#georgetown (2011)

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Raúl Esparza and Joe Mazzello in Georgetown (2011)

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GO 209 Hauls through CN Credit. Georgetown, ON May 4, 2011

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Steny Hoyer

Physique: Average Build Height: 6'

Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939) is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981. He also served as House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A Democrat, he was first elected in a special election on May 19, 1981, and is currently serving in his 22th term. From 2003 to 2023, Hoyer has been the second ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Nancy Pelosi.

Born in New York City but grew up in Mitchellville, Maryland, Hoyer graduated from Suitland High School in Suitland, Maryland. In 1963, Hoyer received his B.A. degree magna cum laude and graduated Omicron Delta Kappa from the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1966.

Lets see father of three, grandfather, great-grandfather and has been a widower since 97 after the death of his first wife, Judy Pickett Hoyer. A widower for 26 years, Hoyer married Elaine Kamarck in June 2023. I like to image Steny just smashing throughout those 26 years. And maybe, just maybe, he gave THE DICK a try. Yeah it might be delusional, though it can't hurt to try.

[aengusnatureking]

Raúl Esparza in the unaired pilot of Georgetown, 2011.

Many thanks to the goddess @adrianna-m-scovill for allowing me to take screens.

[nicklloydnow]

“Voting is widely thought to be one of the most important things a person can do. But the reasons people give for why they vote (and why everyone else should too) are flawed, unconvincing, and sometimes even dangerous. The case for voting relies on factual errors, misunderstandings about the duties of citizenship, and overinflated perceptions of self-worth. There are some good reasons for some people to vote some of the time. But there are a lot more bad reasons to vote, and the bad ones are more popular.

(…)

In all of American history, a single vote has never determined the outcome of a presidential election. And there are precious few examples of any other elections decided by a single vote. A 2001 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by economists Casey Mulligan and Charles Hunter looked at 56,613 contested congressional and state legislative races dating back to 1898. Of the 40,000 state legislative elections they examined, encompassing about 1 billion votes cast, only seven were decided by a single vote (two were tied). A 1910 Buffalo contest was the lone single-vote victory in a century's worth of congressional races. In four of the 10 ultra-close campaigns flagged in the paper, further research by the authors turned up evidence that subsequent recounts unearthed margins larger than the official record initially suggested.

The numbers just get more ridiculous from there. In a 2012 Economic Inquiry article, Columbia University political scientist Andrew Gelman, statistician Nate Silver, and University of California, Berkeley, economist Aaron Edlin use poll results from the 2008 election cycle to calculate that the chance of a randomly selected vote determining the outcome of a presidential election is about one in 60 million. In a couple of key states, the chance that a random vote will be decisive creeps closer to one in 10 million, which drags voters into the dubious company of people gunning for the Mega-Lotto jackpot. The authors optimistically suggest that even with those terrible odds, you may still choose to vote because "the payoff is the chance to change national policy and improve (one hopes) the lives of hundreds of millions, compared to the alternative if the other candidate were to win." But how big does that payoff have to be to make voting worthwhile?

(…)

In their seminal 1993 book Decision and Democracy: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge University Press), University of Virginia philosopher and reason Contributing Editor Loren Lomasky and his co-author, Geoffrey Brennan, offer an alternative theory of what drives voters. But first they offer a methodology for calculating the value of a vote. On their account, the expected utility of a vote is a function of the probability that the vote will be decisive, delivering gains (to the individual or society as a whole) if the preferred candidate wins. The probability of casting the decisive vote decreases slowly as the size of the voting pool gets larger, but it drops dramatically when polls show that one candidate has even a slight lead. Which means that in a presidential election, where the number of voters is about 120 million and one candidate is usually polling a point or two ahead on Election Day, you're screwed.

In his brilliant 2011 book The Ethics of Voting (Princeton University Press), on which I have relied heavily for this article, Georgetown University philosopher Jason Brennan (no relation to Geoffrey Brennan) applied the Lomasky/Brennan method to a hypothetical scenario in which the victory of one candidate would produce additional GDP growth of 0.25 percent in one year. Assuming a very close election where that candidate is leading in the polls only slightly and a random voter has a 50.5 percent chance of casting a ballot for her, the expected value of a vote for that candidate is $4.77 x 10 to the ?2,650th power. That's 2,648 orders of magnitude less than a penny.

(…)

Those figures reflect 2006 GDP figures and 2004 voting totals, but it almost doesn't matter what batch of reasonable numbers you plug into the equation. Say you think victory is worth 10 or 100 or 1,000 times more than the roughly $33 billion that 0.25 percent of GDP amounts to. Say the polls show a gap of two percentage points between the candidates. In any plausible scenario, the expected utility of your vote still amounts to approximately bupkes. A vote for a third-party candidate pushes the figure into even more infinitesimal territory.

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In October 2000, Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw penned a column for Fortune called "Why Some People Shouldn't Vote." During his years-long stint as a columnist for the magazine, this was the only article the editors refused to run. The column, which he published on his personal blog years later, suggests that "the next time a friend of yours tells you he's not voting, don't try to change his mind."

Mankiw's argument draws on a 1996 article by economists Timothy Feddersen of Northwestern University and Wolfgang Pesendorfer of Princeton University that cites the phenomenon of "roll off"—people who make it all the way inside the polyester curtains on Election Day and then leave some blanks on their ballots—to illustrate the point that people who believe themselves ill-informed routinely choose not to vote, thereby increasing the quality of voters who actually pull the lever for one side or the other. There is some additional evidence for this claim: Education is one of the two best predictors of voter turnout (the other is age). Better-educated people are much more likely to vote, which suggests that the pool of voters is better informed and more qualified to make election-related judgments than the pool of nonvoters.

"A classic argument for why democracies need widespread public education is that education makes people better voters," Mankiw writes. "If this is true, then the less educated should show up at the polls less often. They are rationally delegating the decision to their better educated neighbors."

What Mankiw doesn't go on to say, perhaps because he fears insulting his readers, is that people aren't particularly good at knowing whether or not they are well-informed. Many people who follow politics closely hold views that are dangerous and wrong (see George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan's October 2007 reason cover story "The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters"). Even if everyone who had the slightest suspicion that he was not knowledgeable enough to vote stayed home on Election Day, millions of people would still be casting ill-informed votes.

(…)

Encouraging more ignorant people to vote is not just pointless, argues Jason Brennan; it's morally wrong. There is no duty to vote, but many people may have a duty not to vote. Boosting turnout among citizens who are young, uneducated, or otherwise less likely to be engaged—the primary targets of get-out-the-vote campaigns—is likely to have the unintended consequence of encouraging people to fail in that duty.

To explain why we might worry about casting an uninformed vote even when no particular vote is likely to be decisive, Brennan conjures this terrifying thought experiment: Imagine you come across a firing squad about to kill an innocent child. Assume all the bullets will strike at the same time and that there's nothing you can do to stop them. You are invited to be the 101st member of the squad. What do you say? Brennan posits a framework to deal with this kind of hypothetical, the "clean hands principle," which states that "one should not participate in collectively harmful activities when the cost of refraining from such activities is low."

None of this is to suggest that the government should test voters or use some other legal means to limit voting. Instead, this is a private moral concern for each voter. If you believe your vote is likely to be ill-informed or that a particular race is likely to yield an unfair, unjust, or otherwise bad outcome, you should refrain from participating in a collectively harmful activity, thus keeping your hands clean. Get-out-the-vote campaigns promote precisely the kind of morally condemnable ignorant voting we should be discouraging.

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In his 1851 book Social Statics, the English radical Herbert Spencer neatly describes the rhetorical jujitsu surrounding voting, consent, and complaint, then demolishes the argument. Say a man votes and his candidate wins. The voter is then "understood to have assented" to the acts of his representative. But what if he voted for the other guy? Well, then, the argument goes, "by taking part in such an election, he tacitly agreed to abide by the decision of the majority." And what if he abstained? "Why then he cannot justly complain…seeing that he made no protest." Spencer tidily sums up: "Curiously enough, it seems that he gave his consent in whatever way he acted—whether he said yes, whether he said no, or whether he remained neuter! A rather awkward doctrine this." Indeed.

(…)

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. Maybe people vote not because of what voting can accomplish, but because they like to vote. They like the message that voting sends about who they are (e.g., the kind of person who cares about poverty, or fiscal responsibility, or what his neighbors think).

Many people like to be perceived as altruists, for example. Voting is one of the cheapest forms of altruism. If you (rightly) believe that the expected material payoff of your vote is near zero, then it's easy enough to vote in a way that maximizes your halo rather than your bottom line. "Voting sociotropically," Jason Brennan writes, "is cheaper and easier than volunteering at a soup kitchen or giving money to Oxfam."

A 2009 survey of 569 professors conducted by philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of California at Riverside and Josh Rust of Stetson University reinforces this view: 88 percent said they considered voting in public elections to be morally good. In fact, when asked to rank different acts, the professors reported that they considered voting to be on par with regularly donating blood and giving 10 percent of one's income to charity.

Loren Lomasky and Geoffrey Brennan theorize that voting is best understood as an expressive act. Communicating preferences at the ballot box is something people do for its own sake, not a duty they perform or a selfish bid for material gain.

(…)

Bryan Caplan takes the idea a step further. Perhaps, he suggests, voting is more like cheering while watching the same game from your recliner in a darkened living room. If you really try, you can still tell an (ultimately unsatisfying) story about why your actions matter in the rest of the world. After all, your viewership of the game might show up in the television ratings, which boosts the team's advertising revenue. Of course, you're probably not a Nielsen household, so you may not show up at all in the metrics that the team's owners can see. Which leaves solitary game watchers right there with the voters: The main payoff is that you can show up at work the next day and say you did it.

So what's wrong with that? Individual cases of expressive voting in large elections are just as unlikely to affect the outcome of the election as other kinds of voting. But the fact of widespread expressive voting explains why elections are silly season. Politicians offer themselves up as opportunities for expressive voting, as aggregations of easily comprehensible slogans rather than as avatars of sensible policy. Ignorant expressive voters, even rationally ignorant ones, may be committing immoral acts, as Jason Brennan argues.

All of which is a pretty steep price for an "I Voted" sticker.”

“The choice in the elections is between corporate and oligarchic power. Corporate power needs stability and a technocratic government. Oligarchic power thrives on chaos and, as Steve Bannon says, the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” Neither are democratic. They have each bought up the political class, the academy and the press. Both are forms of exploitation that impoverish and disempower the public. Both funnel money upwards into the hands of the billionaire class. Both dismantle regulations, destroy labor unions, gut government services in the name of austerity, privatize every aspect of American society, from utilities to schools, perpetuate permanent wars, including the genocide in Gaza, and neuter a media that should, if it was not controlled by corporations and the rich, investigate their pillage and corruption. Both forms of capitalism disembowel the country, but they do it with different tools and have different goals.

Kamala Harris, anointed by the richest Democratic Party donors without receiving a single primary vote, is the face of corporate power. Donald Trump is the buffoonish mascot for the oligarchs. This is the split within the ruling class. It is a civil war within capitalism played out on the political stage. The public is little more than a prop in an election where neither party will advance their interests or protect their rights.

George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison in their book “Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism,” refer to corporate power as “housebroken capitalism.” Housebroken capitalists need consistent government policies and fixed trade agreements because they have made investments that take time, sometimes years, to mature. Manufacturing and agriculture industries are examples of “housebroken capitalism.”

(…)

Monbiot and Hutchison refer to oligarchic power as “warlord capitalism.” Warlord capitalism seeks the total eradication of all impediments to the accumulation of profits including regulations, laws and taxes. It makes its money by charging rent, by erecting toll booths to every service we need to survive and collecting exorbitant fees.

The political champions of warlord capitalism are the demagogues of the far right, including Trump, Boris Johnson, Giorgia Meloni, Narendra Modi, Victor Orban and Marine Le Pen. They sow dissension by peddling absurdities, such as the great replacement theory, and dismantling structures that provide stability, such as the European Union. This creates uncertainty, fear and insecurity. Those that orchestrate this insecurity promise, if we surrender even more rights and civil liberties, that they will save us from phantom enemies, such as immigrants, Muslims and other demonized groups.

The epicenters of warlord capitalism are private equity firms. Private equity firms such as Apollo, Blackstone, the Carlyle Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, buy up and plunder businesses. They pile on debt. They refuse to reinvest. They slash staff. They willfully drive companies into bankruptcy. The object is not to sustain businesses but to harvest them for assets, to make short-term profit. Those who run these firms, such as Leon Black, Henry Kravis, Stephen Schwarzman and David Rubenstein, have amassed personal fortunes in the billions of dollars.

(…)

The wreckage private equity firms and the oligarchs orchestrate, is taken out on workers who are forced into a gig economy and who have seen stable salaries and benefits eradicated. It is taken out on pension funds that are depleted because of usurious fees, or are abolished. It is taken out on our health and safety. Residents of nursing homes, for example, owned by private equity firms, experience 10 percent more deaths — not to mention higher fees — because of staffing shortages and reduced compliance with standards of care.

Private equity firms are an invasive species. They are also ubiquitous. They have acquired educational institutions, utility companies, and retail chains, while bleeding taxpayers hundreds of billions in subsidies which are made possible by bought-and-paid-for prosecutors, politicians, and regulators. What is particularly galling is that many of the industries seized by private equity firms — water, sanitation, electrical grids, hospitals — were paid for out of public funds. They cannibalize the nation, leaving behind shuttered and bankrupt industries.

(…)

The housebroken capitalists are represented by politicians such as Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron. But “housebroken capitalism” is no less destructive. It pushed through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the greatest betrayal of the American working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, which placed crippling restrictions on union organizing. It revoked the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall) which separated commercial banking from investment banking. Tearing down the firewall between commercial and investment banks led to the global financial meltdown in 2007 and 2008, including the collapse of nearly 500 banks. It pushed through the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine by the Federal Communications Commission under Ronald Reagan as well as the Telecommunications Act under Bill Clinton’s presidency, allowing a handful of corporations to consolidate control of media outlets. It destroyed the old welfare system, 70 percent of the recipients of whom were children. It doubled our prison population and militarized the police. In the process of moving manufacturing to countries such as Mexico, Bangladesh and China, where workers toil in sweatshops, 30 million Americans were subjected to mass layoffs according to figures compiled by the Labor Institute. Meanwhile, it piled up massive deficits — the federal budget deficit rose to $1.8 trillion in 2024, with total national debt approaching $36 trillion — and neglected our basic infrastructure, including electrical grids, roads, bridges and public transportation, while spending more on our military than all the other major powers on Earth combined.

These two forms of capitalism are species of totalitarian capitalism, or what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism.” In each form of capitalism, democratic rights are abolished. The public is under constant surveillance. Labor unions are dismantled or defanged. The media serves the powerful and dissident voices are silenced or criminalized. Everything is commoditized from the natural world to our relationships. Grassroots and popular movements are outlawed. The ecocide continues. Politics is burlesque.

(…)

The Weimarization of the American working class is by design. It is about creating a world of masters and serfs, of empowered oligarchic and corporate elites and a disempowered public. And it is not only our wealth that is taken from us. It is our liberty. The so-called self-regulating market, as the economist Karl Polanyi writes in “The Great Transformation,” always ends with mafia capitalism and a mafia political system. A system of self-regulation, Polanyi warns, leads to “the demolition of society.”

If you vote for Harris or Trump — I have no intention of voting for any candidate who sustains the genocide in Gaza — you are voting for one form of rapacious capitalism over another. All the other issues, from gun rights to abortion, are tangential and used to distract the public from the civil war within capitalism. The tiny circle of power these two forms of capitalism embody, exclude the public. These are elite clubs, clubs where wealthy members inhabit each side of the divide, or at times go back and forth, but are impenetrable to outsiders.

The irony is that the unchecked greed of the corporatists, the housebroken capitalists, created a small number of billionaires who became their nemesis, the warlord capitalists. If the pillage is not halted, if we do not restore through popular movements control over the economy and the political system, then warlord capitalism will triumph. The warlord capitalists will cement into place neo-feudalism, while the public is distracted and divided by the antics of killer clowns like Trump.

I see nothing on the horizon to avoid this fate.

Trump, for now, is the figurehead of warlord capitalism. But he did not create it, does not control it and can easily be replaced. Harris, whose nonsensical ramblings can make Biden look focused and coherent, is the vacuous, empty suit the technocrats adore.

Pick your poison. Destruction by corporate power or destruction by oligarchy. The end result is the same. That is what the two ruling parties offer in November. Nothing else.”

“Yet, 79 years after he killed himself in a Berlin bunker, more than one in 10 (11 percent) of Americans believe the barbaric German tyrant leader had some 'good ideas'.

A DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll found that more than one in five (21 percent) of both Gen Z and black voters and 19 percent of Hispanic voters agreed with the statement.

The survey asked 1,000 likely voters whether they think Hitler had some 'good ideas' or if he was 'evil and had no redeeming features.'

77 percent said he was 'evil', 12 said they were 'unsure' and a surprising 11 percent believe he had some redeeming qualities.

When broken down by age group, 21 percent of those under the age of 29 said Hitler had good ideas, compared with 16 percent of those between the ages of 30 and 49, seven percent for voters between 50 and 64 and just five percent for those over 65.

Fourteen percent of Donald Trump supporters said Hitler had some positive aspects, compared to nine percent of Kamala Harris.

'If you need an example of the corrosive impact that social media can have on younger Americans' view of the world, this is it,' James Johnson, founder of J.L. Partners, told DailyMail.com of the startling results.

(…)

Earlier this month, TikTok was forced to remove AI-generated and translated videos of Hitler's speeches that had racked up more than one million views.

(…)

A Pew Research poll (https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-about-the-holocaust/) in 2020 found that while half of U.S. adults knew what the Holocaust was and when it happened, but less than 50 percent could answer how many Jews were killed and when Hitler came to power.

In December, a DailyMail.com found that one in five young Americans had a positive view of 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden.

The alarming survey also found three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who slaughtered thousands of innocent people were a ‘force for good'.

(…)

Another DailyMail.com poll from October 2023 found one in 10 voters under the age of 30 had a positive view of Hamas, despite the group's murderous attack on Israel that killed more than 1,300 men, women and children.”

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Dr. Judith Roumani

La Dra. Judith Roumani es Directora del Instituto Judío de Pitigliano (Italia) y becaria de la Fundación Sosland. Obtuvo su doctorado en Literatura Comparada en la Universidad de Rutgers, Nueva Brunswick, Nueva Jersey. Habla inglés nativamente y tiene habilidades lingüísticas en francés, hebreo, italiano, ladino, portugués y español. Ha impartido conferencias sobre literatura sefardí en varias instituciones académicas, incluida la Reunión Anual de la Asociación de Lenguas Modernas (Boston) en enero de 2013 y el Centro para la Civilización Judía de la Universidad de Georgetown (Washington, DC) en 2011. Es fundadora y editora de la revista académica trimestral Horizontes Sefardíes. Durante su residencia en el Centro de Estudios Avanzados sobre el Holocausto, trabajó en su proyecto titulado "El Holocausto en la literatura sefardí: respuestas en prosa". Su investigación de beca se centró en las colecciones del Museo del Holocausto de literatura sefardí tanto publicada como inédita escrita durante y después del Holocausto, así como en las colecciones archivísticas del Museo sobre el trasfondo histórico de los sefardíes en el Holocausto. Dr. Roumani intentó arrojar luz sobre la destrucción de los sefardíes durante el Holocausto, un tema que ha sido ampliamente descuidado por la historia. Estuvo en residencia en el Centro Mandel desde el 1 de diciembre de 2013 hasta el 29 de febrero de 2014.

[jordanianroyals]

King Abdullah II of Jordan Marks 62nd Birthday

Jordan celebrates today, 30 January 2024, the 62nd birthday of King Abdullah II, the eldest son of the late King Hussein and Princess Muna. He was born in Amman on January 30, 1962. He ascended to the throne on February 7, 1999.

King Abdullah received his primary education at the Islamic Educational College in Amman and then attended St. Edmund's School in Surrey, England. For his secondary education, he went to Deerfield Academy and Eaglebrook School in the United States.

He enrolled at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy in the United Kingdom in 1980 and received his commission as a second lieutenant in 1981. King Abdullah joined the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army in 1982, rising through the ranks to lead the Royal Jordanian Special Forces and Special Operations.

In 1987, King Abdullah graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC, with a Master's Degree in Foreign Service and completed an advanced research and study program in international affairs.

After returning to active military duty in 1989, he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1994 and appointed commander of the Royal Jordanian Special Forces and Special Operations.

King Abdullah married Queen Rania on June 10, 1993. They have four children: Crown Prince Hussein, Princess Iman, Princess Salma, and Prince Hashem.

On this significant occasion, His Majesty continues to lead the nation with unwavering effort, dedication, and resolve, driving a comprehensive renaissance for Jordan and its youth as the country moves into its second centennial.

The King is committed to a comprehensive modernization of the state's political, economic, and administrative structures to secure a prosperous future for Jordan and its people.

His Majesty actively engages with the nation's youth, men, and women, and dignitaries, personally inspecting living conditions across the kingdom and inaugurating numerous projects across all sectors.

King Abdullah II dedicates his efforts to maintaining Jordan as a beacon of development in a challenging region. This includes significant investments in human capital, combating terrorism and extremism, and tirelessly working to foster peace in the Middle East.

Despite Jordan's limited resources, King Abdullah II has kept the nation's doors open to millions of refugees, continuing the Hashemite tradition of hospitality to those in need.

His Majesty has been honored with several prestigious awards for his contributions to peace, interfaith harmony, and the protection of Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem under Hashemite Custodianship. These honors include the Peace of Westphalia Prize, the Templeton Prize in the United States, Italy's Lamp of Peace of St. Francis, and the Scholar-Statesman Award from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

King Abdullah II is also the author of "Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril" (2011), outlining Jordan’s vision for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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Ines & Isla: Timeline

@waterfallswords

1993-1999: United States (Washington D.C.)

Isla (Born December 1993):

Ines (Born September 1999):

1999-2002: England (London)

Isla (Age 5-8)

Ines (Age 0-3)

2002-2005: Japan (Tokyo)

Isla (Age 8-11)

Ines (Age 3-6)

2005-2007: Mexico (Mexico City)

Isla (Age 11-13)

Ines (Age 6-8)

2007-2010: Brazil (Brasilia)

Isla (Age 13-16)

Ines (Age 8-11)

2010-2013: France (Paris)

Isla (Age 16-18)

Ines (Age 11-14)

Isla returns to the U.S. in 2011 for her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University, spending summers in Paris.

2013-2014: United States (Washington D.C.)

Isla (Age 18-19): Freshman year at Georgetown University.

Ines (Age 14-15): Spends a year in Washington D.C.

2014-2016: Russia (Moscow)

Isla (Age 19-21): Sophomore and Junior years at Georgetown, with visits to Russia.

Ines (Age 15-17)

2016-2018: China (Beijing)

Isla (Age 21-23): Senior year at Georgetown and first year of her Master's at Oxford.

Ines (Age 17-19): Returns to the U.S. in 2017 to start her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University, spending summers in Beijing.

2018-2023: United States (Washington D.C.)

Isla (Age 23-29): Finishes her Master's at Oxford, then moves back to Washington D.C where she begins her career within politics.

Ines (Age 19-23): Sophomore and Senior year at Georgetown University.

New York as of November 2023, following their parents deaths in the September.

[heavenboy09]

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Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City on March 10, 1984. She grew up in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., while spending summers at Ardmore in Ireland. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 2002. She derived her professional surname from Irish author Oscar Wilde, and began using it in high school to honor the writers in her family, many of whom used pen names. She was accepted to Bard College, but deferred her enrollment three times to pursue acting. She then studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. For a short time, Wilde's family also had a house in Guilford, Vermont.

known professionally as Olivia Wilde, is an American actress, director and producer. She played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House (2007–2012), and has appeared in the films Tron: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), and The Lazarus Effect (2015). She made her Broadway debut in 2017 as Julia in 1984.

Her first film as a director, the teen comedy Booksmart (2019), received critical acclaim and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Her second directed feature, the thriller Don't Worry Darling, was released in 2022.

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'Download Rare Documents, Manuscripts, Books & Newspapers on the history of Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey & the Ottoman Empire' - Palestine Nexus

Source: This link leads to the 'Sources' page within the 'Palestine Nexus'. The page itself contains brief information of a variety of written documents from Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. There are links within the page that lead to a google drive containing the mentioned documents. Some of the links contain the uploader's notes on the document. All of them appear to be compiled and uploaded by Zachary J. Foster, a historian and graduate from the University of Michigan (B.A., Sociology and Political Science, 2007), Georgetown University (M.A., Arab Studies, 2011), and Princeton University (Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies, 2017) Additional information: The Palestine Nexus is a website dedicated to providing information about Palestine. It links to their newsletter and podcast, 'Palestine, in your Inbox', the aforementioned 'Sources' page with the google drive documents along with a 'Maps' page that include historical maps on the middle east, and their online courses on Palestine and Israel. It is run by Zachary J Foster, Stephanie Alexandra (coordinator and music producer), and Alexandria Shaw (video editor).

You can find the 600+ documents here. Help preserve Palestinian history

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Carl E. Landwehr: Pioneer in Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Computing

Carl E. Landwehr is a distinguished American computer scientist specializing in cybersecurity and trustworthy computing. His extensive research has significantly advanced the identification of software vulnerabilities, the development of high-assurance software, and the creation of architectures for intrusion-tolerant and multilevel security systems.

Early Life and Education

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Landwehr pursued his undergraduate studies at Yale University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. He furthered his education at the University of Michigan, obtaining both Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science. During his tenure at Michigan, he contributed to the Merit Network, the longest-running regional computer network in the United States.

Professional Career

Landwehr's career encompasses significant roles in government, academia, and research institutions:

Naval Research Laboratory (1982–1999): As a supervisory computer scientist, he conducted pioneering research in computer security, focusing on formal models for computer security and the development of secure systems.

Mitretek Systems (1999–2003): Serving as a Senior Fellow, he continued his work in cybersecurity, contributing to the advancement of secure computing practices.

National Science Foundation (2001–2004, 2009–2011): Landwehr developed and led cybersecurity research programs, shaping the direction of national research initiatives in the field.

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (2005–2009): As a Division Chief, he oversaw research programs aimed at enhancing national security through advanced computing technologies.

In academia, Landwehr has held teaching and research positions at institutions including Purdue University, Georgetown University, Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland, and George Washington University. Notably, he served as a lead research scientist at the Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute at George Washington University.

Contributions and Achievements

Landwehr's work has been instrumental in organizing and advancing the field of formal models for computer security. His influential taxonomy for security flaws has been widely recognized, and he has been a proponent of developing "building codes" for software used in critical infrastructures, particularly in the domains of medical devices and power systems.

His contributions have been acknowledged through numerous awards:

National Cyber Security Hall of Fame Inductee (2012): Recognized for his pioneering work in cybersecurity. Wikipedia

IEEE Fellow (2013): Honored for his contributions to the field of computer security.

ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award (2013): Awarded for his significant impact on the field of computer and communications security.

NSF Director's Award for Meritorious Service (2012): In recognition of his exceptional service in advancing national research initiatives.

Editorial and Advisory Roles

Landwehr has served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine and as an associate editor for several IEEE journals. He has participated in studies for the National Academy of Sciences and was a member of DARPA's Information Science and Technology Study Group, contributing to the strategic direction of research in information security.

Recent Endeavors

In recent years, Landwehr has continued to influence the field through consulting and advisory roles, assisting in the development and management of research programs in the science of security. He has been an advocate for establishing industry standards, such as "building codes," for the construction of software with significant security requirements, organizing workshops and promoting best practices in software security.

Carl E. Landwehr's extensive body of work continues to shape the fields of cybersecurity and trustworthy computing, bridging the gap between academic research and practical applications in securing information systems.

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GO 211 With Cabcar 218 arrive into Georgetown. September 22, 2011

[mydaddywiki]

Chris Dodd

Physique: Average Build Height: 5′9½″ (1.77 m)

Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944-) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. The the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history, Dodd served as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 2007 until his retirement from politics. In 2006, Dodd ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but eventually withdrew after running behind several competitors. Dodd then served as chairman and chief lobbyist for MPAA from 2011 to 2017. In 2018, Dodd returned to the practice of law, joining the firm Arnold & Porter.

The handsome, silver-haired Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. He served in the Peace Corps for two years prior to entering the University of Louisville School of Law, and during law school concurrently served in the United States Army Reserve before running for office.

Twice married, first in 1970 to 1982. Afterwards, he dated at different times Bianca Jagger and Carrie Fisher, among others. Wait.. he banged Princess Leia? Respect. Apparently, he was Ted Kennedy's wingman too. Now you know Dodd must have been in some pussy along side Kennedy. Eventually in 1999, Dodd settled down, marrying for the second time and the couple has two daughters.

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President-elect Donald Trump has proposed crypto advocate Teresa Goody Guillén as the next chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with her appointment expected before Thanksgiving. Guillén, a Georgetown graduate, previously served at the SEC’s Office of the General Counsel (2009-2011) under Mary Schapiro and handled enforcement cases with former SEC Chair Harvey Pitt.

On social media, Guillén promised a brighter future for U.S. crypto and capital markets under Trump's leadership, quoting Abraham Lincoln to emphasize the government's duty to reflect public will. Analysts believe her appointment could foster collaboration between the SEC and the digital asset sector, spurring innovation, though concerns about her ties to crypto insiders persist.

Guillén would replace Gary Gensler, whose tenure faced criticism for regulatory overreach. Trump, a vocal crypto supporter, had vowed during his campaign to dismiss Gensler for his stringent stance on digital assets.

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Tasteful design, style, value and preferred amenities to ensure your experiences are comfortable.

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You’re On Your Own Kid

5th track

12th album

E is the 5th letter - Evermore is the 9th album (cats have 9 lives, Mimi was the character in gray that worked at the Kitty Kat club) 1959?

AUSTIN

The 512 area code is a North American telephone area code for Austin, Texas and its surrounding areas: 

Counties: Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Milam, and Williamson

Cities: Austin, San Marcos, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, and Georgetown 

Fearless Tour: 3/10/2010

Speak Now World Tour: 10/26/2011 During the concert at the Frank Erwin Center, Swift was joined onstage by Shawn Colvin to perform "Sunny Came Home

Red Tour: 5/21/2013 - surprise song was safe and sound -> this was the surprise song on show #65 N2 São Paulo N2 (the only time it has been played)

YOYOK was episode 10 10/7/2022 at 1 am.

“Lit through the darkness at 1:58”-Last Kiss (1958 is in Timeless, 158 = 14 + 9 = 23… “she’s still 23 inside her fantasy” -Right Where You Left Me

2 am in I Wish You Would, Enchanted, Breath, and The Way I Loved You

2:30 Mine

YOYOK has been played on (ap=acoustic piano) (apm=acoutsic piano mashup)

4/14/23 Tampa N2 AP

8/5/23 LA N3 AP

8/26/23 Mexico City N3 AP

2/10/24 Tokyo N4 AP

3/7/24 Singapore N4 APM

5/25/24 Lisbon N2 APM

6/2/24 Lyon N1 APM

6/28/24 Dublin N1 AGM.

6/30/24 Dublin N3 AP

8/19/24 London N7 APM

11/16/24 Toronto N3 APM

N# added = 33.

*only once on the guitar.

3 nights in Dublin, and this song was performed 2x. First and last night.

D is the 4th letter DD would be 44 which could = 8 or it could point to 1944 in Timeless

DD=dungeons and dragons

Blood soaked gown- Carrie? Released on 11/16/1976 Red Bank Films (date that YOYOK was played for the 11th time)

I waited ages to see you there - in the age of him she wished she were 30

Fireplace ashes- he built a fire to keep me warm

Its okay we’re the best of friends - I don’t want you like a best friend

Daisy May - 4 13 - N1 Tampa show #8 Speak Now and Treacherous were the surprise songs (surprise songs have 4 S’s in them. S is the 19th letter of the alphabet. 4/19 was the release of TTPD.) ->11/26/23 she said surprise songs would “reset” in 2024. imgonnagetyouback “Push the reset button, we’re becoming something new”

Is It Over Now? And OOTW have been mashed together 3x. And the additional song played with those 2 on those 2 nights the 1st letter of each song title = E MC… E=MC^2? Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.. (Ed teaches math, Taylor teaches English.)

I O…. Oi: a type of harsh, aggressive punk music, originally popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Oi: is also used to attract someone’s attention, in a rough or angry way.

I 9

O 16

169 is an area code for multiple countries Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Germany.

916 area code is located in California's Sacramento metropolitan area and includes parts of several counties:

Sacramento County: Includes Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Isleton, Rancho Cordova, and Sacramento

Placer County: Includes Lincoln, Loomis, Rocklin, and Roseville

Yolo County: Includes West Sacramento

El Dorado County: Part of the 916 area code

Solano County: Part of the 916 area code

Sutter County: Part of the 916 area code

Buenos Aires N2/3 11/11/23 #59 1st mash up

Is It Over now?

OOTW

End Game

Paris N2/4 5/10/24 #85 1st mash up repeated

Is It Over Now?

OOTW

MBOBHFT

*the 3rd song for both of the above nights, the 1st letter from each song title would = ME :)

London N4/4 6/23/24 #106

Us (TS in Pink Ombré dresswith Gracie Abrams in a gold dress on the piano using the black mic)

OOTW

Is It Over Now

Clean

BUT..

10/26/24 N2/3 NOLA #136

Espresso (TS in the Sunset Blush dress with Sabrina Carpenter using a blue mic, in a white dress)

Is It Over Now?

Please, Please, Please

Hits Different

Welcome to NY

*the 1st three letters of the 1st three songs is PIE backwards. Espresso is coffee… the golden girls liked cheesecake.

11/16/24 N3/6 Toronto #143

Us (TS in the Sunshine Blush dress Gracie Abrams using a black mic, in a white dress.)

OOTW

YOYOK

Long Story Short.

*The 1st letter from each 1st word = L YOU. It was show #143 143 means I love you.

Track 21 and track 4

214 area code for Dallas,…. Denton county “there’s nothing wrong with Ohio….come back to Texas.

Fearless Tour: 3/11/2010

4/2/23:

Fearless (14) Jump Then Fall - - - Fearless album 2 track 14. 214.

Is It Over Now (5th album track 21) 5x live (as of 11/17)

11/11/23

2/5/24

5/10/24

6/23/24

10/26/23

OOTW (album 5 track 4) 7x live (as of 11/17)

5/6/23

11/11/23

5/10/24

6/23/24

7/14/24

10/20/24

11/16/24

OOTW live performance history:

10/23/2014 Jimmy Kimmel (LA)

10/27/2014 Ellen (Burbank)

10/27/2014 1989 Secret Sessions iHeartRadio (NY)

10/30/2014 GMA (NY)

5/15/2015 Rock in Rio (Winchester)

6/27/2015 British Summer Time (London)

12/3/2015 Nova’s Red Room (a live music platform that takes place across Australia.)

2/15/2016 58th Grammys (LA)

2014- 4x

2015-3x

2016-1x

431 is the Canadian Providence of Manitoba (MAN?) including Winnipeg, Brandon, Thompson. -11/22/24 Pittsburgh Penguins vs Winnipeg Jets @ PPG Paints arena, this is the 2nd meeting of the two teams in 2024, the first being on 10/20/24 with the Pens at Winnipeg and lost 6-3. 10/20/24 Taylor played OOTW, AYHTDWS, Mirrorball, and GAS.

*** Lake of the Woods is a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. Lake of the Woods is over 70 miles (110 km) long and wide, containing more than 14,552 islands and 65,000 miles (105,000 km) of shoreline. It is fed by the Rainy River, Shoal Lake, Kakagi Lake and other smaller rivers. The lake drains into the Winnipeg River and then into Lake Winnipeg. Ultimately, its outflow goes north through the Nelson River to Hudson Bay.

Lake of the Woods is also the sixth largest freshwater lake located (at least partially) in the United States, after the five Great Lakes, and the 36th largest lake in the world by area. It separates a small land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States.

THE LAKES:

In heart-stopping waves of hurt- I can’t find a pulse, my heart won’t start anymore for you-> move to Florida, buy the car you want but it won’t start up til I touch, touch, touch, you (touch 3x. ) *completely unrelated I’m sure but I typed this last night. After I put my Bad Blood lipstick on MY CAR WONT START. Which is so the opposite of the Cruise song by Nelly and FGL.*

I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze - did you think I wouldn’t hear about the things you’ve called me lately.

Tell me what are my words worth

Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die - the lake in the woods?

I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you -is this a nod to Pat Benatar’s “We Belong”

Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry -am I allowed to cry?

I'm setting off, but not without my muse- my muses I’ve acquired like bruises

I want auroras and sad prose- I’ve searcher aurora borealis green

I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet- Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae). The genus includes four species of woody twining vines that are native to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, southern Canada, the Eastern United States, and north of Iran.

'Cause I haven't moved in years- she’s still 23 inside her fantasy

*bookends 1st and last listed live performance of OOTW is in LA

*10/27 is the only date listed above to have an Eras Tour on the same date- 10/27/2024 N3/3 NOLA bookends for the surprise songs were CA as in California? The songs on guitar were Afterglow (A) and Dress. On piano was How You Get The Girl and Clean (C)

*on 2/15/2016 “Thinking Out Loud” won song of the year, this was played as a surprise song during the Eras Tour on 8/15/24 N1/5 London R2. -> Shawn Mendes enters the chat.. he was on tour with TS during the 1989 World Tour. When they were in Arlington on 10/17/2015 he covered “Thinking Out Loud.” (He’s also from Canada) TS switched her set list this night, she did not play All You Had To Do Was Stay nor did she mash Enchanted with Wildest Dreams. And the surprise song was “Fifteen”. The set went from 18 songs to 17 this night.

“We were 17 and crazy, running wild, wild.” Starlight.

Is it over now? Are we done doing mean things to get each other’s attention? Are we out of the woods, can you love me in the light?

Arlington Speak Now

10/8/2011

B.o.B special guest performed “Airplanes”

Red Tour

5/25/2013

Our Song was the surprise song

1989

10/17/2015

* did not play All You Had To Do Was Stay nor did she mash Enchanted with Wildest Dreams. And the surprise song was “Fifteen”. The set went from 18 songs to 17 this night.

Rep Tour:

10/5/2018

Surprise Song “White Horse”

Special guest Marren Morris “ The Middle” - Marren Morris was a special guest on 6/3/23 the surprise songs played were You All Over Me and I Don’t Wanna Live Forever.

10/6/2018

Surprise song “All Too Well”

Special guest Sugarland “Babe”

*”Babe” played 1x on the ET 3/7/24 N4/6 Singapore show #81

**10/5 is a mirror of 5/10 which was show #85 and was the night of the 1st repeat mashup (which is where this whole thing started today…)

Arlington ET

3/31/23:

Red (12) Sad Beautiful Tragic

Speak Now (15) Ours

4/1/23:

Lover (10) DBATC

1989 (13) Clean

4/2/23:

Fearless (14) Jump Then Fall

Red (13) The Lucky One

The 1st surprise song of the 3 nights is track 12

The 3rd surprise song of the 3 nights is track 13

12/13 is her birthday in which she will be turning 35

1+2+1+3=7. 3+5=8. 78 mirrored is 87.