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Tens of thousands on the rim of the Indian Ocean and hundreds of foreigners from countries around the world were victims of the Asian tsunami. But the waves that scoured South and Southeast Asia also did terrible damage to millions in other areas that had been the focus of aid and relief drives before the tsunami.
From AIDS in Africa to displacement and hunger in Darfur, Sudan, from the devastation caused by Hurricane Jeanne in Haiti to continuing efforts to house those left homeless by last year's earthquake in Bam, Iran, relief agencies despair about donor fatigue, the short attention span of the media and political pressure on non-government organizations to put the money where the tragedy is freshest and the profile highest.
At the big international agencies and non-governmental organizations that regularly deal with disasters, famines, refugee crises and other traumatic events, there is enormous happiness with the generosity pouring forth from every corner of the planet for victims of the tsunami. At the same time, there is concern that, in the words of a World Bank specialist who runs programs in Southeast Asia, "we don't rob poor Peter to pay Paul."
"People aren't packing bags and moving from Darfur to Indonesia, but at the top levels of management it's certainly changing the focus, and rightly so," says the specialist, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Our programs in Indonesia, even, are shifting focus to Aceh, but there's also a lot of discussion about how to make sure we do business as usual, too. There are a lot of poor people who can't afford us to just shift everything toward the tsunami."
Money, logistics and politics
In the short term, aid and relief experts say there may be no way to prevent a loss of traction on issues that were at the top of the international aid agenda before the tsunami hit. When the scale of the Asian disaster became known, says Charles Lyons, head of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, senior staff and veteran relief coordinators had to move quickly from wherever they might have been to offer effective help.
"In our case, we're not pulling people out of Sudan or Congo, say, to staff Jakarta," says Lyons. "But certainly it is a valid concern if other NGOs are doing that."
But the larger worry for these groups is the effect the outpouring of relief may have in the middle and longer term, particularly on the political momentum needed to make progress in the many crisis areas now overshadowed by the tsunami.
"This has the potential to change the momentum, to change the time frame of how we can help in other places," says Lyons. "Political leaders will go to Jakarta instead of Khartoum, and if everyone's moving to this side of the boat, then the boat leans a bit."
This is important for Africa's many crises, and in Sudan's Darfur region in particular. Late last year, the World Health Organization estimated that about 1 million people were displaced and some 10,000 people a month were dying as a result of disease and malnutrition caused by the separatist conflict between largely Christian Darfur and the Muslim Sudanese government. Sudan has been threatened with sanctions and has been the target of heated rhetoric by international governments, including the United States. But in spite of 50,000 dead so far, the international response has been nothing like the world's reaction to the devastation of the tsunami.
"With Darfur, it's not so much a concern about whether aid will be diverted, but whether it ever really made it to the average person's radar in the first place," says Lyons. "What would it take? Three million dead? Four million? We just don't know."
The 'tipping point'
Those who study psychology of charitable giving and public awareness speak of a "tipping point" that suddenly draws the world's attention but which is vastly different, and often irrationally unpredictable, in every crisis. The tsunami is viewed as an extraordinary event not just because of its large death toll — after all, three separate earthquakes claimed more than 200,000 lives each in the last century in China — but because of the gigantic area over which destruction was spread.
Many suspect that racism plays a role, too. World leaders, including Nelson Mandela, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and others, routinely complain about the geopolitical calculus that seems to go on as great powers consider how to intervene (or not) in catastrophic events. During the 1990s, Annan argues, the West lavished aid and ultimately intervened militarily to save Bosnia's white Muslim population from a genocide while it did nothing to prevent 750,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans from being slaughtered by their Hutu compatriots. Because Europe feared a refugee crisis that would affect its economies (and ripple beyond), Bosnia, and later Kosovo, got on the radar. Rwanda's genocide did not.
Some suspected that the United States was partly responding to such criticism when Secretary of State Colin Powell said the U.S. effort gives "the Muslim world and the rest of the world an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action, where we care about the dignity of every individual and the worth of every individual, and our need to respond to the needs of every individual of whatever faith."
Aid and relief professionals recognize this argument's validity and are quick to cite exceptions, too, like the relief efforts of the 1980s in Ethiopia and Sudan, and the humanitarian intervention in Somalia led by the United States in 1993. But they argue that race is only one factor.
"You have to also judge these things on how surprising they are," says the World Bank specialist. "There are many people who look at Africa and all its problems and just are not shocked to see another disaster there. Tyrants, disease, corrupt bureaucracies are assumed to be par for the course, and so a coup in this place or a drought in another just doesn't raise the public's interest the way a gigantic tsunami does."
Still, all of these groups are hoping they can find a way to tap into the generosity shown toward South and Southeast Asia and bring other desperate plights into the world's consciousness. "We can't do it with money sent for the tsunami — that's dedicated to rebuilding, and that's set in stone," says UNICEF's Lyons. "But just maybe, as they visit NGO Web sites to send donations, they'll notice the crisis in Congo, or Haiti or Sudan. Hope is a big part of what we do, after all."
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I feel as though I must write this post in order to give a balanced view of my Dear Husband. (Especially after writing about my previous birthday celebration.)
One of Kevin's employees got married yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah. He asked her if it was important that he go. She said yes. So he said he would go. He asked me to go. I said no.
Don't judge me.
We're remodeling, moving, getting furniture delivered, training, learning to swim, and taking kids to horseback riding lessons and soccer. (That is what I was supposed to do yesterday.) And when I say "we" I mean me. I'm overwhelmed. Flying to Salt Lake City seemed like a bad idea.
But then Kevin asked again and said, "I have a babysitter." I still said no because I'm still overwhelmed.
Then on Friday, he called me at about 2pm and said, "I made you an appointment with Juan."
I was shocked. For those of you who don't know, Juan is the hair stylist at Estilo Salon in Salt Lake City. His wife, Rina, does brows. They are AMAZING and make you feel AMAZING and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this salon. I go about three times a year because the commute is hell. They are booked out at least 2 weeks or more. And they were making time for me. (Almost everyone I've met in real life has heard of Juan and Rina. Luckily for them, I'm really really bad at stalking. Especially 3 states away. But I'm pretty sure we'd be best friends if I lived in Salt Lake. Because I would move in next to them. Because moving in with them is illegal. I need to read up on how to be a squatter.)
Once Kevin pulled the Juan card, I knew he wanted me to go. He didn't even know the name of the salon. He googled Juan, salon, salt lake city; called them and asked if they knew a redhead named Marianne from Montana. There was a bit of effort here. So I said yes. Rina and Juan had balloons for me and Juan highlighted my hair blonde because he said it would be a great idea. And I pretty much do whatever Juan and Rina say. Because they are right. And they have accents.
Kevin and I had a great day. We ate at The Park Cafe, went to the wedding, shopped at City Creek, and had dinner with my brother, in from Denver, and my mom. It was a really amazing day.
Kevin won.


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The standard user configuration for mainstream desktop operating systems is one user, one cursor, irrespective of the number of input devices connected to the system (monitors, touch screens, mice, keyboards etc).
However, in recent years it has been possible to configure systems to be multi-user, multi-cursor and this document describes the multi-user configurations that have been tested with UPDD and shows the software utilised and the settings required.
There are a number of products that allow for shared resources on a single base unit so that a system can be used by multiple users. To cater for this functionality the multi user software has to support multiple keyboards, multiple monitors and multiple pointer devices, such as mice and touch screens, whereby the hardware items can be allocated to individual users. This allows each user to have a dedicated keyboard, monitor and mouse. If the monitor is a touch screen monitor then the touch device also needs to be allocated to a specific user such that it controls the pointer (cursor) on the monitor allocated to that user.
These types of systems have been predominantly aimed at school / class room usage but can also be used in other environments.
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The UPDD touch driver registers both a default HID (Vista onwards) and Mouse instance through which to pass touch co-ordinate information to the Windows OS. These are seen in the device manager as follows:
The usage of these interfaces is dictated by the UPDD Extended Touch setting associated with each touch device. If enabled, touch data is fed to the OS via the HID interface, if disabled the Mouse interface is used.
Thereafter, for each UPDD PnP touch device connected to a system the driver creates additional "mouse instances" in the device manager. The design of the driver is such that non PnP serial devices do not create a mouse instance.
Prior to UPDD version 5 all cursor movement and click requests for all connected 'Mice' touch devices were (for internal technical reasons) passed through the default mouse instance, as shown below:
Unfortunately, this does not work well with multi user layers as they need touch data to pass through the individual HID or mouse entry associated to each touch device.
To cater for this requirement we have modified UPDD version 5.x to work in this way
In the first implementation of this we have only catered for the use of multiple mouse instances, not HID. For a future release we will be investigating if it is possible to implement a Virtual HID entry for each touch device.
UPDD touch priority setting
When UPDD is handling multiple touch devices in a singe user environment it manages the way the touches from the individual devices are passed to the mouse port interface in such a way that touches from each device cannot be interspersed. This prevents more than one touch device being used at the same time, such that the cursor would jump between the touch devices. In a multi-user environment this management is not required as the multi-user software is managing the input from each device. The UPDD management of the individual touch devices should be disabled in a multi-user environment by setting the touch priority for each device to Disable. This setting can be updated using the UPDD Command line utility as shown below:
Multi user products
The table below indicates some of the multi user products and shows the UPDD release tested and working or the current status of development if not working:
We believe that, in theory, with the change made in UPDD 5.0.2 most multi user type products should work so long as they support absolute touch data being delivered via the mouse interface.
Given that UPDD driver does not currently create a separate mouse instance for non PnP serial devices these cannot be used in multi-user type systems. Further changes to UPDD would be required to support these devices in multi-user environments.
If using these products in Vista or Windows 7 (they seem to be predominantly XP based) then the UPDD Extended Touch setting for each device must be disabled so that the touch data is passed thro the individual mouse instances, not the single HID interface. This restriction may be removed in a future release of the driver when multiple HID entries are utilized.
Under Linux the X multi seat configuration option can be utilised as described here. To utilise UPDD in a multi seat configuration refer to the Linux multi-screen documentation here.
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Going Up! Canadian Company Granted U.S. Patent For A Space Elevator
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Going Up! Canadian Company Granted U.S. Patent For A Space Elevator
A Canadian company has been granted a patent for their space elevator design - but is the enormous tower even feasible outside of science fiction?
It's an idea that has captivated scientists and writers for over a century - maybe back to Babylon, if are so inclined: building a tower whereby we climb to space. In the late 1800s, it was the Russian father of rocketry, Tsiolkovsky, who first proposed a free-standing tower reaching from the surface of the Earth to the edge of space. Firing a rocket from Earth, the theories went, is nearly impossible - but once we get something into geostationary orbit, the rest is (relatively) a cake walk.
As it happens, we can successfully fire rockets from the Earth - but that's not to say it's always easy. A space elevator - a massively tall tower that reaches up past the atmosphere, carrying equipment and people close to orbit - could solve a lot of problems. If only someone would build one of these things!
It looks like Ontario, Canada-based company Thoth is going to try their hand at it. They were recently awarded a U.S. patent for their space elevator concept, and the scientific community is at once hopeful and sceptical.
Dr. Brendan Quine, the inventor, describes it thus: "Astronauts would ascend to 20 km by electrical elevator. From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit, returning to the top of the tower for refueling and reflight."
Once the 20 km (a little over 12 miles), inflatable structure is built, an estimated 30% could be saved from fuel costs alone compared to conventional rockets.
Thoth CEO and president, Caroline Roberts, is understandably enthusiastic. "Landing on a barge at sea level is a great demonstration," she says, taking a not-so-subtle dig at competitor SpaceX, "but landing at 12 miles above sea level will make space flight more like taking a passenger jet."
Read more from the Escapist on space travel here.
Beyond space travel, Roberts says the elevator could be used for tourism, communication, and power generation. The latter could come about because of special flywheels along its surface, that use the massive winds buffeting the structure to provide energy for it.
Space elevators come up perennially in science fiction; most recently in my memory, the novel 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson envisioned an Earth with over 30 such towers linking the surface to low-Earth-orbit; and in the Android universe, which includes Netrunner, the construction of the 'Beanstalk' spurs much of the social change that separates that future from our present. Strangely, I can't think of any films that have featured space elevators - can anyone think of better examples?
Oh great. An elevator that stops every ten feet to let more people on while a voice of the PA apologizes.
I thought one of the requirements for a patent was a working prototype. This just shows how friggin' broken the U.S. patent office/system is.
...of course, if they actually build it, and it works, I'll gladly eat my words. But at first blush this seems like yet another company that's going to sit on a patent that it can't really use and doesn't really deserve just so that if someone else actually gets the job done, they can sue them for millions.
Could be worse!
20 Km tall? While it would certainly be a massive improvement over current launches this is more like a space stepping stool rather than a space elevator. The traditional space elevator design where you anchor a cable to a satellite in orbit is more like 100,000 Km in length.
If you want another sci-fi novel on the construction of a space elevator Arthur C. Clarke (of 2001 A Space Odyssey fame) is Fountains of Paradise.
As far as I'm concerned, there has never been a Requirement for a Working Prototype of a Patent. I think a Patent only needs to show how something works and that a Patent Officer can see how it would work. How else could Patent Trolls exist?
OT: It's neat, but it's also probably impossible to do currently with our tech. I'd love to see it built one day, but odds are it won't be built until 2050. Still, anything to make eventual space travel easier is good in my book.
MST3k had a space elevator on the satellite of love
The umbilicus
In all fairness, the first 20 km is probably the hardest part to build and make functional. Plus once you're that high you're already effectively in space and 95% of the way to anywhere you're going to go. Just strap on an ion engine to whatever you build and you're good to go. It's actually a feasible low earth orbit jumping off point.
The other, more well known idea that you mentioned (using an elevator between 40,000 and 100,000 km) uses the idea of having an elevator which operates using a piece of solid mass at its top which is kept in geosynchronous orbit, and uses the kinetic energy of that mass to keep it upright.
I'll be honest, I think this new idea is actually a more realistic one in terms of ability to actually have it see the light of day, even if it would be more of a steping stone to getting things in orbit then being the 'ground to direct orbit' idea we've seen before. It would sure cut down on the price of building stations or launching satellites, to say nothing of getting the parts for built-in-space ships into orbit.
Nope, a working prototype is not required. I think there may be such a requirement if two people put in for the same patent, a working prototype may be required to see who gets awarded the patent. But beyond that, there is no such requirement to walk into a patent office and get one. That is why I have never been impressed by people who have patents. I have heard it used as a mark of really smart person or someone who is really successful, but having a patent only requires an original way of doing something that has not been patented already and a few thousand dollars in lawyer fees.
OT: This would be awesome, but I don't know how that would even remotely work with modern building materials. The way I see it, it would have to have a foot print of several miles around and reduce in size as it gradually goes up in order to build a structure that can withstand the height. But I'm no engineer, so I don't really know.
The only thing other then books that i can think of that has a space elevator was one episode of star trek voyager called "Rise". Was a bad episode mostly because of Neelix.
This is such a bad idea on its own.
Add to it the terrorism potential and this gets far worse... it's to juicy of a target.
What's so bad about the idea?
No more so then any space infrastructure Earth-side. If it was ever built, it'd probably have the same state of being placed somewhere near the equator, likely in French Guyana, and would most definitely be on or adjacent to a military instillation.
9/11 isn't going to happen again, it only happened at all because it was inconceivable at the time and everyone thought a hijacking would lead to hostage taking with demands for money, defection or prisoner releases. A hijacking of a plane is virtually impossible in the post-9/11 world.
It probably just doesn't show up as much because, to the unenlightened (Re: people who don't have any interest in sci-fi novels but will kill a few hours seeing some summer blockbuster with the kids) the space elevator sounds like an absolutely ridiculous idea.
I know the first time I heard about it I got this weird image of a Wily Coyote scheme, buying Acme parts and cobbling together some impossible contraption that ran on cartoon physics. It just sounded so absurd. Granted, I guess the idea of stuffing people into giant hollow cans and firing them into the sky until they hit something that isn't sky might've sounded ridiculous too, once.
Eh, I wouldn't worry about it, we aren't anywhere close to seeing one of these built, the patent would have expired, company gone under and/or everyone in the US has eaten each other before this becomes an issue.
I once did a calculation to check the feasibility of a space elevator that's attached to Earth and has a geosynchronous anchor in space. The anchor, of course, has to be set well past the geosynchronous orbit because it's the center of mass of the entire system that has to be at geosynchronous orbit for the platform to remain stable (i.e. not falling down and crashing on Earth, and not ripping loose and flying away to space). Calculating the amount of stress that occurs at point of geosynchronous orbit, which is the point that will have the most stress applied, what I found is that current nanotube materials are about 1-2 orders of magnitude too weak to hold. Essentially, the thing would break in half, with one half crashing on the Earth and the other flying out to space. Thus, I concluded, the entire idea of a space elevator is just fanciful garbage, physically undoable.
Reading this article spurred me to think on the problem a bit again. The primary problem is that the elevator is too heavy because it is just too long, and it's too long because of the insistence to anchor it on Earth, necessitating geosynchronous orbits. However, what if you just let the bottom of the thing float freely some 45-50k feet above Earth's surface. Sure, you'll need high-altitude planes (which we currently have available) to get to the base-station, but you no longer have the requirement of a geosynchronous orbit. This means you can make the elevator much, much shorter, significantly reducing the tensile stresses and put them well in range of current nanotube materials strength. The caveat, however, is that you still need the anchor in space that maintains the center of mass at a stable orbit. Also, the anchor needs an active propulsion system to keep the elevator in orbit against atmospheric drag. The base-station at the bottom could also have jet engines that assist with keeping the entire elevator in orbit by supplying additional momentum to the elevator.
With a free-floating elevator, you wouldn't need an elevator that's 100,000 km long. You'd probably only need one that's 300-1000 km long. However, it is possible you may need a lot more fuel to maintain the orbit. Although, ion propulsion and electrically powered jet engines could probably be used to mitigate direct fuel usage, and, of course, these propulsion systems would be powered by electric solar panels attached to the anchor in space and, possibly, at various points along the elevator's track.
The other issue with the free-float elevator is that you will need to track its location, and it will likely be moving extremely fast relative to the Earth's surface in order to maintain orbit. It really depends on which orbit the center of mass is placed. The lower the orbit of the center of mass, the faster the entire elevator has to move relative to the Earth's surface to maintain orbit.
I think both these issues can be overcome with some clever engineering such to make the free-floating space elevator a much more feasible idea than either the geosynchronous ribbon from space or the tall tower (which I think the wind is just going to blow that right over without a second thought) that this article reports.
An ion engine probably isn't going to cut it. The difficulty getting into space isn't the altitude, it's the velocity required to stay up there.
20km is a good starting point because it saves you having to force your rocket through the thicker bits of the atmosphere, which cuts down on fuel requirements, but you're still going to need a pretty large impulse to lift off the top of the elevator and attain orbital velocity. At the moment, the only such way of getting that kind of thrust is with a rocket. Ion drives and laser propulsion and all that stuff is too low thrust at the moment.
If that space elevator was high enough to reach geosynchronous orbit...
Whilst any progress towards a space elevator is cool, and something I'd love to see achieved in my lifetime, this 20km launch platform does seem significantly less ambitious than the Obayashi Corporation plan with its 96,000km carbon nanotube cable and 100-ton climbers going direct to GEO - http://www.obayashi.co.jp/english/special/2014110424.html so I'm pinning my hopes on that instead! :o)
Sounds amusing, but not overly impressive. It would cut costs a bit, but it wouldn't be the massive cost gains implied by an actual full space elevator.
I wonder if we can even build something like that though?
It'd be more impressive if they'd actually started to try and build something...
As for fiction, the only thing I can remember is several different anime series.
One I'm not sure what it was anymore. That seemed to have a magnetic induction catapult with a high tower. Not sure how high that would've got. It got blown up at some point during the series...
Kiddy grade had some kind of launch system that hooked spaceships to a launch rail, and fired it up a tower a considerable distance.
So not only was it a space elevator, it's also a very tiny 'ring world', and a magnetic induction launching system.
The ships in that series still looked to be able to reach orbit on their own power though, so I guess it saved fuel? Especially since the launching system is powered from the ground, rather than the ship.
The rather bizarre method of travel seen in Galaxy railways again seems to have that magnetic induction launching system going on...
... Come to think of it, all of these seem more like induction launching systems designed to launch objects into space using power on the ground rather than in the vehicle.
Few of them seem to be space elevators as such. The arrangement seen in kiddy grade seems to come closest...
Odd that. You really don't see space elevators very often. (as someone pointed out though, star trek voyager did have one in an episode though.)
Exactly this!
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 both seasons though season two shows the potential issues of terrorism but that's the trouble with anything.Action starts about 6min in,showing how a space elevator could work to preserve itself when damaged at about 9:30 and onward.
Also, Mobile Suit Gundam G Reconguista has some sort of space elevator cable guide tracks.
Okay, maybe there's stuff I'm missing here.
First off to work be it 20KMs or taller AFAIK a space elevator ends up being more like a large building at the base that slowly reduces its cross section as it climbs. So with that in mind isn't one of the major hurdles of building tall buildings the fact that they sway? That due to centripetal forces (I think) and higher speed winds as you increase in altitude the sway increases exponentially to the height and sets a hard limit on building height. It's only through special design features like extremely large mass dampers and clever shaping of the building that we've got as high as we have. And once you exceed the limit a tall building would pretty much do a "galloping gertie" and tear itself apart.
The only reason the concept of a space elevator works is that having the space end at a L1 (again I think) point in space causes the space elevator to kind of sync up with the rotation of the earth and reduce a lot of the swaying and stress problems AFAIK. So wouldn't building a 20KM space elevator have it's own set of problems no easier to overcome then building the one postulated in many Sci Fi stories? That in fact building a 20KM space elevator might even be harder than building a full height one?
A structure that tall will have a lot of energy when it falls, and depending on where they build it, the damage could potentially be felt half the world away.
Another issue...supposing you could get that sort of material, there is all sorts of things it could be used for.
For example, a wire thin enough to be invisible and more than razor sharp, and yet very strong. I do NOT want just anyone to be able to play with that.
Huh. That certainly is an unusual idea. No idea if that is remotely feasible and, TBH, given that lots of people have discussed space elevators and I've never heard of this approach, either your name will go down in history, or it's a really, really bad idea.
However, someone really should make a weird animated TV show about a space elevator that floats around the world.
There was a space elevator in New Mombasa in Halo 2, 3 and ODST.
Oh, certainly - but by the time you get that high you're gaining substantial angular velocity, makes the difference.
That... does raise an interesting question though. If the object is gaining angular velocity, where is that coming from? Is it reducing the orbital speed of the tether, or is gained via the work done raising the object vertically? Might have to work that one out later!
If the former, it implies you'll need to do just as much work on the tether as you would getting stuff into orbit conventionally.
Doesn't that mean that a 20km one build in isolation in a coastal area make it a better idea then a 100,000km one built, well, anywhere?
Still, it's a good jumping off point that would cut down the fuel and cost needed to launch a satellite or a part of a station into orbit. It would sure make building a space station faster.
Seeing how patents only last for 20 years, that isn't going to happen; if anyone else wants to do it I'm sure they'd be happy to wait the 20 years necessary to do so, especially seeing as construction of the thing would probably take a large chunk of that time.
Best bet, they're just doing it for attention.
All they have to do now is engineer novel materials and make them affordable for mass manufacture. 50... 100 years, tops.
Inflatable... This isn't like a really tall building, it's like a blimp on a rope.
If you take an object to Geostationary orbit from the ground the change in angular velocity is zero to the entire system.
The object is already spinning when it is on the ground and maintains the same angular velocity the entire trip.
It's better in the sense that a Tsunami is better than something striking with the force of a meteor... but frankly... no.
Well it's something that's going to happen anyway, so all we have to do is have a base built at its base and basic security security measures taken to protect it.
Security measures grow lax with time, and again, terrorism is only one potential problem to worry about. Nature has a way of making even man's most lasting structures into nothing but the dirt Bentham our feet.
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The medical-marijuana cooperative has survived two Drug Enforcement Administration raids – including one last week – and continues to provide medication to its 2,900 members.
"I've been first in line, and I've been in early every day, so I would continue to be the first in line to solve this issue," said Aaron Sandusky, the president of G3.
Federal law prohibits marijuana, but California voters approved the use of the drug for medical purposes in 1996.
The cooperative has a case pending in the state Supreme Court against the city, which has been fighting to close down G3 Holistic since it opened in 2009.
Councilman Ken Willis, who has been vocal against medical marijuana, said the situation is now between G3 and the federal government.
"But I would caution them," Willis said. "I don't think it's a good idea to flaunt yourself in front of the federal authorities. They have jurisdiction."
The co-op was recuperating from its first raid in November when it was raided again March 12.
Federal agents last week confiscated at least 25 pounds of marijuana and 89 pounds of edible products that contained marijuana.
But, G3 members got together and restocked the co-op so they could reopen.
"We're under duress from the previous raid," Sandusky said. "I'm trying to recover as much as I can. I'm asking everyone to work for medications right now and volunteer as much time as they can. Everybody's obviously very willing to help out."
Brian Muehlen of Ontario, who has been a member of G3 since it opened, was in the cooperative during the first raid.
"It's ridiculous that they're wasting all this federal tax money to come steal everything that's legal in our state," said Muehlen, who has been volunteering at the co-op.
"There's nothing I like more than listening to a patient tell me they've cut five or six pills out of their life that makes them loopy and hurts their liver.
"They cut them out of their life because of this medicine, and we should be able to provide that medicine for those people."
The November raid left G3 Holistic without any medical marijuana, $22,000 in unfunded payroll liability and a $44,000 bill with Southern California Edison. Sandusky's 50 employees lost their health insurance and were forced to apply for unemployment.
G3 Holistic cooperatives in Colton and Moreno Valley, a warehouse in Ontario, Sandusky's home in Rancho Cucamonga and the Rialto home of his partner John Nuckolls were also all raided in November.
As a result of the raid, the co-ops closed.
Sandusky re-opened the Upland location, at 1710 W. Foothill Blvd., on Dec. 30.
Sandusky is suing the landlord of the Ontario warehouse, alleging that the landlord stole some assets not taken during the raid, and is involved in litigation with Colton and Moreno Valley.
The city of Upland was granted an injunction in August 2010 by a West Valley Superior Court judge in Rancho Cucamonga. The city's zoning laws prohibit marijuana dispensaries.
The case has since been heard in the 4th District Appellate Court in Riverside, which ruled in favor of the city, but attorneys for G3 have taken the fight to the state's top court.
Upland has reached out to the federal government regarding their fight against cooperatives in the city. The city has spent more than $400,000 fighting medical marijuana.
However, Willis said he first learned of the raid a couple hours later while at the dentist.
"The feds don't go around telling people they plan to raid some place," he said. "The DEA or the FBI don't have a list of friends that they call before they raid."
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UPLAND — The Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday raided G3 Holistic Inc., a medical marijuana dispensary that has had been in an almost constant struggle with city and federal officials in recent years.
Here's a rundown of some of the notable rulings as well as actions from past few years:
November: G3 Holistic opens at 1710 W. Foothill Blvd. in Upland.
August: G3 closed due to injunction granted by West Valley Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga on behalf of Upland. The city's zoning ordinance bans medical marijuana dispensaries.
September: G3 appeals injunction in Fourth District Court of Appeals in Riverside.
February: G3 files claim with city accusing former Mayor John Pomierski of extortion. According to the allegation, Pomierski tried to extort money from G3 President Aaron Sandusky in exchange for allowing G3 to operate.
March 2: Pomierski indicted on federal extortion charges. He is accused of extorting money from two Upland businesses, Chronic Cantina and quite possibly G3.
June 20: Court of Appeals grants stay on the injunction until G3's case is heard in court.
July 3: G3 reopens.
Nov. 1: G3 is raided by the DEA and then closes because of the confiscation of its medical marijuana and payroll.
Nov. 2: Arguments regarding G3 heard in Court of Appeals.
Nov. 9: Court of Appeals rules in favor of city's injunction based on zoning ordinance that bans dispensaries.
Dec. 12: G3 attorneys files appeal with state Supreme Court.
Dec. 30: G3 reopens under the interpretation that the stay granted by the Court of Appeals is in effect since Sandusky is appealing through the state Supreme Court.
Jan. 6: Upland officials takes G3 to West Valley Superior Court on an ex parte hearing to determine whether they can remain open per the Court of Appeals' stay. Judge Barry Plotkin decides to further review his jurisdiction and the Court of Appeals' stay.
Jan. 9: Upland files motion with Court of Appeals to dissolve the stay granted in June.
Jan. 10: G3 attorney sends letter to Court of Appeals.
Jan. 17: Court of Appeals returned city's motion to dissolve the stay.
Jan. 18 : State Supreme Court grants review of the appeal.
Jan. 19: G3 and the city return to West Valley Superior Court. Judge Barry Plotkin rules in favor of G3 because the case was taken by the state Supreme Court.
March 12: Drug Enforcement Administration agents raid G3 in Upland and seize medical marijuana.
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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. (John 4:23)
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Fans Will Not Be Happy About This Male R&B Singer Calling Out Beyoncé, SZA And Cardi B
"Stop using that f**king pain to make it OK to say some bullsh** on your record and get nominated for a Grammy..."
Janelle Monáe took to Twitter today (August 31) to share the devastating news that her family has been the latest affected by gun violence.
As reported, Monáe's 37-year-old cousin, Natasha Hays, was killed during a drive-by shooting early Tuesday (August 30) in Kansas City. She was a mother of three.
During the time of the horrific shooting, Hays was asleep in the house when shots were fired. Her three children were not harmed during the incident.
"Gun violence has struck home," the singer wrote. "My beautiful first cousin was murdered. She was a mother of 3. Loved by her community. #NatashaHays #Sayhername."
Monáe then went on to share that no one deserves to lose their loved ones due to the "hands of evil."
"Gun violence is still keeping our city in a dark place," she continued. "The fear of, 'Who is next?' never leaves. Praying4more light. Help us."
"Evil has no race," she added.
At this time, police are still investigating what happened and no arrests have currently been made.
Our condolences go out to Janelle and her family during this heartbreaking time.
(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
"Stop using that f**king pain to make it OK to say some bullsh** on your record and get nominated for a Grammy..."
Here are all the artists who posted tributes to the late R&B singer.


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IDA cash deal 'victory for multilateralism'
Africa and fragile states will be the main beneficiary of the record $75bn that has been agreed to replenish the finances of the World Bank's International Development Association
Africa is on track to receive the lion's share of a record $75bn refinancing of the International Development Association, the arm of the World Bank that works with its poorest country members, a senior Bank executive told GlobalMarkets.
Axel van Trotsenburg, vice president for development finance, said: "Africa could get $45bn of IDA resources during the next three years which is fantastic for a continent where we can engage not only at the country level but on regional programmes."
Van Trotsenburg co-ordinated the negotiations between 54 donor countries, beneficiary nations, and the other parts of the World Bank that led to a $75bn three year deal that for the first time included plans to leverage private capital.
He said the replenishment, which was agreed in July but still needs to be signed off by the end of the year, was a "victory for multilateralism". "It has shown that in today's world we can still come to a very ambitious agreement getting all the interested parties around the table."
For the first time, IDA is seeking to leverage its equity by blending donor contributions with internal resources and funds raised through debt markets thanks to the AAA credit rating that IDA this year secured from Standard & Poor's and Moody's.
Donor co-ordination
Van Trotsenburg said he was confident the World Bank's treasury would issue the first IDA bonds by the end of the first half of next year. "The first step is to get all the donors' commitments firmed up and our treasury is in the process of preparing the first bond issue," he said.
"It's all on track but things are falling into place. There has been excellent co-ordination with donors, with our board, internally because a $75bn business requires a very disciplined approach towards implementation."
The other innovative element is a new $2.5bn private sector window being introduced together with the Bank's International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) to provide products such as first loss guarantees and local currency options to take some of the risk out of projects particularly in fragile states and so attract private finance.
He said that IFC and MIGA were working on a "host of projects" and he expected the first to come forward in the next couple of months.
Van Trotsenburg dismissed concerns by civil society groups that the entry of private sector groups would create risks in vulnerable countries. "The financialisation of essential services is quite troubling," said Luiz Vieira, co-ordinator of the Bretton Woods Project.
Van Trotsenburg said the Bank was aware it needed to work carefully. "It is IDA that wants to push the frontier and tackle the hardest problem of creating jobs. It is one thing to sit on the side and watch things happen; it is another to take a proactive stance to see how we can bring wealth and solutions to these areas."
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"All good things must come to an end," they say.
To them I say, "Why?"
Or "Screw you."
It really depends on my mood.
Yesterday I found out that this will be the final season for "Gilmore girls."
And I am bummed.
For those of you keeping score at home, yes I am still an adult male.
In my defense, I'd watch ANYTHING with Lauren Graham in it. A Dirty Dancing sequel. A Jennifer Lopez movie. Fox News. ANYTHING.
And now there will no longer be weekly doses of fresh new Lauren Graham goodness on my TV. Sure, I can watch reruns, but it is not at all the same. (Except for the one where she wears glasses. I can't get enough of that one.)
As many of you know, Lauren Graham is the official crush of PDDC.
As you might have seen here. Maybe here. Possibly here.
And now she won't be on my TV as often.
Le sigh.
However, I must stay strong.
She'll still be in movies.
And some day she could find her way back to TV.
But, we'll be different then. We'll have been through too much. History, you know? Sure we'll pretend like nothing has changed. Like we can both immediately fall back into being ourselves. But, we'll know better. It'll be unspoken, but we'll see it in each others eyes. We had a glorious moment in the sun and now it is ending. I am going to try to enjoy every last bit of it. Until *poof* it disappears…
Oh, and if she doesn't end up with Luke in the series finale, I am totally going to write a strongly-worded letter.


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High Tea for Hi(dden) Society
People who are homeless are often invisible to the rest of society, hidden within their own community.
Hosting a High Tea for Hi(dden) Society is something you can do with your friends, family and colleagues to support people facing homelessness in Adelaide.
Why host a High Tea?
Every night 1 in 200 people in Australia are homeless.
In South Australia 5,985 people find themselves without shelter, a warm place to rest their heads, where they feel safe and secure.
Our aim is to end homelessness for every person who walks through our doors - and we need your help to do so.
Host a High Tea and help people come out of the shadows and break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.
Host with the Most
You might meet at a local high tea venue and put in some extras dollars as donations, or you might prefer to host a simple or lavish event at home. Our experience is others will generously support such a worthy cause while they enjoy good company, food, tea and coffee. In the past, hosts have boosted their fundraising with raffles or lucky door prizes or games. Be creative and have some fun.
We have made hosting your own High Tea easy with our downloadable resources. All you need to do is register your interest and the proposed date you wish to hold your High Tea and we will send some great info and resources to you.
You might also be interested in theming your event with tea cup and saucer sets, cake stands or beautiful table cloths.
Complimentary Tea from Tbar
Thanks to our friends at Tbar, once you have registered your High Tea, we will organise for you a selection of teas to offer your guests on the day. To order your complimentary tea pack, call Nicole on 8418 2512 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Get your work involved
Holding a High Tea at your workplace is a great fundraising idea that requires very little effort.
Your workplace can choose to hold a High Tea during anytime of the year. We have designed resources suitable to be used in your organisation. To learn more and register your interest, please fill out your details below and we will get back to you.
Here are few suggestions to get you started:
- Speak with your boss and colleagues about the idea before proceeding
- Organise colleagues to each bring a plate of food for your High Tea
- Register your fundraiser on our fundraising platform (making receiving donations much easier)
- Promote your event within your organisation (using our resources)
- Start fundraising! –You can use our fundraising platform or if you wish, download our donor pledge form
Get your school involved
Organising a High Tea at your school is a great way to get the kids involved in the preparation and cooking of the food and at the same time, teaching them the importance of helping those less fortunate.
You may also wish to hold a High Tea at your school with the staff group.
Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
- Ask your employer/seek permission first
- Assign tasks to your students/work mates so they feel involved in the process
- Set up a fundraising page or download a donor pledge form if you prefer to collect donations
Plan your event
- Decide on a date
- Choose a suitable location to hold your High Tea (this could be at home, at your workplace or even in a function room
- Register your High Tea with Hutt St Centre by emailing email@example.com or calling 08 8418 2505
- Send out invitations to guests with suggestions on what dish they may like to bring
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- Have fun!
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- @huttstcentre
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From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 19 November 1825
Monticello. Nov. 19. 25.
Dear Sir
The books from Liverpool after which your letter of the 16th enquiries, on behalf of the collector were sent by mr Dennison one of the members of parliament who was with us the last summer. I inclose you his letter which accompanied them it is so worded, that I might have considered them as a present to myself. but he says he had seen in the library of the University Tim Bobbin on the Lancashire dialect, and he sends two similar works which he had not seen there. he had seen there the 2. original volumes of Jamison's Scottish dictionary, and sends 2. supplementary volume just from the press. the inference was direct then that he meant what he sent to be added to what he saw in the library. I considered them therefore as intended for the library and delivered them to the Librarian as the property of the University, on whose shelves they now stand. he sent them by the Liverpool packet to the care of Messr Bayard and co. whose letter forwarding them to me I now inclose you. there is no invoice of course, but if the Collector thinks a duty should be paid on them I will have them weighed at the University, and request you to pay the duty, whatever it may be, on my account. I shall be glad to receive mr Dennison's letter again.
Th: Jefferson


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Whiting Petroleum Corporation Appoints Lyne B. Andrich and Michael G. Hutchinson to Its Board of Directors
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL) today announced that it has appointed Lyne B. Andrich and Michael G. Hutchinson to its Board of Directors effective September 1, 2019.
Ms. Andrich served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since 2017 and as Chief Financial Officer since 2003 of CoBiz Financial, Inc. until 2018. She served as Controller of CoBiz Financial, Inc. from 1997 until 2003. She previously held several positions with Key Bank of the Rocky Mountains and Bank One, Colorado, including Assistant Controller, Financial Reporting Manager and internal auditor. Ms. Andrich has served on the board of directors of Fortis Financial Inc. since 2019. She holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Florida and is a Certified Public Accountant.
"We conducted an extensive search for a new member who would further strengthen our board's breadth of talent and background, and we are confident Lyne will bring proven financial strength," said Bradley J. Holly, Whiting's President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, speaking on behalf of the Whiting Petroleum Corporation Board of Directors. "She will complement our current directors while increasing the diverse viewpoints of our board, which will continue executing our strategic plans and driving Whiting's success moving forward."
Mr. Hutchinson began his career with Deloitte & Touche in 1978 where he served as a Partner from 1989 to 2002. From 2002 until his retirement in 2012, he was the Partner-in-Charge of the Colorado Audit and Enterprise Risk practice and led the Energy and Financial Services Practices for Deloitte & Touche in Colorado. Mr. Hutchinson has served on the board of directors of Westmoreland Coal Company since 2012 and One Gas Inc. since 2014 and previously served on the board of directors of ONEOK Partners from 2015 until 2017 and CoBiz Financial, Inc. from 2017 to 2018. Mr. Hutchinson also served as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Westmoreland Coal Company from 2017 to 2019. He holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Northern Colorado and is a Certified Public Accountant.
"Mike will further strengthen the board's financial expertise. He has substantial experience in accounting and finance matters, including accounting principles, financial controls and risk management," said Holly. "He also has a track record of leadership in addressing complex issues facing public companies in the energy sector. I look forward to his leadership."
About Whiting Petroleum Corporation
Whiting Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware corporation, is an independent oil and gas company that develops, produces, acquires and explores for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids primarily in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States. The Company's largest projects are in the Bakken and Three Forks plays in North Dakota and Montana and the Niobrara play in northeast Colorado. The Company trades publicly under the symbol WLL on the New York Stock Exchange. For further information, please visit http://www.whiting.com.
Eric K. Hagen
Vice President, Corporate Affairs


text: Kung Pao Chicken with Sweet PeppersThis May's Food Focus article, written by Contributing Editor Kelsey Casselbury, aims to help you hatch the best plan for serving nuanced chicken and egg recipes that won't ruffle any feathers. The recipe below, for Kung Pao Chicken, might be just the thing to pack some punch into your food for some sunny-side-up service!Servings 100 (1 cup rice, 4.2 ozs. chicken/vegetable)Per Serving363 cal., 7.3 g fat, 22 g fat, 50 g carb., 4.6 g fiber, 314.7 mg sod. Meal Pattern2-oz.-eq. meat/meat alternate, 2-oz-eq. whole grain, ¼ cup red/orange vegetablesMarinade Ingredients6 Tbsps. Cornstarch2/3 cup Soy sauce, reduced-sodium2 Tbsps., 2 tsps. Kosher salt¼ cup Olive oil6 Tbsps. Sherry vinegar*18 lbs. Chicken, raw, dark meat, skinless, bonelessSauce Ingredients6 Tbsps. Cornstarch½ cup Reduced-sodium soy sauce½ cup Granulated sugar1 cup Sherry vinegar*6 Tbsps. Sesame oil1 Tbsp., 1 tsp. Crushed red pepper2 cups WaterVegetable Prep Ingredients¼ cup Olive oil½ cup Garlic, chopped½ cup Ginger, chopped1 lb. Scallions, sliced10 lbs., 4 ozs. Red or orange bell peppersRice Prep Ingredients14 qts. Water7 qts. Long-grain brown rice, uncooked To prepare the marinade: Dissolve 6 Tbsps. cornstarch into 2/3 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce. Mix in the salt, olive oil and sherry vinegar. Place the chicken in a large container with a lid. Pour the marinade over top of the chicken. Mix well to coat it thoroughly. Cover the container and refrigerate for up to two hours. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Lay the chicken onto parchment-lined sheet pans in one layer. Cook chicken for 15-20 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F. Remove the chicken from the oven and slice into strips. Hold hot for service. To prepare the sauce: In a large pot, dissolve second 6 Tbsps. of cornstarch with the ½ cup soy sauce, then mix in the sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, crushed red pepper and 2 cups water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until the sauce has thickened. The sauce can also be heated in a steamtable pan in the oven. Hold warm for service. In a large mixing bowl, mix ¼ cup olive oil, garlic, ginger, scallions and bell peppers. Mix well to ensure the vegetables are thoroughly coated with the oil. Lay the vegetables on parchment-lined sheet pans and roast in the oven at 375°F until the peppers are tender; don't overcook. Remove the roasted peppers and garlic, etc. from the oven, mix with the sauce and place in steamtable pans. Keep warm. Bring water to a boil. Place the uncooked rice in a steamtable pan and pour the boiling water over the rice. Cover tightly with foil and bake in a 350° oven for approximately 50 minutes, or until the rice is tender and all the water is absorbed. (You can also prepare rice according to package directions.) Portion 1 cup of rice, top it with a 4-oz. spoodle of the pepper mixture and 2 ozs. of the cooked chicken on top. *Note: You can use a red wine vinegar or rice vinegar in place of the sherry vinegar; note that the flavor of the marinade and sauce will change.Recipe, Photo, Nutrition and Meal Pattern Analysis: School Meals Featuring California Food, Center for Ecoliteracy, www.ecoliteracy.org


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The Portland Timbers took it to the Seattle Sounders early on Sunday, with Darlington Nagbe coming through with a screamer of the goal in the first half. Seattle would equalize before the break, but the Timbers again began to push in the second half.
It was Nagbe again who helped put the Timbers on top, jetting down the middle of the pitch to draw the defense away from Fanendo Adi. A simple pass to the forward and a textbook finish later, the Timbers were up, 2-1.
But it wasn't over.
Just under three minutes later, Adi again found himself on the break and fired it home for his third brace of 2015. In jubilation, he leapt the end board and held up Timber Joey's saw in celebration. Fans cheered even harder during the humid afternoon in Portland and were rewarded with a Rodney Wallace goal at the death to give the Timbers the win, 4-1.
Cascadia has never been bigger and the boys in green and gold stepped up when they needed to. So did fans, as spirits were high on social. Check out the best posts of the night below.


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Video: How to Get Toned Legs Like Sarah Jessica Parker
Sure, the world gets #shoeenvy every time Sarah Jessica Parker steps out in another pair of sexy stilettos, but we're equally as envious of her gorgeous gams. The Sex and the City star's long, super toned legs continue to look flawless as time goes on. How does she keep them in shape? We went straight to her trainer Anna Kaiser, founder of AKT InMotion, to learn the exact move she does with the actress to get exactly how she keeps them looking so fab.
Watch the video above to learn how to do the high intensity move that Kaiser does with Parker-- it works the quads, calves, hamstrings, and glutes simultaneously (bonus for the multi-taskers out there).
Then, get the full workout by booking a class at AKT for a calorie-torching session that will leave you feeling sculpted from head to toe. Or buy the brand new DVD if you live outside New York to get the full body workout straight from your living room.


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