history of black activism.

Home movies reveal Baker's family's ongoing quest for a sunnier futurefrom segregated Louisiana, where his great-grandparents were sharecroppers, to California in the Great Migration, to college campuses for his mom's political awakening and then to his boyhood home of Oakland, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party that gave way to the crack epidemic.

Through this lens, we start to understand his mom's seemingly wild plan to move their family to a tropical island in the wake of a revolution. "To live in a country where there is a black prime minister and black folks taking care of their own. I thought, what a good experience for my children," Haughton tells her son, still smiling as she thinks back on that year. "It was a utopia."

The utopia was short-lived. Bishop was deposed by his right-hand man. Reagan then sent in troops to take down what he claimed was "a Soviet Cuban colony being readied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy."

Baker says this is a lie, and his film places the episode in the larger narrative of black oppression at the hands of white America.

Still, it's a remarkably hopeful film. Baker's intimate family portrait makes a compelling case that, even in the darkest times, moms and dads should still strive toward a brighter future where their kids can play carefree in the sun. RUTH BROWN.

SEE IT: The House at Coco Road screens at Clinton St. Theater on Thursday, June 22 at 7:30 pm. $7-$10 suggested admission.

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My trip to the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills turned out to be an ego trip.

That happens when youre one of the co-designers of Erin Hills and your ugly mug is flashed, even briefly, on television. Along with my fellow designers, Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, I made the most of every opportunity. We became bona fide celebrities de jure, albeit undercard division, filling airtime in that dull Sunday through Wednesday lead-up to the main event.

It was enough exposure that people in the gallery would walk up and ask for our autographs. I signed so many hats (and flags!) that, by Tuesday, I made sure I had my trusty Sharpie in my pocket as I headed to the course. Forgot my sunglasses one morning, but not my Sharpie.

One guy asked me to sign the back of his flag, so as not to soil Jordan Speiths signature. Another asked me to pose for a selfie, which I did, and then shook my hand, saying, Terrific course, Dr. Hurdzan.

Like any good Kardashian, I had my entourage. My wife Lynn and I had rented a five-bedroom house on the edge of North Lake, 15 minutes from Erin Hills, and our five daughters, three sons-in-law and five grandsons all joined us, as did a niece and her husband from Omaha. The USGA had provided me with tickets for all, some Hospitality, some Gallery, so I had to play Scrooge on a couple of mornings, picking who deserved air conditioning that day. On Thursday I played Solomon, allowing one daughter to have breakfast in the Rules Hospitality tent before surreptitiously switching tickets with another daughter so she could also sample the buffet line.

The author, in the back with a purple shirt, with his extended family during an eventful U.S. Open week at the course he helped design.

My family played its part, particularly at the Monday afternoon USGA Architects Forum, in which Mike, Dana and I pontificated for an hour on the virtues of Erin Hills, each of us

proving that weve yet to grasp the sound-bite mentality that is essential to todays media. Had Adam Barr not let the Whitten Clan into the media tent to watch the event (and cool off), I suspect it would have lacked a quorum.

But enough about my family. This column is about me, budding narcissist.

Mike, Dana and I made two appearances on Golf Channel, one Monday evening, the other early Wednesday morning. The first time, we climbed the Golf Channel tower to the Live From set, incredibly cramped for such a rickety structure, and as a make-up artist dusted our noses, we watched Rich Lerner, Brandel Chamblee and Frank Nobilo discuss whether U.S. Open courses should now measure 8,000 yards. At the end of the segment, the first of the nightly rainstorms rolled in and a crack of lightning struck uncomfortably nearby.

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Talent off the set, the director shouted. Down to the rain room. Chamblee and Nobilo shed their microphones and were hustled downstairs. I expected to follow, but instead, microphones were put on Mike, Dana and me, and we took chairs at the desk, the open air backdrop of a storm rolling in behind us. I looked at Lerner, still at his seat, and thought, Isnt he talent, too? But, pro that he is, he stayed to conduct a quick interview with the three expendables. Anchors, I presume, are grounded.

I returned to the tower early Wednesday morning and found it empty. So I sat on the steps, thinking that sooner or later the Morning Drive crew would show up. A writer walked by, said hello, and asked why I wasnt with Mike and Dana on the practice range, where they were talking with Matt Ginella. So I ran to the practice range, found I had plenty of time to get miked up, but they stuck me on the side of a slope of the tee box next to Dana. Hes about my height but looked half a foot taller than me in the shot. Seeing my profile on a rebroadcast that evening, I looked like Danny Devito as The Penguin.

The rest of the week, I strutted around the gallery each day, awaiting recognition. One morning, a small scrum behind the eighth green caught my eye, so I investigated. It was Bob Lang, the original owner of Erin Hills, signing hats with his signature and tag line, Golf is a Journey. He saw me and motioned me over.

We proceeded to entertain a dozen spectators with a five-minute comedy routine, me mostly the butt of his jokes. But I got in one good jab.

Back in twenty-oh-three, Ron gave me a copy of his book, Bob told our modest audience, and Ron inscribed it, Someday Ill write a book about Erin Hills, and Ill call it, Golf is a Journey. You remember that, Whitten? Isnt that right?

Yes, I responded, and you stole my line.

That got a big enough laugh that a marshall shushed us up.

On Sunday, the plan was for Mike, Dana and me to walk down the 18th hole with the U.S. Open champion, whomever that might be. But I wanted to walk the entire course first. I selected the twosome of Patrick Reed and Russell Henley, both four strokes back of leader Brian Harman at the start of the fourth round, and three groups ahead.

Id been given a lime green lanyard which got me inside the ropes, and the unwritten rule is that such a lanyard is tethered to those perimeter ropes. But I wanted to walk down the middle of every fairway on my golf course that Open Sunday, despite not having a lime green Walking Access badge. Figuring its better to seek forgiveness than permission, I simply slipped under the rope after Reed and Henley teed off, and I strolled out into the middle of the first fairway, following them at a respectable distance, acting like I belonged there.

No one questioned my presence, so I followed the group for the next four hours, soaking up the grandeur, pretending the polite applause was for me. I did contribute a bit on the 12th. After Henley smothered his second shot, from the first cut of rough, into deep fescue, he and his caddie headed far too far into the gunch in search of it, so I trotted over to where Id seen the ball go in, pushed back the thigh-high grass and said, Heres your ball.

Dont touch it! the caddie shouted, and I took that as a thank-you.

Henley salvaged a bogey at 12, but then bogeyed the par-3 13th, four-putted the 14th and took a horrendous 8 on the short par-4 15th, a score that undoubtedly contributed to making 15 the hardest hole that last day. Reed, meanwhile, played steady golf, playing magnificent recoveries every time he missed a green, but he failed to sink a single birdie putt in my presence. Sorry, Patrick.

At the 15th, I spotted Hurdzan, so I left the Reed-Henley pairing. Mike and I quickly surmised that Brooks Koepka was likely to win this thing, and after we watched him birdie 15, we decided to follow him home. When Koepka then birdied the par-3 16th, we knew it was all over.

On the 18th, Koepka hit a towering 3-wood tee shot, followed by another to the slope below the green of this massive par 5. As Mike and I walked a short distance behind him, I kept looking for Dana, but never found him. Perhaps he was still with Harman, hoping for a miracle.

As Mike and I proudly marched shoulder to shoulder down the 18th of Erin Hills, sure enough, an official in a lime green shirt approached us. Off the fairway, he said. You dont have Walking Access.

Its the last hole, Mike said. Were the architects. Cut us some slack. The official did.

A lot has been made of the fact that, during my many interviews leading up to the U.S. Open, I repeatedly predicted that, if the wind didnt blow, the winner would shoot 16-under par. People were amazed that Id hit Koepkas score on the nose. I dont understand why. To steal a line from Paul Simon: As if I didnt know my own bed?

Once every 25 years I turn into Carnak. Back in 1992, when the U.S. Open was played at Pebble Beach (the last par 72 Open until Erin Hills), I bet longtime Golf Digest editor-in-chief Nick Seitz that Tom Kite, who hadnt even qualified for the Masters that year, would win it. Kite did, and I won a whole ten bucks.

I won another ten bucks this year, this time from golf architect Stephen Kay, with whom I designed my first course, Architects Golf Club in New Jersey. Stephen and I have a running wager on every major, alternately making 12 picks in advance of each event. Yes, among my dozen picks this year was Brooks Koepka. Surprised?

As if Id never noticed the way he brushed his hair from his forehead.

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Porter Equipment to distribute Terex Trucks Generation 10 ADTs in New Zealand and Australia

TO gain a stronger foothold in Australia and New Zealand, Terex Trucks have partnered with New Zealand-based dealers Porter Group for the distribution of the Motherwell-based firms Generation 10 TA400 and TA300 articulated dumptrucks.

With new headquarters in Hamilton, Porter Group are expanding their operations with an enlarged fleet of machines to maintain their position as the largest dealer of rental and sales equipment for construction and associated industries in New Zealand.

The deal, which will allow Terex Trucks to strengthen their footprint in the Oceania region, will focus on Porter Groups sales arm, Porter Equipment.

Porter Equipment are delighted to represent Terex Trucks across Australia and New Zealand as we share their commitment to the brands success in the region, said Darren Ralph, general manager for sales and marketing at Porter Group.

Porter Equipment and Terex Trucks represent a formidable partnership in the supply and distribution of articulated dumptrucks. Terex Trucks have a strong pedigree in the design and manufacture of robust haulers, and Porter Equipment provide a distribution network in Oceania that dates back more than 70 years.

Today, Porter Group have almost 40 branches in Oceania and distribute a range of ADTs, excavators, wheel loaders, rock crushers, screens, conveyors, stackers, stockpilers and other equipment to a variety of industries, including construction, quarrying, recycling, landfill and road building.

In addition to equipment sales and rental, Porter Group have subsidiary divisions for the supply of spare parts, servicing and repairs, transport, haulage, crane and access equipment hire, and financing options, as well as bases in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the US.

Terex Trucks are excited to be part of this new journey of growth by partnering with Porter Group to serve the Australia and New Zealand markets, said Clement Cheong, sales and marketing director for the APAC region at Terex Trucks.

Porter Groups latest facility investment for their new headquarters in New Zealand is testament to the confidence they have in their business. The company is showing its customers that it has a commitment to continue providing the highest level of sales, parts, service, rental and financing solutions to the industry.

With their extensive network of more than 35 branches in these countries, and their excellent reputation in the market for providing a total solution, we are confident that Porter Group will bring the same success story to Terex Trucks.

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Island Twisters Guam gymnastics coach Monique Williams-Duenas added to her coaching resum with a three-day camp with theInternational Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Coaching Camp and Immersion Tour in Australia, according to a press release.

The Oceania training, which had nine countries represented at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, is a huge step towards raising the level of competition for the island's gymnasts. Through the camp, Williams-Duenas got the benefit of tapping into the different training modalities and methodologies from the region's top coaches.

The 15 coaches traveled to Melbourne to take part in an immersion tour, visiting gymnastics clubs in the area and participating in coaching workshops.Williams-Duenas also was able to see Australias Senior International gymnasts compete at National Championships in Melbourne.

Williams-Duenas' immersion experience included shadow coaching at Waverley Gymnastics Centre, which is the home of Australias Rio Olympic Games athlete Larissa Miller.

I have years' worth of strategy and progressions to try," Williams-Duenas said. She added she cant wait to share her experience with other Guam coaches and incorporate the drills and exercises in her gymnasts' training.

The camp was facilitated by lead presenter Dr. Hardy Fink of Canada, who is director of Education and Academy Programs for the FIG and former FIG Technical Committee Chair, and has also been a FIG judge for more than 45 years.

This opportunity was funded by FIG with coaches staying in residence at the AIS. The AIS is renowned for producing world, Olympic and Paralympic champions by combining high performance expertise with world-class facilities and cutting-edge sports science/sports medicine services.

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Sights set on Fiji – Glen Innes Examiner

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Glen Innes pair to contest Oceania Area Championships.

INTERNATIONAL MEET: Mikielee Snow and Gracie Martin at last year's NSW Juniors Athletics Championships. The pair will represent Regional Australia at the Oceania Area Championships next week.

Young stars of the athletics track, Gracie Martin and Mikielee Snow, have stepped up their training in preparation for the Oceania Championships.

The Glen Innes pair were both selected for the Regional Australia team, alongside three of their Armidale Athletics Club teammates.

Martin withdrew from theMelanesian event in Fiji last year but is fit and firing to line up at the starting blocks.

She will take her place at the start of the 200 metre and 400 metre races.

My training is going very well, it has probably been the best lead up I have had to a competition in a while, she said.

My off season training started off with longer slower paced runs to help build my base fitness.

Now as it gets closer to competition, we are sharpening up with some shorter speed sessions.

Snow competed last year and finished with a pair of bronze medals from the 4x100m and the medley relay teams.

She also made the finals in her races last year, a feat which she hopes to repeat at the Oceania Championships.

While she is a year older in the under 18 age group, Snow is expecting to come up against even speedier runners at this years meet.

The competition is definitely going to be tougher this year as there are way more countries then last year, she said.

I have around 25 in both my 100m and 200m and most of these athletes are older then me.

I am expecting some high level competition at this meet and a great chance to see how my training has been going and where I am at.

I am hoping to achieve a new personal best in either the 100m or the 200m, or even both would be great.

I would also like to make it to the finals in both the 100m and 200m.

The girls daily schedules are packed in the lead up to the meet, fitting in schoolwork and training for an international competition.

This years preparation has been going very well. I have had no injurieswhich is great, Snow said.

I have been doing a lot of track sessions and also gym and core sessions as well.

I also have been doing a lot of mobility work over the months of preparation.

Snow said the Championships are a highlight on her athletics calendar and excited to be travelling alongside her clubmates.

I am looking forward to both the amazing experience to compete with athletes from different places and to be going over with my Armidale teammates and other athletes that I have become friends with over my athletics career, she said.

The athletes will make their way to Fiji on Monday, before the opening ceremony on Wednesday and the girls start their eventson Thursday.

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Trouble in paradise as aromatherapist and her architect ex battle over Caribbean dream home – Telegraph.co.uk

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"Such decisions included repeatedly revising the architectural drawings, using imported goods and labour rather than using local supplies (and) using unnecessarily expensive materials," she adds in her defence to the claim.

She also accuses her Modernist ex of "adding unnecessary design features" and "purchasing unnecessary fittings and equipment".

The architect "caused further works to take place at the property, which included staff accommodation and a complex terrace structure" which were "neither agreed by Ms Alexander nor necessary parts of the development," she claims.

Her barrister, Dov Ohrenstein, states in her defence that Ms Alexander should not be held personally liable for any claim by her ex, as the ownership of the villa has now been transferred to a company which the former couple control.

Ms Alexander also argues that the High Court claim in the UK ought to be stayed, whilst arbitration proceedings relating to the dispute over the house - which are currently on foot in St Lucia - are concluded, "as there is substantial overlap between the subject matter of Mr Munkenbeck's proceedings and the arbitration."

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Charleston CariFest is an annual celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month and this years featured country is Haiti, presented by South Carolina Caribbean Culture and Heritage Inc. The festival will honor Haitis Carnival, a major cultural event with music, dance, colorful costumes and more. All of the bases will be covered this weekend with activities for young, old and everyone in-between. Thursday will kick everything off with a symposium and opening reception. Keynote speaker Dr. Charlene Desir will introduce the history of Haiti with The Fighting Spirit of Our Ancestors.

The big festival events are on Saturday, beginning with a parade from the Charleston Museum at Meeting and John streets downtown, traveling down to King, Sumter, Hagood and Fishburne streets, ending at the Carnival Village at Brittlebank Park. This extravaganza will feature Caribbean food, costumes, games, vendors, a kiddie zone and dancing, with live music from reggae, soca (calypso), dancehall artists and more, as well as a performance from the Haitian Childrens Choir. An after-party will keep things going at Reggae Grill in North Charleston. Sundays All White Day Fete at Island Breeze on James Island will bring the celebration to a close.

WHEN: Symposium & Opening Reception: 6-9 p.m. Thursday, June 22; Parade: 4 p.m. Saturday, June 24; Carnival Village: 5-11 p.m. Saturday, June 24; All White Day Fete: Noon-5 p.m. Sunday, June 25

WHERE: Symposium & Opening Reception: College of Charleston School of Professional Studies, 3800 Paramount Drive, North Charleston; Parade: Charleston Museum to Brittlebank Park, downtown Charleston; Carnival Village, Brittlebank Park, 185 Lockwood Drive, downtown Charleston; After-Party (Saturday): Reggae Grill, 4226 Rivers Ave., North Charleston; All White Day Fete: Island Breeze, 2225 Mosquito Beach Road (off Sol Legare), James Island

PRICE: Free admission for opening reception and parade; Carnival Village: $10 general, free for ages under 12 years; After-Party: $10 general, $5 with carnival wrist-band; All White Day Fete: $10 general

MORE INFO: 843-557-6258, http://www.charlestoncarifest.com

Reach Liz Foster at 843-937-5581 and follow her on Twitter @TheDizzyLizzieB

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PHOTO: Dive boats docked at Club Med Columbus Isle, Bahamas. (photo by Eric Bowman)

Want to get away?

Why not a visit to some of the best beaches in the Caribbean?

Bahamas Ministry of Tourism details five reasons why you will fall in the love with these islands and want to visit time and time again.

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Private Beaches

If peace and quiet are what you seek for your vacation, the Bahamas has you covered. Per a Bahamas blogger, The Bahamas boasts of 700 islands and cays and 16 of them are easily accessible destinations. On every island, youre bound to find a beach with no one in sight for miles.

Swim with Animals

Go scuba diving and explore the depths of the ocean and tons of marine life. Maybe youll see a shark!

If youd prefer dolphins over sharks, make your way to Bimini for free dolphin swims. And no trip to the Bahamas is complete without a visit to Exuma for the swimming pigs.

READ MORE Hook Barracuda and More on a Fishing Tour in The Bahamas

Surf

Yes, there is quality surfing in the Bahamas. While the Caribbean isnt the first place you think of when it comes to surfing, there are still locations in the Bahamas that provide surfing waves. Head to Eleutheras east coast anytime from October to April for the best waves, and dont forget to check into the awesome Surfers Manor Hotel.

Explore

In addition to gardens and reserves around the islands, Bahamas Ministry of Tourism recommends you explore the East End of Grand Bahama. Float on easy and beautiful waters on this kayak tour where you will see all kinds of marine life and flora and fauna.

Wine

Whether you love wine or not, you have to check out the Graycliff Restaurant. Per a Bahamas blogger, it is an over 200-year-old colonial mansion in Nassau that has the largest underground wine cellar in the Western Hemisphere.

A fascinating historical place as well as a romantic destination, should you book a private candlelight dinner that is.

For more information on Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, check out their blog here.

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