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High water pressure in your home is a dangerous condition that could lie in wait for years before something bursts. But when something bursts, it can cost hundreds of dollars to fix and cause thousands of dollars in damage! Imagine losing hardwood or laminate floors, carpeting, furniture, ceiling materials and more to water pouring out of a burst pipe. Compare those costs to a couple of hundred dollars for a new residential Pressure Reducing Valve.
What Are The Risks of High Water Pressure
Many appliance connections are connected with rubber or plastic hoses. Washing machines are often connected with rubber hoses, while ice makers are often connected with plastic hoses held in place by tiny clamps. It is easy to see how these hoses could either burst, or blow off from too much pressure.
Your water heater can be a good indicator of high water pressure. Each one has a pop-off valve that is designed to pop off and allow water and pressure to escape as a means to safeguard the water heater if the pressure inside gets too high. If you always have a puddle under your water heater, this may indicate high water pressure.
Even the pipes and joints are susceptible to high pressure, as joints can blow off and pipes can burst. Even with modern manufacturing techniques water pipes can leave the factory with pinholes in them. A tiny pinhole may never leak as long as the pressure inside remains in the normal range. But expose that pinhole to double and sometimes triple the water pressure the pipe was designed to hold, and it may very well fail. The damage done by a few minutes of running water in your home will be expensive. Let it happen while everyone is out for the day and the damage could be catastrophic!
Can My Water Pressure Be Tested
We would be happy to test your water pressure for you, but you can easily do it yourself! You can pick up a water pressure gauge from your local home center or hardware store. The one pictured below is inexpensive and easy to use.
The water pressure gauge shown above simply screws into an outdoor hose bibb. It's best to choose the hose bibb furthest from where the water service enters the building. Your water pressure will probably spike at night, so you should leave the gauge attached for at least 24 hours. The red needle will show the peak pressure. If it's higher than 80psi your water pressure is too high.
What Is A Pressure Reducing Valve
Because your water company has to pump water all over town, up hills, and up into above grade buildings, your water arrives under pressure. In most areas, this pressure is too high and must be reduced. It is not uncommon in our area to have water pressure above 160psi coming in from your meter. Modern plumbing systems, fixtures, and appliances are designed for a pressure range of 50-75psi, with anything over 80psi being too high.
A Pressure Reducing Valve, or PRV, does exactly as the name implies. It is installed on the incoming water line, usually right where the line enters the premises. It reduces the street pressure to a level safe for our use. Most PRVs are user settable from 50psi to 75psi so you can dial in the pressure you want. Most people want the most pressure available as showers feel better and bathtubs and washers fill up faster.
If your PRV is faulty it can allow your water to pass through unchecked, which results in high water pressure. If this is your problem the fix is simple. We can rebuild or replace the faulty unit and bring your water pressure back into normal range. If you do not have a PRV in your home or business we strongly recommend having one installed.
As with any plumbing issue, a Pressure Reducing Valve should only be installed by a qualified plumbing expert. We would love to be YOUR qualified expert! Let us handle any and all of your plumbing needs.


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- Why Calastone?
Campbell designed and architected the Calastone Transaction Network and also implemented a number of other product lines.
Campbell has been in the financial technology industry for over 30 years, developing and implementing back, middle and front office systems. The majority of this was in messaging technologies, and communications platforms, predominantly SWIFT and latterly FIX.
His previous achievements include the delivery of an order management system to connect to the majority of Asian exchanges for CLSA, mostly for the first time. Campbell has also developed connections for the back and middle office applications to SWIFT, and consulted on messaging for tier one investment banks.

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Relentlessly Testing Water Safety
Meet Dr. Andy Eaton, the Technical Director at Eurofins Lab. He's working on a nation-wide effort to test tap water to learn if there are trace amounts of substances that we don't yet include in the day-to-day testing all tap water must undergo.
While the U.S. has some of the safest tap water in the world, our ability to find trace amounts of chemicals and other elements in water has increased significantly. As a result, the U.S. EPA runs several rounds of testing every fews years to look for new trace elements that may potentially have an impact on our health. It's part of a proactive approach to ensuring that the water we drink and use everyday is safe.
SoCalTap: You are working on a national effort to test the safety of tap water for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. What is the UCMR 3 round of testing?
Dr. Eaton: About every 5 years the EPA tests our nation's water systems, looking for up to 30 contaminants that are not currently regulated. The tests are called "Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, or UCMR." UCMR3 is the 3rd round of that type of testing and occurs from 2013-2015. Our lab, Eurofins, is one of a handful of labs in the U.S. that is certified to test for trace amounts of these contaminants.
SCT: You are testing samples locally and from around the country. Can you name off a few locations?
Dr. Eaton: Our more than 400 UCMR3 clients touch all parts of the country – New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tucson, San Antonio plus we are testing a large number of small systems – in smaller towns – directly for the EPA. We just recently checked the EPA public database for UCMR3 and realized that we account for nearly 40% of the data in that database.
SCT: Before we get into the details of testing, can you tell us – do you and your family drink tap water?
Dr. Eaton: We drink both tap water and bottled water. Bottled water is a great alternative to soda when we are traveling and want convenience. Even with the UCMR3 detections we are finding, I consider tap water to be extraordinarily safe.
SCT: This round of testing – the third round – is a bit different than the first two. How so?
Dr. Eaton: This time, we are testing down to much lower levels, based on analytical method capabilities. In the past few decades, technology has advanced so far that we can find smaller and smaller traces of elements than ever before. In the last two rounds, testing levels were based on Health Reference Levels, which means we looked for these elements at levels that we know could be unhealthy. This time, we are looking for them at even smaller concentrations to help the EPA understand what's in the nation's water supplies.
What this means is that we are more likely to detect compounds. As an example, we have detected strontium in 100% of water supplies under UCMR3, but in some cases the concentrations are a thousand times lower than the health reference level – the level scientists believe could be harmful. This type of data will present a challenge to utilities because they have to report that these elements have been detected in their consumer confidence reports, and customers may well be concerned with large numbers of elements detected, even at such low levels.
SCT: Why would EPA require testing for compounds at these levels if they are not a health risk?
Dr. Eaton: In UCMR1 and UCMR2 when they were basing levels on health risks, there were very few detects – or compounds detected – and there were a few cases where EPA lowered the health reference level during the course of the monitoring. However, they had no data for those revised levels, so the EPA now decided to put detection technology to the test to see what was really there. If they do have to lower the threshold for a health risk, they will know where compounds show up around the country.
The problem (for water agencies) is that trace amounts of chemicals are showing up all over the place, and that could scare consumers unnecessarily.
SCT: Why do the EPA and local water agencies care about looking for contaminants that aren't regulated?
Dr. Eaton: The EPA and water agencies are pushing detection technology's limits to protect the public's health. It's possible that these compounds could be regulated in the future because they may have an impact on our health. However, there is also value in deciding not to regulate something if it does not show up in testing results. Or conversely something we did not expect to find could show up frequently at significant levels, so we should regulate it and require water agencies to find a way to remove it from tap water. Compounds that we are looking for in the UCMR3 round of testing are supposed to be ones that could have health significance.
SCT: Which among the 28 compounds and 2 viruses you are testing for might the average person recognize? What impact might they have on human health?
Dr. Eaton: In California, people will recognize hexavalent chromium, PFOS and PFOA from the list. PFOS and PFOA are used in Teflon and now in firefighting foams. It's impossible to go back 50 years and find someone who doesn't have them in their blood. Both 3M and Dupont phased out PFOS and PFOA in the early 2000s. For the most part, they are found at less than 50 parts per trillion. They are found worldwide – not just in America.
Most people will recognize hexavalent chromium (aka chrome-6) from the movie Erin Brokovich. In Hinkley, California, irresponsible disposal allowed chrome-6 to leach into the town's water supplies at levels above even current regulations for total chromium. However, throughout the U.S. most chrome-6 in water occurs naturally in small amounts (it has been found in nearly 90% of public water supplies in UCMR3) and we know that it does not cause cancer until it reaches incredibly high levels. For example, we found it in concentrations of between below 1 part per billion and 9.7 parts per billion in Hawaii – that comes from volcanic activity. It's also almost always below California's new limit of 10 parts per billion (which equals ten drops in an Olympic sized swimming pool). The amount of chrome-6 found in Hinkley's water supply, by contrast, was around 2,000 parts per billion.
SCT: Are there any chemicals that look like they should be regulated?
Dr. Eaton: In looking at the results we have so far, the compounds that I think are of concern are 1,4-dioxane, which is known as an issue in some parts of California, but seems to be a true nationwide issue, with a lot of samples well over California's notification level, and chlorate, a disinfection byproduct, which is already regulated by the World Health Organization, but not by USEPA.
SCT: What is -1,4 dioxane?
Dr. Eaton: It's a solvent stabilizer, found in dyes and other solvents. We're finding it in North Carolina at close to 10 ppb. In California the reference level is 0.35 ppb (in California we occasionally see it above that level). In North Carolina it's from the textile mills. They aren't seeing a lot of it in groundwater, but it is mostly in surface water, like rivers. We've found it in 20% of water supplies nationwide. That indicates potential health concern and the high frequencies of detection would argue for regulation sooner rather than later.
SCT: Is there something you've found at much lower levels than expected?
Dr. Eaton: We are really not seeing a lot of the other organics that we are monitoring for, which is good news. We are generally not seeing hormones, and we're looking for them at really low levels (less than a part per trillion). One part per trillion is about one drop in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Some hormones are very sensitive to chlorine and are likely destroyed during the tap water purification process. Out of the seven hormones we're testing for, we've not seen five hardly at all. For the other two – testosterone and androsteene dione, we've only seen them in 0.5% of samples, and at the .3 – .4 parts per trillion range. Unfortunately for the few utilities that did find them, they will have to explain them to their customers, because we know the public is extremely concerned about issues such as pharmaceuticals in drinking water.
SCT: Where do you think testing at such low levels will lead?
Dr. Eaton: It's about protecting public health and ensuring that the tap water we drink is safe. The EPA is getting ready to regulate new compounds (like -1,4 dioxane and chlorate) and need to know how much of those chemicals are out there and where they are geographically to estimate the cost of any regulation. Also, some compounds (like hormones) don't already have health reference levels, and depending on what we find, the EPA will decide whether or not to create them for those compounds.
SCT: Thank you for your time.
Dr. Eaton: You are welcome!


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Joachim Loew hailed Germany's "brilliant" 4-1 win over Mexico in the Confederations Cup semi-final and said his youthful squad are ambitious enough to beat Chile in the final.
Loew opted not to bring his World Cup winning stars to the Confed Cup, but Germany's young guns booked their place in Sunday's final in St Petersburg after a devastating opening spell in Sochi.
Attacking midfielder Leon Goretzka, 22, hit two goals in the first eight minutes to stun Mexico.
Timo Werner, 21, made it 3-0 midway through the second half, then Marco Fabian scored Mexico's late stunning consolation with a thunderbolt free-kick before Germany's substitute Amin Younes, 23, netted Germany's fourth.
"From the beginning, we did exactly what we set out to do — we were very dominant and brilliant in the opening stages," said Germany's head coach Loew.
"They pushed us back a bit in the second phase of the first half, which was to be expected, and we gave up a lot of ball. All in all, 4-1 is a great result.
"We wanted to go far, but this is nothing that we could have expected at the start of the tournament."
– Score to settle –
After Germany drew 1-1 with Chile in the group stages last Thursday, Loew says his team is hungry enough to beat the Copa America champions in the final.
"Chile is the most powerful opponent in this tournament, we know them pretty well and we expect them to go for it in the final," said Loew.
"They will be trying flat out to pull it off, as they are coming to the end of their season, and we will have to try and counter that.
"A lot of work has gone into our wins. We couldn't pre-empt this (reaching the final) as some players had little experience and you couldn't calculate how they'd react.
"We've become a team over the last few weeks. There's fun in the dressing room, but they aren't over the top.
"They know there is work ahead and they are ambitious enough to beat Chile."
Goretzka and Werner are now the tournament's joint top-scorers with three goals each.
After scoring twice in Sochi, Goretzka says the Germans have a score to settle against Chile.
Lars Stindl equalised in the second-half of the group stage draw in Kazan last Thursday after Alexis Sanchez rattled the Germans by poaching an early goal for the South Americans.
"I was really happy to help the team with the two goals, our single-minded goal was to reach the final so we're delighted," said Goretzka.
"There is only one match to go.
"We're looking forward to playing Chile again, because in the second half (of the group stage match) we had the feeling the draw was not enough.
"Now we have another chance against this top flight team.
"In the first few minutes, we didn't do so well against Chile, so (against Mexico) we really wanted to get down to brass tacks and the two quick goals really calmed the team.
"We now need to reward ourselves for our hard work and we want to get the title."
After rallying from 2-0 down, Mexico are justified in being unhappy with the unflattering scoreline after having twice as many shots on goal as the Germans.
The Mexicans play Portugal in Sunday's third-place play-off in Moscow.
With 15 minutes left against Germany, Raul Jimenez headed against the crossbar as Germany's goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen made a string of saves.
"Our way of playing is very aggressive. We try to get forward all the time and we paid for that," said Mexico's head coach Juan Carlos Osorio.
"They are fair winners, but the scoreline would seem to suggest they were way better and I don't think that was the case." – Agence France-Presse


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Writing an AMQP bridge
Raph Cohn
OpenMAMA looks like it's got the potential to solve a substantial hole in messaging. In particular, it makes a superb way to write portable C applications that use MQ.
We've been looking at the documentation and source, and are interested in working with the OpenMAMA community to develop an AMQP 1-0 bridge. We currently have an active open source project for a C client for AMQP 1-0, libamqp (https://github.com/libamqp)
It looks like it would be quite possible to integrate this into OpenMAMA. The challenge is that we'd also need to define a small 'profile' for AMQP 1-0 vendors to support the full fidelity of OpenMAMA (eg data dictionaries) - we've done some work on how this might be possible. Ideally this would need the buy in from the other AMQP vendors. However, OpenMAMA steering group members and AMQP membership is somewhat aligned, so I'm sure that this is possible.
We'd also be interested in helping write a Java wrapper, to provide a sensible, cross-platform alternative to JMS. As a first pass, this could use BridJ to deliver most functionality (http://code.google.com/p/bridj/). In our experience it can achieve about 90% of JNI's performance, and, with modification to use Sun specifics (eg Unsafe), can be used in a most un-Java, but efficient, manner. For the final 10% one is almost better off compiling a special JVM.
Introductions over,
Raphael Cohn
Chief Architect
StormMQ Limited
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Michael Schonberg <mschonberg@...>
2011/11/2 Raphael Cohn <raphael.cohn@...>:
OpenMAMA looks like it's got the potential to solve a substantial hole inAn AMQP bridge would be great. I was hoping that someone would develop one
sooner rather than later.
We considered AMQP when we we looking for an open source middleware; however,
we already had an Elvin/Avis bridge and we were short on time. We have found
that it is usually not too difficult to implement bridges around
exiting C messaging
Please let me know through the mailing list if you require any
assistance. I will be more
than happy to assist you in any way possible.
OpenMAMA provides data dictionary support on top of the payload bridge
as part of
the API. Usually it does not require any additional effort. What else
needs to be defined
as part of this profile?
I also interested in any potential enhancements to OpenMAMA that a
complete AMQP
bridge might require.
We'd also be interested in helping write a Java wrapper, to provide aWe already have a full JNI wrapper for OpenMAMA, and we should be
releasing it in
the near future: http://www.openmama.org/what-is-openmama/openmama-roadmaps.
It wraps the C API so it supports all middleware and payload bridges.
Introductions over,I look forward to working with you on this.
Michael Schonberg
OpenMAMA Maintainer
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McLane Creek Nature Trail at Capitol State Forest is more than just a great hiking trail. In fact, it's two hiking trails: McLane Creek NT and Centennial Demonstration Forest, both nicely tucked into the same property. While the .75-mile-long Centennial DF traverses some pretty country, including a working demonstration forest, most people visit to hike the nature trail and to watch for wildlife at the beaver pond encircled by the McLane Creek trail. If you have kids, McLane Creek NT's many boardwalks, bridges, and viewing areas should keep them entertained, engaged, and (hopefully) excited about the outdoors.
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From the Trail: Wynoochee Lake Shore Trail – Bring your pith helmet for this one!
This weekend, my family and I checked out Wynoochee Lake Shore Trail in Olympic National Forest. Beginning at Coho campground near Wynoochee Dam, we hiked around the entire lake (~16 miles) and saw Maidenhair Falls on the northern end. It was an interesting, sometimes fun, and sometimes really difficult hike given the poor condition of the trail. In some sections, the bushes were so overgrown that I felt like a jungle explorer (sans pith helmet and machete). Wynoochee Lake Shore Trail is a National Recreation Trail and probably was at one time a really great trail. However, I don't think it's received a whole lot of TLC since it was designated an NRT in 1979. All in all a decent hike and a fun experience. Maidenhair Falls were a beautiful find, however, if I ever do this trail again I will ford Wynoochee River just above the lake and save myself the trouble of trekking through the many campsites directly along the river. Check out my photos from the trip below and stay tuned (hopefully) next week for my review.
Memorial Day weekend hiking and camping tips
Thanks to arbyreed for the great photo.
Happy Memorial Day weekend. Thank you to all those who served or serve in our Armed Forces.
For many people around the country, Memorial Day weekend also marks the start of the summer camping season. If you do plan on camping or hiking this weekend, Washington Trails Association offers some excellent tips and advice on where to go in Washington and how to prepare. Some important takeaways from the WTA article: check the snow levels in the high country and prepare accordingly, especially if you plan on hiking or camping in the Northern Cascades/Mt. Rainier area, where snowpack often exists until mid summer. For finding a camping spot: don't be afraid to wing-it and try dispersed camping (make your own camping spot) in National Forest lands. Just follow these Forest Service guidelines. If you plan on visiting Olympic Peninsula and find the Olympic NP sites all filled up, check out some of the lesser-known state and national forest campgrounds, such as Cottonwood and Hoh Oxbow (state land) on the west side or Hamma Hamma and Lena Creek (national forest) on the east side. Or try hiking into a wilderness camping site. The WTA article also identifies some great hikes around Washington, from the Columbia River Gorge and Olympic Peninsula to the Central and North Cascades and Washington's Central and Eastern areas. If you have a to-do list of Washington hiking destinations, definitely check out some of these WTA suggestions.
For more news and information on Memorial Day hiking destinations and all things hiking and camping in the Pacific Northwest, check out Pacific Northwest Pathfinder's PNW Trail News and Photos page. The news page features articles and photography from outdoor-oriented media outlets and blogs based in Washington and Oregon. Each week, the page offers new content to explore and share.
From the Trail: Snowy Day at Panorama Point
Hiked up to Panorama Point from Paradise in Rainier National Park on Sunday. Weather held and it was only partly cloudy near the Point. An excellent trip, though it's really hard to follow the trails that you want to follow up there during the winter. Seems like the best way is to make your own trail. We ended up starting on Golden Gate Trail before cutting across to Skyline Trail and heading up to and past the Point. Saw lots of people hiking back from Camp Muir and the Summit. Hope to do the same someday. Best part: glissading down from Panorama Point. Stay tuned next week for my review and this week as I catch up on past-due trail reviews :).
Mixed feelings on the social media shaming of #parkvandals
The Washington Post recently picked up a story about a dad and his two kids who were allegedly caught vandalizing a railing at Tumalo Falls in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest. The story broke in early May after Oregon resident Brett Nelson snapped a photo of the family and posted it to Facebook, where he called them out for unabashedly damaging NF property. According to Nelson's account of the scenario in The Oregonian:
Nelson said both the man and the kids challenged him when he objected to their carving on the railing. Nelson asked the man for his license plate number, "so I can carve my name in the hood of your car." He said the man responded "go for it, it's a rental car."
When he asked where they were from, the man responded "California."
"I was like, 'Go back,'" Nelson said. "Go carve your name in your own picnic table. Nobody wants you here."
Kalaloch Campground, Olympic NP, Makes the List
A recent Travel+Leisure article by Sarah L. Stewart identifies "America's Prettiest Beach Campsites" and you'll never guess which Washington State camping area made the list: Kalaloch in Olympic NP. Stewart's description of Kalaloch aptly sums up this scenic Pacific Ocean-side campground. She states:
No disrespect to Kalaloch (pronounced Kah-lay-lock) – the campground is beautiful and nicely pressed up against long sandy beaches that stretch far in either direction. My only opposition to it is how quickly the campground fills up (largely by RVers) on summer weekends and long holidays. I've found that Mora Campground, located just an hour north of Kalaloch, doesn't seem to attract as large of crowds (or maybe it was just when I visited?). Also Rialto Beach (a mile down the road from Mora) is just as spectacular with a little more peacefulness and ruggedness (see my photos).
Lastly, another Pacific Northwestern campground made Stewart's list too: Cape Perpetua Campground in Oregon's Siuslaw National Forest. Cool – time for a road-trip to Oregon's coast!
For more trail news and information from the Pacific Northwest, check out Pacific Northwest Pathfinder's PNW Trail News and Photos section.


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Driving, the fantasy of most of our childhood, is one of our favorite activities during the day but racing games are different. Racing games for Android is the subject of today's article and we are going to have fun. As I was saying, racing games are different and they are more exciting. Another perk of racing games is that you don't have to worry about driving carefully on games and having accidents doesn't matter. So let's drive cars on Android and have fun. We'll have different types of racing games including an online racing game for Android.
Asphalt 8 Airborne
You might be familiar with it but if you haven't heard of it, let me introduce Gameloft's masterpiece, Asphalt 8 Airborne. Race through the various levels all around the world and get new cars and upgrade them. After gaining enough money, buy every car you like and be the best. The most astonishing feature of the game is the beautiful graphics and brilliant game play. It requires Android 2.3 and up and 1.8GB of free space in your storage. Because of its fascinating graphics, you need to have a device with a powerful processor.
Beach Buggy Blitz
If you are interested in fantasy racing games, you've got to try Beach Buggy Blitz. Race on a mysterious tropical island full of giant crabs, grass shacks, lava monsters and many other fascinating creatures. Unlock new vehicles and upgrade them and have a great time racing with your rivals. The game requires Android 4.0.3 and up and a normal processor would do.
Car Racing
Drive cars on Android and compete with others in the world of Car Racing. 60 tracks are waiting for you to discover them and overcome your rivals on them and at last, burn up the streets with your unbelievable speed. The game requires Android 4.0.3 and up and because of amazing graphics, a good processor is required.
FRZ: Free Racing Zero
This one is a little bit different from the others. FRZ: Free Racing Zero is an arcade racing game that you have to steer your car from top. Control your car and try not to hit anything that's not meant to be hit and be the first to cross the line. You can earn money and unlock new vehicles. It requires Android 2.3 and up and every kind of processor will be sufficient.
Car Racing Online Traffic
If you want to race with your friends, then you've got to try an online racing game for Android. Our last offer, Car Racing Online Traffic is the one you are looking for. Compete with your friends and earn experience. After earning enough money, change your cars and have fun. This online racing game for Android requires a normal processor and it is expected to have Android 4.0.3 and up to be able to play this game.
So, this is it: the best games to drive cars on Android and compete with others. You'll love these racing games for Android. If we want to review our article we shall say, we introduced fascinating racing games, a fantasy racing game and an online racing game. Have fun and win the race!
Keywords: racing games for Android- drive cars on Android- online racing game for Android


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Tom Clark is director of the non-profit Center for Naturalism and author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses. He writes on science, free will, consciousness, addiction and other topics, and maintains Naturalism.org, an extensive resource on worldview naturalism. He is also moderator for the monthly philosophy café at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA.
In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Tom Clark discusses the implications of a thorough-going scientific naturalism for the concepts of the self and of free will. He contrasts "contra-causal free will" with kinds of political or social freedom, and argues that the former is a vestige of outmoded religious or dualistic thinking. He talks about compatibilism, and how he can be a skeptic of free will while also prizing personal freedom, how determinism can be compatible with certain kinds of free will. He explores what these implications of scientific naturalism might actually mean for criminal justice, and how rejecting concepts of free-will may empower society to be more humanistic and to solve social ills more effectively. And he talks about the growth of skepticism about free will, both in the academic scientific communities and in the skeptic and freethought world.


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Noise exposure for construction workers
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BigRentz, supplier of heavy equipment rentals, recently posted a piece on noise exposure for construction workers with a visual showing levels of exposure by type of noise source.
According to the piece, 30 million construction workers are exposed to prolonged hazardous noise on a regular basis. Unsurprisingly, 14% of all construction workers have hearing difficulties related to this noise exposure. The article references information sources such as the US Centers for Disease Control, the Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety & Health, and the Pocket Guide issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Almost all construction equipment is shown to be above the 85 dBA level, above which hearing damage is possible. From haul trucks, forklifts and nail guns to concrete saws and jackhammers, the noise level is clearly shown. The worst listed tools are the pile driver (115 dBA) and the hammer drill (120 dBA). The visual compares these sounds with everyday noise sources and shows that stadium noise, jet plane take-off, fireworks, firearms, and rocket launch are the rare sources of noise exposure higher than construction noise.
Noise exposure is also indicated by construction trade, along with average exposure levels in dBA and the loudest task in each trade. Iron workers are top of the list with 91.9 dBA, followed by carpenters, laborers, and masonry workers. Operating engineers and electricians follow close behind.
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During the week following Commencement, the Albany Street garage will begin to undergo major repairs to its support columns and parking spaces.
The Department of Facilities commissioned the engineering firm of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. to investigate the structural problems in the garage. Repairs will address concrete problems on all of its floors and ceilings.
To manage the project effectively, the contractor (Walsh Brothers, Inc.) will close off 75 parking spaces at a time. "Using statistics from previous construction jobs, we estimated that the removal of this number of spaces should not pose a great problem for users of the garage," said John McDonald, director of the Parking and Transportation Office.
However, Mr. McDonald warns that all drivers in the garage should be prepared for dusty and noisy conditions for the duration of the project. Those who don't wish to park in the Albany garage during construction may use West Garage instead. Parking Office staff will redirect traffic if and when the Albany garage fills to capacity.
The repair work will continue through the summer with completion expected in early fall.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 31, 2000.


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- 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
- Alam Halfa and Alamein
- Bardia to Enfidaville
- Battle for Egypt
- Crete
- Divisional Cavalry
- Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino
- Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
- Letter from John Cawte Beaglehole to his Mother, 31 May 1927
- Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
- New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
- Petrol Company
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- The Home Front Volume I
- The Relief of Tobruk
- The Royal New Zealand Navy
- To Greece
For several reasons, including lack of resource and inherent ambiguity, not all names in the NZETC are marked-up. This means that finding all references to a topic often involves searching. Search for Surrey as: "Surrey". Additional references are often found by searching for just the main name of the topic (the surname in the case of people).
Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Surrey":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.


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I consider that more easygoing indulgences, to the extent they know, volunteered themselves for clear sex. While there's a chance that they'd be down to attempt different things, there's no assurance they wouldn't feel cornered by my requesting them. I like to consistently indicate my way in the entryway by testing out the most agreeable parts of my fixations. When I'm prepared, I then say, "You know how we now and again do [X THING] when we're fucking? I like that a great deal, and I'm thinking about whether you'd be into accomplishing more—like [X OTHER THING]."
As a quintessential layabout (one of my numerous bona fides in this limit: I am writing this to you facedown on a N'SYNC cover with strange hot sauce stains giving Justin kindled looking psoriasis), I'm super agreeable to fixations that helpfully take an approaching undertaking off my Sriracha-loaded plate. I was once in an association with a man who got a kick out of the chance to depilate me. Joe clarified his specialist aesthetician vocation therefore: "I'm fixated on vaginas since they're so lovely, so I jump at the chance to consider them to be nearly as I can. Tending to them makes me feel like I'm at the administration of the thing I adore most on the planet." I resembled, Oh, word? Hang on while I snatch the shaving cream for you genuine snappy, in light of the fact that I loathe doing Guildford Escort without anyone's help!
We're grown-ups, you know? The general purpose of being a grown-up is finding the weirdnesses of others with affection rather than trepidation. There are such a variety of most loved obsessions of standard, hot individuals: embarrassment, constrained climaxes, voyeurism and exhibitionism, feet, and stifling/sensual suffocation. Also, those are all entirely essential!


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"Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river ..." Exodus 2
Women rule the world. One sign of it, if you need proof, is the invariable presence of a commanding woman seated at the front of the morning bus who holds court, chatting loudly with the bus driver and keeping the world together and on track with her regal observations. Coffee left standing all night is undrinkable. People do foolish things, and they always pay for it in the long run. What goes around comes around. Pay now or pay later. God help anyone who doesn't respect his mother.
She has genuine authority because, like the bass player in a jazz band, she lays down the deep, subsonic riff and rumble of the music, the basic story we share from birth to death. She is the true author of the Bible, the keeper of the family memories, shaping them to affirm that trial leads to deliverance, loss opens us to new possibilities. She frames the story like a tapestry woven from the many threads of human desire that intersect to create wonder and tragedy every day. A threatened child put in the river by its mother is drawn out by pharaoh's daughter and named Moses, chosen by God to deliver the Hebrews from slavery. The story will underwrite the aspirations of every oppressed people in history, including the American civil rights movement, a flood toward freedom, unstoppable surge, like birth itself once conception has occurred.
We are carried, even against our wills, by the power of this underlying story of God's engagement with the world. Lest we forget, the queen of the bus is here to remind us.
"Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river ..." Exodus 2


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This novel takes place in a dull, dreary London boardinghouse whose inhabitants are terribly bored and listless — that is, until Innocent Smith bursts into their lives. Smith has extremely odd manners that startle the boardinghouse dwellers at first, but soon his gaiety and zest for life become contagious, even inspiring courage and romance in the hearts of the other characters. However, just as they're all starting to enjoy themselves, Smith is cornered by two mental health doctors who claim that he is criminally insane. They accuse him of committing murder, burglary, polygamy, and a host of other crimes. The boardinghouse residents are shocked, but one of them suggests an informal "trial" to determine whether Smith is a force of good or evil.
I think the trick to liking this book is to approach it as a fable rather than as a novel in the traditional sense. There's not much character development, nor is there a real plot to speak of; instead, the book satirizes modern psychology ("modern" being 1912, when the book was published) and explores a host of philosophical issues ranging from the profound to the (apparently) trivial. Being a diehard Chesterton fan, I enjoyed this book, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone reading Chesterton for the first time. Start with Orthodoxy instead, which is a wonderful introduction to his style and his philosophy.


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What Are Treaty Rights?
Some Canadians believe that treaties are long-ago things that are no longer relevant. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, however, reported that Aboriginal leaders without exception called for a treaty implementation and renewal process.
Long before the arrival of Europeans, Turtle Island (North America) was home to millions of Indigenous Peoples, who lived in thousands of distinct societies with their own laws, customs and economies. Land was integral to their economic, social and spiritual well-being.
As Sharon Venne, Professor of Native Law program at the University of Saskatchewan and PhD candidate in international Law and Indigenous Issues at the University of Alberta, explains: "Indigenous Nations have their own legal systems and political accords for entering into and concluding Treaties. Treaty-making among Indigenous Peoples has a long history: prior to the arrival of non-Indigenous Peoples to the Americas, Indigenous Nations were making treaties among themselves. An oral tradition, treaty-making was a means to create peace and friendship, to cement alliances between and among Nations, sometimes against other nations.
"When European governments needed to legitimate their settlement of the Americas, they engaged in the diplomatic process of negotiating legal arrangements with Indigenous Nations to make Treaties. It is a simple fact that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas owned and occupied their territories at the time of contact, when Indigenous Peoples entered into Treaties with the British Crown, they signed as independent nations and not as subjects of the British Crown; had the British Crown perceived Indigenous Peoples as subjects, the making of Treaties as between nations would not have been necessary."
The original Treaties, those which predated Confederation, such as the 1760 Peace and Friendship Treaty signed between the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy and the British Crown, were clearly international agreements between sovereign peoples. This international character of treaties has never been denied by the Canadian court system. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the provision within section 35(1) "did not create aboriginal rights; rather, it accorded constitutional status to those rights which were existing." In other words, Aboriginal rights and treaty rights are not something that can be granted to Aboriginal peoples from Canadians but are based on historical factors.
When we talk of Aboriginal land and treaty rights, these are based on the concept of Nation, that is to say, a people living in a specific territory and having a common history, ancestry, language, culture, and so on. It is a mistake to deny that non-European peoples possess their proper history and to use "race" theories (that originate from Europe) to discredit the legitimacy of Aboriginal peoples' rights.
Aboriginal inherent rights are the base points from which all treaty negotiations take place, and the measure by which compromises are made. These include the right to use the land and the natural resources, to maintain their own languages, cultures, social systems and governments.
Treaty-making is the appropriate starting place for resolving conflicts between Indigenous nations and the successor state in ways that are peaceful and meaningful for both parties, in the spirit and intent of the original Treaty-making.


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Having traveled this far in the analysis of Scott's late-career, early-ACW operational art, we would be remiss if we did not consider the effects on Lincoln of this primary schooling in war.
It is in no way fair to hold Winfield Scott responsible for lessons mislearned by Lincoln, nevertheless I have long felt that Lincoln's bizarre military management owed much to misapplying what he thought he saw during Scott's two offensives, the first of the war that he could observe from headquarters.
Like one of Konrad Lorenz's newborn ducklings, Lincoln was (I think) "impressed" at the right moment in his learning curve with a lot of "wrong" data.
This is obviously speculative but I have found it convincing and useful over the last 15 years. We all agree that Lincoln was a learner and we should agree that Scott's example offered lessons. This is a list of things Lincoln (I believe) might have surmised as reflected in presidential decisions taken later in '61 and '62:
(1) Campaigns can be run from an office in Washington using telegraph, mail, and couriers.
(2) To be more effective than Scott's conditional orders, movements need a time peg: synchronization.
(3) The relief of high commanders deserves no contingent preparation and no coordination.
(4) A single failure offers sufficient grounds for summary dismissal of high commanders.
(5) The state of a force can be adequately surmised from reports and letters.
(6) The state of ground can adequately be surmised from maps.
(7) Subordinates can appreciate the commander's intent at great distances with minimal input.
(8) Logistics is not much of a factor in campaigning.
(9) There is no military reason for one force to get away from another without harm.
(10) Harm inflicted offers more political benefit than the bloodless taking of strategic points.
Scott did not mean to set a military example in his first offensives - that's not my charge - he made accommodations given his condition, lack of staff, and a few personal (non-military) predilictions. They represented expedients that inadvertently set a horrible example for the new president. Scott compensated for his own accommodations and expediencies with a store of military knowledge the president did not have.
I wonder if each point here speaks for itself or if illustrations of Lincoln's decisions need to be recapitulated.


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Amidst the topical 'broken fashion system' debate flooding trade news since the end of last year, it appears that the fashion industry is now undergoing a major shift to meet the demands of the digital age – or more specifically: generation Z. Fashion brands are currently trying to work out where they fit into this digital world and how they can meet the expectations of the modern consumer in order to stay relevant (Final Fantasy x Louis Vuitton Spring / Summer '16 anyone?). During a time where technological advancements are allowing us to download, live stream, and process information as-it-happens, how are fashion brands responding to a world that simply wants everything now?
As Kirsty recently discussed on the blog, Burberry has been quick to jump on the digital bandwagon as a way to raise its profile and introduce the heritage brand to a wider, younger and social media-savvy audience. But Burberry hasn't stopped there: the British label's creative director, Christopher Bailey, has most recently announced it's plans to make all collections immediately available for purchase online and in-store from September, with shop window displays and media campaigns changing the moment the show is finished. Following the news, Tom Ford, Tommy Hilfiger, Proenza Schouler and Rebecca Minkoff have all been quick to reveal plans for a similar shift into direct-to-consumer shows.
If this 'see-now-buy-now' experiment wasn't enough to satisfy consumers, fashion brands worldwide, including Burberry and Tom Ford, have said they will start showing seasonless men and women's ready-to-wear collections together on the catwalk, twice a year. This new strategy takes place not only to take some pressure off the business, but also as a result of new digital trends evolving around gender fluidity. Paul Smith and Vetements have also confirmed they will begin showing their collections in this format.
The purpose of fashion shows and presentations used to be so that designers could show their collections to the industry's journalists and buyers – in the hope of good press and placed orders – and were (and still claim to be) trade-only events. But since the introduction and popularity of live streaming, social media, mobile apps, street style, and blogging welcomed a completely new and commercial way to consume fashion, the fashion world has gradually allowed itself to become more widely and instantly accessible to its consumer. Having gradually moved to a more consumer-led approach, the industry now finds itself in a position where it is no longer deemed reasonable for its consumers to preview collections seasons in advance, and then have to wait six months for said collection to be available for purchase.
The British fashion industry is contributing upwards of £26 billion to the UK's economy alone, yet we still seem to be looking at an industry that is so desperately looking at ways in which it can realign itself with the digital communication cycle. I don't know about you, but if technological advancements and consumer acknowledgement are pushing brands to change the face of fashion as we know it, be that moving the focus from trade to consumer, then Autumn / Winter 2016 has already established itself as a season like no other. Watch this space.


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"Come against her
From every quarter!
Open her granaries!
Pile her up
Like heaps of grain!
Destroy her utterly!
Let nothing be left of her!
Kill all her bulls!
Let them go down
To the slaughter!
Woe to them!
Their day has come!
The time
Of their punishment!"
There was to be a complete destruction in Babylon. They were to come from every side. They were to open up the Babylonian granaries. Let them be piled up like heaps of grain. Nothing should be left of the Babylonians. They were to slaughter all the Babylonian bulls. The day of punishment would come upon the Babylonians.


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On the 19th of March CAP launched Matter, the Poetry in Motion Community 2016-17 anthology, at Seamus Heaney's Homeplace in Bellaghy. The event also included the announcement of the winner and runners-up of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2017.
Glen Wilson went on to win the award with his poem The Lotus Gait. The runner-up, as selected by the award's three judges (Frank Ormsby, Moyra Donaldsone and Maire-Louise Muir), was Matthew Rice for his poem Turtle and a commendation went to Emma McKervey for her poems, Aleph to Taf and Laundry
The rest of the shortlisted poems were The Day of the Buckets by Clare McWilliams, If not El Niño, what? by Clodagh Harvey and Ross Thompson's The Daily Crossword.
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Standard, Population & Customised fetal size charts 9 – gender and parity
Customisation by fetal gender
After birth, male and female babies differ in size, and gender specific charts are widely used. This is reasonable since gender specific differences in mortality or morbidity are unrelated to fetal size. On the contrary, male babies tend to be larger but have higher rates of mortality and morbidity, so gender specific charts are likely to better identify pathology.
There are also fetal gender differences in size (click here), so in theory gender specific charts might also be appropriate in utero. However, in practice the gender differences are rather small, and because of practical difficulties – the ultrasonographer might be uncertain, or the parents might not want to know – gender specific fetal charts tend to be limited to specialist uses (click here).
Customisation by maternal parity
Birth weight and size increase with parity, at least over the first few pregnancies, but this is not independent of pathology. First babies are smaller than subsequent ones but have a higher mortality, partly because pre-eclampsia is common in first pregnancies, and partly because first labours tend to be longer. To a lesser degree, at least in the developed world, some of the increase in birth weight with increasing parity is related to increasing maternal weight. Again this is not benign. For these reasons customisation on maternal parity is unwise.
Tomorrow another technical digression. This time on estimated fetal weight (click here).
Jim Thornton
Ann Roberts permalinkSeptember 14, 2019 9:00 am
Got to disagree with this one. Do a poll on any parenting forum and you will find that some women have larger babies each time but some don't. It's a pernicious theory when applied to innacurate efw by ultrasound in second and subsequent babies. Just heard of a woman being advised elective CS because of previous good sized baby, just under 4kg so this one bound to be bigger? Previous sfvb. Efw by ultrasound at 37 weeks 9lbs 5oz, weight at C birth 10 days later 9 lbs exactly, just like the previous baby. She is finding recovery hard and painful compared with her previous vaginal birth, plus an older child to care for. Anecdotal, my four, first three all similar at 8lbs 13/14/12 oz, fourth was 8lbs8oz.
- Standard, Population & Customised fetal size charts 8 – height | Ripe-tomato.org
- Standard, Population & Customised fetal size charts 12 – WHO | Ripe-tomato.org
- Standard, Population & Customised fetal growth charts 14 – GROW | Ripe-tomato.org
- Standard, Population & Customised fetal size charts 16 – summary | Ripe-tomato.org
- Standard, Population & Customised fetal size charts 17 – addendum for twins | Ripe-tomato.org
- Jim's growth chart navigator | Ripe-tomato.org


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for Burgundy It's no news that Australian producers make good
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The Great
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Australia vs.
France Could any Australian Cab be near as good as 1990 Margaux?
Would you believe an Oz Chardonnay could beat the pants off a Verget
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Blockbusters: Can You Tell 'Em Apart?
There's no doubt that Australian producers can make big, delicious wines,
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1000 Point Dinner Ten wines, each rated 100 points by The Wine
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to America from the Wine World Wine producers in Germany, Italy
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from the Finger Lakes, Part 1 Even after a terribly tough 2000
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But Perfect The food is terrific. The wines, legendary. Our
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Cab: The 1997 California Vintage They're extremely good.
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Bounces Back For quite a stretch of time, Maison Bouchard Pčre
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Pretenders Perform If you want to incite a minor riot over
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Burgundy Delivers None of us mere mortals one can afford to
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Pinot Noir: Ready for Prime Time?
We gave them the best shot we
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'74 Goes Silver Do
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The New Neyers
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98 Will Be
Great for at least one hot new West Coast Pinot Noir producer. Their best wines
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Dinner in the
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Are the 1997 California Cabs overhyped? No, in fact, the barrel samples taste great. So
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Johnson's Law of Expectations You open an '83 Margaux...and it
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Ronald Madison stayed on in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - he could not bear to leave behind the family dogs, a beloved pair of dachshunds called Bobbi and Sushi. It cost him his life.
Madison, 40, who had the mental age of a child, was shot by police one morrning on Danziger Bridge. James Brisette, 19, was also killed, and four others, including two women, seriously injured. All were black. None had committed a crime.
Now seven police officers are set to stand trial for the murders in a grim tale of race, trigger-happy police and an apparent cover-up. 'This is a racial tragedy,' said the Rev Raymond Brown, a black community leader and local head of a civil rights group, the National Action Network. The city is split over the trial. When the policemen were charged at New Orleans's jail, a crowd of 200 gathered to cheer: 'Heroes! Heroes!' One placard declared: 'Thanks for protecting our city.' Now, they said, is no time to be prosecuting the police.
But Romell Madison wants to see his brother's killers treated like any other accused citizens. 'I want justice to prevail. True justice for what happened to my brother,' he said.
The events of 4 September, 2005, on Danziger Bridge are clear enough. It was five days after the storm and the city was in chaos. Just after 9am, a group of refugees was seeking to cross the bridge, including Ronald Madison, who wanted to get to his brother's dental office. Another family was near by, headed for an abandoned supermarket to pick up food and water. Suddenly an unmarked van pulled up. Seven gunmen - not in uniform - jumped out and opened fire. One witness, Kasimir Gaston, has described the men as lining up 'like at a firing range'. When the gunfire stopped, Madison and Brisette were dead. Susan Bartholemew had her arm shot off. Her teenage daughter Lesha was shot four times. Her husband, Leonard, was shot in the back, head and foot.
Yet the shooting was initially reported as the heroic efforts of policemen defending themselves. The men said they were responding to a distress call of 'officer down' from the bridge. When they arrived they said they came under fire and shot back. They claimed Madison had a gun tucked into his belt and moved as if he was about to draw it. An initial police investigation cleared the 'Danziger Seven'.
But that version of events has fallen to pieces and civil rights groups want the police department to be investigated for a possible cover-up. Madison was shot five times in the back as he ran away - no casings linked to any guns but the officers' were found. There were no injured officers. Many of the witnesses cited in the initial police report cannot be traced. No survivors heard the police shout a warning; they assumed they were being attacked by looters. If police claims of coming under fire were true, their truck would have had bullet holes in it. The police say the vehicle is missing.
Many people believe the Danziger Bridge shootings were typical of a police force with a long reputation for brutality, especially against blacks. It has raised suspicions about a police shoot-to-kill policy after the storm. Even the District Attorney, Eddie Jordan, did not mince his words: 'We cannot allow our police officers to shoot and kill our citizens without justification, like rabid dogs.'
There have also been doubts expressed about the judge assigned to the trial, Raymond Bigelow. Several of Bigelow's legal clerks have family links to the Seven's legal team and he is under investigation for remarks he allegedly made about 'crazy black judges'.
There is anger, too, that some of the accused are back at work. 'It is unprecedented to be charged with first-degree murder and allowed out on bail and to be able to go back to work at the police department,' said Mary Howell, a civil rights lawyer working with the victims.
Yet the situation is far from clear-cut. In 2006 New Orleans had America's highest murder rate. There were 162 killings and one conviction. At times it feels like a city under siege. And not all the Danziger Seven are white; four are black or Hispanic. That has raised suspicions that politicians are inflaming the race issue; a high-profile case like this gives career-boosting opportunities. 'It has all become political,' said Sergeant Donovan Livaccori, the police union spokesman. 'The Seven just want to get the process going and get their names cleared.'
Neither does Romell Madison believe the cops were racist. 'There is a small group of rogue cops that exist and they thought they were above the law. They thought they could do whatever they wanted,' he said.
For Howell, race is important. 'If it had been a white, middle-class family walking across that bridge, those officers would not have been so quick to jump out and shoot them,' she said.


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Global superstar DJ, Team Boss at Carl Cox Motorsport and self-confessed "petrol-head" Carl Cox visited Bushy Park Barbados earlier this month during a nostalgic trip to the island. After enjoying the St Philip facility's Karting and Swift Ride Experiences, he gave a wide-ranging interview on various topics from his early days in music through his...
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British sports car manufacturer Caterham Cars will round off its 50th Anniversary year in 2023 with a unique race meeting at Bushy Park Barbados. The Caterham Caribbean Cup, supported by Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI) will run from Friday to Sunday, November 24 to 26, bringing its special brand of wheel-to-wheel racing to the region for the...
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Neil Corbin, Mark Maloney and Trinidad and Tobago's Justin Wortman won the KnockOut Finals at the ULTRAFEST RallySprint yesterday (Saturday) at Bushy Park Barbados. The last three head-to-head races of more than 60 during the afternoon were run as the sun was setting and the venue's all-arena lighting turned on, after which some of the island's...
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Guyana's Kristian Jeffrey clinched the 2022 Radical Caribbean Cup (RCC) by a margin of just five points with what he later described as a "do or die effort" on Sunday (November 13), winning the final race of the season on the South Dakota Raceway. And there was a double celebration for the ecstatic home crowd, as Guyana won the inaugural Nations...
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Student feedback after the Chapter 2 Test revealed that the Chapter 2 Big Ideas sheet was a valuable resource for students in preparing for the test, so we decided to do another one for Chapter 3. Instead of the many "interpretations" from Chapter 2, we ended up with many "definitions" with all the new vocabulary in Chapter 3. Students worked in pairs to look through their notes and the text to fill in the Big Ideas. We worked on this for the first half of the hour and the quiz for the second half of the hour.
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I am excited by wary about tonight's premiere of Colony on USA Network. It has a great cast, an interesting premise, but I'm always leery about dramas if they aren't procedurals, since I'm not actually sure I watch any right now… *laugh* From Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Ryan Condal (Hercules), this show centers on one family's struggle to survive and bring liberty back to the people of an occupied Los Angeles. Josh Holloway (Lost) stars as former FBI agent Will Bowman, and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead, Prison Break) stars as his wife, Katie. This L.A., set in the near future, is dangerous and full of divided ideologies. Those who go along with the occupation and new "order" can benefit, but others rebel and suffer the consequences. Will and Katie have to figure out how to keep their family together and safe, but things will quickly go awry. And that should make things very interesting!
I loved Josh Holloway on Intelligence. He's sexy, so that doesn't hurt, but he's just fun to watch regardless. And I really loved Sarah Wayne Callies on Prison Break. So put the two of them together, and I'm more than a little excited. Add in Amanda Righetti (The Mentalist) and Peter Jacobson (House), and I'm set. It also stars Tori Kittles, Alex Neustaedter, and Gonzalo Menendez.
On tonight's episode, "Pilot," Will attempts a daring rescue to find his son, Katie takes a risk to help her sister, and a job opportunity for Will may divide their family.
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Now that The Sam Willows is on hiatus, band member Jonathan Chua is parlaying his musical success into nurturing the regional music industry.
JONATHAN CHUA Founder and creative director, Zendyll Music Agency
Last New Year's Eve, for the first time in eight years, Jonathan Chua did not have to work. He and the rest of the members of The Sam Willows, arguably Singapore's most successful pop band, would usually be performing at a countdown event. With the band, including Sandra Riley Tang and siblings Benjamin and Narelle Kheng, announcing their indefinite hiatus last year, he finally got to let his hair down. So he jetted off to Las Vegas to watch superstars including Canadian rapper Drake perform at a countdown bash.
"There isn't a dramatic reason. We just wanted to take time to grow as individuals," says the Sony-represented Chua, who released his first solo single Ready for Ya last July. His album is slated to launch by mid-year. "Now, it is easier to do our own thing and that is fun."
For this driven 29-year-old, however, who founded his business, Zendyll, at the peak of the band's fame in 2015, fun has evolved to take on a different meaning. Initially, he wanted a studio where he could jam without getting bogged down by administrative matters. He soon discovered he could commercialise his passion project by creating music for companies. Zendyll has since composed scores for Golden Village, Mastercard, Adidas, Unilever and Lego, and worked with Changi Airport.
Now, though, he has a dual mission in growing the Zendyll Music Agency – the music solutions agency that has become a production house, recording studio and record label rolled into one. His goal is to promote regional musicians, many of whom he met during his time with the band. He shared that the South-east Asian market has been lucrative for American record labels – and usually at the expense of Asean artistes, in terms of exposure.
BEYOND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS Jonathan Chua finds fulfilment in working behind the scenes to support young musicians.
"My aim is to come together with other small, independent music companies to help artistes expand into other markets in the region," he says. On the cards are collaborations with Asean musicians, songwriters and producers on live gigs and studio recordings. He points out that Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have established music scenes, with popular performers, including Afghansyah Reza, Joe Flizzow and DaBoyWay. The language difference isn't a barrier, he adds, citing K-pop boy band BTS' global appeal.
On the home front, he is devoted to solidifying Zendyll's presence. With a business partner, he estimates he has invested about $250,000, and expanded the premises in Balestier to accommodate the growing number of young musicians – the second core of his goal – who discovered Zendyll through word-of-mouth.
He says: "It is about using my experience from The Sam Willows and having a voice to represent them. As the industry grows, indirectly, I'd benefit too. So giving back to the next generation has always been the purpose and goal.
"Sometimes I play the role of big brother. I hire and pay them upfront for songwriting sessions. It is about providing them with opportunity and some grow to get a bit of traction." For instance, a 22-year-old mentee, singer-songwriter Yao, has been getting bookings for shows.
Last month, he hosted personal hero Apple CEO Tim Cook at Zendyll. He says: "The most successful CEOs don't have a narrow view. They have a willingness to constantly understand other people and solve social issues."
With Chua aspiring to these ideals, it looks like he's taking steps towards becoming South-east Asia's next music mogul.
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02 TOOL TO RELAX I play a lot of games, that's how I de-stress. I play Call of Duty and Mobile Legends, and I have a Nintendo Switch that I carry with me every day.
03 FAVOURITE BOOK Narconomics by Tom Wainwright is about how to run a drug cartel. I know it is a taboo topic but if it were a legal business, they actually have a fantastic model.